Where were you when u heard about 9/11?

Answer 1

9th grade, in class, everyone in school that day met at the library where they had a couple of TVs playing the news footage. Unbelievable. It was like it wasn't real, like it was all some big joke. People were crying and rushing to the office to call family members. They all knew people who worked at the Trade Center. It was to much to even begin to grasp.

Answer 2

I was on vacation that week and sleeping in late. My buddy called and left a message that a plane hit a tower in NYC. I turned on the TV in the bedroom and saw the first tower on fire. I went to the living room, called my parents who were watching it also. I lived in Chicago and was telling my Mom that the tower would have to come down from all the damage it had sustained. I was saying that the city was tied up in knots from traffic, people running around, the debris from the tower falling down around the area etc. Just then a second plane hit. At first I thought it was a video replay of what happened. Turned out it was not, it was the second plane. I got off the phone and heard local news report that downtown Chicago was being evacuated. I called work as it was downtown and I was a Security Supervisor. The dispatch Officer said that he could not talk, the place was in chaos. I tried calling back later for the purpose of coming in to help. The phone system for the entire Chicago area was not working due to the volume of call traffic. Two days later I drove to my parents house to be with them and watch this most terrible event unfold before our eyes.

Answer 3

On 11 September 2001 I was preparing to retire after 24 years in the USAF. Walked by the TV tuned to CNN at the Operations desk and saw massive fire and smoke coming from the first tower and idly wondered "What the F***?" Nobody knew yet, it was just a very bizarre occurrence at that time. Everybody went about their business until the second plane hit. That's when things changed and the whole country should have learned what we already knew. There is no safe place from someone who's determined to do you harm.

Spent an extra year in the service while they figured out what to do and who they needed to do it.

Answer 4

I was at work. I was working as a veterinary technician and was right in the middle of cleaning a dog's teeth when one of the vets ran down and said that a plane crashed into the first tower. We thought it was maybe just a bizarre plane crash at first until that second plane hit moments later. My husband was at the mall and walked past Best Buy which had the coverage playing on all of the TVs. He stood with crowds of people for at least an hour, so he was actually watching live when the 2nd plane hit.

Answer 5

I was gettting ready to go to work when I turned on the tv and every channel was covering the same thing. So I payed attention and found out what it was and got really scared. I didn't want to leave the house, but I did anyway. It was only hours later that our whole city was basically put on lockdown since it was one of the cities that one of the planes had passed over. It was pretty scary and I'll never forget it.

Answer 6

I was sitting in my homeroom classroom, which was also my biology classroom. We had a just finished taking the Terra Nova (a standardized test in Indiana). I was in the 9th grade at the time. Our homeroom teacher had to leave to take care of something and a substitute (actually just one of the school's gym teachers) came in. She told us something had happened in Washington, D.C. as she only knew about the Pentagon at that time. She turned on the TV and they were replaying the first plane flying into the first building. After about 5 minutes, the second plane hit.

Answer 7

i was in 4th grade and the class was watching some tape when all of the sudden peoples parents started coming real early and picking up their kids.. then the principal announced something bad happened over the intercom, not saying what exactly had happened. i had no clue the seriousness because i was 9, so i thought it was a british invasion. i was so sad when i found out what really happened.

Answer 8

Checking the news on my Yahoo page one last time before heading to the airport to catch my plane to work.
By the time I got to the airport all air traffic had been grounded. I went home and watched the towers fall on television. What a horrible day.

Answer 9

Sleeping on my parents couch. My sister called from Florida(which is pretty sad since we lived in New Jersey), and told me that a plane had hit the WTC, I turned the TV on just in time to watch the second plane hit. Spent several hours trying to get in touch with a friend whose husband works in World Financial Center(he was in Battery Park, when the towers came down), finally heard from her mother and found out he was ok. Had to explain what happened later on to my ex-wife who lived in Portland OR what happened, she didn't wake up until like 2pm local time there. She found out later on that her aunt was on Flight 93.

Answer 10

On board the Warship USS Paul F. Foster watching CNN because it was one of the few channels we were allowed to watch. At that time we were getting major repairs done to our ship, but the other ships on base left with orders to shoot down anything flying twards major cities. Yes, you read that right, the Navy had orders to bring down any plane in the air after the grounding orders were issued.