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Anonymous: 1 year, 10 months ago

In my 6th grade class, I remember our teacher telling us that it was her birthday that day.
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Anonymous: 1 year, 10 months ago

at home looking at the news
Anonymous: 1 year, 10 months ago

i was taking a bath
Anonymous: 1 year, 10 months ago

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.
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Anonymous: 1 year, 11 months ago

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Anonymous: 1 year, 11 months ago

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
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Anonymous: 1 year, 11 months ago

i was in my 3rd grade class doing fractions
Anonymous: 1 year, 11 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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.
HADIA: 1 year, 12 months ago

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….
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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”…
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

at school in 7th grade in the lower level of the library
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

new york i was in my school watching from a class room window
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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Anonymous: 1 year, 12 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years ago

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.
Mike: 2 years ago

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 Inferno”… 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.
Anonymous: 2 years ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 1 month ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 1 month ago

i was in a little town north of mahomet,Il
Anonymous: 2 years, 1 month ago

watching the news at home
Anonymous: 2 years, 1 month ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 1 month ago

i was in kindergarten and i remember coming home and watching it on the news with my parents.
Anonymous: 2 years, 1 month ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 1 month ago

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
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Anonymous: 2 years, 1 month ago

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!
Kristin: 2 years, 2 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 2 months ago

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!
Anonymous: 2 years, 2 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 3 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 3 months ago

i was at my house wach tv when this hapend
Anonymous: 2 years, 3 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 3 months ago

i was at school in forth grade.
Anonymous: 2 years, 3 months ago

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.
Greg: 2 years, 3 months ago

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.
leeann: 2 years, 3 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 3 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 3 months ago

I was washing my hands
Anonymous: 2 years, 3 months ago

in fourth grade doing my hw in class.
Anonymous: 2 years, 3 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 3 months ago

i was in school, and i didn’t understand what exactly was going on….
Piper: 2 years, 3 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 4 months ago

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
Anonymous: 2 years, 4 months ago

I was at the Social Security office in Portsmouth, VA
Anonymous: 2 years, 4 months ago

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!
Anonymous: 2 years, 4 months ago

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
Anonymous: 2 years, 4 months ago

i was in my moms apartment at the time that happen april
Anonymous: 2 years, 4 months ago

I was at home turned on t v and very sad day son in toronto ont.
BRANDON M.B. CANADA
Anonymous
Anonymous: 2 years, 4 months ago

I was at home turned on t v and 9-11 sad day
BRANDON M.B. CANADA
Anonymous
alison: 2 years, 4 months ago

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
Jeff: 2 years, 4 months ago

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…
Tabitha: 2 years, 4 months ago

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).
Anonymous: 2 years, 4 months ago

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Anonymous: 2 years, 4 months ago

where were you yesterday
Anonymous: 2 years, 5 months ago

brisbane i was with my son aaron and mark . about to go to work;
Anonymous: 2 years, 5 months ago

i was driven to work
Virginia.: 2 years, 5 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 6 months ago

I was in Egypt
Anonymous: 2 years, 6 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 6 months ago

i was at home waiting for my daddy to come home but he never did.
kathryn mcgee: 2 years, 6 months ago

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 …..
Anonymous: 2 years, 6 months ago

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 …..
Anonymous: 2 years, 6 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 6 months ago

i have no friggin idea…
i was woken by ma mum the next day n she told me…
i was like ‘WHOA!!!!!… meh…’
Anonymous: 2 years, 6 months ago

I as in my high school gym during gym class
Anonymous: 2 years, 8 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 8 months ago

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!
josh: 2 years, 8 months ago

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
Anonymous: 2 years, 8 months ago

in school
Anonymous: 2 years, 8 months ago

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.
Allyson Fischer: 2 years, 8 months ago

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.
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 and im in 10th grade, pretty long ago huh?
Samantha Schilling: 2 years, 8 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 8 months ago

i was in my school classroom, in second grade to be exact.
Anonymous: 2 years, 9 months ago

I was in England, so it didn’t really affect me though i still heard about it on the news of course. Terrible.
Anonymous: 2 years, 9 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 9 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 9 months ago

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 .
Anonymous: 2 years, 9 months ago

i was in Romania
Peter: 2 years, 9 months ago

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
Anonymous: 2 years, 9 months ago

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
Anonymous: 2 years, 9 months ago

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.
Anonymous: 2 years, 10 months ago

I was at school at chandler elementary
florida: 2 years, 10 months ago

naples me i was not even born but it was verry sad especally flight 93 they tried to stop the plane and controle it.
Anonymous: 2 years, 10 months ago

I was having a party that night celebrating death of the infidels.
Anthony n fischetti: 2 years, 10 months ago

The day of 911 Iwas going to work, my plans change I started looking for ways to help Imade it over to ground zero about 10; 30 PM I started helping every where I could.On the second day alot city ,volinteers ended up at ST charlies place I ran into an old school mate from Queens I forgot his name I believe he lived in middle village Queens,My name is Anthony fischetti from Glendale Queens Its very important if he gets in touch with me I now live bayshore long island. also I was interview with someone from channel 10 news. any help would be greatly appreciated.
Anonymous: 2 years, 10 months ago

centreville ,virginia i was in my kindergarten class!!! i was freaked out when my dad that usually comes home at 7:00. picked me up from school at 10:00. it wasnt just me that was picked up there were alot of children being picked up because of the terriest attack
Anonymous: 2 years, 11 months ago

I was in class
brianna raffa: 2 years, 11 months ago

I was in school my mom came to pull me out early to tell me and my father joe raffa was there he was the site formen he helped clean up the twin towers.
Anonymous: 2 years, 11 months ago

http://www.deerridgenp.com/welcome/2007/9/12/where-were-you-on-911.html
Anonymous: 2 years, 11 months ago

El Paso, TX at home asleep with my son. We didn’t feel like getting up that morning so i let my son stay home from school. He was in Pre-K. We slept in late till i heard my phone ringing and ringing. Annoyed by who was calling, i answered it. It was a close friend of mine. She was hysterical. She told me what was going on and i turned on the TV to News Channel 6. I was in shock! I felt scared. I kept my son close to me all day not knowing if Ft.Bliss, TX was also going to be a target. I will never forget that day!
Anonymous: 2 years, 11 months ago

at school in newport gwent south wales when the news broke out and i cant explane how i felt for those wicth lost there lives and tried to save there lives and the bastards who caused that i hope they get wat they deseve amen
Richard Arundell: 2 years, 11 months ago

Derby, England I was in school at the time, due to the 4 hour difference in time zones. I first heard the news at the dentist’s afterwards, and (mostly due to the fact that I was only 13 at the time) I was shaking too much to be treated that day. I was amazed the next day at the realisation that most of my peers didn’t care because it was “miles away”.
Anonymous: 2 years, 11 months ago

I was…working and people starting talking about a plane hitting the first tower, it wasnt until the second plane hit that i think most people realized the U.S was under attack. it breaks my heart to this day
Anonymous: 2 years, 12 months ago

I WAS TRAINING AT A NEW JOB AT TARGET.
Anonymous: 2 years, 12 months ago

i was on the brooklyn bridge on my way to school scare as shit
Anonymous: 2 years, 12 months ago

I was dropping my daughter off at day care on my way to work.
Anonymous: 2 years, 12 months ago

i was at home because i was only 4 years old when the tragedy happen
Anonymous: 2 years, 12 months ago

I was at work when we heard the news, and watched it the TV. I called my husband who was in the Army National Guard. All he could say was I’m sorry, I love you but now I have to do my duty.
Anonymous: 2 years, 12 months ago

I was at work when we heard the news, and watched it the TV. I called my husband who was in the Army National Guard. All he could say was I’m sorry, I love you about now I have to do my duty.
Anonymous: 2 years, 12 months ago

I was a 3rd grader who nothing about it. My teacher told us that day what had happened andto this day I remeber a child started to cry, I was coloring with a purple colored pnecil, and wearing a green shirt.
Anonymous: 2 years, 12 months ago

I was on the 4th floor of the Bell Atlantic Tower in downtown Philly, waiting for the conference call from the Verizon team in NYC. The call went dead when they hit the first tower. Watching the second tower got hit and saw the whole thing collapsed shortly after that in the conference room. Wondering if we could have gotten out of the City sooner that day, for the City was in a panic mode, try to get out before something happened here in Philly. Couldn’t sleep that night, glued to the TV… angry… scared…
Alex Fischetti: 2 years, 12 months ago

Ridgefield, Connecticut I was in my fifth grade class listening to my teacher’s lesson when my principal came across the speaker saying the towers were hit. I didn’t feel the full impact of what happened until after I went home from school and saw all the damage being done and the towers felling and the Pentagon burning.
Anonymous: 2 years, 12 months ago

I was getting ready for work ,my first thought was controlled demolition it turns out I was right !Investigate 911 !
Anonymous: 3 years ago

Next week will be 6 years ago. I was studying for a Spanish test and watching the news. I had just dropped off my daughter at daycare. I was so scared that I cancelled everything for the day and went to pick up my daughter. I have taught my child about our country, freedom and the right of responsibility of every individual. She is 7 now and remembers my reactions from this fateful day.
Anonymous: 3 years ago

I was studying for a Spanish test and watching the news. I had just dropped off my daughter at daycare. I was so scared that I cancelled everything for the day and went to pick up my daughter. I have taught my child about our country, freedom and the right of responsibility of every individual. She is 7 now and remembers my reactions from this fateful day.
Anonymous: 3 years ago

i was at home!!
scared to death when we got to school we werent allowed off the bus

we haddint herd from my uncel that lived there until two days later!!
Anonymous: 3 years ago

I was in bed that day and woke up to my mom saying something about a plane going into the Towers. As i walked by her bedroom door, I saw a replay of the first on her TV, and then the second one hit. Like every one else, i (and my family) were mortified and glued to the coverage the rest of the day, and of course, the days to follow. I was in complete shock and sadness. We found out later that our uncle had been scheduled to be in NYC on business at that time but thankfully the plans were changed. With the tragedy of 9/11, i learned even more to keep those i loved close and LOVED as our life here is short and unpredictable.
Anonymous: 3 years ago

i was working..then i went to my friends house at lunch time…from his house to the station was about 10 minutes. when i got there the news was on tv.
then the 2nd motherfuckin`plane just hit the other tower..
i was like stonned..
i dont think im gonna ever forget such of thing.
Anonymous: 3 years ago

I had just finished school when my mum told me. I was only 9 so i didn’t understand much and as i live in the UK i didn’t even know what the WTC was at the time. Straight after school my mum took me to the hairdressers and i remember the woman who worked there telling my mum that there were four planes, not three. And they were both very shocked. Then i remember going to my nans and they were all watching the news.. RIP all who died on that horrible day.
Anonymous: 3 years ago

in skool and it was breakin news all of us had to go out side and listen to god bless america and pray for those who were lost some of ma friends lost there family members in 911….
Anonymous: 3 years ago

Dominican Republic I was at the office. A month earlier I had finished reading the book “Executive Order”, by Tom Clancy, which begins with a 747 crashing on the Capitol building, so when I watched CNN, I had no doubt from the beginning that this was a terrorist attack.
Anonymous: 3 years ago

i was in school,
Anonymous: 3 years ago

i was in a slight slumber when my mom called my and said “Turn on the News NOW” I sat in my bed thinking what am I wacthing then out of nowhere the second plane hit. I was like what the and my Mom said don’t go anywhere i am on my way home right now
Anonymous: 3 years, 1 month ago

I was on my way to a testing center to take a Microsoft Certification Test and I heard on the radio the 1st plane hit the 1st tower ….by the way which I passed and when I came out of the test found out that the other tower and Pentagon where also hit by planes. By the way I passed the test and don’t remember anything that was on the test.
Anonymous: 3 years, 1 month ago

I was on my honeymoon in Turkey when we heard what had happened, was a very scary thought as we were leaving for the airport a few days after.
Anonymous: 3 years, 1 month ago

i Was in india
Anonymous: 3 years, 2 months ago

lansdale pa i was ..asleep.( i was 21 at the time/in college/class was cancelled.) My father awoke me by calling me at home from his work.. he told me that both the trade towers had fallen.. in a sleepy fog i turned on the tv and went ” no daddy.. the second one is still standing( little did i realize i was watching a replay) then in horror i watched the second one go down during the replay.. i hit the floor crying.. thoughts of going to war were going through my head already- my then boyfriend-now husband was turning 21 in just two weeks.. i was terrified of a draft for months afterwards..i awoke my now husband with these words. ” honey..honey wake up.. the trade towers were attacked by planes..” in a almost sweet sounding voice-he opened his eyes to realize i was sobbing and could barely breath..the sweet sounding voice was me wheezing out the words..
Anonymous: 3 years, 2 months ago

I was in downtown chicago when suddenly we saw people gathering around an outside tv which showed the first tower in flames and we were worried if they were going to attack chicago like the Sears Tower or another place in the US
Anonymous: 3 years, 2 months ago

I was walking my children to school and wondered why everything seemed so desolate in Burbank, California that morning.
Anonymous: 3 years, 2 months ago

Alexandria, VA I was in my car, sitting at at stop sign, on my way to work in Old Town Alexandria. I saw a huge cloud of thick, intensely black smoke off to my left, and I remember thinking to myself, “What on earth is burning to make such a black cloud?” As I was driving south on Henry Street in Old Town, I saw the fire engines racing north, and I thought, “Oh, they’re going to the fire”.

