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London I was in London. I was only in Year 2 (equivalent to First Grade I think) and didn’t really know what was happening. All the teachers carried out their lessons like normal and at the end of the school day I went home only to find every channel fixed on the World Trade Centre. I remember our TV was not working that day but my cousin came that day just to fix it for the news. Now being older I wonder how i would Have felt
I was…in my fourth grade classroom, nine years old at the time. We were interrupted with the horrific news.
I was in the 1st grade. I was only 5 years old. I didn’t understand much back then but now being 15 I understand a lot more. I understand what happened that day, that horrible day, I am so fascinated in the topic that I have spent HOURS online learning about it, what happened, all the dumb conspiracy theories and such. It was a day I don’t remember well, but will always, always, remember for the rest of my life. God bless America and may those who passed away on 9/11, Rest In Peace.
i wasd in first grade in new york when all i remebered was treachers crying saying there was an attck i had no idea what it was…. i was confused i got called down to the office my mom came to my skool cryn n my sister came to the office too we took a cab home real fast i was scared all i saw on tv was smoke n firemen police everyrthing it was really crazy.. i will never forget that day.. but things could have changed if we had a better president many lifes could have been saved this was all planed out somethn could have been sdone to save many lives
In my first grade class. It wasn’t mentioned at all at school, but when I came home, my parents were watching the news. All I remember is that every single channel was about 9/11. I was six, so there’s nothing else I really remember.
I was like in Kindergarten I think and all I remember is my mom(In the Air Force stationed in Turkey @ the time) and dad(stationed in D.C. @ the time) having an arguement because my dad was trying to get me away from Turkish people I guess cuz they were muslim IDK
I was on the 64th floor of the South Tower. I got out in time.
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i was 4 when it happen im 12 now me n my dad put the news on n we saw the plane raw into the towers my dad left becaue he is in the army so i got to go i was in the truck i was scared like never before u try staying in a truck as a buliding is falling its not fun n my dada is going to iran n afganasta i want see him for 3 years
i was 4 when it happen im 12 now me n my dad put the news on n we saw the plane raw into the towers my dad left becaue he is in the army so i got to go i was in the truck i was scared like never before u try staying in a truck as a buliding is falling its not fun
I was in first grade at the time. I often wonder what it would be like if this happened when I was older and what would I think then, but it didn’t I remeber so clearly we watched the news for about 5 munutes I had no idea what was going on I remember thinking who could have done this, this part is so clear that it’s like I see everything to the exact same, my princpal at the time came in sat on a desk and said “some kids in new York today lost there moms and dads” we went on normally with our day then I went to daycare after school I remeber my sister talking with this boy saying I will not go fight suppose they go make me fight in the war. They were in the 4th grade what do expect. On the ride home from daycare my dad was talking about how someone highjacked two plans and ran them into two buildings. When we got home my mom dad sister and me were sitting around the tv in pure horror. My mom was crying a little but that was it me and my sister then when out to play with the neighborhood kids not one kid was out . I remeber asking my sister why is no one out? She said there prolly all watching tv . And that was it I will never forget that day
I was getting off work and someone said that a plane had crashed in to a builing in NY. I went home and was stuck to the tv all day. and later found out that FF I knew were enroute to the crash in PA.
In school, i was only 7 at the time, but i understood clearly what was going on. We later watched it on the news. Some kids never understood. but now that im older, im doing a project on it. therefore, leading me to this website.
Saskatchewan I was in Toronto, where I had moved to exactly one week prior in hopes of starting a new chapter in my life. I was crashing on an air mattress at a friend’s apartment. I had been out drinking the night before, after another friend and I had tried to get into some Film Festival screenings. I was feeling pretty rough. Around 9:30 am my buddy (who was at work) had phoned home to tell his girlfriend to turn on the TV. I’m not sure exactly what he said to her but she replied “Does this happen a lot?”. We turned on the TV and couldn’t quite process what we were looking at. Both towers were burning, as we had missed (thankfully) seeing the second plane hit the south tower. I was glued to the TV. At 1pm I had to go meet the producer I was going to be working for. I met him for lunch, hungover and totally confused by the day’s events. The craziest part of it was remembering the conversation I had the night before. While my buddy and I were drinking we got on the topic of Bush and politics. I started going off on a tangent about I had a bad feeling that someone out there was going to challenge his tough guy, cowboy talk rhetoric. I had a hunch that someone, out of fear or sense of opportunity, was going to attack the US. The words I think I used were “there’s a big smackdown coming”. I had no idea when or how or by whom. I just had a feeling. Pretty general feeling when you really think about it. But what an unfortunate coincidence.
After the next day, it took my buddy over a week to call me back.
Ireland I was in school when my teacher got a phone call from her husband telling her that his business meeting in the towers had been cancelled and that she should turn on the news as there had been an accident. As she turned on the tv there were hands simultaneously raising to ask what was going on? what the towers were? And why was it happening?
