Where were you? What were you doing on 09/11/01?

Question

I will never forget the sick feeling I felt on that day watching/hearing 9/11 unfold. I had just dropped my daughter off with the sitter and I was on my way to NC for a job interveiw; I heard someone say on the radio ,"this is an act of terrorism, when I got home, I saw the buildings collapse. As americans, we all were affected- God bless all that have lost loved ones on that dreadful day.

Answer 1

I was having a cup of coffee at my job across the street from the North Tower of the World Trade Center. We didn't hear the crash itself, but saw the intial debris fall (we face the north side of the North Tower.) We could see a large smoky jagged hole high up.

In minutes there was a "rumor" that an airplane had hit it. Some of us thought that was ridiculous. We figured a crash would have to be a private plane whose pilot had lost control, and this hole was way too huge for that. The point was how the hell could a fully manned airliner, with a pilot, col-pilot, navigator, back-ups etc., make that kind of mistake?

The rest of it was a horror. We lost our systems, then our telephones. We saw some of the fireball and debris from the 2nd hit, but we didn't know what caused it because the North Tower hid the South Tower from our view. All this time we weren't allowed to leave our building by security becase it was "safer to stay inside."

With the big tremor of the falling South Tower they finally let us evacuate and we ran north on Greenwich. Some 5 or 6 blocks north we watched the North Tower collapse. Even though my eyes registered it, my head couldn't get around it - like a part of me sayiing "that didn't happen."

All my friends who worked at the WTC survived. And the weather was just like it is today here, in the same place.

By the way, they've rebuilt the building called 7 World Trade Center and it hides the awful hole from our view.

Answer 2

I will never forget that day for two good reason. first because it was not a small incidence and I still remember my feeling on that day when I saw the planes crashing the buildings,it was like the movies but a documentary with all the cruelty and filth. The other reason is that I am born on that day and since then my date of birth has been remembered by the crash. I'm not an American and I don't live in USA.I am an Iranian in fact and a muslim and I know how the world has turned against Islam since then. But We are human and we shouldn't be compared with some radical leaders, Every body was sympathising with the Americans in my country because these incidents do not belong to one country and the whole world, with any religion was impressed and felt sorry for the innocent lives which were lost.

Answer 3

I was on break at work and heard 2 young ladies talking about how a plane hit one of the Towers... I worked for UPS and our phones usually rang off the hook. That day 900 phones went almost silent... I went back to work and was asking the few people who called in what was happening. I had one lady tell me the other got hit. I someone tell me the when the first tower fell. I had sooo many people call and say that they couldn't believe that a package had saved their lives. I'll explain....
Person after person said I worked in the towers but I had to stay home because I needed my package or it was the last day to get my package before UPS sent it back. I still get tears in my eyes and chills when I think back to those calls.
One simple single decision to wait for a box or package that they felt could not wait until the next day saved their lives. I don't know how many times they would say, "I {the person on phone} would have been in that building."

I had to quit that job due to stress. And I know that my stress is not even 1% of what they and the families of the 9-11 victims were feeling.

Answer 4

I live in Europe. I was at school when it started. I got home in the early afternoon and saw it on the tv channel my uncle was watching. I remember I felt a weird, queasy excitement thinking "This is happening for real... this stuff coming from the US is not another apocalyptic american movie, for once". At the beginning it just looked like a huge plane accident. The next day we had a discussion in history class where no-one was ready to say anything. Even then, the US wasn't in a good light in our eyes, partly because of the election of Bush. The frenzied thoughts about causes and consequences of the crashes that we had the following days slowly concretized.

Answer 5

I was at work and heard through a co-workers husband who had called to tell her about the first plane hitting the tower, from that moment on we were glued to the TV in the conference room, and just in awe. I cried all day and for the next several as I watched what those terrorists did to our country and watched some many lose their lives. The only thing the terrorist proved is that americans can still pull together when in a crisis. THEY WILL NEVER WIN, WE WILL ALWAYS STAND STRONG TOGETHER

Answer 6

I was on the couch recovering from ankle fusion ,and my husband was having some coffee before he left ,when they started showing the first plane my husband thought a plane was flying to low ,then the other one hit an I remember both of us was speechless ,and very sad ,all day long I was a nervous wreck an could not get my eyes off the television for days after,I have to say i was sad ,mad ,and scared and it still is on my mind today like it was just yesterday .God Bless America !! I love my country an the freedom I have had for 45 years !

Answer 7

I was sitting at my desk at work listening to the radio. They said a plane had hit one of the buildings of the WTC. I remember feeling sad at the loss. Then the second plane hit and I was in shock. I couldn't imagine what error had happened. This couldn't have been on purpose. President Bush made a statement about the act of terrorism that had happened. Someone brought the TV out of the conference room to the reception area so we could all see it. I was in such shock over the loss of life that I could hardly fathom why someone would want to cause such destruction.

Answer 8

Remember it very well, I was installing cable at a customers house, and as soon as it was connected, we tried it out and the news came on. We both sat there at least an hour watching ...

When I got back out to my van, the radio was going mad with people talking about it, saying they were evacuatiing all the big buildings in chicago, and then the plane hit dc... that was a horrible and messed up day.

Answer 9

I was sitting in my cubical with no connection to the outside world other than the customers on the phone. At around 8:50 I asked a customer if there was anything else I could do for him today, and he said "Yeah, you can stop these terrorist from blowing up the World Trade Center." I told my co workers and we all ran to the lobby to watch the TV. It was horrible.

Answer 10

I woke up literally seconds before the first plane hit in a cold sweat. Stumbled into the living room feeling rather strange, turned on the tv and was watching for only a few moments before the footage came on CNN. It's like something woke me up, some feeling.