I parked my car, and as I was walking to my office building I saw one of my co-workers (Mike Donnelly) come tearing around the corner, in a full run. “They’ve hit the Pentagon!”, he said and kept on running. (Turned out he was racing over to his girlfriend’s place of work. She worked in Pentagon City, felt the building shake, knew what had happened, and was terribly scared.) I’m not a news junkie, but when he said, “They’ve hit the Pentagon” the thought “Terrorists” immediately popped into my head. Now I knew the cause of that huge black smoke cloud.

I arrived at my office and the place was consumed with the morning’s events. It was then that I learned that both towers of the WTC had been hit, planes had been hijacked, and we were under some type of coordinated attack. Rumors were flying, such as they’ve hit the FAA center in Leesburg. That turned out to be false, but the news of a fourth hijacked plane wasn’t. When we heard confimed reports that it had crashed in an isolated spot in Pennsylvania, I remember saying to my co-workers, “I bet the passengers fought with the hijackers, and that’s why it crashed in a field”. I was a flight attendant for seven years, the last four with American Airlines, and I just knew instinctively that there was a struggle on Flight 93 between the passengers and hijackers.

The business of America is business, so we didn’t close up shop for the day. The man in charge said (I’ll never forget this) the best way to deal with what was happening was to stay at our desks and do our jobs. The women in the office who were mothers were of a different opinion, however. Their kids were freaking out. These ladies had the common sense to go home.

I had just purchased a condo and my home inspection was scheduled for that day. My agent said it was still on. Amazing in retrospect … I was just four miles from downtown Washington, D.C. and it was business as usual, whereas in D.C., around the Captol and White House, is was borderline pandemonium.

I didn’t learn the full extent of what took place that day until I went home and was able to turn on the TV. It was appalling. I sat there, glued until midnight, watching the live coverage on all the channels. I remember thinking to myself, after watching a broadcast of gleeful celebration in the Middle East, “Why do they hate us that much?” I cried. I knew that life in this country had changed irrevocably, and for the worse.

9/11 is a touchstone, just as the day JFK was shot (I remember that day, as well, and the incredible disbelief), as is for our parents the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. … …
Anonymous: 3 years, 2 months ago

I was working that day in at the VA Medical Center in New Orleans, LA. My mother called and told me about a plane hitting a the WTC in New York. I went to one of the outpatient waiting rooms and saw a tape of footage from the first and then the actual footage of the second plane. It was something I will never forget.
Anonymous: 3 years, 2 months ago

I WAS AT COLLEGE IN BLYTHEVILLE ARKANSAS. WE WERE IN THE OUTBACK WATCHING THE NEWS. VERY SAD DAY!!
Anonymous: 3 years, 2 months ago

I was….only after realising i had the chicken pox…i tirned on sjy news and that was when i found out abot 9/11 !!
Anonymous: 3 years, 2 months ago

I was in my seventh grade teachers class. We were in class doing our social studies and all of a sudden the teacher next door comes running in and tells us to turn the t.v. on. We turned it on and all we could see was the news, news on every single channel that we turned to. It was very shocking to be seeing something like that. I was surprised to see the news (live). Seeing all those people jumping out of those building and how the building was on fire and how the plane was just sticking out of the half of the building. I was just a little girl back then, I didnt really feel anything. Now that I look back and think about all that I have seen. It changed my life. Now I am more cautious of what goes on around me and who my friends are. I dont really trust too many people, a lot of people are not worthy of being trusted. That is why everything and everyone should be more secure about there property and themselves. Okay, I think I’m about done.. Sorry for the life story.. (even though you just asked where I was).. Its okay, I know everyone wants to hear my story.. *It’s really deep*…

Tiara M.
Tacoma, WA
Anonymous: 3 years, 3 months ago

I WAS SIX YEARS OLD WHEN IT HAPPEND I DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS GOIN ON AND I IT WAS SCARY
Anonymous: 3 years, 3 months ago

In class (senior year highschool). We were told to set an example for the younger students and not to panic. Now almost 6 years later I’m married to an Iraq veteran (he lost both his legs fighting in Iraq last November).
Anonymous: 3 years, 3 months ago

I was asleep in Malaysia, and when I woke in the morning my mom told me about it with a morbid look.
Anonymous: 3 years, 3 months ago

I was at my house turning the chanles on the tv and i saw a reporter talking about a develipong story called 9/11
Anonymous: 3 years, 3 months ago

I was at school, I was walking home from the bus and my mom and brother were crying on the front steps. I asked them what was wrong because, they never told us anything in school. They said that a plane had crashed into 1 of the twin towers. We went inside a few minutes later and turned on the tv. It turned out that a seocnd plane had crashed into the towers. It was so sad we all started crying. We were all so upset because ten, TEN days before this disaster we were on top of the twin towers. Me, my two brothers, my mother, and my grandmother were there. I feel really bad sometimes because this little 6th grader at my school’s father was killed in 9/11. Then my best friend in the whole worlds cousin was going to be on the one of the flights but then his taxi was late to picking him up so he missed his flight. We were all so glad he wasnt. I always pray for people who were affected by it.
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

I was at school in kindergarten and I was walking to class from the lunchroom. Then after school, I noticed that a lot of people had sad faces. I wondered why so many people had sad faces. I never found out until third grade when my friend, LaBaron Anthony, told me all about 9/11 and then onthat very day, I knew why those people were so sad. It was 9/11.
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

I was at school but my mom and dad were at home when the first plane hit my mom told my dad because he is from New York when the second plane hit my got up and wached the news.
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

I was in the Fourth grade(im now a freshman in Highschool) and I just remember people telling me a lunch time that a plane hit a big building in New York City. I just thought that they were telling a story they read in class. So I just blew it over my shoulder like it was nothing. Once I came to my classroom my teacher, Mr. Wright told everyone to sit down at their desk that he had something important to tell everyone. I noticed than some kids in my class had actually left. He than said planes have crashed into these buildings called the Twin Towers. I was so confused and lost of words because I remember just a few months before visiting my uncle in New York City and his building be right next door to that building because after we met up with him we actually bought bagels and sat out front of the Twin Towers. We didnt do anything the rest of the school day. Everybody just sat at there desks and we watched the Television in our classroom. I went home after school left out and my mom told me how my aunt hasnt heard from my uncle and my whole family just bursted into tears praying that he was alright thankfully my Uncle called a few minutes later explaining he was okay. It was the first time I ever heard my uncle cry. He saw his own friends die. My uncle didnt let my aunt wash his clothes for months. they were all full of dust it was heartbreaking. that is what i did and where i was on 9/11.
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

It was my freshman year at NYU, not even a week into classes. I was extremely close to the towers, and I experienced the entire day, and the city’s recuperation first-hand. It is something I will never forget, and in a strange way, I feel honored to have been a part of the city at this desperate time. The kindness and love that strangers can express for each other is quite amazing, and was a privilege to behold, and take part in.
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

i was at home and had just finshed my last shift at central baths,. i was sat in my living room watching a program that was interupide by a new coverage on the twin towers.
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

I was getting my permit.
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

I was in school and my parents came and took me out of school and told me what happen and I was defeisated.

Lillian Warrick
East Liverpool High School in Ohio
Dyanna: 3 years, 4 months ago

Iowa I was walking into my sisters hospital room to see my 1 day old neice. It was right after the first tower was hit and I asked them what the heck kind of movie they were watching and they told me it was the news.
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

i was sleeping and i woke up and i walk in the room and my mom was staring at the tv and the twin tower were coming down
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

i was in high my second year at high school it was my friends birthday until my mum showed me someting horrible on tv
Alexiana: 3 years, 4 months ago

Atlanta, Georgia On 9/11 I was in school. I was in 5th grade at the time. I didnt know much about what was going on, untill my teacher turned on the news, and we watched it.
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

at the police station
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

I was at the Secondary School for Journalism in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Anonymous: 3 years, 4 months ago

I was 9 at the time and saw it on television. I thought, ‘what is the world trade center?’
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

I was home asleep when my friend called and woke me. I saw the second plane hit. I look at the pictures from that day and wonder why those planes are gray. things that make you go hmmmmm
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

I was at home and i saw the 2nd plane crash.. it was such a terrible memory..my heart goes out to all the people that have died and all their families
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

I was working at The VA Medical center. I didn’t watch the fall of tower 2, But I did see the fall of tower 1.
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

I was playing at http://www.neopets.com and someone posted on the message board to go turn on the television because a plane had crashed into a building in New York, and at first I just ignored the post, and then other people started commenting on the original post, and I finally turned on the tv, and spent the rest of the day in shock.
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

St. Paul, MN I was at work in St. Paul. We had a building downtown known as the World Trade Center and also have a small airport near downtown…someone walked in to my office that day and said a plane hit the World Trade Center. I immediately assumed they meant the building downtown, and since my husband had recently become a firefighter I was nearly paralyzed with fear! A few minutes later I/we learned what was going on ~ I will never forget that moment and the days following.

To the person from Paris, France who said the Americans got what they deserved, I bet you and others who think like you would expect help from the United States if you were ever attacked by terrorists. Lord knows we’ve helped you before…
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

I was sitting in my 6th grade social studies classroom.
Milan Dobourski: 3 years, 5 months ago

Paris, France I couldnt believe what i was seeing i had to see it all on TV. Finally the Americans got what they deserved!
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

I was on my way to school. My parents were on a flight to Japan so i had to walk. I have (had) to pass the trade center every day just to get to school. We had just moved about 4 blocks away so it was quite a sight to live where i was living. Suddenly i heard an aeroplane fly above me flying at one strong speed. Then i heard a huge crash and a peice of the building came crashing down on me (i was +/- 120 meters away form the building) i blacked out. when i woke up i was in a hospital bed. I now have to go around in a wheel chair and live my life praising God that im still alive.
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

Denver-I was getting ready for school when my mom yurned in the tv and told me to be quiet. I didnt know that it was such a big deal, i was only in kindergarten.
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

I had just showed up to work in Phoenix at 6am. We had a manufacturing facility, machine shop, weld shop. Some real tough guys. We had a TV in the breakroom. The guys looked at me and said that a plane had hit the WTC. I said No Way. They walked out of the breakroom, and went to work, just like any other day. I walked in and just watched. They went to work. I just stood there, and then I saw the second plane hit – live on TV. Then I knew. I walked over to my superior and said, this is a good day to be home with your family – I will see you tomorrow. Went to my truck and went back home to my wife. She called on the way, and said that the Pentagon, and another plane had been lost. I got home, and we just cried and prayed on the floor for the people in the middle of all this evil.

By the end of the day, I had that truck packed with everything I thought could help if there were a financial collapse of the US. People don’t think about those things, that was the day I began thinking about how fragile GLOBALISM, and ECONOMY are.

God Bless all the families and children that were harmed on that day. God Bless You, and Keep You, and Make His Face to Shine Upon You, and Give You Peace…
Lassa: 3 years, 5 months ago

Norway, Tananger I was at school, but first heard about it on the buss from Sola to Tananger (Norway). Spent the rest of the day at a friends place and watched a movie.
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

i was at school a 4th grader i was going back to class from PE and we walked past the main office and the TV was on with all the techers standing there. they didnt tell us what was going on but after school i was going to go to After School Club but my mom was there and told me what was going on.
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

I was sitting at Gatwick airport departure lounge waiting to fly to Singapore to join HMS Gloucester.
Paul Taylor
Great Britain
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

Broklyn I was sleeping.
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

i was at school
Anonymous: 3 years, 5 months ago

i was at home. i watched the news when it happened….
Anonymous: 3 years, 6 months ago

I wasn’t even born at the time but I heard all about and I do so much research!
Anonymous: 3 years, 6 months ago

I was living in a basmemt apartment in north minneapolis. I had resently lost
three sisters to cancer.
when i saw the Bldgs fall over and over
and over………
my heart sank to my stomach.
Oh how i felt the pain of the lost and the
loved ones.
I decied to make 100 red white and blue
necklasses and hand them out to people
to remind them we will be ok.
We are Americans and we are Strong.
Anonymous: 3 years, 6 months ago

Severn, Maryland I was visiting my son’s grave in Jessup, Maryland when my mother called me on my cell phone to give me the news from NY. My son had died four weeks prior to 9-11. He had just turned eighteen. I was at the WTC in NYC, installing new computer networks for a gov’t agency, when he died. I imagine I was one of just a few people that the news about the towers didn’t have much of an affect on. I was already in self preservation mode. It seemed like a bad dream to me that I was there just before it happened. Everything around me seemed to be death. Everyone at the WTC was so nice. I often wonder who, out of all the people I met while there, is still among the living. To this day, that entire time period is in a fog to me, and I’m fine with that. I remember asking my son to help all the new people entering heaven, and help them to not be afraid anymore. He’d never let me down before, I had no reason to believe he would now. Since I heard another plane was still out there, I called my office in the WTC in Baltimore and told everyone to get out and go home. That night while watching it on the news I thought how someone was going to get quite an award for those fantastic special effects of the towers coming down. Nothing was real to me anymore. My world had gone completely mad.
Anonymous: 3 years, 6 months ago

I was listening to a 2nd grade class read “The Pet Goat” in Sarasota, Florida. I soiled my pants after I was informed.
Anonymous: 3 years, 6 months ago

I WAS DRIVING A SCHOOL BUS WITH STUDENTS, GOING TO AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Anonymous: 3 years, 6 months ago

I was in a pub in Helsinki, and before at one lecture about movies
Trishh =): 3 years, 6 months ago

PA. I was in school the teachers knew something was wrong but they didnt say anything. As it turns out they wanted us to wait untill we got home to have our parents explain the situation to us. The the next day we had a big assembley with the whole school explaining more to us and the safety procautions that we were going to have to take place in order to keep our school safer. The school provided counciling for us to talk about everything that was going on and what had happend. RIP- all the amazing people who lost their lives you’re by far are in a better place
Anonymous: 3 years, 6 months ago

New Jersey I was in school. I was in 8th grade at the time. We started hearing things about it in math class, but no one would tell us exactly what happened. In history class, my teacher turned the TV on so we could watch the news. We sat on the bleachers in gym class. The loudspeakers were going crazy we people picking their kids up from school. I stayed in school all day, though.

