Where Were You on 9/11?
Tell a friend about this site:
Email and share these stories
Bookmark this site: Digg | Netscape | Del.icio.us | Reddit
RSS Feed: feeds.feedburner.com/WhereWereYou
Bookmark this site: Digg | Netscape | Del.icio.us | Reddit
RSS Feed: feeds.feedburner.com/WhereWereYou
1,439 responses...
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
next page
view all memories
view all memories
a
able
about
accident
across
actually
after
again
air
airport
all
almost
already
also
always
am
america
american
amp
an
and
another
any
anything
are
around
arrived
as
asked
asleep
at
attack
attacked
attacks
away
back
be
because
bed
been
before
began
being
believe
best
big
bless
both
brother
building
buildings
burning
bus
but
by
call
called
came
can
car
center
changed
children
city
class
classroom
close
cnn
college
come
coming
could
couldnt
country
course
coverage
crash
crashed
cried
crying
dad
daughter
day
days
did
didnt
died
disbelief
do
doing
dont
door
down
driving
drove
during
early
end
even
events
ever
every
everyone
everything
eyes
families
family
feel
feeling
fell
felt
few
finally
find
fire
first
flight
floor
fly
flying
for
forget
found
friend
friends
from
get
getting
glued
go
god
going
gone
good
got
grade
had
happen
happened
happening
has
have
having
he
hear
heard
heart
help
her
here
high
him
his
history
hit
hitting
home
horrible
horror
hour
hours
house
how
husband
i
idea
if
im
immediately
in
into
is
it
its
just
kids
knew
know
late
later
leave
left
let
life
like
listening
little
live
lived
lives
living
long
look
looked
looking
lost
loved
lunch
made
make
manhattan
many
me
minutes
mom
moment
more
morning
most
mother
movie
much
my
myself
nd
never
new
news
next
night
no
north
not
nothing
now
ny
nyc
of
off
office
oh
old
on
once
one
ones
only
or
other
our
out
outside
over
pa
parents
pentagon
people
period
phone
picked
place
plane
planes
put
radio
ran
ready
real
realized
really
remember
rest
right
room
running
s
sad
said
same
sat
saw
say
saying
scared
school
second
see
seeing
seemed
seen
september
she
shock
shocked
should
show
since
sister
sitting
sleeping
small
smoke
so
some
someone
something
son
soon
south
st
standing
started
station
still
stopped
story
street
strong
students
such
sure
t
take
talking
teacher
teachers
tears
television
tell
telling
terrible
terrorist
terrorists
th
than
that
the
their
them
then
there
these
they
thing
things
think
thinking
this
those
though
thought
through
time
to
today
told
too
took
tower
towers
trade
tried
trying
turn
turned
tv
twin
two
under
understand
until
up
us
v
very
waiting
walked
walking
want
wanted
war
was
wasnt
watch
watched
watching
way
we
week
weeks
well
went
were
what
when
where
which
while
who
whole
why
wife
will
with
woke
work
worked
working
world
would
wtc
year
years
york
you
your
About this Site |
RSS Feed |
Email |
Digg |
Netscape |
Copyright © 2006 Joe Tan
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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.
lol
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!”
at work in a nursing home.
installing ceiling tile at a Church just off of Hwy 71 in Austin, TX
Grandmas couch
I the backwaters of Prey Vang province looking for ordinance. Found out about the 9/11 a few days later. Kinda wrecked my day.
i was smoking a big fat blunt
i was smoking marijuana
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.
I just lit a candle to join with fans from all around the world to paying their respects to Michael. He’s gone, but not forgotten.
You can to
Just like this candle that will burn forever, your music, your unmatched ta
lent and good heart will live on forever in us. RIP King of Pop! We love you MJ.
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
in Montreal
I love you…mine…
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.
I was just getting off work at the fire station in tulsa ok
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.
in my school lunchroom. yay.
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.
louisville, ky at your mother’s house..
louisville, ky busy..why should i help you?
busy..why should i help you?
hello
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.
i was making love to my woman indeed yes im the ladies man
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?
I was at work watching it on tv
i was becoming 5moths old
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….
i was here
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.
i was not born yet SORRY loser oh and dont look in your
closet bitchs
asasas
Dallas TX I was in the skies over Florida.
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,
Joshua Govus
jork I consider that beside Your site there is future!e
new Your site is very interesting and useful
new These prayers help me to keep God in my life, especially with the many distractions I encounter.”
jork Da nu Nah
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.
Austin, TX on my way to class at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.
new I you all love!g
new I you all love!
jork I like it and the background and colors make it easy to reade
new Sentimental and nostalgic. Great.
new Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugandÐ
i was at school n i didnt know what happend till 2day 11-21-08
Australia Very Nice Site! Thanx!
Whole Ass Amateur
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.
jork Your guestbook is example of middle-class guestbooks. Congratulation! I’ll show your site and guestbook to my friends.t
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.
new daite na pivo
jork Nice site… Cool guestbook…n
new Hi! Definitely nice and neat site you got there.
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.
