Where were you on 9/11 and what were you doing?

Question

I was at home getting ready for work with the morning news on. I heard them say a small plane possibly hit the WTC. I watched a bit then left the livingroom to finish getting ready. Suddenly, I heard everyone on TV freak out. No one could comprehend what they saw. I ran into the livingroom and they replayed the video to see what happened and there it was....the second plane hit the WTC. Shock doesn't begin to explain it, does it? Well, I sat there in utter disbelief but finally pulled myself away. I had to go to work and the rest of the day unfolded for us on the radio. We eventually found out about the Pentagon and Flight 93. Needless to say, we didn't get much work done. After work I was glued to the TV. I'll never forget that day, ever. My mother said it reminded her of JFK's assassinaiton. Just something you'll never forget.

Answer 1

My husband and I had been married about 8 months at this time, and we had a tv but never watched it. I mean never. We found other things to do besides watch tv, so it remained in the office on the floor not plugged in or used.

I remember so clearly what I was doing on 9/11. I was at work, going about work as usual. I remember my mom calling and telling me it looked like there had been an attack on the World Trade Center after the 2nd plane hit. I turned on the radio and sure enough, they were reporting on both of the plane crashes and the disintergrating buildings. I didn't get much work done after that. My dad, who was there with me, is a taskmaster and he even let me do nothing but surf the internet the rest of the day finding out as much information as I could about what had happened.

My husband called me from where he was working and said his boss' (at the time) wife called and told them what had happened and he wanted to call me and see if I had heard. Going back to having a tv but not watching it for 8 months - 9/11 changed that. When my husband and I got home from work, he brought the tv into the bedroom and plugged it on and we stayed glued to the tv all night until we finally fell asleep.

I mean, how in the world could you ever forget that day? How could you forget where you were or what you were doing or who you were with? It is a moment in time that I will never forget for as long as I live.

The way the country pulled together during such a horrendous act was just incredibly awesome. That alone is a moment I probably will not forget. The way that people, not firemen, policemen or EMT's, just ordinary people like us stepped in to help out total strangers? It just doesn't get any better than that.

GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.

Answer 2

It was my first year of high school , back when the library hadn't been built and the one in the basement was closed. I got up at 6 am, which was 9 am EST, and saw that mom had left the TV on. I took a shower and walked out into the living room.
At the time, the TV was in the corner by the windows and the couch ran along one wall and aligned with the doorway to the hall. I brushed my teeth and walked by and stared. That past Spring, I'd gone to NYC on the East Coast Trip my middle school takes for it's 8th grade students. I took a picture quite by accident of the skyline coming back from Elis Island.
The towers I took in the picture were there..and one was burning.
"Mom!" I shouted immediatly--this part is whats odd--" The World Trade Center just got hit with a plane!"
" What?"
" Terrorism." I said. I have no flipping idea WHY I said that. I'd been two young to remember the attempt when I was a kid on the same building, so why and how I knew is beyond me.
I watched the second plane slam into the other tower and wanted to puke. But I went to school anyway and raced up to my friends, the CD-player I had on set to radio. I told my friends, who hadn't heared, and we all sat there for a moment in shock. The rest of the day, we watched the news in class and really didnt concentrate. I'm going to keep that day in my memory forever and tell my kids and grandkids about it..along with things I've been told....like Pearl Harbor and the Holocaust, so that the world will never forget acts of hate..and that the USA does not forgive.

Answer 3

I was in 4th grade, and I was in math class at my elementry school. The day was a normal day: My teachers lecturing, the recess activities, and everything. We hadnt recieved any information. So then, on the school bus home, me and my friend overheard some talking, but we didnt know what was happening. Then, at home, I learned the news: The planes crashed into the twin towers and the pentagon. At first, me being an idiot 9 year old, wondered what the big deal was if no one died. I was badly scolded and told over 1100 people died in the tower. then, 180 people died in the pentagon. Thats when I realized it was of serious importance.

Answer 4

I was in middle school when 9/11 happened. To be exact, I was running at the time that it was all going on; I was on the Cross Country team. When school started, I had English first period, my teacher informed us on what had happened and was still happening. I looked at my classmates in shock. My thought process was that surely this could never really happen to the United States of America this only goes on in movies. But, there it was… right in front of my eyes. I’ll never forget the fact how my school tried to keep what was happening out of reach of us ‘kids’. They didn’t allow any of the students to watch TV or listen to the radio. But, in each class we would hear news, from our teachers, which would haunt us and cause us all to realize that America is not the safe bubble it has always been perceived to us to be. We were a mass target. Teachers were informing us students that this was our Vietnam, our WWI, and our WWII that every generation has something. Now… the tragic memory of it all is always going to be remembered and preserved as a nations heartbreak.

Answer 5

I was at work and my coworker from upstairs called me to tell me what was happening. I went across the hall because another coworker keeps a small TV at his desk and we saw the 2nd tower fall-it was so shocking. I called my mom and my friend and they hadn't heard anything about it. 15 minutes later we were all sent home because we worked in a government office. The courthouse is across the street and they had dogs on the roof and it was just really surreal. I know what you mean. The sad part is, it could happen again, in a different way, and we wouldn't be any more prepared. It is so sad that so many civilians lose their lives over politics.

Answer 6

At work, working. A coworker can running in to tell me a plane had hit WTC. We spent most of the rest of the day in the cafe watching the news. We saw the second plane hit.

Answer 7

I was working on computers in the command center of an airline. When the word was passed that an airplane had hit one of the tower buildings, we switched that console to national aeronautics radar display. When the 2nd plane hit and all flights were grounded, the entire display went blank. I could hear the fighter jets and at least one flight of bombers in the air overhead, but the radar display was empty.....
then the word about flight 93 was passed.
Our I.T. manager, though, refused to accept that the U.S. was under attack. for her, it was business as usual. What a dope.

Answer 8

i was just hopping out of the shower getting ready to go to school & i heard my mom scream... (she just turned on the news and the second plane just hit right in front of her on live tv) & i ran to see what had happened... it was surreal... i live on the west coast...in san francisco, and i was shaking with fear that we were going to be a target too. needless to say i did not finish getting ready for school both my mother & i stayed glued to the tv all day long. those poor families...may all of the victims rest in peace, (those that died on 9/11, and those that have had any other 9/11 related deaths) and for the families, please know that your loved ones will never be forgotten...

Answer 9

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Answer 10

I remember when the TV was brought in to a meeting I was at, we all thought is was a movie at first. The reality took a lot longer to take.