Where Were You on 9/11?

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1. John: 4 hours, 2 minutes ago
   

   Eindhoven, Holland I was on vacation on grancanaria spain, just can back fron shopping and got a ticked back home earlyer 3 than planned together with my best friend. I was watching CNN becouse that was the only channel in the hotel we could understand becouse we are from holland.
   I saw 1 tower in fire while my friend was making coffie. I told him about it and he coulnd beleve it. I called home to my parrents and girlfriend, they coulnd beleve it when suddenly the seccond plane hit the second tower. i droped the phone and broke it. later we saw the footage of the pentagon and penselvania, Totaly shocked and still am when i see the footage.

2. Anonymous: 14 hours, 1 minute ago
   

   I was… At school in 5th grade. I live in the Bronx but I Go to school on Long Island so I almost had to sleep at the school. But we finally got police escorts to take my bus across the Throgs Neck Bridge. I didn’t leave school till 9:30pm and didn’t get home until 10:35pm on 9/11. GOD BLESS AMERICA AND NEW YORK CITY! We Will Never forget!!!

3. Anonymous: 1 day, 7 hours ago
   

   I was watching the “Today Show” about to go into its third hour (new that year). I had just turned 46 the day before, and was eating leftover birthday cake. When I was small, and ever since, I used to see my life as a long, black time line, empty with no dots, but it ended on my birthday in 2000 with a big, black dot, the beginning of the new millennium. While the events of 9/11 unfolded, I realized I had been off by one year. Many statisticians, etc., feel that the new millennium really began in 2001. The last plane went down only two hours from where I sat. When that happened, I calmly drove to my daughter’s school and picked her up. I was certain WWW III was about to begin. I later found out that Amy Sweeney, the attendant who on Flight 11 who first tipped the world off to what was happening, had been married to a high school classmate of my younger sister’s. A man who worked at the same company as my twin brother also perished on Flight 11.

4. Kristy Williams: 1 day, 22 hours ago
   

   Brooklyn I was reading to my first grade class across the river in Brooklyn. It was our 4th day of school…

5. damsmayclal: 2 days, 1 hour ago
   

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6. Anonymous: 2 days, 16 hours ago
   

   I was in school and the principle told us to turn on the tvs… we watched the second plane hit live and then he told us to turn the tv off… so we did and then a few minutes later a fellow student was dismissed..her uncle had been on the plane from boston. We also later found out one of the pilots of the plane from boston was from our rival school just over the bridge. We will never forget that day and everytime we see it on tv it gives chills. I am in the military now and only wish the 16’s went up right away to stop this

7. Anonymous: 2 days, 21 hours ago
   

   I was in between jobs at the time. About 8:50am, I get a phone call from my brother to turn on the TV. I asked him why and he said ‘just turn it on’. I turned to the Today Show with Matt Lauer and they showed the Tower on fire and were speculating what had happened. Then a little after 9am, the other Tower was hit and there was no more speculating. Seeing that imagine is the worst thing I have ever seen on TV. I don’t know if it’s possible to compare it to the folks who saw JFK get blown away on TV in 1963 because both were terrible, traumatic events. No one will ever forget 9/11/01, nor should they.

8. Anonymous: 3 days, 23 hours ago
   

   I remember coming home from school and seeing a replay of the second plane hitting the tower. I’m from Britain, so by the time I came home it was probably about noon in America so the clips being shown were of the aftermath of the buildings collapsing. And I can vividly remember one clip of a fireman looking through the rubble and seeing him pick up a doll, and hearing the commentators say at the same time “I think there might have been a creche inside one of the towers” (i’m not sure if it’s true, but those 10 seconds of what I watched that day haunts me even now)

9. Anonymous: 4 days, 13 hours ago
   

   I was in kindergarden. I just remember my mom telling me what happened after she picked me up and seeing it covered on nearly all the channels.

10. JD: 5 days, 7 hours ago
    

    Clifton, NJ I was at work in New Jersey.. only a few miles away. I remember a co-worker, a hard core Viet Nam vet walking thru the office with the news of the first plane strike. He was visibly shaken. I thought it would turn out to be a small plane. Then the report of a second plane strike. I thought some jerk in the tower at one of the airports is directing air traffic right into the city. We had a tv in the office. As I approached that end of the building I could see a co-worker who was standing and watching the tv. She was always a picture of beauty and stature. But what I saw was a contorted tortured woman. I felt my stomach drop. I watched in horror along side her. We could see smoke and ash in the sky as we looked out the windows. Than news came of the Pentagon attack. I then realized we were under attack. All I could think of was to get to my 2 year old daughter.

