Where were you on 9/11?

[Tim]

I was at home watching TV and had been flipping channels. I remember seeing the 2nd plane hit the tower and honestly thought what movie is this. I hadnt paid much attention to the channel. Then the reporters came on and told what was happening. I was glued the rest of the day. I couldnt really grasp what I was seeing and all the it entailed

[amorris311]

i had my alarm set for 545am to get up and ready for school. every morning i would turn on cnn or msnbc to hear the latest news in the world when i noticed that the wtc was on fire and that they said a plane hit. i went downstairs to see my parents both glued to the television saying can you believe this. then i watched the second plane hit and thought o god this is some scary sh** what are all those people going to do. then i had to go get ready since i had school well when i got out of the shower i recieved a phone call from my friend telling me we had the day off and that we would probably have the next day off. i went to high school in downtown los angeles and i think we were the only school in america to have two days off that wasnt in either nyc or washington dc. either way we didnt have football that week and then we slowly went back to "normal". very sad day i pray we dont have to witness something to that magnitude again.

[MQAAord]

Chicago

[doug_or]

On the ramp in PDX loading all the Ameriflight planes full of brown boxes. I worked graveyard and then morning shifts, so my graveyard shift was just winding down when someone said there was a plane crash in New York. We finished loading the last of the Beechs and every one headed home except me and a few others who emptied the FOD buckets while waiting for morning shift. A sup came out and motioned us to come over to the trailer, where the little TV was tuned to the local news and we saw what had happened. A few minutes later a UPS sup came over and told us all aircraft were returning. We unloaded all the Ameriflight aircraft and the DC-8 (must have been delayed for something, it usualy went out before the 757) with a skeleton crew. Went home for a long strange day in front of the TV.

[MarkE]

I was stuck in traffic on the 101 heading into work listening to Howard Stern. I thought he was doing a bit until I read the news on the internet. Very surreal.

[TheFlyingTurkey]

Originally Posted by MarkE

I was stuck in traffic on the 101 heading into work listening to Howard Stern. I thought he was doing a bit until I read the news on the internet. Very surreal.

Me too.

I had just arrived at my the jobsite for the day and was getting a few more minutes of Howard Stern in before I shut off the truck and got to work. Needless to say I listened till noon then found a TV and didn't get much work done.

[Killtron2000]

Watching the angry beavers on nickelodeon.

[Jack]

In my home office. Just logged on to our monthly conference call. Had CNBC tuned in but on "mute" so I could hear the call. The pleasantries had just finished when there was a "boom" and somebody said "...what the hell was th....." Line went dead. A few minutes later, viewing CNBC, I found out.

Funny, though I had been doing business with these people for a couple of years I had only met one of them face to face, yet it I felt I knew them all. It still hurts.

[Rocketman99]

In my apartment in Okinawa in the middle of Typhoon Nari waiting for a buddy to wander over for some typhoon partying, which turned into rechecking that my deployment bag was packed and sitting alert.

[Cruise]

In grad school at Northwestern Univ. Med school....downtown Chicago. Taking a final exam in Anatomy. Didn't know anything about what was going on until I was finished w/ the exam.....they didn't interupt the testing since getting the exam finished was more important than our safety... We were only blocks from the John Hancock building. Once everyone was finished, we all gathered around a TV in the break room until they closed the school for the day. Sat around the TV w/ a couple buds of mine and watched the news for the remainder of the day.

I'll never forget it.....how could you.

[myron96]

I had just cleared a D.O.A(Dead on arrival) call when I turned on the radio and heard the first reports about the fire at the Trade center. I remember initially they said that it was a fire, and unconfirmed reports that a plane had hit the building.. Got to a television just before the second tower fell...What a horrible day. All leave/days off cancelled, 16 hour shifts for the following 3 weeks...God Bless those who lost their lives.

[caliginousface]

Up at 5:30am (I know, wtf) getting ready for school in Simi Valley, CA.

[captainphil]

I was in 7th grade in my social studies class, my teacher was called out of the classroom for a second like most teachers do sometimes,I then saw my teacher come in with a shocked face and saw something was wrong , he said that two airplanes had hit the twin towers, this was toward the end of the period and the next period the whole school was sent to the gym and I remember how worried I was about my dad because he wasn't a cop , but he was a pneumatic technician for the NYPD ( but still cleaned up that whole week). On this very day still , my heart goes out to those brave firefighters and police as well as EMT that saved many lives that day, although many lives were lost including those emt workers,police and firemen still are in ourhearts as well as the thousands of innocent lives that were taken , and the poor families of those victims. My heart goes out to all of you on this day and to all of those who were affected, as well as a big thanks to our heroes on that day.GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

[tonyw]

San Diego. I went jogging along the ocean on La Jolla Shore Drive. I had no clue what was going on. I went to take a shower, and turned on the TV, and thought it was a promo for the Schwarzenegger movie Collateral Damage. Then I got out of the shower and when they were still showing the WTC, that's when I knew it wasn't a promo and it was the real deal.

