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what you were doing on this day? How did you first hear the news?
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Statistics class in Clemson***
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Ring of Honor [23861]
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Wow ! What were the odds of that happening ?***
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Aug 22, 2023, 8:43 PM
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Orange Blooded [3230]
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San Francisco. I turned on the news and the first one had hit the 1st tower. Then as I watched live, the 2nd tower was hit. I watched until they both came down. Then I drove across the Golden Gate Bridge. It was almost empty. I went to a bar in the hills and caught a good buzz. Drove somewhat drunk on the way home and the roads were pretty empty. I remember that day clearly though. Anyway, I argued with my friend trying to explain that the USA was going to do something excessive due the attack and this was much bigger than the buildings. Needless to say we were in Afghanistan forever and Iraq was a blunder some would say. Anyway, that day was outrageous. I still can't believe those attacks happened.
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Aug 22, 2023, 4:27 PM
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I've got that same exact paper put away intact. Every 9/11 that comes and goes I remember not only that day but the days and weeks that followed. Even now when I watch old news footage it doesn't seem real.
I was at work and only a few weeks had passed after finding out I was going to be a dad for the first time. I worked at a multimedia company so we were able to watch it unfold. A delivery driver came in and asked if we heard about the WTC. At the time just one tower had been hit so I brushed it off as probably an amateur pilot in a small plane. We turned on a TV minutes before the 2nd plane hit.
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Orange Beast [6381]
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At work, heard about the first one. Went back the break room turned on the TV and saw the second one fly into the second building. After the first one, I just thought it was an accident, so when second one hit I was stunned and wondered what the heck was going on and by whom.
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At work when my girlfriend at the time that worked at NSA called and said turn on the TV.
Saw the second plane hit.
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Always remember - God Bless all that have died***
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Aug 22, 2023, 4:34 PM
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At the gas pumps at work. 2nd one was just about to hit. Terrible feeling after I realized the lives that were going to be lost and that it ended up to be intentional. I was thinking bad accident on the first one. Maybe everyone was I don’t know. Sickening
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Varsity [102]
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Heard it on my morning break at Bosch in Anderson. It didn't really hit me until I got home and saw video.
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All-American [570]
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Aug 22, 2023, 4:42 PM
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And to think the World is about to finally learn the truth about that day...
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Game Changer [1923]
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Aug 22, 2023, 5:02 PM
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Didn’t know for hours. Walked into an establishment that had a TV going. Everyone glued to it. I said, ‘what’s so interesting’?
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Getting ready to fly to Portland, OR to meet Saudi Air Force
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Aug 22, 2023, 4:44 PM
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They were buying a Gulfstream Medevac aircraft at the time. The three letter agencies surveilled me pretty religiously in those days.
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Orange Immortal [66577]
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At the office...
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A co-worker told us his wife had called and said a plane had flown into the WTC. We speculated how tragic and that must have been serious mechanical malfunctions or something happened to the pilots healthwise. After several attempts, we were able to get online right as his wife called again to say a second plane had hit the WTC. The first words that came out of my mouth, "That doesn't make sense. This must be a terrorist hijacking!" The crash at the Pentagon confirmed it. The Shanksville crash was another tragic crash.
We had no TV in our office, so we relied on telephone calls. Most of us left work early to go watch the reports. I remember being furious and angry and yelling at the TV. I was ready to go fight!! I remember being glued to the TV until late.
It was a very sobering, infuriating, and trying time. I remember prayer vigils at my church. We were no longer "protected". I remember the swell of church attendance only to see the wave dissipate. I remember all of Congress getting together only to see both sides go off the rail after about 10 years.
Many heroic stories came out of that day ... we just need to remember them.
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i was in a meeting with my business partner and the former
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owner who we had bought the company from the year before. when we saw the live news the old man jumps up runs out to tell the receptionist that if he gets a phone call to come get him immediately. now the old man was a heck of a structural engineer back in the day and had probably been to the world trade center but they sure weren't going to call him up there from savannah georgia to lend his expertise.
