[Digitalis]

My Contribution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX68N0OLYPQ


:fuckyea::fuckyea::fuckyea:

[Verdasco]

15 years?? jesus...

Lets remember the day of the event.... I was in grade 3 or 4? I went to a popular hong kong restaurant in Burnaby after school, they had TV's everywhere. Everyone was watching the CNN news while eating, EVERYONE... and focused on how shocked on how the planes crashed.


Will never forget the day everyone stopped eating to watch TV together in a full packed restaurant.




What did you guys do on that specific day?

[radioman]

Heard this on TSN 1040 coming into work.

Had to google it when got into the office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZmM-2gj5Gc

[6o4__boi]

^ lol kinda tasteless but honestly not as big a deal as news outlets made it out to be

[Berzerker]

Woke up to a phone call from a friend saying America was under attack and to turn on the news. Watched the 2nd Plane hit and was just like WTF.
Went to work awhile later. I was working for a moving company at the time. We had a small move to do in an office building downtown. Turns out it was the Vancouver Trade Center. The guy we were supposed to do the move for was all distraught because he knew people in the WTC. My boss and I decided not to do the move as we really didn't want to be anywhere near that building.

Berz out.

[Spoon]

Was getting ready for work and just happened to turn on the TV. Watched the second plane hit but wasn't sure what I was watching. Took awhile for it to sink in that it wasn't a video game or movie commercial.

[pastarocket]

-was watching the news on TV at work back in the day when the planes hit the twin towers on 9/11. The horror. :heckno: FeelsBadMan

I remember one of my supervisors telling a manager about George W Bush's reaction to the incident when George W was visiting a school:
"Dave, I would not want that guy's job right now after what happened today". :smug:


To this day, my respect towards the New York police and firefighters who sacrificed their lives in helping people on 9/11 is still very high.

Mad respect for the NYPD and the firefighters. :thumbsup:

[Hondaracer]

Was in grade 9, woke up and went down stairs to see my grandma and dad watching the news, my grandma was staying over to watch my bro and sister cause my mom was in Texas, lol she doesnt like flying and now she's basically trapped in Texas after planes crashed into buildings..great..lol

Can't remember distinctly watching the building collapse, but the timeline says I must have been at home still when it happened

We were in a brand new high school so there were tones of TV's in the hallways, each class had 1-2 and so needless to say every TV was stuck on CNN etc. I remember all the tough guys saying go enroll in the army to fight against presumably the Middle East etc

Had a double block of science class that morning with a good teacher who was also our rugby coach, a pretty smart no nonsense guy. He pretty much layed it out that from that day forward the world would never be the same.

Interesting day to look back on, do it quite often, and I don't even know the number of 9/11 docs I've watched

[CivicBlues]

Wow, quite a few of you people are a lot younger than I thought :heckno:

I was in 2nd year at UBC, just heading out to class from home and my mom tells me a plane hit the Twin towers. Thinking it was just a small plane, I was shocked when I turned on the TV. Can't remember if I saw the 2nd plane hit. Probably not since I think I would remember something like that. Spent the rest of the day in classes but whenever I had a chance, I was glued to TVs showing CNN around campus.

What boggles my mind now, is that there are fully functional adults today that have no memory of this event at all. :ahwow:

[CorneringArtist]

If you think about it, there are kids in Grade 8 this year that will eventually learn 9/11 as history rather than having lived through it.

[6793026]

I was 2nd yr SFU and they pulled out of TV to live broadcast what's going on. Will never forget how people were gathered together watching it in shock.

[Spoon]

If you think about it, there are kids in Grade 8 this year that will eventually learn 9/11 as history rather than having lived through it.

Do high schools pay more attention to global/current events now? Back in my day, it's mainly Canadian history, WWI/WWII stuff. Most of the current stuff gets briefly glossed over. You read one or two news articles, summarize it and that's about it. :fuckthatshit:

[Ronin]

I watched the second plane and the buildings collapse at Angus. Skipped classes. Glued to TV.

