where were you, what were you doing during 9-11?

Answer 1

My mother woke me up and we watched it. Then, when I went to school, everyone was watching it on TV. I went to the newsroom of the school paper and they were watching it too. Our journalism teacher said that this was one of those moments that really tests the strength of a journalist.

Later, I heard that the Palestinians were celebrating in the streets and passing out candy. Bastards. So I went to the pharmacy (where they were playing R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts" on the P.A. and playing the TV) and I bought two whole bags of Hershey's candy. I brought it back to the school newsroom and said, "I heard the Palestinians are celebrating in the streets and passing out candy. So I bought some candy for us." Later, I heard that the journalism teacher ate it all.

What was even weirder was that CNN showed how stocks were doing about two days after 9/11. Almost all of them were down, but Hershey's stock went up. Weird.

Answer 2

I was near by at Battery Park (just got off the Staten Island ferry about a half hour before) and heard the sound of the first plane hitting and I began to run up towards the Twin Towers.

By the time I got closer, the second plane hit the other Tower and by that time, there was no way anyone could get any closer.

I was glad I was not able to get any closer because the last thing on my mind, was that those beautiful Towers would ever collapse and when they did, the smoke and debris was traveling in all directions and it even reached the Park where I started from.

I was so horrified to see that happening in front of my very eyes. I worked in the Towers a while back but on 9/11/2001, I was no longer working in the Towers but I had many Friends who still worked in the Towers and I lost Two good Friends that day.

Answer 3

I was working in midtown New York and heard about what was transpiring from 1010 WINS news. I saw the towers fall while gazing through the windows of a nearby restaurant that had big screen televisions on at the time. Later I watched from 5th Ave. and 50th street as the smoke billowed from the rubble that was the Trade Center. I later walked for miles (along with 100's of thousands of others in the exodus from the city), took several buses, finally made it to the LIRR which took me to Port Jefferson L.I. where I was able to pick up the ferry (ironically, with some people who were downtown that day) and made my way home to Connecticut. We spoke of the day at the bar on the ferry where people shared their experiences. The trek home took about 7 hours.

For New Yorkers, a day like no other.

Answer 4

I was in a isolated area in the woods/mountains of Colorado hunting Elk... I did not know of anything wrong for 2 days.. until I actually noticed I didnt hear a airplane flying
I had to climb to a top of a mountain to get a phone signal to call home to find out if anything was wrong
Cound't fly out a week later on the scheduled day
oh yeah, shot a 6pt by 5 pt ELk

Answer 5

9-11 was a Tuesday. I was out of school to go watch my sister show her steer at the State Fair ( She ended up winning Grand Champion Overall!!) We were all stoked about her winning. None of us were even near a TV. When I went back to school on Wednesday I didn't even know about the hijackings. Everyone was talking about it and I had no clue what was going on. When someone finally told me I was just in awe.

Answer 6

I was asleep, I was working nights fulltime during college but I remember thinking ....arghh and waking up, looking at my TV that was still on from the night before and a plane had hit. And I bolted up and watched and started praying at the end of my bed.....until I cried...so hard for those people when I realized what was going on. I listened to the radiocast on my radio on the way to my University and walked into class. I went to a big school and no one was in class and our teacher looked at us and said...Go, home! She could tell we were upset....and I am so glad that she did! So I went home, watched, turned the TV off and prayed for it seemed continuously throughout the day.

Answer 7

I was working. I happened to be working on a trading floor with a million TVs tuned mostly to CNBC. I walked in to work shortly after the first plane hit (yeah I was late!) and everyone was standing around the TVs. I sat in front of the those TVs for the rest of the day - in between frantic phone calls to my family telling them to turn on the TV among other things. I was SURE it was the end of the world. I guess for some people it was. Very sad day.

Answer 8

I lived on the other side of the world. It was a normal day at work for me. Came to know only much later in the evening by watching news on television.
It was sad and horrific no doubt, but we in our respective parts of the earth have seen terorism at its more horrific form and terrorism sadly has become almost a aspect of everyday life. Most people have been personally touched a few fortunate ones have not.
For Americans it was their first taste of terrorism and they find they event earth shattering

Answer 9

I was at home ill with a mild case of pneumonia. So I got to watch the whole thing on television while everyone else was at school. It was interesting to watch how everything played out. I can't say that it scared me(I don't live in New York) but I was very amazed and bit angry.

Answer 10

I was 14 in my science class in 8th Grade and our teacher had heard something about a plane and turned on the tv in the classroom and said that this was something we'd be hearing a lot about for a while.