Where Were You on 9/11?

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1. Anonymous: 4 days, 2 hours ago
   

   I was getting ready for school and walked past my mother watching the ABC coverage, she looked upset so I sat down next to her and watched as the second plane hit. I was only 7 at the time but my teacher talked to us all about it when I got to school.

2. Anonymous: 5 days, 10 hours ago
   

   I was in school as a 2nd grader, not really knowing what was going on. I didn’t even find out what had happened until my friend told me the day after.

3. Anonymous: 6 days, 17 hours ago
   

   On 9/11 - Michigan Technological University Walking back to my dorm room after a chemistry class my freshman year in college. As I walked through the door my roommate looked at me, his complexion much whiter than normal. He then said to me in a tone of much more seriousness I was used to, “Look at the TV.” He didn’t yell, he didn’t even point, actually he almost muttered the words. Fifteen seconds later I saw the second plane crash, on live TV, into the tower. I then understood why my roommate was not his normal self. I continued to watch the news coverage with our dorm room door open for the next couple hours. Honestly, I don’t know when I stopped watching that, or what I may have done afterwards. I just remember walking into that room, the look on my roommates face, watching the second plane crash and both towers fall…and the rest is history.

4. C. Lindsay: 6 days, 17 hours ago
   

   I was in Georgia, in my parents room, in a lazy boy. I was 14 and the day before had broken my collarbone while rollerblading. On the morning of September 11th, I was in a lot of pain and up playing Majora’s Mask on the Nintendo 64. Even though I could have easily played all morning, I turned it over to the television. They were just beginning the coverage and I was just in time to see the second plane hit on live television. I don’t regret breaking my collarbone. If I had not, then I would have been in school. In school the teachers didn’t let anyone watch it. I’m very grateful for the broken collarbone. After all, I’m a semester from graduating college with a degree in criminal justice. I plan on being a police officer and seeing where that takes me. September 11th played a big part in that decision.

5. Todd Binkley: 6 days, 17 hours ago
   

   Galion, OH I woke up early that morning. I had my son and I was getting him ready for…….something. He was watching something like Rolly Polly Olly when I saw the news on the kitchen t.v. that the towers were on fire. I thought to myself “well, the FDNY will put out a simple fire”. I had no idea what had happened. When I saw the towers collapse I was devastated. I went to work that night with a hole in my heart. Meanwhile, some local gas stations jacked prices up to, and can you believe this, $2.50 a gallon!! Against company policy, I closed our store early and held a moment of silence for those who lost their lives. One of the most nervous days of my life.

6. Justin: 6 days, 17 hours ago
   

   Tempe, AZ While it happened I was asleep, however I first heard the whispers about it when I got on the school bus. I was in 6th grade at the time and all the teachers at school (especially the social studies teachers) were upset because the superintendent wouldn’t allow them to play the news footage. Not until I got home and watched it fully did I understand the full scale of it.

7. Sidra: 6 days, 18 hours ago
   

   Seattle, WA I was sleeping at home in Seattle… i remember my mom coming in and saying “There’s something the kids and teachers will probably be talking about.” and she told me all about it. Being only five, i didn’t really understand the severity of the situation at the time, but i remember seeing clips of the towers blowing up and hearing about all the people that died.

8. Jeff: 6 days, 18 hours ago
   

   Red Hook, NY I believe I was in school at the time. 6th grade. I think it was during lunch that someone first told me, though I wasn’t really sure at first what was happening. We went home the period after that and when I got home I watched the news when it really sunk in what had happened.

9. Anonymous: 6 days, 18 hours ago
   

   I was sleeping in my dorm.

10. Anonymous: 6 days, 18 hours ago
    

    I was just getting off work at the fire station in tulsa ok

11. Anonymous: 6 days, 18 hours ago
    

    I was in sitting in on a distance learning Latin class when word spread that something happened in New York. Throughout the day we all moved from class to class watching the news or hearing dreadful rumors concerning martial law and forced drafts (what imaginations!). My mom picked me up from school and, standing on my sidewalk in front of my house, I looked up at the sky. We live under flight paths south of O’Hare, and are used to hearing planes at all hours, but it was stone silent. There was nothing in the sky- not even a cloud, and the sky was a clear blue. That’s the strongest memory I have of that day.

