Where were you on 9/11? How do you feel about today?

I remember this day clearly even after 14 years. I was stationed at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. One of my patients, who was recovering from surgery, had just had their diet changed from NPO to soft but the kitchen never got the order. So, I went down to the kitchen to get him a tray for dinner. When I got back and delivered the tray, I saw some of my nurses in a room standing around another patients bed watching the tv. I walked up and asked what was going on, and was told that a plane (turned out it was the 1st plane) had just crashed into the towers. We stood there watching in shock and bewilderment. When the second plane hit. In my head, I knew war had just begun.

Never forget; because unlike the refugees. We have nowhere to run to; we will stand our ground, to defend our country and our way of life. Against all Enemies Foreign and Domestic.

Just finished the Night Shift as Senior Network Operations Specialist at Sprint Transport Control Center, Overland Park, KS. Spent the next few weeks trying to restore Fiber Optic Communications to that part of the Country. Seems that the Main Switches were all located in that complex.

Health class. 7th grade lol.

I was already a civilian with a 3 year old and a newborn. I was working in the basement of an office building and at first thought it was a repeat of 1945 when a B-25 ran into the Empire state building.

When the second plane hit I realized we were under attack, the pentagon, flight '94... but what hit me hardest was when the first tower collapsed... I knew it was only a matter of time before the second tower would and found myself screaming to myself "get them out, get everybody out... get Chinooks on the roof for the people trapped above the fire!!"... Later that evening I came home to a dark empty house and turned on the TV to SEE for the first time, horrified, angry,... words can't describe... I just wept.

I get the same feelings 14 years later... and they're the same feelings I get on Veterans day and Memorial day. Melancholy, maybe even depressed..., I think of the sacrifices people have made for OUR country, and it pisses me off more than a little that "We the People" get caught up in such insignificant crap as who has the right to get a marriage license, or what flag someone is flying.

I was in my sophomore class in my high school in upstate New York. Instead of the school news, they turned the TV over to CNN, and said a plane had struck the World Trade Center Tower. As soon as I found out it was 747, I knew it was no accident. We watched the coverage, and I remember seeing other students crying in hall, our old hall monitor said he was going to dig a hole so he could hide in it, and I called my father, a Navy Veteran, and he said sit tight, and it was very scary.

The reactions of my teachers covered the gamut as well. Our Biology teacher turned the TV off and said that she was sure that the terrorists wouldn't attack any more today, so we should continue with class. Our Social Studies teacher had the blinds closed and the lights off, and you could see the fury radiating off him. We spent the class discussing what makes America a great nation, and how angry it made him to see it under attack.

The attacks profoundly changed the way this nation behaves and operates. The easiest example comes from daughter, who has never lived in a peace-time United States, who told me when I drew a green humvee, that it couldn't be an Army truck, because all Army trucks are tan. To my daughter's generation, it is just a fact of life. To ours and the ones before it, it was a life changing experience. I joined the military, as did many others, and we swore the oath to keep this nation safe, no matter the cost. To all who have done the same, Thank You!

I was working approx. 12 miles from where flight 93 crashed. We heard a loud jet then a big explosion.

I was in 5th grade. Walked into class and at first thought it was a movie until I noticed the news headlines. Never thought back then that I would join the military and be deploying because of that day.

I relenlisted Indefinitely that day. It was already scheduled of course, but how appropriate?

Was living in Yreka CA. Sleeping. Got the phone call from my sister-in-law.

We thought it was a bad joke at first, until we were told to turn on the news. Then the seemingly endless bombardment of flashbacks on the news started shortly after the WTC fell.

Still pissed, and remember it as if it were just yesterday!