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• futt3rm31n390 commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
  I was living in the Capitol Hill area in Salt Lake City on the day it happened. I kissed my fiance' and headed out the door of our apartment. Someone in the next building over, who I'd never met and never spoke to again, came out on his balcony and told me to "Go back in and turn on your TV. The World Trade Center has been hit." My first thought was a confused "and?" but I turned on the local news and watched the live feed as the first tower fell. I got my fiance' out of bed. She...
• emilydickinsonridesabmx commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
  @MCCRUM I agree 100%. I'm a born and raised city kid. I was 23 during 9/11, and NYC had become a mean, jaded place. Even ravers were killing each other, Michael Alig anyone? I was definitely planning my getaway. I think anyone who stayed after 9/11, and for all different reasons many people did leave, really learned how to be a citizen in the traditional sense. Your statement about NY'ers fighting to give a stranger the best directions on the subway is spot on. Anyplace where people have experienced a terrible event together is like this. I've found the same...
• thatguythehero commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
  Cheers to everyone here - and thanks for your words I'm originally from NYC, and that day was far from home in MA a meeting that morning with the president of the Catholic school I worked at in the IT department. The president walked in and said a plane hit a building in NYC, and we should pray for them. I assumed it was a small plane, and felt bad for the folks. About 30 minutes into the meeting, my co-worker got coffee and a cafeteria worker told him the Pentagon just got hit - that we were under attack....
• Mark Levitt commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
  I'm an American, but I've been living in the UK since 2000. I was working in London on September 11. Somebody came up to our floor and said a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Like many people, I assumed it was one of those little Cessnas that are often flying around Manhattan. I guessed that some green pilot had made a very bad mistake or was trying some stunt that went wrong or even decided to kill himself. At some point, somebody said that a second plane had hit the tower and I knew that it wasn't an...
• timothystotz commented on Boing Boing's September 11, 2001 archives.
  I lived in NYC from 1994-1999, and used to ride the 2/3 daily to graduate school from Brooklyn. I still remember with great relief the release of humanity at Wall St and again at the Chambers St stop. But on 9/11, I was in the middle of nowhere French countryside in an art class, painting in a barn. No phone. No cell coverage. It was around 3:30pm, France time, when another student's husband broke into the silent room and announced, "There's been an attack in NY. And they've got a fourth plane!" Or that was the first thing I heard....