Where were you on 9/11?

Question

I was called on the phone and I thought they were joking when they said we were attacked. I said "stop it". They said go turn on the T.V. They mentioned the Pentagon and I thought that was impossible.

I've never had this many answers. I don't know which to choose.

Answer 1

I was at a SAFE class in the Ingalls Shipyards across from the Pascagoula, MS Navy base for some required training my command was doing. Saw it on the new, both the shipyard and base locked down, and within a few hours I was roving the O2 level of my frigate with a locked and loaded M14 and full tactical gear on.

Answer 2

I was in 3rd grade the teacher spoke in very vague terms about it so i asked i could go to the bathroom and asked a 6th grader i knew since i figured they told them what happened he gave me the details. Shortly thereafter the principal came to talk to us and try to explain what had happened and right after she started talking i got pulled from school(mom was paranoid as usual). I went home and watched the news for the rest of the day and saw the towers collapse.

LMAO lavadog i figured you would say something like that though i have to ask why you were out drinking on a monday night.

Answer 3

I had just gotten home from picking up my girls after school. My next door neighbor came running over to tell me. I called another friend, who then came over. We sat watching the tv in the bedroom, while the kids were watching cartoons. The 3 of us wondering if our hubbies were coming home that night and what it meant for us.
Hubbies went on alert and finally came home about midnight. The base went on Delta for 3 days. No one leaving, no one entering, no school. All in all, a pretty terrifying time, although we were actually more concerned about the safety of our families back in the states than we were our own.

Answer 4

I was in line at Starbucks, headed for a work-related training in Sacramento. The drive-up guy told me what was going on and the only radio station I could get that was covering it well at all was Howard Stern... the one thing he did that I really respected was his coverage of what was going on that day, on the ground.

I'll never forget it... and remember how quiet it was afterward? No planes flying overhead for a week, everybody was waving flags, everyone was driving the speed limit... It made me realize what we could do, as a country, if we truly came together for any one cause.

Answer 5

I was in my loungeroom.. It was approximately 10:45 pm ( australian time, sept 11th) ... I had been on the internet and had just logged off to go to bed ( had to be up at 5:30 am to go to work)...

As I was about to get into bed , by husband called from the lounge room and said "A plane has just crashed into the World trading Building in New York"

thinking it was an accident .. I continued getting ready to go to sleep when he called out again.. " It's a BIG bloody plane and our local (melbourne au ) news is cutting to CNN to show us.......

As we watched the first tower burning and listened to the reporters talking about it ... my husband pointed to the TV and almost yelled " LOOK THERE'S ANOTHER PLANE"

It was surreal . .we watched LIVE as the second plane crashed.....
without speaking we both stood up and returned to our computers and re-logged,
I went into the chat room I used to hang out in at the time and posted about what was taking place... many americans were logging on.. without being aware what was taking place ...

they's come it and write " HI HOW IS EVERYBODY?? with big smiley faces ... all i could say was GO TURN ON YOUR TV ..... one by one as they returned to the chat room ... all everybody could say was OH MY GOD......
I sat up till three in the morning talking to my state-side friends and exchanging emails with a friend who was in New York .. I was getting more news than what she was.

Now while I wasn't an american .. I still viewed it as an attack on the West, I knew it would be a catalyst to something bigger and more horrible....

the next day .. was even more weird .. our lives continued as if nothing had happened .. but .. yet everything was changed .. so hard to put into words ..

It was something That I never want to live to see again. or feel the strangeness , the emotional stress.. It was A nightmare.

It wasn't about America to me .. it was about PEOPLE.
so many people died... so many nations around the world were affected by it and more by the ripple effect.

Answer 6

I was on vacation in Las Vegas. It was the first time I have ever seen that city all but shut down. Everything was closed, except the casinos. And that was only because they had no where to send the people. I had people asking me to drive them back to San Diego, because the airport was closed. It is a day I will never forget.

Answer 7

For those of us who were in the military and who currently serve, thank you.

On the USS Paul F. Foster, Everett Wa. Waiting for morning Quarters we had CNN on TV and watched what the networks were showing from the beginning. Nothing will screw with your emotions like being on a ship loaded with Tomahawks and knowing your going to war.

Answer 8

I had gotten in a car wreck a few weeks before and was at the physical therapy office. The nurse had the radio on and when we heard the first tower fell we just looked at each other and our mouths fell open. I hurried home and got my kids and filled up my gas tank like everyone else. Then stayed glued to the TV for the next week.

Answer 9

I was at work. Someone called one of my co-workers and she turned on the little black-and-white teevee we have in our break-room. There are only 8 people working for this company and we stood and watched as the second plane hit the second tower and a little while later watched as each tower fell. In the meantime, I kept trying to get online to one of the news sites, but you could NOT get on -- everything was overloaded.

Answer 10

Liberty and West Streets outside Tower One near the Pedestrian Overpass.