September 11 2001?

Question

Where were you on this day when so many of aur fellow Americans lost their lives. I was in 5th grade band, our teachers didnt tell us b/c they wanted us to be home w/ our families.

Answer 1

I was at work. I saw what had happened on the news & thought it was like watching a horror movie.

Then everyone staopped working and we all listened to the radio.

I remeber my husband was away on a trip with some friends & I missed him a lot that day.

My mom couldn't believe it because she is from NY!

It was very very sad!! Bless the sould of the lost ones!

Answer 2

Wow you were in 5th grade band? I was in class (5th grade also) our teachers told us, but only because we all saw some teachers really upset and students kept asking questions about what was going on. I was always asked what my reaction was on the day, but with sort of guilt I cant really remember. All I remember is the news I watched when we got to go home. Now that im older I realize how important it was and still is. Also how affecting it was to America, I was just reading an article today that said almost an exact # of people who lost their lives; it was soo many and I just thank the people that tried to help and save lives; while risking their own. What do you think about it now?

Answer 3

I was managing a internet cafe 1 mile from our international airport. First all the tv monitors were taken over, second there was a lot of activity above our heads, everyone ran out of the cafe, to see a bombarding aggressive jet with a 'no fly order' tailing a commercial airliner to land. Everyone was landing all at once and this particular commercial liner was just trying to find a safe place on the busy runways. The people in the cafe watching the chase were scared 1. from the news coverage over and over 2. from not knowing what was really going on and 3. from the possibility of another crash from a forced landing.

Answer 4

I was a senior in High School. Our school had just has an assembly on Peer Mentors and we were dismissed back to 3rd period. I had A.P. American History and class hadn't started yet because my teacher had a tendency to get distracted when another one of the social studies teachers ran into the room yelling turn on the T.V. We turned it on just as the second plane hit the second tower. I remember every five minutes there would be an announcement for the teachers to check their email and at first they used the code "the computer technician is is in the buidling" but after awhile everyone knew what that meant. We sat in third period classrooms for two hours before being dismissed to whatever we had for the first half of 5th period. My mom came and picked me and my sister up and took us to be with the rest of our family. The next day we were supposed to go to Washington D.C. for our history class trip, but we never got the chance to go.

Answer 5

I was retiring from the US Army after almost twenty years.
It was my first day of what we call "terminal leave", and I was home watching TV. When it happened I thought it was a very bad movie so I switched channels. But it played on the second channel and all the other channels as well.

I almost stayed in the US Army because I knew we were going to war, and it was not going to be a short one either.

I retired instead and came over here to the Middle East.
I have been an instructor working with the US military ever since.

I was on the border as the war launched and I have been up in Iraq since mid 2004.

Answer 6

I was in Phoenix, AZ, 600 miles away from home on a business trip, all planes were grounded and i was stranded. I eventually rented a car but had to take a long way around, since they also closed the road through Hoover Dam. It was a very anxious time, that's for sure.

Answer 7

I was out really late the night before; in fact, since I lived in California, I went to bed about 30 minutes before the attack. I woke up at 1 PM when I finally heard my phone ringing--it was my sister, and she told me.

Awful day.

Answer 8

I was in a crappy apartment on the south side of Austin. My three roommates and I were glued to the T.V. I had to go to classes later that day, and all the professors let us out early to go watch T.V.

Dang, I bet advertisers were happy that day.

Answer 9

I was on a school bus when I found out what happened, I was 15 and we just watched the news in disbelief all day at school

Answer 10

I was in the hospital that day; I had just had a foot-and-ankle reconstruction. It was a scary day to be immobile, though the morphine might have been making me a little bit paranoid.