Where were you and what were you doing on 9/11?

Answer 1

All the TV screens of the Canadian University were showing this
event... Actually, I never new if it was in direct of after the fact...

My first reaction was,"Oh my God!!!!!" but everyone was calm...

Then I was sure it was accidental... because if a plane want to take a tower down it would hit much lower....

WhenI saw the 2nd one hit the second tower, now that was a
definate puzzle...

Did the second plane pilot simply lost sight of the tower by watching the 1st one crash? perhaps... It does happen that
way on roads too....... so why not whit planes?

To me, and to others too, these 2 planes hit way too high in the
towers to think that it was an attack... No one actually new that
the towers would crash down...

In fact, where would a plane aim to crash if it were in mechanical
trouble in NEW-YORK city? Crash on the brige? the grounds?
No... I guess crashing in the TOP LEVEL of a such a HUGE tower and a BUSINESS tower would be the least damageable and not touch any children schools, etc...

The fact that it was OFFICIALLY declared as a WAR event was
not actually delared by anyone but President Bush... No official
inquiery was made by United Nations to support the accusation.

Also, by declaring this event as a WAR act, it was saving all the
INSURANCE companies to actually pay ay compensations to
the families of the victims, and so saving insurance companies
from a HUGE bill.......

If an inquiery would have been made under UN, it would have been the WAY to accept the fact of a WAR... Now, I it too late
to save all the lost lives of thousands after the actual event...

IF THE PLANES WOULD HAVE BEEN FROM ITALY, WOULD ITALY HAVE BEEN BOMBARDED???

It is still a question for the future... I large cities as New-York and
planes numbers endlessly growing, isn't it NORMAL that SOME
will get in trouble? Is there such a thing as CHOOSING a place
to FALL?

Other plane WILL fall in the future as there have been also MANY
in the past.... Next time it may be a BRITISH or FRANCE plane.
What will happen then? Other wars? Or are wars only if seen
as potential enemies? Isn't this simply RACISM?

I have all these questions in my mind.... an what if any other plane
crashes... Are we seeing the start of world war 3 ???

No answers to this yet ....

Answer 2

At work, cutting meat. The seafood girl came in and said "guess what I just heard on the radio? A plane hit the World Trade Center." We didn't know if it was terrorism or an accident for at least another hour, when we heard about the second hit, then the towers falling.

All day we heard bits and pieces- no TV, no radio, just tidbits from other employees and customers coming in the store.

We heard about the Pentagon, we heard one hit the White House... all kinds of rumors. We were told that at least 50,000 people were working in the WTC when they fell- a relief to hear it wasn't so many, but still sickening to go home later that day and watch what had happened.

And I agree with what BK down there says- I will always support a President who has the guts to go after terrorists.

Answer 3

I was in a car driving from Saragossa to Girona, Spain. I had heard something on the radio like "Bush..crisis" but my Spanish wasn't good enough to get the whole story. When I got to Girona it was about 6 PM and the people in the town were all in the streets celebrating Catalonia indepedence day -- 9/11 is like their fourth of July. When I checked into the hotel the women saw my New York City, USA passport, she said "Oh I'm so sorry" and I said why and she said, they knocked down the world trade center...we have CNN you can watch it in your room. So I went up to my room turned on the TV and saw it. Then I started calling Friends and family in US and drinking everything in the minibar...I was in Spain for four more days...

Answer 4

I was home when the phone rang. It was a friend who said he had heard a boom and that something had struck the Twin Towers. I ran up to the roof of my building. Neighbors had already gathered there. We could see the Towers and a lot of smoke around it. I don't know how long we were there, staring at it in disbelief. Then the collapse, I heard screams and shouts from the street. I think people started to cry and hold each other. I went back to my apt. to start calling people and watch NY1. One of my cousins called me freaking out because her mother, my aunt, works in the Pentagon and that's when I heard for the first time that it had been hit too. From the window I could see people streaming up from downtown. The rest of the day was like that--trying to find out what was happening, whether people I knew were safe and reassuring everyone else that I was ok.

