When Were You On September 11, 2001?

Question

When Were You On September 11, 2001?
What were you doing when you found out about the attacks?

What thoughts went though your mind on that terrible day?

Answer 1

I was at work in a large pediatric hospital in NYC. A parent of a patient ran into the nurses station screaming, "The tower's been hit." We were all numb. We ran to look out the south window and in the distance we saw the smoke and flame. At first we thought it was a terrible accident , but as soon as the 2nd tower was hit we knew the sad sad truth. One of my nurses fainted, her brother worked in the towers. Another had a brother who is a pilot who was flying out of Logan airport. We were plunged into Chaos and uncertainty. We could not leave, we were to prepare for the wounded and the dead, we were to discharge as many stable patients as possible, but we could not contact our loved ones. The city was silent, eerie, dead. We functioned as robots, doing tasks by rote unfeeling, denying, worrying, heartsick, and mourning yet continuing to struggle and press forward. It was like the world fell apart that day.

Answer 2

when I woke that morning and the TV was on, I seem to remember being urged by my 10 year old son to come and watch the news - vaguely hearing him telling me that something awful had happened in America. As my family huddled in the lounge room in silence, I gradually/suddenly woke up to what was occuring on the other side of the world in New York. My heart sank, not just for the people whose lives were being lost as I sat there watching their horrific plight, but also at the thought of what it would all come to.

The political significance of the Twin Towers being hit in New York was shockingly obvious, as it would (and has) lead to long-term ramifications around the world of a kind most of us would never hope for. After the initial shock, one of my first instincts was to want to be with other people who thought and felt like me at the time, and to talk about what was happening. In this way, it has brought many of us who crave for a better world, much closer together.

Answer 3

I'm from Philippines and it happened at night.
Around 10:00PM, i seated in our wooden sofa and i was searching a good channel and i saw a live video from World Trade Center. And minutes later, another plane hits the another tower.

And tommorow morning, i discovered that the terrorist did that. Thats our discussion for that day, in our History Class.

Answer 4

I was on an Air Force Base.

That night I had to fly back home. I was scared, yes, but mostly I was sad and anxious. Not as much about what was already lost but what was to be lost in the future. Lost from our reactions and from our desire to revenge the un-known and un-named.

Still there is no revenge but thousands and thousands have died. My fears could never have imagined that.

Answer 5

i live in Montreal, Canada so when I found out I was going to my second period class which was English I was in the 7th grade so i didn't really understand or have any idea on how terrible it was until i got home and turned on the television, i was in total shock and had a few tears in my eyes.

Answer 6

I was at school teaching and heard an announcement. I turned on my television and was horrified. I was afraid we would be dragged into a long horrible war that we could never win.

Answer 7

i grew to become into additionally in third grade. i grew to become into in college whilst it surpassed off, and that i remember surprisingly much all of us getting picked up early. My instructor had instructed us we did no longer have homework, (after assigning homework first of all), and that i then by ability of the tip of the day there have been some law enforcement officers patrolling around college, (some SWAT adult adult males in finished kit too), and that i had gotten picked up by ability of my grandpa (my grandparents watched my sister and that i each and every Tuesday). as quickly as I have been given domicile, my grandma grew to become into making a huge deal of it, asserting some planes crashed, and that i did no longer think of of it as a huge deal. It wasn't till my older cousin had defined to me terrorism and Bin encumbered and the immensity of the attack. I remember Bush getting on television asking us to do a candle prayer element, and then we went to mattress. It truly hadn't affected me lots, on account that i grew to become into so youthful and did no longer understand what had surpassed off. yet through fact the years glided by ability of, and that i grew to become greater politically wakeful and whatnot, I choose i grew to become into older so i will have understood on the time.

Answer 8

I was sitting on the couch with my god daughter giving her breakfast we were listening to the radio and singing along when there was breaking news it took us about ten minutes to recover from the shock and turn on the tv

Answer 9

I was in my first hour biology class and I thought it was a joke at first...terrible I know but I just couldn't believe it!

Answer 10

I keep seeing the same Polls & Surveys question over and over again in the History category. Why?

Thanks for the thumbs down. Now, "when" were you on October 12th, 2002?