where were you 9-11-01

[Josh009]

I was also getting ready for work and caught it when I turned on the tv.

I was on a cross country flight today, and watched original footage from New York streaming on Southwest's tv service. Pretty surreal watching it again while in the air. I hadn't watched any of the original footage in the 12 years since.

[couger]

cherry point north Carolina sitting outside my barracks. soon after I transfered to the infantry and deployed to the big suck.

[bbandu]

Couger that sounds about like mine, I was on duty aboard the USS Pioneer in Ingleside, texas. We went on lockdown for four days following the plane strikes. I transfered about a month later and deployed to the middle east.

[couger]

yeah I can still remember the huge lines to get on base. decided to stay on base then leave and try to get back in. can still remember that huge multi country staging base. had to trade a British guy my k-bar for a phone card.

[bbandu]

after I deployed I spent about 10 weeks at Isa Air Base in Bahrain running a control station.

[couger]

I ended up in the initial push to Baghdad. wow. looking back now the world got totally turned upside down after 9/11. I actually joined in 9/11/2000. one year later the world went crazy. or crazier

[bbandu]

Believe it or not my actual enlistment date was 9/11 as well just 11 years before

[couger]

lol. wow. yeah I was shocked that exactly one year later I was sitting thinking that on my one year this happened and I'm probably going to war.

[bbandu]

This was my second time going, I was also deployed to the persian gulf during the gulf war

[naso tang]

Thanks all you military reefers for your service! God bless America!

[SteveParkinson]

Underway off the coast of San Diego onboard the USS John C. Stennis for some routine flight deck certifications. Watched everything happen on tv in our shop waiting to start the day. From that point on we stayed at sea and extra three weeks not knowing if we were going on deployment immediately or we would get to come back into SD first.

We did make it back in to San Diego but left on deployment four months ahead of schedule because of 9-11. I'll never forget that day, the images and events that occurred!

God Bless America!

[Esco reef]

I was there 2 months before the attack with a group of friends that summer right outta high school the day that it happend I was at my first job and got the news from the radio around 6 am ill never forget that feeling

[NavyDad74]

I was on watch in combat on USS Mobile Bay. i just got off the 12-06 watch and sat down to eat breakfast it was like watching a movie, i couldnt believe that was really happening. then i was called back to combat to start IDing and tracking every air contact near San Diego.

[Saltmeister]

Just got back from a Colors Ceremony commemorating those who lost their lives in 9/11. You can see a representative of each branch that lost lives due to the attack: Police, Firefighters, Medical, Civilian, and each of the Armed Forces. Over 6,700 people. I got pretty teary eyed as they lowered the flag while playing taps.

Crazy that the memory of it is still so fresh after so many years.

[SBGrad24]

I had just graduated from college a few months earlier and hadn't found a job yet. I was in bed when my mom busted in and screamed that we were under attack. I turned on the TV in time to see both towers collapse. I think I watched the footage on TV for more than 24 hours straight.

Every time I see the footage again it takes me right back to that day.