Wonderful and thoughtful formatting of the AR website for such a historic anniversary. Dr,C

Thank you Saeed & Don!!

Agreed. Thanks much. My daughter turned 1 that day in history. Quite a day that I will never forget.

On the morning of 9-11-2001 I was going from the SAA plane in JFK to a smaller plane for the ride back to Detroit. I was returning home after 6 weeks in Namibia and South Africa.

Once settled on the jet to home I found I had a whole row of seats to myself. I counted my lucky stars, the long ride from Johannesburg was very crowded and noisy.

The plane taxied out on the runway, getting in line to take off. There it stopped and after a bit the pilot told everyone to look out the right side windows of the plane. He said a plane crashed into the twin towers, then another...

We were kicked off the plane there, our luggage tossed to the tarmack and we shuffled with hundreds of others back to the terminal.

No one knew what was happening. All we could see where the smoking remains which looked like giant chimneys in the sky before they finally collapsed.

We did not know about the other two planes. The one that hit the Pentagon grounded into one of my college and Army associates office. He was killed. He left a wife and four children.

I was at the office that morning when we heard the news about the towers and had a hard time believing what had happened, but a while later my secretary's husband called her and said a plane had crashed at Shanksville about 20 miles west of us and we really didn't believe that until it was confirmed on the news. A few seconds later and flight 93 could have been in our yard. As it turned out a friend (not at the time but later) Don and his wife were on the tarmac in Atlanta on SAA going to Joberg and on to the easter cape when things shut down and they could not get to Africa. A few weeks later 9/29 I flew to Joberg and the eastern cape to hunt with Gary Tonks with whom Don was to hunt. Gary had two Oribi on license and one had been taken and the other was spoken for by Don. Well I call my Oribi "Dons Oribi" as due to his misfortune I had the good fortune to take my largest trophy to date. It ranks SCI #12.

On that day I was chasing Eland in Zimbabwe's Lowveldt .

I was on a float plane near the arctic circle north of Schefferville Quebec. We were grounded and no airplanes to move our camp for several days....all we knew was there were some airplane crashes in the states.....we had no idea until about 9/16 when we returned to Schefferville and saw copies of the Montrael newspaper.....talk about unbelievable!!!!!

I was just getting wheeled into surgery, a bit groggy from the needle, and saw the footage of the first plane. I remember thinking "oh man, what a terrible accident".
Then, waking up to a nightmare...

I was just 20 minutes into my flight having taken off in my plane from Branson Missouri heading for a meeting in Orlando Florida.

Center informed me to land immediately. In all my years of piloting airplanes I had no idea what this was all about.

When I landed the FBO had the scene on TV. My first thought (I am an architect)was that the building was going to come down and a lot of people are in it.

I was in the middle of the bush in Zimbabwe loading up an eland on the Toyota when the news came in over the BBC on HF. I took this picture moments after the second jet hit the tower:
jorge

Thank you Saaed and Don.

Here in Montana our local paper must have forgotten what day it was, not one single commemorative article in the entire paper.

Great to come to AR and see remembrance of that day.

I was in Anchorage Ak waiting to go up to Kotzebue to meet a friend on a Caribou hunt.

Several days early I had talked with Jason Dahl the Captain on flight 93. He and I worked at the same training facility at our airline.

Thanks Saeed and Don.

It is a moment in time we should ALL remember. I recall the day like yesterday although I don't have a remarkable story of where I was. A normal day at the office but the day turned into a surreal experience as work in our company ground to a halt as everyone was just stunned by the news reports. Most everyone spent the day watching and listening to the news reports.

I'm sorry the memory of 9/11 has turned into a political issue, we should all remember the events, the people affected and the tremendous support we Americans received from around the world.

Phil

I was in a tent camp in the Turk Mine area of Zimbabwe assisting in a hunt for Leopard with dogs. Didn't know till the next day when the wife of the outfitter showed up in camp with a shortwave radio so I could listen to BBC and learn what happened. I just remember it was some of the coldest weather I ever experienced in Zimbabwe. Did not realize the full impact of what had happened till two weeks later when I got to Johannesburg on the return trip and realized the world reaching significance of the event. I was totally surprised at the lack of security at the airport in Atlanta after the checks in Johannesburg. Being in the bush as the events unfolded all I had was what BBC put out.

/agreed

I had just flown from the East coast to San Francisco the day before - on a 757.

Perhaps one of the most moving tributes of this day was created by a friend of mine from the Netherlands, Patries de Jong, for the NYFD.

Thank you again, Patries, for the moving video tribute:

http://www.fdnylodd.com/9-11-Never-Forget/Memorials/Blood-Of-Heroes.html

I was wading in the Garden River, in Ontario, fishing for King Salmon. One of the other guys on the trip had gone back to camp to get a sandwich when he found out. All he told me was that the US had been invaded and they had bombed the Pentagon and the World Trade Center towers were gone. Hard to believe, and left us with a lot of questions and very few answers for several days.

Lest we forget. . .Thank you Don and Saeed. God Bless and Protect the United States of America!

I was headed to the airport to fly to Wyoming for a trout fishing trip and meeting up with a bunch or friends, one of whom was on the plane from Maine to Boston with some of the terrorists. Fortunately he changed planes in Boston and wasn't on the flight they hijacked. I never made it out of the airport and my buddies got stuck all over the country that day, but all survived. A day none of us will ever forget. Fishing seemed really trivial after seeing what was happening. I will never forget!

I was hunting the Mulchatna caribou herd that day with my Dad.

The day before we saw some Air force jets in a mock dogfight with some of the bluest skies I have ever seen.

We kept hunting and noticed the lack of airplanes, but attributed it to caribou migration and possibly weather.

The float plane pilot came on Saturday, a day early, and the first words out of his mouth were " terrorists flew planes into the world trade center buildings. We have been grounded unable to fly. Do you want to come in now?"

It took the pilot, two other hunters, and ourselves about 20 minutes to tear down camp and stuff everything into the plane.

My Dad and I were kept naive about the world for an extra few days.

I'm a police officer assigned to a high school. On the morning of 911 I was watching the events happen on TV with a classroom of students.

When the first tower began falling I told them that a bunch of fire and police folks were dying as we watched. They asked how I knew that and I told them that's what FD and PD does - they go into buildings to get people out.

It was pretty tough.

JDS

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Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:
Lest we forget. . .Thank you Don and Saeed. God Bless and Protect the United States of America!

How can anyone ever forget......

Don

Unfortunately, Mark T's post reminds us how easily people can forget. And, in too many cases it happens all too easily within another generation or two, as per the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor or the Holocaust, or even with those crazies who want to pretend that it didn't happen at all.

It cost me a Caribou hunt in Newfoundland as that's where a lot of the trans Atlantic planes were diverted. I never ended up taking that hunt.

May such a scenario never befall another nation.

We will never forget.

Thank-you Saeed and Don...may God Bless.

Gary

I was having coffee with another old Marine. When we saw the second plane we knew it was not
an accident. Next day we both tried to re up in the Corps. The 20yr old at the office tried not to laugh.

Thanks for the header and We will never forget.

I had just killed a limit of blue wing teal and was picking up decoys when the phone rang. I thought it could not be true. Then saw it on TV when I got home ...I will never forget the horror and sadness I felt.

I was making rounds in an ICU in Connecticut, just across Long Island Sound from NYC. It was playing on a patient's television as it happened 20 or 30 miles away.

As soon as the second plane hit, I knew just as surely as Bill Clinton knew that very morning, that it was Osama.