9-11 Where were you?
 

Where were you on 9-11?

I was working as an assistant manager at the time and didn't know anything about it until around noon when my husband called. My manager was from NY city but it was her day off. She had many friends and cousins who worked in the trade center. Thankfully they were all able to get out.

We were living in California...my husband had just left for work...i turned on the news and watched it happening! I couldnt believe my eyes....i was numb! Still makes me very sad:(

I was sitting at home with my skin kids. Today is my husbands birthday by the way. What a day to share ya bday with huh

I remember well - I had just been laid off due to my company closing and was interviewing and on my way home when I heard the news on the radio about a plane crashing into the towers - then the 2nd hit and all hell broke loose......we stayed glued to the tv for 3 days - it was just unreal and still is.

I was at work and my Mom called and said that a plane had hit the World Trade Towers in NYC. We thought at that time that it was a small plane and then we started getting more calls with more info. My company at the time put 2 TV's in the cafeteria so people could go see the news. I didn't go and watch as I felt I wnated to be home when I saw it, not sure why just didn't want to see the horror until I could process it and not have to go back to my work. One of the bosses, dtr was in the WTC and he was frantic trying to get a hold of her. He finally found out she was ok late that night,

I was at work--I'd started a new job a month prior--and was in our benefits orientation. The building sat on top of a mountain here just outside of Birmingham and you could see all the way to the city. There were still planes in the air that had not been grounded and of course we could see them all from where we were and froze to watch what was going to happen everytime we saw one.

I also remember that Alabama and Southern Miss were supposed to play at that weekend and I had tickets and all college games were cancelled. They rescheduled and played the game the end of November, at Legion Field, at night, in freezing rain and I was already sick as a dog and went anyway.

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We just had our moment of silence. It only lasted for a few seconds, but there was dead silence for like 5 minutes afterwords. I can't believe it's already been 7 years.

I was in 3rd grade. Yup, I was REALLY young, but I still remember it. I think our teacher got a phone call and was told what happened, because immedietly she took us onto the carpet in the corner and was reading stories to us. One by one, all of the kids started getting called down to the office to be signed out. I remember specifically when this girl Nicole was called down, and she was like the 5th person, and we all started laughing really hard. Then I looked at the teacher who was just kind of sitting there. They weren't allowed to tell us what happened - but in my brother's school they turned all the TVs on and watched the news. I wasn't signed out because my parents were in another state at a funeral. There were like 3 kids left at the end of the day.

I don't remember if my parents ever actually told me what happened. I'm sure they did. I don't remember anything about the day as far as leaving school or turning on the news. But I remember when you know...we could all tell that something was going on.

I was walking into my building, and a coworker told me that there was something on the news about the first plane, and they were thinking there might be an air traffic control problem. Then the rest of the horror began unfolding, and all hell broke loose where I work because many of my coworkers are from or have family in New York. One of my bosses was particularly wigged out because she hadn't been able to reach some of her family members once the cell phone networks got all jammed. We spent the day doing very little work and mostly watching the coverage on a couple of TVs in the building. The worst image I remember was seeing the people of Iran dancing in the streets and celebrating and thanking Allah. Disgusting.

I was sitting at my kitchen counter watching the entire thing on the news as it was happening.

I remember taking Phoebi outside for a potty break and fighter jets flying over my house. We could see the actual building burning from the top of a hill around here.

What a horrible day that was.

I had requested that day off and when i turned on the TV and saw it on the news. I got in the car took my mom and went to pick up my nephew at school, his school was not close to the world trade center at all.

But when i got to his school there was chaos with parents trying to pick up their kids.

We were all safe but my sis was working in the city and had to walk alot and over a bridge to get home :(.

My condolences to all those who lost someone, even for all who didnt today is a day of rememberance!

Sad Day
 

I was on my way home after dropping off the little boy I was babysitting at school. I heard about the first plane on the Radio. Turned on the TV as soon as I got home. Then saw the second one hit. What a horrible, horrible day that was and the days that followed.

I was sitting at the circulation desk in the elementary school library that i worked in. I remember seeing the news flash on CNN and then we turned on the TV - I can remember feeling weak and sick and so very scared. I sat at my desk glued to the computer reading updates with tears streaming down my face.

