my friend George Zaki lost his father. he's a sarcastic kid thats always crackin jokes and such, it was hard to see him the way he was after his father never came home. its amazing what everyone did for him after they found out. my friend pete and joey drove him down to the city to look for him. they didnt get home till morning and they all went to school the next day. alot of people stuck by him and he got through it.

definately a time in my life i would like to forget but at the same time you can look back and admire what we still have, and what we didnt notice we had until then.

:werd: tough times...

It was junior year of HS during gym, I was in the weightroom with a few friends and the principal came on the loudspeaker for us to stop what we were doing and listen. As a lot of you said, we all thought "some idiot flew a little plane into the building" so he told us to say a prayer (Don Bosco Prep HS) so we did that and went back to what we were doing. We were then informed of the second plane and knew our country was under attack. So the whole school met up at the stadium and we all got sent home. I remember going with my dad to this cliff in Hawthorne that is the highest point to NYC and at this point the buildings were already collapsed but we could see the debris and smoke pouring up into the sky as clear as day. I'll never forget it.

~Ted

I was at work. Since we make software for digital cable set top boxes all of had multiple TV's in our cube. I'm not sure if I had CNN on at the time but I heard someone yell (Holy ***** a plane just flew into the WTC). At the time, our office was pretty small so we frequently would make comments telling people to turn on specific channels (i.e. Blind Date).

We spent the morning watching competing coverage of that terrible day and calling friends / family.

Months / years later we all had our TV's on to watch the war porn of us invading Iraq.

I was on my way to a part time auto parts job I had at the time. The DJ came on the radio and said a plane had hit the WTC, and I was thinking little private plane. Whoa, was I wrong. My full time job is right next to Jersey City, and one of my buddies was up on the roof of our building and saw it all happen. He told me he never ran faster to get the hell outa Dodge and get his ass home to his family. I didn't go into work that night, and it just so happens that 9-11 is also be my wedding annv. My wife and I sat in a diner that night, wondering if the world as we knew it was coming to an end...

that is an extremely ignorant thing to say. before you go pointing fingers about who extremists are you need to know very important fact, more wars have been fought and people killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other icon in history, religious or otherwise. you know who fought those wars and killed all those people? a bunch of northern europeans, thatsright kids, it was whiey's fault back then too :)

Who is this Whiey, and why does he want to do bad things to good people? :D

Sorry for the late reply....

I was at work at the base, getting ready to go fly a local when they shut everything down and evacuated the flight line since planes were diverting in from everywhere into Stewart. Then I spent the next 3 hours in lockdown on base watching the rest unfold on TV, interrupted only by the sounds of the fighter jets flying down the river overhead. After that I went home, packed up my stuff, flew to Georgia to pick up an airplane and two days later we were flying bombs to Afghanistan and have been going non-stop ever since. I still remember how eerie it was having just the military planes in the sky. It was amazing how quiet all the radios were.
-Nick

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