Where were you 9/11/2001 ? What were you doing on that fateful day?

Question

I was checking out of a motel. I turned on the news and thought I was watching some kind of ' emergency training ' going on in New York. I began to realize that this was real... . . .when all of a sudden.. .. .. . the second plane struck !! SHOCKING. . . .. . . .

Answer 1

At work, like most Americans that day, A buddy stopped in the shop and asked if we knew what was going on,,,,,,From there, the atmosphere just fell apart.....We where all ,as you said, shocked, and in disbelief. Pissed and terrified at the same time. I will never forget that day. It has shaped me into a different and better person ever since.

Answer 2

Working

Answer 3

I was teaching to a room full of freshmen high school students. The TVs in the room came on and show the building smoking. I said to the class, "That poor family of that pilot that just hit that building. Can you imagine the lawsuit?" The second plane hit while we were watching, and I said, "The poor family of that air traffic controller steering planes into buildings! Can you imagine the lawsuit?" When one of my students said, "I think we are under attack!" I said, "No, I am sure there is an explanation," just as the newscaster broke in saying, "We are under attack...." And I then had to calm down my panicked classroom. I started making calls on my cell phone and passing around the phone to students who needed to check on loved ones. I had visions of "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" and me being stuck raising 30 freshmen students by myself....because until this was resolved I was in charge of them, and at that time we did not really know what was going on. We lived on a military base, and my sisters tried to talk me into coming home, but I told them I felt safer there than any where, because we had constant air cover and guards at the gates. It was a unique time in my life that I will never forget. Friends of mine say I need to visit New York now, and see the site, but I have not been able to bring myself to do it.

Answer 4

I was at my home in Fort Bragg, NC. (My husband was stationed there). I was getting ready to go to the hospital because I was taking support classes to quit smoking. At the hospital my car was carefully searched (inside and out). Needless to say, no one showed up to my support group and I realized that 9/11 was not the time to quit smoking.

I was also fending of phone calls from hysterical family and friends who were worried about my husband. It was a horrible day.

Answer 5

Teaching English at the University of Mexico in Mexico City (D.F.). The chairman of the department pulled the Americans out to watch the t.v. We thought we were watching the making of a disaster movie. One of the teachers had an uncle that died in WTC1 and a former colleague of mine died in WTC 2. I listened very closely all day because my brother's office was in WTC1. He was in London at the time.

Answer 6

I was just waking up to go to school. I heard my mom scream or just like a frightful shout. I didn't know what the impact was going be or anything. I was kinda shocked also. But I was in 7th grade I didn't know anything about politics or whatever during that time

Answer 7

i became 21 on the time of 9/11, or perhaps although i'm from the united kingdom, i became in NYC on that day. I were operating in a summer season camp over the summer season and this became my very last week in us of a, and that i had not in any respect been to NYC till now. i visit not in any respect keep in mind what I did contained in the days most excellent as a lot as 9/11, yet I keep in mind attempting to get tickets to the Rosie O Donnell teach, yet I had joined the line too overdue. So I had wanting to finish a touch sightseeing. i wanting to go over to the statue of liberty, to the WTC and then to the Empire State progression. I had made my way down in route of the WTC and by technique of this time the first plane had already hit. everyone became in basic terms staring up on the WTC, i became in basic terms listening to human beings and some the position saying it became a bomb, some the position saying a small plane hit. i became entranced by technique of this yet nonetheless persisted to stroll and searching up jointly (I bumped into human beings particularly a lot). I then heard this large rumble and that i said it the plane hitting the different tower, the noise became undescribable, and something i'm hoping I not in any respect hear back, the fireplace ball became wide, and then human beings began screaming. i became a secure adequate distance away yet i became so scared. I actually ran decrease back to my inn and that i became in an finished daze, a lot so as that I in basic terms sat in my room in silence. It became in basic terms some hours later I realised that the homes had actual collapsed. NYC became a ghostown the subsequent day. there have been even rumours that a plane became going to crash into situations sq.. i became through fly decrease back abode on Friday 14th Septemebr and my flight ended up being cancelled, so on the Thursday I had to go get a bus fee ticket, and there ended up being a bomb scare and everyone became evacuated. the subsequent day I packed my luggage and were given on a bus to my cousins in Toronto and flew decrease back abode from there. considering that that day I have continually been a apprehensive flying. i visit not in any respect forget that day and the almost 3000 those who died that day. would they continually be remembered.

Answer 8

I was at school, little 4th grade. I had been having an excellent day (the teachers didn't tell us anything had happened)
I was walking home from school and my sister met me at the bottom of the hill, as she always did, and was all- "Why're you skipping!" And I was all-"?" then she dragged me home and turned on the tv.
We went to our grandparents until my parents got off of work.

Answer 9

I was on my to work, when the news came over my radio, I automatically thought of my 2 family members who are NYC Firemen came to mind.... One died that day......

Answer 10

My son and I were at the Sheriffs office in Atlanta, we say it in the conference room.