September 11, 2001 Ten Years Later

[Bill Gulley]

I woke up at my cabin at the lake and got my coffee. My wife turned on the TV and called me into the living room telling me what had happened. I stood there watching and at first thought it was a small plane untill they said it was a passenger jet. I had an air traffic controll background in the Army and couldn't believe it was an accident. After the second plane, I told my wife- we are at war! She asked who would do that and I said I bet it's Bin Ladden.

I watched the rest of the day until I went home that afternoon. Later I called the Army Reserve Center, as I am a retired officer, and ask if I could come off retirement and go active again. I was too old.

About a year before there was a video of Bin Laden walking aalong a dirt path with his top followers, one of the waved his hands, palms facing each other in a vertical motion, then waved on hand down as if he was pushing something down. That clip, to my knowledge has never been seen again on TV.

I believe they were talking about the 9/11 plan.

Do you remember where you were ten years ago today?

[Lance H.]

I was a sophmore in high school. Somebody said somthing about a plain hitting a building during my first class but nobody new what they were talking about. We turned on the tv during my second class and then spent the rest of the day going from class to class watching the news.

I went home that night and researched the youngest age you could joing the Army, and joined a year later when I turned 17.