Thanks for posting this ID.  I don't remember what I was doing that day, but whatever it was it stopped while I watched the news. My thoughts and prayers go out to all those directly involved with this tragedy and to all those who continue to serve their countries combating terrorism throughout the world.

I was at work that morning.  The guy in the office over yelled that we needed to turn on the news.  So we had a radio on and we had Foxnews, and CNN and the local stations streaming whatever news they had.  We were all calling our families to make sure that they were OK.

We worked in a building owned and mostly poulated by a Saudi Arabian company and were concerned about foriegn and domestic attacks on the building.

My wife is from Long Island and I worried about people she knew who would be stepping up to help where they could.

Many people went home to pray or cry or watch.  I continued to to continue at the office.  Changing anything I did meant that they had won something from me and I wasn't going to let that happen as much as I could.

Today is a good day to look back at those that are gone, those that stepped up, those that have sacrificed since.  Today is a good day to look at our leaders, the ones that you voted into office at whatever level and the ones that appointed others and make sure they are handling things the way you want them handled.  Today is a good day to let them know what you think.

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ZubaZ is mindful and thankful and hopeful.

I was a sophomore in college and living in a house with some friends off-campus at the time.  I was doing my morning email & website check when one of my friends IM'd me telling me to turn on the television (any channel, didn't matter).  I stumbled downstairs, turned on the TV and flopped down on the futon.

As soon as I saw what was happening, I picked up the phone and called my parents to let them know.  Shortly after my mom picked up, the first tower fell.  I stayed on the phone through the second tower falling.  After a while, my phone battery started to die so I hung up and spent the rest of the morning fixed to the TV.  As my roommates woke up I updated them on what was happening and by mid-morning everyone in the house was watching.  One of my roommates had a brother living in NYC.  He spent all day trying to reach him but the phones were jammed.  None of us made it as far as showering or having breakfast, we were all still in our PJs.

I completely forgot about class and work that day.  But it turns out so did almost everyone else.  Going back the next day it turned out none of the professors made it to class, and most of the lab staff never showed up to open the lab that morning so no work got done anyway.

It was an incredibly surreal day for me as I had never really lived through anything like it.  The plane hijackings of the 70s were before I was born, and I was too young for the ones in the 80s to have much impact.  The first WTC bombing was a vague memory, but since the towers didn't fall, it didn't stick too well. To me, the idea of terrorism was something remote and academic up to that point.

Without a doubt, a defining moment for me.

I was getting ready to go to work, ironing my cammies and watching CNN like every morning.  After the second one hit, I grabbed my stuff and hauled ass onto base, which was already on lockdown.  We pretty much watched the news all day.  If you've got time:

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I remember getting back from a meeting just after the planes had hit the buildings.

Spent the rest of the day looking at the news sites and chatting with others in the office and people in #stardock on IRC (back when we were on efnet I think).  No TVs in the office so wasn't able to see much until I got home as the office internet connection was pretty limited.

A couple of weeks later I had to be in Amsterdam (It was either at or near the World Trade Centre in Amsterdam) and the security on the flight was pretty high.

Believe it or not I ran over a 6 foot alligator at 5 o'clock in the morning in fort lauderdale.

I remember perfectly. I was visiting my grandmother in Florida at the time. I was redesiging her flowerbeds in the backyard and she came outside. She said, "A plane just crashed into the World Trade Center."....

I went inside and sat down to watch the news. I saw the second plane hit. I was in shock. Not sure I moved from the television at all that day. I still remember her telling me that she had lived through Pearl Harbor, and had hoped that she would never see anything like that again. She was in tears, and it hurt my heart to see her cry.

It was tragic. My uncle lost a very good friend that day. Families lost loved ones. As a nation we lost a sense of security.

I will NEVER forget.......

i had gotten my son off to school and sat down to eat my breakfast while watching the Today Show. i remember Katie and Matt breaking the script for the show and concentrating on the Towers. After the second plane hit, I turned the channel to CNN. not long after that, it didn't really matter what channel you were watching. every channel (news, sports, movies, cable, music) had it on all day. when my son came home from school. he said they hasd watched the news all day during class.

I had just moved to Florida in August, and on that day, I was sitting in orientation for my nursing job.  The Director of Nursing came into the room, and told all of us that the Towers had just been hit...and told us that we could go home...the orentation was postponed until the following week.  I sat glued to my TV all that day...in disbelief...looking at all that carnage.  To this day, I am still in disbelief that someone could attack us that way.

I will never forget....

I was living in Arizona and  was on my way home after taking care of an elderly lady the night before. a friend of mine called me on my cell phone....I drove the rest of the way home through tears, listening to it on the radio......I hung our American flag ouside....along with everyone on our street, in the town, in the country......

I was just coming home from work. I saw the towers being destroyed and thought my wife was watching a movie.