6 years ago today.

[Sonny]

Don't ever forget 9/11!

One of those moments in time that you will never ever forget where you were when you got the news.

Where were you 6 years ago this morning?

[LaxTV_Admin]

Junior in college at Marquette University. I had to be woken up by my roommate after working until 3am. It was very sad to wake up to that, especially since I am from D.C. and had many family friends who worked in the Pentagon.

Remember all the lives lost today and pray for their families. A sad day in the history of mankind, no matter your political views.

[Beta]

I was a Freshman in the library @ GT. I heard it on the way out and thought it was a joke or something because it was too unbelievable. I drove up to the Hooters in Roswell to meet some friends and we all were glued to the TV in shock.

I remember getting 'trapped' driving across Buford Dam heading to my house that day when they closed off both ends with National Guardsmen.

[Rob Graff]

I was on Long Island, with two of my children, staying at my brother's house. We were about to be driven to LaGuardia airport by my dad. We were about to drive away from my brother's place when he called. He was on the water, and the coast guard had broadcast to all boats to get into their harbors. He told us to turn on the TV and not go to the airport.

The day before I'd had a meeting on wall street, near the Towers, and had I not had my children with me on the business trip (and thus stayed out on the island) I would have stayed in the city that night at the Marriott Twin towers, and taken a late morning flight (around 11 am or so) back to Minneapolis. That would have put me in the towers around when the impacts took place. I am still glad I took my children with me on that trip so that they could see where I grew up.

After the collapse, Long Island was cut off. The ferries that go between LI and Conn. had been "recquisitioned" as potential floating morgues. As it turned out, they were not necessary given the effect of the collapse.

When the ferries returned, my dad, his wife and I took one of the ferries across the LI sound, and drove the children back to Minneapolis. I still remember my feeling of relief when we arrived in CT. The drive was unique. Everyone was listening to the radio and at every rest stop, we invariably entered into conversations with strangers about what had happened. And what was unique was that these conversatiosn bridged all income/racial/social divides - we were all Americans talking to Americans.

I cling to the memory of those conversations as proof that we as a country can still come together in times of crisis.

[TexOle]

I was a first year student at St. Olaf. I had been on campus for about a week so I was still getting adjusted life 900 miles from home. My family hosted a German exchange student that year which presented some other issues. My mom was at a 5 star resort in Canada for work, but her office was just across the border. She could not drive over the border or fly home. More than anything I remember the feelings of loneliness during that time period.

[Danny Hogan]

Wow Rob...tough to follow.

Junior @ UF, just about to leave for softball class and (dial up)logged on to aol. Saw picture of the burning tower under their headline "America Under Attack". For about a minute i checked mail and dismissed it as some movie advertisement or article. Then realized and turned the TV. Absolutely surreal.

[Vols2]

Freshman year at UT...had an engineering class outside, came back inside at the end of class and saw everything that was unfolding on an old small tv that had alot of static...almost looked like a movie.

That evening we actually had a lax practice and saw I think 2 military planes flying over head doing "surveillance" I assume. Kinda spooky at the time.

[msum26]

This was a crazy and surreal time. I was still in high school at the time. Sitting in my first hour project pass i usually watched the news in the am followed by a nap. however, my advisor came running in the room and told me to change the channel from MTV to ABC i remember as i turned to the channel the disbelief that some how, america was under attack, it still seems weird to think that happened six years ago today!

[laxfan25]

I was sitting at my desk when my co-worker in Boston called to say that his Mom just called him, telling him that a plane had crashed into the WTC. At first I thought it was an accident, private plane off course or something. Someone had the TV on when the second plane hit and you realized it wasn't an accident.
I was supposed to be driving to Milwaukee for a presentation the next day, and just as I was leaving there was the big cloud of smoke, and no one could tell what had happened. Listened on the radio for the next 4 hours, and I remember how somber everyone was at the hotel. A very sad day, and hard to believe as well that it was six years ago now.

[bste_lax]

I was a sophomore at Iowa.

I had woke up and was told by a friend of mine who usually says nothing but BS that it had happened as I was on my way out the door. I didn't fully believe him.

I was supposed to have a meeting at our Rec Building with the guy in charge of club sports at Iowa about getting something signed for the league. He never showed up (probably caught up in all of the events) so I sat in the office for an hour waiting and watching all the drama on the TV.

[Hugh Nunn]

I had just moved to Tallahassee and was doing emergency management contracting (along with coaching the Noles). I was working on a proposal that morning, and happened to have the pest control guy there doing a preventive maintenance treatment. He had just left when he came back and pounded on the door yelling to turn on the TV. I sat there in shock, watching CNN with this stranger in my house. Sorry to say I forgot his name.

I then spent the next two days trying to contact all my friends still in 3rd Special Forces Group, where I had worked. It was the last time I was able to speak to most of them for almost three years. Most of those guys are still making return trips to Afganistan and Iraq. One guy is up to seven.

My Dad was playing golf at Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, VA when they saw the plane going down that hit the Pentagon. It went over them at only about a couple of hundred feet. He remembers someone saying,"He's not going to make the airport." After they heard the crash, someone turned on a cellphone and they heard the rest of what was happening.

[Madlax16]

Freshman in highschool. Was sitting in spanish class when my teacher turned on the tv and i saw the pentagon on fire. Left class to make sure my dad was alright because he was there for a breifing. Luckily he was on the other side of the building.

[LaxRef]

I was in my house, getting ready for the birth of my son about 6 weeks later. I was going to have some electrical work done so we'd have outlets outside of the "baby safe" area where we'd need them—I take childproofing very seriously—and when the electrician showed up he told me he heard something on the radio about a plane crashing into one of the towers.

I put on the TV, and the electrician kept stopping to watch the coverage, then he tried to bill me for the whole time he was there. I had to call his boss and get a reduction.

I have a friend who worked in WTC but he called in sick that day to go surfing. He and some other friends felt guilty because they could see the smoke while they were surfing from all the way in South Jersey.

[Danny Hogan]

I have a friend who worked in WTC but he called in sick that day to go surfing. He and some other friends felt guilty because they could see the smoke while they were surfing from all the way in South Jersey.

Oddly there was a good swell that day and surfer (not sure exactly which mag) magazine had an article soon after about a few guys who worked in the towers that blew off work to go surfing and watched it all from the water.

[Rob Graff]

The article I remember like the surfer article was about the high powered executive that took the morning off to take his child to the first day of kindergarten, and thus was not at work on the floor where the plane entered one of the buildings.

Rob