Where were you on 9/11?

Question

I was in third grade. I can't remember anything about that day, becuase our shcool had kept the whole thing behind our backs. ( Now I am very angry I spent a whole day not knowing when the whole country was in panic mode and im sitting in class). One thing I can remember is my Mom driving me home from shcool saying "Can I tell you something? Today, planes crashed into buildings and hurt tons of innocent people. I didnt understand how serious this was. Then my Mom turned on the news at home and I saw thousand of people running from clouds of smoke and Towers collapsing and I knew how serious it was. So likely of me, I went outisade and me and my neighbors went on the tramploine and talked about itand watched some news. Thats basically all i can rmemeber. The next day at shcool thats all that was on everyone's mind. I can remmeber kids saying when i walked into shcool "can you believe we are in shcolltoday?"

Answer 1

Working on a chemotherapy ward in the hospital I work in.
I remember passing in front a TV and the patient was watching the bombing and I remember saying . Well nowadays Hollywood makes those disaster films that looks almost real ... to be told that IT WAS REAL...

Answer 2

I was walking to work in Boston, listening to the radio when I heard a plane hit the world trade center. I imagined it was a prop plane, and someone had gone off course. The radio commentator thought much the same thing. It’s a large building, how do you not see it in front of you, they joked. By the time I got to work, the news was much more serious. I changed away from my entertaining radio station to an all-news station. I tried to pull up information on my computer but nothing would load up. I’d learn later because too many people in the country were trying to do the same thing. The radio announced that a second plane hit. I was the only one on my floor with a radio and people started huddling around my office. I was eventually able to pull CNN or MBNBC up on my computer, and saw a picture of the towers up in smoke. I was in a state of disbelief. I wasn't yet afraid, just shocked. Then a plane hit the pentagon. Now I was afraid. It felt as if every plane in the air was coming down.

The first tower fell, according to the radio. News was changing by the second, it seemed. The reporter was out of breath as he described it crumbling to the ground. “Could I be hearing you correctly, did you say the tower fell?” I thought back to when I was in the 2nd tower on a High School field trip. All I could think of was the cute gift shop at the top floor full of New York City tourist trinkets. I remember pressing my face against the glass to look straight down to the city streets.

There was an order for all planes to land immediately. This concept was incredible. Wherever you are in the air, land NOW. Once the 2nd tower fell, I wanted to get out of Boston, immediately. The city seemed to empty at the same time. I walked as fast as I could to the overcrowded train station and somehow found my father. While waiting for him, I remember thinking “this is a good target, I want to get out of here NOW.” We slowly pushed our way down, deep into the subway system. This did not feel any safer than the main train station. Nowhere felt safe. Everything was threatening. Everyone was terrified.

Answer 3

The radio goes offf at 10:45 am in our house because that's when my spouse (works nights) gets up. We heard the announcer say, "A 747 has hit the World Trade Center Tower" and I jumped up and turned on CNN.
Turns out, my spouse had customers who died in the Towers. Later that day, I saw an interview with a New Jersey pyschologist who was an old high school friend. 9/11/01 changed everything I love and hate about being an American.

Answer 4

I was in my office in San Francisco fixing our server. My boss called me and he said to pack up and leave. I didn't know what was happening then. Fortunately, there was a television in the break room which I turned on immediately. As soon as I saw images, I saw a video of the second plane crash into the Twin Towers.

I was completely frozen. For a few minutes, I stood there in front of the television while thoughts raced in my mind.

I suddenly found myself in the middle of chaos and confusion. I packed up and left for home. Unfortunately, everyone else was in a rush too. I got home 3 hours later which was just too much since it only took me 30 minutes tops.

So many questions left unanswered. Somehow, I suddenly felt vulnerable. Unsafe. Unprotected. I was scared and the horror didn't go away instantly.

Answer 5

I was at school, teaching. I thought it was some kind of surreal joke but when I went home and saw the news and all the images, I was shocked and numbed. Mortified! All the innocent people that died...for what? Nothing....It was a horrible day. It was hard to grasp the fact that such a catastrophy had occurred in such a small amount of time. So many lives lost in mere minutes. The world changed after that day and can never go back to that state of "peace" again, it seems....

