Where were you on September 11, 2001?

Answer 1

I was working the front desk at a hotel. One of the house keepers came down to the desk and said, "somebody shot a missile in the world trade center, then we turned on CNN, and I was watching as the 2nd plane hit. It was crazy, I was like "what is that plane doing?", then it hit the tower! I couldn't believe it!
That day people didn't check out, they just hung out in our lobby, watching the news.
I remember later that night when all the people(congressmen, senators etc.) were on the steps of the capitol, singing "America-the beautiful", (I think), it brought me to tears.
That was the one day that we weren't : white, black, young, old, fat, skinny, gay, strait, democrat, or republican, we were just AMERICANS, and we were UNITED! It's too bad it took something as horrific as that to bring us together!

Answer 2

I was at work on that fateful Tuesday morning. My assistant and I were learning how to make a product that we were taking over from another department, and the head of that department was showing us how. We had the radio on in the background when our teacher mentioned something about a plane crashing into the first tower. At first, I thought that it might have been a small plane that had hit the building on accident, but when I heard that it was a passenger jet, my heart sank as I knew that was going to be destructive.

I went to turn on the nearby computer to get information on what had happened. I remember that it was painfully slow as it was an old 486, but when I saw the picture of the tower aflame, well, I can't really remember how I felt. I suppose that the second tower being hit, then the Pentagon, the big question that ran in my head was "What's next?"

When the radio announced that the second tower had collapsed, my heart sank still further. I had thought that it had toppled over like a tree that had been cut, but it was still bad enough. I made my way to the company breakroom where a television set was set up, and I recall vividly seeing people fall out of the building, probably knowing that death was upon them. Then I saw the first tower collapse. I remember the camera panning back from ground zero, with clouds of dust engulfing the lower part of Manhattan, spreading out to Liberty Island.

It is a day that I will never forget.

Answer 3

I was in school...woulda been 9th grade I believe about 4th period...Art Class we had Channel one in school so there was a tv in every room all of a sudden they flipped on and at the time they were showing the plane that had hit the Pentagon...I couldn't believe it and for a split second I didn't I thought it was a joke...I kept saying to myself...THE Pentagon then about 10 minutes later I found out what had also happened. Absolutely in shock and scared as all hell I mean who wasn't. When I got home from school my mom was really scared...earlier around the time that it happened my older sister called (she's in the airforce) told her to turn on the tv (my mom hadn't even seen what was going on) and asked her what 'they' were trying to do and my mom replied without even blinking an eye...make the stock market crash and disable this country. After she got off the phone two fighter jets flew over our house...they were so loud that she thought they were bombs and she could see off in a distance a 747 which they were going after. She was thinking oh my god I'm going to watch them shoot that plane out of the sky...it didn't happen thankfully they were just re-routing the plane to Canada...

Yea I don't think anyone will ever forget where they were or what they were doing when they found out what had happened.

I remember that night sitting outside with candles lit for those who died that day and looking up at the sky and not seeing any planes and listening to how ereily quiet it was. Hopefully it never happens again.

Answer 4

In SoCal getting ready for work looking at the news in between using the bathroom when I got a call from a friend who told me to watch the TV and i witnessed the plane hit the first building. i thought I was dreaming . I couldn't believe how this could happen to us after we had a year ago faced the threat of the tower being attacked. And so it all went down.I was devastated on many levels.

Answer 5

In a motel room in Rawlins, Wyoming. My husband and I woke and turned on the television before we even got out of bed, and there it was, before the second plane hit. We were sure it had to be a movie of some sort, but the reality of it gradually sank in. We sat there on the bed just holding each other while I cried and cried. After watching hours of that on the television, when we finally left the room, it was surreal to look around at the blue sky, and the birds singing, and life there looking like normal - when we knew it wasn't by a long shot.

Answer 6

In my high school english class. We had a sub that day because my teacher had been taken to the hospital the night before. We were supposed to watch "The Scarlet Letter" but we heard an announcement telling any classes with a television to turn it on the news. We thought it was some kind of sick joke at first. All the classes in our hallway came and piled in and we all watched the second plane hit and both towers fall. It was the most surreal event in my life. It felt like i was watching a movie with me in it...

Answer 7

At home, In New Mexico (2 hours behind the East Coast) about to head off to work. The TV was on in the background at home while I was getting ready to leave, and suddenly things were different - without even hearing what was actually happening, one could sense that the reporters were giving out information on something out of the ordinary.. I watched a little, then had to drive to work.

The TV was on at work (usually it would just be used as a security camera monitor) and it was impossible to focus on anything other than what was happening. I would go to my desk, realize I couldn't focus on anything and go back to the TV screen.

Human empathy would not allow "business as usual" to occur.

Answer 8

I was working "on site" in "Quebecor", The English branch... Production just stopped TV's appeared from nowhere and no one moved or spoke for hours.... it was incredible... driving home that night the motorway was empty and the only thing on the car radio was the attacks... but the worst for me was, as i worked for an American company, all the US engineers were pulled out of Europe and the next day i was sent to cover a US repair in Sweden... that flight was almost empty, and was i scared....

Answer 9

I was 14 and was planning on going to the mall that day. I went to this park I always go to to think after hearing of it. I live not too far from an airport, but no planes could be heard that day. People walked by occasionally but didn't smile.
I was still in shock and had no idea that even though I knew no one who was killed, it would take a full year for my wound to heal.
My heart was broken.

Answer 10

I was closing the fiscal week and doing all the reporting, etc. for the restaurant company I worked for. I was at work early getting ready to go to school for the first day of the year. I got to my English class and the professor - first day I'd met her - started talking about what had happened and then she started balling, etc. She didn't know anyone that was immediately affected by it or anything, she was just hyperemotional. Kinda freaked me out, but I didn't drop the class. Turns out, she cried at every class session - about poverty, about the state of the prision system, education, etc. Now, I'm not a conservative man, but JESUS TAP-DANCIN' CHRIST, this woman was over the top.

Answer 11

In Southern California