September 11, 2001

[D'Highlander]

Never Forget.

[waterboy]

The memory of 9/11 is etched in my memory forever. I will never forget. I remember everything about that day.

[orange machine]

I remember I was 18 years old working for the Howe Isd mowing grass the morning it happened. My boss came outside and told me I needed to get in the school because we were being attacked. I remember not understanding what he was saying because it was something I had never thought could happen to America. I remember going inside the school and they had all the kids in the cafeteria with a tv showing what had happened. The feeling for this 18 year boy was scared and very confused.

[Sville]

I was working for a fire dept. in Dallas County. I had just got off shift at 7a that morning and headed back to Stephenville. I was in between Cleburne and Glen Rose listening to 1310 the Ticket when the first plane hit. The Musers broke from sports talk to talk about a terrible 'accident' in NYC were a plane had hit one of the WTC. Then you here 'Oh my God, oh my God another plane just flew into the 2nd tower'. Then there was a brief moment of silence on the radio as it sank in for them and me that we were under attack. I stopped at a convenience store in Glen Rose and watched on a little TV the news cast. I then got called back to the station in Glenn Heights as all Dallas County Fire Dept's were put on high alert. I was released after lunch and headed home. I don't think I slept for over 24 hours staying glued to the TV.

[coach]

I was in the 8th grade. What is crazy, 13 years later I am teaching next door to the classroom I was in when the first attack took place.

[bobcat1]

Never forget the ones lost and the ones behind it. We have not done enough to pay them back for what they did yet.

[Macarthur]

Still so surreal to think about it.

[BB BULLS]

That was a day that no one should forget and what is the big news for today Ray Rice hitting his wife which is also a bad thing but the Media is just crazy. i had just walked into the office one of the guys came in said hurry come to the conference room we are being attacked. we sat there all day watching the news there was no work done at all. another sad thing i asked a few people what today was all they said was September 11 that was it, but quickly refreshed the minds of these that had forgot. GOD BLESS THE MEN & WOMEN FROM 9/11/01.

[gobbla4life]

I'll never forget that day , my wife and I had just celebrated our first wedding anniversary the month before. So life was going great .We always listened to the radio in the wearhouse that I worked at , that morning 9/11/01 , when they announced what was going ( I felt scared , afraid , mad , tingling , and unsure )! I am so proud of our nation and what it stands for , MILITARY , FIRE DEP, LAW ENFORCEMENT , AND ALL OTHER EMERGENCY RESPONSE ! Thank you , GOD BLESS THE USA , and the families that lost loved ones that day.

[waterboy]

I was at work at my desk when one of my co-workers asked if I had heard. I said, "About what?" We went to turn on the TV, and started watching the news. It wasn't long after the first tower had been hit. I remember the news saying it was an accident. I looked at the gaping hole, turned around to my co-workers and said, "I don't think that was an accident." Sure enough, a few minutes later the second plane hit the other tower. I remember thinking about the thousands of lives lost, and what's next? Sure enough, it wasn't long before we heard about the Pentagon being hit. I remember telling my co-workers and a customer that we are now going to war. I remember being sorrowful for all the innocent lives being lost, for their families, and even for the city of New York, and being mad enough to go to war with whoever did it. Needless to say, we didn't get much work done at all that day, and when I got home I stayed glued to the TV for many hours.

[MUSTANG69]

I was like the rest of you. I was at work and nobody got any work done that day. My mother called me and my aunt (her younger sister) was in the Pentagon when it was hit. We didn't get any news about her until the next day. My aunt was very lucky. She didn't suffer any injuries but was covered in dust and debris.

[Aggie98]

Was travelling with work and happened to be in York, PA that week. The plant manager came to get me that morning and told me that some DA had flown an airplane into one of the WTC's. We went inside to watch it on TV and then the 2nd one hit.... and then we knew it was no accident. Hung around PA for a couple of days that week waiting to see if the airports would open. Ended up driving a rental car 23 hours home to DFW.

[d0tc0m]

I was a freshman in Bill Elliot's speech class out in one of the portable buildings at Celina's old high school. Coach Elliot read something on the internet, but he wasn't sure what was going on, so he sent me to the library to find out. I was watching on the library tv when the second plane hit. I will never forget.

[Rabid Cougar]

Not that I lost any member of my family but I spent year and half of life away from my family because of what took place.

Very insignificant compared to what the Families of Lt. Darryn Andrews of Cameron, Texas and Specialist Dennis Cullen Poulen from Providence, Rhode Island paid.

[waterboy]

Not that I lost any member of my family but I spent year and half of life away from my family because of what took place.

Very insignificant compared to what the Families of Lt. Darryn Andrews of Cameron, Texas and Specialist Dennis Cullen Poulen from Providence, Rhode Island paid.

Thank you for your service, sir!

[Saggy Aggie]

I was in 5th grade. I'll never forget coming back from art class and seeing replays of the plane hitting the first tower on the tv...

The entire class stood and watched with a group of teachers as the second one hit on live tv....

Back then, as little kids, we all thought the explosions were cool, but thinking back on it now, I can't imagine how id have reacted if I would've really understood what was happening at the time

[Scoop27]

I was sitting at my desk at my newspaper office in Wharton when my wife called me to tell me and word spread fast and there was a hush of silence in disbelief. I remember they were debating whether to playing football games on Friday night. I went to the East Bernard-Hempstead game in East Bernard and there was moment of silence and there much sadness in the press box and stands

[ValleyCat]

I was stationed on Camp Lejeune, Marine Corps Base. Navy Medical/Dental and Religious personnel are attached to Marine units. Anyway, I remember watching it with my company in the barracks lounge and I remember saying that we were going to war and people told me to shut up and that I was talking crazy.

Two weeks later, we were getting briefed to deploy to Kuwait as advanced party to set up a tent city and other logistics. I had 24 hrs to call my parents, but at the last minute, another unit was sent. I had never been so scared in my life, but I knew I didn't have time to be scared.

A year later, my unit got orders to deploy to Iraq. I had already left to go to Physical Therapy Tech school by then.

[STUDMYSTRO]

I was setting in World Geography, I was a 10th grade student at Stephenville. The word broke out and spread through the classroom. Most of us could not wrap our minds around what this actually meant. You could tell from the devestated looks on the teachers face that something very significant and very tragic was happening. Later that day in athletics, Coach Copeland had us all take a knee around him. As he tried to explain the tragic events that were taking place, a tear rolled down his face. He told us that we would not be practicing that day, he instead wanted us to go home and be hold our families tight and to cherish every moment that we have with them because life is too short and you never know what might happen.

I will never forget.