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I was only 11 years old at the time, but I remember seeing kids get pulled out of school left and right. My family spent the whole afternoon and evening trying to get in contact with my best friend's family because his father was a pilot for American Airlines. It was frightening, but I didn't quite understand it all. My parents sheltered my sister and I from it so we didn't see the footage other than the towers collapsing. I had neighbors who were supposed to be in the spot they hit on the Pentagon but were running late that day. It wasn't until I went to NYC and saw Ground Zero and later after I went through the 9/11 exhibit at I think the Smithsonian American History museum that I understood the full magnitude of it. My father-in-law still recounts how he was up by where they currently have the Air Force Memorial (the 3 curved metal beams shooting upward) and saw the plane hit. Some images and memories will always remain burned into our mind.

No way, you're from Manassas? I am, too. Born and raised, 18 years

Rangers lead the way! Hooah!

I was in 7th Grade, I believe I was in History class at the time. Since I was living in NOVA, all the schools basically went into news shutdown. We could kinda sense the teachers were disturbed, but not knowing why. I realized something was up when my dad picked me up from school, since my dad at this time worked in DC, and it seemed weird that he would be home already. I then remember my mom frantically trying to get in touch with her oldest sister whose family lives in NYC.

I was sitting in the Emergency Room as I was seeing a patient that had had a heart attack and I had been called in to get him into the hospital, etc. I had just come from the patient's room and was calling another doc when I came around the corner into the central staff area and ALL of the ER staff were standing in the area looking at the old tube TV mounted in one of the corners and it was silent. I told the doc I was on the phone with-'I think we're being attacked.'
I finished up there and drove back to my office listening to the radio but nobody knew crap. The rest of the day was crazy with patients bringing in news, trying to sneak a peek at the TV in the waiting room in between people....just a weird day.
One of my partner's sister was in the city and he got a call from her saying she was ok, but was watching the smoke go up and was scared, etc.

I just remember being stunned, numb, then sad, then pissed. I'm still pissed.

Hopefully Corey Marshall comes back ready to play.

As for Alston Smith, that seems like a weird move to me, unless he can contribute at guard immediately in 2013. Otherwise, he'd be buried on the depth chart in 2014, although he would most definitely sure up the position in 2015.

Defensive Tackle, on the other hand, is an immediate position of need in 2014 and especially in 2015. Alston moving to the OL means that Kris Harley better step up and Ricky Walker and Derrick Nnadi better be hokies, with immediate playing time available on the 2014 and 2015 National Championship teams.

2014 Offensive Line

LT Jonathan McGlock, Wyatt Teller, Brady Taylor
LG Caleb Farris, Mark Schuman, Braxton Pfaff, Billy Ray Mitchell
C David Wang, Matt Arkema, Kyle Chung, Jack Willenbrock, Eric Gallo
RG Brent Benedict, Parker Osterloh, Alston Smith, Colt Pettit
RT Laurence Gibson, Augie Contie, Tyrel Smith

2015 Offensive Line

LT Jonathan McGlock, Brady Taylor
LG Augie Conte, Braxton Pfaff, Billy Ray Mitchell
C Kyle Chung, Jack Willenbrock, Eric Gallo
RG Parker Osterloh, Alston Smith, Colt Pettit
RT Wyatt Teller, Tyrel Smith

2014 Defensive Tackles

Luther Maddy, Kris Harley, Derrick Nnadi
Nigel Williams, Woody Baron, Ricky Walker

2015 Defensive Tackles

Nigel Williams, Ricky Walker, Kris Harley
Woody Baron, Derrick Nnadi

2014 Defensive Ends

Dadi Nicholas, Dewayne Alford, Seth Dooley
Corey Marshall, Ken Ekanem, Matt Roth

2015 Defensive Ends

Dadi Nicholas, Dewayne Alford, Seth Dooley
Ken Ekanem, Matt Roth

8th Grade Civics and Economics class. We had a substitute teacher because the real teach was on Maternity Leave. She wouldn't turn on the TV for "Channel1". She knew something was up and we started to get the sense that something was happening but she was getting agitated with us for trying to find out what was going on. Finally a couple of teachers popped their heads in the door and told her to turn on the TV. I'm pretty sure we were sent home early. I just remember walking inside and seeing my sister in tears on the couch and watching the news (something I very rarely saw as she was 8 years older than me). Left an impression.

Sam Rogers finds Waldo every time. That's why they don't make that book anymore.

I was in Honors Linear Algebra class in McBryde at 8 AM (probably my worst mistake ever). For some reason we were watching TV before the instructor came in, and once class time hit, she had us turn it off. Little did we know that something big was gonna happen minutes later.

I got back to Pritchard after class and was unwinding before my EF class and my friend at JHU IMed me and said the Pentagon was on fire. So I turned the TV on to the news and saw the WTC burning. The rest, as you say, is history. Dr. Griffin canceled class once we got there (he had the TV on too), and I walked back across the Drillfield with one of my classmates who was from the DC area... naturally, she was distraught. It was the most surreal day.

That, combined with the death of one of my favorite singers and the murder of a classmate of mine back at home pretty much made the start of my Tech career less than positive, to say the least.

That's the first time I've heard "disciplinary action" instead of "personal issue." I rather prefer discipline as the reason, it's a lot better than the Manning "I'm not sure if I want to be here anymore" type of problem.

BUMP! I just got up this morning and that dirty, hobo ass pirate is in the lead. 49 - 51%. Lets bring the full might of the TKP online community to bear on this one.