However, what numbed and shocked me more was that fact that the so-called "Muslim terrorists" may not have even done it.

See for yourself and tell me how you can deny all the facts provided in this very thorough video made by typical white Americans:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5946593973848835726&q=9+11+coverup

As a youngster entering into adolesence and perhaps high school, you have to analyse anything you here on the news. A lot of it is fabricated (made up) to stir raw public emotions. Our American Government is full of it, look it up, dear. I ain't lying. The real people behind the news and media in general are all psychologists and phD docs who know exactly how to manipulate the brain and the way a person thinks. I learned this in English Media, a course I took in High School. I think they axed the course now, perhaps because it revealed to much to the public and gave them the ablity to think independantly and free from media-influence.

Your life has just begun and I want you to know that the Media is a very powerful and yet very abused tool used to brainwash us all.

Choose to be free. Choose to think for yourself. You control you mind and thoughts. Don't let the media do it for you. What they teach is poison for the minds. That's why there is so much corruption in the minds of people today.

Knowledge is power. Let this power set you free!

Good luck!

Answer 6

I was watching Television, something I rarely do. More important, and perhaps more urgent, is, where will you be on August 22, next week. Larry Edelson sites 3 connections to this date: (1) the anniversary of a sacred event: The 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This is the day when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the legendary winged horse Buraq, first to "the farthest mosque," (Jerusalem) and then to heaven and back.

2) this date roughly coincides with another event exactly 240 years earlier — the conquest of Jerusalem by the Muslim warrior Saladin, the arch-enemy of the crusaders.

(3) most telling, August 22 marks the approx. date that the 12th Imam in Islam, or Mahdi, is expected to return to the world. Shiites believe Mahdi will bring with him a new period of Islamic justice.

One specific date and 2 rough date timings. Next week, on this date, the President of Iran is supposed to respond to a request from the UN regarding his nation's plans to continue or discontinue their work in Nuclear technology. Iran selected that date back in June of this year to respond to this question.

Larry speculates: Could the terror plot to blow up 10 airliners headed toward the U.S. have also been slated for August 22? We'll probably never know for sure." To help put things in a proper perspective, perhaps a review of the greatest thinker of the last millennium is in order. All of what you need to know is right here. I posted this site last week. Some read it, most did not. Their loss. Satan has blinded many. Those who read the whole posting know the date Aug. 22nd could very well prove to be significant; only time will tell.

http://www.triumphpro.com/2006,_bible_codes,_newton.htm

Answer 7

I was on my way to work when the planes hit.. I went in an hour late, and I had to take a detour because the street that I normally take to get to work was closed down to the point where I couldn't even see down it, from all the smoke & soot...

The sirens were so loud & sooo plenteous that it was unreal. I turned my radio on, and heard what had happened, so I went home, the trip back seemed like it took forever! It was scary, because my uncle was a Firefighter.....As it turned out, he was among the missing, & was never found.......He will never be forgotten for his bravery.... As well as the many others who risked their lives trying to save people before the buildings colapsed.

Answer 8

I was sitting outside drinking a cup of coffee enjoying a beautiful fall morning when my friend drove by and said you are not going to believe what I just heard on the radio, we ran into the house and turned on the tv and held each other and cried as we watched the 2nd tower fall.

Answer 9

I was at work, in Canada. I remember my boss turning on the t.v. and us watching, dumbfounded. We were in a situation though, that the first question we all had was: what about all those planes in the air? So, many of us made sure they were safely landed and the passengers taken care of.

Not many Americans know that this is one of the things Canada did, along with sending volunteer firemen to New York City. The population of Gander, Newfoundland more than doubled for nearly a week then from the passengers, and people were taken into the homes of the people of Gander.

Answer 10

I was in school as well. I was in fourth grade but I heard about 9/11 on the news while I was getting ready and my parents told me what was going on. People were talking about it in school and our teacher gave us an assignment to watch the news that night and tell her what happened the next day (like give facts) that is all I can remember. It was terrible and everyone was shocked because of what was happening.

Answer 11

I was at work a 1/2 block away from the Trade Center. I worked for the NYC Dept. of Health as a scientist. A lot of the staff (myself included) were redeployed to work at ground zero for several months afterwards the attack.