Journal FortKnox's Journal: Where were you when... 72
Yeah, this is a sept 11th entry, but not mourning or anything like that (you can find that everywhere else), more of a new culture thing.
Our parents had "where were you when JFK was shot?" or "where were you Neil Armstrong made his fateful leap for mankind?"
So where were you when you found out about the trade centers?
(No need to get super-long-winded about the whole day, just what was going on in life and where you doing anything rememberable at the time)?
Our parents had "where were you when JFK was shot?" or "where were you Neil Armstrong made his fateful leap for mankind?"
So where were you when you found out about the trade centers?
(No need to get super-long-winded about the whole day, just what was going on in life and where you doing anything rememberable at the time)?
We were pregnant!!! (Score:2)
Dad was on a plane from NJ to home.
So that day was quite a tangle of mixed emotions (btw - my dad actually knew my wife was pregnant and told my sister-in-law a week beforehand... kinda wierd, but my dad has always been able to know stuff like that).
Another 'culture memory' I have wou
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Unless that's the stigma to which you were referring...
Re:We were pregnant!!! (Score:2)
Yesterday morning, I get into work at the normal time (around 7:30am). I work on the 11th floor. In my building (17 floors) the two floors that have the most people early on are the 9th and 11th floor.
Suddenly, gas starts filling up the 9th and 11th floors. We all leave, because it reeks even though nobody has called for an evacuation.
Turns out natural gas company was flushing a line right into our air intake. Dumbasses. They called and told
Re:We were pregnant!!! (Score:2)
For about six months, Dad and I had avoided getting ours, and were catching hell from Mum about it. So, she finally just booked us in for a Saturday appointment.
Friday evening, the tornado hit and tore the roof off the building and basically vacuumed all the papers and whatnot out the top. Our appointment was included in that, apparently.
I had lab at 8:30 am (Score:2)
When I came out of lab at 12:30 it seemed that there was something really big going on, and I was the last to know.
Then my afternoon P-chem lab was canceled. Then I read my online newsources to figure out what the heck was going on.
ICU at a children's hospital. (Score:2)
At my computer (Score:2)
I had been up too late the night before putting bugs in a program and typos in a paper I was writting. I decided to sneak up on them with a big mug of coffee and beat them into submission. As part of my personal P.O.S.T. I started going through my messages. One was from my wife, telling me to check the news...
-- MarkusQ
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at holidays in greece (Score:1)
Surreal Day (Score:2)
Up early for a change (Score:2)
It was just by coincidence that I *happened* to be listening to the radio that day, instead of the CD player, and heard the report. My first instinct was "War of the Worlds" cynicism. I remember being really pissed, because the person was just talking about smoke and fire, and not saying where it was or what had happened, and in 25 minutes they never did menti
I was recording (Score:2)
About halfway through, someone else came round to record, and mentioned it, so we all ran downstairs to watch the TV, and saw the second plane hit.
I just sitting in front of my computer. (Score:2)
Seriously.
-Brent
Re:I just sitting in front of my computer. (Score:1)
Where was I? (Score:1)
The guys that work in that office listen to the Bob and Tom Show [bobandtom.com], which I normally refrain from listening to because I find them vial and disgusting. Bob and Tom came on the radio and said something about a plane crashing into a building in NY. They weren't sure what building it was. I didn't pay much attenti
I was on the phone with my mom (Score:2)
I was ironing (Score:1)
I thought "what a terrible accident..." And then I saw the second plane hit. At first I thought it was a replay of the first... but no. Then, I thought what the hell is wrong with the air traffic controllers in NY...
Then a cold chill hit me and my wife as we both realised that this was not an accident. And there were 50,000 people living and working in t
Working from home (Score:2)
I think, and this is just my opinion, that Sept 11 2001 eclipses November 23rd 1963 pretty significantly.
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But really, there are so many parrallels here, in 1963,
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Unemployed (Score:1)
I don't think I'm getting any interviews today.
I spent the rest of the day in my apartment watching TV. Things didn't really hit home until I drove around the city later that evening.
I was working.... (Score:2)
I hit the Internet and set about my morning scan of the CNN headlines. Only CNN was like Slashdotted. My first reaction was, okay, what? Did Slashdot run an article on CNN announcement of the release of Duke Nukem Forever or what? Then my dad calls and was like, "A plane crashed into the WTC! Go find a TV."
