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I was @ work, on Fort Sill working at the PX... We had heard that the plane hit and they locked the base down not allowing anyont to leave or come in... Everyone was in the electronics section watching the news... It was scary because we had no idea what was going and being a large artillery base, we didn't jnow what to expect next..

Yo i remember exactlly where i was when this bullshit went down.....It was my freshman year at The University of Tennessee (Go VOLS, btw)...I had a lab class at like 4 oclock, so i woke up around 11am...every dude on my floor was in the kitchen, gathered around the tv...i was like wtf? somebody must b cookin pizza or somethin....when i wiped the crust out my eye and looked at the tv, i couldnt believe what i was seeing...the 2nd plane had just crashed.....and 2 of the tallest buildings in the world were on FUCKING FIRE!!...at first, i thought it was something accidental...then, one of the dudes from my floor said, "Got damn terriorists just ran two planes into the fuckin world trade center maine!!" That shit was crazy....I knew MY fam was cool, cuz i dont hav any fam in NYC nor did i hav any fam traveling by airplane (praise JESUS)...but i was worried about the kids who were actually from New York and actually had family flying...,my best friends pops is a flight attendant for Delta....he was fortunate enough not to be workin that day....thats some shit i as well as every other American will NEVER forget.....a new day in infamy.....................P.S. : Thanks 4 the add on myspace fam....

I think Keith said it just perfectly.

I was at home in the kiichen, cooking breakfast and the television was on in the living room. I was going back an forth as to not burn up my food. I remember seeing the people hanging out of the windows and leaping to their deaths. When the second plane hit my jaw dropped and I attempted to contact my brother, who was living in NJ at the time, but working in NY. All of the phone systems were busy and I didn't hear from him until later on that night. I didn't cry, or scream. It was just surreal to me because I watched people die. I still remember where I was when the building in Oklahoma was bombed. People lost their lives and lives were transformed for evil, personal gain.........it's fucked up.

I was at home in bed,7 months pregnant,waiting for my husband to get home from PT,watching the news.When I saw the first plane hit ,all I could think was WTF? Then the second plane hit and then they said a plane hit the Pentagon and my heart stopped..because my best friend from high school and my cousin,who is like my sister both worked for the Pentagon..al I could think was please God let them both be ok.Of course the phones were down in DC for awhile,so the whole family was going crazy because we didn't know if they were ok or not.Finally about 6 that even we got a phone call from my cousin saying she was ok,but then I got the phone call that my best friend had died...imagine being pregnant and hearing that.They had to have a closed casket funeral because her body wasn't viewable.It just pisses me off that there are idiots out there willing to take someone elses's life to martyr themselves for their cause.So many innocent men,women and babies lost their lives for nothing.And instead of this President going after the bastard that planned it,he cared more about avenging his daddy,7 years later an Osama Bin Laden is still walking free hiding in caves making threats.SMMFHDon't take your loved ones for granted people or your life because tomorrow is promised to no one.

I was in school terrified because my sister went to Pace University which is just a few blocks away from the Trade Center and my father worked in lower Manhattan. I remember noone went to class that day and teachers and faculty did not care. Several of my schoolmates lost parents or relatives that day which we would never forget. I remember walking outside and it was eerily breezy and dark.. sadness.

When the towers hit I was still in the Virgin Islands. I was at home listening to the radio while washing the dishes and I heard the radio dj Robert Luke came on the air and said there was some sort of accident in NYC and a plane hit the WTC. I rushed to the tv to find out what happened and the news reporters said it may have been an accident then I witnessed the second plane hit the second tower. I was in utter shock and disbelief. I cried like a baby because my cousin worked in one of the towers. I called my mom who was at work and told her the bad news. Found out the next day my cousin was ok, good thing he operates on CP time because he was late as usual that day. I was set to move to GA that month and was scared out of my mind to come to the US. But I'm glad I did. I will never forget what happend 7 years ago today, and I will continue to pray for the familes that lost loved ones on this tragic day.

I was teaching my 5th grade class (my 1st year). I had no clue what was going on, I just knew that parents were coming in droves to take their kids from school. Teachers were frantic and one teacher had a radio in her class, she started telling everyone what had happened. I remember running to the staff lounge and turning on the tv and watching the towers crumble. We sat and cried, never imagining anything like this is our lifetime. God bless all those who lost someone or who are survivors.

Wow,
When the planes hit that day i woke up and I was running later for English (at the university of tennessee too!! Go VOLS!!!.....go figure:) And Im headed down the hall to the bathroom and everybody is crowded in the study room watching the tv...so i stop and look ...and Im in shock! Like that really can't be a plane sticking out of that building......thats really not another plane crashing into the other one?!?! I was dumbfounded!!! I stood and watched the buildings fall and everything else for the next 20 minutes. I truly think I was in a trance....Im originally from Brooklyn so all of my family is in New York...anyhow I got through to my mom once..she was in stone mountain, and she could only reach one person for a short amount of time, but immediately after that the lines were jammed.....craziness......just craziness. My people at school were really nice though...alot of them knew that I had family and stuff up there so they came and checked on me during the day, called and prayed with me.