11. Anonymous: 1 week, 4 days ago
    

    I forgot!

12. Alison: 1 week, 4 days ago
    

    I was eating my breakfast cereal before pre-school. My mom told me that I wasn’t going to school that day and all I remember was playing at the park with mom and younger brother. I also remember or japan trip was canceled because of that. Years later I asked mom about it and my heart hasn’t stopped aching for those in the planes.

13. Jack: 2 weeks ago
    

    Michigan I was in third grade. It was one of the first few days of class, and the school had no idea that anything had happened. I remember that it was a beautiful sunny day outside…
    When I came home my mother was already there- she had left work and turned on the TV. I sat on the stairs and watched the news programs for hours. Eventually my brother arrived home from high school, and all three of us hopped into the Jeep and bought as much fuel as we could, then we made a trip to Dairy Queen. I believe I understood what was going on pretty quickly.
    I’m a senior in high school now, I may have missed the beginning of the war but I can’t shake the feeling that it will catch up with me.

14. Anonymous: 2 weeks, 3 days ago
    

    sorry everthing one i was using ma mums lap top to find out were i could get my hair done in perth and this came up i thought it was a site to find places. i didnt know in was the 9/11? so sorry

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16. Anonymous: 2 weeks, 5 days ago
    

    I was 4 years old in New York. As I was washing my hands with my mother in my 6th avenue and Bleecker street we heard the sound of a very low flying plane. We thought little of it. this was the first day of school where the parents left the kids there for the day. I went into the classroom and heard a huge scream from outside. ur teacher got a phone call and then rushed out of the class room. pretty soon our parents picked us back up. As I left the school we heard a whooshing sound, and the first tower fell. Then I remember seeing these people walking away from the tower that were just covered head to toe in gray ash. People were spraying them off with hoses out of their windows. soon after the second tower fell and I remember looking downtown from my apartment and asking what happened to the twin towers.

17. Anonymous: 2 weeks, 6 days ago
    

    I was eagerly awaiting my 5th birthday party, which was two days later, when my dad literally yelled “OH MY GOD!!!!” My entire family sat in my parents room, watching the news. I started to cry and question whether the terrorists would come attack California. I started crying harder. I am a very sensitive person and get scared quite easily, even now, and I am almost 14! I will always remember 9/11 as the worst birthday that I have ever had. God Bless the deceased in 9/11…<3

18. Anonymous: 3 weeks ago
    

    Plano, TX i was in class in first grade in Northern Texas when the planes hit. My teachers were crying and I didn’t understand what was going on until the next year. We had a moment of silence in school the next day about the same time the towers were hit.

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20. Amy: 3 weeks, 3 days ago
    

    Columbus, Ohio I was at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, in my dorm room, asleep, on the morning of Sept 11, 2001. I was a freshman in college and Tuesday was the only day I didn’t have early class. I woke up to a frantic phone call from my mom telling me to “WAKE UP AND TURN ON THE TV”. This is ridiculous looking back, but it was my nieces 1st birthday on that day and I thought that she was on TV or something. Ha. Anyways, I turned on the TV and watched the footage of the first plane crash into the tower. Then the girls who lived on my floor began opening their doors and everyone was in everyone elses room, freaking out. We sat and watched as the second plane crashed into the tower. My roommate came back from class shortly after and was really confused. She knew something was going on but didn’t know details. We continued to watch the footage throughout the day as rumors began to circulate about other big cities being targeted. I was very concerned about my family in Columbus. There was some confusion about a plane en route to Cleveland and there were reports that it may have been hijacked. That turned out to be false, to the relief of myself and many of my dormmates. Class was cancelled for the rest of the day and I believe the next day.

    Even as an 18 year old college student, I am not sure that I understood the severity of the attacks. I remember joking with friends about going to war and becoming hippies. We then began to hear about all the people who died and the rescue workers who risked their lives and it became incredibly serious.

21. Anonymous: 3 weeks, 4 days ago
    

    I was in my 3rd grade music class. The teacher was outside of the classroom, and some people were talking, but most of us were just staring at the TV. The news was on, and we were staring at footage of the burning building when the first plane crashed. And then the second plane crashed. At first we thought it was a movie, but we saw the look on the teacher’s face, and then we realized the horrible truth that it was really real and that people were dying. Nobody could say anything.

