Where were you during 9/11?

Question

I was in my 3rd grade class, and we got out of school early, and I had no iddea why. Then I saw this HUGE patch of black smoke in the sky. I live in New Jersey, just outside of NYC.

same with me rnfairy, my dad went to the subway that goes under the WTC. He got past it, about an hour before the attack.

Answer 1

Asleep, in my bed, a child, unaware of the evils of this world.

Answer 2

In the middle of the North Atlantic.

At the time I was working as a performer on a cruise ship (The SS Norway). We were on what was supposed to be its farewell voyage, a transatlantic crossing. We ported in New York City on September 9th, then two days later the Captain came over the P.A. system (waking me from a dead sleep) to inform the passengers and crew that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I spent the next 36 hours glued to CNN. That's when we lost the satellite signal. I must say, I have can't begin to describe how it felt to be so far away from home, literally in the middle of nowhere (in the middle of the ocean) when something like that was going on. We had no way to contact anyone.

I have video footage of the WTC (and other sights) that I shot on the morning of the 9th on the trip up the Hudson River. I still get a chill just thinking about that footage.

Answer 3

I was in Tokyo. I think it was around 10~11pm and my mom came running over to me, telling me to turn to CNN. During that time, I only saw 1 plane, and then suddenly the 2nd plane flew in. This was a huge shock for me, unable to believe that a plain flew into a building. I was especially shocked since I just visited NYC that same year during the summer. The next day, all of us at school prayed for the people who were affected by 9/11. I was in 5th grade then so I didn't know how serious this incident was, but it's something that I know I will never forget.

Answer 4

I was totally cut off from the world in our RV in the Ozark Mountains camping, we had no cell service and no internet. We were actually boondocking, or as lay people call it dry camping. We were parked very close to a large Rock formation and right next to a babbling brook.
The reason I remember is we didn't find out for 3 days, some other campers came in who had heard it on the news and of course it came up in conversation. I remember having a brain dead moment of denial and almost inability to fathom something so horrible. For days we had been living a century ago cooking over an open fire and living like Daniel Boone and in a short conversation we were jerked back to the 21st century to a reality that took days to sink in and we will never forget.

Answer 5

I was also in 3rd grade and every morning two students for a class go to the office to say the pledge. If just happened that that morning it was me and someone else. When we went down to the office all the teachers in there were running around trying to listen to the radio and watch the news. At the time i had no idea what just happened and i doubt anyone else did either. I just though it was ironic that out of all times and all people i was the one saying the pledge that day. It really ment alot to me and still does.

Answer 6

I was in 6th grade. I was in my social studies class. My teacher got on the computer and found out about it and turned the tv on. We saw the second plane hit and I thought it was fake, because how would they know when the plane was going to hit? but when my mom came to get me from school, I knew it was serious. I live in Virginia Beach and my middle school was like maybe 10 miles from Little Creek Naval Base in Norfolk and a lot of people thought Little Creek was going to be attacked (it is the largest naval base in the world). It was definitely scary. My uncle lived in New Jersey right across the water from New York and worked in New York right down the street from the World Trade Center, but he moved down here about a month before it happened. Him, my aunt and my cousin would have all died. :(

Answer 7

I was a junior, in Physiology class. The teacher wouldn't turn the tv on because he didn't think it was that important (this was before the second building was hit, we all thought it was an accident). By the time I got to second period the whole school was silent. Since my class didn't watch tv we didn't realize the severity of the situtation.
Class wasn't cancelled, but we watched television for the rest of the day. I remember it being quiet all day and no one wanted to laugh about anything.

Answer 8

I was a junior in high school. My English class was in the library doing reports on "puritans" and our teacher walked up to our table and told us that the World Trade Center had just been attacked. Then the Liberian turned on the TV and all we could see was smoke and we heard the news was talking about planes being flown into buildings.

Answer 9

I was living in South Florida and had just come home from working the graveyard shift. My older daughter had gotten her period that morning and I was trying to calm her down. Meanwhile, her younger sister was already in school. I saw the footage of the North Tower on TV and then my husband called me from work. I told him that I had just heard the World Trade Center had been it and then saw the South Tower being hit on live TV. My younger daughter said that she spent the day sitting in her classroom and saw parents taking their children out of the class and leaving. She had no idea why because nobody at the school would tell her what was going on. Finally my husband left work early and got her out of school. He told her what happened. Meanwhile, I was at home trying to get some sleep before I had to go to work that night. I don't remember getting any sleep at all that day.

Answer 10

I was at work, in a government building. Someone was watching the news on his computer and called us all into his office and we all saw the second plane hit. We were under lock-down for several hours as they put the emergency plan into place. When we were finally allowed to leave, they searched every single car that exited the compound. We were allowed back in after 2 days and security was, and remains very tight. The world changed that day. We all changed that day.

Answer 11

I was in college. I went to my early class and then they suddenly cancelled all classes for the rest of the day and no one knew why. It was wierd. People were saying all kinds of things. One of my friends said she heard it was a bomb threat at the school and someone else said Chinese jets had bombed the Pentagon. I didn't find out what was really going on until I got back to my room and turned on the tv.

My boyfriend (we're married now) came up to my room and we watched the news until the afternoon. We went to the Red Cross to give blood, but they turned us away because they were already at capacity. So we got some pizza and went back to my room and watched the news again until my boyfriend had to go to work. Then my roommate made me go to the library with her and we stayed there until they closed at 11:00 that night.