Do you remember 9/11?

[Tartarus Sauce]

I was 7 years old, but I don't remember it very well. I don't remember anything about what I did that day or the reactions of anybody, maybe some memories could be jogged if I talked to my parents about what I was doing that day and in the days afterwards. Off the top of my head, my only explicit memories the day of was watching the news footage and how it was covered for weeks. That I do remember.

[Bidenworth2020]

I ws a early teen at the time, so I didn't truly understand the significance of it, but yes. looking back at the coverage it makes me mad I didn't have more sympathy

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Yes. My sister watched it unfold in front of her eyes from her office in the Financial District, while an office mate and her tried pulling a sobbing puddle of their co-worker off the floor when the first tower, where her fiance worked, collapsed (he called soon afterwards to say he got out all right).

My long term girlfriend was working in the city government office in Alexandria.

My father regularly flew USAir flights out of Pittsburgh for business. It took some time before I learned the plane that crashed in Western PA wasn't coming in or out of Pittsburgh.

I was working in a government office skyscraper, albeit in Ohio.

The stress was.....quite bad. And then I heard 3000 dead.

Though I was alive and have vivid memories of 9/11 myself, it's hard to watch the footage and know that only (as awful as it was) 3,000 people died. In the hours after the attack I remember people thinking tens of thousands were dead.

Yea we were all very lucky that the first plane hit too early for most of the 9-5 crowd to be in the first tower that was hit.  The first tower was also hit relatively high up, which gave most people a chance to escape. I do remember initial sketchy tabloid reports that said up too 50,000 people could have died.