Where were you on September 11th

buckgtr · 09-10-2003, 09:56 PM

Well, It is a day I will never forget. I was in route to the Silvies unit for the last 12 days of elk bow season. Even when I arrowed my first branch bull it was bittersweet. I sat down next to my great 5#5 bull with my hunting partner and all we could think about was all the great men and woman who parished. The thought of them never having another opportunity to see the sun rise and share evening campfires brought both of us to tears . Take care and be safe when your out chasing your dreams.
Mark

ReelTrouble · 09-10-2003, 10:07 PM

I was trying to celebrate my 17th birthday. Somehow I almost felt guilty for trying to celebrate. It ended up being dinner spent in shock with my eyes fixed on the TV.

KingFisher85 · 09-10-2003, 10:21 PM

Was at school with my eyes fixed to the TV :depressed:

tag-a-long · 09-11-2003, 06:15 AM

I was in a complete state of shock. In front of the television when the second plane hit in New York. Life as I knew it was changed forever. May God watch over us all.

Firedog · 09-11-2003, 06:33 AM

I was on duty working a double (48hrs), had actually just returned from a call and was watching the news when the second plane hit. Worked 11th and it was a strange day. we wern't allowed to leave our rigs unattended and had to keep all doors to the station closed and locked at all times, no one allowed in the station.

Remember those that gave all!

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Fshklr · 09-11-2003, 06:53 AM

I was driving up to the NFL hatchery listening to Howard Stern radio and thought it was a joke

only 1 plane at the time...
Someone came down at eleven and gave us the full scoop..

:shocked:

Very horrific day!

WaterDog · 09-11-2003, 06:56 AM

I guess I need to get away from the computer more but I was HERE.

Turned on the news, turned on the computer, didn't get a whole lot of work done that day. Don't think any of us did.

FishinFinatic · 09-11-2003, 07:24 AM

Wife and I were on vacation for our second anniversary. Married on this day in 1999. Kind of puts a damper on that day. Its kind of hard to put words to such a tragidy and to the brave people that dealt with 9-11 and all that went over east, are over east, and will be going over east. I just wish everyone the best.

McBaine · 09-11-2003, 07:39 AM

I was asleep for both hits on the towers. I woke up to my radio hearing about the attacks. To say the least I was wide awake then and immediately on the TV, only to find out that the Pentagon was just hit. I knew it was terrorism before they could say it on TV. By the time I got some cloths on and into the living room to see if mom and dad knew the first tower fell. Then the second one. All too quickly I had to goto work that day. Depressed, saddened and full of anger. Work let us set up a radio at our counter, so as we can pay attention to the news all day. A few people came in, all with long faces and all polite. That was one of the longest days at work in a long time.

Baine

clearview2u · 09-11-2003, 08:11 AM

I was sitting on my bed talking to my sister who lives on the east coast.

Luckybill · 09-11-2003, 08:15 AM

I was warming up my truck to run down to the mouth for coho, couldn't believe it, thought it was another war of the world type report. Thought of going back in and waking my girlfriend. Decided to just go down and fish. The guys at the mouth looked at me like I was crazy when i told them.. Then another fellow pulls up and say's "they just hit the pentagon". I kept fishing till I had to go to work. Right after work, I grabed my rifle and headed up to white river looking to fill my elk raffle tag. I wanted to keep busy.... Was still in shock, I guess.

Hoosier Daddy · 09-11-2003, 08:16 AM

Sitting at home on family leave waiting for my daughter to be born.

Big Willie · 09-11-2003, 08:44 AM

I was hunting in the Heppner unit, camping on Penland Lake. I decided to sleep in that day after 3 days of hunting hard. I was sipping on a cup of coffee and tying a fly on to do some brookie fishing on the lake. My bud shows up after a dismal morning hunt and asks if I had turned on the radio or not. I said no...and he said I might want to here this. So we listened for about 3 hours and decided we better head into town and catch the news on tv. I was freaked out because my Bro in law travels to NYC on a fairly regular basis and stays near the WTC. He was not in NYC that day. We stopped at the bar in Heppner and both tv's of course had the news on. I will never forget my jaw hitting the bar when I first saw the planes hitting the towers. So we had lunch and a couple of beers and BS'ed with the locals. Very nice people in Heppner. We left in a daze for camp...still thinking what a nightmare. We packed up on Friday for home and drive home sucked. But the bright spot was seeing all the flags and red white and blue everywhere. It brought a tear to my eye. It was very good to be home.

sliverpicker · 09-11-2003, 06:14 PM

My hunting partner and I were working a bull that morning south of John Day, in fact I killed that bull at about 7:15am. In the early afternoon we were heading into John Day to hang the meat in the cooler and turned the radio on, but couldn't really make heads or tails as to what was going on. My buddy phoned his wife at work and she said something around planes hitting skyscrapers in NY. We whipped into my partners house in Canyon City and turned on CNN. The first image we saw was the second plane hitting the second tower. We sat there speechless for several moments and I turned to Darin and said "we're at war"!

You can't imagine how fast we went from being on a high to the lowest LOW possible! Luckily Darin had filled his tag on 9/9, because we didn't feel much like hunting after that. That was our first season of hunting together, but we kind of have a special bond between us because of it.

A bit of irony. I killed another bull last year on 9/11. I had to work today, but I'm leaving Saturday morning for the rest of the season.

