Where were you and what were you doing when you heard about the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001?

Answer 1

it was the day in which i should arrive to US from Ukraine my tmigration date was moved to 27

Answer 2

I was with a group of retired people having early morning coffee and watching television when the first plane hit. We began to compare this to when the plane hit the Empire State Building on the foggy morning of Saturday, July 28, 1945. We were saying how strange that such an accident would happen twice in our life times and then the second plane hit. Clearly it was not an accident and then the rest of the morning began to unfold.

Answer 3

I had been up late playing video games and drinking beer with my roommate. I had only been asleep a little while when his girlfriend began banging on my door. I remember snarling at her that I was trying to sleep and she said, "You have to get up. I think we're at war!" I remember thinking that she was an idiot or something and stumbling into the living room. A couple of talking heads were voicing over a view of the smoking tower and then a plane flew into the second tower right in front of my eyes. I remember being stunned, climbing over the back of the couch to get closer to the TV. What shook me almost as badly that day was a few hours later, when I went out to my third floor balcony with my roommate, the eery silence. Almost nobody was on the roads outside of my complex but what really got me was the quiet. I lived 3 miles from Sky Harbor airport and directly beneath the commercial flightpaths and I was used to the background noise of approaching planes. The Arizona sky was cloudless and blue-and empty. We stood out there for a half-hour and saw a pair of F-15s out of Luke AFB circle overhead, flying CAP for Sky Harbor. I hope I never see that vast emptiness again.

Answer 4

I was on Ft. Bragg NC on a machine gun range, and I was the radio person that first alerted my command that we were being attacked. I got an alert from a friend of my from Special Forces, so I sent a message back to my command and we were all called back and locked down on the base. Shortly afterwards I was issued DSUs, Desert Uniforms and off to Afganistan, and in 03 I was in Iraq. I was 82nd airborne, I later was in a vehicle that ran over a landmine, and I now am medically retired from the military. I will never forget what I was doing that day, and my friend's daughter was with my friend's sister on one of the planes that crashed.

Answer 5

Working swing shift, just waking up, turned the TV on for background noise while getting ready, saw the TV, and thought "wow, that movie has some great special effects".

After a minute or 2, noticed that the TV was turned to a news channel, and those werent special effects.

Answer 6

i replace into in my place of work. I ran a average sized production plant. i could basically gotten out of my morning artwork tension assembly while my boss referred to as and asked if i replace into observing television. I made some clever fact like, "confident, Scooby-Doo is on on and that i never omit it." He informed me some airplane hitting the international commerce midsection. i theory it replace right into a Piper Cub or something. The 2d airplane hit moments later. Mustafa (aka. Moose)

Answer 7

At the office, working. Suddenly there was a shout, we all ran to the director's office. He had the TV on. We sat there for what seemed hours, unable to believe our eyes. One of us who had a friend who had moved in the south tower the day before kept trying to call him. That friend was alive, finishing to pack in his old office but we didn't know it until the next day.
Then I remember walking home in a state of shock in a city empty of life and cars. People gathered in shops to listen to the radio or in cafes to look at the TV, stunned and horrified.
A day I will never forget.

Answer 8

I woke up at my (now ex-)boyfriend's house to my roomate calling me. "Your mom called; your dad's in New York. He called before one explosion, but not the other..."

I was horribly confused, and the only explanation roomie could come up with was, "There are these people are bombing New York...or something."

I remember watching TV and thinking, 'My dad is in the midst of that, somewhere, probably scared out of his wits,' and bursting into tears.

He called me, an hour later, alive. From a hotel. He had walked down 28 flights of stairs to get out of the south tower, about a half hour before it collapsed.

Answer 9

I had just awoke and was going to get ready for work when I saw it on the TV. My Mom had come in and asked me if I had just seen what had happened. I got a chill over my body thinking were we at war? My Mother In Law called from Mexico asking me what was going on. It was definately a moment in time that will stick in my mind.

Answer 10

I was working nights and was still asleep. I got a phone call from my sister back East telling me what happened. She said one of our nephews was in the first tower and they werent sure if he was dead or alive. His parents went to New York to look for him and found him in the Armory. They were able to identify him and took him back to Pennsylvania to be buried. After that we found out that two cousins were also killed that day. One was a stock broker and the other one was a fireman. They never recovered their bodies. It was a very strange feeling to think we were lucky because they had found my nephew's body .

Answer 11

I was at work. My boss got a call from her husband and he said, "Happy Anniversary, honey, guess what just happened?" I had to work till the afternoon and people were calling all day with updates, and I didn't, couldn't believe any of it. I was in disbelief until I got home and watched the news. I was glued there all evening.