Chris Jones celebrating by continuing his quixotic holdout.

ChiefsPlanet thread from that day: https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=19782

I for one truly enjoy the endless wars and patriot act bills it brought to us.

Updated, I was trying to find that

On a strike team on our way to the Darby Fire when the ST leader got on the radio and said, "Those of you that have a radio in your engine, turn it on now. Shit is going down in New York".

I was at work. We all gathered in the break room to watch it on tv. I’ll never forget it.

I think people who didn’t experience it have no idea how truly momentous it was. I remember no one really knew what was going on. When I went home, there were still rumors that we were under a sustained attack.

I remember everyone hoarding gas. The stations were packed. My cousin actually got in a fight at one.

Doesn’t seem possible it’s been that long ago.

We are less free now.

I was at the station that day. We had the tv on in the background when they broke in about the North tower being hit. Watched the South tower hit live. At first the feeling was what a tragedy, then the second tower was hit and we knew we were under attack. All training was cancelled for the day. It was non stop coverage from New York.

Watching the fires advance there was little doubt that the towers would eventually collapse. Those men and women that entered the building knew the same thing. Their hope was to get as many people out as possible. Witnessing the collapse brought a fire station full of grown men to tears. I didn't know a single one personally, but I lost 343 brothers and sisters that day.

To this day watching footage of 9/11 brings tears. Visiting ground zero is on my bucket list

Never Forget..

Disappointed in how few replies to this thread - not a "major milestone" in terms of years passed but 22 years ago seems like a lifetime ago.

I had just separated from the Army and was still in my first year of undergrad. I was awoken by my roommate telling me to hurry and come to the living room. I arrived to watch the footage after both towers had been struck but before the Pentagon. I remember the radio and TV coverage was constant. Radio stations barely played any music. My drive into my PT College job was surreal, when I arrived they had just delivered TV's to the Admin building where I worked and we watched for the better part of an hour before around 11am they decided to close the campus and cancel all classes for the safety of everyone. The next month1 was just non-stop 9/11 everywhere you turned until the bombing of Afghanistan.

9/11 really solidified my career choice - I knew I wanted to continue to be the protector the military had shaped me to be and eventually got that wish and haven't looked back.

18 years old, living in a party house. Had stayed up all night the night before till like 6am, all of us, drinking and smoking pot. I woke up around 3:30 in the afternoon, first one awake, and turned the TV On MTV... i watched for a couple of minutes.. it took a sec to realize what I was watching at first I was not sure it was real... so I changed the channel. Same shit on the other channel. And every channel... at that point I woke everyone up and we learned about 9/11 hours and hours later than everyone else in the world.

Who here is old enough to remember what they were doing on April 19 1995? I'll never forget that day either.

I was sleeping. My wife woke me up and dragged me downstairs to the TV. The first tower was still up, but smoking. The second plane hit the 2nd tower, and I said, "what movie are you watching?"


Terrible, terrible day.

Crazy to believe that this place has been around since i was a junior in high school.

Eleven months before the attack the wife and I were on an anniversary trip visiting Manhattan in October for the first time. We were walking around early on a Sunday morning after breakfast and walked up on a downtown fire station that was having an open house. Nobody else was around and there were three firefighters standing outside that stopped us to talk. They were interested in where we were from and invited us in for a tour. When the towers fell I instantly thought about those three guys and wondered their fate.

Awful awful day.

Same here…