What were you doing, decided to do, or did do on 9/11/2001?

[HooptieWagon]

60. My story:

I was checking posts on a message board I frequented before DU. My landlord was doing maintainence jobs around the house. Someone posted that a plane hit the WTC, then a minute later someone posted it was a jet, and might be a terrorist attack. I ran to LR and turned on TV, then called LL into house. We just sat there dumb-founded watching TV all morning.

OK, my story is boring. A friend of mine's is better. He lived in Conn. at the time, and worked in the WTC. He missed his train that morning. Train he got on was stopped several stations before reaching WTC. Noone aboard train knew why it stopped or had heard. Everyone stumbled out into street and could see the smoke and burning buildings in the distance. Some people went off to find someplace with news, others made their way home as best as possible. About 40 people in my friend's office died, He might have too, if he hadn't missed his train that morning.