9/11 As it happened

[oddjob]

the most horrifying thing was seeing the people falling from the buildings. what a horrible sight.

[TheCroShow]

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the most horrifying thing was seeing the people falling from the buildings. what a horrible sight.

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i agree. i was on my way to work listening to some of it on the radio when it was thought to be an accident. Then all of the sudden, "Wait, we're getting reports that the 2nd tower has been hit." In a way, I'm glad I did not have to watch it all happen.

i caught some of the footage after work, but could not watch for long

[Blarg]

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the most horrifying thing was seeing the people falling from the buildings. what a horrible sight.

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Yeah, that really shook me up. Some people can turn off their empathy pretty easily, but to me it was really vivid and I couldn't get away from it.

They stopped showing the footage pretty quickly, which is a shame I think. You shouldn't censor some things. There is no need to make them pretty and I think it's actually a bad thing to try to clean up the horror and make it in any way presentable. Happy and kid-safe, this kind of thing just isn't. And it strikes me as awful to think that it should be thought so or treated as such.

There was also a series of pictures of "the falling man," a guy who was going down, on fire, I think. It was buried and tucked out of the public consciousness very quickly. I think it needed to stay right out front and center.

[RR]

I missed most of the coverage that day. I was living in LA and was at the Bike for breakfast. I had gotten up early because a friend of mine was juicing me into a job in Vegas. I drove over there for my noon meeting, but there was a hiring freeze in place so I couldn't get juiced in. I checked into my hotel (they had to put me in a suite because all the regular rooms were full). I went out to dinner and then played some poker downtown.

[jono]

And to think how a government could allow that to happen to its own people.

[ChipWrecked]

I'm not a 9/11 conspiracy theorist but there is something very suspicious about NORAD's "stand down" "exercise" status i.e. inability to scramble for over an hour.

NORAD will be in "stand down" status in two days, Sept. 14th.

[Hopey]

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And to think how a government could allow that to happen to its own people.

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Keep your retarded conspiracy theories in Politics, please.

[sharkbitten]

My wife and I had gone to the Monday Night Football game the night before between the Broncos and Giants and we got home late Monday night. Tuesday morning (9/11), I called in to work sick at 6 am Denver time and went back to sleep. Next thing I know, a few hours later, I hear my wife yelling for me and I knew something strange was happening by the tone of her voice. At first, I thought something was wrong with our 5 month old daughter. She runs in and tells me to turn on the tv and that the Pentagon had been hit by an aircraft and that the WTC has been hit also and collapsed.
We watched the coverage all day in total amazement and disbelief. It was like someone said earlier-we felt like we shouldn't turn it off, so we saw the same images over, and over, and over. Around dinner time was the first time we turned off the tv all day. We were so numb from seeing all of those images. A lot of those images are still burned into my brain.

I work for an aircraft charter company and one of our aircraft was allowed to fly blood and other emergency supplies into New York from Bonfils Blood Center and from FEMA a few days after the attack but prior to any other civilian aircraft in the US being allowed to fly. I talked to the pilots later. They said it was really strange being the only aircraft in the sky and all the radios being silent. They also said they could see the smoke from ground zero from over 200 miles out.