Where were you on 9/11.. 17 years ago

[GravityLee]

This will paint me in a bad light but ive never felt any more sympathy for the victims than i do when i pick up the paper and read about a head on collision killing someone. Its not that i dont care completely., its just im not God so i cant roll time back to fix it, and second lots of people on the planet are dying in tragic circumstances every day. That said because it was an attack by foreigners on american civilians i felt we should unleash hell. I find it comical all the hijackers were Saudis. We couldnt go into there because Bush is buttbuddies with oil princes there.. Not just bush but pretty much the entire congress has financial interests there.

[WIKI18]

Pakistani bruh here. I was 11 years old when it happened and my family lived in our old home in Pakistan. Still remember it like it was yesterday. Was in the family TV room, while dad was watching news. Up on the TV was the scene live. Clouds of ash, smoke and fire. My uncle (dad's brother) used to work over there. I remember my mum freaking out because we could not make any contact with my uncle. Dad was silent but I could tell by the look on his face that he was utterly concerned.

We later found out that my uncle passed away due to those attacks. Dad legit broke all contact whatsoever with the few people who said the incident was what the US deserved. Fuk those people who think somehow killing innocents is justified because of religion. Dad hasn't seen those people since that day. But mostly, everyone was concerned and terrified because of what happened that day. It was like everyone knew life and other things in general would not be the same not only for the US and Pakistan, but for people all over the world.

My condolences to all US brahs and to everyone who lost family and friends due to that attack.

[Mongoose_Man]

I was turnin and burnin in a helicopter on the flightline at a Marine Corps Air Station. We had not taken off, were doing ground tests. Next thing I know we are shutting down and going inside the hangar for a emergency formation. A few weeks later I was in Bagram Afghanistan, when it was really not a major base yet, running ops and setting up fobs for what would soon be the infamous Operation Anaconda in the Shahi Kot Valley.

Damn time flies :-(

[SPP1]

Luckily, I was down the Jersey shore sleeping on a friends couch. I quit my job a month earlier. I spent the previous 3 years taking the PATH train from NJ to WTC and walking to my job 2 blocks away. I would've been stuck in the building after the first plane hit. I know people who got stuck because security wouldn't let them out after the first. They eventually opened the doors and people ran before the second plane hit.

While it wasn't a close call for me, I still consider myself lucky I wasn't there.

[BustaCapp]

I was at work.

[Deathstroke]

In my apartment in Ohio, and waking up from a very bad hangover at about 3PM that day. I left my desktop computer on back then and my AOL messenger always stayed connected when I seen a few IM's, so I read the first one. My friend then in Taiwan IM'ed me "OMG you hear news? Your under attack and gonna have a war! I am sorry my friend."

Turned on the TV then saw everything happening news news news.

Of course I thought it would turn into WW3 at the time. Threats of vastly more devastating attacks involving planes, chemicals, biological and even nuclear WMD's all started circulating and it was even fed to us by our own Government, Ashcroft, Rumsfield and Dubya.

I was 21 and bought into it all. The fact that it was (arguably) an inside job had not even crossed my mind.

I gave up the booze and drugs and turned to supplementation, dieting and lifting for awhile. And yeah contacted the sh(t out of my friends and loved ones.

[CheekyKuntBrah]

high school, I still remember driving home and coming into see my parents had the TV on with it all over the news and at that point it was still being reported as some sort of freak accident

[LeJR]

lol, i went to school that day, and the muslim guy was planning to join the army

[elterrible987]

highschool


we had a research/lab class where you basically worked on a science fair project, there was no lecture, so we could watch the TV the whole time in the morning. Then it was on the TV various other times.

I remember first people saying a helicopter hit the pentagon.

[rocketfish]

at home before school started obviously since im west coast. then we went to school and all we did was watch the news all day at school while they announced that counselors will be available all day if anyone needs to talk

[badreligion]

9th grade English class

[USADave85]

Highschool. They announced it over the intercom, but I couldn't grasp what they were saying. I went to the technology room and saw the second plane hit. It went from possible terrible accident to WTF just happened. It was surreal when it happened, but I can barely remember it now.

[Swept]

4th Grade, every kid was getting picked up early accept me.

At least we didn't do work that day

[TappingTheZen]

Got home from school (UK), i was 11 years old and saw it on the news as soon as i got home. Still remember it vividly.

[Redfish225]

I was at work, old af crew.

[doughnutking]

I was at work and a guy from another store called us and said "Watch the news America is under attack", we didn't have a television so laughed and didn't believe him.

10 minutes later my father burst through the front door of the store pulls out a 1911 handgun, cocks it in front of everybody and calmly says "Grab your chit and come with me if you want to live!!"



Myself and the other three staff leave the store and jump into my fathers station-wagon. My father gets in and tells us all to shut up, looks us all in the eyes and says "It will be alright boys!" puts his foot to the floor whilst blasting Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart on full volume.



When the track finishes and we are nearly home we all start questioning him. He puts on the radio and all we hear is "World trade centre... pentag.. " etc.

Bricks were chit...

We went home, watched it on the tv and well... you know the rest.






















semisrs

[NasStan]

I just remember coming home from Primary school and my mum crying as she has 2 nieces that live in New York and she couldn't get through to them

[HunterMC6]

Science class Freshmen year of high school. They put a TV in the gym with the news on and there were so many of us standing and sitting on the bleachers in complete shock.

[rdwire88]

7th grade chemistry class

[Xplicit_Mindz]

2nd Period 11th Grade. Could see the smoke out the window (North Jersey Crew). Kid in my class lost both parents. Took my stepfather 17 hours to get home from Uptown. Crazy day.

[jacemano]

Was 10 years old and watching the TV over in the UK at school, we didn't do anything else that day. Might not have been in the USA but over here even people were watching and crying. The teachers were all pretty speechless.

[MarusDod]

If 9/11 happenned in Bangladesh no one would give a ****

[Vhagar]

7th grade but had an orthodontist appointment

Went back to school and did nothing the next few days.

Highschool. They announced it over the intercom, but I couldn't grasp what they were saying. I went to the technology room and saw the second plane hit. It went from possible terrible accident to WTF just happened. It was surreal when it happened, but I can barely remember it now.

Fuark I remember that feeling

Staring at the first tower thinking what a horrible accident when the second one plowed into it.

Was absolutely unreal to see live

[tunafish01]

6th grade in NJ. All i remember is the teachers coming into the classroom and asking if anyone had parents that worked in the twin towers.

I was able to see the smoke from this one bridge for months after

[Serenadium]

grade 5 in aussie land, in class and the teacher put the news on a cathode ray tv

[BibFortunaBrah]

I was at home, 13 at the time. I remember a phone call from a family member saying to turn the news on. We saw the first tower fall live. It was awful knowing we’d just seen potentially thousands of people die before our eyes.

[GM54]

was in spanish class in high school.

I grew up not 10 miles from WTC in jersey. Due west.... it was like 3rd period and the entire school shook from jet fighters flying by and flying low... everyone looked at each other like WTF was that.

Next period our history teacher turned on the radio and just let us sit there and listen... he said this is history.

[paulpfiction]

I was in Infantry basic training at Ft. Benning, GA

had no idea what had happened.. they asked if anyone had parents who worked in the towers and pulled the one kid who did out of the barracks to start making calls.

after a few hours they put the news on for us, then told us we are all going to war.

[MarvBrah]

6th grade. It was kind of weird because students were being taken out of class left and right but none of the students in the school were told what was happening. By the end of the day I was left with maybe 10 other kids in a class of about 30. Didn't know anything until I got home and my mother told me.

[Sinan09400]

fuk if I remember