I had just got to work, and since I worked in a sports bar/restaurant, I always turned on the big screen TV to CNN in the morning to catch the news while I was flippin' the first few pizzas out and doing my prep work (was a pizza cook/line cook). Of course, like everyone else, when the first one hit I thought it was some tragic, horrifying accident. Couldn't figure out for the life of me how a professional airline pilot managed that!
I worked with a guy from California whose mom lived right there, in an apartment building downtown NY where it happened. He was FREAKING out even when the first plane hit, then, when I seen the second plane hit. My exact words were, "Holly fucking shit!", then I told him. He frantically tried calling his mother, but couldn't get through because all the phone lines were down. Like the rest of you all, didn't feel as if it was real. After a few minutes, I realized I just completed my application to the Reg Force as a Infantry soldier, but had put it on "hold" a week earlier while I was making my final decision. I thought to myself, whoever fixed that job up is gonna GET IT hardcore from the US Military. I figured that day someone or some country was gonna get obliterated. Well, they did. 2 of'em! I felt absolutely horrible for the people who died there, I mean, I'm no fan of the United States of America as I've made apparrent in previous posts. But my god. That was horrible. At that point, I would have marched off to war with then right then and there. Just wasn't my time. Really hit me too when the California dude I worked with started crying because he thought his mother was dead...
My other thought, being sort of the asshole I can be sometimes, was, "Well, I guess the American's will realize they're not invincible afterall...". I'm just really, really sorry it had to be shown to them in such a fashion. They even shutdown the CN Tower in Toronto in fear of an attack. A lot of people from where I live (Niagara Region) went to help out. Also sent a lot of money too, I donated $20.00, at that point I didn't make much money. I didn't pray for the Americans that night, I prayed for the poor sunofabitch's who were gonna be on the recieving end of the United States Military. And whoever did it (Didn't know at that point), deserved it!
Also made me happy to be in Canada, again.