Where were you at during 9/11? how did you heard about during that day? & How did you feel during that day?

Answer 1

I was at school, sitting in my third class of the day. My teacher had gotten three phone calls, and looked progressively more worried every time, but the attacks weren't announced until the second tower had already been hit.

My parents picked me up early that day. We had trouble getting in touch with my aunt and uncle, who lived fairly close to the WTC. (They were all right, thank God.)

I watched the news coverage for a while, but it took about an hour or two for it to sink in what had happened. When I couldn't take it anymore, I just sat outside on the grass, looking at the sky and crying a little bit. I can't really explain everything that I was feeling. I was afraid for other people, but not myself. I was mainly just trying to grasp the magnitude of what had happened, which is something that I still struggle with.

Answer 2

I am a school teacher. I was pulling into the parking lot at the high school I taught at in Utah. I remember listening to the FM radio and programming was interrupted with an announcement that a plane had just crashed into the first tower in NYC. I parked the car and ran from the parking lot into my classroom and turned on the TV. I was able to see the 2nd plane hit the second tower live. I kept the TV on all day. My special education students were interested, but as different as their disabilities are, so how they were affected. Most of the studentbody sat stunned and glued to the tubes in all classrooms. Several of my students also were deeply into watching. But for some of my lower functioning students it did not appear to even disrupt them. It could have, hard to say, but most students wanted to have math sheets as if it was just another day. I felt frozen all day - yet somewhat responsible to ensure that my students questions were handled appropriately. It was such an eye-opening experience to terrorism. I was afraid. Later that year when the Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, I was also very fearful that the Opening & Closing ceremonies would be attacked. I lived 1 mile from the stadium and just had this gutt instinct telling me that something was going to happen, it was so stressful. Of course, nothing tragic did happen, but on a day that should have been very exciting in Salt Lake, I was fearful, of the unknown.

Answer 3

I was driving on Route 3 east in NJ. I was looking directly at the buildings as the towers fell. When the first tower went down, all traffic stopped and watched and then the second one fell.
It was such a helpless feeling, I didn't know what to do, I was about 5 miles as the crow flies from it and didn't know if we were being attacked or what it was,
I knew it would be impossible to get into the city, so I got off and turned back and went home. I watched tV all day with tears in my eyes. Just horrible

Answer 4

I was just getting out of bed- when I got a call about what happend... I could tell the news was something out of the ordinary- so before I turned on the TV, I got my clothes on & brought my breakfast into the livingroom- & spent most of that day watching CNN & its coverage of 9/11. I was niether surprised nor concerned about what had occured. I'd long believed it was only a matter of time before terrorism like that would visit our shores. I knew it would lead to war. And I knew that we would never be quite the same...again...

Answer 5

I was curling my hair getting ready to go to work when I heard/saw it reported that one of the towers were thought to be hit by a small plane. I continued to get ready for work while listening to CNN and then I saw the 2nd plane. I was upset called my sister and told her. I also called my mom. I was scared to go to work because by the time I was about to leave for work the Pentagon and Washington Mall was reportedly on fire. I thought we the USA were being attacked everywhere including Atlanta. The route I took to work had me on the highway which most airplanes pass over to get into Hartsfiled airport. I was shaking all the way to work. Needless to say by the time I got to work, we could not work. Rumors were spreading that some Atlanta interstates had by blocked and undriveable. Rumors that several planes were missing etcc..
People at work were crying because they had love ones who worked in the towers which by now had collasped. I got off work early went home and prayed....

Answer 6

I was on the pistol range at Stone Bay NC. Our Gunny came up to us and said that the World Trade Center had been hit and that the Pentagon was on fire. He gave us a break to go watch CNN. We walked into the galley just as the second plane hit.

The rest is history ... a history that we have seemed to have forgotten.

Answer 7

i was at home, i had just woke up and turned on the tv and wondered what kind of screwed up movie is this, then i changed the channel and it was on every station. and i realized that this was no movie. i felt sad that all those people had lost their lives, angery that some fool felt like he could strike fear by destruction, and i was left wondering what happens now? when does the whole thing go to hell in a handbasket, and now looking back over 5 years later and we are still on the journey to hell

Answer 8

You are the first to ask that question....
I worked on a military base. One of our troops called to tell me of the first plane. I thought... "Oh, a plane hit the Empire State building once." Then another called to tell me of the 2nd plane and said we were under attack. I announced to my fellow workers and they were stunned. I had lived through the Kennedy and Dr. King assassinations and the Challenger explosion...this did not shock me as I always thought the Towers a magnet for such things. .My boss turned white and then was summoned to meet with the crisis action team, the gates were locked down, nobody could get in and we couldn't get out. Several local nurses on retirement or vacation called in to ask if help was needed. I thanked them and referred them to the Red Cross as we were on lock down. We went to Threat Con Delta and had to move cars and lock all the doors, we also hooked up a training TV and placed in the front lobby and watched the news and answered many phone calls reassuring some callers and instructing others. One of our troops was in NYC that morning and he also called in and then went to the Triage Center to help out with survivors...but none showed up. I went out for a smoke with a co worker and said..."the culture changes today!" He agreed and the rest is history as they say. For me it was a long series of getting thousands of troops ready for deployments to places I'd never heard of.

Answer 9

i had went to pay my lightbill and they had a tv on inside the building, i seen the plane hit that building and the rest of the day i felt really scared like we were gonna be attacked at any given moment. looking outside up in the sky, feeling helpless and scared, but yet knowing what comes around goes around, knowing our president would somehow not let the enemy get away with it. so please lets continue to pray for our president and our troops that are over in iraq.

Answer 10

I was asleep in my Vancouver home when the first plane hit. I woke up to the radio telling me that. When I turned on the TV, the second one hit and I watched until both towers fell. My first thought as I watched them was "Oh great... the US is gonna declare war again... bloody hell"