I still have the AIM conversation saved from my friend and I talking about it.
Corey Davis: 3 years, 6 months ago

West Virginia I was still in high school sitting in class all day. none of our televisions were on in any of the classes i had had up until lunch. i was walking back down the hall, and out of nowhere i saw my father running towards me. he told me to get my stuff and leave, and that two airplanes had hit the world trade center buildings and another hit the pentagon. It didn’t register at that point, but i went along with him and went home. i still didn’t really get it until he told me that all the airplanes in america had been grounded. it was the first time i had ever looked up into the sky and not seen any kind of jet stream or anything. it was perfectly clear and blue. we got home and all the tv’s were on CNN, and i saw the towers, covered in smoke. it hit me like a sledgehammer, because I had just been in those buildings not two years before. we had gone in building one, and i was standing in the lobby where they brought the preist out. i remember exactly what that lobby looked like. I’ll probably never forget it the rest of my life. i watched the TV the rest of the day. I was amazed that people would do such a heinous thing, but im still amazed to this day how willing people were to help out however they could.
Anonymous: 3 years, 6 months ago

the day before, i’d painted my nails different colors to be different during my freshman year. i thought it was pretty cool. sitting in gym class the next morning, boys were throwing paper airplanes down the bleachers. the teacher came in and said, “someone flew a plane into some buildings in new york.” we all thought it was an accident until they turned on the tv in my next period science class. i watched the buildings burn and fall, then went home early and cleaned off my nail polish. suddenly, i wasn’t the most important thing in the world anymore.
Anonymous: 3 years, 6 months ago

i was in 4th grade dude
Anonymous: 3 years, 6 months ago

i was sorting the mail at the post office when this tradgedy happened. As i made my rounds on my mail, many customers on my route discussed this horrific terroism that took place as i stopped and watched the newsa with some of them. I was so sick that this happened i just wanted to go home and watch the news to see how and why this would happen.
Anonymous: 3 years, 6 months ago

At home, heavily pregnant , turned on the television and couldn’t believe what was happening
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

I was at home eating dinner watching one of those black and white mini tv’s.

It was spanish TV then like a cartoon all of the sudden BOOM.

And my mom goes into the other room to see it in color.

I wasnt american atm. She was , she was crying
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

in school and when i came home i was watching the news and then it toled me about it and i was devistated
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

I was at my house in Goodyear Arizona, getting ready for work. I was in shock the whole day, I was in shock for months. It is still fresh in my mind. I am still mad and outraged. I still want to go overthere and find Bin Laden myself.
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

at work
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

I was at the office in Paris, France. I was watching TV through Internet.
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

I was in school when i heard it, and i felt bad the whole day because my bestfriends father was in the world trade centers.
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

I was… at mii babysitters house watching the news and i was eating a doughnet and drinking orange juice and crying my eyes like there was no day!
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

I was… at skewl.. and we watched it on t.v. and we were all like bawliing ourrrr eyess out.. it made us cryy!
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

In my home wathing the Today Show!
Jeffrey Lyn Anderson
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

I was there…Joseph Raffa
ssgJ.T.G. U.S. Army(ret.): 3 years, 7 months ago

Church Point,La./now Alba,Mo i was driving a truck thru Newark N.J.and was in aaw at the site of my homeland being under attack.as an x-army ranger i felt instant rage and pain for my fellow americans that is still as fresh as the day it happen
Raffa: 3 years, 7 months ago

was in New York, 5 mins from the city I was in my classroom, at the time i was in 3rd grade and living in brooklyn ny. My mother came to get me out early and i asked her why, and she told me the story. The next day my father went to the site and was the site forman for the clean up. He was there from september 12, 2001 to febuary 15 2003. after that he went and worked at the site where they were keeping all the debri ( dont know how to spell it, the dust and stuff) He has difficulty breathing and stuff. The site wasnt pretty… abandond cars and strollers. it is something He helped and devoted his time i will NEVER forget and i can say my dad is a hero, my hero.
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

i was a school on 9/11
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

i was on the beach
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

Portland OR early in the morning. sitting in bed. nursing my 3 week old baby. bored. turned on TV. stunned. yelled to my husband to get out of the shower and come see. at first I thought it was accidental. then the other tower was hit. I was scared.
Anonymous: 3 years, 7 months ago

SITTING ON MY COUCH GETTING READY TO GO TO BIG IRON IN FARGO NORTH DAKOTA WITH A FRIEND OF MINE
jazmine: 3 years, 7 months ago

memphis,tn I was walkin home from school and i went over my neighbors house and i saw it on the tv screen i remember i couldnt move i was in a state of shock i was so scared i was like 8 years old i was so scared n then i left there house n went 2 mine n instead of walking on the road i walked in the ditch just in case a plane flew over me n drop a bomb or sumtin.this happened when i lived in florida
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL,AT CHARLEROI PA AND I SEEN IT ON TV IT WAS VERY UPSETTING
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

I was in my science class, missing recess because the teachers told us that the lawn mower men were there (they weren’t allowed to tell us what was actually going on).
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

i was in school on 9/11
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

in new york
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

I was at the park
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

At The Park
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

i was afraid to go to a big mall for 3 years just in case it were to get bombed
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

i was in my living room watching cartoons before school when my dad called saying to turn to the news because someone said that the effiel tower had collapsed (he was at work and nobody knew the right story of what had happened yet there.)
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

I was in New York and saw the whole thing. I was there. I was covered in dust and running for my life. There were no fucking comercial planes, They looked like Cargo planes. I don’t get good reactions when I talk about what I saw, because we are all brainwashed by the lie that terrorists attacked this country. It’s just simply not true. This was an inside job. Please, don’t be fooled. What made America great died that day, and Osama Bin Laden had nothing to do with it. If any other eyewitnesses see this, SPEAK THE FUCK UP and don’t get discouraged when no one will listen to you, keep speaking and we will save our nation. Write letters, Call talk shows, Get on the news, do anything and everything you can to get the public’s attention. People will listen and know the truth one day, but it wont be without all of us.
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

i was getting ready for school i think
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

In New York crying my eyes out at the horror unfolding around me and my neighbors.
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

I Elizabeth(Liz) was at school studying for comming up quizes in Wylie/Garland Texas.
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

I was on a plane going from Deleware to Hawaii.
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

at school but it was my pops birthday who passed away the year after on that special day.
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

i was at home
Franki: 3 years, 8 months ago

Manchester I was waiting for ny Boyfriend but he could not come coz his Aunt died in America………………
Ithought he was joking BUT no he was telling the truth coz i asked his dad
Katie: 3 years, 8 months ago

Kent I was at home playing on my PS2 waiting for my best- friend to call me but she never did coz she went on holiday to America so could she of died in the 911?
a canadian: 3 years, 8 months ago

canada i remember when 9/11 happened, news must spread really fast because i remeber being in grade five in canada, at lunch recess playing tag, and my friend came running onto the playground, because he went home for lunch, and he told me that the twin towers was hit and the russians were happy, all the talk that day at was a another world war, well..that was then i was young and didnt really see what happened, five years now i was really saddened by what happed that day, and how many people lost their lives, also to the fire fighters…..who sacrificed their lives to save other…….i share my respect to them…
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

i was in school at the aeggscat time as the crash
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

I was at my grandmothers funeral in westchester, ny. we had to leave the ceromony just incase
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

I was in my 2nd grade classroom. All the teachers went out into the hallway and just started crying. I can remember haveing them ask if anyone’s loved ones lived in the towers. I can remember haveing them take people out into the hallway and tell us that our parents where helping stop the fire.=( i can remember crying all the way home thinking my daddy wasnt going to make it. The news crew said that they would call to tell us if hes ok or in heaven. =(…=( I wanted them to call and say that hes comeing homeing come and hes guna be all right and they did they said hes comeing home. But then I got a call from my friend and she was crying. And I remember asking her if her daddy was all right and she just started crying. She said they called and said that he ran in to save someone crying but then he never came out. The next day they found him. I remember crying my head off untill I had no tears left in my eyes. Then the police called and said that her dad was running into the building for her aunt. They found her aunt near her daddy. They where still holding hands. His partener said that if he didnt make it then tell his daughter he loved her. My friend never even got to say good bye. I can remember crying and crying untill I wouldnt breath. My friends mom said it was going to be OK but it wasnt. Because my friend kept on thinking that her daddy would come home someday from a long vacation. This year on September 11th her mom and her went to her daddys grave stone and started crying. My friend said a prayer saying that she started 7th grade now. And that she found his old clothing and put it on. I also can remember haveing my friend have her first Christmas without her dad and on the packages they all said From: Mommy & Daddy. But she new that it was from mommy. I still cry when I think of my friend loseing the only one she can talk to and snuggle with. She still wishes her daddy was here to give her a good night kiss. I still cry when I talk about it cause im so sad that my friend never gets to have the chance to get the hug and kiss her daddy never gave her when she went to school =(.=(.=(.=(.=(.=(.=(.=(. =(
crystal: 3 years, 8 months ago

2 year ago i was at school when i hear what happened
Anonymous: 3 years, 8 months ago

i was sitting at home getting ready for school and i called and said happy b day to my friend that day then my other was crying because of 911
Jennifer: 3 years, 8 months ago

I was in my math class in high school. I remember hearing some gossip about something going on. And then I remember the annocement that no one was to leave the classrooms and that we were leaving early. I didnt understand what was going on until I got home and started watching the news. It was a horrible day.
Anonymous: 3 years, 9 months ago

I was…still sleeping
Anonymous: 3 years, 9 months ago

I was at School, when there was an annoncement to turn to the news, and our class watched it all happen.
Anonymous: 3 years, 9 months ago

MN I was working at a blood donation center in Minnesota. We had the television on for donors and the report came of the first plan crash came on… we all thought it was a horrible accident. We also thought the plane was a whole lot smaller than it was- maybe a 4-5 passenger. I watched as the second plane hit the tower… and I remember a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. ‘Something is not right.’ My husband worked at NWA at the time. 9/10 was his last day on the job.
Mark: 3 years, 9 months ago

Newport News, Virginia I am 20 now and I was in the 11th grade at the time about to leave for computer class. I remember the hallway seaming quiet i remember the principle coming over the pa system telling teachers to turn of the tvs. And how teachers where locking there doors so they could watch tv. I remember the young girl student who sat beside me crying as she had not heard from her father who worked in the west wing of the pentagon. After that class i left with that student taking here home so that she would not have to be at school and how we watched tv for 9 hours straight like many did. I can hear it now as hear dad called her and let her know he was fine and the burden that was removed from her mind. I remeber it today as it were yesterday.
Maite: 3 years, 9 months ago

New York i was in my country and i was worried because my cousin used to work there and i didnt know she quit that job a long time ago.
Tony: 3 years, 10 months ago

Adrian Michigan I was in the 3rd grade and really scared that it would happpend were I was at.
arizona: 3 years, 10 months ago

chandler I was sitting here at38 years old after neck surgery with six screws in my neck wondering where our mighty airforce was and why we just couldn’t shoot hijacked airplanes out of the air after the second attack at world trade center two, and where were the surface to air missles to shoot the plane to attack the pentegon………personally I think our goverment contracters of defense and republican big goverment are making the big bucks out of 9-11. God bless the honest true heroes that deserve the real truth the police and firefighters!
Joe: 3 years, 10 months ago

Virginia I was sleeping in, had to move that day. When my fiance and I got in the car, we heard what they were talking about, and I thought it was some sort of joke, like the “War of the Worlds” Broadcast that caused all the panic in the ’40’s… Then I called my dad, and we turned on the tv…I’ll never forget watching that guy and girl hold hands on the way down, after jumping from one of the towers…
Anonymous: 3 years, 10 months ago

shopping couldnt believe what i’d see on t
your name (optional): 3 years, 10 months ago