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Athletic Dir [1169]
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Aug 22, 2023, 4:56 PM
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I was at my grandmothers house in Summerville. Woke up "early" for work and when I came down the stairs the first words I heard were "we are at war." Watched a few minutes with my grandparents and went over to a friends house to wake them up. Oddly enough there was a house full of friends already watching. Smoked a good bit of devil's lettuce and watched the second tower get hit and the rest. Sad day for sure.
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Aug 22, 2023, 5:04 PM
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Washington, DC. Working in a conference room with my team, and a group of visitors from Cincinnati. Oddly, no one from inside the building had notified us. One of the visitors' spouse called by cell phone and said to turn on the TV because the trade center had been hit by an airplane.
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Aug 22, 2023, 5:12 PM
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Out in the bush. I didn’t see video of it for a couple of weeks. All I had was the bbc.
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Game Changer [1845]
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Aug 22, 2023, 6:20 PM
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at work in Charleston when someone ran into the office and said one of the Twin Towers had been struck by a plane. At first everyone thought it was an accident until the the 2nd tower was hit. Our building was in the flight pattern of the Charleston AFB and the Charleston Airport. All air travel was suspended quickly. It became an eerie day and for many days afterward. Will never forget. God Bless America
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I was at my house in Sasebo, Japan. The wife had recently gone to bed and I had decided to stay up surfing the internet. I attempted to put on some music and I pulled up a website that live streamed (WSX in Nashville ). What I heard was not country music but something that sounded more like War Of The Worlds.
I listened in a confused state for a little while trying to figure out what this was. Then when I thought it might be something really happening at that moment I went into the living room and turned on the TV ( we had Fox News on our satellite system ). I tuned in just before the second tower was hit.
I tried to get the wife up but she was being disagreeable, she insisted whatever it was she’d see it in the morning. …..Then the phone rang…..
She hears my end of the conversation; “Yeah, I see it. I’m on my way in as soon as I get a uniform on.” ….That got her out of bed and I just pointed at the TV. “Don’t wake the girls. I don’t think they’re going to school in the morning. The base is locked down now.”
Every ship at Sasebo took in all lines and left port. I was on shore duty there at the time and couldn’t leave the confines of the base for two weeks. A female sailor in my unit also had no choice but to be locked down on base for that duration and her husband was underway aboard Essex. Her two young boys went to live at my house with my wife and two daughters for that time. We’d never even met them before that.
That’s the way Navy families roll.
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At work in Miami. We were in our weekly staff meeting and my neighbor that was a firefighter called and told me what was going on. He was part of the Broward County Urban Response Team and his team had been told to go to Homestead AFB and plan to be flying to NY. Well of course everything got grounded so they ended up driving to NYC a couple of days later. The NYFD wouldn’t let anyone else in for several days. At first they went into the subway station to look for bodies or parts. They found severed limbs and fingers here and there but no intact bodies at that point. He brought home a probably inch and a half diameter steel bolt with a nut on it had that been sheared off and partially melted. The whole experience left him pretty traumatized. I can’t imagine. Our plant in Miami was pretty close to the flight pattern for Miami International and there were always planes overhead. Going outside there and not seeing planes in the sky for the next week or so was surreal.
On a football note, we attended the first Dolphin game when play resumed and there was a lot of warnings that security would be enhanced and to expect long lines. We did stand in line for a while and had to go through a metal detector. As we went through they told us we had to remove our hat. I wondered aloud why they were making us take off our hats. The guy in line behind me said “they’re checking for towels”. I almost fell over laughing!
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Orange Blooded [2531]
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Aug 22, 2023, 6:45 PM
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watching Bob the builder with my Grandson.
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Aug 22, 2023, 6:49 PM
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I was at Lowes getting some wood.
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Game Changer [1612]
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Aug 22, 2023, 7:11 PM
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SAT prep class at Pendleton high school. We had a young teacher fresh out of college that let us turn the TV on and watch the news as it was unfolding. I can't remember for certain but I feel like I remember them closing school early that day.
