Where were you on September 11th 2001?

[lilfssister]

Though I answered this question 8 or 10 pages back, for some reason, it really HIT me today how it affected my life in the long run. Wow! I was sitting at the same computer desk as I was that morning, this morning, when the memorial stuff started on TV. What my life was like, and what I thought my life was going to be like on September 10th, 2001 and what it is on September 11th, 2008...so different. Not bad, just totally different.

[Moose47]

I was a U.S.A.F. Public Affairs Officer with a unit assigned to NORAD at 22 Wing North Bay.
Can't tell you enough how professional CANR and the fighter community handled a very difficult situation. Lot of long faces in my squadron that day )-:

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2009 Bump

Here's a clip from comedian David Cross on his thoughts about Osama and 9/11...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6UOcmbHrDY

[slowcoaster]

I was working in a crappy warehouse job. I'd started at 6AM that morning. When the office staff started coming in around 8:30-9, I kept hearing rumblings about "plane crash" "towers" "terrorists" etc. At first I assumed that it was a minor story that they were blowing out of proportion, until I got home a couple hours later and turned on the TV. I spent the next day glued to the TV/computer.

[Sasquash]

(hz2p ... Couldn't understand afterwards why most Canadians thought the Americans in the towers deserved to die. Still don't.)

Sorry to see you feel that way, bud, but I, along with millions of Canadians and friends from around the world, feel nothing but utmost respect and sadness for the victims of 9-11 along with the sacrifice of all emergency response staff to this catastrophe. Tomorrow, once again, I will lift my glass for a toast to their memories

[Rocketeer]

I was contracting at Borek. watched it all unfold on a mini TV in the paint room. unbelievably sad day. Borek thought it was a good reason to cut our rate by $10 bucks an hour shortly after. unbelievable as well.

[paydaymayday]

High school classroom. That night was my final class of private groundschool.

[meflypretty]

Having breakfast with Duke Elegant up in FT Simpson, watching it unfold on the news. Was trying to comprehend what I was seeing, listening to Les say how the world will never be the same.

[Widow]

West coast. Got up to find the husband still in his robe with his coffee gone cold. He didn't go to work that day. It was my son's b-day the next day and they were supposed to go see Destiny's Child. Concert was postponed of course - was hard to explain to the little guy.

[beaverbob]

I watched the second plane hit from my office in the airport and then did a beaver flight up Butte inlet, departing before the airspace closure was announced.
Bob

[MichaelP]

'Sitting in the common space at Pro, CZBB, watching it on TV, and then seeing US jet fighters fly overhead escorting Chinese airliners into CYVR with my own eyes.

It's what has occured since that has affected us all and will continue to affect us more and more as the Americans are creating greater reductions in personal freedoms.
Something that was generated on American soil is being used to facilitate greater control of people while they are also being scared.

While anything like 9-11 is a tragedy it is the response thereafter that we should consider, we have to live with it.
While the Germans bombed London and English cities and the Allies in turn bombed German cities, the fight was for freedom from tyranny. The end of it was the life created in the 50's and the 60's... up until 2001.
Now the fight is against terrorism, a secret enemy, and freedom is to be reduced.

Here we are, 8 years later, in a much changed world...

In another world we'd be flying tourists in our little aeroplanes, showing them the beauty of BC.
In this terror frightened world we'll close our doors and park our aeroplanes because the Olympics are coming to Vancouver, and freedoms of movement are taken away in the name of anti terrorism.

[stmymdy]

I was sitting in my parent's kitchen eating toast. I saw the second plane hit.
It was a sad day, ended up having nightmares about the whole thing for the next couple days

[rjonno]

Well said, Michael.

-Jonathan G.
CYWG

[22R]

Having my medical at Dr Takahasi's,not sure what my BP was listening to the news but got the renewal.

[canwhitewolf]

dltd

[CelBatrin]

Grade 10, first period, shop class. An announcement came on over the PA system. I was checking the news online in second period (some computer lab or another). By the end of they day everyone was just listening to the radio chatting about the possibility of WWIII.

BTW MichaelP, a good chunk of the the 'Allies' were fighting for tyranny. Ask the other half of Europe what 50-89 was like. Tyranny has always exists is various degrees, places and times. Here in Canada, right now... is it really that bad?

[Alpha Crit]

I was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, working for British Aerospace. Interesting time there, to say the least.

[Hedley]

Ask the other half of Europe what 50-89 was like

According to the left-wing people here, they were enjoying the
fruits of socialism which were not available to us imperialist capitalist
running dog pigs of the west.

Isn't that why they had to put up the Berlin wall with barbed wire
and broken glass on the top - to stop us westerners from breaking
into East Germany and availing ourselves of the numerous benefits
of socialism?

[Zwartboy]

I was in my grade 8 class. I remember asking my teacher if the Empire State Building was hit because my aunt and uncle work close to it. It was a huge relief when my mom showed me an email from them saying they were alright and made it home safely.

[2R]

Is this why nobody has landed a Cessna on the lawn of the White House or in Red Square lately ?
Where has our sense of haha gone ?