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i was at home wishing it had never happend
i was in 3rd grade when this happened and i remember that my teacher asked us to draw the twin towers. and i had no idea what was really going until now. i live in OR and i know that this touched us all and our hearts are with those who lost their loved ones on that day. may God bless you all!
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I was sitting in my second grade classroom. I had no clue what was going on. I look back on it & wonder how I would have felt had I been a little bit older.
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America I was in fifth grade that day, an American child just going about her life when I went upstairs for my second class. All of the TV’s were on and none of the teachers were at their desks, we didn’t think anything of it. So all of my classmates and I just sat there and watched the TV without understanding what was going on. We watched the first tower burning, then we watched the second plane hit, we didn’t understand it was live until the cameras started following people jumping from the windows. After that everyone started getting nervous, the class was a little more quiet, though at that time I still didn’t understand that this was in America, and that the whole world had just changed forever. The Pentagon was struck, but it didn’t make anymore sense, and everyone was chattering mindlessly.
Then the first tower fell, no one said anything, but right then it was like the whole world was screaming.
Finally our teacher showed up and turned off the TV, and she continued class like nothing had happened. I didn’t learn anything more until I went home.
My mother and father were there when I came in, sitting in front of the TV as if it had become their whole world, and my father was so angry it was palapble in the air.
His fists were clenched and his hands were so pale and he was talking and I didn’t understand any of it. He eventually took me to another room and told me he wasn’t angry at me, which I already understood perfectly, but he was furious at the people who did this.
He promised me that whoever it was, he had no doubt America would hunt them for the rest of their miserable existence.
The days passed, fear turned horror, horror turned to despair, then the despair became rage and I remember sitting in front of the TV watching the towers falling again and finally understading what had happened. That was the first time I knew hatred.
I then took up that mantra most Americans adopted in the aftermath: We would never forgive, and we would never forget.
God help us that we would never forget.
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Australia I was sleeping though as soon as i woke up i went into my mothers room to find her crying watching the television. I thought the world was ending. I was only Seven and i was so scared.
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Northern BC 9/11/01. I was preparing for a normal day at school. I was in grade 4 at the time, and I live in Canada, in a remote community, where the school is a 35 mile drive from my house. I vividly remember the entire day, which always was weird to me. It was a beautiful day in our part of the country, and I was sitting on the couch, the time was 6:53AM PDT, which means both towers had already been attacked. I was getting ready to leave the house, when we received a phone call. It was one of my mother’s friends. “You have to turn the television on, there has been some sort of a plane crash.” She put the phone down, and grabbed the remote, turning the TV on.
“What are we looking at, mom?” I questioned, as she flipped through the channels to find CNN.
“There’s a plane crash on TV.” She muttered, changing it to CNN. As the picture flickered on, I remember seeing both towers, the bellowing smoke, and the headlines, “World Trade Center Disaster”. My mom was just standing there, gasping with her hand over her mouth. Naturally, since I was only 8, I didn’t really know what to make of it until later that day. Seeing both towers in flames and smoke made me just think, “plane crash” and “accident”, since those are the words my mom had received over the phone. My mom told me and my sister it was time to go, we turned the TV off, and went down to the truck to wait for our friend, who was carpooling to school with us. I remember the words that he said when I saw him that made me take a different viewpoint of the whole situation for the whole day.
“Terrorists” He said. “My dad says this is terrorists. America is under attack.” I had never heard the word terrorist used before, up until this day. The moment he finished his sentence I asked,
“What’s terrorists?” Of course, he didn’t know either, he had just heard it from his dad, so both of us turned to our parents, who were gathered outside of the truck in a circle, talking, which didn’t happen normally. All of us got out and walked to them.
“This is terrorism, we saw the second plane fly into the god**** building. He turned and lined up for it!” Stated my friend’s dad, who was a pilot.
“Well, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.” My mom said. I had figured out what was going on before we got to school, and by then, I really didn’t want to go.
“But there’s no TV in school mom, I can’t see what’s happening!” I argued with her, trying to skip school for the day. Unsuccessful, I walked up the stairs to the school and was passed by the senior students and their teacher, taking them to his house. They were going to watch the news for the day, it was a “school project”, which I later found out was just an excuse so the teacher could watch the events unfolding that day. The entire day I was extremely envious of the senior students, I wanted so bad to see what was going on, but alas I was stuck in the classroom the entire day. Finally, the end of the day was here, (2:50PM PDT) and as I climbed back into the truck, I immediately began bombarding my mom with questions. Questions she really didn’t answer, and we headed home. The moment the truck stopped moving, I practically fell out of the truck, scrambling to the house, leaving my books and everything. I remember vividly seeing no TV on the stereo case, and ran back outside, down to our cafe, where the entire room was filled with people, watching our TV that my dad had moved to his workplace. Both towers had already long collapsed, but I remember seeing the replays over and over again, the sight of the towers collapsing, and the United 767 flying into the building, on camera. It seemed so surreal to me, I didn’t really know what to make of it. The headlines “America under attack” were etched in my head for the rest of the day. Misinformation also had us scrambling for knowledge out of Whitehorse, YT, where Korean air 85 was supposedly hijacked and crashed into downtown, just 4 hours away from where we lived. We were all relieved to find out that it was a false alarm and that the plane had landed safely. 9/11/01, I know I will certainly never forget.
