Where Were You...

[justplugit]

That morning around 7:30 i was walking up the stairs to take a shower
and had a sudden urge to pray for my son-in-law,
a 767 pilot leaving Kennedy at 8:00 AM that morning nonstop to LA.
While i pray for my family and friends every night, that's about it.

My wife had the TV on and as we watched the fire and smoke my daughter called
crying not knowing if Tim would be one of the planes involved..
I told my wife how i had the urge to pray as i went up stairs and she looked at me in amazement
as she had the same feeling and had prayed at the same time.

We didn't know he was safe until 11:30 when he called to say he had asked for
permission to land in ST. Louis as soon as the tower controllers had warned about
what was happening. He had to stay there for 6 days with his plane until he
could fly it home.

There is no doubt in my mind that the terrorists had looked at his flight
as a possible plane as it had the same MO as the others,
767, nonstop to the coast with a full tank, and leaving at 8:00 AM.

[JohnR]

Conspiracy theories / discussion move to a thread in Scuppers if you REALLY feel the need to go down that path. Thanks.

[Swimmer]

Half way through a haircut at Don's in Hanson, Mass. Finished the haircut and by that time thier were about 20 people standing inside the shop including all the girls from the Conway Realty.

I know it sounds melodramatic, but when I went to walk out the door I said that, "we are at war, we just have to figure out who to shoot back at." I could tell that more than shocked a few people. Most everyone there had never been through anything like that.

[Finaddict]

I was at work - in a meeting and the individual's whose office it was had a news site up on her computer, she turned to look at the screen and said, "oh my god, a plane hit the World Trade Center." At the same moment, my boss got on the overhead and called everyone into the main conference room, and we watched the second plane hit ... freaked ...

... I can remember the first feeling I experienced was the need to be on the boat fishing either down in Islamorada on the Down Town flat for bonefish or drifting off Montauk for albies and stripers ... weird how that was my security blanket of sorts ...

My dad's company was previously on the 19th floor of one of the World Trade Center buildings ... he helped his floor get out of the building when it was bombed by the van back in 1991 or whenever that happened. The man who took over my father's position when my dad retired, moved the company in July to Jersey City ... everyone in the company was furious until 9/11 less than two months later ...

But more whacked things were happening that day in my life ... altholugh none compared to what was going on for the people who were victimized.

Doc - hats off to you for helping everyone.

[mikrok]

In law class, senior year of high school. After we first tuned in and were shocked by what was happening we were evacuated to the rear of the building, onto the soccer field because some jackass called in a bomb threat or something (went through a few of them). I remember feeling pretty numb about the direct "threat" because of what I had witnessed. Kids in class had older brothers and sisters at school in NYC and nobody knew if they might have been in the area at the time

[chief10]

I was driving up rt. 3 when I heard the report of the small aircraft on WEEI. I called my cousin Greg who was in the second tower and couldn't get through. I remember getting to work and at the time I worked with my younger brother, as soon as I walked in I knew something was wrong. I stayed until the second tower was hit then drove home. With all the conflicting reports I wasn't really sure what to think until I saw it on TV. I can remember trying to tell myself this wasn't happenning, none of it looked real. A very sad day for everyone who enjoys being an American. A couple of pictures from the 9-11 memorial in Plymouth. If you haven't seen this yet, stop by.It's worth it.

[Backbeach Jake]

I was at work. One of the mechanics, Gil, said Fred, put on a radio. There were conflicting stories, small plane, then airliner, then another airliner, then another, then yet another. Gil came back over to my shop and said let's take an early lunch where there's a TV, bad stuff is going on. I left a grilled tuna sandwich on the bar untouched....and went back to work. One of the Brazilian guys asked me what was going to happen now. I told him that a lot more people were going to die...I've never felt more dejected in my life, never....

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by justplugit

That morning around 7:30 i was walking up the stairs to take a shower
and had a sudden urge to pray for my son-in-law,
a 767 pilot leaving Kennedy at 8:00 AM that morning nonstop to LA.
While i pray for my family and friends every night, that's about it.

My wife had the TV on and as we watched the fire and smoke my daughter called
crying not knowing if Tim would be one of the planes involved..
I told my wife how i had the urge to pray as i went up stairs and she looked at me in amazement
as she had the same feeling and had prayed at the same time.

We didn't know he was safe until 11:30 when he called to say he had asked for
permission to land in ST. Louis as soon as the tower controllers had warned about
what was happening. He had to stay there for 6 days with his plane until he
could fly it home.

There is no doubt in my mind that the terrorists had looked at his flight
as a possible plane as it had the same MO as the others,
767, nonstop to the coast with a full tank, and leaving at 8:00 AM.

I don't want to freak you out, and I want to stress that this has never been officially confirmed, but there were pretty strong rumors floating about NYC in the weeks after 9/11 that a hijacking attempt was intercepted at JFK that morning. Rumor had it that the would-be hijackers were somehow challenged at security, and fled out onto the airport taxiways, and disappeared.

[nightfighter]

It was thought that a total of seventeen planes were actually targeted. And there is still a 737 that is not accounted for.....

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Mike P

I don't want to freak you out, and I want to stress that this has never been officially confirmed, but there were pretty strong rumors floating about NYC in the weeks after 9/11 that a hijacking attempt was intercepted at JFK that morning. Rumor had it that the would-be hijackers were somehow challenged at security, and fled out onto the airport taxiways, and disappeared.

Thanks Mike, i never heard the rumor about JFK, but not ever having this kind of feeling to pray and having my wife have the same feeling about 1/2 hour before take off was incredible to both of us. He's always flying, that strong feeling never felt before, that day and that time?????

I don't pretend to have an answer, but i have always felt that they had targeted
his flight because it was the exact plane and flight time as the others.
If there were would-be hijackers that were foiled, it would go a long way in lifting
the mystery for us.

Thanks for shedding some light.

[BigBo]

Home from work recovering from hernia surgery. My daughter had just came over to the house to do some laundry and I was laying on the couch with my then 11 month old grandson. We watched in horror and I couldn't help but wonder what the future would be like for my grandson growing up in a world of global terrorism.

[Mr. Sandman]

I was in my home office and I got a call from my office in Arlington, VA, down the street from the Pentagon. One of my co-workers was at a starbucks and saw the plane approach the building, he said you could hear the engines winding up to full power as they made impact. He said they hit at full throttle. He said the fireball and explosion was huge. The rest of the day I was tuned in to the tube. My young sons who had visited the tower a week or so eailer said..."That is fake, right dad?" No son, its real. He cried for a while and it was 3 years before I could get him into a plane and it was a white-knucle drill for the first few flights.

IMO most of this country nor the current admin still does not have a full grasp of the kind of people we are dealing with.

[MikeToole]

I was in my office at work when I got a call from my wife about it. After that I was sitting in my office with my Admin Assistant waiting for word on her parents who had flown out of Boston that morning. Only to find out just before noon that her parents were on the second aircraft that flew into the towers. Her father had just retired a few days earlier.

It was also my wife's birthday.

[piemma]

Heading for NYC for a meeting with the Port Authority on the 72nd floor of Tower 2. I was working for an imaging company and we did all the scanning and indexing for the Port Authority. We had something like 25 servers at 2 Broadway as the processing facility. I remember I got as far as New Haven and all the trains had been shut down. I went home thinking how if I had gone to NYC on Monday, 9/11 was a Tuesday, I would be dead.