In my 6th grade class, I remember our teacher telling us that it was her birthday that day.
new Nice post. I\’ll return.e
at home looking at the news
i was taking a bath
I was in college in 2001. I didn’t have class that day and had decided to sleep in, but my mother called me at about 8:00 CST and told me to turn on the TV and a small plane had flown into the World Trade Center tower. I watched the television the rest of the day…while calling my sister, who was at school, to tell her to get home immediately (somehow, I just wanted all of my loved ones at home). I slept with the radio on and my car keys beside my bed for two weeks….just in case.
jork Pretty nice site, wants to see much more on it!
at your mamas house
I am a Fire Officer in South Africa, on that awfull day I went fishing with my dad and son in a river in Mpumalanga, a province in SA.
When my dad came over to me and told me about the planes hitting the towers I went cold and we prayed for the trapped and the familys of the dead, being what I am my concern was for those who went in while others runned out…….Never will we be the same, never will we look at a night sky and think of your city without feeling …….My heart and thoughts go out to all who has to live there, to see the emty space where once two giants stood to all who lost a loved one, especialy the Firemen,their families and brothers in arms…….I was not there, but I am with you in thought now
new This is very interesting site….
new Great site. I will bookmark for my sons to view as well!!!
new Wow!!! Good job. Could I take some of yours triks to build my own site?
i was in my 3rd grade class doing fractions
teaching religion to my first grade class. We had just finished praying the Our Father and a child asked me what “Thy Kingdom Come” meant. I tried to explain when our asst principal came over the intercom asking us to pray for our president. Then, a few moments later, my principal came to tell me that the twin towers were hit by planes. Later, she came to tell me that the pentagon was hit by something and so was a field in PA. I told her to send the students home since we were located so close to DC. We rounded up the whole school, with many parents helping out, and dismissed every student to their parents’ waiting cars. I remember how silent everyone was, especially those who had spouses working in DC, the pentagon, and out of town.
When I finally drove home, I remember how surreal the day was given that we were under attack. My brother and I were both expecting babies, he a son and me a daughter. It was strange to feel joy at that time. My daughter was born 5 days later and my nephew exactly one month after that. It was so emotional and scary.
I was in bed, when my mom came in my room. She usually woke me up to get ready for school and most the time she would lie about silly things to get me out of bed quicker (such as, it’s snowing, ect ect.). This day she came in and said “Get up! They’re attacking New York. I really didn’t believe her, so I stayed in bed maybe three minutes longer. She came in again and dragged me out of bed. After that I was glued to the tv until I went over to my friends house because her mom and my mom went off base for something. We lived on an Air Force Base at the time and it was on total lock down. No one could get back on base if they had left, like my mom had. It was just a crazy day.
On Sept. 11, 2001, I was at home, in Richmond,KY. I was in bed asleep after working at my 3rd shift job. My roommate came and told me the news. It took me a moment to realize what he was talking about.
Fort Worth, TX I was on my way to college. I heard it unraveling on the radio and by the time I walked into the common area at school to see it on the news the second plane hit. It was surreal. I will never ever forget. The thing that sticks out the most is when everyone was covered with ash and there was no longer black or white or whatever. It was just people. People living a nightmare.
I was getting ready for my third week of highschool that morning, listening to a radio station and thinking “how did a plane hit a huge tower by accident?”
I walked into my parents bedroom right as the second plane hit the second tower and I was in complete shock. It was like I was watching a movie… it didn’t seem real. My mom was calling relatives to make sure they were okay, and that they knew what was happening… Thank goodness everyone was alright.
I was just waking up. Someone told me we got bombed. I got in the shower. School was canceled. …Talk about a baller and bummer of a day.
BIDDEFORD, ME I WAS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL, AT BIDDEFORD HIGH. I WAS IN 2ND BLOCK AND MY TEACHER CAME INTO THE CLASS BALLING HER EYES OUT. SHE HAD ALL OF US GO NEXT DOOR TO ANOTHER CLASSROOM WHERE THERE WAS A TV. AT FIRST I DIDN’T BELIEVE MY EYES… UNTIL I HEARD IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK AND THE 2ND PLANE. IT’S A SCARY WORLD =( I’LL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY….
I was training at a daycare about 20 minutes from the Pentagon. We shut down the daycare, sent all the kids home and one of the workers drove me back to my hotel. The freeway was completley empty on the drive back. I stayed in my hotel most of the day watching the news.
I had just stepped out of work for a second to get my
mother a birthday card. While at the counter paying,
the person behind the desk said that a “small plane”
had just hit one of the twin towers. I looked at my watch,
and it was just about 9:17……He was listening on a radio,
and the broadcast was relatively calm. When I returned
to work, however, TV’s were on and reality began to sink in……I looked at the screen for about 20 seconds and
thought to myself……”we are at war with somebody”…
I was at home, making coffee when the first plane hit the WTC. I thought it was an accident at first, until I saw that second plane homing in on the WTC. I knew then it had to be terrorists! I spent most of the day crying in front of the TV. It was a horribly sad day for the entire country. We all pulled together then, and I wish we could have held on to that, but it wasn’t to be.