12. Cris: 6 days, 18 hours ago
    

    Santa Barbara, CA I was getting ready for school

13. Anonymous: 6 days, 18 hours ago
    

    Sittin in History hopin i wouldnt have to run in a cross country meet that night.

14. Anonymous: 6 days, 18 hours ago
    

    I was in my first hour english class.

15. Anonymous: 6 days, 18 hours ago
    

    in my school lunchroom. yay.

16. Anonymous: 6 days, 18 hours ago
    

    Everett, Wa at home with my kids, and ny son came into my bedroom and said”Mom, I think something bad just happened…” Just minutes later we witnessed the second plane hit…an awful day in our History!

17. Amparo: 6 days, 18 hours ago
    

    Council Bluffs, Iowa I was in my social studies class, 7th grade, with Mr. Bloom, in Jr.High at Kirn when all of a sudden the announcer tells every one to turn their classroom t.v.’s on and there it was… We had no classes that day, we just went from class to class watching as the story developed.

18. A.B.: 1 week, 1 day ago
    

    Portland, OR I was sleeping in…it was my last week at home before heading to college, so I had already quit my summer job. At around 10:00 AM Pacific time (I’m on the west coast) my mom walks in and wakes me up, says I should turn on the TV because a big terrorist attack had happened. By this point it was already 1:00 PM on the east coast, so the towers had long ago fallen. When I first turned on the TV I couldn’t even figure out what had happened right away, because they were still showing so many clips of the towers standing and burning…so at first I thought the tower were still standing. But then they showed the live shots with the towers gone, and I was like “they COLLAPSED?” Then it dawned on me that everything had already happened long ago that morning…

    I had a friend who was backpacking in the Olympic mountains that week, and didn’t learn what happened until 4 days later when he came out of the woods. Imagine HIS surprise.

19. Anonymous: 3 weeks ago
    

    I was in my French class (10th grade). Our neighboring teacher came in and told her to turn the tv on because of the events. My teacher refused and said we had to study our French verbs. The entire class walked out then and there.

20. Anonymous: 3 weeks, 1 day ago
    

    i war at home watching city pulse news when the plane hit the second tower

21. Daniel Trujillo: 3 weeks, 3 days ago
    

    Phoenix, Arizona i was waking up getting ready for school, i was 13 at the time and my dad was telling me what was going on, i did’nt fully believe him but when i got to the living room it was on CNN and so me and my sister she was 11 at the time also, we were still dressing for school when the towers fell i called my parents from the kitchen when it happened it was probably the most horrifying thing ive ever witnessed.

22. Anonymous: 1 month ago
    

    i was in my kindergarden class

23. Anonymous: 1 month, 2 weeks ago
    

    I was walking into my 6th grade classroom. Our P.E. teacher had come into the room and was staring at a portable TV in disbelief. We sat down, saw smoke billowing from the Twin Towers and watched for the next hour.

24. Terri: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
    

    I was on the couch recovering from a night shift at the hospital. It was a very beautiful day. I usually watched the news in the AM before going to bed, but for some reason, I was watching a movie, “28 Days” with Sandra Bullock. Our apartment door opened, and my husband came in, I will never forget the look on his face. I thought someone in our family had died. I ended up not sleeping the entire day and going back to work that night. I will never forget it.

25. Anonymous: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
    

    I was in my classroom at Wood Elementary. We Had to stay in our classroom almost all day.

26. Ellie: 1 month, 4 weeks ago
    

    I was 9 at the time; I remember it because I had been off school that day unwell. I was lying on the sofa feeling awful and it was on the news. I think I started off annoyed because something I wanted to watch had been cancelled. Then my mother was really shocked and I kinda realised it was much more than a little inconveniance.

