Where Were You on 9/11?

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1. Anonymous: 1 week, 3 days ago
   

   I was only 2 years old when it happened. I was in the back car seat of my mom’s mini-van, going to pick up my older brother from a doctor’s appointment. Then the first plane hit. My mom quickly picked up him and my sister who was in school at the time. I don’t even know what I was like, let alone remember, but I know for sure that I must’ve felt something. God Bless the USA, and God Bless the 3000 people who died that day.

2. Anonymous: 1 week, 4 days ago
   

   I was doing the same thing I did every day because I’m Canadian.

3. not kelly: 1 week, 4 days ago
   

   idk i was only 6

4. Anonymous: 1 week, 4 days ago
   

   with my mommy

5. Anonymous: 2 weeks, 2 days ago
   

   Toronto I was teaching a grade 3 class. We had a meeting in the office with the news on and this is where I learned of it. Being in the suburbs in Canada we didn’t feel directly threatened and I had to return to teach for the rest of the day. Our policy was to pretend nothing happened for the students and let the parents decide on what they should tell their children. I personally feel that many schools should’ve done what we did. Many parents picked their kids up early that day. After I was finished I headed for the television as soon as I could.

6. Anonymous: 2 weeks, 2 days ago
   

   Canada I was working in a convenience store in an office tower downtown in Ottawa with federal government tenants. As the situation unfolded, our building and many others were evacuated as a precaution. I couldn’t believe what I saw on TV and I was glued to CNN untill very late that night.

7. Anonymous: 3 weeks, 2 days ago
   

   I was 19 at the time in my video production class at Dean College in Franklin, MA. A student came in late and said that a plane hit the WTC in NY. I didn’t think of anything at the time, just thought it was a little piper or cessna plane. When class ended i remember everyone talking about what was happening, ran to the media center in the middle of campus where everone was watching TV. I couldnt beleive what I was seeing.

8. Greg: 3 weeks, 4 days ago
   

   Florida I remember I was in kindergarten and the teachers began to panic all the suden. Right before the school went into lockdown my mom picked me up and went home to see the second tower falling. We learned that it was united airlines and my uncle happned to be on a united airlines in new york. His plane was targeted but luckily no terrorist borded it.

9. Anonymous: 3 weeks, 4 days ago
   

   New York.

10. Anonymous: 3 weeks, 5 days ago
    

    I was in daycare, a little more than 3 years old. The memories are a little fuzzy, but I remeber all of the teachers huddled around the tv with tears welling up in their eyes. My parents tried to come get me, but the school was locked down. They eventually let us out after 3 hours. The scary thing is that my parents said in the month leading up to 9/11 I wouldn’t come outside because I was afraid a plane would land on me. They kept telling me that planes do not land on people. I guess they were wrong.

11. Carlos: 3 weeks, 5 days ago
    

    Lima, Perú I was at kindergarten, here in Lima. It caused a big impact in me. I remember my mom, dad or teacher saying they though it was a film scene when they saw it on tv. I remember reading the news the next day. I was really scared. I just hope all the casualties to rest in eternal peace. Carlos, 17 years old

12. Chris: 3 weeks, 6 days ago
    

    I was a senior in high school in Northern CA, waking up as normal. I was listening to the radio, as I did every day, when they made the 1st announcement of the plane hitting. I got up, turned on the news, went and got my mom from upstairs. I had together ready for school, so I go in the shower. By the time I got out, I saw that the Pentagon was hit. What made it worse was my father was due to return from a business trip from Japan that morning on a United flight, so when reports came in that a United flight hit the towers, we got really scared. Mom tried to call United but obviously couldn’t get through. Later that night we found out his flight was diverted to Hawaii when he was able to get in contact with us. We were glued to the tv as the towers came down, and I had to go to school as more events unfolded. Everyone arriving was in a somber haze. I just remember being afraid of every plane I saw overhead for weeks, not knowing if it was gonna crash.

13. Brandi: 1 month ago
    

    Columbus, Ohio I was in kindergarten so I dont remember at all. Just remember that there was a lot of noises and the tv was turned on and the teachers watched the news.

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    ground zero

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16. Gary: 1 month, 1 week ago
    

    San Diego, CA Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois. I was most of the way through boot camp for the United States Navy when were were told what had happened.

17. Mitch: 1 month, 1 week ago
    

    Wausau WI I was in 2nd grade and a teacher ran down the hallway screaming. Our school was immediately put on lock-down. All the parents tried to pick their kids up from the school as soon as they heard but they couldn’t get into the building. There was so many parents in the front of the school that police had to shut down the road in front of the school so no one got hit by the massive amounts of traffic since everyone was afraid there would be no gas the next day. There was only a one day shortage of gas due to the fact everyone filled their car up that night. Us kids were stuck in the building until 5:30 when they lifted the lock-down.

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19. Ethan: 1 month, 1 week ago
    

    My sister was in school and she heard the secretary say something about the twin towers being struck by a plane. She was in the office pretending to be sick. My dad was making a delivery to Kroger’s for his job. My mom heard about it when she came to pick my sister up. I was only three, my sister was 9 and in 5th grade (She started school early), my mom was 36 and my dad was 36. Also, in 4th grade, my sister’s locker combination was 9-11-01.

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23. Nicole: 1 month, 2 weeks ago
    

    phenixville,pa I was…a baby when 9/11 happen

24. Anonymous: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
    

    I was in the third grade in South Carolina, which is where George Bush was orginally going to later that day so my school was on lock down.