Seattle, WA I was working at the library reference desk at one of the Environmental Protection Agency libraries. The first tower was hit and someone heard about it. They spread the word and people started running into the halls to watch the tv. Some people came in the library crying. Then, the news about the plane sent us all over the edge.
I remember repsonding to a reference e-mail from someone in the southeast right at that moment. I jsut had to cut it short, not knowing what to call “the incident” with the towers. The news about the plan in PA had not yet come on… Thing were happening in slow motion.
Being a government agency, we were told to close up and go home. Before I left the building, I called my mom on a land line. I was afraid to go outside at first, then made it to the parking lot. The line to get away–home–from work to the freeway was unreal.
When I got to my house (sharing with housemates who were also in grad school), we just watched our fuzzy television.
I had rugby practice that night and we went anyway, all hoping for some semblance of normal ending to our otherwise upsetting day.
On September 11, 2001, I was a new freshman at Franklin College. It was only the second or third week of school and we were all still adjusting. I didn’t have class until 9, but because I am who I am, I was seated in the classroom at 8:40 am. I had no idea what was going on outside the halls of the classroom. My class was World Literature I. There was this girl… she had some Italian name, that always came in late. September 11th was no different. She showed up five minutes late; however, instead of creeping in and quickly taking her seat like normal, she interrupted the professor to ask if anyone had heard what was going on in New York. As college students, CNN was not the first thought upon waking, and I highly doubt anyone had even been awake for more the 10 minutes when she asked. Everyone shrugged their shoulders and the professor asked her to please take her seat. We conducted class not knowing anything.
When class ended, I had decided to skip my next class to figure out what this girl was talking about. I headed over to my dorm room. My roommate and I had opted out of cable to save money, but there was a lounge with a tv. As I walked by, I saw my roommate sitting there, silent, with tears on her face. I sat down beside her, and watched with disbelief. I didn’t cry initially, I think I was too shocked. Instead, I hugged this girl I’d only known for three weeks and headed to my room to pack cloths. I wanted to go home. So, I did. I drove home from college and listened to the radio the whole way. I just wanted to see my family, to know that everything was going to be ok.
It took days before I finally broke down and cried, it really just took that long to get over the shock. I wasn’t even directly affected by the tragedy. A girl in my introduction to political science class couldn’t even discuss the event without crying because her uncle was a firefighter that died that day. Even though no one I knew died, I took 9/11 really hard. I was at that age when everyone believes in the world. I was young, naive, and full of hope. I wanted to remain so forever, but suddenly it was gone and my heart was broken. It felt like someone had died, and perhaps that someone was the America we once knew. It will never be the same.
Remember. While we should all go about our lives and continue living and rebuilding America… we should never forget.
at school in 7th grade in the lower level of the library
getting to celebreate my b day. I got my kids off to scool and was watching the tv while wathing the tvand saw the whole coverage, I called my neighbor I dont remember much after that
new york i was in my school watching from a class room window
I was sitting on our bed, watching “The Today Show,” and eating leftover birthday cake (I had turned 46 the day before). My daughter had just started kindergarten. When I was a child, I used to think of my life as a time line, with it stopping at the year 2000, on my 45th birthday, when I thought the new millennium began. Actually, the new millennium began on January 1, 2001, according to scholars. I was off by one year. I am a direct descendant of the original settlers of Manhattan Island, and felt this at a visceral level, yet I remained calm.
I live in central PA. When Matt Lauer said a third plane had gone down only two hours from here, I calmly got in my car, drove to the Catholic School, and got my daughter. I wasn’t the only parent coming for their child. I truly felt it was the beginning of the end.
My younger sister graduated from high school with the husband of Amy Sweeney, the stewardess on Flight 11 who was the last voice heard before it slammed into the North Tower. My twin brother also lost a colleague from work on the same flight.
I remember that, about two weeks later, when a regular commercial finally came back on, I finally fell apart.
I want to take the Praxis this coming nOV. 15. Is there a testing center in Cebu, Philippines?
i was living in emma missouri, only 25 miles from the air force base where the stealth bombers are. my husband was in minnesota. i had the kids. my boys were 3 and 4. My neighbor said we just got bombed. It was frightning. I watched the second tower go down on cnn.
manhattan born in brooklyn i was living in manhattan at the time and i still do…anyway me and ma friends to school it waz around 8:32 or somethin…we stopped near a deli for drinkz an i stood outside looked at the towers…so my friendz came out of the store an we decided to just chill around..then a couple minutes later we heard a roaring like sound an we looked up as well as other people then we saw a plane hit one of the towers..and waz like damn an shocked…people gathered up to watch..filming and stuff..i waz in 5th grade.
