:VeryScared: We flew out of Boston that morning, right after one of the terrorist planes. Both our flights were to the West Coast, but ours was Frontier that stopped in Denver.
I didn't notice anything was going on, but my wife noticed that the sun kept moving on her page. The pilot was flying us in a big circle, not allowed to enter US airspace. They were concerned our flight had been hijacked too so air traffic wasn't telling our flight crew anything. Finally they let us land in Toronto. We did have a couple young Muslim men on the flight and they did act wierd, not drinking or eating, or talking to everyone else when they finally told us what was going on.
After we landed, they "interviewed" our flight crew for hours on the tarmac, but let all the passengers go. We didn't get our luggage, so we took a trip out of town to find a place to stay and buy new clothes etc.
The airport was closed for a few days but we would walk around it. Toronto was very nice to us "refugees" sending out free pizza and other food. The crew even let passengers share their lodgings if they couldn't afford to stay somewhere.
It was wierd when we finally got back to DIA, very dead, we were the only civvies in the terminal.
My poor dad, he was tracking our flight to Denver on the web and saw us go to 0 airspeed and 500 feet in Toronto so he thought we had crashed into a skyscraper. He was very happy to get the call from us.
Frying pan, fire? We had been originally scheduled to be in lower Manhattan that Tuesday morning. The wife thinks we were guided to cancel the end of our trip, I think we just got lucky.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I walked into my office at 7am... Good morning America was on showing the first building smoking, someone said "hey [my name here] we thought you were flying around New York and crashed into a building" Ha ha real funny...I sat down with everybody in the break room and the second plane hit the second building..People weren't paying too much attention then, and I said "another plane just hit the second building!" and someone said, "no that was a replay" and I remember saying "how the F could it be a replay?" Working at the airline we were able to hear the tranmissions from the EWR flight that eventually crashed in PA so we knew what was going on.
Honestly, and i'm not trolling now- I was excited about having the day off to play golf. I told managment i'm gone and she said "well your not getting paid!" I said "who cares see ya!" BTW- I got paid. I played 18 with friends at Arrowhead, then went to football practice in Evergreen.. about 70% of the boys showed up and the ones thast did'nt, did'nt play on saturday. No excuses. When I finally got home showered and ate me and lil precious sat down and watched Paula Zahn in CNN late into the night..
My kid at the time was really into war.. I think he was about 8 years old then..All he wanted for Christmas was paintball guns, grenades, mortars, camoflage clothing, and guns. He's spend his time building bunkers in the back yard and playing war games with his friends. We'd play one on one paintball and he'd win evertime. He had a ghillie suit and he was able to sneak up on me and blast me before I knew what hit me..Very skilled. My wife said she woke him up on 9/11 and said "we are at war!" She said he jumped outta bed, and was ready to go! ha ha He was ready and willing to fight..He was thrilled about the whole thing. She said she never saw him so excited
I really looked forward to reading this thread. I guess the most notable historical event to hit this country in our lifetime isn't important to some of you. Showing disrespect to someone like WayneH is uncalled for. I'll go look at the LA Times link. It can't be as disrepectful as this forum.
It happened while I was on vacation, so I was oblivious to the whole thing. I didn't turn on the TV. I didn't find out about it until I returned and walked into Aspen Park Drug and they were talking about. I was shocked, but didn't understand the full scope until I watched it.
Wayne, I think everyone deals with 9/11 differently. Some feel connection in talking about where they were. We have a common bond in this. Just like when JFK was shot.
