We were at our vaca cabin up in the deep woods on a small lake, way away from civilization. Watched the whole thing...still cant believe it.
I recall being concerned about heading home in a few days wondering if all hell was going to break loose......luckily I am one of those well prepared, well armed American nuts...lol.
Horrendous day it was ;o(
"Gypsy told my fortune...she said that nothin showed...."
I was training to get my instrument rating at the Sierra Flight Academy near Oakland. After the first plane hit some of the reporters were wondering if it was an accident. We all knew it wasn't. Obviously we weren't allowed to go up in the air for the remainder of the day and even for awhile after that so it was all classwork and simulators. It was weird not hearing any commercial flights take off from Oakland International for days.
I was in the car with my mom driving home from pre-school. She had Rush Limbaugh on and was listening to it. Normally we would either ride in silence or with music, because I hated talk shows. I kept asking her what was going on, and she kept telling me that bad people blew up some towers. I didn't understand..I just said, that's cool! (I was a 5 year old boy, I liked explosives)
My dad got home and my older bro got home and everyone was talking about it so I figured it was important. I know now, but that was all strange when I was younger.
I was in home ec. making Coca-cola boxers when the announcement went over the PA; we tuned in to see the second tower get hit (or maybe just to see them fall; memories sure are useless things sometimes). Funny how stuff like that stands out. I also remember chuckling in disbelief when they fell and feeling bad about it later.
EDIT: Junior in high school, btw.
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
Woke up and entered the living room where the wife was feeding the newborn. Watched the towers go down. I had a late start at work and was getting ready when my co-worker called. He said stay home because they were closing down the Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors. I remember taking a walk the next day and it seemed eerily quiet with no aircraft in sight.
2010-04-24 18:51:35 - MrMoody: OMG I'm in a game with stunna, what is up with this?
I was in school that day, I believe 8th grade. I remember watching it on tv in English class. The crazy thing is we actually watched the second plane ram into the second tower. Crazy, crazy stuff.
I was in a new world of pissed off seeing that the United States government/military hadn't pre-emptively solved this crisis by killing whomever needed to be killed to prevent it from happening. What do we pay our taxes for if these government types can't put bullets into people whom want to "terrorize" us?
I remember I was in a physics lesson at school in the afternoon when it happened, but didn't hear about it until my mum picked me up and it was all over the radio.
It was one of those events that you'll always remember where you were when you heard the news, kinda like Princess Diana's death - I was watching cartoons with my sister in the morning and they told us to switch over to Sky News and Michael Jackson's death (was just surfing the net at the time).
