What did you do on the day of 9/11?

Answer 1

I was at work and I had just started as a new manager of the company's website. Someone in the office said that a plane had flown into the WTC and my first thought was, "What kind of moron flies into a building that big?" We were all thinking Cessna size at the time. Then 5 minutes later someone came and said a second plane had flown into the WTC and it sort of dawned on all of us that this wasn't some small plane that had flown off course.

The next thing I knew my cube was packed with people. Most of the people in the office were older and didn't understand the internet so they wanted me to find out what was happening. And I couldn't. Every website I could think of, CNN, NY Times, MSNBC... all of them were so overloaded with too many visitors and I couldn't get to any of them.

The owner of the company took his TV into the lunch room after that and we watched as one tower and then the other fell. There were like 100 people packed in that room, all craning to see the tiny TV up front and we all cried.

Then we were told to go home. And I couldn't go because my house was on the other side of the city. I am in Cleveland and the plane that went down in PA was over us and they were evacuating downtown because no one knew were the plane was going at the time.

Finally, I was able to get home and I sat with my family. My husband put the flag out on the porch.

Answer 2

I got up and went to work just like normal. A guy on the radio said Hey, somebody in a plane just hit the World Trade Center! My brain registered it as another idiot in an ultralight or something. Then the whole world changed for everybody in America.
I think of that moment in time, the moment I thought some fool in a tiny plane must have got off course, as the last moment of true innocence I had as an American citizen.
I don't live in fear - I just live cautiously.

Answer 3

I went to school late (I was in grade 11)...I actually left at 8:45, the time one of the towers was hit (the first one I think) and I didnt find out until my principal came on the intercom just before lunch and was she crying. I didn't go to school in the afternoon so I could watch CNN at home and figure out what was going on.

My twin sister was high that day and thought the world was going to be bombed lol.

Answer 4

I was in the office when it happened. They let us out early and on the way home I heard about the plane that went down in Pennsylvania. I started getting worried because my parents were in Penn at the time (I know its a big state, but people weren't really thinking clearly that day). When I got home, there were a whole bunch of messages on our answering machine from other siblings wanting to know where our parents were. I wound up having to call my aunt to get the phone number for the hotel they were staying at because before they left, my parents didn't tell me where they had written it down.

I was eventually able to get a hold of them. They were fine and didn't know anything had happened until they stopped at a restaurant for lunch.

Answer 5

Worked.

Answer 6

I was in school. It was my seinor year and I was in History class when I found out. I remember being in shock, like 'this didn't just happen.' At first I thought it was just a coincidence, but later found out the truth. I remember crying a lot and watching the news all day. I didn't personally know anyone who had died, but as I live in Boston and have many close relatives in NYC the tragedy struck close to home.

Answer 7

i remember i woke up and turned on the tv. like i always did. While i was changing i saw the news with the one of the twin towers full of smoke. i didnt think much of it. then when i got to school, the teachers turn on the tv and i still really had no idea until around b4 lunch i realized. everyone in school was panicking after the second strike of the twin towers. it kind of scared me, i thought it was war or something whn they told me it was about other countries involved. thats all i remember.

Answer 8

I was talking to a 8th grade social studies class in Ohio when there princpal announced it over the intercom. We ended up watching the news in classrooms for about 3 hours.

Answer 9

I was celebrating my sons birthday one minute and the next it just didn't seem to matter any more. A day the world stood still and time seemed to stop

Answer 10

I was at home doing my schoolwork, but when the first plane crashed I rushed upstairs and watched the rest of the attacks.