Certainly a day I'll never forget!

God Bless America! Ron

Sea Jypzee · 09-11-2003, 06:49 PM

I was at work in the ER that morning. One of our admitting clerks had the TV on in the waiting room and saw the announcement. She came back into the ER and told us that someone had bombed the WTC. (this was the first one). It really didn't sink in much, and our ER doctor at the time made some smartalec comment in passing. No way did he realize the gravity of the situation.

A short while later, we had an ambulance arrive at the ER and the crew said that there was just a report that a plane had hit the second tower. It was then that we all realized the gravity of it all. I can't recall exactly who it was to, but I said something to the effect of "We're under attack!!!". I got off work at 08:00 that morning, and was almost afraid to drive home and turn on the TV. I just sat watching the events unfold that day, totally in shock.

RichH · 09-11-2003, 07:38 PM

I was at home getting my girls ready for school, my wife called me from Oakland and told me to turn on the tv. That was just shortly before the 2nd plane hit. Pretty much spent the day online at work watching things unfold.

Gun Rod Bow · 09-11-2003, 07:57 PM

I watched the second plane hit on the bedroom TV with my wife.

My buddy Keith was leading strings of Mules around the Eagle Caps moving elk hunters around. Had to ride out and call his wife, then go back and take care of his hunters.

A friend of mine is a buddy of Dwight Shue's. Dwight was guiding Steve Largent (yep, the ex Seahawk, then Congress person from OK) in the backcountry in Idaho. The government sent a helicopter in for Mr Largent.

I had a hunt in New Mexico planned. Drove to the Portland airport on the 13th, not knowing if we would drive or fly. Flew out on the 3rd plane out.

We sat in New Mexico, right under the main east/west airliner route. By the third day we noticed the airliner traffic picking up.

It was surreal. Lots of campfire talk and quiet moments in the woods to ponder what it meant.

Kentucky Hog Hunter · 09-11-2003, 09:19 PM

I was on my way to the airport that morning to go on a buisness trip only to be turned around at the airport.

I am on a business trip right now and I said a prayer first thing when I woke up this morning.

I log many miles on airplanes and I never forget what must have happened on that day whenever I walk on to a plane. There were some brave hero's on that plane that crashed in Pennsylvania and I always tell myself that if I would ever encounter that situation like those brave souls, I would have done the same thing.

May god bless those families who have to continue to persevere through this tradgedy and god bless America.

Chacal · 09-11-2003, 09:31 PM

My wife and I had taken a cruise to Alaska.

On the cruise there were many people from England and Germany who approached anyone who looked American and gave their condolensces. It was very touching. Had a great trip, even though about half of it was spent in our room watching CNN on the 12" tv.

The cruise originated from Vancover B.C. and after the attacks getting on and off the boat was very, very interesting. What had been lackluster security before the trip, had turned into driver's license checks, manifest updates and bag searches when boarding.

When we tried to cross the border on the way home, our car was searched and it took more than 4 hours just to cross the border.

We were glad to be home and to find out that my brother-in-law, who is a contractor for the military, works nowhere near the Pentagon.

We had no clue where he worked near New York, and it was relieving to hear he was OK.

CAGEY · 09-12-2003, 07:16 AM

Fishing the Nehalem jaws. Was told about it by another ifisher and could not stand it so we parked the boat and sat in the motel most of the day. God Bless America.

greenbuttskunk · 09-12-2003, 07:53 AM

I was up getting ready to hunt. Eating breakfast in the trailer out in Ukiah. I just happened to turn on the radio. I hear something about a plane crashing into one of the towers. I remember thinking how that is bad, but probably not too serious. Just a little Cesna or something. Then I hear another report that it's a jetliner full of passengers and it's exploded and caused a tower to fall. MY GOD! Is this some kind of joke!!!
I was so ****ed off, is this supposed to be funny. I worked down there and took the train into one world trade countless times. There is NO way a tower fell. Then more and more reports come in. I'm glued to the radio. Fear and anguish overcome me. I have friends down there, people I know and love. Are they safe? I was in total shock! I quickely gather my stuff, and head into ukiah. I pull into the first spot likely to have a TV. The gas attendant asks me if I have heard the news. I run into the bar and join another group of men, all in camo like myself. I watch as flames and smoke billow out of tower 2, I think. I can see bodies clinging, and falling. Shaken, I
head for the phone to call my wife. She too knows the towers. She's crying, which makes me cry. As calmly as I can I tell her to start calling and try to find out if people we know are safe. I'm shaking. She says my best friend Gary's wife has not called and and they can't locate her. She went down to lower manhattan after the first plane hit to cover the story. The second plane hits, it's just not real. My wife is histerical, come home now she pleads.
I'm on my way. I love you meredith, I say, I'll get home as soon as I can! I drove what must have been
way over the speed limit for what seemed like an eternity. I listened to radio reports all the way home. I learned of both tower collapses and feared I'd lost people I've known all my life. I had vivid pictures in my mind of the towers. The perspective of standing right below them and looking up. They cannot be gone, how!!!!!
I got home and ran in and hugged my wife, held her as tight as I could. I kissed her teary face. I told her thank god she was safe, and that I was so very sorry is was so far away when this happend. She had the TV on and we watched the footage of the explosions together. Watched life as we know it change forever, together.
May we all never experience this kind of life altering event ever again in our lifetimes.
GBS

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