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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…
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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.
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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
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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.
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…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!”
at work in a nursing home.
installing ceiling tile at a Church just off of Hwy 71 in Austin, TX
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I the backwaters of Prey Vang province looking for ordinance. Found out about the 9/11 a few days later. Kinda wrecked my day.
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I was in work, I heard about what was happening when my sister phoned me, I was getting the details as they happened, I was shocked and tried to tell my colleagues but they wouldn’t listen to me, I realized what an ignorant bunch of B*******s they are. I don’t work there any more.
I was hitting on the large breasted girl next to me in high school physics.
I was at school when I heard about what happened. I was a senior in high school at the time. I remember people talking about terrorist, starting a war and people being drafted. That particular start off differently than most as well…….
I was sitting in my second grade class room. A teacher from across the hall rushed in and turned on the television. I remember they kept talking about “Terrorists” and “The World Trade Center” but I had no idea what that was. My mother picked me up from school early.
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England I was work at the time, when a colleague mentioned that events were unfolding in the US with a plane crashing in the US. Shortly, afterwards the second plane hit the other tower and clearly this was something more than intially expected.
When the towers collapsed, thoughts immediately turned to the loss of lives. Many felt compelled to watch the events unfold on the news.
I remember a year on from 9/11 where we held three minute silence to remember the ones we lost. It was very moving, as we all gathered outside on the street to stand together. People were stopping in their cars and getting out, construction work that was happening next to our offices at the time stopped. It was a surreal moment, the area I was in fell into complete silence, even to the extent the wind became still.
It felt like the world had held its breath for those three minutes.
I was…in my home with my mother who was in the last stages of liver cancer. I saw the planes hit on TV. It was a horrible combination of events as my mother died soon after.
I was getting out of the shower at 6 am in California when I saw the TV
I was at school, out on the playground. It was recess. We were lining up to go in when I was called to go to the office, my dad had come to pick me up. I didn’t think anything of it until I got home and found out mom was still at the base, stuck there because of a lock-down. She had called my dad to come get me so she knew I was in a safe place until she was able to leave again, after the lock-down was over. I still didn’t know about what had happened, but then dad showed me the newspaper. I showed no real reaction to it, but I am aware of how horrible it is. A few months later I got to visit NYC and got to see the rubble that once was the towers.
Big Creek Elementary, Ohio I was at school at in 4th grade and there was gossip our school was gonna get bombed. And our class went to the cafeteria for a message that everything is fine. I just thought everyone was being dumb and should get back to class. I know kids were getting taken home but I didn’t know why or care. When I got off the bus at the end of the day my mom was waiting for me and I thought someone in my family was sick or something or my cat died or whatever. I got in and for the first time that day (that I remember) I saw the news and she was hugging me. I was just confused and didn’t honestly care. Not to be mean or heartless, it’s just it didn’t affect me directly and I didn’t really understand it. My mom was all tears, though.
Mission West Elementary School Richmond, Texas I was at school I was in 4th grade my teacher was contacted on a phone that only went connected to the front office he spoke to the person on the line for a few minutes he then turned on the tv that was connected to the computer and showed us a link from his email on cnn.com he explained what was going on and the significance of the buildings we put our heads down on our desks and where told we could pray if we wanted later the principal came on the intercom and explained what had happened many students where being taken home by their parents who feared the school could be a terrorist target when lunch time came around we had to eat “silent lunch” where talking was not allowed by lunch about half the school was gone and the lights in the school where dimmed to help keep us quiet after lunch the teacher turned on the tv to CNN and we did not go to music class or gym the bus ride home was silent and had about 7 out of the 30 students that usually rode it and that’s where I was
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I was out in the middle of the Arizona desert building a highway bridge. During our mid morning break the foreman informed us about it. At lunch I drove 10 miles to a truck stop that had a television. What I saw shocked the hell out of me. I had watched those towers go up, and now I watched them come down. At first, I was depressed. Then I became ANGRY! This means WAR!!!!
In bed in Australia…I wondered what the hell was happening to be honest
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was sleeping in my dorm.
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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.
Santa Barbara, CA I was getting ready for school
Sittin in History hopin i wouldnt have to run in a cross country meet that night.
