I will never forget that Tuesdsy morning, back on September 11, 2001.

[Miami_JBT]

I still remember that Tuesdsy morning. I will never forget it. May God bless all those of have perished that day and may he bless all of those who have answered thr call since then. Those who have defended our nation and our people.

Those who have sacrificed and given all.

Those have have returned home, broken.

May God bless us all.

Ashes to ashes,
Dust to dust,
Brother to brother.

[gsd2053]

My now ex wife, then girlfriend was an American Airlines flight attendant. I picked her up that morning at DFW. She flew in from Boston on a redeye flight that left the same terminal that Muhammad Atta left on Flight 11 shortly after her from.

After I picked her up we went to her APT next to the airport and went to sleep. We had just started to nod off. When the phone rang. She got out of bed. I said let them leave a message. She said what if it's important. I said to my self, it's never important. She started saying WHAT OH MY GOD! I thought oh crap someone died. I said what is it! She said quick tun on the TV. My mom said an American flight has been hijacked. I thought Holy crap, NO WAY.

I turned on the TV to see an Anchorman standing with the World Trade Centers behind him and smoke billowing from one of the buildings. He was talking about a airplane had hit the World Trade Center. Oddly the Anchorman didn't seem to know what size plane for sure. When a few minutes later when the second plane came streaking in and struck the other Tower. It was surreal.

[Straight Shooter]

Had just backed up to a warehouse dock in Westboro NC. The local radio said at first "a small Cessna has apparently collided with the WTC". Took awhile it seems for the news, on radio at least, to catch up with the goings on. It was 4 days later before I could get to a tv to actually see it for myself.

[titsonritz]

Crazy stuff. Fighter pilot was ordered to ram Flight 93.

[SteyrAUG]

It took that day for me to understand the people who could never forgive the Japanese for Pearl Harbor.

It does NOT seem like 21 years ago. I can still remember my wife calling me and telling me to turn on the tv. I was still doing morning routines and hadn't checked to computer yet or watched any tv. I think I watched the tv for an entire month after that day.

I remember pulling a rifle and loading 10 mags and some other stuff. Didn't know what was coming next.

[SteyrAUG]

Crazy stuff. Fighter pilot was ordered to ram Flight 93.

Geeze, what kind of shitheads authorize a launch to intercept but don't authorize any kind of weaponry.

[titsonritz]

It does NOT seem like 21 years ago.

Hard to believe if 9/11 was a kid born on that day he/she can legally drink now.

[Gabriel556]

They weren’t loaded. The aircraft were sent to get eyes on the unresponsive aircraft and it was after they were airborne that it became clear it was a terrorist attack. There was also further implications of shooting down an airliner with civilians onboard.

[Miami_JBT]

Hard to believe if 9/11 was a kid born on that day he/she can legally drink now.

We had Soldiers and Marines fighting in Afghanistan that were born after 9/11 happened.

[SteyrAUG]

They weren’t loaded. The aircraft were sent to get eyes on the unresponsive aircraft and it was after they were airborne that it became clear it was a terrorist attack. There was also further implications of shooting down an airliner with civilians onboard.

In that case, they shouldn't have been waiting around for approval to launch. I mean, I get it, just f'ing retarded if you ask me. Also don't see a huge distinction between shooting a commercial airliner down and asking a pilot to ram it with their jet.