27. Anonymous: 1 month, 4 weeks ago
    

    i was at school in year 6 (england) and i remember walking home at the end of the day in the most perfect weather i have ever experienced. i reached home, turned on the TV and every channel was covering the events.

28. christina ruth c.: 2 months ago
    

    louisville, ky at your mother’s house..

29. christina ruth c.: 2 months ago
    

    louisville, ky busy..why should i help you?

30. Anonymous: 2 months ago
    

    busy..why should i help you?

31. Anonymous: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    hello

32. Anonymous: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    I was…in kindergarten, I can’t believe it’s been, 8 years already. Well I’m a teenager now and at that time I was learning my abc’s I still remebed what happened I always knew when people were upset espeially my teachers they never told us anything cause we were too young I understand but when I got home my parents were crying which to me was not normal my little sister died at birth so my parennrs hired a mentee you can call i sorta like a big sister we were all gonna meet up with her at the empire state building cause she had something planned for me, as I grew older I began to understand what hapened my parents told me we never ended up going cause my dad had to work in ct my mentee was apart of it she herself had to work she died. I’m crying while writting it coulda been me and my family I misshersomuch I can’t believe she’s gone she was like a sister to me I love her and miss her never forget 9/11

33. Jeff D: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    Alberta, Canada I was vacationing with my wife in Vancouver, BC, Canada. We flew down that Sunday for a week away… and what a week it turned into! When the USA closed their skies to all air traffic, Vancouver took in a multitude of international flights with nowhere to land.

    I remember scores of people pulling luggage down the sidewalks in search of lodging.

    I also remember being glued to CNN from 9:00 a.m. on late into the night.

    So much for a “vacation” away from home. During this time of horrible tragedy, all WE wanted to do was BE HOME and since we flew in it was looking like a long drive home.

    I now understand my parent’s generation talking about where they were when JFK was assassinated - the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon have generated the same sort of response from everyone that I know. Fear, disbelief, anger, and opening our hearts to everyone in their time of need.

    I have to admit that although it’s been more than 7 years, I still feel emotional whenever I read a story, watch a video, or see pictures about that horrific day.

34. Patti: 3 months ago
    

    Colorado I was living in Pennsylvania at the time…. I had just returned home the previous day from a birthday trip to NYC, and 9/11 was my first day back to work as a radio DJ. I was one of the morning show DJ’s, and my on-air shift ended at 09:00. At 09:10, I was passing on some information to the mid-day DJ, when the Program Director from one of our sister stations came in and said a plane just flew into the WTC. Since he knew I had just visited NYC, I actually thought he was joking. When he didn’t smile, I knew he was serious. I ran into the news room where there was a TV, and watched in horror as the events were unfolding. We immediately changed from being a music station to a news station, reporting the events as we were receiving the news from the AP Wire. For the next week or two, we did not play music. We talked about the events, had guest speakers who either were there or knew someone who was, and clergy who talked about the feelings people were expressing. It was a very emotional time… I broke down on the air once or twice while talking about the horror. To this day I cannot hear about the events of 9-11-01 without getting emotional.

35. Anonymous: 3 months, 1 week ago
    

    I was…in first grade. Mrs. Richey was reading us a book because it was story time. I was the first one to leave my school. I remember going home and my mom and dad crying. I watched the news and then went outside and played with my best friend in our pool. Hey, I was only 6! And, I remember us running inside because the sonic boom happened. I was so young and I never realized how much had changed. I really didn’t know what was happening.

36. Anonymous: 3 months, 1 week ago
    

    i was making love to my woman indeed yes im the ladies man

37. Anonymous: 3 months, 1 week ago
    

    I was in a high school tech class.

38. Anonymous: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    It was my fourth day teaching 1st grade in Brooklyn. I had just graduated from Penn State and I was so excited to be living in NYC…I didn’t realize how much my life was about to change…forever.

