Where were you during the 9/11/01 attacks ?

Question

I was in my business class, when the teacher didn't want to stop class to allow us to watch it on tv. I got to watch it for months afterwards though.

Answer 1

I remember that day like it was just a few minutes ago. I was at work; I work in an emergency room miles and lives away from any of the tragedies of that day, but it felt just like someone ripped my heart out. I am also a part-time fireman/E.M.T. and the loss we felt as a result of the heinous actions on 9/11, i personally do not ever want to experience ever again. I relive it every time we are paged out for any major incident,or accident. Sometimes to be quite honest I am very apprehensive and often over cautious. I am however still able to to my job. Somone's gotta do it .

Answer 2

I was getting dressed for school. My step-dad called for me, and he's a real jerk, so I thought I was in trouble for something. So I walked over to my parents' room and he was staring at the TV, I looked, and saw the first smoking tower. I said, "What, is that a movie or something?"

And he said, "No, thats New York"

I kinda rolled my eyes and said, "I know its New York, but is this from a movie or what? "

He looked at me and said, "No, a plane flew into the WTC"

I was kinda surprised, like, wow, that sucks type of surprised. Right then the second plane hit. And then we knew, it was no accident, we were under attack.

We left forty minutes later then usual, when we could finally pull ourselves away from the sickening images on the TV screen. After the plane had hit the pentagon, but before the plane in Pennsylvania.

It was terrifying. And all day at school, we watched. I live in California, but I didn't feel safe. It made no difference that the attacks were on the other side of the country; they were in my country.

I was in eighth grade, and for more then six hours all we did was watch as the towers burned, people jumped, the buildings collapsed, the country paniced, and my innocence got lost somewhere in the dust that would not settle.

It is a painful memory, to re-experience the fear of not knowing, the terror of traveling in a new time, the disbelief of Americans, and the ending of my childhood.

You can't be just a thirteen year old girl anymore after watching people burn to death on live TV. You get hurled into an adult-world you aren't ready for, and stripped of the right to be a blissfully ignorant child.

Answer 3

I was in St. Louis, Missouri on my way to work. I had not yet heard anything, but I remember feeling an unexplained eeriness as I drove along the highway. Everything around me seemed different, yet I didn't know why. When I got to my office, I was told that two planes had just hit the WTC and another had hit the pentagon. A member of my family called me who was watching it on TV. As we were talking, they yelled the second tower is caving in. In less than 10 seconds the tower fell as if it had been demolished by a demolition team.

Answer 4

I was at home getting my children ready for school. I remember seeing it on TV and thinking that it was some kind of movie. It took me a few minutes to realize that it was real.

I went to work shortly afterwards and listened to the radio all day. I worked in a store in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at the time and people would stop and listen with me.

We all felt the horror of the situation and many tears flowed in my store that dreadful day. I cried again today.

Answer 5

It was late at night in Australia I was at a girlfriends house came home turned the TV on thought I was watching some late night B grade Airport movie, I was horrified when I learnt the truth.

Answer 6

I was at home. I had just turned on the TV in time to catch coverage of the first plane hitting the towers. Then, a few minutes later the second plane hit them. It was on all the major networks all day long.

Answer 7

I was in class (culinary arts) and we were baking bread and when it happened someone came into the kitches and yelled we are under attack by terrorist and we all laughed thinking he was crazy and talking about a cartoon or something and then we were told to remove our bread turn everything off and evacuate home b/c where I live there are three major bases and if they were to continue attacking we would most likely be a target

Answer 8

at work, unloading a semi truck with about 15 others.. we stopped as the report came over the radio. We stood there listening and watching the boxes roll down the line and fall to the floor.

Answer 9

Copied from another question I answered:
I was in school, in 8th grade and I think I was about 13. My junior high school was located downtown, we heard the first plane hit and didn't think anything of it because we didn't know what happened. It sounded like thunder and we thought it was odd since it was a sunny day.

Then we heard the news...it all became real when we heard sirens rushing further downtown and the huge, gaping hole left from the first plane in one of the hall windows. School was crazy, hundreds of parents ran to school to pick up their kids and they had to wait in the auditorium for us to go in there and identify them. My house is closer to Ground Zero than the school and there was all this disgusting smelling black smoke.

Answer 10

Sleeping