Where were you on 9/11/2001 ? Everyone remembers... .don't they?

Question

I was checking out of a motel. Turned on the news, and thought I was watching a rehersal or practice. Didn't take long to figure out the truth. Then. . .. . . the second plane hit. (silence)

I was in shock. .. . . ....were you?

Hey folks, Read each others stories. Have a moment of silence. And reflect for a moment or two. These stories are true Americana.

Wow! I would like to recommend that EVERYONE READ the story posted by 'hey listen'. Then stop for a moment and THINK. If they do it again, how will your life be affected??????????

God Bless You- 'jcwhite10'. God bless you and your son and your whole family. (sorry... .. tears in my eyes). I too served OUR country. Proud to be an American.

Winemkr - Your right !!! Thank God he wasn't.

Answer 1

My husband and I were having coffee with our son at an off campus donut shop.

Shocked and numb was my reaction. Then fear of what might be coming next and getting to our school age children.

Three months later our son was in the Army - on his way to fulfilling his dream.

Answer 2

I was in a Political Science classroom, the day had just begun. Another professor came in and wispered something in our professor's ear, he paused and then turned on the TV, saying nothing. I saw a building getting hit by a plane but thought nothing of it, as I assumed it was just an action movie or something. He announced what they knew so far, that it was an accident, and that it was a terrible tradgedy. Suddenly another plane hit, and we all began talking amongst ourselves, on how there's no way two plane crashes that close together could have been an accident. When I made it to my next class we were hearing the Pentagon had been hit, the National Mall was on fire, the Empire State building had been hit and the like. It was a panic, and yet a very calm, somber atmosphere at the same time. I finally decided to go home and watch TV for myself, I remember I was watching VH1, which had been taken over by constant news, but I forget who's news channel it was. I left soon after and filled my tank up with gas, because I thought gas prices were going to soar. When I got back I watched that channel with my ex girl friend for the rest of the night, thinking all the while there was more to come. It was surreal

Answer 3

I was at home three feet from the TV trying to figure out how to get oxygen to my son as he had a trach and also breathed trough nose and mouth.I had been having problems because however I set up the oxygen he would breath through a different passage and his saturation would drop.A special report came on and showed one tower spewing smoke and they were saying a plane had crashed into it .I figured it was an accident then as I watched the second plane came into view and I watched in smash into the other tower.I knew it was no accident.I sat on the bed and just watched.I remember the people jumping from the towers with no chance to survive knowing that the only choice they had was a fast death or a slower painful one in the flames.My memory is better than I like it to be sometimes.

Answer 4

I was at work - I even remember what I was doing exactly at the time we heard that the first plane had hit the World Trade Center Building. The rest of the day was filled with anxiety and, yes, anger.

For what it's worth, there are incidents in our lives that leave an indelible imprint in our brains - I remember the morning vividly when I heard that President Kennedy had been shot, I was 13 years old - the morning that Challenger exploded over Cape Kennedy, the day President Reagan was shot by John Hinkley - and the good times, too - the day I landed in SF after a tour in Viet Nam, the day America landed on the moon, Woodstock, Mickey Mantle's farewell address at Yankee Stadium - yeah...1969 was a good year.

Answer 5

Wow....that question is, for our generation, like "where were you when JFK was shot?"

I was at work. My aunt works there and watches TV all day. She called everyone back to see what was happening. I didn't pay a lot of attention. I actually went about my in-person sales calls for the day. The next morning I went to my trainer and he asked what I thought about the whole incident and I had still not read the news or watched TV. That day (the day after) I went out, business to business, making cold calls and EVERY SINGLE BUSINESS I went into was at a stand-still. Every business had a TV going....from rinky-dink 2 man offices to large, corporate headquarters. Nobody cared about anything else.

I was going thru a really rough time in my personal life and I never cried one time for any 9-11 victim. I remember, a year or so later, feeling terrible about being so self-absorbed at that time.

Answer 6

I was on the bus, on my way to work in NYC. A bus dispatcher made an announcement that buses could not go downtown. I asked the driver, what was wrong, she said she didn't know, and she was scared because the had never heard an announcement requesting that buses not to go downtown Manhattan. I got off the bus in front of the United Nations. I walked two blocks to my office. All of a sudden every telephone in office started to ring. My boss was out-of-town. I went to look out of his office window, he had a CLEAR view of the Twin Towers from the window. Others came into the office. We all screamed as we watched the building fall to the ground. An ex-boyfriend worked there, I kept dialing his work number. I fell to my knees and cried (he missed it by 6 seconds!) The office manager took a rose from a vase and put it in the office of my boss, in front of the window that faced the Towers. I always told friends someone will one day do harm to us. The buildings are too tall, too much of a target.

Answer 7

I was on my way home from work. I heard the news on the radio. I too was in shock. I didn't seem real. But when I got home and turned on the TV, I knew it was true. Very sad day indeed.
I saw the second plane hit. I watched both buildings crumble before my eyes. I swore I'd never forget that awful day.

Answer 8

I was at home just about to walk out the door to go to work. As I was turning the today show off they suddenly the network interrupted programing and the next thing I knew I was watching New York (my home state) receive a senseless and unimaginable blow from some as yet unknown group of lunatics.

I raced to work, and I told every one to come to the TV and look what was happening, talk about shock and awe!

We all decided at that moment (after watching replays of the planes crashing into the buildings and then the collapse) that we were at war...with somebody.

Thank God Al Goore wasn't president!!!!!

Answer 9

I was asleep, at home, alone. I had surgery not to long before this. I was up most of the night wondering why, just as I was laying down, I saw two headlights coming down from the nights heaven.. I saw a plane crash into the front of my house and covered my ears at all the thousands of screams..
That morning, the phone woke me. It was my closest friend..
"Sweetie, I just want you to know that I'm alright. Don't worry, I'm alright.. "
I was clueless.. and walked into the living room in time to see the second plane hit.

My husband had business in Canada when we closed the border.. I never felt so alone..

Answer 10

I was at work, someone came in and said "Guess what?"

No one really knew what was going on, because we had no television or radios, so we were relying on customers and later arriving employees for news.

Yes, we were all in shock. No one understood how it could have happened in the first place. The early numbers we were getting said that over 50,000 people worked in the WTC, so we thought the death toll was a lot higher than it actually was.

Answer 11

I was home cleaning and decided to make a cup of coffee and relax for a few minutes. I asked my daughter to turn on the news while I was fixinf my drink. I sat down to drink it and was annoyed with my daughter when I saw pictures of the 2nd. plane crashing into the Tower, I yelled at my daughter, asking her my she turneed on some airplane disaster movie. At the moment, I didn't know that we were seeing pictures of the attack. I never returned to my cleaning that day, as we sat in shock watching the replays over and over.