I was at work in the brake room watching cnn when flash news came on .A plane has just hit the world trade center in N.Y.C.I ran out to my unit and told everyone what was going on.All the Tv’s when on.The only thing i thought of was my sister that works at the World Trade Center.I was going crazzy because i couldn’t get a hold of her. I try for hours nothing finally i got through to her cell phone.What a relief as she told me she was not feeling to well so she took off that day.Thank god it was a miracle.She tells me she got another change at life.God bless all the survivors and god bless the fa. that lost a love one on that day.GOD BLESS AMERICA
i was listening to the joe duffy show on rte radio when it was interupted to say a small plane has just flown into the wwtc i straight away turned on sky iwas watching sky for the next 24 hours
John i was in art class, when the news came on tv after the first tower was hit.then the whole class was watching it for a few minutes before the second tower was hit.it was one of those moment, that you could not believe what you were seeing and hoping that it was a cruel joke. But it was not and I WILL NEVER FORGET…
i was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia i just came home from school my mother told me America is being attacked
i was so happy it was one of the best days in my life
Inshallah something bigger will happen very soon
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Macomb, Michigan I was in 3rd Grade. A teacher rushed in, crying, saying to my teacher: “Turn on the TV!! Sometiming horrible has happened!” She turned on the TV and was in complete shock that the North Tower had been hit. I, being the little kid, was unaware that this was a terrorist attack. Then she shut off the television and resumed teaching.
Only later on, did I learn what really happened that day.
Oregon It was the year that I moved to Oregon after my dad had retired from the Navy; I was asleep when the first plane hit. I woke up to the radio station that I was listening to, I think it was syndicated out of Miami, was making jokes about it. At that point in the morning I did not know what had happened, I was not fully awake. When I got on the bus I noticed that something was wrong, everyone was quite and the radio was on but it was on a radio station. It was finally when I arrived to the first class that I discovered what was happening. Every class that day had the news on, we saw everything that happened. I think no one will ever forget where they were when the towers fell.
We lost many lives that day and every day after due to a war that is repeating history. It will not end until we leave, they have been fighting wars since the beginning.
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I was back east visiting my family on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It was a good visit after a week long excursion at Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada the week prior.
I was awakened a little bit passed 8:30 am that morning by F-15 fighters taking off (full afterburners) from Otis Air National Guard Base just a few miles from my parent’s house where I grew up. We were used to hearing the fighters all the time, but not that early and that loud in the morning.
They were on an intercept course for the 767 American Airlines flight 11 – which was first to hit striking the North Tower World Trade Center after the FAA notified the Air Force that the passenger plane had been hijacked.
I took a shower and as I was getting dressed I heard my mother yelling for me to come in to the living room where she was watching Good Morning America on TV.
The first tower was smoking and no one knew exactly what had happened whether it was a bomb or aircraft collision… anything?
We sat and watched for about 20 minutes wanting to know what happened and before our eyes, we watched on live TV: 767 United Airlines flight 175 fly in to the South Tower World Trade Center.
My first thought was “It finally happened… they attacked us.”
I called my longtime friend from high school who happened to be vacationing on the Cape the same time I was.
He thought someone was messing with the instruments. It was a beautiful clear day and pilots don’t fly directly into buildings whether their instruments read: “all is well” or not I thought to myself. This was deliberate!
I watched with my mother for a little while and she made some phone calls and I decide to walk down to where my friend (I called) and his family were staying which wasn’t very far from my folks house.
It was a gorgeous and quiet September morning as I walked down a long dirt road to the main road.
My uncle stopped and gave me a lift as he was driving to work. I told him what had happened and he didn’t even know. He thought I was joking.
He was half awake and finishing a toasted bagel late for work. He dropped me off at the beginning of the street that led to my friend’s house where I was headed.
As I walked down the street in a quaint tranquil neighborhood passing green lawns and fluffy flowers and picket fences I passed a man in his driveway working on his truck. I then heard his wife telling him to come inside repeatedly. He acted as if it was just another nag attack from his wife and mumbled as he went inside. He had no idea what had happened either.
All I could think at that time was how surreal the whole morning was.