39. Elise: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    Indiana I was in 6th grade. I was in my first period which was gym. We were in the dressing room getting changed for the class and the principle came over the announce asking for a moment of silence and telling us to go to our home room. Everyone was talking and girls were yelling for everyone to shut up. We walked out into the hall and sat down and our teacher came out crying. I was still confussed to what was going on and getting scard. When we got to our home rooms they had the news on and i saw what was happening. Then the second plane hit and I didnt know what to think. Some people started crying and others like me just sat there in shock. A few minutes later a annoucment came on that school was getting out early. My mom came and got me and told me what all happened. I was scared because I didnt know what else was going to happen. Later that night i cried when they were talking about all the deaths and i saw footage and the people jumping out of the buidings. I didnt go to school the next day because of it.

40. Anonymous: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    I was getting dressed for my speech class in college when my sister phoned me and told me what was happenning.

    Everyone at school was acting weird, like zombies in disbelief and shock.

    Suffice it to say, I just went back home to watch everything unfold on t.v. and cried my eyes out for America and our grave loss.

    People around the world just don’t understand the circumstances and our pain because it wasn’t their country being attacked. America has not been right for many years now and I don’t think things will ever be the same again. I will never, ever forget that day as long as I live.

41. Anonymous: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    i was 14. i was at a burger joint across from my high school ordering fries (yes in the morning). as i waited for them to be prepared, i watched the tv since i noticed everybody’s eyes were glued to it. i was confused. what the hell was happening?

42. Anonymous: 4 months ago
    

    I was at work watching it on tv

43. Anonymous: 4 months ago
    

    i was becoming 5moths old

44. Anonymous: 4 months, 1 week ago
    

    i was 8 when the wtc collapsed. i never new what the world trade centre was. The wtc collapsed at 10:30 and uk time was 15:30 so it must have been a shock to find within 1:30hrs of the working day the both fell and how little time people had to get out and in califonia they would hav collapsed before people had got up. osama bin laden was mentioned on the news to quickly for me to beleive it was organised by him. AT 9:30 US time osama was being mentioned on the news, on youtube evidence is unproveable about the terriorist still being alive, no one can prove that but the pentagon hole is obiviously to small and the 2nd plane to hit the wtc looks black. i don’t want to beleive it was an inside job but i don’t think 10 terrorist could have brought down the wtc’s with only small knifes to take over a plane.

45. Anonymous: 4 months, 1 week ago
    

    On a 757 NWA plane that took off at 8:00AM from Boston Logan airport. My flight took off between the AA and United flights that were highjacked.

46. Anonymous: 4 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    I was a sophomore in high school. It was second hour and our fire alarm went off. This created some confusion because some people had heard about what happened and some had not. After our school filed back inside we were instructed to go to our third period class where we watched the news and the second plane hit. It was a strange day, nobody could even laugh or crack a smile. It was a sea of worry. You couldn’t help looking up into the blue blue sky and feeling profound sadness when there were no planes landing and taking off from O’Hare.

    Oh, and somebody had an accident in chemistry. That’s why our fire alarm went off. But how ironic….

47. Anonymous: 4 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    i was here

48. Anonymous: 4 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    I was in college. I went to an art class and the Professor had lit candles. I had no idea what was going on and she broke the news to the class as if we already knew. I went back to my room and turned on the news and saw the footage. I have grown up watching so many things blow up in movies I was not moved to tears or anything. However, I did immediately start calling my family in N.Y. My Mom called me (in W.I.) very concerned about my safety! I guess she thought that could be the start of some huge attack. Anyways, I guess I was just in disbelief.

49. Anonymous: 4 months, 4 weeks ago
    

    I was just getting to third period Chemistry with Mr. Ellis (I was in 10th grade) when another teacher Mr. Hejazi came running down the hall to tell us to turn on the news. I stayed home sick all week and just watched the news constantly. It’s very hard to believe that it’s been 6 and a half years since then….the world keeps on turning.

50. Anonymous: 5 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    i was not born yet SORRY loser oh and dont look in your
    closet bitchs

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