what were you doing on 9/11

The messages on facebook and the media about "never forgetting 911" are starting to annoy me. How could any American forget what happened on that dark day. I wasn't going to post to this thread until I spent the last 2 hours reading the forum thread that was posted by ab7fh. It brought back my experience of that day, however insignificant it was.

On 09 11 2001 I had planned to go to an auto auction to buy my first pickup truck. My daily driver was my 70 dart and it was having transmission problems as well as overheating. My cousin had a friend who had a car lot and could take us to the dealer auction. I was 23 and lived with my future wife in a 1 bedroom duplex. I had been a conductor for BNSF Railroad for 3 years. I took a trip off the evening of September 10th so I could go pick out my new truck. On the morning of September 11 my future wife woke me up, she was getting ready for work and must have had the TV on. She asked me out of a dead sleep, "Is the world Trade Center where the stock market is?" and "I think a helicopter hit the Pentagon." I went out into the living room to watch the TV, just in time to see the second plane hit. Americans lives changed forever that day. I grew up beliving America was invencable, my daughter will never feel that. With the turn the economy took after the attacks and the dot com burst my wife who was 20 on Sept 11 has never fully utilized her Masters Degree that she earned just a year after the attacks.

I am now a Locomotive Engineer and have been asked to blow my train horn at 10 am Pacific to honor victims of 911, I will do so with honor for all those who lost their lives on that dreadfull day, and all of those affected by the worst attack on American soil in my lifetime.