22. Jordan (Male): 1 month ago
    

    Pennsylvania I was 5. I had woken up and came downstairs too my Mom and step Dad on the couch. I had asked my Mom why she hadn’t woken me up for school. She told me about what had happened. The rest of that day, we preyed for the fact that we all were still alive and together.
    My opinion.
    I think that the people of Iraq had suffered enough. We got our revenge for those who had lost there lives in 9/11. Its not fare for the whole country too suffer for what happened behind there’s and our backs. I think we should start pulling our army out of Iraq.
    Thanks too everyone who risked there lives on 9/11.
    R.I.P. 9/11

23. Anonymous: 1 month ago
    

    I was in kindergarten when the attacks happened. I was very young, so the only thing I can really remember was coming home from school and my mom was sitting on the couch crying while she was watching the news. I thought this was strange, because when my mother did cry, she never did it in front of me. I can also remember that my class didn’t get to go on a field trip to the Bronx Zoo because of it, and when I asked my mom why, she said that it was because there were bad people running around New York City. For a while after that, I would ask her if the bad people had been caught yet.

24. Liam: 1 month ago
    

    Chicago, Illinois I was 10 years old and home sick from school, I remember waking up and discovering the aftermath of the first plane on my television downstairs, my Mom didn’t want me to be watching this and turned off the TV and she went upstairs to watch it herself. I feel like I realized that something terrible and significant was happening and I turned the TV back on to our local news station, this following image horrified me and will stay with me forever, as I watched the 2 anchors try to figure out what was going with the live feed of the towers in the background of them, the 2nd plane hit and the entire studio went completely silent, both anchors had the most blank and terrified looks upon their faces, I was absolutely stunned I couldn’t believe what I was watching and now 9 years later, I’m graduated from High School and this tragedy has been with all of my generation through the majority of our lives, but we can all cope with it, we can all hope to make our country even greater than it was before and have a brighter future for all American.

25. Anonymous: 1 month, 1 week ago
    

    only young and dont rember… but i think the terrioists should suffer greatly for what they did

26. Anonymous: 1 month, 1 week ago
    

    Near DC I was in Pre-K. I lived near the pentagon and saw the news. My babysitter started crying and I saw smoke rising in the distance. My mom was stuck at work and when she drove home, the highway was empty. I didn’t realize the full gravity of the situation.

27. Anonymous: 1 month, 1 week ago
    

    i was working for airport security, it was the most surreal experience every, everything changed so fast, everything we knew and thought was under scruitiny. The atmosphere of fear was outstanding and incomprehendable.

28. Anonymous: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
    

    Louisiana I was 4 years old, still innocent, I still trusted everyone. It was a normal Tuesday, as I slept in my bed, waiting to wake and go to my pre-school, in New Orleans. Suddenly, at what seemed like so much earlier than normal, I was shaken awake by my mother, who was absolutely distraught. All she said was “I have no idea why, but something terrible is happening”. As a 4 year old, I had no idea what she meant, but seeing my mother, a strong woman, completely break down filled me with a sense of dread. She scooped me up and carried me close to her, to the TV room, where we watched the events unfold. As I saw the second tower hit, my mother was sure. She already knew it could have been terrorists, but now she had no doubt. We sat there for what felt like a long time, silently crying. My dad rushed home from work just as the first tower collapsed. We were stunned. We were so shocked from the planes hitting, we just assumed they would sit there forever, certainly not collapse. When the dust cloud covered Manhattan, It felt like a nightmare. New York represented strength and power to me. And now it was falling. It was time to send me to pre-school, but my parents both were terrified. See, we lived near many chemical plants, oil company headquarters, and many things that would devastate the country if they were attacked. So my parents thought there was a chance of some of those places being targeted. Everyone thought there would be countless bombings, that the whole country was about to be destroyed. From that moment on, the news was always on. When I saw the people jumping, I think I lost my trust in the world. I started wetting the bed, and crying all the time again. My mother says she regrets letting me see all the devastation, but she could barely comprehend, much less make competent choices on that day, full of terror. That day truly was one of the worst in my life, and my parents life.

29. Anonymous: 2 months, 1 week ago
    

    I am surrounded by some of the happy, sad that some people did not like, I have been saying, this is not true, not true.

