Where were you when you heard about the attack on the WTC??

Answer 1

I was seeing patients in clinic, hearing small inaccurate pieces from each person that I encountered. When they said "plane," I thought a little Cessna had hit the building. When someone said a second plane had hit, I went out to the waiting area to watch the news.

That evening I had a house full of kids... my two and four "extra" because several parents from the children's school dropped theirs off. The parents were overwhelmed and decided they wanted them to be at my house. We watched some of the news and talked about what was going on in an age-appropriate way that helped them feel safe.

Aloha

Answer 2

I was at work at MCI WorldCom Conferencing, as we watched the events on our computers. Within minutes, our phone traffic slowed significantly, because the nation's telephone system became so heavily burdened. By the following day, we were hosting emergency teleconferences for various government and civil agencies (including psychological counseling professionals) in regard to the WTC and Pentagon attacks and the plane that was crashed in PA.

My cousin's daughter was in the American Express building and said she actually ducked, as she saw the first plane go past her office window. It wasn't until almost 9:00 PM that night that we learned that she and her co-workers got out safely and finally made it home. We were some of the luckier ones . . .

Answer 3

I was in a British Literature class at Georgia Highlands College. We were studying "Hamlet," and since the majority of us had read it in high school, many of us were using laptops to surf the Internet. I noticed a slowing down in the server speed, and assumed a jump in bandwidth consumption. I went to the Fox News website, just to see what was going on, and was met with a picture of the first plane crashing into the tower. At first, I thought the site had been hacked. Only after the site got REALLY slow with all the traffic did I realize something was really going on.

People started looking around the room, and at the end of class, the teacher mentioned the fact that nobody seemed to be into the discussion, at which time a student in the front row turned her laptop around to show her what everyone was looking at. Class promptly dismissed, and nearly the entire school gathered in the cafeteria to watch the news report.

Answer 4

Reports starting trickling into me at work. It was evening in Australia, so people were hearing snips of information and passing it along. Initially I was told that 40 000 people had been killed in the WTC. It felt surreal. I didn't know what was happening, or why. I guess people all over the globe felt the same way at that moment.

Answer 5

Driving in my car on the way to work. Heard about the first attack on the radio. Reports were coming in when the second plane hit. Truly scary.

I got to work just before the Pentagon was hit. I was talking to family on the phone and friends at work.

When the first tower fell, I just shut off the radio and sat there, in silence.

Overwhelming.

Answer 6

Went surfing that morning, came home, flip on TV, one of the towers is going down and I think the morning news show is doing a story on another disaster movie--but those special effects look so real! When I realized it was real I literally screamed, it was the worst thing I have ever seen. Honor the victims, honor the brave firemen and police of New York, honor the citizens of New York, may God bless them all.

Answer 7

I am a truck driver and was in a truckstop in Springfield, MA. I called into my dispatch and she told me a plane had hit a building in NY. I went to the TV room in the truckstop and sat down to watch about five minutes before the second plane hit.

Sobering and scary when I realized I had been blocks away less than 24 hours before.

Answer 8

I was running late (like always) for school, and my younger brother was watching TV and started yelling because the TV was "broke", its the same thing on every channel. I went in there to see what was going on and there were pictures of the towers all over the TV. Breaking news planes hijacked, crashing into buildings.

Answer 9

I was sleeping in and was awoke by my mother who called and said we were being attacked and at war, I threw the phone and was stumbling around. I was half asleep and freaking out thinking missles were being launched until I turned on TV. I turned on the TV just after the second hit and watched for most the day and thought to myself, what did Bush do?

Answer 10

I had woke up just in time to watch The Price is Right and turned on the tv. I freaked out when I saw what was happening. My husband (who was a soldier at the time) was out doing field training. They brought them in right away and began preparing for deployment.