Philadelphia I was in between jobs when 9/11 happened… I went downstairs around 8:30 am to make some breakfast and got a phone call from my brother to turn on the TV. He had just moved into his new place and the movers had turned on his TV to make sure the reception was coming through. Anyway, I turned on the TV to “Good Morning America” and could not believe what I was seeing… of course Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer reporting had no clue it was a terrorist strike… they just thought it was an accident like everyone else at the outset. Upon first notice, I could not believe how big the hole in the WTC was… it was so surreal; it looked like something out of Hell with the smoke and fire… I thought I was watching that old movie “The Towering Infernoâ€â€¦ a little after 9am, the 2nd plane hit the other WTC building and by that time, it was evident that we were being attacked.
I remember flipping around all the channels and out of respect for those who perished, some cable stations stopped their broadcasts. During that day and for the next couple of weeks were some of the most uncertain, frightful moments I have experienced, especially with all the bomb threats, and the warnings of possibly more attacks.
I was living in Philadelphia, PA and had Tuesday, September 11th off work. I fell back asleep on the couch with the TV on when my phone starting ringing and ringing. I finally answered it and it was a relative telling me to turn on the TV. Because I was sleeping, I didn’t immediately recognize that it was New York City as the first tower had already collapsed.
Of course, that shocking news woke me up immediately and by that time, a traffic jam was in progress in downtown Philadelphia. The downtown skyscrapers were being evacuated, stores and malls closed, schools closed (the entire week), and the national historical sites (Liberty Bell, Independance Hall, the US Mint, etc..) were closed and heavily guarded. The streets were almost in gridlock by 11 am.
My roomate worked in New York City and went in late that day. He had made it to the Trenton, NJ train station and heard the news and headed back into Philadelphia. His family and friends were calling the apartment as well, relieved to find out that he had only made it to Trenton, NJ. He worked in lower Manhattan only blocks from the World Trade Centers and his co-workers were in the groups of people running north out of lower Manhattan. Their stories were gripping and emotional.
Since I lived in downtown Philly, the news and media advised downtown residents that it would be best to have an emergency plan should we need to evacuate. At that point, the attacks were to our north in New York, south in Washington DC and to the west, where flight 93 went down. The officials did not know if Philadelphia was targeted in any way and wanted residents to be alert and prepared.
By 2 pm that day, downtown Philadelphia was almost a ghost town. The traffic was gone and basically everything was closed. I remember going for a walk to find a bite to eat, and had to walk blocks and blocks to find a local deli still open. It was eerie. The fellow residents were all were somber and were very polite which was such a radical change from normal.
It was a surreal day that I will never forgot.
in parkersburg wv, getting dressed to go to work, i am a pilot and i was going to fly to pissburgh that day to start my trip.
i was in a little town north of mahomet,Il
watching the news at home
i was in kindergarten at school. i knew what was going on because my teacher turned it to the news channel and she watched about it.
i was in kindergarten and i remember coming home and watching it on the news with my parents.
Tampa, FL I was at home, and had just finished sending an e-mail to a friend and was signing off of AOL. At that time, breaking news would appear on the “welcome” screen and there was the picture of the first plane having hit the World Trade Center. I didn’t stop to read any text, and I just thought for a second from the picture, “what a terrible accident” and couldn’t understand how a plane could veer so off course as to cause this horrible accident, and then it quickly dawned on me that this might not be an accident. I yelled to my elderly mom at the other end of the house, “Turn on CNN!!” She did, and we watched in horror as the second plane hit the other tower.
I hurriedly called my husband, who was shopping, to tell him the news. Then the Pentagon was hit and my sister called from several states away, screaming into the phone, “What’s happening? What’s going to be hit next??” We live near what was at that time Central Command, and were afraid of an attack on our local air base. We then learned of the downing of the plane in Pennsylvania.
I remember not crying at the time, but rushing into the bathroom and feeling severely nauseated, but numb. Of course, we stayed tuned in to the television for hours, days, as the horror continued to unfold.
It was a few days later when I was driving and had stopped at a busy intersection at a long red light that I finally began to cry, then sob, over the recent events on 9/11.
My sister’s birthday is 9/11, so of course there was no celebration that year, and actually we did not celebrate it for the next few years to any real extent; it felt disrespectful to do so, and she seemed to feel guilty for having her birthday on that day.
My neighbor’s sister was a flight attendant who would have been working on the first plane that hit the WTC that day, but had called in sick due to a severe cold. She and her family were relieved, of course, but heartsick that several of her colleagues and friends, and the passengers on board, had lost their lives in such a horrific way.
The United States changed forever that day. Never again would any of us who were aware of those events look at things in quite the same way. Never again would we recapture the relative innocence and feeling of security we had always enjoyed as Americans. None of us have ever truly fully recovered.
My heart went, and does go, out to the families of those who perished that day, and in the aftermath, 9/11/01. I did not have family or friends involved, and I hadn’t been to New York City in many years. But we all died in a way that day. We truly will never be the same.