California (optional) I was in the 3rd grade but I still remember a lot.My mom woke me from bed (west coast time).She tould me that ‘’something bad is happening in NYC”.I did the same wake up from bed routine,as I enter my kitchen to eat breakfast I watched tv.I watched the first tower of the World Trade Center making smoke as they kept on saying that an airplane crashed into it,as well as the Pentagon and Flight 93.A few minutes later I saw the second plane hit the second tower and I was surprised as the tower blew out firery smoke.Minutes later I saw tower 1 collapse into a huge dust and as for tower 2 also,one at a time disappearing from the blue NYC sky.I was at shocked at how they collapse and the people running from a huge tsunami of dust going through Mannhattan.It was getting late I had to go to school. That’s what I mostly remember on 9/11. Now that I am in my teen years I Know more about 9/11.I did once go into the WTC but when I was a baby.Still I will never forget the day that America changed September 11,2001 .
Anonymous: 3 years, 10 months ago

i was home
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

in a middleschool science class watching it on tv…….
kc: 3 years, 11 months ago

I was in school
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

i was scared
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

I was only 5 when the plane crashed so I think i would have been at school i cant remember but i watched a tv program a few months ago and it looked realy scary im glad that i mite have been at school and that i wasent there
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

I was in school and heard at the end of the day that the twin towers were struck .
smergphy: 3 years, 11 months ago

lee mass i was in my house in manhatan when that happend i was about 9 or 6 years old i still new what was going on…know im 13 years old and we are studing about the twin towers at school….i still cant get over that… most of my friends parents worked there it was devastating
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

at my home
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

I was at home in brisbane australia, It was late at night we turned the tv over to what we thought was some movie, as it just couldnt possibly be real , then we realised it was the news. Of course we were in shock and immediately started praying for america . Im so sorry it happened and hope nothing like it ever happens again. sonya australia
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

on vacation in Texas like Bush was for a lot of the time before 9/11
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

Just comming home from school when my mum told me that there was an attck on america. I was 9 years old when it happened. God bless the souls of thouse who died that day.
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 like any other morning I got up around 6:30 am as my wife leaves for work and I get my son who was a year in a half old then, up and got him dressed then I got ready of work. At that time I worked for the handicapped as a Personal Care Attendant (PCA). On the way to work from Plymouth, MA. I would drop my son off at my parents home at that time was in Duxbury, MA. Around 7:45 am. I would then go to work for my client in Marshfield MA. I got there around 8:00 am then I got him ready to go to his day habilitation center and on this day when I dropped him off sometime between 8:45 to 9:00 am, as we walked in the day habilitation center, staff had the TV on, a staff member told me that at small plan of some sort crashed into the word trade center in New York. We all thought that this was a tragic accident; after I got my client settled I left and went back to my clients’ apartment around 9:15 am. I had a lot of cleaning to do for him. When I got in his apartment I turned on the TV CNN That’s when I saw the second plane hit WTC tower #1 at this point I said “This is no accident this is deliberate, Why”? I asked my self. At that point I called my mother and asked her if she saw what was going on and if she had the news on, she said no because Christopher my son was watching Barney. So I told her what was going on then she went up stairs and saw, she said that she needs to call dad and that she would call me back latter. This was around 9:35 am, At this point I believe they announced on TV that all Federal and Government buildings will be closed and employees sent home. My wife works in Hingham MA. EDS for Medicare and Medicaid which I thought was a Government building. I tried calling my wife but the line seemed dead. I then called my Mother back and told her that I couldn’t get Reni my wife at work, around 9:40 am they closed all the airports and shut down the airspace. No one could take off or land and all international flights had to return and couldn’t enter the US but all domestic plain’s in the air where ordered to land at the nearest airport immediately. They believe that there my be other plains but didn’t know how many. I said to my Mother I need to try to get a hold of Reni. I tried a number of times and finally I got trough around 9:55 am. I asked her first if she was alright and if she hard about what was going on. Yes she said I have been listening to it on the radio, then I told her that I couldn’t get through for a least a half an hour then we lost the connection around 10:02 am my Mother called me back around 10:05 and told me that a plane went down and crashed in to a field in Pennsylvania. Then I called my wife back and told her about the plan crash.

The whole time this was going on I would continually look up at the ski. And I would keep telling myself I need to get back to work, I just couldn’t concentrate. But when my family was safe at home later that night we watched the news on the day’s events and my wife and just sat in disbelief and cried.

Adam J Polito
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

I was in school were the principle does some announcement and we were all forced to be quiet for a while and noone didn’t know what was going on
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

I was in Hawaii at the time when it had happened. It was around 3:30 a.m… and I didnt get up intil 6:30 a.m. for school. when I got to school we did a memorial service thing at our school because of what had happened. At that time I didnt know what it was for, so I did it anyway. When my mom woke up that morning so she can get ready for work, when she heard about it she came straight to my school and got me. As soon as she picked me up she told me what happened. When we got home a whole bunch of my mom’s friends started to call the house alot, and she called slot of people too. One of my dad’s brothers lives in New Jersey and he worked in New York City. My mom really didnt know where he worked but my dad did. My dad was in the field for a little bit and he really couldnt call the house alot. So my mom asking my dad where he worked couldnt help. So my mom tried to call my uncle but he never picked up. She called him several times but he never picked up. Like 3 minutes later he called back and said he was all right. He said he worked in a building four and a half blocks from the towers. A couple of days later my dad came back home from the field, and we where still mourning from what had happened that day. My dad was wondering if his brother was alright, and we told him he was alright. When he heard that he felt better than he had called him and they were talking on the phone for hours. about a year after, we dropped all the emotional drama and moved on with our lives. My name is Robert and I was 11 years old when it happened.
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

I was sleeping when I got a call from my best friend telling me to wake up and turn on the t.v. I hate to admit it but i asked her at the time what were the twin towers! God Bless all the souls that were lost that day! xo’s ~Celeste Nagy, Sasaktoon, Sask Canada~
J: 3 years, 11 months ago

Saskatoon, SK i was at home sleeping and my boyfriend woke me up to see the tv. i then phoned my best friend to wake her up and told her to go to her tv.
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

I wasat school the teachers thought it was a movie but quickly turned it off after figuring out even though i was young, I knew it happened and I cried
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

home
Supportive Canadian to our US Friend’s: 3 years, 11 months ago

Hamilton Ontario Canada That morning I drop my child off at the daycare at College and sat in my class my teacher told us that something terriable happened in New York, USA a plane smash in one of the Sears Tower’s. She put the radio on and heard the announcer screaming that another plane had smashed into the other tower. “Oh My God”! she said, my heart went out for those people, I was so scared that there was 2 more plane’s out there, USA was under attack and for a split moment knew as Canada we have the Nigara Falls Hydro and the CN Tower in Toronto so close by that are teacher told us to go home to our families.
I fastly went and got my son out of daycare and drove home with the car radio on listening what was going on, I just wanted to be with my family. Boy was I scared for the first time in my life knowing this was a terrorist plot to distroy our two nation’s. When I put the t.v on and watched what was going on I started to break down in tear’s. When the third and fouth plane crashed I prayed to God for all the passenger’s and families and cryed like a baby knowing that this will be a war. This day will always be an awaking of what human’s of terrorist could kill thousand’s of inocient people and children in my life time.
Canada send’s our love and support to the USA, as we are doing today with our Army and Navy and Air Force defending our freedom. In Afganistan we have lost more men but we will fight to the better end to destroy the evil. MAY GOD SPEED !!!
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

I had just gotten home from work. I had a dentist appt. that morning and was laying across the bed taking a nap.The radio came on and the deejay was saying they were getting reports of a plane hitting the WTC. I turned the t.v. on just before the second plane hit the other tower. My wife was at work and it was one of those moments when I just didn’t know what to do or to call .I just sat there stunned at what was happening.
Alan Reed: 3 years, 11 months ago

Hutchinson,KS I was in first or second hour class of technolgy or ld class
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

Alan Reed I was in my first class or my second hour class in middle school it would of been technoligy class or ld class
maddafaka: 3 years, 11 months ago

heerlen buying me some fries after skool cause I was mad hungry
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

i was at school

i got back and my parents told me a plane flew into a building…
i first thought what a joke… untill i saw the real thing
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

I was at my ex girlfriend’s.
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

I was in Brazil
Rich Tatum: 3 years, 11 months ago

Romeoville, IL I was on my way to work when I heard the news coming live over the radio. I had been wondering why so many of the drivers I was passing had this stunned, jaw-dropped look on faces. I almost couldn’t finish the commute, myself. I was so shocked.
Anonymous: 3 years, 11 months ago

Just coming up from the 1 Chase Plaza Cafeterai with my cup of morning coffee when the first plane hit. That is about a block or so away from the Trade Center ( Ground Zero )
Wes: 3 years, 12 months ago

Snook, TX I walked into my parent’s house… what I remember most was the first thing my dad said… “I think we’re at war”
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

driving school bus and then watching in the library at church
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

In school. None of the teachers told us what happened. I learned it through the grapevine and when I got home.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

On a School Bus Route
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

i was working in the studio
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Ik was in de auto naar Roda
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

everyone witnessed a little trauma and therefore they know where they were when they heard about the news.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was behind my PC when some people spammed me on MSN to check the news. So I went to a newssite and saw the pictures of the twin towers… I went to watch the TV and saw the images and paniced news people. Was really intense and hard to believe…
Stephan: 3 years, 12 months ago

Maastricht, The Netherlands I just came from school. When I turned on the TV I saw the first Tower was on fire and I didn’t realised what was going on. After a while a saw the second plane crashing into the WTC..
Michael: 3 years, 12 months ago

New York City getting ready for work. I was late. I was living in the West Village at the time. As I was crossing 7th ave to go down to the subway, I saw crowds of people looking downtown, just standing there- The 1st tower had already been hit, I had a kodak disposable camera in my bag and took it out and started taking pictures- As I was doing this – the 2nd plane hit the other tower.
your name (optional): 3 years, 12 months ago

your location (optional) I was…sleeping in my dorm room. My mom called me early and told me to turn on the tv.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

at work in Orlando, FL. One of the members of upper management (who is from NY) came in and was late for a managers meeting. He stopped at a woman’s desk (Also from NY and both of them have kids living there still) and I over heard him telling her something about an airplane striking the WTC. As he walked past my desk to go across the hall to the meeting, I stopped him and asked him what happened and he said 2 planes flew into the WTC. At that point, I was rather confused and I said, “How could that happen?” and he said, “They’re saying it’s terrorists!” At that moment I KNEW it was Osama bin Laden. I called my best friend in Jacksonville and she said it was all over the TV and that she actually saw the second plane hit. I called my mom in NC and she was freaking out about it. I went and got my radio out of my car and we all gathered around to listen to the live ABC feed. We wanted to go into the conference room because there was a TV in there but all of management was in their “meeting”. We later piled into a colleagues office and watched her tiny black and white 10in tv and I could NOT believe what I was seeing. I started crying thinking about all the people they were showing hanging out the windows. Then reports started coming in about people jumpin from the towers and they were showing people leaping out. I couldn’t take it anymore and said I was going to smoke a cigarrette. I went back across the hall to get one and went to go out the kitchen door and stopped to talk to someone when the woman that I overheard the manager talking to when he first got there came in and said “The tower just collapsed!” I was absolutely stunned. I ran back across the hall to the tv and they were showing it over and over again. Once again I said “I gotta smoke….this is just too much!!!” and the woman who’s office we were in said “I’m with you!” When we came back in, they had opened up the conference room (We later found out that they were in there with the door shut watching the big tv) and we all piled in to watch. At one point I broke the silence and said, “If that first one came down, so is this one!” Then someone came in and said my mother was on the phone. I got on the phone with her and we were both crying and she was going on about it being the start of WWIII. I told her “Mom, I gotta call you back” I walked back into the conference room and as I moved my eyes back to the television, the 2nd tower started to fall. At that point I totally lost it. All I could think was “THERE ARE PEOPLE STILL IN THERE!!” I’ll never forget the sounds of all of the firefighters beeping alarms going off. I wanted so badly to go home because I was so upset and in shock but they wouldn’t let us. The rest of the day, all you heard in the office was the sounds of several radios carrying live feeds from the networks. On the way home, on I-4 in traffic, I was looking around at everyone in the cars around me knowing they were listening to the same thing I was since no stations were playing music except for patriotic songs. Everyone just had blank looks on their faces as they drove home from work. I was glued to the TV all night crying and wanting nothing more than to put my arms around my whole family. Now, everytime I see the images, I feel like it’s happening all over again. I can’t believe it’s been 5 years. I just pray that the good Lord above embraces the friends, family and loved ones of those who dies on that day. God Bless the firefighters and police officers who gave their lives that day to help save others, not thinking of themselves. What an honorable and noble way to die. God love them!
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Quezon City, Philippines. Just arrived, bone-tired, from work. My brother shouted at me to turn on the living room TV. After seeing the first tower collapse on his bedroom TV, he joined me in the living room. We were both speechless and slack-jawed when we saw the second tower collapse. I had, and still have, misgivings about the USA’s role in history, but my first thought at that time was, THESE PEOPLE DIDN’T DESERVE TO DIE.
RP: 3 years, 12 months ago

Back in the Philippines. We just picked up my parents from the airport when we got a call to turn the TV on.
J. A.: 3 years, 12 months ago