It was surreal. I drove to the San Diego Convention Center from La Jolla and was like, this is so not happening.

[Mahesh]

I was driving from my home to work in Fairfax, VA. I usually always listened to news while driving but on that day, I was listening to a CD. When I walked in, someone mentioned a passenger plane flying into a building. It was a small company (which I left shortly later) so we ran out and bought rabbit ears for the TV.

The thing that sucked was that we had a training session set up which they couldn't cancel so I was in class till 5 PM. I remember the drive home on the Dulles Toll road. It was bizzare. It was totally deserted and I saw gunships flying up and down the above the road.

I remember all my relatives trying to call me but the phone network was overloaded in the DC area.

[TheShortOne]

Ann Arbor - I was just had gotten up to start getting ready for class when the girl across the hall told me. Watched the pentagon get hit and then went to class. Sat through one class with the tv on and then found out everything else was cancelled for the day. I didn't quite grasp the severity of the situation until I was at the candle light vigil on campus that night - over 100k people showed up

[crashmbern]

in my second week at ERAU. went to english class, and someone had written what happened on the blackboard. first things that popped into my mind was this is a weird writting assignment. then went to the cafeteria to watch the TV.

[atpwannabe]

I was living in Ft. Pierce, FL looking at the Today Show w/Matt Lauer and Katie Couric. I was in shock. What really freaked me out was seeing the second plane hit the tower!!!

My brother, who is on the radio in DC said that Washington was transformed into an armed fort within a matter of hours. You couldn't get in and you couldn't get out.

My saddest recollection is seeing those persons in NY holding pictures of their loved ones asking, "Have you seen my...." I cried alot of tears that day and the days following everytime I thought of that.

What made me angry was the fact that it was reported that two of the hijackers where actually trained at Embry-Riddle....my alma mater.

Just my thoughts.


atp

[alphaone]

Third week of high school as I was just getting used to the routine. I was in algebra when someone said an airplane had crashed into the Pentagon. My first thought is that it was a Cessna like the one that crashed into the White House many years ago. As the class went on I heard that the World Trade Center had fallen down. My next class was history, and as I was taking my first history test my history teacher told the class this was alot worse than Oaklahoma City. Than my Mom picked me up, I went home, watched the coverage, and the rest is my generation...

[crashmbern]

Originally Posted by atpwannabe

I was living in Ft. Pierce, FL looking at the Today Show w/Matt Lauer and Katie Couric. I was in shock. What really freaked me out was seeing the second plane hit the tower!!!

My brother, who is on the radio in DC said that Washington was transformed into an armed fort within a matter of hours. You couldn't get in and you couldn't get out.

My saddest recollection is seeing those persons in NY holding pictures of their loved ones asking, "Have you seen my...." I cried alot of tears that day and the days following everytime I thought of that.

What made me angry was the fact that it was reported that two of the hijackers where actually trained at Embry-Riddle....my alma mater.

Just my thoughts.


atp

yea and they was false, but the media never corrected itself. people still think the 9/11 hijackers came from riddle.

[flyboy04]

It was my senior year and i was sitting in french class, i went to school that morning an aspiring airline pilot and came home rethinking everything and thinking it was impossible with the effect it had on the industry, i gave up on the idea and after high school i enrolled nursing school but on a flight with my dad he pointed out that if i didnt go for my dream id forever regret it, thanks dad, and FU-Bin Laden.

[CapnJim]

None of your business what I was doing.

[Aero_Engineer]

In Tehran, Iran. I had just finished taking sample english tests that my dad ran into my room screaming to come to the TV room. I watched the second tower get hit and both of them collapsed live infront of my eyes.
The worst day of my life, four months later i was on my way to US and I guess I'll be here forever.

[meyers9163]

I remember sitting through presentation by the Armed forces, business professionals, and other people due to ISTEP testing occuring. Those who passed were given a chance to do job shadowing or sit through these lectures and I didnt care to shadow. I remember seeing the Army spokesmen saying there was something he had to attend to and leave abruptly. I also remember our school keeping this quiet. I am 22 now and was 17 then finishing my Junior year of High School. I remember football pratice was canceled and most of all it was my MOTHERS birthday. When getting home I remember watching tv and telling my parents I didnt want to go out to eat for my mom's b day because I felt a need to watch the news.... All in all I remember it much like yesterday as do so many of us. Weird but the Psychology Degree comes in handy.... the good ole Distinctivness Heuristic!

[Cruise]

Originally Posted by CapnJim

None of your business what I was doing.

Then don't bother to respond!?!