Where were you when 9/11 happened?

Question

I was at work at the time. I was working in the data update department for a book publishing company and with that type of job everyone is allowed to wear headphones and listen to music because its nothing but typing all day. So because of that all of us in that department found out at the sometime and that something was very wrong. I will never forget the expressions on everyones face and the panic. I remember they closed the entire company for the rest of the day and sent everyone home. I had to drive a co-worker home and I remember when we were driving down the expressway we both was looking up at the sky in panic hoping we werent about to be bombed. We thought war had broke out in the states! I hope I never have to feel that way again, it was aweful :(

Answer 1

I was at my own birthday party. no joke.

Answer 2

On a bus going to school, listening to the radio. I remember at frist the raido host was thinking it was a small plane but then sppke about what he saw on the news and said this doesn't happen on accident. I watched the coverage of the incident at school for most of the day and was frsutrated as hell because this stuff keeps happening, especially in the past few years with Embassies in Africa and The U.S.S. Cole to name a couple. I was sickened by the news personnel who were trying to interview the emergency responders walking around at ground zero W?T?F?

Saddly I see little evidence that we have learned anything, Never Forget?

Answer 3

I am a 911 Telecommunicator in the suburbs of Chicago. I was at work training someone when the attacks happened.

We started getting alot of calls asking what was going on.

At the time we shared a building with a fire department and they were watching it on TV, I left the room during a slow period and saw the 2nd tower collapse live.

Usually at night there is alot of air traffic because of O'Hare and Midway airports being east of us. For the few days that planes were grounded it was unbelievably quiet at night, although occasionally you could hear military jets flying overhead.

And for weeks after that we got alot of suspicious package calls because of the anthrax mailings. Scary times for many.

Answer 4

San Francisco. I had fallen asleep on 9/10 with the TV on, woke up on 9/11 to the news. It took me a few minutes to realize that it was actually real. Even to this very day, wheneve I look at a digital clock and the time is 9:11, it reminds me and I think of that day again.

Answer 5

I was 6 months pregnant with my son, who's now 5.

I woke up, saw on Yahoo News, plane into tower, I figured, eh, stupid drunk, went to sleep for another hour or so.

Got on the Internet a couple hours later and at this one forum I used to post on, people were saying "Turn on the TV," etc.

Kind of took a while for it to all sink in there....

Answer 6

I was sitting on the edge of my bed. I had dropped the kids off at school and was preparing to spend the day with my husband, we were going to play hooky from work. I definitely remember feeling so much loss, I cried and cried.

Answer 7

I was at home...I was only 5 years old at the time...and I was in Venezuela...I didnt really know what was going on, but I still remember watching the news on the kitchen...

Answer 8

At work, checking on security posts in South Carolina.

Answer 9

I was at mall shopping , people came in saying o-my god you hear about air plane crushing throught the towers and kill
many people and many trap in crush building there trying get to them pull them out.

Answer 10

I was at home but I heard about it in the car and we were going to pick someone up from school (they closed early).

Answer 11

I was in Egypt,got a message from my daughter who was in Jordan saying (open the tv) at first I thought it was a movie than it sank in we were very shocked.