30. Anonymous: 2 months, 1 week ago
    

    我周围有些在庆幸，有些人丝毫没有难过的样子，我一直在说，这不是真的，不是真的。

31. Mace: 2 months, 1 week ago
    

    manahawkin i was in school 3rd grade i believe and i was walking to my music room to go to class when a bunch of teachers blocked the doorway standing around the TV and finally the bell rang and we all gathered in the room and our teacher explained to us what had happened. i was born in staten island was i knew exactly what the trade centers were and my father worked in the city. so i was scared. when i got home that afternoon i finally found out my father was save he didn’t make it into the city that day he had called out sick from work. i at the time was living with my grandparents. i remember the footage so clearly.

32. Anonymous: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    I was in the 4th grade; an administrator had come in to tell my teacher of the terrible news. She whispered it into her ear, and my teacher suddenly started crying. School wasn’t shut down, we continued on with many awkward moments since the students still had no idea. It wasn’t until I got home that I saw the towers on TV. I’m graduating tomorrow..can’t believe this was almost 10 years ago..

33. Nathalie Y.: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    it was the first day of second grade for me in a new school I was so excited there was even a party until the party got shut down when parents were coming to pick up their kids everyone was panicking my eyes finally understood once I got home and turned on the tv

34. Anonymous: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    it was the first day of second grade for me in a new school I was so excited there was even a party until the party got shut down when parents were coming to pick up their kids everyone was panicking my eyes finally understood once I got home and turned on the tv

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36. Anonymous: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    I live close to DC. I was only 5 at the time (going on 6) and in kindergarten. My parents never really said anything to me about it. They didn’t want to scare me I guess. But I remember one day my mom told me there was a near by fire so a lot of kids would not be in school. Well, including me, only 4 kids showed up, and one teacher absent. I am pretty sure it was the day of 9 11.

    My uncle works in DC as like a spy or something. Know one really knows; I guess it’s pretty secretive. Needless to say, he knew a woman who died in the pentagon that day. RIP every one who passed away on 911

37. Anonymous: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    Washington D.C. my mom was driving us to a Smithsonean mueseum, i think it was the American History Mueseum. On the radio we heard about the crash, and we could see smoke rising above the buildings. We went straight home and waited, watching the TV.

38. Anonymous: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    I was in 3rd grade and our principal came over the intercom saying “two planes have just hit the world trade center”

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42. Anonymous: 3 months ago
    

    I was sitting on the back porch [because I had already called in sick to work] the first plane hit and I thought, “That’s messed up.” When I came inside and saw the second pane hit, watching the towers finally collapse. Then I loaded my guns and sat there waiting for the end of the world as we know it.

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44. Marnie: 3 months, 1 week ago
    

    Vancouver, BC I was asleep when my sister, whom I lived with, was getting ready for work came into my room and said “A plane went into the tower”. That’s all she said. We lived in Vancouver, BC – I had no idea what tower she meant, nor did I even question it. She could have said ‘Boats fly cows’ for all that matters – she was shocked and instinctually I felt the gravity of her message. We ran downstairs to the living room, turned on the TV as my neighbour from the apartment next door ran into our livingroom, and we watched and cried in silence as the second tower went down.

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46. Anonymous: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    I woke up early to get ready for school (3rd grade), and my mother was crying. I asked her what was going on, and she said “some bad things happened in the world today”. I finally convinced her to tell me what happened. I didn’t really grasp the meaning, but I knew that it was very bad. I went to school, but I was very scared and ended up following the principal around for the beginning of the day, visiting classrooms and making sure everyone was alright.

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48. Laura: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
    

    Asher, oklahoma at home with hubby and almost 3 year old daughter. Was watching a rerun of Little House on the Prairie, when my mom in law called and asked if we were watching the news. My hubby said no and and asked why…my mom in law told him that he wouldn’t believe her if she told him-JUST turn to the news.We did…and our jaws just about dropped.

49. Anonymous: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
    

    I was in Queens, New York City, at the time. I was in the fifth grade and in school. My class and I were making collages, of what, I do not remember. All of a sudden, students began leaving the class because their parents had called the school demanding that their children be returned home immediately. I stayed in school till the end of the day.

    When I finally returned home, all the television channels were malfunctioning. We received many calls from relatives, asking about our well being. My father was working in Manhattan during that day. I thanked the higher power that he was unharmed.

50. Anonymous: 3 months, 4 weeks ago
    

    i was in kindergarden to me it felt like a regular tuesday but it wasnt i was at my dads job when my mom came rushing in and took me and my sister home and just watched tv but thats all i remeber

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