FEATURED September 11th Attack - 25 years ago today

[HeavyBarrel]

I was near 183 and Central Dr in Euless, listening to 1310 The Ticket. I’ll never forget hearing Craig Miller, George Dunham, Gordo and Fernando breaking the news as it happened

 

[CTcowboy203]

Never forget!!! God bless the USA

 

[Skynet]

It was my sixteenth birthday, and the second day of my sophomore year of high school. I thought about joining the military after high school but decided against it because I have a mild form of Autism. I do miss the brief sense of National unity that occurred during the immediate aftermath of the attacks. Nowadays , it seems that everyone is constantly at each others throats

 

[My3Sons]

 

[jsb357]

CNN (powered mostly by AOL at the time) got so busy they had to resort to mostly text only website for a couple days.

 

[Hardline]

I had to have a very sick dog put to sleep an hour before the first plane hit the north tower, That day was a double whammy for me.

 

[SlammedZero]

My condolences to all those who were affected or lost their lives that day. The reach of 9/11 went far beyond the attacks themselves. It reached the men and women who went overseas to fight for our freedom, seeking justice, and driven by an understandable desire for retaliation.

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I'll never forget that moment for as long as I live. I was working in Seattle at the time, working nights, doing data work for the grocery chain Albertsons. I had a Nextel phone (remember those?) at the time, and one of my really good friends kept alerting me on the walkie-talkie feature. I finally answered, pretty annoyed because I knew he knew I was working nights, and all he said was, “Turn on the TV.”

I asked him why this mattered so much, and he insisted I just turn on the TV, and that's all he would say. I asked what channel and he said it didn’t matter. I turned it on, and sure enough, the first channel I turned to was showing the towers. I just sat there, completely shocked and in silence that morning.

None of us went to work that night. We just sat and watched, along with the rest of the world, in horror.