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10. I was called to a tv screen. As best A business channel was on, [the old FNN?], which

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 01:36 PM

Sep 2020

was physically located in NJ near the GW Bridge. The Twin Towers were easily visible from the FNN? studio across the Hudson River. A view that I had seen many, many times. There was a hole in one of the towers, fairly high up, and a window was smoking

The on air person voice was like, thats odd. Maybe a small plane crashed into the building. Soon there was a 2nd plane aiming for the tower, and it too crashed into the tower on the other side. Only then, did the 'this is serious' voices come on. I remember, the question was asked, 'could we be under attack?'.

For me that was a very stunning moment. There was no ready 'frame of reference' to understand it. [Imagine that?]

I remember reports that people were phoning for help. A few jumped. Most perished inside.

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Tell me about your 9/11. [View all] nolabear Sep 2020 OP

Link to what I posted this morning. Zoonart Sep 2020 #1

Thanks. I hope others weigh in. Over time the absence of planes was so odd. nolabear Sep 2020 #2

Yes...that struck me too. Zoonart Sep 2020 #3

I was down with a migraine that morning. My boss called me at about 10:25 a.m. EDT catbyte Sep 2020 #4

This is a summary my wife and I prepared immediately after 9/11 to share with friends/family brooklynite Sep 2020 #5

What stunning accounts. Thank you. And thanks to Erika. nolabear Sep 2020 #20

Kudos for volunteering to help so quickly treestar Sep 2020 #32

Link Trumpocalypse Sep 2020 #6

I Was At The Airport ProfessorGAC Sep 2020 #7

I was in an open floor plan US Marshals office on a federal complex when everyone's phones started NightWatcher Sep 2020 #8

I had been layed off on 9/10 Silent3 Sep 2020 #9

I was called to a tv screen. As best A business channel was on, [the old FNN?], which empedocles Sep 2020 #10

I was on a comuter train from Westchester County to my job in Manhattan. brush Sep 2020 #11

It was a clear, sunny morning, and I was driving to work The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #12

I was a high school librarian in Connellsville, PA. Freedomofspeech Sep 2020 #13

I was in bed, just a few months after emergency surgery - when Bill came in to tell me what happened Lucinda Sep 2020 #14

Saw both planes hit. People falling out. Lost some Port Authority friends and co-worker's brother. TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #15

They apparently are still out there. So bizarre. nolabear Sep 2020 #21

They can shove that thermite up their asses. It was widely known that planes were easily hijacked. TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #24

I worked in HR for a medium sized manufacturing company DeeNice Sep 2020 #16

Was at work TlalocW Sep 2020 #17

I had just arrived at work. Like you, I at first thought it was one of those things like what CTyankee Sep 2020 #48

Well, mine is a little different... Fix The Stupid Sep 2020 #18

I was coming in to work at a maximum security state prison in the Southwestern US Ron Green Sep 2020 #19

I was turning 1 x 10 spruce boards into onethatcares Sep 2020 #22

I woke up to my radio and could hear the distress in the person talking Beringia Sep 2020 #23

This is my story genxlib Sep 2020 #25

I walked to the college registrar to change a class that morning meadowlander Sep 2020 #26

On the West Coast musette_sf Sep 2020 #27

Yep. Keth Sep 2020 #28

I had jet-lag from a trans-Atlantic flight. PETRUS Sep 2020 #29

It was our 20th anniversary . . . Ms. Toad Sep 2020 #30

Still surreal dv421 Sep 2020 #31

Welcome to DU Hekate Sep 2020 #42

I was sick caraher Sep 2020 #33

NYC'r here. I got up late 10AM. Rushed out by electric_blue68 Sep 2020 #34

Thank you all so much. I appreciate you all the more. nolabear Sep 2020 #35

I was at work. Everyone was confused initially, everyone believed that Blue_true Sep 2020 #36

I'm in California and was in bed asleep. I didn't know about it till hours later. My Raine Sep 2020 #37

I was asleep when my daughter called me from her then-office commanding me to turn on CNN Hekate Sep 2020 #38

Was in the middle of getting ready for middle school sakabatou Sep 2020 #39

My experience vercetti2021 Sep 2020 #40

I slept through it in Las Vegas Awsi Dooger Sep 2020 #41

I asked this question of one one of my students 10 years ago tishaLA Sep 2020 #43

What an astounding story. Thank you! nolabear Sep 2020 #46

I was in Sprout City, so the first plane hit around 3 PM my time DFW Sep 2020 #44

The thing that sticks in my mind the most is what a gorgeous day it was. MissMillie Sep 2020 #45

DH and I were in Orlando, Florida Bettie Sep 2020 #47

I was in my office at Washington Plaza Old Terp Sep 2020 #49