Answer 5

O my god I remember this day so well. I work as a State Trooper, and me and some friends were talking at a truck stop near the Interstate with a T.V. RIGHT BEHIND US. However we didn't know it, until a truck driver told us to turn around and look at the T.V. when we did at that moment the second plane hit and we thought it was a replay until a wide shot showed both building on fire. We were like man that's bad, and with in minutes the Pentagon reports came in everybody in the store's mouth were wide open.

Answer 6

I had just gotten up for work and turned on the TV to watch the news while I had a cup of coffee. I saw it all live but the whole time I was thinking there was something screwy with the TV and expected VinDeisel or someone to be carrying people out of the building or something.

Answer 7

It was Tuesday and i took my son to school. I didn't work Mondays and Tuesdays so i went by McDonald's got breakfast and paper and headed home to read and eat. Then i started cleaning house. I was wearing blue jeans and a white tank top and i was vacumning the living room. I remember that the hose had clogged and i was cleaning it when the phone rang. It was my mother. She said, "You'd better turn your tv on. Something has happened in New York." My mother has always been overly dramatic and i figured this was one of her "oh my God" stories that turned out to be a trivial story. The first thing i saw was a young woman sitting in a pick up truck absolutely covered in white something. Everyone was covered in this white stuff that i later learned was paper from the explosion that turned into a powder type substance. I sunk to the floor and as the awful truth started to unfold, i just started to cry. My husband came home shortly after that and said that he had heard that they were going to shut down the nation's gas lines because they feared another explosion. Everyone was so scared, and all these crazy stories and things were going around. We went to the convenience store down the street and filled both our gas tanks. Then we went and got our son from school. I couldn't stop crying. Everyone we met was in this weird stunned shock. My husband said "Let's just go pick apples." We went to a local orchard and picked apples.On the days that followed everyone was just in this surreal daze. We were...scared. At work we were so quiet and this was not normally a quiet bunch. We would just tear up for no reason. It was just so horrible. Even now, i'm fighting tears. Night after night you'd flip through the satellite channels and on all the sports networks they just showed an empty baseball field. The radio didn't play songs that alluded to any violence or airplanes. We just kept waiting to wake up. I saw photographs of some of the people killed on the planes. One of them was a woman named Tara Creamer. I've never forgotten her name. Pretty, mid-thirties, married, mother, she was on a business trip and she hated to fly. She tore me apart because she was like me and she was dead. Her husband would never hold her again, her kids would never know her hugs and love. It just tore me up. It still does.

Answer 8

I was at work (Ontario, Canada) and one of our clients, who always has a good joke, came in and said "did you hear about the planes that hit the WTC. Naturally I assumed he had another joke. It sure wasn't a joke. I have the radio on at work all the time and it hadn't even been announced on there yet. That's a day I'll never forget. A young man that I new as a child was working at the WTC and managed to get out alive.

Answer 9

We were in downtown Scottsdale,We saw people crying and some kneeling in front of a TV that some shop owner had rolled outside.. I was almost in shock as my husband and I watched the video as the networks played it over and over again. My hands were shaking as I called our daughter,just to hear her voice,seeking reassurance that the world was still there for me,she was crying ,she had seen it already. We sat down on the curb along with some of the other people and we just kept watching again and again trying to take it all in and trying to tell ourselves ,no no not here in the USA, not in New York....oh the poor poor defenseless innocent people .I hated who ever had done it and I wanted our people avenged,I still do . I will NEVER forget that day.

Answer 10

I was sitting in my 5th grade class minding my own business, when I see this thick black cloud of smoke permeating the Hoboken air. I was like, What the the *** is this? My teacher turned on the radio, and I heard. Next thing you know, kids (including me) were being yanked out of school, one by one by their parents. I was home watching TV, and the OTHER building was hit. Mid you, i was only 9 then, so i was scared as hell!