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Sweeping the floor of my shop, listening to the radio.
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Aug 22, 2023, 7:18 PM
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Called the missus at home with my (then) almost three year old girl and almost one year old boy. Told her to turn on the tv.
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Standout [303]
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Walked into my office building, on an Army installation, just after the first plane hit. My assistant and a group of young Soldiers were watching on a lobby TV. When the second hit, it got really quiet. Then one of the Soldiers said “guys, we’re at war now.” After a few minutes, I told them all to report back to their units for accountability, figuring that the post would be elevating the FPCON any time. Got tired of watching the same video over and over, so logged into Tigernet where a guy across the Hudson was giving play by play.
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Had just started first shift at Schlumberger in Walhalla...
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working the electric meter line when one of the technicians came up and said that New York got attacked. I went to my cube and tried to pull up USA Today website and it took forever to load. I called one of my buddies from school and asked him if something was going on. He told me we were under attack from someone. As the day went on, the reality of the situation hit home to all of us. I knew from that morning; my life had changed forever. This was our generation's Pearl Harbor.
Things have never been the same since 9/11/01. I have never forgotten hearing the horror my wife experienced as a new teacher in Greenville county when the principal came to her classroom, pulled her out of class and told her something bad had happened. They took her to a conference room where several people were watching it transpire on a large tv. She was born and raised outside of Newark which is just across the Hudson River for lower Manhattan. Her day was one of misery as she tried to get ahold of her sister who, at the time, worked in midtown. Turned out that everyone was okay, but she got the scare of her life that day.
We have always been Pro-Military but after the attack and the years of war after that, we have always had a special calling to support the Men and Women of our armed forces. I bring my 80-year-old Army Vet father to Military Appreciation Day with pride. He always enjoys the half time show with the Armed Forces melody but is always shaken during the 21-gun salute. God Bless our Armed Forces. I have never been the same since 9/11. None of us who lived through it will ever forget.
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I was working at the Weapon Station by Goose Creek and was in the office working on some surveys when they came in and said that the Second Tower had been hit. All I said was we were at war. Continued working until sent home.
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When I came home that day from Walhalla...
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I drove SC 183 that goes right by the Duke Nuclear power station in Oconee County. State Troopers, and I assume SC National Guard, had checkpoints going both ways past the nuke station. They checked our drivers license, took a quick look in the car and let us on our way. I asked our Trooper if he was in for a long day and he said they had been put on mandatory 12-hour shifts with overtime. I told him to be safe and went home to watch the news from that terrible day.
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Mastermind real estate meeting at Meredith Noon's office on
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I had just retired as a family physician for 37 years and was on the top of a Habitat house we were building in Spindale, NC when we heard about the twin towers.
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Had just gotten in to work at the chemical plant. One of my
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operators wives called him on his cell phone, and told him planes had hit the towers, and that one had already collapsed. We quickly scrambled up some tv's and watched in horror as the second one came down.
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Clemson Icon [26538]
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in and said a plane had hit one of the WTC towers.
First, thought it was a sightseeing type, but at a gas station, the clerk said it looked like a passenger plane. I stopped at a friend's store to see the news, and the first thing I thought was terrorists. Then, watched the second plane hit, and I got into my warface mood, ready to start launching. Never will forget the sight of both towers collapsing.
Just couldn't believe that kind of attack happened, and to this day I believe that a whole lot of people, residing in this country, knew the participants were here, knew they were training and prepping and were willing accomplices. And those SOB's are still in the USA, untouched to this day!
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Athletic Dir [1129]
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I was working on a project here in NC. My boss was supposed to fly to Maine that day. One of our dozer operators told me a plane had flow into the WTC. He assumed at the time that it was somehow weather related or instrumentation. We went someplace and found a TV just as the second plane hit. The "thank God" moment for us was that we had been flying in and out of the same airport (Portland Maine) as the hijackers. We also always had stop overs in NY and Pittsburgh on our way. Could have easily have been us on that plane.