I was…at my house clening up when it came on the radio i couldn;t get over it i just want to send my love to everone how lost some one i cant even think what your going through but i just want evey one to no god is with you all lots ov love sara jayne white xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx my pace xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Burma kill downloader program rub offr worm rub off windows antispyware removing malware malware rub off removing adware removing trojan horse worm scanner of charge antyspyware
The phone rang early that morning it was only about 6:30am our time (in CA)so that was unusual but I just figured it was my step dad being called into work. Then my mom came busting into my room yelling that a terrorist attack was happening back east. My mom over reacts a lot so I didn’t believe it at first. Though when I walked into the living room and saw the tv I knew it was real. My grandma was visiting from back east and was suppose to fly home in a couple days. She ended up being stuck with us for an extra week. Our phone was ringing off the hook because we go back to Boston very often since my sister lives in New Hampshire, and everyone was calling to make sure we weren’t coming home. My dad also had just recently gone to NYC alot for business so I was so excited when I reached him by phone. My mom made me stay home from school that day, I was 17 at the time and had just started my senior year and wanted to go be with my friends that day. But my mom claimed since we live in southern California so close to LA that I was not going anywhere. After a few hours though I convinced her to let me go into work that day right near the house. At work we had customers coming in crying, hardly anyone was talking and we had the tv on all day. After I got off work mom and I went to the grocery store to stock pile things and most the water was gone. A clerk had brought a fresh box of water jugs out and people were breaking the box open for water, we managed to get some and went home. Later I went to my dads house nearby and my little brother was 6 and came up to me and saw I was wearing a flag pin. He asked, “is that for the people in the planes?” I remember trying everything not to cry because I felt his and every other child’s innocence in a way was stolen that day. Though for many kids they lost a lot more than just there innocence and we have prayed for them all so much. I did not travel for a full year after that but have since flown to Boston and New York over 30 times and even just booked another trip 2 days ago as well as another trip to NYC for the Ball Drop on NYE. I do not let the terrorists fears stop me from doing what I want to do, I just wish we could have gotten Osama by now. Dude its been almost 7 years!
Wichita, KS I was a junior in high school, and in history class. I would soon be watching history being made. The teacher from the adjoining room barged in with the TV on wheels trailing behind her. We sat glued to the screen as the second plane hit just a minute or so after we turned the set on. The bell rang signaling class change, but nobody moved. We remained in a terrefied trance for the next couple hours, occasionally speculating about the attacks and asking the teachers questions. We thought Wichita would be on the terrorists list- because we are the air capital of the world… Eventually the administration made us catch up to our class schedule, but we talked about little else for the rest of the day. Looking back, I wish I would have gone home to watch continuous coverage.
Is there a year associated with this?! but if you mean september 11, 2001 with the World Trade Center incident. Then i was watching Court TV the nathaniel Brazill trial when all of a sudden the Channel went into some weird news report interupting a trial i was intensly into for a few weeks recording it and watching it daily anyways then i flipped to Cartoon Network no interuptions there then my moms came home and told me what happend and i was like holy crap whaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! sad stuff that day huh!
I was in the 2nd grade and i was very aware of what was going on because I grew up with my brother who is into all that type of stuff and I thought it was horrid. and I still do till this day.
I usually didn’t arrive to work until about 9:30 am. Typically I would listen to the radio during my highway commute, but on the morning of September 11th, I’d decided to leave it off. I hadn’t yet learned of the attacks.
There was something strange with the behavior of drivers around me that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Everyone seemed to be moving more slowly and driving more politely than I’d ever witnessed.
When I arrived at work, I overheard my co-workers talking about the World Trade Center towers. Logging onto my computer, I tried to access MSNBC.com and noticed how incredibly slow it was to load the website. The headlines there made it clear that we were under attack.
Most of the major news websites were rendered useless and inaccessible due to the high traffic overwhelming their servers. I tried some foreign news sites like the BBC and was able to get more information there. Some organizations were already speculating that the attacks had been the work of Osama Bin Laden.
Eventually we all began to huddle around a small TV in a spare cubicle of the office. By this time, the South Tower of the World Trade Center had collapsed.
When I returned to my desk, my mother called me and asked if I had heard the news. Her sister –my aunt– lived in and worked near New York City. Fortunately, she was not in Manhattan at the time of the attacks, but knew plenty of people in the towers. Mom cried for a moment before we said our goodbyes…it was important that we all made this connection with the people we loved during such a horrific time.
My girlfriend and I exchanged brief emails. I remember her writing, “I am scared.” So were we all.
Throughout the work day, most people milled around the office like zombies, running through the motions of their daily tasks but spending the bulk of their time tuned into the TV, on the web or speaking on the phone with family and friends.
There was a rumor spreading that gasoline stations had been driving gas prices to upwards of $7 a gallon. As I drove home, I witnessed many gas stations with lines spanning around the block. Obviously, many people had heard the same rumor, though the gas hike never really happened. Price of gas at that time remained around $1.36 a gallon.
That evening, all major news stations broadcast and re-broadcast video footage of the attacks. It reminded me of both the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt and the space shuttle Challenger disaster.
The effects of that day have never really worn off, even after nearly seven years. Our world is forever changed and it’s clear future generations will never understand a pre-9/11 America.
i was at my house wach tv when this hapend
I was having a breakfast at my flat in london before going to work when i had a phonecall, it was from the houses of parliament where i was working at the time, the person said that we should be off work that day because of security reasons, i did ask what happened…and he told to me to check out the news on tv….I did.
i was at school in forth grade.