I was in middle school when this happened. Ever since the 2nd anniverary this day has lost all the meaning. It has been changed in to a republican pat on the back, like the did something to prevent this form happening. Close to 3 thousand people died (one being my aunt), I am completly appalled that Rudy thinks he did something right. The emergency crews and the police banned togethger with out the help of Rudy. And to think this could have all been prevented.

I called out of work that day and was standing at my window crying as I watched the tower come down on the phone with my father who watched the towers fall from his office window

I was in middle school in the 8th grade, my teacher came in crying and hoad told the class, I'm not even gone lie I didn't even know what the twin towers was till I got home and my mom explain

I was at hm getting ready for school... my best friend andher mother were staying with us at the time, and my friends aunt lived in NYC. I was watching GMA while i was getting ready and i remember looking up as they showed the 1st plane hitting the towers, and I remember thinking it was a trailer for the Spiderman movie or sumthin... and then the 2nd plane hit. I just remember feeling my stomach sink. My friend and her mom were crying and trying to call her aunt.

I remember goin to school that day and having this overwhelming feeling of dread and fear, because I had never seen anything like that before and didnt know what that meant for our country. I live in Sacramento, CA and the big talk that week was whether or not they should shut down the capital or not. Every class had televisions on... we didnt do any work or learn anything new that day. It was a really sad day, I'll never forget that haunting image of the planes hitting the towers, and then later in the day seeing the pictures of ppl walking the streets looking dazed, confused, scared... and the image of that man who jumped out of the window of his office building... haunting.

I was off of work that day. I remember that my brother was waiting to watch Live with Regis & Kelly when shortly before that there was coverage showing a plane flew into one of the towers. I thought nothing of it, and I went to my fridge to make something to eat. When I came back I see the second tower was struck by a plane, and it was surreal to me. I rushed to the roof of my building b/c I could see the towers from there. I saw all the smoke bellowing from the buildings, and by the time I made it back to my apartment one of the towers had collapsed. I had to pick up my sister early from school b/c they were dismissing most of the school children. Then all the speculations & reports start to drop about terrorists planning this & that's when I went from slightly frightened to thinking cap mode. One of my favorite poems is "If" by Rudyard Kipling, and one line sticks out now. It says "If you can keep your head when everyone else is losing theirs & blaming it on you." That's what so many people were doing on September 11, 2001. All rhyme & reason was lost. People refused to think about the actions that took place b/c they were afraid. I'm different, and when all this was going on I knew exactly in what direction this "bombing" was going to go. The next day when I skated to work some absolute moron drives pass me & says "go back to your country you Islamic bastard." I was wearing my headdress at the time, and I of course told him he could go stick himself with a spiked dildo. That incident right there was the desired effect those who destroyed the towers wanted. I know who destroyed them & best believe they weren't terrorists from another country.

i was in school 9th grade in art class as i set foot in tha class i was seein smoke and i was in a school in brooklyn i remember listeing on tha radio- everyones faces was in shock and just confusion my fren was really worried cuz her mom worked in the city that was a year my city came together like never before forever in history my aunt used to tell me the eerie story cuz she actually was in tha presence of everything she seen everything R.I.P. TO EVERYONE WE LOST

I was in my dorm room at Univ of Michigan in Ann Arbor and I just happen to have CNN on when I woke up. I thought it was some movie on I had never seen before because it was too unreal to be really happening. But I kept watching and I was actually an hour late for my first class that morning because I kept watching. So I went to class and looked in and decided not to go since it was almost over anyway. Next thing the school sends out a mass email saying all classes were cancelled for the day.

And it's funny when I look back on it because I was like, "Hell Yeah" and went to Best Buy that morning to get Blueprint from Jay-Z. It had just come out that day. But when I got back to campus it was a lot of worrying and concern. At the Univ of Mich, a great deal of out-of-state students are from NY and NJ so they were trying to call family and friends that day to see if they were alright but some couldn't get in contact with them.

But the most hard hitting thing that day was the worry and panic that spread across the country where people thought that big cities were all going to be targeted that day. I stayed in front of the tv most of the day just seeing how everything progressed. And when that 2nd plane hit and then later on the Towers collapsed, it was unbelievable. My whole experience and what I was thinking I will never forget.