I go to my friend’s house and his wife was taking care of their baby as we watched the south tower collapse and then a little bit later the North tower.
I was supposed to return to the west coast a couple days fallowing the attack, but my flight was canceled do to the no fly restriction and when it was lifted, it was almost impossible to rebook a new flight. I would try and book a new flight out of Providence every morning and find it canceled in the evening.
I watched the coverage of ground zero on all the news channels with my folks the next couple of days. I remember wanting to go to ground zero and help those people search the debris for survivors and… well, just help. I was only four hours away. It was upsetting and frustrating to just sit and watch. I just felt like I had to do something. To me: it was us –our people in that rubble –Americans, dead on our own soil. It pissed me off!
I had to step away from watching the coverage and just breathe.
I later called my work to tell my boss I was having trouble getting home for obvious reasons. He said don’t worry, just be safe. He then told me that the niece of my coworker was on American Airlines flight 11. She was a flight attendant.
I remembered talking to him just before I left for my vacation. He had asked me what airline I was flying on and he mentioned that his niece worked for American Airlines and worked the east-west coast flights. To this day, I can still see the picture of his niece on the wall next to his workstation. She was a beautiful woman.
After the third day losing my flight again and again, I decide to just go to the airport the next morning and find some way to get on a flight.
I went out to a bar with my brothers the evening before I left. All I could think about was my plain flying into the Sears Tower since my original flight had a connection in Chicago ending up in Oakland, California. So, I made peace with it and accepted the possibility.
My dad brought me to the airport in Providence and I got in line and finally got my ticket. Turns out I was flying to DC and on to San Francisco, so it was no sears Tower for me.
I thanked my dad and said good-bye and boarded a small jet craft headed for DC.
We flew over New York City. It was a morning not much different than that fateful day.
Brisk, but crystal clear; a smoldering plume still lingered from the rubble as we passed over ground zero in flight. It was very quiet on that plane. Everyone was peering out the portals to view the devastation.
I landed at Dulles Air port in Washington DC and I waited to board my connection onto San Francisco. It was another surreal kind of experience as I watched people in the lobby and waiting area. The world as we all took it to be would never again be the same.
My flight back to the Bay Area was a smooth one. The folks on board got real quiet when we approached SFO for landing.
When we finally landed everyone on board clapped and cheered.
I was fortunate not to have lost anyone special or dear to me on that dark day, but I do know some folks who did lose people dear to them and my heart goes out to the fallen and their families.
Part of me doesn’t want to remember that day, but the other part of me has to.
That’s where I was on September 11, 2001 and I’ll never forget it.
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I was a senior in high school and had just walked into my Money Management class, probably a few minutes before 10. Our teacher had the tv on and as everyone started filing in to take their seats the shock and disbelief started to show on our faces. Then the towers fell. We watched the coverage for the rest of the day.
I was asleep. I live in Australia. My friend rang and woke me up to tell me. I fell back asleep thinking it was a dream, then woke up the next morning to the images all over the TV. I was so freaked out by it that when some fighter jets flew over my house (as a rehearsal for a parade later that day, I found out) I was seriously convinced that the whole world was screwed.
I was on my way to work in DC as a contractor for a government agency.
I left my house for the metro before anything happened. The planes hit while I was on the metro, or on the walk from the metro to my building downtown. When I got into the office, nobody was around and the internet traffic was really slow. I tried to chat with a friend of mine and she told me to turn on the TV. I went to the closest TV to my office and everyone was crowded around that one TV watching. While I was in the office we started getting reports that there was a plane over the Mall, near the White House, which turned out to be false, but then the plane hit the pentagon.
Our building ended up being the evacuation site for the White House staff, so they told all “non-essential” staff that they could go home. As a contractor I was clearly non-essential, so I wandered the streets for a little while and ended up at my friend’s office until it was clear that there weren’t going to be any attacks on the Metro.
I was in the car and turned on the local Milwaukee radio station while driving to the bank to take out money to buy a car that day (which would be ever after remembered as our 9-11 car). I was horrified, of course. At the car dealership, in between processing paperwork, customers and employees gathered in the lobby to watch the sad events unfold on the TV there. Frequently heard and felt was “Oh my God.” And I knew I was not alone in my tears and prayers for those most immediately impacted.
As a parent with a daughter in high school, I had to wonder how she was receiving the news, but I trusted that the high school would handle it to the best of their ability.
