Where where you on 9-11?

Question

and what where you doing?
I was in my first period art class back in High School..

Answer 1

I was getting ready for work, and listening to the traffic report when the breaking news came on, They (news) were saying it was a terrorist attack, but I didn't believe them until I saw the second plane crash and I was screaming NO, my kids woke up and were scared but didn't know why, I couldn't go to work, I was to upset, I was glued to the news for three days, I new than that life as we know it will never be the same. As the days weeks and years that have passed, I have come to see that the world has also changed, the school killings in Russia, Tsunami, Katrina, and of course Iraq, and all the people there that believed that they would soon be able to be free from Saddam,

Answer 2

I was on Neopets.

For some time it was a popular thing online to freak people out by yelling things like " The Statue of Liberty is on FIRE" or " They Blew up the Eifle Tower!".

I was on Neopets calming people down from those Chain Letters and junk,.. there had been some for the WTC and the Twin Towers all the time too but some nasty ones popped up and I explained how an Airplane would not make it, would be stopped, and wouldn't produce the correct effect. But all these things popped up and I turned on TV... there it was.. First Tower had been hit. I watched the Second get hit,.. I watched things. Alot of footage has been lost with censorship and cover ups and all that garbage,.. but,...

There were explosions in the Towers minutes before the second Plane hit,.. that is why Cameras were looking at the Second tower so closely and got such great footage. People thought bombs were going off on top of the first plane,.. but then the second plane came. There were some other explosions, too. These weren't relateing to the Plane... they were at certain levels on one side or all the way around.

So for weeks I was on Neopets talking to children effected,.. some children thought their relatives were on the planes,.. some people had to wait days, weeks, or even months to get home because everything was grounded and they were treated poorly. Children ended up not seeing their parents in all that time >.< [Oh ya and then there were the people that knew people in the towers. And I even talked to people that weren't at work that day or over slept or something else prevented them from being inside the towers as it happened.]

As for immediately during and after,.. our TV was on 24/7 with someone always awake watching the News some how for many days straight. It started driving me nuts and my psych tried to yell at my mom.

Answer 3

I was coming back from community college, heading to high school. It was 11th grade, and I was taking advanced math across town during first period high school. Upon getting back, Nate T, a guy in my journalism class, was the first person I ran into. He said "So apparently they're flying buildings into the Trade Center. For some reason. Apparently it's pretty crazy." No one had quite grasped what was going on. Walking through the halls to class, everyone in all the rooms was watching the CCTV's that were piping through CNN.

It was pretty unreal. Our generation being one that has never really experienced fear, no nazism, no communism, to see everyone so on-the-edge-of-their-seat. Sadly, it was also two days before my sixteenth building. My mother experienced some wicked short-term hysteria, and refused to let me drive on my new license, because "The terrorist might fly a plane into your car."

I made it out to the lake regardless :-)

Answer 4

I was getting ready for work when I heard about the first plane on the news. As my son and I were getting ready to leave the house I heard about the second plane. Trying not to panic my son (7) I got him away from the TV by telling him it was POP tart day. He went to the table to have his POP tart and I called my hubby at work and told him what I knew.
I was at work with my co-workers - watching TV and doing NO work when the buildings colapsed on TV. I worked at a company with people in Washington and had one 30 second cell phone call with a co-worked paniced who saw the plane hit the Pentagon. I called my sons school several times throughout the day wondering if I should pick him up.
We didn't have a home church at the time- but I spent that evening at a service at a local church- alone- needing to be in my own space and time- crying.
Besides the first day of war I ever saw on the news (Gulf) - I don't think I have ever beenmore scared and unsure for all of us as people and a country.
I don't think I have ever written that down.

Answer 5

It was very early in the morning where I'm from. I had gone to drill practice that morning at my high school. On my car radio was some weird things going on, but I wasn't paying attention. When I got through and drove home I realized something terrible had happened. I ran into the house and woke up my family. . . .
I went back to school that day, but we all watched the news cast on TV all day. It was awful. I would have rather been with my family. I'll never forget how that felt.

Answer 6

I was in school. I was playing basketball in my gym class while the principal announced that a plane had crashed in WTC. we all said, what kind of pilot would do that? we all thought it was an accident. Then after a while another exact announcement. This time we knew its not accident. We were in 5th floor and ran to the window to see the twin tower. and right there we say it falling like two burning cigarettes.

Answer 7

I was burying telephone lines in a rice field that had recently been converted into a subdivision. I had my truck pulled up so I could listen to the radio on the side of a house that I was putting a protector on. I couldn't believe it. At first, I thought it was a sick joke because I was listening to Walton and Johnson, a radio show.

It was one of the most bizarre days of my life. All I could think of doing was going home and holding my wife and four-month-old daughter.

Answer 8

In the hospital, trying to have a baby I couldn't believe my eyes, I thought the first plane was some accident and then on live tv I saw the second plane hit and I became terrified I seriously thought that we might be totally invaded

Answer 9

I was sitting at home watching "Little House on the Prairie". My best friend called and said what is all this crazy stuff going on. I thought she was talking about Little House. I said, well they all have the bubonic plague, but I've seen this episode before and they get it under control. She told me to turn over to a network station. After that I was praying!

Answer 10

Its amazing what a traumatic event can do to ppl, how eveyone remembers where they were on that particular day. Ask them what they were doing a day later and im sure they wont know. I was in my biology class in el paso community college and my instructor told me that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I had no idea it was a terrorist attack.