Well I remember being in elementary school when one of the teachers turned on the TV and the news was on and there were talking about all that happened in New York,I think I was like 13 or 14 at the time,it has been so long that I can’t seem to remember,God Bless America and never let anything like this happen again.
Brussels I was in brussels working on my laptop. And i don’t why because i’ve never done that before, i was surfing on CNN site when the breaknews announce this tragedy. I was working not so far from nato headquater which is near the International Airport. I was very anxious.
i was in my 5th grade class when the teacher got pulled out into the hall with all the other teachers from my grade and they were huddled around the principal. a new moments later an announcement was made that a plane had hit the world trade center and i had no idea what it meant i was just scared. with all this war going on people think that what were doing is wrong but for every life that was lost, every story that is untold, every child who cant see there daddy, is a soldier fighting to make sure that 2,998 more lives dont get lost so some day that daddy can walk his daughter down the isle.
I was on my way to drop my children off at school in Chesterfield, VA when the radio announced that a “Small, possible scenic plane had crashed into one of the twin towers in NYC. While driving, the host suddenly shrieked and yelled that another plane had “just crashed into the other twin tower. I was overcome with confusion mixed with disbelief as I ran the details around in my head. I assumed perhaps the second was a news chopper filming the first crash. It never occured to me that this type of violence could occur in the US. After all, this was something we only watched on TV happening in other countries. We have visited all three crash sites to pay our respect.
I was washing my hands
in fourth grade doing my hw in class.
I was at work – then someone said we were being attacked and everyone went to watch the news. We watched the towers fall in dismay, praying for all those people. We listened to the report that all planes were grounded and still some were up with one heading back to Washington,DC. The local radio announced that Air Force was comming in for a landing- we could see it out the window at work. I still jump when a plane comes over the downtown area or a plane from Barksdale comes over.
No I will never forget.
i was in school, and i didn’t understand what exactly was going on….
SanjaCue, Paraguay, SA in SanjaCue, Paraguay with the Peace Corps. I had only been in country 9 months and didn’t speak the language super well yet when the Principal at the elementary
school told me two planes had crashed in NYC. I thought he meant they hit each other.
I went to one of the neighbor’s houses who had a tv and watched as people jumped from the second tower right before it collapsed. It looked like a bomb went off.
Everyone else thought it was a movie. I started to cry and the urge to go home was unbearable. It was almost 2 days before I could watch the news in English and get a basic understanding of what had happened.
While I was in shock, many of my friends from rural Paraguay were still struggling to understand two buildings 110 stories tall had actually been constructed and then destroyed. The tallest building they had ever seen in person was 3 stories high.
Many people asked me what the United States would do. Would we use nuclear weapons? Would we start a third world war?
With the advent of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars the answer became clear. We watched together as huts not unlike my friends’ and family’s were bombed and we wondered aloud about how we hurt each other.
i was 2 getting ready to leave for a friends and i didn’t understand what was going on and i didnt care……..now i feel terrible that i didnt care
I was at the Social Security office in Portsmouth, VA
I was asleep when my husband was yelling for me to get up and look at the tv. I couldn’t believe what I was watching was real. Then all the sudden the second plane hit the towers…all day I was shaken and upset about it!
i was in my moms apartment at the time that happen in pa and i cry for all them families and my prayes are with you all. april
i was in my moms apartment at the time that happen april
I was at home turned on t v and very sad day son in toronto ont.
BRANDON M.B. CANADA
Anonymous
I was at home turned on t v and 9-11 sad day
BRANDON M.B. CANADA
Anonymous
London UK I was working in a hospital laboratory in London We spent most of the afternoon going backwards and forwards to the break room watching the television in disbelief. That night I got a phone call telling me two of our friends were on the second plane to crash
Kansas City, MO I was sitting in Ms. Miller’s 5th grade Theology (religion) class. Our Vice Principal came in, told us the school was going into lockdown because the Islamic school across the streets was recieving threats. From 10:00AM til 3:00PM, we had two officers posted at the door of our school…
Missouri, USA I was in my social studies class in seventh grade. I can’t remember the teacher — if I think hard enough, I will — but I know I was sitting on the left side of the classroom if you were facing the door, and the television was right infront of me on the wall. When it happened, everything froze, then the teachers did their best to distract us and make us do our work. It isn’t until now that I realize that our teachers were probably even more shocked then we were, and they were trying to keep calm for our sakes. The next day I woke up crying, turning on the radio to listen to a live broadcast of my favorite radio show (which happened to be from TAMPA, FL, so they were usually an hour ahead of us).
