I remember I woke up around 7:30, and surfed the web a bit. Then I went into my room to listen to Howard Stern; I think I went to turn on the TV and all the channels were out (we don't have cable tv). I go back into my room and hear Howard Stern saying something about a plane hitting a tower. I remember going into my mom's room and turning on the light. She was still sleeping, and she goes "What are you doing?" I go "Mom, I think something happened at the World Trade Center; all the TV channels are out and Howard Stern is saying something about a plane hitting the tower." My mom goes: "Oh my god, the world trade center carries the local channels." (The first tower that was hit has that huge antenna, which broadcasts local TV in NYC and parts of NJ)
I remember later that day, I went for a walk around my block and there was a HUGE line of cars, because they were going to close the Verazzano Bridge (near my old apartment), and people wanted to go home to Staten Island. I also remember there being armed National Guardsmen on almost ever block in Bay Ridge. I even saw a couple of fighter jets from McGuire AFB patrolling in the sky.
Also, I rode the train into Manhattan for uni after the attacks, and when the train would pass by Cortland Street, you could smell a very foul smell. I've smelled a lot of stuff burning in my life, but this was unlike anything I'd smelled before (it was probably the bodies) Just to give you an idea, this was in like October/November of 2001. Hard to believe a smell can linger for so many weeks.
I live in Brooklyn, and woke up because so many sirens were going off - my cellphone was ringing off the hook but I was ignoring it thinking it was bill collectors. It was my friends trying to tell me what had happened. When I heard to the voicemail I ran to the window and all I could see was an enormous bank of smoke where one of the towers had stood. TV was fucked, I checked the news on the web, grabbed my camera and got on my bike to go and see if I could help.
Could only get up to about 6 blocks away...they weren't taking help at the time. It didn't matter since so many were beyond help already, so I just rode around aimlessly, feeling helpless and angry like everyone else. Shit was flying around thru the air, dust and ash, papers, and the smell...I ain't gonna ever forget that smell. The wind shifted towards Brooklyn and for days and weeks that burnt decay smell hung over us.
So yeah, I slept through the first attacks...while people were dying, I was waking. Like everyone else, I'll never forget that day, it was horrible and beautiful at the same time. People showed feelings, and were kind to one another - didn't matter who it was. It actually lasted a few weeks, too.
I know this was probably been done before, but lets see how people remember things 4 years and six months later. I was a Junior in Highschool in a small rural town Western Massachusetts. The weather that day was awesome, not a cloud in the sky type of day. Clear blue sky, it was about in the 70s to lower 80s out. I had to be to school for 7:30am i had gym til 9:00. Then a 15 minute break, then bio class at 9:15a.m. In bio class, we had all our books out. Reading stuff, then a another science teacher bursts threw the door crying. She said that Palestinian terrorists crashed planes into the world trade center. All of us were in shock, like she made it sound like the world was ending that day. Then we had to join with another class to watch it on tv. So we watched all the coverage, watched both towers fall to the ground live on tv. Then it was Lunch time, no one said a word. Then my final class, they turned off all the tv's in the school. And everyone just stared at eachother. On the way home on the school bus, no one talked. Then when i got home at 2:00pm my brother and parents were watching it on tv. So i stayed up til about 1am in the morning watching things unfold. Then that topic burned so much class time for the next month and a half. Everything was about 9/11.
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名無しさん@お腹いっぱい。
2006/03/19(日) 21:19:56 ID:???
Where were you on 9/11/01
jl1
My aunt and uncle live close to Manhattan, NY. You can see the WTC from the rooftop of my uncle's apartment. My aunt told me when people heard the first tower was hit, everyone in the area got on their rooftops to see what happened. They all watched with their own eyes as the second tower was hit. Then my aunt calls my home (we're about 700 miles away) to tell us what happened. I was sleeping at the time and my sister answered the phone. The impression I got was that the military was conducting some drill that went horribly wrong and two military jets crashed at the same time into two towers. From then until maybe 2am I was either on cnn.com or in front of the tv.
Photograph taken on September 11, 2001, of a human body part located at the intersection of Albany and West Streets in Manhattan
Photograph taken on September 11, 2001, of a human body part located at the intersection of Albany and West Streets in Manhattan
Photograph taken on September 11, 2001, of human body parts located on West Street in Manhattan. The photograph was taken looking north on West Street from the area near Albany and Cedar Streets
National Geographic series called "Inside 9/11". In one of the episodes it has some footage from in the courtyard of the world trade center, some of the coolest footage since the Naudet footage. Sooner or later this stuff will come out, i took a part of the clip and will post it, note the music still playing, and debris. only 40 seconds.