Finally, as a church music director, thoughts turned to having a school prayer service the next day – what could we sing that would make sense, what could we say that the kids would understand and that would not add to their fear? As for the parish, we didn’t immediately have a prayer service, but I realized that I had to change some of the songs I had previously picked for the weekend because of the enormity of the event. I picked a song called God is Love which has words in its 2nd verse: “And when human hearts are breaking under sorrow’s iron rod, then we find the self-same aching deep within the heart of God.” We were also to sing America the Beautiful, which would never be the same again, its vs. 4 saying “thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears.” And, God Bless America would bring comfort to people as a postlude and sung whenever possible in the weeks to come, not just at church, but at baseball games, too, during the 7th inning stretch.
at home (I’m retired). My wife was working in downtown DC, a block from the White House. She called to tell me to turn on the TV. When the Government closed, she couldn’t get to her car; so she and some co-workers started walking — seven miles. About half way, some ladies in a car picked them up.
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I was in my social studies class in 7th grade when we had just finished an in-class video. Popping the video out, the TV returned to the regular cable programming, which was showing where two planes had just hit the WTC.
Milwaukee At home doing laundry. Husband called to tell me to watch tv. Wow I will never forget the fear I had when I saw the White house being evacuated.
i was in 1st grade i didn’t know what happen until the next day i was thinking that it would be over in 1 week but… it wasn’t
I was in kidnergarten and my parents had told me to not watch the news because there was stuff that a 5 year old shouldnt be watching. So the teacher turned on the tv and I saw the exploding buildings but I though, being the ignorant 5 year old I was, that it was normal news stuff. I didn’t find out what it was till I was 7.
I was in our regular Crisp County Commission meeting for the month of September. We had gotten started and were moving down the agenda. Soon, our sheriff who was only there to speak in behalf of something going on, began to check his pager. Our local tv guy filming the meeting, began checking his pager. They both stepped outside to soon return. We stopped our meeting for a briefing by the Sheriff, of what was transpiring, yet nonone knew why or exactly what was going on. A member of the audience suggested we have a moment of silence and a word of prayer, which we did, then we continued on with our meeting until finished. As rest of the day, and the ones to come, followed, who could have ever imagined what they would begin to unfold.
I was working for a U.S. Senator in Washington. As I was walking from the Union Station Metro stop to the office, I heard a reporter walking behind me talking on a cell phone to someone about a plane hitting the WTC.
I walked into the office and watched a TV as the second plane hit. Then the staffer who handled military matters (a Marine officer on loan) came out of his office and said there had been “an explosion” at the Pentagon. He suggested leaving the Senate office building, but the Capitol police came on the phone system and said to stay in our offices. Then someone must have changed their minds and they came back on and said to evacuate. Everyone ran out of the building.
When I got outside, I heard jet engines and eveyone started looking up. It must have been the fighter aircraft that were sent from nearby bases. I walked over to my new wife’s office on the other side of the U.S. Capitol (taking a roundabout route to avoid walking right past it) and found she and her coworkers had left. I then followed the crowd away from the Capitol to the neighborhoods nearby, and found a coworker’s house and watched the coverage from there.
She drove me home later since the Metro was closed. I finally found my wife (who I’d married two weeks earlier and returned from our honeymoon the Saturday before) at our house later. Definitely weird sonce the DC cell phone system was so jammed you couldn’t get through.
I was in my office on the 19th Floor of the 191 Building in Atlanta. I got to my office just after the first tower was hit, turned on the TV to see the second tower hit and watched the events unfold in horror. When it was rumored that Atlanta buildings were the target of another plane, the building evacuated and I returned home to my family.
Me and my 23 mos baby was on board of NWA got diverted to Canadian AFB in Winnipeg Manitoba….It was an unforgettable moment. We arrived Winnipeg 11am but didnt get off plane until 930pm….
I was a home watching it on TV
unbelievably at the Georgia State Capitol for a special session of the Democrat-controlled legislature, which did not adjourn even after the horrific terrorist attack.
I was at work. A co-worker announced that a plane just crashed into the World Trade Tower. I thought it was a small single engine plane that crashed. We spent all day at work watching the news about what really happend. The city had coordinated an evacuation plan for those working downtown by using the city buses right after the planes crashed that morning. It was a tragic and scary day. Even today, I still find it hard to look at the images of 9/11.
I was in my school in the 7th grade. I remember the principal coming over the P.A system and saying that a national tragedy had occured. At the time, we didn’t know what to think, after all I was only 12. I remember switching to my 9:00am class and smelling burning. I told my teacher about it and he joked “If something’s burning I’m not going over there”. Little did we know, we were being attacked. Kids were getting pulled out of school left and right, but because my mom worked in my elementary school, I was to stay put. When I went home that night and sat on the floor watching the footage over and over on t.v my mother went to go put the American flag outside of our house. I was terrified because I thought that the terrorists were nearby and they would know that we were American. I now appreciate my mom’s act because even in the face of terror, we Americans prevailed. God bless those poor people in the towers and everyone else who went to work that day and had to experience these terrible events.
I was 7 years old sitting in my 3rd grade class. My teacher came in crying and said that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. She tried her best to explain to us what had happened, but most of us thought that there was a plane just sitting in the middle of the building. It wouldn’t be until a few hours later that I had really known what happened.
