Where were you 12 years ago today?

[rivrrts429]

I was a branch manager for one of our equipment yards.

All kinds of construction was taking place as we were in a remodel/expansion.

Work was about to get started when the first plane hit. I had about 30 guys in my office huddled around a little 20" tv in an office no bigger than a standard bedroom size.

For the next two hours you could hear a pin drop.

Big strong guys were overcome with emotion. In that instant you could feel a bond between strangers, and later that day there would be a bond between the entire country. The patriotism was worn on our sleeves that day.

I closed up shop and sent everybody home to hug their families by mid morning that day. Trying to make a dollar wasn't near as important as being with family at that time.

I still see those guys from time to time. To this day it's a handshake that has a little more meaning than most when we cross paths.

Never forget!

[Paul65K]

I remember that I was up early as usual and watching Mark Haynes on CNBC before going into the office. It was surreal watching things unfold......at first they thought that the first plane had mistakenly flown into the WTC, but watching on CNBC was even more realistic as they were in NYC and more real was that they all had friends working inside the WTC.....If I remember correctly Kidder/Peabody was on the 100th floor and they all knew people there.

When the 2nd plane went in we watched it real time as there were cameras on the WTC watching the damage from the 1st plane.......I'll never forget the stunned silence when that happened. Soon after that was the Pentagon and then within an hour the first tower came down everyone was stunned, in shock almost and then all hell broke loose!!

I realized that I had to get to work as I was responsible for a large call center in those days and large number of the people working there were parents with families and I knew that there would be lots of issues. I decided to close the call center and let everyone be with their families.....what a day!!!

Prayers as always with the families of those who perished in that cowardly act that fateful day

[Stainless]

I was working on an interstate hwy widening project, within a couple of hours of the news it became eerie how traffic diminished on the roadways.

[RogerThat99]

I was demoing a house out in a rural area. We had 5 guys sitting on 5 gal buckets, huddled around a radio. I didn't see any video until I got home that night.

On the way to the job I was listening to Howard Stern and I thought it was a joke at first.

[NRI]

I was at home in Santa Clarita. I had just woken up, was having a cup of coffee and turned on thew news.... I was working for American Airlines at the time and called my Supervisor to see if they needed me to come in. God Bless all of the victims and their families!

[Stainless]