where were you on 9/11/07?

Question

where were you on that awful day? for you british people out there, where where you on 7/7/05?

i was in middle school in 4th grade in music class when i found out.

haha all you smart a$$es out there. i ment to type 9/11/01

Answer 1

I was graduating from high school.

Answer 2

Guess you mean 9/11/01 seeing as 9/11/07 hasnt happened yet lol.

I was working at my then girlfriends mothers cafe and a friend- a police officer in London rang and told me a plane had crashed into the WTC. We both, as ex soldiers, thought it was an odd accident to happen due to the fact that once in the air modern airliners essentially fly themselves by satallite guidance.

A little later he phoned again to say about the second plane (he was watching on CNN or SkyNews) and this we decided confirmed, as I suppose it did to everybody else, that this was no accident. I remember specifically saying to him "We're at war mate, you can't do that to the yanks and expect to get away with it". After getting off the phone I changed the radio station in the cafe to hear what was happening and everybody in there, one by one, gathered round the counter to listen. It was like a scene from a WWII movie.

There was one last phone call from my mate when I remember him saying "New Yorks on fire mate- smoke everywhere! People are ******* jumping out the buildings".

After work we got home and put SkyNews on and I almost couldnt believe what I was seeing was real. I've seen some pretty nasty things in my life but the sight of people jumping from a hundred odd floors up rather than burn is something that will stay with me forever.

As for 7/7 here in britain I was at my girlfriends house and turned on the news and saw what was happening and immediately rang my mate who as i said is a London copper to make sure he was OK.

To be honest it vaguely annoys me that we seem to try and say "look New York, we've been hit too!' by calling it 7/7 when plainly the two attacks don't compare with each other in intensity. 3000 people died in 9/11 and a hundred or so in 7/7 and although its still a terrible thing to happen we shouldnt try and jump on the 9/11 bandwagon, apart from anything else I think it trakes a little away from the memory of those who lost their lives by trying to make comparisons.

After all we lost more people in some of the IRA attacks that took place during the last 30yrs- again terrible things to happen (and I've lost mates to the IRA) but no where near on the scale of 9/11.

Answer 3

No where1 It hasn't happened yet!

On 9/11/01. I was in Connecticut watching cartoons with my daughter. My mother called and told we what was happening. I turned the TV on in time to see the second plane hit the towers. I raced over to my friends house, since my hubby was home, because she was alone. Our hubbiess are in the military so we were both scared about whether it was war or what.

Yes Elizabeth, not everybody does, but the truth is some prefer to write it as they speak it. Most people don't say the 11th of September. They say September 11, 2001. I wish that people who aren't Americans would realize, that not all Americans do things the exact same way or believe the exact same thing. Stereotyping whether because of ethnicity or nationality is wrong!

Answer 4

I was in Sacramento, California, and I had just turned on the television after getting out of the shower. CNN was reporting on the first plane to hit the towers. Although I was certainly concerned, I was not particularly shocked or alarmed, as I knew that airplanes had hit the Empire State building (and other skyscrapers) in the past.

But then, as I was ironing my clothes, it occurred to me that the previous cases of planes striking skyscrapers had taken place in heavy fog, but New York City skies that morning were clear and blue. Just as I was thinking, "We're being attacked," the second one hit. Now I was shocked.

I drove to school (I'm a teacher), and students came into my room, some asking questions, others crying. I turned on the radio for more news. We were instructed that day (by the administration) to continue on with our regular lessons (I guess the concern was that, if we discussed the events every period, the students would become over-wrought). But I spent the entire period in all six of my classes talking about the attacks, and about the history of terrorism. Since I'm a history teacher, that made sense to me.

I don't think the full effect of the attacks hit me until several days later. I had spent the days after the attack trying to help my students make sense of what had happened, and hadn't allowed myself to feel it. Then while driving home, I was listening to NPR when they did a story on the U.S. national anthem being played at Buckingham Palace (the first time a foreign national anthem had been played there). I had to pull over to the side of the road because I had started crying. I felt the pain and suffering that had already taken place, and knew the future held much more.

Answer 5

9/11/07 (hasn't happened yet) will be my first day of 11th grade.

9/11/01 was the 4th day of school. The planes flew over my school before the bell rang. It was a Tuesday because I had to go to 5th grade chorus. Then, our principal told everyone to stay indoors during lunch. Teachers were crying and half the students went home early, but most of the people at school didn't know what was going on. When my mom came to pick me and my brother, she told us. When we got home, my mom found out the worst happened to my uncle. Then, my neighbors came over to comfort us.

Answer 6

Um... on 9/11/07 I was doing a day of service at a community center in remembrance of 9/11/01. On 9/11/01 I was in 8th grade math class.

EDIT: woah, just kidding. The service day was in 2006. Getting a little ahead of myself.

Answer 7

If you meant 9-11-01, I was in Germany in the army. I will never forget because one of my best friends died two days before that and we were doing a roll call ceremony and we did a service for him. Afterwards, like 4:30 German time we were called into formation and told to go to the day room to watch the news. After we found out we were put on alert and 1 hour recall, nobody was allowed to leave post and we started gearing up, it was crazy.

Answer 8

I'm assuming you meant 9/11/2001...

During that time I was working third shift at a package delivery company. I arrived home around 8:45 EST. I turned on the TV to see that one of the buildings had been hit. I figured it was an accident. I saw the second plane hit live. At first it didn't look like it was going to hit, because on TV, it looked like it was about to fly behind the building. But when flames burst out from the 2nd building, immediately everyone thought terrorist act. I picked up my stepdaughter from school, and followed the news for the rest of the day.

Answer 9

I was getting ready in the morning. I was in 10th grade and I had a two-a-day practice for football. I was shaving and listening to the radio while I was getting ready, and I head the DJs say that a plane had hit the world trade center. They said it in a "in passing" kind of way, so I had no idea that it was such as big deal. I figured like, a cessna or something hit the tower, like a stupid inexperienced private pilot or something. So, I truned off the radio, and then went on with the rest of my day. I went to practice and was getting picked up by a friend's mom, and she was very upset by it, so i started to think that maybe the incident was bigger than I had thought. My school didn't mention it at all. So I went home and my parents were enraged about the "soulless raghead motherfu**ers".

Answer 10

i was working on the yet to be completed american airlines center on 9-11-01. the shift started at 7am. the tv's were already installed everywhere, and when it happened everyone stopped working and gathered around the tv sets. we all watched as the 2nd attack happened. i can remember feeling a strange impulse to tell everyone to not believe everything they see on tv or read in the news. in other words don't start freaking out. all the air traffic was halted and downtown dallas seemed like a ghost town - you could feel the tension in the air as no one knew what to expect. for a short while i thought we would be hearing of other cities coming under attack. i have to admit i entertained the notion that full scale war was about to develop on us soil. by the time i got off work at 4pm, everyone was pretty much convinced that this was a singular terrorist event, and of course we had all learned throughout the day about the pentagon attack and the pennsylvania crash.

Answer 11

9/11/07 hasn't gotten here yet and I suppose I'll be working. But on 9/11/01 it was a little after 6 a.m. here and I was getting ready for work and just happened to turn on CNN. I was shocked and horrified at what was happening. It made me realize how vulnerable we all are. It was a very frightening experience.