Where were you?

Question

on september 11th?
for me i was in my second grade classroom. i think we were working on our cursive. it was my friends birthday. the principal came over the intercom and said in a southern accent, "code red" so it sounded lie "code ray-ahd". a code red meant the school was in lockdown, so as we were sitting in the corner in the dark for what they told us was more than an hour (it didn't seem that long, i guess cause we were scared), and me and some other kid were whispering to see what happend so the teacher told us we had to both miss 15 minutes of recess, which never actually happened because we just kind of had recess the rest of the day in our classrooms. so many kids got an early dismissal, including one of my friends who got dismissed before the code red. after the code red was over we still had the school kind of in lock down except the lights were on and that's when we just had the indoor recess. a lady from the office came to take people to the bathroom. there is much more..

there is much more to the story, but i couldn't fit it all. i usually do go overboard with this.

Answer 1

Acutally I WAS in the twin towers when 9-11 happened. I was doing a project 4 school on my family's careers. and One of my cousins and one of my aunts worked in the twin towers. Luckliy though my aunt worked on the lower levels so we made it out unharmed. ^_^

The oddest part though was that my cousin all of sudden got sick the night b4 and didn't come 2 work with my aunt. It's ironic cause she worked in the the level, where the plane crashed into the towers.......We were sooo happy that she didn't go.....I guess she wasn't destined 2 die that day........

Answer 2

I was getting ready for work and checked my email. I thought a little Cessna clipped the towers. Then a friend told me "This is NEWS! Turn on the TV!". I still went to work, at a restaurant, and the lunch hour was so creepy. The customers didn't talk. They just ate in silence while watching the TV as the situation unfolded. Nobody really talked, we were all glued to the TV.

I honestly thought that there were going to be more attacks the same day. And the weird part is I was due to fly to Boston in a couple days. My co-workers and boss all said "You're not doing it, are you?"

Answer 3

In Bed at 9am in Phoenix AZ, Just getting up to go and sell hotdogs on the street downtown, I turned on the news, then stayed there in bed the whole week, stunned, we did'nt feel like working and it was wierd and deathly silent with no aircraft in the sky, we lived near the Airport.

I had just come to America from England to start a new life in the January and we were still finding our feet in AZ.

A local Hindu store owner was shot dead just after 911 by some nut with a gun who wanted to revenge the 911 attacks, the trouble was hindu's have more issues with the Muslims than Christians do so he shot the wrong person.

I'll never forgwt 911 Just as I will never forget the Deaths of Elvis. John Lennon and Princess Diana.

Answer 4

Whoa...I wondered if anybody had asked that question...a friend had come by work to just give a hug(I realized why an hour later, I don't believe in coincidence)...so I was working and we had the news on that morning even though we usually can't when the reports started coming in...I comforted a co-worker and just couldn't believe/comprehend that the planes could cause the Towers to collapse...for 2 months after that I felt like I was trying to breathe in fire and wonder if they called off the rescue efforts too soon. I don't think I was being psychic but I wondered if anybody was still in the below ground level.

Answer 5

I was also in my second grade class. People were picking up there kids early, and by the end of the day there was only five people still at school in the whole second grade. We kept on asking what was going on, but none of the teachers told us, all they said was "your mommy will tell you". Then, when I got home, I threw this huge hissey fit, because my parents were glued to the TV, and weren't listening to me. I was I little selfish back then.

my grandma's birthday was 9/11, but she died when I was a baby

my former math teacher's husband was in one of the towers at the time. His office was right were the plain hit, but he was on the fourth floor. Some of his very good friends died.

Answer 6

Asleep,having worked overnight. I found out when i went over to my girlfiend's at around 7:00. We just watched everything on tv. Later walking home it finallly hit how real it really was when i noticed the silence. No planes. That made more of an impression than all that grisly newsfootage. I was only 70 miles away.

Answer 7

I was at work in someones house ,( I clean houses for a living) ,and I had turned on the TV while I cleaned the living room. I didn't see the first plane hit, and they weren't saying exactly what had happened yet. The next thing I knew, I was watching the second plane hit. Then, they started saying maybe it was a terrorist act. I was petrified. I left work and went to school to pick up my kids...I don't know why...I just wanted them with me. We all left and went to a friends house and stayed there for quite a while.

Answer 8

It was my day off work and I was in the pub, I was busting for the loo so brought a drink so I could go. The news had just broke over here [I'm in the UK] and most people in the pub were watching it. The people there though were fairly philosophical about it.

Answer 9

We're on the West Coast. I was preparing to give our diabetic cat his morning insulin & planned to go back to bed afterward. The phone rang (unusual that early) & a family member told me to turn on the TV, "we're apparently under attack!"
I woke my SO & we sat in front of the TV in shock.

Answer 10

I was at home getting ready for school, which I didn't end up going to. I just sat at home all day and watched in unfold.