I was on my way down I-75 to KSU. Heard the news report on 104.7 The Fish and thought it was a Cesna that wasn’t watching where he was going. Thought it weird, but not a major story – just another small plane crash. Got to school/work (same place at the time) and found out the real story.
I was in-between 1st and 2nd period my freshmen year of high school, when a classmate mentioned something. The following period was my “social studies” class, in which we stayed glued to the TV for the remainder of the day.
I was on the I-75 from Macon to Tampa, heard the news on the radio, pulled off the interstate, went to a Shoney’s in Valdosta that had a tv, and watched in horror. Turned around and went back home to be with my family.
i was in shool my senior year, first period went on like normal. Then i walked in my next class and the tv was on, i watched it all from my desk. Very sad day.
Roswell, GA I was in P.E. my freshman year of high school. We were running in the gym and knew something had happened, but the coach would not let us stop to inquire further. Only when I reached my next class did I come to understand what had happened.
I was at the Georgia Capitol, listening to the debate on redistricting. When I tried to return to my office, I was blocked from entering the parking deck and told the building was closed, as were all tall office buildings. I went home and with my husband, watched the horror on TV. Our 6 and 4 year old played in the next room, with no notion of the terribly tragic events of that day.
I was…in Los Angeles late for my job. I had to be there at 7am so I called a cab and heard on the radio about the first plane. When I got to work at the coffee house there was a TV that my boss brought in. I saw the second plane hit, then the collapse of the south tower. Worried about my loved ones in NYC. Our coffee house shut down due to the tragedy. All of my coworkers came to my house to watch CNN. I will never forget the feelings I felt on 9/11/01. Never have I seen such sadness and tragedy and I hope I never experience that sadness again.
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It was my first semester of college and I was in my dorm room getting ready for an Accounting test. My roommate turned on the television and almost immediately called out to me that a plane had flown into a building in New York. We watched the news coverage in horror as the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We were both completely in shock. I will never forget that day.
Newnan, Georgia I was in AP U.S. History when the planes struck the towers. Another teacher came to our class to tell us that we should turn on the news, but ironically our teacher thought we needed to keep learning our History. No one really knew that it would be such a defining historical event.
I was at recess when i came in to hear the news of the twin towers. The speaker came on and told the whole school what had happened. The teachers cried. I didn’t know why until later. I just new that a tradgety had just happened!
I was at home in California getting our girls ready for school, wondering if my husbands cousins had made it out ok. One had not gotten in to work yet and other got out right before the building she was in came down. Absolutely terrifying to watch and wait for news about family members.
I was in Alpharetta, GA. My wife was supposed to fly home from LaGuardia that morning and I had dropped my 4 year old son off at daycare. In the car I heard about a plane crash in NY so I went home and turned on Fox News just in time to see the second plane hit. I went back and picked up my son and we waited for 3 days while my wife drove home.
South Georgia I was at home with a new baby, my husband, and 2 year old. My husband woke me up in time to watch the second plane hit the towers. Then we waited to see if he would be needed in Atlanta in case of an additional attack. I have never seen anything that horrible before or since that day. Since this terrorist attack, my husband has served one tour in Iraq and is currently serving a second tour.
I was at work in Holbrook, NY about 45 minutes from the Towers. We heard about it by family members calling the office. We all ran outside and from that far away you could see the smoke….
Cleveland Tennessee in class at Lee University. During class someone came in and told the professor what had happened. All classes for the rest of the day were cancelled. I went home and sat glued to the TV with my roommates for the next three days watching the horror. Perhaps one of the greatest memories that I have is when President Bush climbed up on the rubbel at ground zero took the bull horn from the old fireman and addressed the nation. What a powerful moment. I cant believe its been eight years.
St. Charles Missouri I was in Mr. Odell’s science class my sophmore year in high school when an aid from the office came down to tell him about the first plane hitting the first trade center. I was in my English class when the second one hit the second trade center… I remember watching it on the tv as it hit and broke out in tears. We will never forget the fallen of NY and the people that continue to suffer from the effects of this terrorist act!!!!
I was in the Air Force, a Financial Management instructor at Sheppard AFB TX. The first plane hit and I went across the hall and told a friend “maybe it was a small commuter or something”. Then the 2nd plane hit and all hell broke loose.
I was in my 9th Grade Civics class in Blairsville Georgia
Atlanta, GA I was in class at Georgia Tech where we were reviewing for a final. When class was dismissed we walked outside and starting giving a hard time to a classmate who had missed the review. He was in the ROTC and told us that a plane had hit the Pentagon and the towers. We ran back to our dorms to watch the coverage.
