where were you on september 11th?

Question

I'm asking because 6 years later I'm gathering information for a story about it... i was in care at the time i lived in a special needs home and i'd gone out with the unit manager for the morning on some business and we heard it on the radio i dismissed it at first but then i saw it on TV... it still seemed surreal till i went upstairs to listen to Classic FM!

september 11th 2001

Answer 1

In new york in school and everybody evacuated school and ran downtown with their cameras. the streets were clouded with dust, dust covered people dust dust dust dust... And anybody that was in nyc that day will remember the sirens. The neverending sirens, like every single ambulence, fire truck and police cruiser had their sirens on...

Answer 2

I was at work. I worked in Los Angeles, and my workday started at 6:00 am, 9:00 am in New York. I was already at my desk, listening to KFI 640 AM, the local talk radio station.

We had an old TV in the office with a standard antenna. I'm not sure why it was there; maybe the guys who worked the late shift put on the game late at night or something. But I turned up the radio so I could hear it from my cubicle, and I turned on the TV and stood there watching and listening.

Our office was a support desk, but there were no calls. Except from my mother. I think everyone was doing what I was doing. Watching and waiting and being overwhelmed with fear and horror.

The building I worked in was only three blocks from Library Tower, the tallest building west of the Mississippi. It was considered a potential target. (It turns out later that there was a plan to hit it, but something backfired.) My boss called and told me to go home. I left an emergency message on the voice mail we used when the office was closed and went home. The building usually only made you sign in and out between 6 pm and 7 am, but that day they made us sign out. The doors were locked. Stores in that building had been vandalized in the Lakers riot, so they were taking every precaution.

I normally took the subway to Union Station and rode the train home, but I didn't want to be somewhere I couldn't hear the radio. This is one of my neurotic behaviors. Back in the 1980's, we had a lot of earthquakes in Los Angeles. I developed this weird routine where I couldn't go back to sleep until the local news station announced what the magnitude was and where it had been located. (Yeah. Weird. I know.) So somehow I felt that if I could listen to the radio, everything would be OK. I rode the downtown shuttle (DASH) to the train station. It had been re-routed away from the Library Tower, too.

At the station, a train that normally ran empty just to get it into position for the afternoon runs was going to be full. People were lined up on the platform looking sort of shell shocked. The trains were very quiet. Some people would start crying.

When I go home, it was about 10:30, and I just turned on CNN and watched for hours.

Answer 3

On Sept 11 2001 the daytime was just as usual. When I woke on Sept 12 I heard on the radio that the twin towers had collasped.. That really woke me up and when I turned on the TV I just couldn't believe my eyes. All the horror happened whilst I was sleeping. TV shots were replayed & replayed all the time and I was so shocked I couldn't function at all on 12 Sept 2001.

Answer 4

I was in seventh grade in my science class at school. To this day I have never forgotten where I was or what I was doing when it happened. Back then I really didn't have a firm grasp on what was occurring. But now as a high-school graduate, I've grown to understand what really happened that fateful morning. Someday I hope to visit Ground Zero and the field in Pennsylvania to pay my respects to the thousands of innocent lives lost there.

Answer 5

I was actually in an elevator on the way up to my doc's office when I heard someone talking on a cell phone about something serious happened. The receptionist in my doc's office told me about it because I'm 3 hrs behind EST and I had not had the tv or radio on. Remember it exactly just like I do the day Kennedy was shot.

Answer 6

I had gotten up early that day and had the Today show on while I was cleaning the house. I heard about the first plane hitting the tower. I sat down to watch and stupid me, when the second plane hit, thought it accidentally crashed because they were trying to get closer to see what had happened! Duh! I just sat there in awe watching as the it all unfolded.
I went to work that afternoon and everyone else had been there all day and I wondered why everyone was acting so normal.
I don't think it was the same for those who just heard about it rather than watching or experiencing it as it happened.

Answer 7

I was at work in a DOD facility in S. California. The upper management decided that for safety reasons an nonessential personnel were to evacuate.

After the evacuation I was sitting at my desk thinking about how if our building was attacked - the people who would be killed would be the ones most important to running the organization.

Answer 8

Summit New Jersey at the train station.
Stayed all day long and helped people get home after the attack ocurred.

Answer 9

i was at home watching it on tv. a local station was on continuous broadcast for around 5-6 hours all night (i'm in aus). i got home from tafe at 11pm and watched it for 2 hours in disbelief. all those people who had no hope. to this day it still makes me sad - half way around the world

Answer 10

I was at work...Citizens Advice at the time. That evening it was the AGM and I was disgusted that no reference was made to it at all.