Lets see 9 years ago today...

[dem00n]

I remeber the teacher leaving the room to go the teachers lounge to go see whats going on the TV, i'm sure any of us at that young age knew what happned...

R.I.P

[WahKeen]

Indeed. We still remember.

[WahKeen]

You need to read the rules of the Forum.

[cookieman15061]

WHAT??!!

OH RIGHT YOU'RE FROM THE uk.

[Andre S]

I remeber the teacher leaving the room to go the teachers lounge to go see whats going on the TV, i'm sure any of us at that young age knew what happned...

R.I.P

 

I was still in elementary/primary school.....When I went home for lunch I heard it on the television.....such a sad, sad event.

[BigKahune]

I was at work with the radio on. The initial reports said a small plane had crashed in to one of the WTC towers. In the following minutes, the terrible truth began to unfold. I went home early and watched the events continue to unfold as the second plane hit the other tower. The collapse of the towers followed. The TV visuals were horrifying. Of course there was the Pentagon attack and the foiled attempt to use flight 93 as an attack weapon. It's still hard to believe how much damage - in lives and materials - these attacks caused.

[Silenced Fred]

We went outside for gym to play soccer in 5th grade. After a couple of minutes, the principal came running out screaming that everyone had to get inside of the building. We all rushed in, and no one would tell us what was going on. We just knew we couldn't do anything, and we didn't learn anything all day. All the teachers were crying or talking to each other, but wouldn't tell it to us.

 

At the end of the day, my teacher, my teacher told us what had happened and nobody really knew what to do or say. I still don't know...

 

Some days you just won't forget, and that's the biggest one for me. I just got goosebumps as I wrote this

[charlie brown]

I was on the phone, with my guitar dealer, and my Mom, who was 92 at the time,

turned on the TV, to get the news, and saw the first plane hit the tower...she

at the time, thought it was a plug, for a new "disaster movie," but soon realized

it was "live," and after the 2nd plane went into the other tower...visably shaken,

and angry, she said: "Kill, kill, kill...is that ALL, anyone knows how to do, anymore!"

I knew then, how my Mom must have felt, some 60 years earlier, when she heard about

the attack on Pearl Harbor. Except, this time, it was "live" on TV, and was on

civilian targets!

[TommyK]

Heard about it at work and read about it on the 'net. I was a new user back then. When we got reports about the second plane hitting, I remember saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, we're at war." I felt a bit embarrassed after I said it, but about half the people in my office said I was nuts. Maybe so.

 

The lunch room had the TV going most of the day. We'd check in from time to time. I remember seeing the first tower leaning and thinking ,"That can't be good."

 

After the first tower fell, I remember people talking at work about donating blood. I thought, "I don't think those folks will need it."

 

I remember when we finally made contact with a co-worker who was scheduled to depart O'Hare that morning.

 

I remember hearing about people in the Sears Tower seeing air planes in the air and getting worried until someone said, "No, it's one of ours. It's a fighter jet." I remember thinking, "They're flying cover over down town Chicago."

 

I remember watching the news when I got home about the shell game they were playing with the POTUS. I remember going outside and seeing the contrails going west to east, undoubtedly left by AF1 and it's fighter escort enroute from Kansas to Washington.

 

I remember Bush standing in the door of Marine 1 (president's helicopter) and just standing there, then all of a sudden the real president coming from around the back side of the chopper. Apparently the body in the door way was a Secret Service agent who had swapped coats and tie with The President. How The President got there is a mystery to me.

 

I remember the ten o'clock news reporting that Britain's Parliament singing "God Bless America." Thanks guys.

 

I remember reports of one particular chain convenience store spiking the price of gas to $4.00 from around a buck. I remember most gas stations, holding their prices for several days.

 

I remember seeing picures of down town Manhattan. A fire truck and amubulance covered in dust. My co-worker/volunteer fireman was standing next to me. "How many men on that rig?" I said. "Eight," he replied. We both said, "Damn."

[Artie Owl]

Grade 10, first Chemistry class of the year, all at once everyone's cellphone and or pager went off, it was eerie. Then by the end of the school day, after football practice there were busses and busses of travellers disembarking at our high school and sports arena. You see we were one of the places they differed the planes to land to, the community here reached out as best they could, it's true too of Newfoundland.

[TommyK]

Grade 10, first Chemistry class of the year, all at once everyone's cellphone and or pager went off, it was eerie. Then by the end of the school day, after football practice there were busses and busses of travellers disembarking at our high school and sports arena. You see we were one of the places they differed the planes to land to, the community here reached out as best they could, it's true too of Newfoundland.

 

I heard the Newfies were stellar in their hospitality to those stranded passengers. They were stuck guests there what? a week?

[milod]

Aside from any specific politics...

 

One should note that this was not just an attack on the U.S., but rather against the peace and dignity of a majority of people in the world.

 

It reinforces my rather deeply-held belief that one may be at war with, but likely will be able to negotiate with cultures where guitar playing has a significant role - and the reverse also is true.

 

Yeah, it ain't the guitar, but the guitar is kind of an outward sign of internal values of various cultures.

 

m

[Artie Owl]

The whole east coast of Canada was TommyK. I understand passengers who stayed there still send thank you cards back to Newfoundland and to here. That's typical of Newfoundland though, nicest place in the world, Nova Scotia is a close second IMO.