I had just dropped my daughter off at school- 1st grade and came home and turned on the news. What an awful, terrifying day! It was also my 8th wedding anniversary- today is my 15th. A sad day for a wedding anniversary, huh?

I was in the 10th grade in French class. I lived in a small town by Buffalo, NY so a lot of kids I went to school with knew people that lived in NYC. It was horrible and the teachers weren't really allowed to tell us anything. It was a very sad day.

I was a senior in high school and remember being in science class and one of the other teachers came in and told out teacher to turn on the tv. He said we were in the middle of a lesson and the other teacher told him he thinks he should turn it on now. Everyone was in shock and we really didn't know what was going on at first. One of the foreign exchange students from Italy was siting next to me and I remember explaining it to her because she did not understand what was going on.

Isn't it funny how you can remember specific moments like this? (My Mom can tell me what she was doing when JFK and when MLK were killed.) Sad and scary.

I was in class, my 10th grade AP European History class. I had no idea anything was happening until I went to my next class, Spanish, and some guys were talking about it. They were totally idiots and so the teacher thought they were joking. To prove them wrong she turned the TV on and the timing was unfortunate enough that we saw the live feed of the second plane.

My Mom picked me up from school that day. The whole family sat in the house together. Sometimes it takes horrific moments to make you take thought and gather what means the most.

We were living and working in VA beach. I was at work and my hubby had just turned on his computer and saw the headline. I turned on a radio and heard about the 2nd plane. I left work early and was calling my family. I have 4 brothers who work in lower Manhattan. We could not get a hold of 2 of them. My sil finally got a hold of my brother after 4 hours-he is police. We finally got hold of the other brother after awhile. I was glued to the tv for the next few days.

It was very eery, we worked by the naval base and everything was locked down.

My husband and I were at his Aunt's funeral. We were standing in the funeral home getting ready to leave when his cousin came in crying and told us. Her husband is a civilian worker at the Pentagon and she and her sister left right then to drive back to Virginia. After the funeral we all went back to his Uncle's house and just stood around the tv crying. I was the president of the school board and I was on the phone with the superintendant throughout the day. We had many students who had family members working at the WTC. Luckily they all made it home that day.

Sadly, my sister's dear friend lost her brother. His story made the news because his wife had just had a baby and he'd taken two weeks off. He went back to work 9/10.

God bless all those who's lives were forever altered by 9/11.

And, yes, Megan, we did all sit down and talk about it. I'm kind of glad you were too young to comprehend the significance of what happened.

I was at my condo in Florida, vacuuming, when my neighbor called and told me. Two years ago, I was able to visit Ground Zero and was looking at all of the names of the people that were killed. I saw a particular name...it was an unusual name...so I knew it was a boy I went to High School with on Long Island many years before. I researched it and found out that it was him. RIP Jon.

I had just taken Lauryn to school and was on my way to work when on the radio is said a plane struck the towers. I got to work, turned on the tv and watched all the news coverage. I was actually watching the coverage as the 2nd plane hit. I remember thinking...omg we are under attack. I was numb and in total shock. Heart broken!! After the 3rd plane hit, I told myself if one more plane hits somewhere, I was going to pick Lauryn up from school and bring her home. I too watched the news coverage for weeks and weeks afterwards. I remember the first sunday at church after it happened everyone was numb and sad. We prayed and prayed, held our families tight, thought alot about what really matters.

My heart goes out to all the families who lost there loved ones, all the kids that came home that day to no parents, wives who lost there husbands, husbands who lost there wives, etc. I still can't imagine what that day was like being there in the mist of it all. It was painful enough watching from home. Still to this day, when 911 rolls around I wonder will something else happen today, Have we let our guards down, and what is next.

This world is a sad sad place and keeps getting worse.:(:(:(

I was at work at an Ad agency in Boston. Our building sat right across the inlet from Logan Airport and each day I sat at my window and watched the planes take off over our building.

My bosses wife called and said a plane hit the WTC...I thought she meant Boston's WTC and I was like no it didn't I'm looking at the WTC and she said NY. I turned on my radio (we didn't have a tv in the office) and was listening as it unfolded. I remember hearing the DJ screaming as the second plane hit the second tower. I had a crowd around my desk. The news kept coming there were more planes and we watched holding our breath as plane after plane flew over our heads to land at Logan.

My Mom worked at American Express travel in Cambridge so I called and told them the news there. They lost 4 clients on those flights out of Boston.

