Where were you 9-11-2001

[Seidmanrob]

Sitting down to breakfast as I was due to fly (as pilot) to JFK that afternoon. Needlessly, I didn't go anywhere until Thursday. Two days later while flying the arrival to JFK from the west that takes you over lower Manhattan, I rolled the plane on its side to view the carnage below. I'll never forget that sight.

[rowhard]

I was at home, getting ready for work. The one thing that really sticks with me was a New Yorker being interviewed and when asked, what the towers meant to a New Yorker, he said "they were our mountain".

Every day I drive the Express bus from Olympia to Tacoma and back, you can see Mount Rainer here in Washington, I will sometimes mentioned that comment to my passengers,... well it still brings tears to me eyes and a emptiness in my heart for those that were killed and the loved ones and friends they left behind.

[Greasemonkey]

There i was dring a semi truck around Marble Arch London - a small car deceided to have a tangle with my front bumper - when we exchanged details he was an Iraqi lol - i spent 4 hours in the middle of Marble arch watching the GR9's flying over head waiting for the recovery guys to reposition my load so i could carry on
cheers
Steve

[Newsman]

As my nick says, I actually am a newsman -- I was producing at WCBS-AM (one of the two big all-news radio stations in NYC) when the first plane went in.

Up until that point it was a normal, run-of-the mill day. It was actually primary day in New York City and I was on the phone with one of our reporters, talking about where she should go.

That's when three things happened at once -- a service that we have that monitors police and fire radio frequencies started going nuts, a phone call came into the newsroom about something hitting the World Trade Center and one of the morning drive anchors poked his head out of the studio and said "Hey, there's some smoke coming from Lower Manhattan -- any idea what it is?"

Then, and as we all know this isn't just a turn of phrase, all hell broke loose.

Rob