yo estuve ayer trabajando
where were you yesterday
brisbane i was with my son aaron and mark . about to go to work;
i was driven to work
Central Florida I was in my computer class. I was in fourth grade, sitting down on a computer…My teacher told another teacher something about calling her sister. I knew her sister was in New York, and I knew something was wrong. She seemed panicky, and I started to listen up. My teacher came in and told the other teacher that her sister was ok. I didn’t know what was going on, but I was dying to know. Soon after, I was called up to the front office where my father was picking me, my sister, and my cousin up. I didn’t know why, but I sure was happy. That’s when my father told me we weren’t going on our trip to New York that December. I was very upset, and I asked why. He said there was an accident with a plane, end of story. I went to my grandmas house and began to watch the news. I was horrified. My family continued to tell me to turn off the TV, but I couldn’t. I had to watch it. I had to know. That night, I couldn’t sleep. I was 9 years old, and being kept up by the fear of a plane crashing into the Kennedy Space Center. I thought that if the plane crashed the Kennedy Space Center, all of central Florida (where I live) would blow up and I would die. It was a very scary feeling. Weeks later, there was a fire in my neighbor hood, and I thought it was another attack. Me and my younger sister were riding bike outside, and I told her to go home, that we were being attacked. I was young, but I remember.
I was in Egypt
I was in sixth grade during homeroom and the teacher got a phone call. She looked shocked, and then left the classroom and came back with a TV… we all watched.
i was at home waiting for my daddy to come home but he never did.
when i was homeless and nacked were you there were you there when i was homeless and nacked and the creed of the colour and the name won’t matter were you there …..
when i was homeless and nacked were you there were you there when i was homeless and nacked and the creed of the colour and the name won’t matter were you there …..
I was on a delta flight coming from kennedy airport,we left at about 845, we landed in ralaigh nc about an hour or so later after getting word about 3 of the 4 planes that crashed I was flying alone and was headed for fla, i stayed with strangers that night still feel blessed to be alive.
i have no friggin idea…
i was woken by ma mum the next day n she told me…
i was like ‘WHOA!!!!!… meh…’
I as in my high school gym during gym class
I had just sat down at a restaurant, eating breakfast with my shift partner after working a 24hr shift on the ambulance. I saw the news on and saw something about a small plane crash in New York. I started paying attention to what was going on when a couple of people started gasping and yelling… the second tower just exploded. I remember stairing at the screen and thinking what are the odds that two small planes would hit side by side towers?? The thought that someone would fly a full size plane intentionally into the towers was just inconcievable. I remember the news anchor saying that they were receiveing reports that as many as 7 aircraft are being reported as hijacked. When I heard that, the reality of the gravity of that moment came crashing down. I just remember standing there and thinking… “Holy $**t… someone is attacking us”.
I remember the first reports that all aircraft were being grounded at the closest airport. I remember sometime shortly after that the report that the Pentagon “was under attack”… The expression of absolute confusion and shock on the face of the news anchor is one I’ll never forget.
I remember the feeling a huge knot in my stomach and just breaking out in a sweat when our Alpha pagers went off with a voicemail for all available employees to return to quarters. I stopped at home, stuffed clothes, extra work gloves, and boots…and headed to the station where I stayed for the next 2 days.
I remember having the “bomb alerts” in the weeks following… recieving word that ambulances may be stolen and/or rigged with explosives to blow up a hospital. The fear of looking under my squad and hoping to God that I didn’t see anything out of place.
I remember hearing how many of my fellow brothers and sisters were missing. FDNY lost more firefighters in one day, than most rural counties have total on their roster.
I remember the flag drapped bodies of FDNY, NYPD, and Port Authority members being carried up the ramp to a full salute with all work stopping.
I remember it all like is was yesterday… I will never forget. Rest in Peace my 343 FDNY brothers and sisters.
i was in the car heading to my sisters caycare. when we got there all the teachers were crying.I asked what was the matter and they told me what happend!
kenton ohio i was…walkin into the burea of motor vechicle noticed everyone was staring at this little t.v. in the upper left corner of the room i seen the plane hi the biuldin everyone was scared and nerves what was goning to happen next i remember that day very clearly it was n still is my fathers birthday
in school
Dallas, Texas It may have been several years ago, but that day is engraved in my memory.
I had just come in from band practice. Being on the sound crew, I was one of the last to come in. The first that I noticed was that instead of getting ready for 1st period like they normally did, everyone was gathered around the low brass’ old beatup radio that was kept on the stand rack. I noticed that some of the seniors were trying to get the forever-broken TV in the band hall to work. Ignoring them, and setting down the speakers I carried, I walked over and asked one of the bass drummers what was going on, and he said, “One of the World Trade Center Towers just got hit..” I remember how quiet and matter-a-fact his voice was. Normally he was one of those guys who always had a smile or joke. I answered, “The ones in New York?”. He nodded and responded, “Yeah.. they think its a plane.”
Of course, as the day progressed, every TV in the school that could work was on and we were watching throughout the day.
A few days later, when planes were once again allowed into the skies, the directors stopped practice in order to watch the first one fly overhead.
Oregon I was in Florida where i used to live in my 4th grade class. My teacher was doing her teaches. and then someone called her on the school phone in the room, and she fled out the room, we were all sitting there wondering what was going on. then after some mintues , she came back into the room, not saying a word but just grabbing the remote control to the TV and turned the TV on.
and im in 10th grade, pretty long ago huh?
