Remember...

[Sahara54]

I was a Junior in HS and had just started flight school the day before at the aeroclub on DAFB. I had my flight bag in my hand while we were waiting for the bell to leave our first period class (20th Century History) when the English teacher from the class next door came over and told my teacher. We watched the first tower burning on TV until the bell rang. We were a technical HS so I went to shop (Aviation) next and was watching it on TV with a freshman ROTC class when the second plane hit. We were released from school early and I took the bus home. Silence will be the loudest thing you will ever hear. The sky was empty, the Highway (RT1) was empty and the base was silent...dead silent. I only lived 2-3 miles from the base and DAFB is the main cargo hub on the east coast and home to the C5 and C17. There's always noise from engines or something...nothing. Wednesday was our ROTC uniform day and we were told not to wear them due to the threat of another localized attack. Also, for months after there were constant Chinooks and Blackhawks flying into the base mortuary with the remains of those lost at the Pentagon and WTC. It took us 5 months to be able to return to the aeroclub and that was only with armed escorts riding with us on the van or bus.

[shownomercy]

8th grade, and stuck sitting in the gym waiting as they would come in and call kids out to go home. Didn't connect the dots till I got home and from what little news/TV we had pretty rough day. For awhile my dad was gonna go up with the local crew but for some reason they decided not to, that was rough waiting for him to cancel that choice.

Visited the site last year and had to the unfinished site a few times before, still hits me hard. Lot of friends and local people had stories of how they should have been there but life slowed em down and they missed a bus/ferry etc.

[MKCoconuts]

I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I've hit my head too many times to remember that detail. I do remember they came over the intercom after the first plane had hit and had all the teachers turn on their TVs. They sent us home early and had a patrol car follow each bus, so it took a while before any one actually got home as there's 7 schools in the district and only a bus fleet of 30 or so, and less than 10 patrol cars. I never really got the significance of that day until a few years later, but I can remember the scare it gave the older people I knew and seeing that second plane hit is still burned into my memory.

I agree that we need to start remembering this day and getting our country back on track and united again.

[Twenty8Z]

Watched in disgust and disbelief..