I was in my office — a law office in south Georgia. One of the attorneys called and said a plane had hit the World Trade Centers. We turned on the TV in time to see the first tower colapse. The attorney I worked for turned to me and said “The world will never be the same now. We are at war.” He encouraged us all to continue working — to not let the terrorists win. The day moved on in slow motion.
I was in American History class with Ms. Thomas when a fellow teacher, Ms. Graff, interrupted the lesson to speak to Ms. Thomas on the side. While two teachers having a sidebar was not common, it wasn’t unusual either. As long as I live I will remember the look on my teacher’s face as she came back to the class to tell us the news. We had a television in the room, which she immediately turned on and the class began watching the news coverage in complete silence. When our principle got on the PA system and instructed the teachers to ignore the news and continue with their lessons. Ms. Thomas said that we were going to continue watching the news because this was “history in the making” and it was important for us to see. She then stood at the door, keeping a lookout for administrators. For the remainder of the period we sat captivated by the images on the screen.
Tulsa, OK I was a freshman in high school, sitting in math class. I remember the librarian coming and whispering something to the teacher. She turned the TV on in time for us all to see the second plane hit… Unforgettable, we were all in shock. Our thoughts are with those who lost loved ones that day.
Scotland, UK – I was feeding my 3 month old baby son. I rang my husband who did not know anything about it. He and his colleagues then found a television and watched as the events unfolded. I also watched the whole event and saw the second plane hit the tower. I sat there crying my eyes out and still do when I see it again. It was the worst act of terrorism I have ever seen. My thoughts are with all the people who lost loved ones and friends on that terrible day.
Conshohoken PA (Outside Phila PA) I was working for a company in CONSHOHOKWEN Pennsylvania called US SUPPLY Company.. I was an IT Manager there at the time … We heard the news — my co worker and I immediately went to a tv in time to see the 2nd plane hit.. We were almost immediately told to go home and get your children from school and wife from work.. Still brings tears to my eyes !
I was in at school my 9th grade year. It was during my gym class and we had gone outside to play kickball. When I went back inside to go to my keyboarding class the teacher told us that the Twin Towers were gone. Apparently they had made an announcement before but we didn’t hear it because we were outside. It didn’t hit me at the time what had happened.
In Arkansas
I was…in the office mourning the loss of a coworker’s wife. Heard the news and assumed an accident. Then heard about the 2nd one, followed by DC and the PA crash. Had coworker’s and family in DC and at WTC, and worried all day until they were all accounted for.
Lawrenceville, GA I was at the dentist. The radio was on talking about the first plane. At that point they were describing it as a small plane and I thought some pilot lost control somehow. Of course it wasn’t much longer before we realized what was really going on.
I was in a meeting in a conference room in our maspeth office. A secretary came in an told us that a plane had just crashed into the WTC. After watching the TV for a few minutes, some of us went up onto the roof of our 2 story building and looked across the river as smoke poured out of the tower. A horrible, helpless feeling watching a building I had previously worked in for 5 years die.
I remember being told to leave our local post office that day because someone called 911 and said they were members of the group that brought the towers down and they had planted a bomb in our mail distribution center and post office I remember the swat team rolling into the building telling everyone to leave immediately
I was in a classroom in Dublin watching the news and realizing that the panic that my parents went through during the troubles was now hitting the biggest nation on the planet and how the nightmares were just beginning it was unreal to see police standing guard outside the airport it was unreal to have England become completely locked down that day it was unreal to have NYC completely and totally on lock down
I was at home with my four year old son. The television was on. I watched as the second plane hit. We prayed.
I had just returned from working out and getting ready to go to work in my home office when my wife and I saw it happen on television. My first words was this was no accident and when we saw the 2nd plane hit I said we were under attack. I will never forget the feeling I had knowing so many had lost their lives in that instant and so many more would die before the day was over, including family members of some dear friends.
I was at a community centre in London, England serving food and it came on the lunchtime news. The group I was with (over 50’s west indian people) were all eating and we just watched in amazement. We thought it was an accident at the time but then saw the 2nd plane hit and then realised it was terrorism. Then I left there and went food shopping in Tesco and everyone was crowded around the TV displays watching as the towers fell. It was very scary.
Indiana I was in 6th grade changing for gym in the locker room. The Principle came over the intercome and was talking and we couldnt hear him finally we got quite and heard we all went to our ‘home rooms’ and watched the news after that. I was only 11 and confused on what was happening but it was still sad.
I was in my 1st Period History Class in my 10th grade year when a teacher came running in to get our teacher…it was surreal like, what do you mean the Twin Towers are gone? Looking back at 16yrs old it didn’t quite hit me until I got home and turned on the tv. A truly tragic day that will live with all of us for the rest of our lives. None of those people deserved what happened and here we are 8 years later, with more victims being added everyday.
