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[Hater Depot]

I'm not an eloquent person so I don't know what to say. But I am damn proud of my country and my city.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/09/10/bush.911.ap/index.html

[laogaiguk]

I hope the families of all the victims are doing well.

[Feloria]

I lived in Chicago at the time and remember there being a big panic about tha possibility of the Sears Tower being attacked. Downtown was more or less closed down and people (myself included), were just kind of wandering around the streets looking at each other and not really knowing what to say. I do remember McDonalds was giving out free pop and ice cream.
Like Hater depot- I love my country!!

[mindmetoo]

I was working in Seattle and was waking up to the Pentagon and the WTC centers (yeah I know) on fire. The DJs were talking about the Pentagon on fire and I was trying to figure out what the joke was about.

Then I turned on the TV.

Seeing the WTC centers (yeah I know) burn was like watching the beginning of the end of the world. When the first WTC center (I know) fell, I remember thinking "oh dear, that's horrible, at least they still have the other one." Right. Not for long.

I went to work. But no one could really work. By about 9:30 am my boss said everyone in the department could go home. I was like "no no, I'll work through this." By about 10:00 am it was announced the company was officially closing for the day. I said "no no, I'll work through this." By 11 am the whole building was officially closed. "No no I'll work through this." At noon, I went to Starbucks for my lunch time coffee. Starbucks was closed. That's when I knew even god had abandoned America in that hour. If Starbucks was throwing in the towel, so was I. I went home.

It was a beautiful day too. I just laid around my apartment complex's pool for the rest of the afternoon reading W.O. Mitchell's Who has seen the Wind.

It was really hard to sleep for several days.

I remember some bimbo on a Seattle blogging community posting a rant about no clubs being open that night and WTF was she supposed to do that night?

There was one American who didn't get it.

[Hater Depot]

I lost a lot of sleep the next few months. I kept thinking about the people who'd had to jump or burn to death, and how tall the buildings had been.

[On the other hand]

I was sleeping in my mother's living room, having moved out of the house I had been sharing with other roommates. Mom woke me up and when I asked her how she was doing, she told me that she was "devastated" about what had happened in New York, and gave a brief explanation. So I went into her room to watch the coverage on TV.

Later, I headed out to work, but stopped off at my favorite downtown coffee shop before catching the bus to the suburbs. While having my coffee, I glanced through that day's National Post, which had been printed up before the buildings were attacked. Somewhere in the front section was a short article stating that aviation officials had ordered airlines not to allow Salman Rushdie to board any of their flights.

[bucheon bum]

That night I started walking towards downtown Wonju to go to a PC Bang, but after a couple minutes, got the urge to go back to my apartment.

Flipped the TV on, channel surfed, came to CNN and saw the first building burning. It was a feed from a NY station and they were saying, "some small aircraft just crashed into the WTC." I remember thinking, "how the hell did that happen? There isn't a cloud in the sky."

While the commentators were trying to figure out how that could have happened we all saw the 2nd one crash and then it dawned on us all: we were being attacked.

I then continued watching the news coverage until the 2nd building collapsed; at that point I had to call it a night.

The next day was a blur. A couple co-workers expressed their regret, while a couple kids made rather insensitive remarks (along the lines of, "teacher, world trade center, plane, boom!").

[mithridates]

I was in Japan at the time and it was evening, just got back home after teaching my Tuesday class and spending an hour at a coffee shop to study Korean. I didn't know that those towers existed, nor where Afghanistan was. Oh, and it's my birthday. It's a bit weird now to have a whole country go into mourning every time I have a birthday. Oh well.

[Tiger Beer]

I was really drunk in Hong Kong at the time which I carried over to Manila.

But use to live and work next to the World Trade Center in NYC.. my apartment at Church&Chambers (shared the same subway stop) and my worplace in the financial district (even closer!).

So it was REAL strange when it happened even though I didn't really have the media access to see it for a good 3 weeks afterwards. Strangest part is talking to my ex-girlfriend who had an office across the World Trade Center. She refused to fly in airplanes anymore (her family lived in Hawaii).. PLUS she was watching the destruction of the first plane from her office window when suddenly the second plane hit! Everyone in her office thought the entire city was under attack at that moment! They basically all left together holding hands walking as fast as they could in the uptown direction!

[Rteacher]

I was in Orlando, Florida, when it happened. A friend called me and told me to turn on the TV quick. There was a lot of fear that Disney World would also be targeted - which would have been unspeakably horrible in terms of seeing children suffer (not that North Korean kids' starving to death is a pleasant sight, but it's not happening all at once and there's not that much media coverage of it...)

I saw most of a poignant segment on 60 Minutes titled "Tuesday's Children" showing how children who lost parents due to 9/11 are bonding together and coping. Most are still emotionally disturbed and quick to shed tears...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml

[coldcrush]