It was all over the news. The plane attack was showing all over news. We were just sitting there watching it, we couldn’t believe it. we thought it was joke, it was just too horrible to be true. Some people were crying and everything, then my teacher explained to us what had happened. and that she doesn’t know what is going to happen , etc.
It was sad. And we got to do a memoir or something like that about what had happened. it was nice, i still have it too
Weston, WI i was in my second grade classroom, it was soo horrifing looking at everything that had happened on t.v. & only knowing that you couldn’t do anything to help because you were only like 6-7 yrs old at the time, & could barely help a bird with a broken wing, pretty much.
if you know anything about these things. please email me at sammy_xoxo_13@yahoo.com; i’m doing 9/11 for a history day topic in febuary. & i could really use your help. thank youu.
hope to here from some of youuu.
i was in my school classroom, in second grade to be exact.
I was in England, so it didn’t really affect me though i still heard about it on the news of course. Terrible.
I was in class I had to of heard about it during my second hour class (Math) when I heard about it. My Math teacher walked in turned on the News and sure enough there it was. A plane crashed into the towers. I think the second one hadnt crashed into it yet. I don’t think we even had class. No one was really doing there work or anything. I think everyone had there eyes glued to the T.V. at the time. Lots of chatter, no remote .. . I was actually really schocked because everyone payed attention to ME back in the day. I lost control you know .. .? I think that plane wreck had more of an affect on me more than anybody else. No one talked to me or payed any attention to me at all. It’s like I never existed .. . FOR A FULL HOUR THOUGH .. .? That’s never happened to me before. ANyways I think the fire department was pretty much booked for the rest of the day. And to be honest. I think it was a hoax. By George Bush. He’s a Russian spy. Has anyone ever seen that movie “Breach.” About the Russian spy “Robert Hansen” .. . “The damage to the government is in the billions .. .” That line in the Movie was so fucking lame. We are billions in debt now though. I don’t think ALL the FAMILIES from 9/11 really wanted that war to happen. Not if they knew of the tragedy families from the Military or in bahgdad have endured. Bush just threw them out there at his own disposal. It’s disgusting. AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILDREN DESERVE EQUAL RESPECT IN THIS COUNTRY. I DON’T CARE WHAT A MILITARY FAMILY HAS DONE FOR THIS COUNTRY. I SAW THE DEBATE THE OTHER DAY IT WAS SICK. THE GUY SAID CHILDREN FROM A MILITARY FAMILY DESERVE BETTER SCHOOLING THAN CHILDREN THAT COME FROM AN IMMIGRANT SCHOOL. THAT IS NOT AMERICA AND THAT IS NOT THEY WAY WE SHOULD DO THINGS AROUND HERE. NO ONE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DESERVES GREATER OR LESSER TREATMENT OR RESPECT OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT IN A COUNTRY UNDER GOD.
Washington, DC I was in 5th grade. The teachers made us start watching some stupid movie as they all huddled in the back of the room whispering to each other. Then they started calling kids down to the office one by one to be picked up by their parents. When I got called I asked some girl in the hall what was happening and she said that “a plane crashed or something.” Then it started to get surreal when I went around the corner and saw about 100 parents swarming around the office trying to get their kids out. My parents walked me home. I thought we were all going to die.
I was in Jersey City New Jersey and actually was asleep, my boyfriend was late coming home from work. I had worked the night before, and when he called I turned on the tv. I’ve since moved to Cape Cod with my fiancee who was in the same office building in 1993 and 9/11. I saw a posting by anthony fischetti and wondered if its the same one from Aurora in Queens. If so, my name is Leslie McRae and my email address is ciararoisinferg@yahoo.com .
i was in Romania
canada I was in grade 7 on the 2nd or 3rd day of school and on the way to school heard on the radio “a plane has crashed into the WTC” they thought it was accidental so i went on with my day… about an hour later my teacher came in crying, and told us to come to the library downstairs. We walked in ans there were TVs set up and i watched in awe as the World Trade Center collapsed before my eyes… all the teachers were in tears and in shock. It turned out that a boy who was 2 years younger than me at my school had recently moved to NYC and his dad worked in the towers… Thank God He was the last person out of the North tower alive , and barely escaped with his life…. I will never forget 9/11/2001
i was in class on 9/11 my teacher pulled me out of class to tell me that my father was in nyc so i was going home to make shure he was okay thank god he was. god bless the children and familys who lost their dear loved ones. and to the person who is making this a joke go to hell
My son a truck driver phoned me early in the morning, i live in cal. he heard it on the news and called me immediatly, I lived in Queens, LI New York I worked there for five years in the “International Building” he told me to turn on the tv, and I did nothing but cry, how my beautiful NY could have such a terrible thing happen. I worked their in 1952, it was safe and wonderful, it was one of the saddest things to happen in our lives, and god bless all the families who lost loved one.
I was at school at chandler elementary
naples me i was not even born but it was verry sad especally flight 93 they tried to stop the plane and controle it.
I was having a party that night celebrating death of the infidels.