Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001?

Answer 1

That day I spent watching my mother and grandfather watch the news, not really understanding what was going on. And then, when I did understand, I waited for my dad (who works a few blocks away from where the WTC stood) to come home... He couldn't make it home until the next afternoon, but thank God he only had a cough. Once we knew he was okay, our entire family prayed for those who died and their families.

Answer 2

Going to work. I think I had slept in late that day. On the boat going over, I knew something had happened and the ferry personnel were talking about it, but airplanes flying into the WTC seemed totally preposterous to me. I listened to Howard Stern and could make no sense of it whatsoever. Not being in New York (I lived in Washington State then) I had no idea what the World Trade Towers were until I got to work and pulled up the video on cnn.com. By then another plane had flown into the Pentagon and the fourth had crashed in Pennsylvania.

After seeing the video, I could tell the world would never be the same again.

Answer 3

It was my day off from work; I had woken up early that morning to go shopping. When I was in the grocery store parking lot I heard a guy in a suit talking about the WTC...but I didn't understand what he was talking about. When I was in the store the cashier was talking to someone else about a plane flying into the the WTC tower. I grabbed my groceries and hurried out to the car to turn on the radio. I sat in the parking lot listening in horrer as things played out.....it was mostly confusion and rumors for a while. I finally drove to my Mom's house and turned on CNN and watched the news for the rest of the day...and the rest of the next day..and so on.

Answer 4

At university.. in the computer lab, trying to finish up my lab report for thermodynamics... all of a sudden a pop up popped up on the word screen with the breaking news of planes hitting WTC... I thought it was a joke, but then I heard couple of guys in the lab muttering about WTC and I instantly went on CNN and there it was the biggest breaking news red I ever saw. The screen was being updated every minute... Yes and I never got to finish that lab report, I didnt even go to the 8:00 am class that day.

Answer 5

I was at work. A colleague of mine was driving back from a meeting and heard something on the car radio (about the first plane). She called me and asked me to go on to the internet, which I did. All we knew at that time was that a plane had hit the WTC; at that moment of knowing I thought (like most people) that it was a freak accident. So I call our NY office which was 3 blocks from Ground Zero, I speak to a close colleague there who said "F*cking terrorists!". It was the first thing out of her mouth. She then tells me she saw the whole thing, that she had just emerged from the subway and saw the first plane hit. She scurried into the office, then I called. Then while we're on the phone, the second plane hit, and my colleague and I are screaming in shock and anguish.

Within 15 or so minutes, they're getting boxed in by police cordons. People didn't know whether to go out or stay put, there's smoke and ash everywhere, it was mayhem. There was anger and fear, but somehow my friends, whom I am so very, very proud to know, held it together and managed to get out of there. Some walked for hours to get home, some had to stay away from their apartments for weeks and couldn't even get their things, one was trapped in his apartment,

A lot of those staff have sinced moved on to other companies, but every year since on September 11th, we call each other. It turned out we lost three acquaintances that day (one on a plane and two in the North Tower). I will never forget a single thing about it.

Answer 6

Well, I was in my home in Dubai that day. I was at home watching TV that evening and suddenly a few words started scrolling across an Indian entertainment channel saying that "The WTC has been struck by airplanes" So i immediately switched on to ZEE NEWS where they were showing live pictures of one of WTC's towers emitting smoke and then shorlty saw another plane crash into another tower of the WTC

Answer 7

I was with my husband at the city courthouse re. a traffic ticket he received. When we exited the courtroom into the lobby, everyone around us was getting text-messages about the plane crashes into the Towers and the Pentagon. As soon as we finished with the ticket, we rushed home -- instead of going to work! -- and turned on the TV. We stayed there all day until we went to a special prayer service that evening at our church.

Answer 8

I was at work. I had skipped a department meeting, so I was all alone in the dept. I heard it on the radio and then tried getting on CNN.com or FoxNews.com, but there was too much traffic so I couldn't get a connection. My brother called me and he put his phone up to his tv so I could listen to live coverage on the Today Show with Matt Lauer and Katie Couric.
I was crying so hard and scared to death! When my co-workers started returning to their desks from the meeting, I told them what was going on....they had no idea all this was happening as they were in this useless meeting.

Answer 9

On my laptop, listening to the news, thought it was just a tiny plane, then saw the other plane, went out on the porch to get hubby, we were glued to the tv for days. I think way too many have forgotten. And when Pres. Kennedy was assassinated, I was in 5th grade gym class.

Answer 10

At college. I'd just barely woke up when my roommate came to my room, pounded on the door and said to turn on the TV. I watched what was going on, and saw the second plane hit. Then I had to go to my first class, which was mass communications, so that's all we talked about.