[milod]

All I can say about Canadians in general from the perspective of a U.S. citizen is that I can't imagine two nations functioning much more than a couple of siblings close in age to each other: They might fight like cats and dogs about little stuff, but when there's a real problem? Not.

 

I only hope the average "American" is perceived as hospitable to the average Canadian as the average Canadian has proven to be from my own and U.S. friends' experience.

 

m

[Artie Owl]

We send Boston a giant Christmas Tree every year because of the aid the City of Boston gave Halifax after the Halifax explosion almost a century ago. Boston was faster to respond than the Canadian government. When it comes right down to it I think both countries know what's what.

[Jantha]

Well said, Milod

 

I have much respect for our northern brother.

 

I dig their flag too.

[NeoConMan]

I was operating a crane on a powerline job next to I-10 in east Houston.

Went to Target when we broke for lunch to buy every American flag they had.

Lady told me they only had a few and they were gone as soon as they opened the store.

 

So I bought all the red/white/blue spray paint they had.

Got masking tape, and some plastic 2" stars as well.

 

As we had time on the job that afternoon, and could drop the hooks to the ground for a few minutes at a time,

I did the ball and load block on both cranes on the job.

 

Didn't have a camera to capture it, but cars on I-10 were honking and giving us the thumb up.

 

I kept mine touched up and flew the Stars & Stripes for a couple months, until I got off that crane.

 

Bought a bunch of .308 ammo too.

[milod]

Neo et al...

 

I think the Canadian connection and such needs be expanded to every "guitar playing culture" in the world.

 

The attack on the World Trade Center was not just an attack on the U.S., it was an attack on everyone seeking a day of peaceful commerce on Sept. 11 - which is the majority of the people of the world.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm probably as proudly "American" as anyone. In some ways probably more than most.

 

But as I recall the Star Spangled Banner was played in London during the changing of the guard - perhaps the first time ever and perhaps the last. As I recall there were English folk dead in that attack nine years ago too, and perhaps their anthem should be played at he WTC "Ground Zero" in recognition too.

 

People from all over the world died in the attack, or suffered that day and ever since from changes the civilized world has undergone since 9-11.

 

I dunno, I just don't care to see this become an issue of the U.S. vs. terror, but rather the majority of the world defending against an enemy whose hatred for peace and dignity brought this mass murder.

 

We're in a different world now.

 

BTW, I'm only half-kidding when I say that I wonder it might not not be a good idea if a 2 percent contingent of guitar players in uniform taking inexpensive guitars to such places as seem to breed terrorists - a matter of culture which at first might be as dangerous as the warfighting battlefield, but could be as effective long term.

 

m

[Blackie]

I turned on the truck radio leaving home depot with the wood and stuff for a job building a desk book case thing.When I got to the house I was working at I turned on the peoples TV.....something I would never do normally........I watched a bit but still set up for the

work I needed to do. The home owner came in and I went to shut off the TV feeling embarassed that I had taken that leeway.......

He turned it back on and I went back to work. I finished my job there and got paid. I went to my next job and built a bookcase that I wrote my name and the date on the bottom of. It is built in place and still there, maybe it will be ripped out at some later renovation and my testement is that I did my work and got the job done no matter some weasily coward attack on our Country.

[milod]

Blackie...

 

That's exactly a proper response to that sort of stuff. You got your work done.

 

More power to yah, I say.

 

m

[Blackie]

Blackie...

 

That's exactly a proper response to that sort of stuff. You got your work done.

 

More power to yah, I say.

 

m

 

 

Thanks.................I think we have overreacted in many ways to our detriment.........these folks are nobody and we have fallen into there game so to speak.

[saturn]

I worked for an airline, so I definitely remember everything about that awful day.

 

I was a supervisor, and a security coordinator, and I had been getting emails from the FAA all summer long regarding potential threats. They knew something was immanent.

 

I was working the late shift, and didn't get home the night before until about 2 AM, so I was still sleeping when it started. My wife told me a plane hit the WTC and she was off to IKEA. I thought she meant a small prop plane. A little while later I awoke alone to a strange jet sound above my house and looked out my window to see 2 A-10s flying in formation and knew something was up. Everything was eerily quiet. I got up and turned on the TV to see everything unfolding and just in time to see the 2nd plane hit. It was like an unreal dream.

 

I remember not knowing how to answer my son when he asked me why he was getting out of school early.

 

My shift was supposed to start at 3PM but I couldn't get hold of anyone at work because they had evacuated BWI Airport.

 

Needless to say, everything was different after that day. Not just for me, but for everyone.

 

Not to mention the poor souls who were taken from the world.

[Big_Guitarra]

I was working that day. A few of us from the shop went up the road for coffee at a local coffee house near a major international airport. We were enjoying our coffee on the patio when my colleague received a call from his wife stating that an airliner crashed into the World Trade Center. There were some stewardesses at the next table whio overheard our conversation and joined in. Just when we were all speculating it must be a mistake or an accident of some sort my colleague's cell phone rang and his wife was relaying the info of the second airliner hitting the WTC. All of us were in shock, especially the stewardesses whom were on a break between flights! So many folks lost their lives. And folks are still losing their lives...those folks who raced into Ground Zero to rescue those caught in this horrific attack. I still haven't been able to watch the Oliver Stone flick "World Trade Center" to the end. :(