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I hate being the one to bring up such a sad topic on the board, but while watching an incredibly well-done doc on National Geographic HD tonight (about the attack), I was reminded just how awful the events of that day were. While I wasn't alive to experience the assassination of Kennedy, I think that 9/11 would be what my generation considers their 'turning point' issue.
In hindsight, we complain about how the world has changed for the worse since it happened (TSA, color-coding, etc), but rarely do we talk about WHAT actually happened. Details didn't surface for quite some time. The heroes of that day will never truly get their due admiration.
For me, the day started off as it always did: I was living on South Padre Island (working for a just-opened Schlitterbahn) and woke up as I usually did to the CNN morning show. The first plane had already hit. Replays were abundant. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. I never found television news to be frightening or terrifying in any way up until that point. The images that were broadcast remain with me to this very day.
The point of this thread is to find social strength in common understanding: ... Where were you on 9/11?
I appreciate any and all responses,
BN
Last edited by Bo; 05-25-2009 at 05:31 AM..
Reason: Moved from San Antonio forum.
Great post. I was in Canada at the time. Montreal to be exact. Unfortunately, I didn't find out about it until the next year. I was in 3rd or 4th grade at the time.
I was home and when the first plane hit my gut for some reason knew that it was a terrorist attack so I called my daughter who was at work and sat in front of the tv for most of the day.
I was on board a cruise ship, off the coast of Cuba, heading for the Panama Canal when our room steward knocked on the door and told us to turn on the TV. It was quite a dramatic day and a somber trip.
Being in Alaska and 4 hours behind New York, I was just getting up and had turned on the news. I missed the first impact...but was watching when the second one hit. Then I sat there for the next 3 or 4 hours screaming WTF!
It actually happened while it was late night here and I had already gone to bed. My mother called me and got me out of bed and said "Switch on your television" I turned it on and thought it was a movie at first and asked her why she woke me for this? Then it dawned on me what was actually happening. I know I'm a long way away and it can't possibly mean as much to me as it does to an American but it gutted me at the time, watching it unfold like a nightmare. I cried a lot watching it.
At work about an hours train ride from NYC..praying no one I knew was involved.
Unfortunately, that was not the case.
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