What were you doing when you heard about the news on 9-11?

Answer 1

I was at work. I was taking my class to PE, and on the way the janitor told me a plane had flown into a building in NY. I was thinkin' like a Cessna, you know? Something small. It's NY, lots of tall buildings, lots of small aircraft, someone not paying attention, or a wind gust, or something, and whammo! By the time I got back upstairs, the principal had a TV set up in the library, and as I came in, the picture showed the black smoke billowing out of the first tower. When I asked how it happened, the principal said terrorists had attacked the WTC. I was like, "where did they get the planes?" He said they hijacked them. And I (who had had military experience in the Vietnam War) said, "But an airliner isn't a bomber!" Then he told me they'd flown into the building. Then it hit me. They'd kamikazed the sucker! I knew we were in for it then. Like, how do you fight people who kill themselves too?

Answer 2

Had just awakened and was having my tea and toast and watching Good Morning America , when Charlie Gibson and Dianne Sawyer announced the first hit. I thought whoa, someone hit the WTC! Must have been a commuter plane.

Then a few minutes later when another plane hit the second tower, and they were announcing later that the pentagon got hit and possibly the State Dept, I got on the horn to my sister in law as my brother at that time travelled to NYC quite often.

As usual she was clueless so I told her to turn on the tv.

Then my best friend called, her son , a model, was supposed to have a ' shoot' at the world trade center that day, but his flight got inexplicably cancelled the night before ( can we say guardian angel) so they were driving to the airport to catch his next flight when they heard the news. My friend called from her cell phone and was crying hysterically, her son was pretty shaken up too.

I was so glad to have the late Peter Jennings on all day, he kept things calm, even though he wasn't.

I don't think there's anyone unless they're under the age five who will ever forget that day. It's right up there with when WW2 started, Pearl Harbor, the day JFK and then RFK were assassinated and the day John Lennon was shot.

Answer 3

I was driving to have a meeting with the VP of engineering to tell him that I was leaving the company when I heard on the radio that the first plane crashed. Then, during our meeting, we heard about the second plane crashing on the other tower.
I was very disturbed about the whole deal. More upsetting was trying to call the wife on the cell and not being able to get in touch with her. Later on she admitted that she had the cell off. Good grief, why have the cell then?!

Answer 4

I was taking a walk in a forest preserve. It was about 70 degrees farenheit and there were monarch butterflies everywhere. My mother was with me and had a strange look on her face. I asked her what was wrong and if she was keeping something from me.
We drove to a coffee shop and the radio was on. A male reporter was yelling and his voice was shaking. I am glad that she spared me a little time of peace and that we were together. The people on the planes and @ the Pentagon didn't have that option in their final moments.

Answer 5

I was on my way to work after dropping my daughters off at day care in Rockland Cty, NY. My boyfriend at the time worked accross the street from the WTC and the second I got to the office I was trying to reach him on his cel phone to make sure he was ok. Thank god, he was fine, but had just driven under the towers minutes before the 1st plane hit. The only way I could get info. was on the radio & on intermittent reports online. It is a very haunting memory.

Answer 6

I was in labor!!!! I wasn't having any contractions until I heard the news. My husband had to work in one of the towers that day and I began to panic setting off labor pains!!! Luckily, the moving company that my husband worked for, sent him to another building away from the twin towers. The doctors were able to stop me from giving birth, but for nothing because I went back into labor 9 days later!!

Answer 7

I was the first one to get to work in my department. The second person who came in starting telling me a weird story about how she was listing to her car radio and thought the DJ was playing a joke on the audience about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. As my coworker was talking to me the phone rang and it was my mother, who also told me the same thing.

Answer 8

Just arrived at school when somebody told me. I'm on the West Coast so it had already happened. I heard several different convoluted stories until a teacher finally told us what really happened.

Answer 9

I was at work...15 minutes from Shanksville, PA. Everyone kept coming in telling us different stories and we had no clue what was going on. We had satellite radio, so that doesn't broadcast news. Took me until about 5p.m. that evening to understand completely...still scary/weird that one of those planes crashed so close!!

Answer 10

I live in Kansas, so it happened very soon after I arrived at work. I was sitting at my desk checking my e-mails, when a co-worker rushed into the conference room and turned on the TV and then told me.