9/11 13 years later

[echeese]

13 years ago. . . .our nation was attacked

It was a day that changed the way we would look at the world forever

It was a day of great sorrow.

It was also a day that showed the very best of America

1st responders thought nothing of rushing into burning buildings. . . .many had to know they would not they would not walk out alive.

Ordinary citizens would become extraordinary heroes. . . . 

Todd Beamer,. . . .Flight 93. . . . .Let's roll. . . . .

 

[Juan]

 

[Aaron Carrara]

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

 

[doc longhorn]

Damn you - this video has me weeping once again.

 

[PeteA422]

I still remember where I was when the planes hit.  I was in the UT ROTC building, preparing for our ROTC class that morning.  We were in our ROTC student lounge, which had a big screen tv, everyone was glued to it.  We even had some of the students who were taking classes in the building piled in there with us.  I don't think one class in that building started on time that day.  But everyone of us who were in the ROTC classes knew things were going to be completely different for us upon graduation.

 

[Juan]

— Twitter API (@twitterapi) November 7, 2011

 

[streettopeschel]

even Bush-haters would have to admit that was a goosebump moment.

 

[castlebravo1]

I was in the air between Paris and Dubrovnik, Croatia when the towers were hit.  Found out about it in the Dubrovnik airport.  Two things I remember about those days.  One, I was strangely emotionally detached from the situation because I was not in the USA or around Americans.  Second, the Croatians has an interesting take on the situation, having just fought a war for independence a few years earlier.  Kind of a "been there, done that times 100".  The gravity of the situation didn't sink in for me until they closed the US airspace.

 

[echeese]

".  The gravity of the situation didn't sink in for me until they closed the US airspace.

I drove out by DFW airport the day after the attack. . . 

To see the skies blue and without airplanes, was an odd sight to say the least. . .

 

[CCausey11]

I drove out by DFW airport the day after the attack. . . 

To see the skies blue and without airplanes, was an odd sight to say the least. . .

Had the opposite experience.  I live in Little Rock and was flying out that morning.  My plane taxied out and then returned to the terminal where we were told to go home if we lived here.  As I drove away from the airport I saw 3 planes parked on the tarmac that were already brought in by the FAA and 7 planes on approach.  You never see that at LR airport.  That's when it really hit me, this was very serious and like nothing I'd ever seen. 

 

[popdaddy]

I flew in to Boston Logan 9/10 for a 9/11 business meeting.  A collogue picked me up and we discussed tunnel terrorist concerns driving through the tunnel to Boston.  I hate tunnels.

I was watching Fox News in the morning getting ready for my meeting at the clients office.  When it all unfolded, it was Hell.  I figured my 2:30 flight out would be cancelled and called the front desk to request another night.  The idiot clerk said they were booked for the night for an influx of convention people (moron).

I checked out and went to Cambridge.  The meeting didn't really happen but their people were able to find a hotel across from Harvard for me to stay.  The next day I found a rent car and drove to New York.  I stayed at a almost deserted NJ hotel across the river from the towers, the smoke was still rising and the  smell was terrible, everyone in the bar was glued to the TV's.

I drove to DC and then south intent on getting back to Texas, finally got a call from my travel people and was able to fly out of Johnson City, TN back to Texas.  I really try not to fly any longer.

 

[Duke C #11]

I was sitting at my desk on the second floor of the IRS Service Center on I-35 in South Austin. A lady a couple of rows over was listening to the radio.  At first, she said a small plane had crashed into the WTC. Soon after the second plane hit, there was a PA announcement that the building was being evacuated. Due to heightened security, only one exit was open in the huge parking lot. It took two hours to get out of the parking lot. Everyone was lost in their thoughts sitting there waiting their turn to get the hell out of Dodge.