I don't think I was old or smart enough at the time to realize how that day would change the world.

[winson604]

I was sleeping and my mom came running into my mom saying in Canto "US dai jai la!" roughly translating to "Big trouble in the US". Got out of bed and was shocked never to have expected to see such a thing in life, it was like watching a movie. Then I headed to school at Langara and people were just lined up in the hallways with their eyes glued to the TVs.

[Berzerker]

I watched the second plane and the buildings collapse at Angus. Skipped classes. Glued to TV.

I don't think I was old or smart enough at the time to realize how that day would change the world.

Very true. That was the catalyst for Bin Laden hunt/war and the start of the current day state of the world and the War on Terror

If Charles posts any conspiracy theory bullshit in this thread instead of personal experience I will ban him. :fuckyea:

Berz out.

[murd0c]

I remember showing up to work and everyone was shocked and told me what was going on. I still remember getting to my office and the feeling in my gut when I found out about it. It's hard to believe it was 15 years ago, wow times sure fly's

[Berzerker]

Even the little things it changed are sad in some regards. I went to watch Indy in Toronto when I was 19 and on the flight back I asked the stewardess if I could go into the cockpit to see what it looked like. She came back a few minutes later and brought my friend and I to the cockpit. We flew pretty much the whole flight there chatting with the pilot and co-pilot. They were pointing out cities as we flew over (night flight) and we stayed in cockpit until well into the decent into Vancouver. Something so memorable and fun will never happen again thanks to 9/11.

Berz out.

[unit]

it was my first or second week in uni and in the morning my friend called me and said "the pentagon is under attack". when i turned on the tv the focus was more on the wtc than the pentagon. went to school and skipped class to watch the news in the hallway. dozens of students were sitting on the floor crowded around a small tv in the corner. when i went to my later classes the profs all spent a few minutes talking about it.

[CivicBlues]

I watched the second plane and the buildings collapse at Angus. Skipped classes. Glued to TV.

I don't think I was old or smart enough at the time to realize how that day would change the world.

lol we were in the same building watching TV.

It's kind of cathartic, that the year I turned 18 was the year North America lost it's "innocence". Wasn't sure what it was going to mean at the time, but knew shit was going to change.

15 years later we're still sandwich bagging our liquids onto planes WutFace

[Ch28]

I remember sleeping in because I had a free block in the morning. My radio alarm eventually went off and I had it set to Zed 94.5 and remember waking up to the hosts talking in a very serious tone. Eventually rolled out of bed and realized that something big happened in NYC, so I turned on the TV and watched the second plane fly towards the second tower. It was an absolutely surreal moment where I had to think for a second whether this was real life or not.

[Bouncing Bettys]

My mom and I had stayed up till the wee hours of the morning getting me ready to drive down really early to Vancouver to visit family before I was to fly for the first time on the 12th to start my 9 month Katimavik program. She woke me up to see the first tower on fire. No one knew it was an attack and I was too tired to watch so I went back to bed.

My head had barely hit the pillow when my mom started screaming as the second plane hit. Spent the rest of the day glued to the TV, unable to sleep, wondering how much worse it was going to get and if I would be drafted for WW3.

Later in the day, someone from Katimavik called to say my flight was cancelled and they would reschedule for the 19th.

(edit: I was 20)

[XplicitLuder]

I was in grade 4.. That is all

[Presto]

I was on my way to work when I heard the report of the first plane hit. I was working in a call centre that mainly served Americans. There were no calls that day.

[ZN6]

Woke up that morning and thought it was a movie. Hackers was fresh in my mind when I was a kid so I thought zero cool hacked the planet and turned all the channels into the same movie. Then it clicked in that it was real life and some serious shit just went down.