Tysons Corner, VA I was at work. I watched the towers fall on tv while I was on the phone with my mother who lives overseas. We later had to evacuate our office because the local authorities were scared of an attack on datacenters located in the area.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

arlingonton va. i was watching the smoke rise off the pentagon from my office window in courthouse.
Jeff H: 3 years, 12 months ago

Washington, DC I was sitting in my living room in Adams Morgan watching the news coverage. My roommate at the time worked for USAirways and had just flown to California. He was safe, but stuck there – and had to drive home.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

In chapel at college.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was… in the shower and my roommate came and told me – at first I didn’t believe her, for a while I didn’t believe her actually. Then I got to the t.v. and we began to pray that those who survived would be comforted by God.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

On September 11th, 2001 I was in 5th grade. The teachers in many classes had quieted and were sort of moping around the room, not really speaking to anyone. Nobody would tell the students what was going on. I only found out what had happened almost 12 hours later, when I got home. Frightening, yet something I’ll never forget
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

On September 11th 2001 i had just arrived in Kinglassie
Scotland after just finishing a trip to the Highlands of Scotland. I was with my dad and as we went to our own rooms in the Inn where we were staying I turned on the TV and first thought I was watching a movie it wasn’t that at all it was the first plane to hit the towers. It was 4pm in Kinglassie Fife at the time and It wasn’t a movie I was watching it was the news. Then I was trying to figure out where all this was happening when I found out it was New York I was stund. What the heck was going on? how could this have happen? I went into my dad’s room and told him to turn on the news, i watch it with him for a minute and then went back to my room. The tour we had just got off of had several people from the United States and they where at the end of their holiday. One lady was from New York I never did find out how they made out with getting home, the airports had been shut down for a few days. We still had a week with friends and we had no idea if we would be getting our flight home on time but that was a small problem to deal with when New York was in Chaos…Being from western Canada and not home it was strange to watch this every night with our friends so far away….
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

On duty as a Paramedic in Chicago. I was dropping off a patient at a local hospital when I heard someone say that a plane had crashed into the WTC as I watched for awhile the second plane came into view and also crashed into the towers all I could was stare at the Tv as others did and say a prayer for those poor people. When the towers started to fall and it was thought to be an attack I was grateful that Chicago was spared. As luck would have it my next call was to the airport.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was at home doing household chores with CNN news turned on to keep me company. I would occasionally glance at the tv screen when my eyes got glued to the repeated images of an airplane ramming through two tall buildings. I remember thinkigg, “What movie is this?” until I realized it was live drama I was watching.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

A friend called and woke me up to tell me to turn on the TV
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Burnsville, Minnesota I was scheduled off that day (work at the Mall of America). My daughter called from San Diego and said, “Mom, turn on the T.V….in absolute horror, we both stayed on the phone as the second plane hit. I didn’t want to hang up, we just couldn’t say goodbye.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was in my car listening to Howard Stern. It was powerful to hear it from persons that were in the city.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was…just waking up, getting ready for work,I walked in when my roomate was watching the news on tv. I could not believe what had just happened. I went downstairs anmd noticed all the police cars were driving around with their warning lights flashing. I worked until 11 am and then went home. I mourned for days after. 9-11 …we will never forget!!
chris steele: 3 years, 12 months ago

ft.myers florida i was sitting in my 2nd period religion class with coach hawley, at evangelical chritian school ft.myers florida. our principal walked in and whispered into the caoches ear, then he got this stunned look on his face, shortly there after he told us what happened!!!
CHuck: 3 years, 12 months ago

Minnesota I was at the cemetery burying my Mother
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

at home on the computer checking my mail before starting work. My husband called and said, “Are you watching the TV?
I answered no, and he said, “Turn it on NOW!” and hung up.
I watched the replay of the first tower being hit and then a few minutes later watched the second tower being hit in real time. At that time my heart sunk because like most of us, I realized it was a terrorist attack.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was sitting in my AP European History class I had for second block on B day when I was in the tenth grade at Ocean Lakes High School in Va Beach, Virginia. I heard the announcments come on overhead and our principal Mr. Jerry Deviney announced that terrorists had flown planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I was shocked at first, sort of in disbelief. Then when I went to my next class I was angry at the people whom caused this. Ever since 9-11 I always read up on current events.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Jennifer
Fredonia,AZ I was sleeping in bed when my husband came in to tell that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center. I got up to come and see what was going on. I stood in shock as I watched the building smoke and then to watch the second building be hit. It was the worst day. My children will always remember watching the TV and then going to school and watching at school. This is a day that we will never forget.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was asleep
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Ontario, Canada I was in the hospital due to comlications with my pregnancy, When my hubby called my room and told me to turn my tv to CNN…I was dumbstruck. The nurse came in and we both just watched, next thing I knew there were 5 nurses and we watched as the 2nd plane went itnto the tower and the moment was just the most surreal thing I could ever imagine.
In that split second my problems seemed so small compaired to what was happing outside of my room.
I will never forget that morning that it seemed that my generation lost it’s innocence.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Ohio I was sitting in the waiting room of the Blood and Cancer Center with my mother who was very sick and my sister. We were watching it unfold on the T.V. When the second plane hit, we heard someone say “that was no accident” and we could not believe our eyes. We watched from the lab where our mother was getting chemo. We wondered how they were going to get everyone out of the Towers until we saw them collapse. We went out to get donuts for everyone who was getting treatment that day and we heard on the radio that there were more planes. We were so afraid because we didn’t know how many planes they had or what was to come that day. It was a very sad day that I will never forget. We lost so many people that day and our mother soon followed. God Bless all those who perished that day.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was going to work from Manhattan to Queens over the bridge, sitting in a crazy traffic, looking at the downtown`s beautiful view when all of a sudden a plane sliced into the one of the towers. By the time I came out of the shock, another plane sliced into another tower. Traffic stopped, so we were sitting there and watching the Towers going down.
Something you never forget and don`t wish even for your enemies to see.
anya: 3 years, 12 months ago

michigan at work. i worked at a truck stop, it was the truckers who first told me that something was going on. a little bit later one of the ladies who worked up in the office came down and told us what was going on. we turned on the television in the trucker’s lounge and started to watch it. there was a truck driver there with us. he just stood there, staring blankly up at the tv. then he turned and said that his son was in the south tower. he walked off to his truck. we kept checking on him till he finally drove off. the thing that really sticks out in my head is the eerie silence. the major highway right behind the truck stop just ceased to have traffic. no one came in the rest of the day. i think we only saw two or three other cars that day on the ride home.
Amanda: 3 years, 12 months ago

South West Virginia On 9/11 I was in 8th grade in my 3rd period class, which was agriculture. I remember we were doing some work and my dad sent me a text message telling me the power in our hometown was out in a certain part of town, but not on the side my school is. As soon as I read that, my teacher screamed “oh my god” and ran to get a TV on a cart and pulled it out of the backroom and plugged it in. That’s when we saw the second tower going down. We always kept the radio on quietly while working, and she just happened to catch the words WTC Terrorist attacks. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was in Japan, a homemaker and mother of 5 supporting my husband who was serving in the Air Force. It was evening, and we’re in the middle of a typhoon, so our base was shut down. My husband called me in, as he’d been watching the news when the second plane hit. I didn’t realize the magnitude yet, but was immediately moved to tears by just the thought of the people on board the planes. I didn’t have any idea of the size the loss could be.

My husband was tired, so he went to bed, but I decided to watch some coverage on our downstairs television. I was finally starting to understand the scope of the disaster when Jim Miklaszewski of NBC news said, “I don’t want to alarm anybody, but there has been some kind of explosion at the Pentagon”. That one sentence made this terrible, tragic event into a very real, very personal attack. That single sentence changed my life. Given the time of day it was, I knew that my brother was at work at the Pentagon. Even though I found out within a half an hour that he was fine, nothing was ever the same again.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was flying as a Flight Attendant to Tokyo when we heard it from the Cockpit Crew
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was driving to work. I had stopped for gas. When I got back in my car, I turned on the radio to listen to the traffic report but instead… I heard the franic news that a jumbo jet had crashed into the south tower. My first thought was… how in the hell did that happen! But before I could answer my own question…. they said “oh my God… the north tower has been hit”. My next thought was… Terrorist… we have been attacked! When I got to work… someone had plugged in the TV in the conference room and we all watched the towers fall and the Pentgon get hit. We were scared and felt the United States is being attacked! It was so surreal, a living nightmare!!!
Kelly: 3 years, 12 months ago

Holland, MI I was at work…which happened to be at a newspaper. I worked downstairs in the advertising/marketing department. I went to grab something from the printer and heard everyone talking and knew something was going on but had no idea what. Someone said to go upstairs to the newsroom where there was a tv. I quickly made my way upstairs and joined everyone else crowded around the tv. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. It’s like you just felt sick and numb and scared all at once. I don’t think anyone realized it was a terrorist attack at first, just that a plane must have malfunctioned and it was a horrible accident, but when the second plane hit we knew what was going on. Then things started to get crazy. They made an announcement over the intercom saying that we were going to print a special wrap section of the paper. They hadn’t done that in a very long time…it hardly ever happens. I don’t remember now what they said, only that it was a big deal to do this. All of the press people that usually come in at night were called in, and the writers were running around getting all the latest information. It was so odd to hear the presses running in the morning like that…they only run at night. People had to take stacks of the wraps to all the locations where we sold magazines to re-wrap them with the new information. I tuned my radio into the news coverage at my desk and listened all day. It was so hard to even get anything done that day. I just remember looking up at the sky…it was a gorgeous day, and there wasn’t one plane in the air…not one. It was eerie, and i just wanted to curl up and sleep. It was too much to even take in. It was hard to even feel like it was o.k. to feel normal after that day, like I shouldn’t laugh, or go to a movie, or do normal things because I just kept thinking about everyone that was so hurt…I felt guilty. After some time passed it became easier, and I think we all realized that to give up and curl up in sadness would have been what the terrorists would want…to go on living is what needed to be done. I will always feel sad on this day, and I will always remember being huddled around that tv in the newsroom, the sound of the presses in the middle of the day, and the quiet skies that night.
John: 3 years, 12 months ago

Arlington, Tx Returning from California with my sister on America West Airlines. The pilot came on the PA and told us what happened to the Trade Center. We were forced to land in, of all places, Las Vegas. For the next 5 days my sister and I watched, and cried, over the tragedy as it unfolded on TV. It was a surreal experience: no jet noise from McLarren; all the marquees had the Stars and Stripes fluttering in video. The shows started reopening on Friday. I was at the Bellagio when they restarted the fountains. They played “God Bless the USA” and then had the fountains report 21 times… the tears flowed.
Molly DM: 3 years, 12 months ago

Walnut Creek,CA I was at home asleep. My Mom left late the night before on a red-eye back to CT. My husband called me from work ( also a firefighter) just after the first plane hit and asked me what time my Mom was due to arrive home. My Mom was due to land 8:45 AM on a Delta flight. At that time, we did not know what airlines were involved…needless to say I was very anxious and unsettled. I tried calling the airlines for a status report, but all lines were busy. Finally, an hour later, my Mom phoned me to let me know she was safe.

God bless all of the victims and their families. I think of them often and am reminded how precious life is everyday. Firefighters and Police officers are put in harms way everyday. They are amazing people with amazing courage. To them, it’s just their job, but to the citizens they protect, they are our heros. Thank you and God Bless.
Tanya: 3 years, 12 months ago

Michigan I was listening to a morning news show & reading at the computer. Our three older kids were at school, the 3 1/2-year-old was playing. Bryant Gumble came on & said that a plane had hit the 1st tower. I thought it was a bad accident, til the second plane came in, then realized it had to be on purpose. My brother-in-law called. I remember thinking that alot of people would get out, I didn’t think about all that jet fuel, trapped inside. A cousin of my husband’s stopped in & hadn’t heard anything yet, so we just sat here watching TV. Then the Pentagon & the Pennsylvania Field. I went to work waiting tables at 2:00, of course the place was dead. It was just me, the cook, & the owner. She had a small TV on in the dining room, but we didn’t care for that channel’s coverage, so the cook & I pulled a couple of chairs up to a chest freezer in the kitchen & sat there with a radio & ate supper. We didn’t have a single customer all night, not even our usual group of coffee drinkers. Just today did I realize exactly how huge the area was; the radio said the area left bare at Ground Zero is 15 acres. That put in better perspective for me how huge the area is, even if you got out, how far you’d have to run to be safely away. Bless all the innocents and all the heroes.
Tina: 3 years, 12 months ago

