I was a freshman in college and I was very far from home in southeast bumfuck Ohio. My mom's call woke me up at 8-ish AM to tell me a small passenger plane may have accidentally hit the WTC and to turn on the TV ASAP. Got it on just in time to see the second plane hit. Fark.com was the only reliable source of anything that day. The cell towers to the NY/NJ area would go dead shortly after that and I had no idea if anyone I knew was gone until much later that evening.
Being stranded from all your friends and family during something like that is pretty horrible.
I watched the jumpers. I heard the frantic calls on air. I watched the towers fall. I watched the live horror of the city I spent plenty of time of my youth in be brought to its knees in terror.
To the internet's collective young credit, OBL was implicated before the day was even through.
A terrible day all around.
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