September 11, 2001 ..........?

Question

Where were you & what were you doing when you heard of the terrorist attack on the U.S.

Someone has an obcession with thumbs down to be doing so on this question!! GET REAL & GROW UP!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I was in the shower. I live on the west coast and I wasn't working that day (pretty sure it was a weekday though). I slept through the actual time of attack since that was 6 am our time. My ex boyfriend and I got up around 9:45 our time. I got in the shower, he went out to eat breakfast, turned on the TV and I will never forget him coming into the bathroom and saying "we have been attacked - we have been attacked". I was like - what in the world are you talking about - what does that even mean? What has been attacked? Who attacked us? He just left and went back to the TV. I got out of the shower, came out soaking wet in a towel, took one look at the replaying of the towers being hit by a plane, literally sunk to my knees. Tears filled my eyes and all I could say was "I don't know where my parents are".

He said what? Aren't they in PA? I said - I don't know - I know that they were taking a trip to St. John's and I thought it was around that time. I didn't know where they were. I didn't know what flights were coming from where.

I got up and called. They weren't leaving (or supposed to leave) for their trip for another 2 weeks and at that point, they weren't even sure they were going to go.

I walked out onto the deck of the apartment - top floor. I looked in the sky - not a single plane was flying (and we lived close to the airport - so flights were always overhead above us). It was eerily quiet.

The rest of the day was a haze. An absolute haze. I remember crying uncontrollably for weeks on end in sadness for all thos innocent people. If you want to attack my military, go ahead, but don't kill a bunch of stockbrokers, insurance salesman, office assitants. Seriously.

The attacks made me angry. Sad. Miserable. I think I cried every night for those families for weeks. Even now, when I think about it, it makes me cry, it makes me feel ill. And it makes me want to find whomever is responsible and spit in their face.

Ignorance kills. Those people were simply doing working at their desks. They didn't control the country. They weren't arranging coups in anyone's country, they weren't directing nuclear missles at some country's government. They worked in an office. They were sons, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, friends, family. And I will remember it always. Always.

We truly will never forget.

Answer 2

I had just got out of the shower so started getting ready for work and I turned on the TV to see what the weather was going to be like and they were showing coverage of the first crash. A few minutes later another plane crashed into the second tower. It looked like the building just opened up and swallowed the plane. I remember thinking, that there is no way two planes crashed accidently.
I can remember every moment of that day like it was yesterday. I did go to work that day and I remember the fear that was so visible on every person I passed, it was like a mad rush to get out of the downtown area and I do not live in NY, I do not think I can comprehend what New yorkers must have felt. It is amazing how the memories of such a horrible act last for so long. The scarring and pain it created will last forever in the minds and hearts of all that can remember.

Answer 3

I was in the living room, on the sofa. I'd just turned on the TV when I saw the fresh onair footage. For a few moments, I thought I was watching some movie, but that didn't fit with the news channel, then I was doubting my sanity...too incredible. Unbelievable.

Answer 4

I was working 2nd shift. Got up around 11:00. Called a company in New York about some things I had ordered. They said they were under a level one security, and I'd have to call back. I just said ok. Then I realized, it was so quiet. We lived near Sarasota- Bradenton airport. We always heard planes. Finally about 1:00, I turned on the tv to check the weather, and at first I thought we were being bombed. Well, just as bad. I woke my husband up.
Went to work, but, nobody could work.

Answer 5

Good question..because I know it affected all of us and we will all remember what we were doing that day at that time. It was a normal morning for me....got the kids and I ready to go to work and school. I didn't turn the Today Show on like I normally do which I think was really odd, because if I did, I would have known sooner. I walked my oldest son to his class and the teacher had a television on in the classroom. I saw the first building on fire and she told me a plane hit one of the Twin Towers. I thought it was a bizarre accident and never thought terrorism. Then, I dropped my youngest son off at daycare and they had the television on inside as well...this time the second tower was hit and people were thinking terrorism. It was a terrible feeling....thinking we were under attack. I drove to work listening to the news on the radio and then later heard about the plane hitting the Pentagon. My new boyfriend was in the Air force at the time and he was in Washington DC for work....I immediately called him, but all circuits were busy. I tried and tried for hours....he finally called me around 1:00 to tell me he was okay. Everyone was talking about it at work....many had their radios on to get the latest. None of us worked well that day because of the concern. I later came home and watched CNN for hours. I cried and was very sad that someone would want to do this to the US. It was a very sad time for all of us.

Answer 6

I was at work at a construction job. I was doing ding bat electrical work. For you electricians out there who knows what I'm talking about when I say dingbat electrical? Here I'm answering a question and asking a question. Oh. Like I said I was taking a break and I was in the odd house. A Porta potty, smoking a joint and my supervisor came and knocked on the door and told me. He did not mention the Oder that I'm sure he smelled. It turns out, one day at a company party a group of us went to smoke and he was there smoking with us.

Answer 7

Working. Someone heard about it on the radio so we all went into the break room and watched on TV, then we were all sent home after the plane crashed in PA.

Answer 8

I had just come home from school and I had turned on the T.V to watch a cartoon show. I was only 10 years old. I saw the second plane hit too.

Answer 9

i replaced into additionally in third grade. i replaced into in college whilst it got here approximately, and that i bear in mind very almost honestly everyone getting picked up early. My instructor had advised us we did no longer have homework, (after assigning homework first of all), and that i then by the top of the day there have been some law enforcement officials patrolling around college, (some SWAT adult males in finished kit too), and that i had gotten picked up by my grandpa (my grandparents watched my sister and that i each and every Tuesday). as quickly as I have been given abode, my grandma replaced into making a great deal of it, asserting some planes crashed, and that i did no longer think of of it as a great deal. It wasn't till my older cousin had defined to me terrorism and Bin encumbered and the immensity of the attack. I bear in mind Bush getting on television asking us to do a candle prayer factor, and then we went to mattress. It quite hadn't affected me a lot, considering i replaced into so youthful and did no longer understand what had got here approximately. yet using fact the years glided by, and that i grew to alter into extra politically unsleeping and whatnot, I want i replaced into older so i will have understood on the time.

Answer 10

Home, getting ready for school. Didn't even know what the World Trade Center was, other than a tall building in NY, to be quite honest...