Do you remember where you were on this day 7 years back?

[bassist4life2004]

I remember sitting in english class and the wood shop teacher running in the room telling my teacher to turn on the tv. I was sitting there watching the first town smoke as they explained what happened, and then watching live as the second plane struck the second tower. my first thoughts was that it was some kind of movie stunt because i knew what was happening couldnt be real. No possible way it could be real. Then the school went into panic mode and the teachers were sending us home as we got ahold of our parents. My house was a walk up over the hill, and they wouldnt let me leave without parental consent. I couldnt get ahold of my parents so I had to sit in study hall and watch the news and see this happen over and over again.

After a little bit i realized this was no movie.

[ToonaRockGuy]

I was in class at CLN when this all went down. Our whole class (Kimi from Kitty Whip remembers) went deadly silent and then we were all combing the internet for information. I went to try to find a TV, and then it hit me like a sledgehammer...my sister Shana lives in Manhattan, about 3 blocks from the WTC. I tried to call her, and of course, the lines were all down or jammed. I didn't hear from her for a week, and was freaking out until I got ahold of her. She was OK, just really shaken.

The best thing that I could do to help out was making a song. I was working at Forever Broadcasting at the time (Majic 104.9FM) and I decided to make a tribute song. I had heard a few over the next couple days following the attacks, but none of them captured what I was feeling. I took four hours poring over Don Henley's "End Of The Innocence" and combing through news drops and interviews, and came up with a mix that still brings me to tears to this day. I played it on the air with my Program Director's blessing, and by the end of the song, the entire staff at Forever was outside the control room door and gave me a standing ovation. Even Judge Kopriva called me and said that she heard it and bawled like a baby. She brought me a plate of homemade cookies and I gave her a copy. (That woman makes a mean chocolate chip cookie!) I still have the original. I listened to it today and cried for about 15 minutes.

[bassgirl]

Yeah Kevin, I do remember. I remember how we all were trying to get on the Internet, and all the news sites were down. I also remember you talking about how your sister lived in NYC. I'm glad that she was ok.

[Bag]

I was in class at CLN when this all went down. Our whole class (Kimi from Kitty Whip remembers) went deadly silent and then we were all combing the internet for information. I went to try to find a TV, and then it hit me like a sledgehammer...my sister Shana lives in Manhattan, about 3 blocks from the WTC. I tried to call her, and of course, the lines were all down or jammed. I didn't hear from her for a week, and was freaking out until I got ahold of her. She was OK, just really shaken.

The best thing that I could do to help out was making a song. I was working at Forever Broadcasting at the time (Majic 104.9FM) and I decided to make a tribute song. I had heard a few over the next couple days following the attacks, but none of them captured what I was feeling. I took four hours poring over Don Henley's "End Of The Innocence" and combing through news drops and interviews, and came up with a mix that still brings me to tears to this day. I played it on the air with my Program Director's blessing, and by the end of the song, the entire staff at Forever was outside the control room door and gave me a standing ovation. Even Judge Kopriva called me and said that she heard it and bawled like a baby. She brought me a plate of homemade cookies and I gave her a copy. (That woman makes a mean chocolate chip cookie!) I still have the original. I listened to it today and cried for about 15 minutes.

Can we hear it?

I watched " 9-11 As It Happened" last night on MSNBC. They basically just replayed their newscast from that morning. Unreal! The morning when it actually happened, I rode the Valk down to Lewistown to help them fix a couple of their bowling machines. I got there at 9, and they were all watching TV. We thought the first plane was just an accident, so I went down and started tearing into a machine. As I was done there, I heard those guys, in unison, say "HOLY SHIT!" They yelled down and told me the other tower got hit. I ran up and watched in amazement for awhile. I really had no desire to finish working on the machines anymore, but I couldn't just leave them tore apart. Then they yelled down about the Pentagon, and later about Flight 93, and it was just surreal. I was thinking that we're probably at war, and I'm working on bowling machines. When I finally got done there I ran home to watch TV. I was supposed to go to work at the bowling alley where my regular job was at 5:30 for league night. So I called my boss at 5, figuring that leagues would be cancelled. To my complete amazement, he told me that he wasn't cancelling leagues. I couldn't believe it! I remember how silly and unimportant that bowling seemed that night. (Keep in mind that the bowling business had been my whole life up to that point.) I just wanted to go home and watch TV. Then later I remember feeling helpless as hell. I wanted to help in some way, but had no idea what to do.

Also, I'm with Kent. I've ridden out to the Flight 93 temporary memorial about 4 or 5 times, and it "gets" me every time. If you haven't been there, you should check it out. It kinda makes the whole thing more "real" and not just something that happened on TV.

[Little Devil Girl]

Jared Michaels and I were on a bike run raising money for the Flight 93 memorial the year after it happened. There was a photographer there from Colorado and he snapped a picture of us hugging at the site. It was the first time he and I were there together and it was very emotional, there were soooo many items there then that are no longer there today. Well, to make a long story short, a woman in Colorado sent her father(who lives here in Johnstown) the paper with our picture on the front page, he tracked us down and called us. It was weird seeing us at the site on the front page of the paper....it made us realize how lucky we were to be alive and how unlucky we were to be so close to part of the tragedy that happened that day. It still hangs on our wall to this day as a reminder of how blessed we are. We take way too many things for granted in this world and that day should be a reminder to all of us to be better people to the ones we love and people we just meet in our day to day lives.

[ToonaRockGuy]

I was in class at CLN when this all went down. Our whole class (Kimi from Kitty Whip remembers) went deadly silent and then we were all combing the internet for information. I went to try to find a TV, and then it hit me like a sledgehammer...my sister Shana lives in Manhattan, about 3 blocks from the WTC. I tried to call her, and of course, the lines were all down or jammed. I didn't hear from her for a week, and was freaking out until I got ahold of her. She was OK, just really shaken.

The best thing that I could do to help out was making a song. I was working at Forever Broadcasting at the time (Majic 104.9FM) and I decided to make a tribute song. I had heard a few over the next couple days following the attacks, but none of them captured what I was feeling. I took four hours poring over Don Henley's "End Of The Innocence" and combing through news drops and interviews, and came up with a mix that still brings me to tears to this day. I played it on the air with my Program Director's blessing, and by the end of the song, the entire staff at Forever was outside the control room door and gave me a standing ovation. Even Judge Kopriva called me and said that she heard it and bawled like a baby. She brought me a plate of homemade cookies and I gave her a copy. (That woman makes a mean chocolate chip cookie!) I still have the original. I listened to it today and cried for about 15 minutes.

Can we hear it?

Bag,

I don't have the stuff at home to record from cassette into my computer. I'll see if I can find a way to upload it. The master tracks or the digital copy may still be at the radio station. I have to shoot out an email.