Sourthern California I was in bed sleeping.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

i was on my way to my high school. I was a freshman and I was in the car with my sister when we first heard about the first plane hitting. I could not even begin to comprehend the magnitude of what happened. I was bombarded with countries I never thought twice about and world issues that I never wanted to think about.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

working the 26th floor for Forest Electric on East 41st street between Lexington and Third Ave. Doing electrical alteration work when we heard on the radio that a plane hit the north tower of the wtc. We had a clear view of the North tower from the 26th floor, as we watched the devastation of the plane inside the wtc upper floor, a second plane looked like it was circling to see the damage the first plane had done. It, however, crashed into the second tower of wtc. At that point I told my boss I was going home, and left the job about 930 AM. I walked to the Port Authority on 42nd street where my car was parked and drove up to the Tappanzee Bridge, the George Washington and Lincoln Tunnels were closed, I lived in Bergen County New Jersey. I was at the Tappenzee at 1130 am, when I finally got through to my wife, she told me the wtc had collapsed- I couldn believe it
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

on 9-11-01, this was my day (written one week after the attack)

that morning i was at work in downtown manhattan (wall st. racquet club)
which is a 10 minute walk away from the wtc (out of the direct fall out).
my 8 am lesson, Johannes, had (i later found out) overslept so i was in
one of the lobbies watching satellite tv when the initial 8:50 am report
came on. i immediately called my dad in north dakota to tell him to
turn on his tv and to let him know i was ok. at this time several
people came into the club to use our phones and see what was going on.
this was a rough time, as many of them were hysterical while
attempting to call husbands working atop 1 wtc and not able to get
through. they were sitting or standing next to me with uncontrollable
tears watching the tv and there was nothing i could say or do to help.
i certainly couldn’t say what i was really thinking.
i later went outside to take a picture of the smoke and the heavy
rain of paper coming down upon us. as i snapped the picture there was an
incredible explosion that shook the ground. i went in to find out about
the 2nd plane and was the the first to realize a terrorist attack was
occurring. the tennis club is located at piers 13 & 14 on the east river at
the foot of wall st. at this point much of lower manhattan was escaping
to the north directly by us – some up on the fdr drive, and some on south
st. many came into the club to get away from the smell and smoke and
were watching our tv’s. you can imagine the absolute shock and choruses
of “oh, my god’s” as these people watched wtc #2 and later #1 crumble
down along with their jobs, businesses, careers, co-workers or family.
we all understood not everyone had gotten out. on tv, we had seen the
jumpers – some on fire as they fell 110 stories to escape the searing heat in
favor of quick death.
as each building fell we were engulfed in the cloud of soot that
shot through the downtown corridors and over the skyline. it was initially a
dark brownish yellow color and for a time we couldn’t see more than a few
feet out the windows. the breeze was blowing it straight toward us all day.
the thick stench was like nothing ever smelled before. it contained a
combination of elements we don’t want to think of. the masses outside
were running with their faces covered by anything they could find.
the phone lines were starting to jam but a couple close friends were
able to get hold of me. i tried to talk but was too shaken to put full
sentences together. i got a message on my cell phone from my brother
dann and eventually i was able to leave a message for him without
crying.
a layer of gray soot had blanketed everything in our area. by 4 pm i
figured the air had cleared enough for me to make the erie walk to and
over the brooklyn bridge toward home. i had a sore throat, a headache,
and was temporarily out of my day job as a tennis pro, but i realized i
was better off than many.
i have been lucky (as far as i know) not to lose any friends or
close students. one of my students, howard lutnick, has been highly
publicized as the head of the firm cantor/fitzgerald and owner of
espeed. he lost just about all (700) of his ny company (including his
brother) who occupied 5 floors (101-105) of tower #1. he was taking his
middle daughter to her 1st day of kindergarten at the time of the first
crash. he had lengthy interviews on all of the networks and looked much
more worn then than he did after an hour and a half on the tennis court
with me the day before the attack.
my ex-girlfriend kara (an artist) had received as grant for a 5
month project on the 92nd floor of 1 wtc. she was going to go in at 10
am that day so she is safe but lost all of her work, mostly completed (8
large paintings & 6 drawings) and all of her tools and equipment. one
of her colleagues was there – his body was one of the relatively few
found.
i’ve been to wall st. a couple times this week to make calls and get
things ready for monday when we try to open the club. it was quite
intimidating walking through the heavy military and police presence.
business is going to be very slow for a while, but we will be there. i
plan on visiting the sight soon so that i may truly realize the damage
for myself
Doug Nelson: 3 years, 12 months ago

Arlington, Virginia In bed in my dorm room. My then-girlfriend called me to tell me “something happened to the World Trade Center in DC.”

“DC doesn’t have a world trade center,” I said. “There’s one in Baltimore.” I went back to sleep. An hour later, on my way to lunch, I saw that all the doors were open and heard TVs everywhere. I tried to walk as long as possible without looking and seeing what could possibly be happening.

At lunch, another student said to me “I’m ready to join the Army, and go fight those bastards.”

“Fight who?” I said.

His reply: “You know, them!”

That’s when I got a bad feeling.
Travis: 3 years, 12 months ago

Plymouth, MA I was on my honeymoon. More specifically I was in the shower getting ready for the day when I heard my husband yell into the room. I got ready quick, we rented a car and drove all day to get home to return to family and friends.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

home from work sick
Jim Bradshaw: 3 years, 12 months ago

Regina Saskatchewan, Canada At work in the Jail in Regina, Saskatchewan Canada, in the Remand area where staff are not supposed to watch T.V. In a very short time however staff from the Deputy Director on down were perched watching. There was an eerie silence throughout the Jail that day as staff and inmates alike watched the events of the day unveil. Probably one of the most somber days in here that I can remember since I started in 1979…
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Having breakfast with my husband at a local diner when the TV there went black and we saw the first plane hit – we immediately lost our appetite and went home. We spent the rest of the day glued in front of the TV, holding hands, and praying….
Hidy Chui: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was at home sleeping when my mom woke my brother an I up. The tv was on CNN and i was in shock in what has happened and thought it was a horrible accident. Not until the second plane hit the south tower, i then percieved that it was a terrorist attack and something was going on.. wrong. As i went to school, my teacher was cryring and angry on how someone could be so sick and vile to ignitiate a sick attack upon our country. Half my classmates were either gone, or picked up by their parents for safety. It was shocking and emotional to watch those two towers fall and watch people run away in instinct.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was at work when a client came in and told us what was happening. We had no tv so we crowded around a radio to hear the news. I called my husband, who was at home with our son, because his sister lives in New York City. His mother had already tried to get in touch with her after the first plane hit the towers. She, thankfully, was physically fine. I was glad to go home early that day so that I could soak up every bit of information that I could. I know that not everyone loves America but I just never imagined that something of this scale could happen here. I remember driving home and watching the sky in case I could see a plane. Hearing how people were jumping out of the towers broke my heart. Imagine having to make the choice to burn or jump. I don’t know if I could have made myself do it. I was so glad to see my husband and my little boy. We watched all the coverage because my son was only 2 and wasn’t paying any attention. Who knew if there were more attacks to come? Hearing about Flight 93 made me very proud of those people on the plane. I know I would have fought back. You can’t just sit back in that kind of situation. I do remember that before going to bed wishing that there was something other than news coverage on TV. Just one channel. Going to sleep with those images fresh in my mind was almost impossible. I cried for the people who were trapped, the ones who jumped, the ones who must have just sat and cried as they died, the loved ones who got that horrific phone call and the ones who didn’t. I prayed for all the victims and the heroes. God bless the firefighters. We can never forget.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was at home sleeping when my mom woke my brother an I up. The tv was on CNN and i was in shock in what has happened and thought it was a horrible accident. Not until the second plane hit the south tower, i then percieved that it was a terrorist attack and something was going on.. wrong. As i went to school, my teacher was cryring and angry on how someone could be so sick and vile to ignitiate a sick attack upon our country. Half my classmates were either gone, or picked up by their parents for safety. It was shocking and emotional to watch those two towers fall and watch people run away in instinct.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was working in my office at JFK Airport. Because of the clear day, I immediately noticed all the black smoke coming from the first tower hit by the plane. From the distance of JFK I could not tell which tower was hit, all you saw was the smoke surrounding both towers. Shortly later, while continuing to stare at the towers in disbelief, I saw a secondary explosion. Again because of the distance I thought it was a gas main blast in the first tower hit by the plane. I never thought it could have been another plane.

The next day at work and the days that followed, all you saw was smoke in the place of where the towers once stood. Where there was once the constant noise of jets, there was eary silence due to the grounding of all flights in the days that followed.

It wasn’t until I saw many of the funerals and memorial services that followed within my own neighborhood that the emotions really hit me.

We can never allow this to happen again.
Rose Maldona: 3 years, 12 months ago

Detroit , MI I was sleeping on my bedroom floor with my radio turned down low as I always keep it while I sleep when I was drifitng in and out I noticed there was alot of talking going on instead of music. I was having an odd dream of myself and friends who were for some reason on a plane to join the military for some new war.. I woke up and turned the radio up to hear of an attack..so I ran to the t.v. watching the events unfold as the second plane crashed into the towers. I ran to the other room and called my ex who was scheduled to join the navy within the month as we shared our horror and disbelief. Even years later I can remember those moments so vividly..
THE BIG EEEEEE: 3 years, 12 months ago

sSAN DEGO CA I was at work, manifesting hazardous waste. A customer called me on the phone, to tell me of all the horror, that was taking place. I worked one street away from the largest marine/naval base in San Diego.I turned on the radio, & just could not fathom what was going on, even as I listened. I am a native San Diegan, and never in my life, didi I believe, this could happen to America. It has left me shattered, like so many others. The worst of it, is the sense of security we all had, that is gone. I want to feel good again. God bless America
Jessy: 3 years, 12 months ago

Greenbelt, MD I was in school at that time & I remember getting up for an early class. It was a small class called visual communication & we were actually all there b/c none of us had heard anything yet– maybe it hadn’t happened yet, I can’t remember. Then, when class was over, I passed some people out in a hallway that had a portable tv on (odd) & I heard them say something about planes, I remember, but they were only talking to eachother and I went on my way. Then I walked outside & noticed that the first couple people I saw were all on their cell phones and then I noticed that pretty much every single person on the mall was on the phone– it was kind of surreal. i still didn’t know what was going on and went back to my dorm where the news-watching, jaw-dropping, and sorrow began for the next few days. My floor had tons of NY and NJ kids– its was chaos for awhile. I also started hearing about things happening in dc inlcuding some more minor, less publicized bombings in DC. I heard about on bomb a few blocks from my Dad’s office & we couldn’t get word from him for hours. We all were paranoid about the metro & but he decided it was his best option to get out of the city. It was just painful waiting to hear until he got home safely. I can only imagine how it was for people with family and friends in the towers.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was sleeping but scheduled to depart from Denver to Houston in the afternoon. I was stuck at school for my quarter break so my parents went to pick me up from far away. I flew back 2 weeks later and my flight was practically empty. I don’t blame them. I was so mad I wasn’t going to be scared away or stop my life for those cowards!
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was… working at a daycare center answering phones as i usually did from 6:30 am to 9 am before i went into my classroom to teach. a parent had called to say a plane hit the twin towers. it seemed sort of strange to me at first and i merely thought it was a defect in the plane or a mechanical problem. i went about my business and was alerted by a second parent who was dropping their child off, that a second plane had hit the towers and was believed to be a terrorist act. that is when panic struck my mind and fear that we were being invaded.i worked in long island, ny and thought that other planes were flying over us and were going to crash near where i lived.i wanted to go home immediatley but couldn’t because we had children in our center who had parents working in the city and some staff members who had relatives that worked in the towers, so i had to cover their shift. i will never forget my co workers faces that day or the fear in the parents eyes as they rushed to pick up their children. luckily we did not loose any one we knew that day.like many people, i will never forget the day that these terrorists came on our turf and destroyed our lives forever. in fact i do not think i was ever inside the twin towers in all of my life, and if i was i was too small to remember. I hope that we never have to experience another attack on american soil like that ever again. god bless everyone.
Greg Porath: 3 years, 12 months ago

Emerado, ND At work, in our business manager’s office. The radio was on in the background with the story on it. I wasn’t really listening, but then it sunk in what they were saying. We turned on the television in our computer lab just in time to see the second plane hit the towers, and we were just horrified by what we say. I’ll never forget
My name optional: 3 years, 12 months ago

Long Island, New York I was…Driving on Motor Parkway, a beautiful twisty road winding through Commack and Dix Hills. I had the windows and sunroof open and Santana’s Supernatural CRANKIN’! When I got to work at Newsday everyone was standing around stunned, people were trying to tune in a tv station. It was terrible, several employees left because their son was in one of the towers (he was safe we found out later). It was not a good day for advertising…
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was at work i didnt know that anything had happened until my boss told me so we all went into his off and watched the news on his computer…
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

West Coast I was preparing to wake up my two sons for school when I turned on a morning news tv program. As the picture came into focus, I saw the thick smoke and flames billowing from the WTC. At that time only one tower was hit. Horrified, I asked myself how all of those people would get out. Innocently believing it was a catastrophic accident, I then saw the second tower being struck by the aircraft. For the first and only time in my life, my brain would not and could not process what I had just seen… my mind was just a blank.
God bless all those who lost their lives on 9/11 and their loved ones, as well as all the brave firefighters and police who escaped with their lives. You have redefined the word “hero”.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

california I was on the 101 freeway heading to Los Angeles. The one day we didn’t turn on the radio. We didn’t know what had happened until we arrived.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Miami Beach I had just arrived to work, a couple of my chefs ran over and told me planes had flown into the World Trade Center. Because of the strange look on their faces I thought this must be some kind of joke. After convincing me that it wasn’t we went into the office and pulled up a news service on the internet. There it was live in streaming video. The anguish on their faces was overwhelming…many of their friends worked at Windows on the World.
Shellie: 3 years, 12 months ago

Fort Wayne, IN I was working in a our call center helping clients move their money from closing funds into new appointed funds. I had just answered an incoming call and the women I was speaking with stopped speaking…and then said,”Oh my God, a plane just hit the World Trade Center!” and as she watched her tv. I listen to her give the details and then she said, “Another plane just hit the other Tower!”. We ended our call and then I went upstairs to see the news. Groups of people stood in front of all of the tv’s in our building. Everyone just stood in disbelief not understanding what had just happened. Several times throughout the day we would all gather around the tv’s to get the latest information.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was on a plane. United Airlines. In mid-air. Headed to Los Angeles. Then the pilot gets on the PA and says they have to land because all the planes across the country have been grounded by the FAA.