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Was working on the 18th floor of Charlotte Plaza. Someone came from the breakroom and said a plane had hit one of the towers. Went there to check the news and saw the second plane hit. Obviously every one was stunned. A couple of the ladies were in tears. Later we were told to evacuate the building and go home. Everyone else in downtown was told the same. Took quite a bit of time go get to I-85. Before leaving, one recently hired employee told us he talked to his Mom in NYC. His Dad, retired from the NYFD and a fire marshall at the trade center, had called his wife telling her they were going to the basement of one of the buildings to set up a command center. Was never heard from again and understand his body was one of the last to be recovered.
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Just finished a microbiology exam in 2nd year of med school at u of sc
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I was a high school librarian and the front office called and asked me to turn on the library TV. I did just in time to see the plane hit the 2nd tower. At that time most classrooms didn't have TVs. Spent the rest of the day trying to get in touch with my children and trying to figure out how to get my daughter out of a different high school. We all knew that WW2 was imminent.
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Overheard at the polls in Orangeburg, SC
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My neighbor was elected mayor that day; not much of a victory celebration!
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I was working at Hitachi in Greenville, somone came in the office are and let us know that the first plane hit and I just thought it was some sort of terrible accident.... luckily they had plenty of TVs to follow the developments All day. I just remember no one was able to concentrate on their jobs that day as would be expected.
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hit, we were told to go to the basement or leave. At the time there were several aircraft unaccounted for and we were told DC was a likely target. Think I saw the second tower being hit on one of the TVs as I was leaving.
As I was walking toward the parking lot I heard the explosion at the Pentagon and remember scanning the sky looking for aircraft. Saw a few F-16s racing around.
Downtown DC was gridlocked for a while so I sat in a lot talking with others. Heard about the collapses over the radio.
Finally got out of town and drove past the Pentagon on the way Richmond. Mostly in silence. It was a bad day, and I was trying to process the senseless acts and amount of people who died.
I remember binge watching some "Band of Brothers" that night because I couldn't sleep.
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Sitting in a BA Room inside the jail when I turned on the news and noticed the report of the first plane hitting. I then watched on live television as the second plane hit. Then we all know what happened from there throughout the day.
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I had gotten up early that morning and was driving to my project in Newport News, Va. At first, like many of you, I thought that the first plane was a small private plane and it was an accident. When the second plane hit, then I knew it was terrorists and my first feeling was pure outrage ...... and revenge. I kept the radio on the entire way and monitored what was going on. I then though about all of the people on airlines who were being grounded, many of whom were half was around the country from their homes. I considered about stopping by the Newport News Airport and volunteering to take as many as I could fit in my car back to anywhere along to way to Greenville in North Carolina or all the way to Greenville. I couldn't figure out how I would identify them or let anyone know that I would do that, so I was not able to do it.
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As I type this, I am looking at the very spot where I was standing when we heard the news. We were finishing our new home in Anderson SC and the painters were getting ready to stain the paneled den. As usual, they had a radio on to provide background noise while they worked, and one of them suddenly said "I think a plane just flew into the World Trade Center!" My wife and I finished our work at the new house and went back to our old house and watched the rest of the day on television.
At the first of September, 2001, I delivered my eldest son to Columbia University Law School in upper Manhattan, and helped him move in - 150 sq.ft. apartment, rent-controlled, for $1000/month - he slept on the sofa bed and I slept on a makeshift bed roll, with my head at the bathroom door, my tail in the kitchen, and my feet under his sofa bed!!!! We finished unloading and unpacking the next day at noon, and celebrated by going to Windows On The World, at the top of one of the WTC buildings to eat lunch. As we watched the events unfold on 9/11, it was surreal to realize that some of the workers who had prepared and served our meal only 2 weeks before, were dying before our very eyes!! R/TLM
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Of course I remember...I was 43 years old.
Getting gas at Sphinx on Batesville Road in Greer for my Kodak company truck. They had little TVs in the pumps. This is after the first one hitting; thought it was still a tragic accident at that point.
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At work. One of the companies owners came in and told me about the first attack.
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