Where were you on 9/11/2001...

[dorndawg]

The things that stick with me from that day are the cloudless blue sky, the eerie silence once all the planes were grounded, and the ultimate feeling of everyone being as one and wanting to help. I wish we could get back to that.

When the sky is bright blue in Sept and it's just a little cool in the morning, it reminds me of that Tuesday

 

[POTUS]

I think about these guys and the rest of the Flight 93 folks frequently. Those calls to family members are tough to listen to.

Heroes to a man.

 

[BluffParkDawg]

I had been in Birmingham for just over a year (graduated May 2000 and moved here in June 2000).

I had just left the Lowe's on Lakeshore Drive in Homewood and was about to get on 65 North to head to my office in downtown Birmingham. Was listening to Beaner & Ken on 107.7FM and remember initially thinking that some inexperienced pilot was taking off/landing and got lost in the fog and ran into a tall building or something. Spent the rest of the day at the office watching the news unfold.

 

[Pilgrimdawg]

Was supposed to be on a flight from Birmingham to Milwaukee that day but it all went down before my flight departed.

 

[Colonel Angus.sixpack]

Durham NC. Had flown in the day before for work. Kept my rental car and drove it back to Memphis that afternoon/evening.

 

[garddog]

McCool hall. State had started doing classes with professors at other locations and I was the Proctor. Crazy day. Professor was at MSU Meridian and he stopped class and put it on his feed to the room. Everyone was speechless.

 

[was21]

I like to ask this every year. Someone new will recount their memory and it's always interesting to read.

I was in class and our professor left the room (his wife also taught in the business school - Dr. Rodney and Alison Pearson). He walked back in and said the United States is under attack. I took that as a country had bombed us on our own soil. I went back home and watched TV for the remainder of the morning and then hung out a friend's place that evening. I don't think I went to bed that night. It was surreal.

Cutting grass in the front yard

 

[MSUDOG24]

When the sky is bright blue in Sept and it's just a little cool in the morning, it reminds me of that Tuesday

One of those random details you remember from that day. Crystal blue skies in Cincinnati as well and as they were in NYC. Seems I remember it was that way across the continental US that morning.

One of my other "where were you when's" was the Challenger and a similar day but colder. Walking outside though our plant I happened to look up and from the middle of FL 75 miles away there were the "split contrails" as clear as the pictures you often see. Will never forget that.

Speaking of never forgetting, it was heartening to see yesterday that we actually haven't from the NYC reading of the names through the Wake Forest game last night.

 

[MaxwellSmart]

I was at work in Memphis listening to the wake up crew on Rock103. Dad was at work on the Navy base in Millington. Someone reported a threat on the base and I spent the day watching the news and trying to get ahold of him.