I was in my first hour english class.
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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!
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.
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.
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.
i war at home watching city pulse news when the plane hit the second tower
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.
i was in my kindergarden class
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.
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.
I was in my classroom at Wood Elementary. We Had to stay in our classroom almost all day.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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I was in a high school tech class.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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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.
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.
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….
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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.
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.
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Fishing in Nantucket, listening to the radio
Albury / Wodonga Studying for an exam while watching cable news.
on holiday in austria packing to fly home the following day.
i was working in a factory
At my friends home in the town of Britain at the age of 16 of course then I didn’t clearly understand the full effect of what had happened.
I witnessed the planes hit the towers and witnessed my friends dad sobbing over the tragedy. During school the teachers gathered into the science block to watch the television images of the towers…
It got so bad that some of my teachers actually left the school to go home as they were so upset.
From your friends and allies in Britain I must say that you maintained a decent position during the whole catastrophy and can merely only apologize for what you all felt on that horrific day.
Love from Britain,
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Rochester, MI i was 12 when it happened. I was supposed to be in school but decided to stay home sick and sleep in. my mom woke me up around 9:20 and told me the news. i feel guilty now because i didn’t know what buildings the world trade center were. Anyway i went downstairs to look at the news with my dad, and i watched as both towers crumbled to the ground…. I had no emotion, until it hit me that there were people in there, and in the planes.. it wasn’t some scheduled demolition.. somebody attacked the buildings. I became more informed from news that day forward.. i had to know what happened… and what was going to happen.. later that night i cried in my room, just out of disbelief and sadness for all those sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers who weren’t going to come home that night to their families.
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it was the night of 9/11 and I was at my bording school in the dorms that night we had chineese food and I got a really trippy fourtune in my cookie. It said “The Events of Today Will Be Barried By the Sands of Time”
Western Australia On my way home from an AA meeting in Perth Australia. Driving down Warwick Road and I heard the news on the radio in the car. Everyone was asleep when I got home so I rang my Dad and told him and we both watched on our TVs. Told my husband when I went to bed but he didn’t remember when he woke up. All internet news sites were down but it was still on TV all next day.
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springfield missouri it was my day off. i was cleaning house as i always did on tuesdays. i was wearing jeans and a white tank top. i was trying to figure out why my vacuum wasn’t picking up, holding the hose in my hand. the phone rang. it was my mom. she said that something horrible had happened in nyc and i should turn on my tv. i never watch daytime tv and my mom had this sweet little habit of making little mundane things sound like world war 3, so i thought this was one of those times. i turned on the tv. the first image i saw was a young asian woman sitting in a truck. she and the truck were absolutely covered in what looked like white powder. the chaos was unreal. i listened to the newscaster’s voice and it started sinking in. i started to cry. i saw the ruined towers, saw the footage of the planes crashing into them and it was just surreal. it was nearly noon here in springfield, missouri before i found out. it was just insanity. my husband came home from work, something he’s never done before. everyone was scared, no one knew what to believe. he’d heard this rumor that something might be done to shut down the gas supplies. we filled up our cars and picked up our son from school. we just wanted to be together. other parents were doing the same thing. everyone was walking around in shock, some crying. in the blackest days of america’s history that followed, my friends, family and people i encountered were just shell shocked. we cried without warning. we were scared. we didn’t sleep. even writing this now is getting to me. i pray nothing this horrible ever happens again.
repairing a hardwood floor at the mall in Lake Wales, Florida. My girlfriend had just boarded a plane to Atlanta. I freaked.
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in 3rd grade. I remember we were all sitting around the white board learbing how to divide fractions, then my classmate’s brother came running in out of breath (we were on the top floor) gibbering about something about terrorist, then I remember he said ‘we are under attack’ and Hope ran out of the class with her brother. Everyone one was shocked and confused (we didn’t know what terrorist were, but we knew what attacked meant) and my teacher brought in the TV and we watched the plane crash over and over again. My classmates were leaving and crying and I was wondering wear my mom was because she was suppose to come back on that flight (she missed it that say, the power shut off in her hotel) and I was just….numb.