So where were you - When you heard about wtc bombings?

[Galt]

Probably because I was 250 miles away and didn't directly know anyone involved, still to this day, I can't NOT watch or read anything having to do with the attacks.

[Is Don on the phone?]

Still, to this day, I haven't seen televised footage of the planes hitting. Hell, I haven't seen more that 15 minutes of total footage, newspaper articles, or whatever of the events that took place on 9/11 and the aftermath.

They don't run the news on Lifetime-you have to switch channels every once in a while

[Doc]

Hell, seeing military aircraft over New York was freaky enough...

That just brought back a memory that I haven't thought about in a while. Probably the second scarriest thing that day.
After the second tower fell, we were all just standing around, most were crying, but no one was really talking, and then all of a sudden we hear something that scares the shit out of everyone. It sounds like there is a plane right over our heads and VERY close. Someone actually screamed "Oh no, another one"

What we didn't know is that it was the Combat Air Patrols. There were F-16's patrolling the skies overhead, and they are VERY loud. I looked up and could barely make out this little silver plane making a huge banking turn right over lower Manhattan. I didn't know at the time, but an F-16 at 2000 feet sounds like a passenger jet at 10,000 feet. They don't make those things to be quiet.

It was one of the shittiest feelings, before we noticed that the sounds was a fighter jet there to protect us, being totally helpless and powerless

Fighter jets overhead became a semi-regular occurance for the following few weeks, but that one that came streaking overhead will be with me for a long time

[Tenbatsuzen]

I had been working bar the night before, so I was in bed...

I have a habit of leaving my stereo on all night, because I need some background noise to fall asleep to, and I left it on WNEW.

The first thing I heard in a half sleep/half awake mode was Craig Carton complaining that some idiot flying a Cessna had a heart attack (of course, it was the first thing we all thought)

I kinda dozed off again, but then I snapped awake when I heard Blain say, "Now you gotta think this is terrorism or something." (this was after the second plane hit)

I was up in about 2 seconds, TV on, computer on, on the phones.

The worst part for me was not knowing where my parents or brother were at the time - they were ALL traveling, and to hear the phrase, "There might be more hijacked planes..." REALLY freaked me out, especially since my parents were on a cross-country flight.

The Giants playing Monday Night Football on 9/10 saved a lot of lives - a lot of people watched the game and then decided to go into work an hour or so late... which in turn kept them out of harm's way.

[Is Don on the phone?]

It sounds like there is a plane right over our heads and VERY close. Someone actually screamed "Oh no, another one"

What we didn't know is that it was the Combat Air Patrols.

Made us jump down on the pile, too.... In fact, we worked under the idea that there may have been secondary devices planted to aid in the destruction of the towers (everyone in the command post, including I found out later the engineers, felt that the aircraft hitting the buildings alone would not cause them to collapse) so anytime there was an unexpected loud noise, we would freeze like deer in the headlights. Hell, it got so that it seemed we would evac on a regular schedule based on the fear that the WFC would crumble, or the retaining walls on the Hudson would go.

Thinking about it, we were nuts for being there. But we did what we had to do, and I'd do it again in a new york minute.