I had a fear of flying anyway so this didn’t exactly help. Then the pilot gets back on and says “there’s nothing wrong with our plane, we just have to land now”. So we did, in Vegas. Took 11 hours to find a car and drive home.

Definitely a memorable day, although not for the right reasons. I took solace in the fact that it could have been a lot worse for me because I made it home fine and there were people on planes who didn’t make it home that day.
Jennifer Main: 3 years, 12 months ago

Muskogee, OK I was on the phone with my mom, when she said to me: “Oh my God, Jennifer! Turn your TV on!” We were both horrified, crying and praying for the lost souls continuously that day as events unfolded before us. It was a terrible thing…. that will not go unpunished. May God bless and keep us all safe… and protect those who fight for and protect our freedom.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was in my dorm room at college. I had just woken up and was eating breakfast so I turned on the news and saw that the first plane had crashed into the WTC. I called my mom at work and told her to turn on her radio. While we were on the phone trying to figure out what happened the second plane crashed. We both started crying and my mom wanted me to come home. Classes were cancelled for the rest of the day. I went to school in the Upper Pennisula and The International Bridge that connects Canada to the United States was backed up for hours and hours. They increased security and checked everyone that was trying to get acrossed. That night we had a candle light vigil at the Peace Pole. I just think it’s so sad what happened and a complete waste. All those innocent lives lost…..and still more innocent lives lost to this day in Iraq. When is the killing going to stop?
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

i was at my friends. our schol was on strike so i spent the night, i woke up and went into the living and we just sat there and watched the news for awhile until we couldnt take it anymore then my friend and i went any got some more of our friends and went and hung out to get our minds off of it.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was in 7th grade, in band, and i remember that no one in the band new what was happening until other kids arrived at the school. That day, the teachers were not allowed to have any TV’s or radios on and were not allowed to talk about it with the students.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

driving in my car to my office when I heard Warner Wolff on IMUS say that a plane hit the world trade center. By the time I was parking my car, the 2nd plane hit. Inside my office they were already listening to the radio. I never felt that scared for the future of mankind than at that minute.
Shelley, New Jersey
Loren: 3 years, 12 months ago

Cleveland That Tuesday, I was into the second day of training two students, one from the People’s Republic of China, one from Taiwan. It was a quiet day at work and between 8 and 9 AM I was preparing for class, then from 9 on, teaching. Hadn’t heard a newscast or anything since I had gotten in. At about 10:30, we took a break and I got online to talk to a friend.

“Oh, Loren, it’s terrible!” my friend said.

“What’s terrible?” I asked back.

“Someone flew a plane into the World Trade Center!

Until that moment, I hadn’t heard anything at all about what had happened. I was aghast and shaken badly … but I still had my students and felt strongly about my responsibility to continue their training. We got back to the training after the break and I did what I could to focus on continuing the course. I made a point of taking them out to lunch to a familiar Szechwan restaurant where I figured there was little chance of hassle. My fear was that ANY kind of foreigner might be a target for someone wanting to indulge in xenophobia but that was not the case.

Somehow, I managed to finish the day’s material, though we wrapped up early – my heart really wasn’t quite IN it. I remember commenting to an associate sometime after my students had left for the day:

“I think we’re at war … question is, with whom?”
Dreama: 3 years, 12 months ago

ky. at work, I could barely hear the news on the pa system, as the radio was on. I heard something about a plane hitting a building. I waited awhile and heard nothing from anybody, so I went to the office and asked to have the t.v. turned on to see what was happening. I was horrified. I was thinking all hell is going to break loose now! Nobody does this to the U.S. and gets by with it. I had plans that evening, but I went home, scared of what was going to happen next.
Susan: 3 years, 12 months ago

Long Island sick in bed with a sinus headache. My husband was on his way into NYC for a business meeting. He called me from the road to tell me a plane had just struck the towers and that I should turn on the TV. The next few hours were a flurry of activity at our home as we tried to determine whether my aunt was safe since she worked in the WFC. Once we received word she was okay, we still were not sure if the message was from before of after the collapse. It wasn’t until that evening that we got good news. She had been asked to triage patients at the base of the towers and NYPD evacuated them as the tower started to come down. I thank God that my aunt was spared and feel for those who lost loved ones that day. This day should never be forgotten and will never be in my household.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was actually living in a motel at the time with my boyfriend, now my husband. We had just woken up, and he left for work. I was all alone in my room, and I turned on the TV. I sat there with my mouth open. What the heck was happening??? I was in shock, so much that I just couldn’t fathom the fact that we had just been attacked by heartless, cold people. Who would do this to our country…TO ANY COUNTRY??
God Bless our heroes…our brave firefighters and policemen…and all of the people affected by 911. Gee, that sure doesn’t leave ANYONE out, does it?
Tony: 3 years, 12 months ago

Alabama I was on a ballistic missle submarine in the Atlantic Ocean at about 300 ft underwater. We were actually able to float an antenna wire and pick up an AM talk radio station out of New York. We thought we were going to war and were all ready. We didn’t get to see any actual footage until a couple months later and it was like it was happening all over again.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Clinton Township, MI I was at work, listening to what was usually a very funny radio show. All of a sudden Drew and Mike got deathly quiet and serious. As we heard the news of the first tower attack, we turned on a tv in the office to follow what was happening.

Once I saw what was going on, it felt like my heart fell to the floor as I began to understand the magnitude of this attack. For days, every chance I got, I watched news program after program; and spent more time crying for the souls that were lost than I ever have cried.

I remember phoning my husband, who was on the road, to advise him what was going on, and pleaded with him to “watch the sky” for other potential attacks.

It was a moment that would change my life forever! I have come to appreciate life much more fully and try to take each moment in life as the gift that it is from God!

God will continue to provide strength for our country, our president and our people! In God I trust!!
E. Nyman: 3 years, 12 months ago

Dekalb, IL I was at work training for a new position. I work in a hospital lab and after hearing repeatedly that something had occured I went to the lab lounge to see what was going on. We have one TV and the entire day shift staff was crowded into the lounge. I couldn’t really hear or see what was going on. Then the towers fell and the reality that something horrible and probably intentional had occured. I was so distracted that I left work early since there was no way I could learn anything new with that on my mind. I worried for all my friend in downtown Chicago which was feared as a target. When I arrived home I found my father home from work early vacantly watching CNN. He did not leave that screen for almost 3 days. I still get a sick feeling to relive the moment of not knowing what was going on. I hope we can relive the peace and compassion that followed 9/11 when people tried to do their part to make a difference no matter how small.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was at school, where we talked and remember this day. In honor of all those you lost there life or someone close to them we where red, white, and blue.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

i was at work and our driver came in and said that a plane had just crashed into the worl trade center. then the other then the pentagon…i said someone has unleashed the fury of the us and is gonna get their ass kicked
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was at Ft. Dix in a class room when everybodies cell phones went off. When they said the tower was hit, I thought they were talking about the eiffel tower. I had no clue it would of been the world trade center.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Trisha: Garner, NC- I was at work and about 20min before it happened I had a horrible feeling overwhelm me for no reason. I had a friend go outside with me where I just started crying and trying to tell her I didn’t know what it was going to be or to who, but something terrible was going to happen. 20min later our boss came outside and got us and told us what was happening. There were annonamous threats to bomb schools here in our area and I left the office and drove straight to the school and had the office call my girls down. As soon as I saw them I hit my knees and cried hugging them. I took them home and we spent the rest of the day snuggled on the couch watching the news and crying.
Angela N.: 3 years, 12 months ago

Wisconsin I was in the desk kitty-corner from the first seat in the first row, Mrs. Pride’s sixth grade reading class, when the principal delivered the short, shocking news over the PA.
Later that day, at lunch, my friend scared me with more, mostly incorrect information. I had to leave early math class fifth hour to go home, because I had scared myself to a low-grade fever. Mum and I watched the news, crying, with my dog in my lap, for a long time after that. She still has all of the news videotapes we recorded, hours and hours, sitting labeled on our shelves.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was…pregnant with my first child. I was at home on bed rest, three weeks from delivering. I was horrified by the events that unfolded.
Memom: 3 years, 12 months ago

Interlaken, New Jersey I am a teacher and I was in school. The school put the series on events on all classroom tvs so we watch the horror as in occurred. Because I am in New Jersey we were devastated by the events. Some of our students had family who worked at the World Trade Center. It was a very emotional day and we all suffered because of it. I a blessed to have know many of those who lost their lives. I pray for them and their families every day and for all the students who were affected by this tragedy. I am 66 years old and have seen too many tragedies in my life such as the Korean Conflict, the VietNam Conflict, the John Kennedy assassination, the Martin Luther King assassination and the Iraqi War that has my grandson involved in a country where he and we do not belong. I pray that one day we all live in peace and that we don’t ever again see individuals believe that it is ok to take the lives of the innocent. God Bless the fallen and the families of the fallen in all these sad occasions.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Doing laundry at my local laundry mat here in New Haven, IN and they had a tv on at the time. Didn’t pay attention to it at first until the woman working there said that a plane just hit that building. I turned around and started watching it. They also had a local radio station playing on their overhead speakers which kept cutting in with updates on the situation. When I left, I remember staring up at the sky and saying “Lord protect us”. After I got home, I watched the TV until I had to go to work. My thought right before I punched in was that what I am doing today is meaningless compared to the events that have taken place. I worked at a large retailer and I remember that all the TV’s were on a news channel with continuous coverage of the attack. I remember trying to get a copy of the evening paper because I knew this was going to be a historic day that would never be forgotten. I also remember the insane lines at the gas station nearby as everyone panicked about possible gas shortages. Everyone that worked and shopped that day seemed in a daze. Its an event I will never forget for the rest of my life.
Chris
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

i was on an exchange trip for my high school (in germany) and i was headed for windows of the world but we were late because of traffic into the city
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was at school.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was in Savannah, Ga on the Savannah River that particular day – It was a shame to hear from the dock personnel when I returned to the port.

I lost two friends that worked with me at UPI – Reporters that were in the Twin Towers – jms
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was getting ready for work and listening to the Today show, when the local New York newscast broke in on channel 4. I wasn’t in front of the TV because I was doing my hair in the bathroom, so I figured it must have been 8:56, and that I was running a little later than I thought I was. I looked at my watch and realized the local news indeed was broadcasting earlier than usual. I went to my bedroom to see why, and the anchors were reporting that it appeared a small aircraft had crashed into one of the WTC towers. I sat and watched them speculate for several minutes on what may have happened, when the second tower seemed to spontaneously burst into flames. At this point everybody was stunned; it seemed that the explosion was caused by some sort of bomb. Nobody knew exactly what in the world was going on, except that at this point it appeared to be an attack of some sort. Then one of the station’s own newscasters — I think it was Pat Battle — called into the station and was put on the broadcast live to report via telephone. She said that a plane had flown into the tower and caused the second explosion — that she had seen it. The station replayed the footage leading up to the explosion, and sure enough, you could see the plane deliberately heading into the building. At this point, I’m thinking — well, not exactly thinking, because my brain was surely addled by these events — that I really was running late by now, and I had to hurry up and get into the office.

I live in Hudson County in New Jersey and worked in Manhattan, and at the time I lived along a street that has probably the best view of Manhattan, just across the Hudson River. I knew that as soon as I walked outside I would see the towers burning. So I finish getting dressed and go out to wait for the bus to take me to the ferry terminal, so I can go across the river. As I’m waiting on the corner, I’m staring at the smoke streaming out of the towers against a beautiful sky, and I’m thinking, “Wow, it’s really going to take a lot of work to fix those buildings.” The ferry bus comes, and there are a few other commuters on it, some staring out of the windows at the towers, others reading and not paying it that much attention. In retrospect, I think we all were in a state of shock, still planning to go about our days, go into our Manhattan offices, and act like it’s business as usual.

I was shaken out of my stupor just a few minutes later when the bus arrived at the terminal, which sits down on the river with a bird’s-eye view of the city. There, a rush of people were coming TOWARD the bus instead of away from it, which would ordinarily be the case during morning rush hour. That alone was surprising. Then, as I was starting to step off the bus, a woman shouted, “Go home! Go home! We’re under attack! They hit the Pentagon and the Capitol!” (Of course, we later find out that the Capitol wasn’t hit.) It was only then that I realized we were at war. I really thought the bombs would start falling any minute.

