September 11, 2001

[JDM]

I was in the living room, just woke up, and saw the second plane hit. Something I wish I could forget and get out of my memory, but will be engraved forever.

I remember going to Brown Institue, which is about 2 miles out from the main terminal of the MSP Airport. On a normal day, we would see and hear a plane every 2 minutes or so. We heard nothing for 2 weeks. Very creepy.

[Kougar]

It happened when i was in 10th grade in my english class, but we didn't get to see the TV and stuff until next period, which was history. It just seemed...unreal at first, then it started to seep in as we spent the period watching the news reports.

[SuperSleeper]

I was in my most dreaded class in 12th grade, Calculus. The seriousness of it didn't really hit me until later.

[a-lo]

I was at school, back then i was at Dunwoody Institute. I remember hearing about it in class and was like wow. I didn't get to see any footage until luch. about a hundred people were watching the news inside the cafeteria in awe. I have family in New York city so i was worried about them. It wasn't until the initial shock of the situation wore off that the real affect of the huge loss of life really got to me. Now everytime i hear audio or see any video of what happened i get upset. All those people gone! Why? I wonder if we will ever find out the REAL story. The stuff the government doesn't want us to know.

[At-Least-It's-An-Evo]

saw the footage right away in my biology class. Didn't take it serious at all. Then they said another one hit, then... we just watched and were like.. oh shit, this is a real big deal....

[Halon]

I was in Pensacola, FL in the middle of class. Once it happened they locked us all up in the radar lab and we sat there and listened to the radio cuz we had no tv. Didn't get to see the news until lunch time. I was freaked out, was pissed at myself for joining the marines cuz I didn't wanna go to war. But war wasn't so bad for me. I remember sitting there watching Scirbble Jams videos in our A/C maintenance van thinkin about how different war is today then it was when my parents were my age.

[Matt D.]

I was only a couple months into my new position at TCF, didn't really know everyone around me. News got out that the WTC was hit by a plane, so a couple of people turned on a radio, and the one of the executives who had an office near our desks brought out a black and white 5" television. We watched replay after replay of the first plane hitting the towers, then we saw one of them disappear. It was hard to tell what exactly happened and what was going on because the reception sucked. The radio confirmed what was going on. A few of us were also trying to access news sites on the internet, but they were all flooded and unable to be reached.

Once the local government got word of what was going on, the state capitol was locked down, and the downtown Minneapolis government buildings were sealed up, the IDS tower was evacuated and closed. The TCF tower is right next to the IDS, and we too were told to leave. This was before noon, and my car was in Burnsville at the park & ride. Luckily I worked with someone who had to drive down that way, so I had a ride to my car, but still had to drive home to Owatonna. All the way home I listened to the news on the radio, and Jesse Ventura even gave a little speech on KDWeeB on what actions the state government was taking.

Later that afternoon almost everyone was rushing to the gas stations in fear of gas prices skyrocketing. I had to bowl in a league that evening, and there were cars backed up for blocks at every gas station in town... Quite an amazing sight to see. I was even called an idiot for thinking that there was no big deal in not needing to get gas that evening.

[TheBlizzard]

I woke up hung over and turned the TV on at Jet and my house in Woodbury and saw what was unfolding. I didn't believe it for the first 10 minutes. Then I was like WTF. This is real. I watched for like the rest of the day, not a day that I want to remember but I can still recall what I was feeling watching that shit.

CRAIG

[MATCHBX]

This is alot like our parents and the JFK assassination. They ALL remember exactly where they were when they heard about it. This is something our generation wil take with them the rest of their lives and tell future generations about.

I was in the same place that I am everyday, behind my work bench at work assembling and disassembling hydraulic pumps and motors. We heard about it on the radio and at first it sounded like a plane that had lost control and crashed into the WTC. But then when the second one hit, and the others hit the pentagon and the field in PA, we knew what was really going on.

It was kinda hard for me because I had just moved back from MD in February. I immediately called the guy I worked with out there to make sure he and his family were allright. Did you know that one of the songs that had come out just before this happened was taken off the radios out there. It was Bodies by Drowning Pool. No radio station out on the east coast would play that song for many months after that.

There is a very well done DVD about the events of that day that came out a while back. It is called In Memorium. It is a very well done documentary. They show alot of amatuer footage and newscrew footage of what happened.

[1slowdsm]

I was in 9th grade in my Foods class. They didnt turn the TV on until after the second plane had already hit and same with lots of other people, it wasnt a real big deal for me until later on when everyone at school was talking about it. I keep thinking its only been two years since it happened.