15 years ago today. 9/11 Memorial.

I was home from school sick watching the Saved By The Bell movie, my brother came in a turned the channel to the news and we saw the 2nd plane hit about 5 seconds after he turned the news on. Was the most surreal crap that I'll never forget.

I was a deckhand on a tugboat, I had gotten off the boat sept 10 at midnight and gone to sleep in a decent bed for the first time in 60+ days. I woke up to a phone call and a buddy was yelling for me to turn on the tv in his words "we've just been bombed" I honestly thought we'd been nuked, half asleep I turned on the tv and saw the second plane hit

I was 6 so can't remember much. Being from Scotland it was afternoon here when it happened, and all I can remember was my teacher had the television in the class on.

I visited the memorial when I was in New York last month and it was tough to get through. Reading stories of loved ones, seeing the remains from fire trucks etc. I think the water features are very fitting though.

I was in 5th grade. I'll never forget it. God bless America.

Good thing Colin Ka-however you spell it isn't playing til tomorrow.

Damn, where has time gone? I was a sophomore in high school, walked into my second period class and saw the smoking trade tower on my teacher's tv but didn't see much. They kept the TVs off most of the time, I guess because they didn't want anyone to be too frightened.

My dad was supposed to fly home from Denver that day, needless to say he probably got to know his coworkers a lot better in an impromptu road trip home to PA.

I was in 6th grade in first period math class and a classmate came back from the doctor saying that planes hit the WTC

I was a senior in high school, and was in web page design class, in the school's smaller computer lab. Our school's gym teacher came in and told our teacher about the first plane hitting. Since we were in the lab, he went to look up news, and then the news of the second plane, bringing to reality, that the first plane hitting, wasn't just a tragic accident. The rest of the day, we'd go to our regular classes, but we didn't do any actual work. If a room had a TV, the news was on. I was just really numb through that whole day. One thing that really hit home, how big it was, was coming home, and the newspaper we got at home, had the news all over the front page, which since it's just a local CT paper, that was a big deal. It is sad to think though, that was the last time we were all Americans. We weren't divided by petty crap that usually divides us, we were just all Americans, that were hit, and hit hard.
One of the radio stations I listen to on Friday, had a former FDNY firefighter who was there, on, sharing his story, and man, hearing those first hand experiences from someone who lived it, and lost lots of friends that day, really hits you hard.
Last night, when I checked my email, one of the stories I saw, was an Air Force pilot talking about that day, and how he and another pilot were put in the air, when flight 93 was still in the air. He said, since their planes weren't armed, because they didn't have them armed for exercises, they were going up with no way to deal with the plane if they found it. He said him and the other pilot basically made the decision if it came to it, they were basically going to pull a kamikaze into it with their jets, in order to prevent it from doing it's own suicide attack.

I was about 6 years of age and don't remember much of it other then spending the next school day singing songs while holding up the American Flag. What's more sad is that we went to war and ended up having more people killed than 9/11. I still think the government was involved, because there's no way a building falls straight down like that unless it was a demolition.

It that were true, don't you think they would have thought of that first? They wouldn't need you to point it out.