where were you when sept 11th happen?

Answer 1

I'm an Aussie. i was at home watching tv at about 3AM- i have trouble sleeping sometimes.
i remember channel surfing, when i caught a flash of something that looked like another disaster report n went back to that channel. I watched in utter disbelief as the replayed the footage of the 1st plane hitting, then the reporter came on n said something like: 'shock n terror as flight blah blah plows into the World Trade Centre building in the heart of New York.' i was absolutely stunned, i expected them to say another dodgey airline in, like india or something, had lost another dodgey plane but this one had real bad aim. I swore out loud when the showed it again. All i could think of was: those poor people in the plane! they knew they were gonna die! I couldn't leave the tv as the horror unfolded. it was about 8AM when i finally looked at the clock n realised how long i had been glued to the tv. I was just so shocked n saddened at all the pain, suffering and fear this one act had caused. I can only imagine the bleakness of being near ground zero or having loved ones in there! RIP all those who were lost.

Answer 2

Well I was asleep in the bed next to my husband and the TV was going as always I heard this beeping sound which woke me up out of a dead sleep I looked at the TV and it said to go to news channel this was not a test so I switched and saw the building on channel 59 on fire the announcer in shock and I started beating my husband in the gut told him to get up; get up! They were blowing up the world then I saw the airplane hit the other tower and we both sat straight up! I started crying I was scared to death they were talking about airplane coming around Cleveland Ohio and then I really freaked out cause I thought about my kids and whole family there and all our relatives sitting on top of the Nuke plant in Sandusky Ohio I was in total shock.I think the whole country was.That day I went into the office at Days Inn in Eastridge Tenn. and heard all the India's were laughing their heads off in the back of the office and some were throwing whole parties I was ticked and hung up my flag right on front street. I told the owner I didn't think it was one bit funny it was horrible! I watched the news for a solid year wouldn't leave my room hardly scared they would blow up another area and it could of been any here because this place wasn't safe any more. I still worry all the time something else will happen its hard to explain but I don't sleep very much like I once use to.

Answer 3

I was walking into work....I do not watch TV in the morning, so I had no idea what had happened. They closed our building that day. After someone told me that terrorists had flown planes into the World Trade Center buildings, I immediately went to my church. There were a few people in the sanctuary. As I sat there, from time to time another person would come in. I recall the looks on their faces, it's something I'll never forget. They were like wounded soldiers coming off a battlefield. They were so beautiful. Some of them sunk to their knees beside the pews. We just prayed, for hours.

It wasn't until I got home much later that I watched TV and fully understood what had happened.

Answer 4

It was my day off of work; I was at home cleaning my bathroom when the first plane hit. A friend told me that the Towers had been hit by a plane; we thought it was some idiot in a Cessna at first, then realized with shock that it was a jet. How could a professional pilot make such a mistake?

I saw the second jet hit; we were watching the news about the first burning Tower at the time. It was like a sickening blow to the guts. I knew at that moment we were at war: somebody had attacked us, just like at Pearl Harbor.

Answer 5

I was on the other side of the river In the federal detention center in Brooklyn I was with my partner we were working as contractors we were on the top floor with the really really bad guys just to go on the roof when the warden came off the roof told us he just saw a second plane hit the tower he said he wanted sub machine guns in the lobby and sharp shooters on the roof and my partner said your kidding right and laughed and the warden said you and you are out of here and two guys with machine guns escorted us out with out the usual checks . Then we saw the building on fire cause we were right on the river and heard on the radio about the pentagon my partner wanted to sit and watch cause he was probably stoned and I realized we were in a white van in front of a federal building with sharp shooters on the roof during a attack and I said lets get home. We were about a mile away from the Verizano bridge when traffic stopped for a few hours and we got out and talked to truck drivers Till they opened the bridge again When I looked back from the bridge and saw a city in cloud of smoke it was one of the strangest saddest feelings i have ever had.

Answer 6

In my first period Enlish1 class. I was in 9th grade. Our teacher was reading Yahoo news and jokingly informed us that somebody had flown a plane in to the WTC. At the time, we all thought it was an accident (and thought it was a small plane) and didn't understand how the pilot didn't see a HUGE SKYSCRAPER infront of him. After the second plane hit though, that's when it got bad.

Answer 7

At work

Answer 8

At work

Answer 9

i was in my first period art class in high school, i don't remember what picture i was working on, sitting w/ a few other students. the teacher rushed into the room from next door and said a plane hit the pentagon. he turned on the tv and we watched everything unfold. that day, we went from class to class and just watched the news. it was horrible and scary. i thought the world was ending. i don't even remember learning a thing that day other than how short life was.

Answer 10

I was riding the bus home from school. I watched the second plane hit shortly after I walked inside my house. (I lived at Ramstein AB, Germany, so there is a bit of a time difference)