Where were on 9/11/2001?

Question

We were driving back from the Cheasepeake Bay.. after a day of fishing and a few days before in Rehoboth Beach Delaware.. IT was a beautiful sunny morning .. the sky.. crystal blue...
Life changed for me after that.. and i have never felt quite the same since.

Answer 1

It was my day off from my old job as a NYC paramedic...I was on the NJ Turnpike extension and saw plane #2 hit...so all of you conspiracy nuts....AIRCRAFT DID HIT THE TOWERS...despite your rants...

Answer 2

I was sending truffles down an assembly line when someone came down from the office area and said the Twin Towers, the White House, the Pentagon had all been blown up but we couldn't seem to get any more info for the time being. I thought how ridiculous that we would continue on with work like nothing was happening. No, life was never the same after this. Little did we know that our country would become so divided after we had come together so close.

Answer 3

I was actually sitting at my English classroom (back when I was in grade 12) listening to the boring lecture of my English professor when suddenly the P.A. system came on and informed us of the terrorist attack.

We had to drop everything and were instructed to gather at the gym to pray for the situation.

EDIT: I noticed a lot of people saying that their lives were "changed' or "never be the same after that" and I agree... something like this doesn't happen quite often... at least not for America, and we were unprepared anyways... I used to get depressed for a month or two after it happened... then I started attending seminars and support groups and after hearing some of the people's stories of hope and survial amidst the chaos of that day, I felt gradually better and unburdened with sorrow... Now I try to live my life to the fullest each day, and never looking back on the things I wish I'd had done earlier 'cuz I realize that today, here and now, is only what we've got.

Answer 4

I was in my office and in a co-worker's office who had a TV that we turned on after the first plane hit. My office was in Center City Philadelphia, on the 34th floor. All skyscrapers were evacuated. The train station underground was an absolute mess. Train service was shut down because there was a fear that trains in the northeast corridor could be targeted. No one could get home. I eventually hired a cab back to Delaware (along with 5 others). It's a day I will never forget.

Answer 5

I just watched that movie last night. I will never forgett. I had just woke up to a beautiful sunny morning with birds chirping and my 2 year old son laying next to me. We were playing and having a great time. I had just found out I was pregnant with my daughter. My husband called me from work and told me to turn on the TV. While I was talking to him we saw the second plane hit the tower. I don't think anyones life was the same after that day.

Answer 6

I was at home that morning...many phone calls was answered by my machine since I like to sleep in before my flights that afternoon. I had no idea of what had happened until I was getting ready to go to work. I checked my messages and realized that something must have happened since people from half way across the world were wondering if I was OK. I then turned on the T.V. and wondered why they were showing the World Trade Center bombing which happened years before 9/11. Then that's when reality hit..

Answer 7

Driving to work. It was a beautiful day in Southern California. Much has been made of the act of using the high tech toy of the wealthy against the 1st world. It is easy to cause damage while harder to create wealth. There was little appreciation for the beauty of the vehicle or the people that created it.

The individual had grown up being taught hatred for others not that they also could create beauty. It is time for all of the worlds schools to teach their people they can create beauty. Hatred is easy to teach the KKK & other extremist have shown that well. We all have access to too deadly of technology to still teach hatred any more.

Answer 8

Funny, I was just thinking about that this morning. I was in the third grade. Attack happened at 9:00, I didn't find out until 2:00. We had no TV in the classroom. The teachers themselves didn't even find out until 12:00. They came back from lunch, and just said, "Some planes hit a building in NYC," or something like that. They watered it down for us youngsters. I didn't really understand. A classmate of mine left because her father was in one of the towers, but escaped fortunately. I got home and just played. My mom tried to tell me that this was history in the making and I should watch the news, but I just wasn't aware. Wish I would have been, though. It would have been a hell of a story for my grandkids. I wish I could remember more about it, even though it was so horrible.

Answer 9

At home recovering from surgery. The phone rang and I couldn't get to it, but I could hear the panic in my mother's voice as she left a message. I struggled downstairs, called her back and then watched the horror unfold as I waited for my husband to get home after picking up the boys from their schools. We all sat together in our living room, crying at times, talking to relatives and friends on the phone at other times. That night the neighbors gathered together on our front porch and we drank a few beers and bottles of wine in a futile attempt to cure our shock, as we watched the kids run up and down the block. Television on in every room that had one. It was a day and night I know none of us will ever forget. I have never felt such kinship with my relatives, friends and neighbors mingled with such patriotic fire burning behind our grief and rage. I wish this country was as unified now as we all were the day of that tragedy. I wish more that it had never happened, we've all been changed by it in one way or another.

Answer 10

I was in Temple, Texas, working as a housekeeper at a hospital. I often glimpsed at the TV while I was in cleaning rooms. Most days were the routine "The Price is Right", etc. This was anything but routine, in fact, having to still focus on doing my job that day was one of the hardest things I've ever done.

Answer 11

I woke up late in my college apartment. My wife was in class, and I was skipping my first two classes for some much needed R&R. I rolled out of bed and logged onto the computer to check a couple of stocks I owned. When my wife came back to the apartment a few hours later, she found me still sitting at the computer, glued to the news coming in.