The ferry terminal was packed, with boats still leaving at that point, but with so many people waiting, I figured that I probably wouldn’t make it into the office anytime soon. I decided to call my boss to tell him, and had to use the pay phone to make the call, since cell service was out. I was standing near the door of the terminal, on the phone with my boss, when the first tower fell. I got off the phone and looked at the mass of dust and smoke coming from the ground when the announcement came that the terminal was closing and that there would be no more ferries that day. As the smoke starts to clear from the initial collapse, I see the strangest sight of the day for me: one single tower, standing alone, smoke still pouring from its upper floors. It was something that had never been seen before. The towers went up together, and they were called twins precisely because they always stood together, each a perfect replica of the other. One standing alone? It was unfathomable, yet I was looking at it. I turn my back to the smoldering mess and the lone tower, unable to look at it any longer. I contemplate what to do next: go home and stay there, or go home, pack up some stuff, and get in my car and head south on I-95 to be with my family and friends.

I walk back to where the ferry buses waited to evacuate people from the terminal, and as I am about to get on a bus, a guy on a bike rides by. He’s whooping and yelling, “Death to America!” I wonder now why no one tackled him.

As I ride back to my apartment, I’m staring out of the window, now just waiting for the remaining tower to join his twin’s fate, wondering, but not wanting to think too hard, about whether everybody got out in time. When I reach my stop, I wonder whether I should stand outside and watch the inevitable collapse of the building, or go inside and watch on television. I opt for the latter because I was feeling completely cut off and needed information. I turn on the television, and moments later I watch the second tower collapse, and hear a scream outside my window.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was in my school class room
PETER RIVERA: 3 years, 12 months ago

NORWALK, CONN I WAS WATCHING IT FROM FROM THE NEWS CHANEL LIVE FROM START TO FINISH, AND WAS IN SHOCK ON HOW SOMETHING LIKE THIS COULD HAPPEN. WE LOST FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN THIS TRAGEDY AND WE MUST STAY STRONG AND KEEP THE PRAYERS GOING FOR THE FAMILIES. GOD BLESS US ALL.
Brenna: 3 years, 12 months ago

Maryland It was a fairly late morning due to being up all night with my newborn son.. I called my mom and she informed me as to what was going on and from there I was glued to the t.v. most of the day mortified… my prayers and my thoughts have been with the families and victims ever since… God Bless this country…
Ray: 3 years, 12 months ago

Phoenix, AZ My alarm clock radio woke me to the news but I couldn’t fathom what I was hearing until I turned on the TV just in time to see the second plane manuevering and stricking the second tower. Was like watching a movie-only real people died! We need to a better strategic plan to prevent this from happening again….guns and bombs are not the only answers!
Jane Stillwater: 3 years, 12 months ago

CA I was scratching my head and muttering to myself in horror, “What has Bush done now!”
Thomas: 3 years, 12 months ago

Sweded Me and my mom was on an American Airline flight from Sweden to Chicago, we were on our way to see my sick grandmother in California. A friend at the same time was on a Delta flight which departed from Sweden an hour later.
It was over Greenland that the Captain said on the speakers that he wanted us to pay attention and stop doing what we were doing and something had happend, he would get back with more info in 5 min.. at this time I looked outside the window and saw the icy greenland and I thought that I was DIED and damn #%&¤, #/(## and “”(/”&!
When the captian came back he described it as world war III had started.
We found out that the two towers was attacked and we were to be derouted to Montreal, Canada. My friend on the Delta flight was derouted to Ireland.
We landed on a national airport that the runway was not designed for the plane we were in.. so the captain litterly floored the brakes at touchdown. We got on a transfer bus and bomb dogs went through our things. When we arrived at the airport the first thing I saw was a gigantic fight at the payphones and then I saw on the tv screens the magnitude of the attack..
Jennifer Hibbs: 3 years, 12 months ago

Granbury, Texas I was working at a pre-school with my little boy at the time. One of the teachers told me to come out of my classroom to watch the t.v. I was in shock! My heart and prayers go out to our country.
Jennifer: 3 years, 12 months ago

Lafayette, Louisiana My alarm clock woke me up with the news of the first two
crashes. My husband called me, and told me to turn on the tv. I was already watching. Horrified, I watched the towers fall. I was pregnant and ready to deliver any day. I remember thinking how glad I was that my son was not born on Sept. 11. Over the few weeks, as I looked in my son’s nursery, it was so sureal. I had decorated it in a flag theme. It was amazing to see the flags bloom across our city. God bless the men who fight for our freedom. Jennifer
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was putting in a heating system on east ave in rochester NY untill I got activated at about noon and told to report to my unit
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

i was working on 12 st and i see everything from the roof
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

At my high school teaching job. I will never forget the shocked look on everyones’ face. I was soooo surprised that school was not dismissed, for the horror of it all, and the respect of all who died in vain. Why don’t we have a 9/11 day off out of respect? anyone care to comment on this?
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was with a dear friend at his home, trying to come to grips with a medical procedure – hysterectomy, scheduled for 9/12 (due to recurring medical problems). Although my doctors strongly recommended this surgery, I was still unsure if this was the choice I really wanted to make. But, after the devastation and the evil of men I witnessed on 9/11 – I knew I didn’t want to bring another life into this world that was in such turmoil. And though I cry sometimes about the loss of my ability to bear children, but I know I made the right choice that day.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

hawaii Asleep and got a phone call around 4am i woke up and turned the tv on and saw it was horrifying
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was working for Child Protective Services and was so worried about some test I was about to take. I remember driving to work and trying look over notes at the same time. Howard Stern was on the radio talking about some party with Pam Anderson at Scores. I didn’t find out until I walked into the building and went to my floor. By that time, the Pentagon had been hit. And everything I was worried about before seemed meaningless.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was home and had turned on the new prior to the first plane hitting, then everything changed and by the second plane I was sure we were at war. The Pentagon confirmed my thoughts. I will not forget that day and will not let my family either. We cannot let history repeat itself…
JTD/9-11-06
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was on the computer ordering Halloween gifts from Oriental Trading Co.
Jules: 3 years, 12 months ago

Red Wing, MN I was driving down the street going to my usual day of breakfast. When I got to the resturant and I told my freind the waitress and she went to the kitchen and they turned on the tv and kept us update as much as possible. And when the second one hit I was eating breakfast. I continued to watch off and on the rest of the day at home. I will never forget that day as long as I live. So sad and senseless.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was at home, watching it all on the tv. It was devestating to watch. Britney S. North Bend, OR
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was in my fourth grade classroom. They never told us what was going on. We just saw the towers coming down and people screaming and crying. It was like the same footage over and over again. But, it was all different footage.
Ruth: 3 years, 12 months ago

Pepperell, MA I was in the parking lot of dunkin donuts when i heard the horrible news, and when i walked into the shop and i repeated what i had just heard, everyone was very quiet. very sad.
Erin: 3 years, 12 months ago

New Jersey At work, sitting at my desk, not believing what a co-worker was saying about a plane hitting the North Tower.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

My clock radio woke me up with the news. I thought that they were talking about the twin towers in Century City. Took my children to school. Came home, listened to the news and realized what happened.
your name (optional): 3 years, 12 months ago

your location (optional) I was on an Amtrak train coming home from Indiana on the morning of 9/11. I live in upstate NY. I was in a sleeper car with no tv and may have been one of the last people to find out. I had a premonition something was going to happen and had been extremely jumpy to go home for two weeks prior to the attack. I’d flown out there and would have been in a jet that morning but I’d lost my only credit card. I took the train instead and paid cash. I was petrified on the flight out there. People on the jet knew something was coming. We were praying and reading the Bible openly in the first week of August. I keep wondering why I was allowed to come home safely and I keep wondering why I knew something was going to happen.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was in my 6th grade history class, making a book on greece, mrs. hazelwood was going over how to do the population page and i was working on some other page, not listening to a word she said when all of a sudden, all the corner ceiling t.v.’s (that never ever worked before) came on, as as the principle’s voice came over the intercom, all we all saw way planes crashing into the twin tower buildings. we spent the rest of the day talking about what that was going to mean to america, and how we were know a part of history and kids years later would be learning about something we lived through and could remember…
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was in school, in class when the planes hit the world trade center
Vicky: 3 years, 12 months ago

DeWitt, Michigan I was at home in Michigan, getting ready for work. My husband was watching the CBS morning show and told me I had to come see because a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. As we watched, live on TV, the second plane hit. We were in absolute shock. After the other plane hit the Pentagon and the other plane went down in Pennsylvania, I called our kid’s schools and asked if they were going to send them home early. The told me the whole district was in lockdown — no one, not even parents, were allowed on school property. That scared the living daylights out of me. The remained of the day was spent with my boss, glued to the TV at work, praying frequently, and crying occassionally. I’ve lived through 3 hurricanes in Florida, but that day is the most terrifying of my life. God Speed to all those who perished that day…please know that we will NEVER forget!
rbarry13: 3 years, 12 months ago

Illinois I was at work, and work that fateful day was a blood drive at our local nuclear power plant. We had just arrived and got set up, only to hear about the Twin Tower attacks. I immediately did NOT want to be at a nuclear power plant! The people in security at the plant told us not to worry, they had security people with guns that would shoot at any intruders…but people with guns could NOT have shot down an airplane, if they had come at the power plant!!! Thankfully we did cut our blood drive short that day, but we should have gone home immediately. I will never forget it, our innocence was lost forever.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was in gym class in my high school in Williamsport, PA. No one really knew what was going on, although our school would not allow us to see what was going on throughout the day. I didn’t really find out what happened until I got home from school.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Mn I was at home with my young child watching the today show and they were showing the footage of first plane hitting the tower then i thought it was still the first plane then could not belive that it was live footage of the second plane
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was playing golf and a friend told me about the disaster.I couldn´t believe it and i turn on my mobile telephone to read the headlines news, and it was true, the towers were colapsed down.From the first moment i thought that the only reason just could be a terrorist atack.
Suso from Galicia Northwestern Spain
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

AT HOME
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was so unprepared for a discussion we had about the news of 9/11 (I attended a Senior Support Group). Even though I wasn’t aware then. I soon became very informed listening, watching TV, reading news articles. Just, as today I am still widely absorbing todays recollections of this memorial to (9/11/2001)
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

Toronto, Canada I was at work. I remember coming in to work a little late to think that some guy in a Cessna had flown off course. I went down to get a coffee a little while later just in time to see the second plane hit. By the time I got back upstairs, the first tower had fallen. I was just in shock. It took a long time to realize what was going on. My wife and I had just found out we were expecting out first child and I remember thinking “what kind of a world were we bringing a child into that could do this”.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was working at a daycare and most parents rushed to pick up their children but some didn’t – some had parents at the petagon and 2 lost thiers that day – all I could think was that their world and ours would be totally different from that day forward. I’m from the generation that didn’t have nuclear bomb drills and we heard no sirens as we were at our desks and now all these childrens will know about emergency preparedness and what to do if thier parents are the next ones to not come pick them up.
Tracey: 3 years, 12 months ago

New York City I was crossing the Williamsburg Bridge, from Brooklyn to Manhattan when I saw the second plane hit the tower. I just kept walking into the city, almost like a zombie. I was late for work, and like a New Yorker I was magnitized towards the action. I spent the day wandering around, as work had been cancelled and trying to track down a friend who was an EMT at the tradescenter. I was lost, but united by fellow New Yorkers.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

I was at work at Griffis Business Park, formerly Griffis Air Base until clinton closed it. When the news came over the radio, I instanly knew it was terrorism and told my buddies so.They thought I was nuts and busted my chops until the second one hit, then I was a busy man. They sent us home and by thenthat business park again looked very military because of NEADS.
Matt Dentino
Rome, NY
TANYA: 3 years, 12 months ago

DENVER, COLORADO I had just moved to Denver, Colorado from Raleigh, North Carolina 10 days prior to 9/11 and was staying with my friend Jon for a few weeks until I got settled. I was up early that morning and climbing back into bed with the dog for a few more minutes of sleep before starting my first day at work. Jon, who was always checking his email, read aloud a report that a plane just crashed into one of the World Trade Center buildings. The report made it sound like a small plane, a Cessna or something of that size, and he didn’t seem too concerned. He left for work and I turned on ABC to see tower 1 burning. I really didn’t want to leave the television set and go to work. I considered calling in for the day knowing a friend of mine lived in NYC and I was worried about him. However, I did go into work and we basically watched reports all day on the TV in the kitchen area. Several people from Corporate HQs who were visiting on business were trying to figure out how to get home because all the planes had been grounded. I remember resenting them for being so angry about having to rent cars and drive back home when more important things were going on, but they just wanted to be with family. I regret that I did not watch much TV the next few days. I feel like I missed out on a lot of stories and information that I can never retrieve. I remember really missing my family back home and feeling so sorry for all the young professionals, like me, who could not find their husbands and wives in the aftermath.
Anonymous: 3 years, 12 months ago

In California. My 12 year old son had the t.v. on that morning. As we stood and watched the towers—we just turned and looked at each other with horror—the night before we had watched a movie called ‘On the Beach’….if you have ever seen this movie—-it scared us; it was like someone up above was trying to warn us. I had just ‘picked up’ this movie as it was a free movie on my membership.

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