I hit CNN again and managed to harness the
At work (Score:1)
The morning commute (Score:1)
I was leaving the house. I don't watch TV as part of my morning ritual, and I didn't have the radio on that day, so I didn't find out about the first plane until I said goodbye to my mom. I was in the car for the other tower, the Pentagon, and a call from a New York-born friend best summed up with the phrase "This is f***ed up." I got to work just as reports of a plane crash near Pittsburgh started coming in.
Recruiting (Score:1)
I was at work when the news broke (Score:2)
Was just about able to get through to the BBC News website to get a brief headline (we were still stuck with ISDN at the time, ADSL was installed at Christmas that year).
When I reached the train station, the trains were disrupted due to the same security alert groundi
Re:I was at work when the news broke (Score:1)
Do you blokes over there really use these words?
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MT.
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Heading to work... (Score:1)
They came back on after the top of the hour after the second plane hit and struggled to proceed. Soon they switched over to ABC news.
Didn't get a whole lot done at work that day. Most of it was spent listening to a radio, and reloading
Woke up, turned on TV, saw plane hit tower... (Score:2)
I answered your question in more detail in my
Re:Woke up, turned on TV, saw plane hit tower... (Score:2)
I don't mean any disrespect, but it saddens me when I see things like this. The world didn't change on that day. Not a single bit. Perhaps the only real change was that the American public finally got it into their heads that terrorism was real, and that it wasn't pleasant. The rest of the world had been living with it for years (here in the UK, much of it being funded by American money).
Re:Woke up, turned on TV, saw plane hit tower... (Score:2)
My world is now a different one than it was. I guess yours didn't need any adjustment to deal with crap like that.
Working (sort of) (Score:2)
"Guess not."
-Ab
ps. that was the beginning of the end for us. We were profitable our first 2 months in business, then we ha
*Addendum* (Score:2)
Sleeping (Score:2)
Then they said what happened. I think the first words out of my mouth were something like "Holy shit!", then I was on the phone, calling my then-fiancee in Winnipeg. I figured that her lab whould probably be a high-rated target (she works
Where was I? (Score:2)
Sitting at work (Score:2)
On a maths-class (Score:1)
Then he said that at least one other plane had hit the other tower, and people are saying that possibly 2 more had also hit the towers. Then I think I (loudly) said something to the effect of "WTF? Okay, that's no accident" and relayed t
My Journal Entry (Score:2)
Long answer here [slashdot.org].
Me? (Score:1)
grad school (Score:1)
Bed (Score:1)
What really irked me was that many of the art professors here assigned students to design "memorials" the very next day. Very tacky, IMO.
So there I was, ... (Score:1)
Drove to work, called my boss in the guard to see if I was no longer a ci
At work in a company that had other offices there (Score:2)
On my way.. (Score:1)
I actually continued to listen to Howard who stayed on the air till 1pm (or so) he covered everything and even broke away to other news feeds for a while.
As I crossed the Tappan Zee Bridge I looked South and saw the smoke plume from the WTC area.
I was in and out of the office in 20mins. and headed back home...
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Re:On my way.. (Score:2)
I stood there watching for a few minutes. I remember they were patching into WNBC's feed for commentary when the second plane hit. I remember seeing the plane in the background and wondering what it was. When it hit, the reporter only saw the explosion and had no idea it was a second plane.
I
In bed waking up, listening to the news on my (Score:1)
At work in Melbourne, Florida (Score:2)
At the Friday's Fright Night showings, I shared a table with Matt Berck [3boysproductions.com] who happen to star in the the MIFF's finale Saturday night. He played at NYC music bootlegger. In real life he was an aspiring actor living in the city. He was looking for his big break so he could quit his day job wait
I had just woken up (Score:2)
I was at home (Score:1)
I never watch tv in the morning, but I turned it on.
Then about 5 minutes later, a friend called telling me to turn on the tv.
I spent the next 14 hours watching the tube.
Sucked.
I was on IRC (Score:2)
LEM (Score:1)
I was at home in Pacifica (Score:2)
I was terrified. Especially as the reports
I was... (Score:2)
Spent most of the day reading bbc.co.uk and listening to npr streaming coverage.
jason
I was at work... (Score:2)
.. they built that ladder to heaven. (Score:2)
At home watching tv... (Score:2)
a stranger in a strange land. (Score:2)
at work (Score:1)