(8:46am EDT -- American Airlines flight 11 is flown into World Trade Center north tower)  At 10:16pm in Alice Springs, Australia, I was in bed asleep, completely unaware of events unfolding on the other side of the world. (9:02am EDT -- United Airlines flight 175 is flown into World Trade C...  read more

Originally posted 9/11/2002 It's that time again. Time to remember the horrible acts of hate that were brought to our doorstep. The anniversaries seem to be coming faster and faster now. The time between the remembrance ceremonies seems to be shortened. The Wife and I have been watching som...  read more

It was 7th grade and I wasn't much of a news follower, so I didn't hear about it until 2nd period. 9am-ish. Home Ec. The room was dark. The teacher wheeled in a tv and turned it to a news station. There was a unanimous "oh my god." The Trade Center towers have been hit by planes and collapsed. T...  read more

All:  forgive the lack of paragraphs.  When I typed this story, it was in paragraph form.  Now, it isn't any more.  I can't figure out why.Everyone's got their 9/11 story. And I've got mine.  This was during the two or three years that I was living in New York. Even tho...  read more

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:56:06 -0400 From: Skip Winitsky <*****@learningworlds.com> The port authority is requesting that all non-essential people stay home. Let's all be on e...  read more

Before I reiterate my experience, let me begin by saying I attended St Bonaventure University in Western NY. A large alumni contributor to the school is Reilly of Quick and Reilly Brokerage services, now owned by B of A.  This company a post grad avenue to employement In Downtown NYC so...  read more

I thought the news reports coming over the radio were about a new movie. It gradually dawned on me over the course of the day that it was real and it truly happened.

Monday morning at work it started to smell like smoke. Everybody wandering around sticking their noses in the air sniffing trying to find out where the smoke was coming from. Somebody suggested we go outside in case there really was a fire. Then a coworker came down stairs and said that the si...  read more

You could say it had been coming for a long time. M and I were on rocky times since we got married. We'd had fights the night before we got married. We fought every night in Eugene. We fought in LA. So when we came to San Diego, we actually lived in a house all to our own. The rest had been apart...  read more

I was in Ann Arbor. I was at work. On the Old West side of town. In a staff meeting. It always ran over and I didn't find out until afterward.And I was so scared and so angry... but selfishly, at myself. It was a luxury to turn all of those strong feelings inward instead of having to grapple...  read more