We will never forget 9/11 / myLot

Melbourne, Florida

September 10, 2018 11:16pm CST

It is amazing and probably the only date that almost everyone that was living back in 9/11 remember exactly what they were doing at the exact time when the planes hit New York City. I remember what I was doing and the exact spot I was sitting in at work that horrible morning. I worked only 45 minutes from where that all happened. My son was driving his car through the Lincoln tunnel at the time the second plane hit and he said he was scared the tunnel was going to collapse. At that time he was living in New York City and working in New Jersey. For over a week after he could not take his car back into the city. He stayed in New Jersey until then. A man I worked with lost his wife as she worked in the towers. So many stories and such chaos for a long time after. I hope we never see anything like that again.

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Jeff Moffitt

@moffittjc (118427)

• Gainesville, Florida

11 Sep 18

The towers were struck on a Tuesday morning. I was in the towers on the Sunday before, but had flown back home to Florida that Monday afternoon. I was in total shock on Tuesday morning when the news stories broke, given that I had literally just been there. I was the project manager for a large upscale mall development. We had about 300 construction workers gathered around a tiny little battery-powered TV inside a half-built mall. It was surreal. We shut down construction for the rest of the week, because paranoia set in and the police wanted to background check every construction worker before allowing them to resume work on the mall. It was crazy.

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Sai

@vsai2008 (11796)

• India

11 Sep 18

This incident really shook the world, we had a few minutes of silence in our school assembly.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (457918)

• Switzerland

11 Sep 18

I remember very well where I was and what I was doing when it happened. It was morning in New York and afternoon in our place. We were inside a computer store in the Mall. They had the TV on and I saw those horrible images.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (305965)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

14 Sep 18

I hope we don't either. It was the worst day I can remember. The scenes on television were horrific. I remember where I was when it happened and where I was when I learned about it. I didn't have the TV on that morning. I was home, in my office, working on a book. Nothing new there. I found out about it when I went to work that afternoon. That's when I saw the pictures for the first time on the TV in the breakroom. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I don't think I turned the TV off at all for the next several weeks. It was eerie not to see a plane fly overhead for three weeks until the FAA gave the okay for air travel again.

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Nancy Zink

@ramapo17 (30441)

• Melbourne, Florida

15 Sep 18

My son was really shaken up as he lived in New York city and worked in New Jersey. He was in his car just entering the Lincoln tunnel as the one plane flew right into the towers. He said he was shaken up so bad.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (305965)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

15 Sep 18

@ramapo17 I'm sure he was shaken up. I would be too and scared out of my mind.

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Darcy Nemo

@YrNemo (20261)

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11 Sep 18

You are right. That was an unforgettable date & moment when so many innocent people were taken away suddenly.

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jaishankar

@Shivram59 (31745)

• India

18 Sep 18

@ramapo17 Yes,we in India watched it on TV. My younger brother was preparing for his final exams and my mother rushed in and told us about it.We immediately switched on the TV. We will also never forget the terrorist attacks on our parliament in 2001 and on Mumbai in 2008.

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Nancy Zink

@ramapo17 (30441)

• Melbourne, Florida

19 Sep 18

@Shivram59 Things like that happen all over the world. Why can't people get along or just leave others alone?

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Nancy Zink

@ramapo17 (30441)

• Melbourne, Florida

21 Sep 18

@Shivram59 Yes they do.

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jaishankar

@Shivram59 (31745)

• India

19 Sep 18

@ramapo17 There are people who try to "impose" themselves on others.

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vanny

@vandana7 (98787)

• India

11 Sep 18

Yes, I hope that too. It was way too shocking for us as well though the news percolated much later to us. You were right in the city so you were aware of it.

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much2say

@much2say (53960)

• Los Angeles, California

11 Sep 18

Hubby had a day off - so we slept in. I was so mad that my friend called and gave us a wake up call in hysterics that a plane crashed into the Twin Towers. As she often exaggerates and freaks out, I couldn't really take her seriously as she kept saying a war was going to start. But then I turned on the news - and I could not believe the footage - it certainly was no exaggeration

. We were in CA - I can only imagine how it must've been to be there or in the surrounding areas!