After a hectic weekend, I turned on the TV and all the 9/11 programs were on the air already.
Took me back to 11 years ago when I went to New York on 9/8/01 for work and my birthday with my wife and my oldest boy.
I was there and it changed my life. Were were you?

Sorry for the bad quality shots, but we didnt have digital camera back then. These are the Kodak prints.
I have some more so I will post as I get a chance to.

It was crazy being in the middle of it!

 

Back then I worked in New York City, one block from the Trade Center within Ground Zero. Saw the second plane hit, our building just missed get buried by Trade Center 1, and sadly saw Tower 2 collapse from a few blocks away, over my shoulder as I was running. Needless to say a life changer for me as well.

 

I was working at a customers house when I heard it on TV. They still thought it was a small plane that hit the first one. After the second one, it was obvious. After watching the towers fall on live TV, I can say with no shame, I wept for those who lost their lives and their families.

 

I was in my fourth grade English class and my teacher was reading us a story. My principal called her out of the room and when she came back in he was crying. When we asked her why she was crying she just said, "you'll see" and kept on reading. I didn't know what those towers were at that age, but I still remember that moment like it was yesterday. Better than yesterday actually.

 

I was actually driving around in South Carolina, checking utility lines for the local EMC.

 

I was working remotely out of my house and learned about the first plane crash, while listening on the radio. I immediately went downstairs and turned on the TV and watched (LIVE) the 2nd plane hit the other building. Very sad and disturbing day I will never forget! My daughter was only (8 days) old when the devastation took place.

 

It is hard to believe that 11 years have passed as I remember that day very fondly... we had a staff meeting starting on 9/11 and my local peers had gathered in a meeting room while we waited for the out of town folks to arrive. Then the news broke and things got pretty intense as 3 of our remote peers were flying to MKE for this meeting, all of which were airborn when the attacked started. So we were anxiously awaiting more details, especially since one of the guys had just left LaGuardia airport. By late morning we had received a call from all 3, who were forunate to be on unaffected flights... but all ended up landing in a host of remote airport locations. With the airways shut down, they all rented cars and drove back home.

Needless to say, that is one staff meeting I will never forget as we spent the entire week pretty much watching the news along with helping coordinate some of the support our company was offering in the attacked areas.

 

i was about 11 so i was in class, got home and heard some planes hit some buildings. honestly that was pretty much it. i didnt really know what they were talking about.

 

Haha me too. Didnt even know what a terrorist was until that day.

 

I was in 8th grade Social Studies class, every activity in the school stopped immediately. Was a horrifying day!