25. Anonymous: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
    

    Liverpool I was in university in Bristol, England. At lunch time we watched the news unfolding, seen the 2nd plane hit and never went back to our lessons. In complete shock and amazment that this was actually happening, it felt like a movie

26. Anonymous: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
    

    I was only five years old but my parents have told me what happened. I live in california so the time was different. Our nanny came to our house to start taking care of us. I was at the table eating breakfast. My nanny turned on the news as usuall and saw that a plane hit the world trade center. She told my dad and when they came back to the tv, the second plane hit. They were too afraid to tell my mom because they knew she would be do emotional. After the south tower came down, they turned off the tv. My sister was only 3 and my brother was just 3 months old. Forever grateful, never forget.

27. Anonymous: 1 month, 4 weeks ago
    

    I was 10 years old, in France
    Coming back from school, turning on the TV to watch cartoons, then i was scared as hell.

28. Anonymous: 1 month, 4 weeks ago
    

    I was three years old, and too young to remember.

29. Anonymous: 2 months ago
    

    i was just jerking it

30. Anonymous: 2 months ago
    

    I was in canada. 2 1/2 yrs old

31. Anonymous: 2 months ago
    

    I was coming home from school and went to my grandparents house. They were gather around the television in shock and couldnt believe it. I rang my aunt about it and my friend rang me. Spend the whole day watching it. Was 13 and a half at the time.

32. Anonymous: 2 months, 1 week ago
    

    over 2,000 citizens from all over the world were murdered. Every American will never forget that morning. It will forever be in our minds. We will never forget.

33. Anonymous: 2 months, 1 week ago
    

    I was in kindergarden and i just remember how the teachers were dicussing what was happening. They were cryign but the class really had no idea as to what was going on. When i got home my mother was watchign tv and tried telling us what was going on. My dad was away on business in Asia and he just kept calling us to ask what was going on. We were just worried for him sonce he was suposed to be on his way home. God Bless America. 9/11 is over but we will never forget. United we stand

34. mark: 2 months, 1 week ago
    

    i was in fourth grade and they brought a tv in right before lunch and showing the planes come in and we went to lunch and recess and then they made every student sit in the cafeteria. some kids went home but i didnt. after school i went home and my parents were home and they usually werent. i went out with my friends and we were walking around and we saw a couple fighter jets fly over and me and my friends thought terrorists were gonna parachute in and we also thought they were hiding in the bushes. i was 9 back then but i remember everything clearly.

35. Anonymous: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    I was 5 1/2 years old and I was in kindergarten. I lived in Idaho on an air force base at the time. I remember my mom
    Speaking with another parent about the twin towers and the pentagon being attacked before school that morning (we were in a different time zone than the east coast, so it was earlier in the morning). I don’t remember much about school that day , but I remember after school my mom picked me up and told me that I had to stay inside. I remember seeing the footage on the TV that day and in the following days.

36. Jenisdik: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    Россия Дружба довольствуется возможным, не требуя должного. Аристотель.
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37. Anonymous: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    i was sitting in my living room watching the whole thing unfold i turned the tv on just after the first plane hit,usually i dont drag myself out of bed until noon,but for some reason i was up at 8am that day,it was a day i will never forget,this was kind of my generations pearl harbor.

38. Anonymous: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    I was in the car on the way to school with my family when we heard the news over the radio. I spent the rest of the day at school watching the news.

39. Anonymous: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    i was… in canada sleeping i had a doctors apointment at 9:30 my mom ran into my bedroom saying it was the end of the world i was 12 on that day i remmmber everything… but the think about that day is the feeling i felt and im sure every one in new york felt the way it felt when u stept outside there was an errie calmness no wind big blue sky and i just couldnt take it all in that the world could be this evil i was alive when history was in the makeing but what a sad day for us all….

40. Anonymous: 3 months ago
    

    It was my first day in kindergarten.

41. Helen: 3 months ago
    

    Working at home, in England. It was lunchtime and I put the TV on to catch the news. The first hazy pictures of the first plane hit were just coming in, and I thought it was a terrible accident. Then the tv showed the second hit. My sandwich was forgotten as I watched in horror, then anger, then sadness.

42. Ur Mom: 3 months ago
    

    Mississauga I was maybe 5 years old, sitting in my kindergarden class, having a normal day, until my mom came & picked me up after school, turned on the news, and i saw two buildings on fire. I had no idea that this was like an early apocalypse for some people…

43. Anonymous: 3 months ago
    

    I was a young child at school when my mother ran to pick me up in New Jersey

44. Anonymous: 3 months, 1 week ago
    

    were are you ?

45. Anonymous: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    at home watching on t.v

46. jASPER: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    ENGLAND At home from uni at my mum’s house in the lounge when my brother came running downstairs and said “quick put the telly on, aren’t you guys watching what’s happening??”. When the tv was switched on and the picture was clear all we could see was flames pouring out of the WTC building. We were all quiet. I remember that the world would never be the same again. This was history in the making. And my mind couldn’t comprehend what was happening at the beginning of the new millennium………

47. Anonymous: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    At school eating lunch and my mom took me out of school because she was scared

48. Sean Snow: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    Delta, BC Canada I was in bed in Delta, BC when I recieved the call. I had a day off that day and watched pretty much the whole thing from bed.
    My wife and I also found out that very day she was expecting our second child.

49. Anonymous: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    I was home actually, unknowingly to the fact that I would wake up late and turn on the television, put on the news and get freaked by the news. I immediately went to the building, I live near it and I saw it go down.

50. Anonymous: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    I was in Vancouver, BC, Canada. So I was in a different time zone, i was 5 years old 6 days afer my birthday this happened. I woke up with my mom watching the news and I asked her what happened and she said ‘The US has been attacked.’ There was no school that day. And every year on that day I donate most of my birthday presents to the firehouse in Seattle or I give them away to kids on the street in the poorest neighborhoods.

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