[Lomac]

Man, fifteen years already? It was the second week of University for me and while I was stuck in typical Port Mann traffic, I decided to turn on the radio to 99.3. Wasn't paying a lot of attention until it struck me that it was a live feed from AM980 (I think?) being ported over and not the normal morning show. Even being stuck in traffic for that long (Langley to Capilano University pre-new PM bridge), I some how managed to miss all the big happenings.

Went to class and the teachers refused to have the news playing. The irony? I was in a Film and TV program.

I think I'm glad about not watching it live, though. A family friend was killed in one of the towers and knowing I had watched it live as it happened probably would have been too much.

[Inaii]

Grade 12, was sleeping and my mom woke me up to tell me that planes had just crashed into the WTC. I was still mostly asleep, muttered something about stupid americans and rolled over having every intention of going back to sleep and skipping my Geology class. I got up a few minutes later and realized she wasn't joking. Went to my Geo class and we ended up watching the news coverage instead of doing our classwork that day.

In regards to the video in the OP: Did they pick the dumbest looking people they could find? Surely there can't be THAT many people who don't know anything about Sept 11... It happened in their own country!

[Nlkko]

I was in high school, wasn't even in North America at the time. Our family was having dinner and the special news came on when the first plane hit. I still remember the running banner "America Under Attack". Must have been CNN. We later saw the "recap".
It was fucking apocalyptic. You can see smoke, paper flying everywhere, people jumping out of the towers.

I can't and don't even want to imagine what it's like to have witnessed that in person, or having someone close passed away in those incidents. It was a sad day for humanity.

[Mr.Money]

i got woken up from my dad telling me something went down on the news and to watch it,didn't explain anything....We had C-Band satellite so every news channel had the First plane crashing into the tower replaying over and over...till they started showing people jump from the building and in one broadcast before they stopped showing it you could hear a Body hitting the light post then the ground in a disgusting "THUMP!"....sound....you couldn't tell if it was a man,or a women...just a black steak of a person going down fast...

[GS8]

In regards to the video in the OP: Did they pick the dumbest looking people they could find? Surely there can't be THAT many people who don't know anything about Sept 11... It happened in their own country!

To be fair, he's at the beach where you'll typically find the dumbest single cell organisms in the universe.

[Inaii]

So, then the answer is yes, right? :lol

[AzNightmare]

Was in highschool and in my Art class. The teacher rolled in a TV and turned it on to the news. Being honest here.... I had no idea wtf was a "World Trade Center" or the significance of it.

But just the fact planes were flying into buildings, I knew shit hit the fan.

[Bouncing Bettys]

I think I'm glad about not watching it live, though. A family friend was killed in one of the towers and knowing I had watched it live as it happened probably would have been too much.

You reminded me of one of the more interesting tales from that day, from the documentary, Hotel Ground Zero: By way of a last minute change of plans, Ron Clifford was at the Marriott Hotel at Ground Zero and unknowingly watched his sister and his 4yr old niece die onboard flight 175 when it struck the South Tower. Further to that, his daughter's birthday is 9/11 and she was turning 11.

[HonestTea]

I was in middle school(grade 8) and my first class was social studies. The teacher talked about it and even tried to get a TV to broadcast what was happening but the TV didn't work lol so he brought out an old radio from the backroom and tuned it to whatever station was broadcasting it.

I didn't really follow it until afterwards when my friends and I watched the news after school. It was shocking to say the least.

[Hehe]

First year college. I remember I was about to head out for school as I was running late, turned on TV and saw the second plane crashing in for about 20sec.

I was like "wow... whoever made this movie is so good at special effects"... Then I just ran to school.

It wasn't until I got to school that I realized it wasn't a movie that 10~15sec clips I glimpsed before I came out.

[Traum]

Damn... I really feel like an old fart now...

I woke up to call a friend in Hong Kong, only to have the friend tell me that shxt is happening in New York. I turned on the TV, only to watch video replays of at least the first plane crashing into the N.Tower. I may or may not have been watching the 2nd plane crashing into the S.Tower live, but I'm pretty sure my stomach churned and felt sick right down to the inside when I watched in horror how the S.Tower collapsed right in front of my eyes. And then it was the N.Tower going down live, again in front of my eyes. The shots of the smoke and dust blowing out down the blocks and chasing citizens down was a sight I'd never forget...

