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Neither will I. But I'm not sure what rattles me the most. where I was when this happened or "what might never have been." in where my future wife was on that day.

Not forgetting.

i slept through it, but woke up around 10 AM on the west coast.  I was living in San Francisco.  I went jogging, came back, and found out.  Sat in front of the tv for the rest of the day.  shit was fucked up. 

I was pretty obvlivious, honestly. 

I found out in school (would have been 5th or 6th grade; I was 11 for sure) and thought it was a tornado the way everyone was acting. I didn't know much of anything about the Twin Towers before then. I even saw them referenced in a Simpsons joke in an episode where Homer was trying to find a bathroom in one of them, but thought those were just two made up buildings for the show's version of NY. 

I still remember the original movie previews for the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man having the web between those two towers and learning later on that they had to get rid of those cause of the incident. People did not want to see those two buildings referenced in any way for a good long while. Impactful stuff. 

I was in college and was riding the student transport bus from my apartment to a campus building when I heard rumblings from some people on the bus. My first class of the day was an Intro to Anthropology course and when everyone got there, the teacher brought us up to speed. I don't remember if we had a full class or not. Hearing it was just awful but the real shocker came when I went to a journalism class later that day. It was in one of those stadium-size rooms and on the huge projector screen was CNN coverage; seeing that footage for the first time was indescribable.

After my classes were over, I walked to my apartment (skipping waiting for a transport bus) and got to my parking lot when I heard a voice coming through a speaker. I turned and looked and saw a car with a P.A. system driving around campus slowly and sharing his angry (understandable) and racist (not so much) reactions to the incident. A police car was following him and as soon as he said something to the effect of "We got to kill all these fuckers" (I'm assuming he meant Arabs or Muslims in general), the police car's sirens turned on and he was pulled over. 

Confusion, shock, sadness and anger all in one day.

Well I found out my first wife was cheating on me which initially ended in divorse my two oldest were with me I had just moved to Austin from NY in 92 and actually lost freinds in the twin towers.

I vividly remember that day. I was using the radio to wake myself up in the morning. I just happened to be getting up then around 9am. I reporter says a plane hit the towers, so I quickly turned on the TV and watched the news, in real time, as the second plane hit. Crazy. Then I had to go to work. 

Every time I see anything similar I think about that day. I was just reading Batman Dark Knight Returns and there's an image of a commuter plane hitting the building where Commisioner Gordon lives and then him running around trying to find his wife, which he thinks might have been in the building. Conjured up 911 right away for me. 

My Dad actually worked on legal stuff having to do with the zoning of the land where the Twin Towers was built early in his law career back in '70 or '71. Then he passed away on exactly 9-11 of 2012. Somehow I think he might've been thinking of the event when he passed. 

Let's see, went to college that morning. I didn't have a working radio and my class was early, so I didn't notice anything amiss. I got to school and the whole place was completely deserted and closed. I thought a bomb threat had been called in.

So I went to the bank nearby and saw the footage of Tower One collapsing. I thought the country was being invaded. Which, in a sense, it was.