It has been 20 years. I am too young to remember the actual day. I was only a year old (born in February of 2000). For people who do remember, feel free to share what you remember from that day.

Very sad day. I was already in the military and watched it on tv from our break room before getting sent back to the dorms and locked down. Nothing was the same since

Literally this. This felt like the gateway into the hellworld in which we live today. With hyper polarization in nearly all aspects of our civilization.

I was at work prepping a car for paint listening to Howard Stern. The boss sent us all home, and we watched on TV the horror of the event and the play by play as politicians in bi-partisan solidarity as they threw away our civil liberties in exchange for a false sense of security, and endless wars.

I miss the 90s.

I remember that I was hungover and watching The Flintstones when it was interrupted with the breaking news.

It was freaky. We worked at home. Watching it. Not getting any work done. Thinking about everything that was going to change.

Happened at like 1am New Zealand time on the 12, i was only like 10 and at primary school. All i remember from that day was the fact we walked in and the TV was on and the news was just running pictures from america all day.
The only really vivid memory of the day was the picture of night falling and all the rescuers just climbing all over the rubble, and the big steel bits just sticking up into the blackness.
Was pretty intense from the other side of the world, i cannot even begin to imagine what it must have been like for americans that day

I got home to see the news and I just sat and watched with my mouth open. Never seen anything like it or since. Just stunned. I think I call my mum just to have someone to talk too, not emotional, just to say things, anything.

I was a freshman in college. That morning, I walked across campus to my music theory class and just as I was getting into class, word started spreading of the first impact. Many of us went into the common area of the hall to watch the news, when the second impact occurred, at which point there was just pure confusion and fear. Class was dismissed, but it really hadn't ever started. I spent the rest of the day watching the news in my dorm room with some friends. I think a lot of alcohol was consumed.


I distinctly remember my roommate, who actually lived elsewhere 99% of the time, showed up and said that he had just waiting in line for over an hour to fill his gas tank and that he (and many others) were afraid that this would lead to an immediate oil shortage. He said we were going to war. How right he turned out to be.

Was just checking out Fetish Couple newly released ted white and blue video.
then they did a 9/12 special on TV.
my stomached is in knots. more than usual.

As bad as things feel at times and as much as I wonder if I'd be better off "across the pond" where WaM seems more common, it's my freedom to (even though I know this is online.)
Also, I'm thankful for those who gave/give everything just so I have a snowball's chance at my dreams. Without them, I would have none.

It sorta goes back to a hierarchy of needs: I have stability financially and physically, so I am able to worry about such things. If I didn't well I'm not sure It's like some people just attract others. Maybe if i was formed into a different person I would ultimately have been made "better."

or I might have already broken.
still might, but I have a chance.

Anyway, sorry if this isn't the "patriotic" comment deserved, but its' just what's coming off my chest. I just still wish a girl was cumming on my chest. :/

I was driving to work at a job I hated when I heard the morning show I listened to talk about it. Then at work I got to talk to a few people from Jersey to fix their computers. They were talking about the phone lines being down and stuff. It was pretty crazy. I remember some of the footage that was only shown once where you saw the underside of the second plane that hit. We were trying to determine which news agency had the most stable stream and more information and just the facts kind of shit. We were all streaming the BBC because they were better at covering this.

Was in math class and the rooms started to evacuate all my classmates had their parents pick them up one girl I was in class with had her father at the pentagon another girl I new had her dad in tower 2 and I man who started a local rugby club was in flight 93

I suppose I saw so much change so quick

My buddy jay lived next to a 3 building in New York that fell down the block as well

I was working as a developer on the Support floor of a major UK ISP, overseeing the staff as they worked so I could get a better understanding of what they needed in the system to help them support the customers. Things were going fairly normally and then just a bit before lunch (UK time, 5 hours ahead of NY) news started to come through about a plane crashing into a building in New York. The customer calls dropped off, and one by one all the major news sites became unreachable as they got swamped with traffic. I went out for lunch at the usual time and called my mum on my mobile, she told me about the second plane as it happened, as she was watching the broadcast TV news. In a shopping centre I walked through people were clustered in little groups outside every shop that had TVs in the windows, they were all showing news broadcasts. No further work was done that day.

Later that day the owner of the ISP called through and told us to preserve and store all the traffic logs we had for the days leading up, just in case any of it would be of use to the authorities. I imagine lots of networking firms around the world did the same.

I was 18 and had just failed my driving test. Returned home, turned on the TV and saw what was happening - it was on every channel. The next morning my mum and I had to go to Manchester Airport to fly to Austria on holiday. There was a very weird atmosphere in the airport. I still have the newspapers we bought.

People were afraid it was going to be the start of World War III. A lot of the media played a role in amplifying the terror and people's sense of helplessness by sensationalizing the aftermath and playing footage of the attack over and over again. The Dubya era was clearly worse than the Trump era both at the time and in its long-term effects, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq caused far more lasting damage to the world than anything any subsequent US president has done.

i had graduated from college about 3 months before, and I wasn't quite sure what was going to happen next in my life. I was driving to the bank and the rock music station i usually listen to was mixing updated reports between songs. I made my bank deposit (or was it a withdrawl?) and drove home. I had not yet seen any of the video feed until i got home. That was about the time the first tower fell. And i saw at least one replay of the jetliners crashing into the towers. At that point, my thought was "okay, war has just arrived in America"

I've been a bit of a student of war (and member of the military) throughout most of my life. September 11th is the newest "attack" on America, following Pearl Harbor. USS Cole & WTC 1993 "don't count" because those events did not create the same shock & awe that 9-11, Pearl Harbor, and the USS Maine had on USA's citizenry. That is, to "awaken the sleeping giant, and fill it with a terrible resolve" but that reminds me, i've got a consipracy video i need to finish watching!

This trailer and movie was recut edited and written
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozz8uxW733Q

Sounds like I'm a little older than most of the crowd here. My specific memories of that day -

My boss was an imbecile.

My wife called and wanted to know what all this meant. I told her just stay home because nobody was going to do anything for a while. I suddenly became concerned about my kids for the first time.

I'm a big "bird watcher" and going out to see no contrails in the sky was absolutely eerie.

I was white hot with fury. Those who want to blame President Bush for what followed are unaware or forgetting that the entire nation was pretty much in line with the idea. Everyone I knew would have been content to nuke the Middle East and Central Asia off the face of the earth. If you want to know how serious Congress was about this they voted in record time to spend $20 billion on reconstruction in New York and elsewhere and the same amount as a down payment on the forthcoming war. Subsequent leadership could have stopped it too. Especially after Bin Laden was dead.

Most especially the world changed the most for those of us who knew it the longest before. My children have never known an age without what followed. That is saddest of all to me.

What I remember from that horrible day is I was only three years old in 2001. I was at a daycare and I was picked up early and taken back home I was too young to know was was happening, but my uncle was going to visit us on September but when the attack happened my mother was freaking out praying that my uncle was on neither of the four planes, but he was on neither one of them thank god.

i happened to chat with arandom fellow. He told me he had a reservation on one of the fuel-bomb jetliners (i dare say flight 93?) but there was a co-worker in his office that submitted a false accusation. He was very angry at first, because it caused him to miss the flight. But then he realized that actually saved his life!

I was sleeping in my bedroom. My brother happened to be visiting that day.
He comes into my bedroom and tells me to turn my television on.
He, I and my father all watched it live after the planes had already hit but before the collapses.