Scotland I was in school. I was only 6 years old, but I remember leaving school and watching it all on the news, at about 3.45-4.00pm. I remember sitting with my mum, aunt & uncle and watching footage of the towers falling, the planes hitting, again and again. I was young, but it’s my most vague memory.
i was picking mushrooms when i herd. thats to bad sombody so cruel would do such a thing
I was brushing my teeth… getting ready to walk to school. My stepdad came home from the night shift and told me to turn on the TV… I told him that I didn’t have time but he told me to anyway. I did, and when I did, I was in utter shock. I could not believe it. Still can’t believe it sometimes. School was hard to get through that day. We had some really amazing teachers that really helped us get through the day.
In my car driving to work, heard the news on the radio and sat in the parking lot listening to the news
I was 11, after rumours all day at school and walking home, I relised when I was home what had happened. A terrible and tragic day that I will never forget.
miami, fl I had just walked into my office and took a look into my computer, when the first plane hit one of the towers, and I was speech less, and started crying to see how is that we did’nt see this coming – or did the President did know?
I wonder…
not born yet
just woke up, and getting ready for school. and I saw the T.V. screen I was the 3rd grade at the time, so I was confused.
San luis obispo, CA I had just gotten up for school when the first tower was hit and I was watching the news. Then I saw the second plane go across the screen and thought it was odd tha a plane was flying that low then I saw it fly into the second tower.
I was at work. Someone brought in a TV and set it up in a conference room. All of us on the floor made our way to it throughout the day. A group of us watched the first tower fall and someone said that looks like a controlled demolition. A different person, when the second tower fell said the same thing.
asleep in bed and my wife who worked for American Airlines, called to tell me to turn the TV on and that her flight from Seattle to New York had been canceled.
taking a standardized test at a high school in Indiana
I was working at the USF&G tower in Downtown Baltimore. The talllest building in Maryland….
your location (optional) I was…examining a roof for possible hail damage,
at home in Seattle getting ready for work.
I was at school, going into french class. Confused.
I was checking into the security building into los alamos when i saw the news. Needless to say things got significantly harder to get in almost instantly.
6th grade class
I was in my 2nd grade reading class
I was in homeroom in 6th grade.
in my eighth grade history class.
asleep in a basement about 25 miles away
in bed
In my 8th grade French class
Pulaski, NY Sitting in my eighth grade social studies class.
I was in 7th Grade English. When the second tower crashed, my father picked me and my sister up. There were three different pairs of parents there to pick their children up from school.
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i was considering starting a website………..it would be an imageboard website called……………4chan…………..then i realised id be happier becoming a male prostitue in mexico
getting told a story by a bunch of school children. it was the first time i finished a book
I was behind my snare drum during band in 7th grade.
I was presenting a grant proposal in Michigan to a bunch of people from a company in New York City. We stopped and watched it unfold on TV.
Flying a plane…
I was watching the morning news while lying in a hospital bed recovering from a heart attack the day before.
I was eating a bowl of cereal watching it on the news when it first happened
I was at school…In computer class…a day i will never forget…we watched the second plane hit on t.v.
in my dorm room just waking up for classes around 9 a.m.. I then had to hear my very naive roommate state, “I didn’t think planes were allowed to fly that close in the city!”
Trying on my mother’s bras and panties
Sleeping at home
singing torres gemelas from delfin hasta el fin, ay ay ayyyyyyyyyyyy
I was in my English class. I was in 6th grade. the principal dragged every classroom in the hallway out to tell us the news and that we were going to be dismissed from class early.
At school, I was in 4th grade. The school didn’t tell us anything, neither did the bus driver. When I got home, my mother was crying and I didn’t know why.
I was witnessing the shocking event on TV at the time..
The story of where I was is rather appropriate. I was a freshman in high school and was in my choir class. We were in the process of voicing for our parts. The song that my choir teacher used for voicing was “America the Beautiful.” As one of my choir mates was singing the song, the other choir teacher for the upper choirs came running in flailing his arms about. “A PLANE JUST HIT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER!” David finished singing and then we watched the news as the second plane hit.
In school. Had just walked into Language Arts class to see the TV News reporting what was going on an the LA teacher looking shocked. Was pretty young (7th or 8th grade) so I didn’t really understand what was going on.
Park Hills, KY I was in my freshman honors English class in high school. An announcement over the intercom let us know that something had happened. The teacher turned on the TV to watch the news. Five minutes later we watched as the second tower hit. We stared in shock, people cried, someone asked why anyone would do such a thing.
Waking up with a strange feeling as the first plane hit the tower. After that, I was glued to the TV.
at the airport
wanking
…coming down with what later proved to be double pneumonia. I was sitting in a chair in my house in Prescott Arizona, feeling horrible and coughing my lungs out, when my eleven year old son came in and shouted, “Dad, come quick, an airplane just hit a building in New York!”