I remember once all the planes landed it was so eery as the fighter jets went screaming by patrolling the skies over Boston. When the Pentagon was hit I new life had changed forever as we knew it.

Never forget that day and never forget, whether you support our president or the war in Iraq, that our troops are in harms way every day trying to prevent this war on terrorism from taking place here on our soil. Better there than here.

We were at a funeral. Then after the funeral we were at our families traditional after-funeral get together and the Priest was there and said "we must pray for New York". And everyone agreed that "yes.. we must"... after we prayed, I asked someone "Why are we praying for New York?".. and we were told. We were so shocked. We hadn't turned on the tv or listened to the radio yet that morning so we had no idea til the Priest mentioned it. We drove home afterwards with radio on listening in eery shock to the horrible details. We felt like we were in another world.

I was @work. The receptionist, a very good friend, was across the hall from my office. She'd heard the news & told me a plane had hit a NY building. It only registered @first that it was sad that lives were lost, & that it was probably a terrible accident, but no one could imagine the horror & devastation that was about to unfold. I watched it on the internet. Many employees gathered in the sales area to watch on tv. It's very emotional to hear the stories from those of you who were in NY that day. God Bless All who were forever changed and especially those who lost friends, loved ones on that sad day!:2hearts2::flag42:

I was sitting behind my computer in the exact same spot where I am now.
My office faces the Hudson River and I am 20mins outside of NYC.
The radio sits on my desk. I heard the music stop and an announcer frantically stated that a plane just went into the World Trade Ctr. OMG
we all screamed.
My daughter was watching TV when the newscast came on. She called
me crying and it seemed like seconds she screamed again saying another
just crashed into the second tower! Now panic sets in. She's hysterical
and says Fran, her girfriend from college, works on the 12th fl of that bldg!
MY SIL was out of town and everyone was frantic thinking this is it.
When we realize it terrorist's I just wanted to get to my daughter and her
new baby girl, my granddaughter. I left work immediately, being told I will have to take a vacation day, like I cared! I had to cross a major bridge to get there and prayed across it. I figured if this was it I was going to go with my family. We were glued to the TV for days.
Her girlfriend Fran got out in time. Her husband waiting outside praying she
get's out. He worked in the first tower.
It's so hard to relive this nightmare every year but it will
never go away, never.
Crossing the bridge on the way home the tower's we're gone! I could always
see them crossing the bridge on a clear day. All I saw was black smoke for
miles.

I was sitting @ my desk @ work. Not the same spot as now. We have moved the office since. My office manager's mother called and told us. We had no TV to turn on, just the radio. The owner was away on business and the owner's son & DIL were on their honeymoon. The owner's wife who worked here @ the time also, came in and called her husband. He so kindly said we could go home for the day. I went home and watched the TV news coverage the rest of the afternoon and evening.

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I was having a false labor, pregnant with my youngest son. That's the only reason i saw the second plane crash live. I was up at 5 a.m. with contractions expecting to have to go to the hospital soon, turned the tv on just as the news showed the second plane. At first look, I was like is this the news?? OR Movie?? I couldn't believe what i was seeing.

I'm a flight attendant with United Airlines....I was on a layover and a flying partner woke me up and was screaming into the phone "Turn on the TV, turn on the TV" and she hung up. I turned on the TV and witnessed the 2nd plane hit the tower!! It was surreal. Then I found out that they were American and United planes and felt even worse. I was stuck on my layover for 4 days and my husband and family were so worried. The planes were grounded and we couldn't get home. Obviously, that day changed my life, my work life has never been the same. My profession has changed forever and our focus on terrorism can overwhelm me. I still love my job but will forever hate the terrorists who killed all those innocent people and have put the rest of us in a state of high alert forever.

i was sitting at my desk in an office building when the news broke..
they rushed us out of the building because we us. customs was also
in with us.. figuring that was another target.. as we all fled the building,
looking towards nyc, we saw the other tower collapse.. terrible day it was
lost a cousin ...

i was sitting at my desk in an office building when the news broke..
they rushed us out of the building because we us. customs was also
in with us.. figuring that was another target.. as we all fled the building,
looking towards nyc, we saw the other tower collapse.. terrible day it was
lost a cousin ...

Going to grab some like at a hotel convention. Walked past the piano bar and saw the news :(