I was in the sixth grade in new york, @ Roy H. Mann Middle School. Nobody would tell us what was going on, but all of the students knew something was wrong because ppl were taking there kids out of school like crazy. My Math teacher told us what happened. She Said in between classes she wen't on the roof of the school just to look at Manhattan, something she would normally do. She Said she saw a plane go into one of the Twin Towers and immediately started crying. Soon after that a teacher came into the classroom and told her a plane crashed into the next tower,. That's wen we knew it wasn't an accident. More and more kids were getting taken out of school. Knowing my peeps, i just waited till school was over so i could walk my ass home, cuz if it was up to them i woulda spent tha night @ school. So i didn't wait and anticipate anyone to pick me up. By the end of the day. i was one of six students still left in our class. When i got home we had just remebered that a next door door neighbor works @ the twin towers, so me and a cousin ran down stairs to taklk to her family to make sure she was alright. No one answered. After a couple of minutes of knocking we just said we would go upstair and watch the news. That's wen a women covered in powder started walking towards us. We ran faster than a toddler @ a michael jackson concert. She started to choke so went back to help her. Turns out it was our downstairs tennant. She works right next to the twin towers and said the reason she was looking like that was from the ashes and smoke build-up in manhattan. She said every one down there looking was like that. At this tyme we went to call my mom because she should have been home by then. No Answer. Hours later my mom came home saying she was stuck in the subway, they stopped all trains after what happened. My mom was locked in the metro for @ least 5 and 1/2 hours. And she said it got extremely hot because their were so many people in the subway and no one was allowed to leave. We went back to check on our tennant and nieghbor. The Tennant took a shower and couldn't go to sleep so we stood there for a while. Once we left we went to check for the neighbor and still, no Answer. That's wen we really got worried. The next morning we tryed again and heard somebody inside! And it was her who answered! We started huggin her and tellin her we were worried. She was like "i was just not feelin good at all yesterday, so i call in sick and slept for the whole day..." She didn't know what happened. While we were grateful for her safety, i can wholeheartedly say... i wanted to slap the dip shit outta her. she had us worrying and beating down her door wen she was in there the whole time.

The pain I felt when 9-11 happened was something I will never forget. For McCain to have knowledge of how to capture the facilitator of this horrendous act, and using it as a catalyst of his campaign really makes me sick. SMH.

I have no desire to even live in the US if he was elected. The worst president will be followed by the most insensitive. I as a black, working class woman, wouldn't stand a chance.

Why wasn't this message all over the news cause he hit the nail right on the head!!!!

well it was on MSNBC, so NBC could have played it but there are different type of news world news, political news, and local news and only local news come on regular tv. MSNBC advertised it all day long. So it was on tv you just have to watch the right things. lol

Because McCain got him banned fro covering Political stories on air.

I had cut school.....I went home turned on the tv and I didnt believe that shit was real......... All those people who didnt deserve it.........

RAIN FALLS ON THE JUST AND UN-JUST A LIKE..........................DAMN!

ON 9/11 I WAS IN SCHOOL..BEING A TYPICAL 7TH GRADER WHEN MY WORLD WAS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN....MY TEACHER DIDN'T TELL ME AND MY OTHER CLASSMATES ANYTHING FOR AWHILE. THEN OUR PRINCIPLE ANNOUNCED IT OVER THE LOUD SPEAKER. SP AT FIRST I WAS IN SHOCK..THAN I BECAME SCARED..BECAUSE I LIVED IN NEW YORK CITY..IN THE BRONX TO BE EXACT..AND I HAD FAMILY ALL OVER NYC AND NJ THAT WORKED IN LOWER MANHATTAN....ABOUT 15 MINUTES LATER MY BIG BROTHER CAME TO PICK ME MY SISTER AND LIL BROTHER UP FROM SCHOOL...WE WENT HOME..AND NO CABLE CHANNELS WERE WORKING..JUST ALL THE BASIC CHANNELS...SO IM WATCHING CHANNEL 7..AND WONDERING..HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO EVIL..BECAUSE AT FIRST I THOUGH IT WAS AN ACCIDENT..BUT THAN WHEN THE SECOND PLANE HIT..I WAS LIKE WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS...LIKE MY YOUNG MIND COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT AMERICA..OR US AMERICANS DID TO DESERVE THIS ....LATER ON FOLLOWING THE DAYS OF THE ATTACK...ME AND MY FAMILY FOUND OUT MY AUNT CONSTANCE WAS KILLED.....I CANT EXPLAIN..HOW MY MOTHER WAS FEELING...SHE WAS JUST SCREAMING AND CRYING..AND I HAD NO WAY TO COMFORT HER..IT TOOK THE AUTHORITIES 4 DAYS TO CONTACT MY FAMILY AND TELL US MY AUNT WAS ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THE ATTACKS. SHE WORKED DOWN THERE...AND SHE WAS RUNNING WHEN THE BUILDING COLLAPSED AND GOT DEBRIS AND ALL THE SMOKE IN HER LUNGS..AND IT WAS TOXIC..AND THAT IS HOW SHE DIED...I MISS HER...AND IT HURTS ME THAT EVERY YEAR...I HAVE TO RELIVE THAT DAY...WITH THE IMAGES

