Where were you during 9/11? What has changed in 20 years?

Master Sergeant . I was in the inactive ready reserve. Driving down the road. I felt like our Country was under attack and I wanted to be called back to Active duty to Defend The US, although that never happened in my case.

I was a SSG stationed at Ft Sill, OK

I was stationed at 2-34 Armor, Ft Riley KS. Between PT and Work Call and as I walked in front of the TV I was trying to figure out where in the world the feed was coming from, never did I think it was in our country. As I sat down to read the tele-prompter, I couldn't imagen how a plane could hit the Trade Center. As I sat there watching the second plane came into view and hit the second tower, our world changed that day... I got phone calls from senior and subordinates alike trying to get a grip on what this meant. The word LOCKDOWN was on everyone's lips, I told my guys not to become overly concerned until they start moving Tanks to the front gates...

I was at Fort Knox, KY, C 5-15 Cav conducting land mine training.  I was in the very last sandbox on the lane probing for anti-personnel and anti-tank mines.  They cancelled training for the rest of the day was cancelled and we were shuttled into our day room to watch the news and stay updated.

I was in the gym running on the treadmill watching the news about the first plane hitting and watched the second one hit. I stopped the treadmill and got the attention of my whole squad and they all came over to the tv we watched for about 5 minutes then got are stuff together and walked into work and got some more official info from the commander.

I was stationed in Schweinfurt Germany at the time. Given the time difference I was off work already. At the time I did not speak much German at all. I was in a German shoe store downtown buying a pair of shoes. The guy there didn't speak much English either but was trying to tell me (I figured out later) what had happened. I headed back towards post and ended up waiting in the traffic for about 4 hours to get back on post because they were tearing cars apart and were only letting service members back on. Had some of the guys in my platoon that stayed in my barracks room with me for a few days and we were all on guard shifts for the following months.

I was conducting an interview with a potential candidate for the AF with her and her mother in Galion, OH.  We watched what happened on the TV.  I looked over to her and asked how she felt about going to war.  She did not enlist but my other two appts that day did.  My FC called me that morning and told me to get out of my GOV and Uniform and go home - I told him NO and went on with my day...Received a LOC later that week for not stopping.

I was sitting in my 10th grade trigonometry class, the day before my 14th birthday. I never would have imagined I would join the army 5 years later.

Pickup up mortars for a range for SOCEX.

That is the day that I re-enlisted indefinitely in the United States Army.  It was already planned, so it wasn't a spur of the moment decision.  I was sitting on my couch getting my starched uniform on and putting on my spit shined jump boots...turned on the tube and saw the second plane hit...  I sat there for what seemed like an eternity...maybe 10 seconds... and hobbled upstairs and got my comfy uniform and boots on and went to work.  Called the retension NCO, made a B line to the location of the re-enlistment.  Raised my right hand and repeated the oath of enlistment for the last time.  Closed the post, redirected all traffic and watched as the country prepared for war.