My mind was simply overblown by the events, and while I didn't really know how to comprehend the event, I knew right away that shxt wasn't gonna be the same anymore.

I still went back to the lab even though I was already way late because I was supposed to work. Of course, nobody at the lab was working, and we decided to hit the pub to grab lunch while watching some more TV there. When lunch was finished and we returned to the lab, someone managed to haul an old TV from somewhere, and we proceeded to spend the rest of the day glued to the TV.

The next 2 - 3 days were pretty much the same. I was always just glued to the TV, and to a smaller extent, the Internet for news and such...

[Galactic_Phantom]

8 y/o at the time. Woke up at 7 and tried to watch Power Rangers on channel 28 and was pissed off it was cancel. I saw the towers and I didn't think much of it. Wasn't old enough at the time to understand the implications and significance of the event.

[ae101]

grade 6/7 (dont quite remember what grade)

eatting breakfast at the time before going to school, my dad watches CNN every morning back in the day and when i heard my dad yelling/screaming i quickly ran to see what up

my dad thought he was watching a movie, but it was impossible as its CNN and i was thinking wow what happened

went to school and was just listening to the news on the radio all the day long

i remember afterwards stocks plunged, i few of my dads friends lost almost everything and going to commit suicide as they were left with nothing

edit: few years later when i was in HS, teacher ask us to write a paper on someone u look up to/hero

alot of ppl wrote their parents or some superstar or what not, but i wrote about mayor Rudy Giuliani during the 911

he was the mayor of NYC at the time and instead of staying in a safe place directing operations, he went out to the front lines getting himself all dirty, risking his life to save lives

it was something u rarely see and i respect the guy for risking his own life to save others

[keifun]

It was a Tuesday morning, I was in grade 9. My dad woke me up and told me to watch CNN as the first tower was hit. I forgot if I watched on tv when the second one striked.

At school, everyone was talking about it; even the teachers. No one really wanted to go to school that day.

[Boostslut]

I was going into work, and yes like Hehe said I thought it was some crazy movie actions special effects. During the day at work (didn't have a TV to watch) with people coming in talking about it, and the special edition news papers that was brought to my store I knew something crazy went down. Got home later on that night and couldn't stop watching the TV. Crazy. And it's amazing how its shaped the world we live in. The day after I went to my aunt's place in Lynden to pick up an exhaust for my car I got shipped too. Me and some friends went, took us 7 hours to get over the Aldergrove border that day. EVERYONE'S car got searched with a fine tooth comb. Drove 5 minutes after the border to my aunts place, picked it up and 5 minutes to get back into Canada. It was all worth it to me for my exhaust. 3.5' full exhaust for my DSM. I was pretty ballin' back then.

[Mancini]

I tunes in a couple of hours before I needed to get ready for work. I was glued to the tv the whole time.

[Reeyal]

Wow, you guys made me feel so old... :okay:
I was in 2nd year college, and I made my way to early first class. No one was around in class, so I wandered to the library to wait for my second class. That was where I saw live the 2nd plane hitting the 2nd tower. That was a sad day. Everyone basically took the rest of the day off.

[6o4__boi]

i distinctly remembered logging into AOL (dial up) cus my parents were at work (no one else using the phone!) and then seeing the home page full of the events of that day

turned on the TV and was pretty much glued to the news the entire day

[tegra7]

A Ghostly Look Inside The 9/11 Memorial Museum. This Chilled Me To The Bone. (http://www.lifebuzz.com/9-11-museum/?p=3&utm_source=pen15&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=9-11-museum)

[Hondaracer]

The stairwell and the plane parts are pretty chilling.

Will definitely be dedicating a day to seeing all the 9/11 stuff whenever I get to NY