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My 9-11 experience was a bit more LIVE than most, as I had the misery of seeing it all take place on tv, big screen all DAY long.

At first, it was just a "plane had hit one of the WTC towers". it was not thought of as a terrorist action, YET. The Tv was on CNBC, as it usually was in the morning, as the owner of the shop I was at liked to keep up on business and stocks.

I turned on my TV on my bench a bit later, and just as it came up, I saw the SECOND plane hit the other tower. By now-- ALL of us in the shop realized that it was NOT an accident. However, some newscaster (I don't recall who) was still suggesting an accident, saying "is their something wrong with the air traffic control systems, or something?"

By then, ALL of the news was going live to the events. Soon after, the pentagon was hit, and I said"man, if this keeps up, they will have to shut down all air traffic in this country. Soon after, they did, and flight 93 crashed. It was hard to do any work that day. that night, I saw gas go from about 1.49 a gallon, to over 2.00 a gallon, and gas lines down the streets at many stations that had not yet changed prices. Many stations ran out of gas. Cops were out ALL over, ready to roust anyone that did ANYTHING remotely suspicious that night. In Dayton, Wright Pat was on Lockdown, and several fighters screamed out from there that day, and created sonic booms in the area. For the rest of the week, all planes were grounded, stocks were dead, baseball suspended. It was hard to really gather my thoughts together to work the next day. The news continued live for several days.

I didn't even hear about it having happened until about 9:30ish. I was a senior in high school at the time. I was leaving my first-period class (French), and when I got to my second period class (Enviro Science), I saw that a TV was on and some of the kids were gathered around it.

I remember that day pretty vividly. I can honestly say that the first emotion I felt when I learned what was happening was intense anger. I mean, I could feel my fists clenching involuntarily.

I turned on my TV on my bench a bit later, and just as it came up, I saw the SECOND plane hit the other tower. By now-- ALL of us in the shop realized that it was NOT an accident. However, some newscaster (I don't recall who) was still suggesting an accident, saying "is their something wrong with the air traffic control systems, or something?"

Ok, my memories of 9-11. I was up until 3:30 AM the night (morning) before working on a website. I was a freelance web designer back then and had to get this one site up. I ran "out of gas" at that time and headed to bed. I figure i'll get up about 10 or 11 AM and continue my work. Well Mom came in my room before 9 AM and kicked me awake and tod me that an airplane hit one of the World Trade Center towers. I was upset that she woke me up for that, I figured it was some "yahoo in a Piper Cub or maybe a Cessna 150." I walked out to the living room and saw a huge hole in the building, I figured "no Cessna 150 or Piper Cub made that one." Well, I was up, mom was making breakfast, might as well get back to work. I fired up the computer and my 1966 Sony B&W set I had in the conputer room. I saw another plane flying around the towers and said to myself, "ain't he a little close to the building?" I figured he was a rubbernecker but the pilot was "hot-dogging" the plane. A second later, I saw it hit live and in black and white. Two planes, something was wrong here. I can possibly blame air traffic control but the skies were clear that day, surely someone can see if they were headed towards a build. Then as we know, things went South from there.

I remember when President Bush ordered the lockdown, I had all my scanners going, my amateur radio, and even a 1960's vintage VHF radio tuning the knobs. I remember listening to military UHF where figters were up there. I remember early the next morning at 3 AM or so, I heard 6 Penna Air Nat'l Guard tankers take off right over the house, scaring all my cats except Boo and Pansy. Scared me too until I turned on my scanner and listened to the chatter between them and the tower.