I was in my second year at the local community college. Something that was rare for me was that I was actually on time. If I wouldn't have been I would have caught it on the news and turned right around and went home. Anyways I was in a class creative writing when the teacher came in a couple minutes late and said "I don't know if you heard but a plane flew into the WTC, they think it was an accident" Class went by whatever, and after I called my pops to ask him what was up with the story, when he told me about the 2nd plane and the Pentagon. From there I knew it wasn't an accident, but still continued to my other class. About 5 minutes in we had a discussion about what was happening and I decided I no longer wanted to sit in class so I drove home to see that the tower had just fallen. It is one day I remember clearly because it was the first time I seen my father cry. Since that day my world has changed, I became a news junkie and also more and more interested in History, leading me to my occupation today of being a History Teacher.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and families of this tragic day!

I'll tell u where I was....
I was working at the General Post Office on 33rd and 8th, sitting at my desk when it came over my Supv radio. The alarms sounded in the building and we were told to evacuate the building. They said air planes had flown into the twin towers... I remember thinking umm...excuse me??? Air planes? I was thinking u know, one of those little pipers or something. Never did I imagine that it'd be a 767 JET!! I remember running outside and going to the corner and watching tower 2 in the midst of collapse. I sobbed my eyes out and remember screaming to the top of my lungs! We stood there in shock and disbelief with out mouths hanging on the ground. Then all of a sudden someone yells.. TOWER 1 IS LEANING!! (thats the tower with the tall antenna) and we stood there mouths open, some screaming, some crying, some just frozen in shock as tower one collapsed into itself. I remember thinking..this CANT be happening..it just CANT!! I felt like I was on a movie set or something because it just didnt seem real to me. As the smoke, gray clouds of dust and debris started to travel uptown and the throngs of people running, myself and a couple of my co-workers began to haul ass uptown! I walked that day.....90 something blocks uptown to my homeboys house on 127th street... ( i lived in the bronx at that time).. Because i had on heels (slight heel bout a 1inch) the bottoms of my feet were blistered and bleeding so badly that my homies mother put my feet in a bucket of water. I finally was able to reach my dad and he was so glad to finally hear from me (alot of people lost cell service thank God I had nextel at the time) i could hear the tears in his voice. My daughter who was 4 at the time was in brooklyn with my grandmother and my son who was 7 was in school in the bronx and thankfully their dad had the presence of mind to go to the school and snatch my child and take him to my father. I sucked it up, put on some flip flops that i was finally able to find at a chinese stand on 96th street and walked across the short madision ave bridge into the bronx where my dad met me. He hugged me soooooooooo tight and picked me up, and carried me the two long blocks to where his car was parked. I remember when we pulled up in front of our house (we lived in a two story brownstone) we just stood and looked down at the manhattan sky line...the smoke still thick and darkening the city....smh...
By April of 2002 i had packed up my children and moved out of new york down to richmond va where i now reside but am planning to go back home to new york. My children were traumatized, each time my son heard an airplane he would FREAK and run under my bed or anything that he could hide under and scream and cry because he thought the "bad men" were gonna come kill us all this time....... my daughter would cry and just hug me and say mommy, i thought u were dead mommy i thought u were dead mommy dont let them kill us mommy....
9/11 will forever be burned in the memory of us new yorkers who loved/love our city and felt as though someone walked in our house knockin ish down and vandalizing our home. God bless everyone who lost someone (i lost a few friends and know people who lost loved ones) and God bless those who gave their lives to save others. God loves you all....

I was in California Trying to leave an abusive man, crying trying to get away. I was trying to tell the workers that I had to leave, but they kept telling me that there was nothing they could do. Then I turned around and everyone looked at the TV and saw all of the smoke, and the second plane crash...
Now I live in New Jersey, and my child is born and his dad is still living in Cali.
One battle gone, and little did I know
That a new battle would lock us in.... ( My child and I are fighting to come through and be released and served Justice as we deserve.)

Sometimes life could just seem so unfair...
I am trying my best to be as patient, and as sharp,
as I have ever been for this new year.
I only have imagened the greatest feeling of warmth and love,
with sensations that burn on thee inside. Only to hear the world and the words of impossible " say it aint so"
How does it feel to have someone love you from a distance, from just the fragments of your personality, and the grace of your pictures?
How does it feel for an attractive woman to want your love?
Im just trying to chile... And be me...
So how does it feel?