RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 I'll start....I was teaching my 1st period Geometry class in Oakwood....Our principal announced it over the PA....I called my daughter in law and had her bring me a radio.....we spent the rest of the day listening......Didn't take off from football practice after school because Ronnie Pat didn't believe in days off..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearEmaGrowlin Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 Working my part time jon at the Smith County Records Department in Tyler, after finishing my classes at UT Tyler that day. we were all in shock when the second plane hit. It was a level of despair I’d never felt before, my heart hurt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte1076 Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 I was working. Passed by a conference room, and saw some people standing around a TV. Went in, and saw what they were watching. Saw the second plane hit live, and told myself "That was no accident." Especially given that at that time all they knew is a plane hit the first building. I went back to my desk, and streamed a local station listening to news the rest of the day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtlobos Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 I was at home, sick with the flu. Sick as a dog. My mom called me and said a plane hit one of the Twin Towers and turn on the news. In my feverish state, I naively replied, "what channel?" She said, "Every channel". About 3-4 minutes after I turned on the news, the second plane hit. Watched it happen live. It was surreal, I was sort of in and out of it all day, thinking it was a very terrible dream. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 11 Author Share Posted September 11 Was hoping to hear from a bipartisan group of members to see their stories ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamewatcher63 Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 Was in new hire training at Love Field…only a couple of guys in class had cell phones…during first break the wife of one of those guys called him and told him…we were looking out the building windows that faced the runway and not one single aircraft was moving…we knew something bad had happened Right before lunch break the training director came into class and said that a national emergency had been declared and that we could walk across the parking lot to go to lunch in the main building but not to wander around outside…inside the main building people were crowded around the TV’s and watching the replays of the aircraft hitting the towers… We were let go early and I started driving home thru downtown Dallas with the radio on…the highway were packed and it took 3hours to get home…they were saying that gas had already gone up to $ 5 gallon and I was sure that when I went to class the next day they were going to tell us to go home and that we would be without a job…but a couple of days later the department director were I was going to work came to the class and said “We hired ya’ll for a reason…we have work to do, so go home and tell your family that you have a job for life”…been their 23 years since P.S. The United 767 that hit the south tower was one I previously worked on when I was in SFO…. I commuted a lot back then and flew on 767’s occasionally…I can’t help but wonder if the crew on 9/11 are some that I had flown with… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PepeSilvia Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 I was in class at UT Tyler Longview Center when it happened. Teacher felt that her Western Civ class was more important than watching actual history. Needless to say, all the students got up and left to watch it in the lobby. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomer Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 (edited) My dad was having surgery at the VA hospital. The hospital went on lockdown and all the medical procedures were delayed so we flipped on the waiting room TV. We saw the first and then the second tower smoking and all the aftermath. It was truly surreal. Edited September 11 by Doomer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 I was driving in the parking lot of my school, when I heard on Howard Stern that the first plane had hit. Ran into my classroom and turned on the tv in time to see the 2nd one hit. The building got quiet except for tvs being turned on all over the building. I had conference first period, then our principal told us over the loudspeaker to carry on with our day, while he then came around and told us room by room to just keep kids calm and not worry about teaching that day. We just slept walk through the day, with kids either silent, crying or being picked up. At the same time, my wife pregnant with my third child, went into panic mode, back in my hometown, because someone randomly knocked out the electricity by hitting a pole, and we thought that something insidious was going on. My mom went over to check on her, because my dad had died just a few months before. Missed his comforting presence a lot that day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion7000 Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 Junior at Henderson High. Ag class! I first thought it was an accident , second plane hit I knew! I was naive and thought no one hated us that much! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyZuco Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 5 hours ago, RETIREDFAN1 said: I'll start....I was teaching my 1st period Geometry class in Oakwood....Our principal announced it over the PA....I called my daughter in law and had her bring me a radio.....we spent the rest of the day listening......Didn't take off from football practice after school because Ronnie Pat didn't believe in days off..... Was that Ronnie Pat Durham? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyZuco Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 I was on the field practicing football with the team. It was the first year of our morning practices.......The principals meet us at the locker room doors and gathered all of our muslim students to get them off campus. We only had a couple of football players of that religion. This was in Richardson.....We had TV's on in the classroom until the district made us turn them off, because our student population was about to explode. Very Very long day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveTV1 Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 I was in Richardson, TX playing spades online on Pogo. One of the people I was playing with told the us, and said his son was supposed to be working that day in the North Tower. His son had called off from work that day. I turned on the TV, and watched the South Tower go down. A friend of mine called me up and told me that Lucent had let them off for the day and to meet over at Nick's Sports Grill to play trivia. 635 didn't have hardly any cars on it, but this was around 11 pm. All of Downtown Dallas had been closed off fearing an attack on buildings there. Spent the day there watching the footage of what happened. I still remember around 8 pm that night they showed the footage of the attack in Afghanistan. Everyone thought we were attacking them and stood up and cheered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 11 Author Share Posted September 11 49 minutes ago, DannyZuco said: Was that Ronnie Pat Durham? Oh yeah...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 12 Author Share Posted September 12 1 hour ago, DannyZuco said: Was that Ronnie Pat Durham? Did you know him??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyZuco Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 (edited) 1 hour ago, RETIREDFAN1 said: Did you know him??? Lived right down the street from me, Giff, his son, was just a couple of years younger than me. He is from Lufkin.....coached at Hudson when I was in high school and then Apple Springs after that........neither too far from Lufkin.... Edited September 12 by DannyZuco 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 12 Author Share Posted September 12 3 minutes ago, DannyZuco said: Lived right down the street from me, Giff, his son, was just a couple of years younger than me. He is from Lufkin.....coached at Hudson when I was in high school and then Apple Springs after that........neither too far from Lufkin.... Yeah....he was coaching Apple Springs when I was in school at Colmesneil.....we were 1-2-1 against him.....then he hired me at Oakwood in 1999.....loved working for him....Giff was basketball coach there during that time..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyZuco Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 11 hours ago, RETIREDFAN1 said: Yeah....he was coaching Apple Springs when I was in school at Colmesneil.....we were 1-2-1 against him.....then he hired me at Oakwood in 1999.....loved working for him....Giff was basketball coach there during that time..... Seems as though we should have met through the years with the college and people we know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 12 Author Share Posted September 12 2 minutes ago, DannyZuco said: Seems as though we should have met through the years with the college and people we know. We may have...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyZuco Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 Just now, RETIREDFAN1 said: We may have...... I don’t know. Did you ever go to a place called cotton eyed joes. Party center. Snoopys. Jitterbugs. Crossroads on a Friday afternoon. because those were some of the places I frequented. Occasionally a class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 12 Author Share Posted September 12 12 minutes ago, DannyZuco said: I don’t know. Did you ever go to a place called cotton eyed joes. Party center. Snoopys. Jitterbugs. Crossroads on a Friday afternoon. because those were some of the places I frequented. Occasionally a class. Nope.....I had to get home after classes to work..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyZuco Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 Just now, RETIREDFAN1 said: Nope.....I had to get home after classes to work..... I worked also. Did you work in colmesneil or nacgodoches. I worked in lufkin at TXU while going to school. Lived in heritage arms apartments. Owned by badders and badders. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBizzle Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 I was at the the Navy Nuclear Prototype facility outside of Saratoga Springs, NY. I had just finished my qualifications as a student and been selected to stay on as an instructor. We were beginning what they call an Operational Reactor Safeguards Exam, which is basically just an audit conducted by Naval Reactors. I wasn't really qualified to do anything, so I was just stationed in the room with the records. We didn't have any TV's on site, just a few offices had radios. Someone came by and told me about the first plane. They ended up postponing the audit and sent me and all unnecessary personnel home. I went home and watched TV the rest of the day with my fiance, whom I was marrying in a few weeks. We're still married today, BTW. It changed everything for us there. It wasn't really a Naval Base, but a Department of Energy facility. So it had a guarded entrance, but you could pull right in and park in the lot before you walked into the guard shack. After that, they built a gate about a mile out and really beefed up security. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted September 12 Author Share Posted September 12 32 minutes ago, DannyZuco said: I worked also. Did you work in colmesneil or nacgodoches. I worked in lufkin at TXU while going to school. Lived in heritage arms apartments. Owned by badders and badders. Colmesneil...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyZuco Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 1 minute ago, RETIREDFAN1 said: Colmesneil...... Man, that was a long daily drive...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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