Where were you on 9/11?
 

I was at work at my desk in Colorado, when my sister called and sai "Quick!!Turn on a tv--a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center!:

I could not believe my eyes.

Today brings it all back to me..

Rest in Peace..:eek:

i was in school and they turned on all the tv's and put the news on :(

Normally, I would have been at work, and there are only a couple of TVs in the whole building, so I wouldn't have been able to see much of the coverage. However, on this particular 9/11, I was at home taking care of my granddaughter who was sick and couldn't go to school. Thus, I was completely glued to the TV. It was so surreal, I couldn't believe my eyes!!!:(

I worked at our local university and at the time, I was filling in at one of the dorm offices. Students came running out of their rooms and the dining hall, so all the tv's were turned on. No one could believe it! It was horrible!!! The phone swtich boards got locked up because of the calls coming in and going out!

At lunch, I had to run errands and everyone must have thought about what would happen next (gas prices going up, bank problems, groceries, etc) because every gas station was packed (lines and lines of cars waiting for gas), the bank was packed (I guess people taking out cash) and the local Wal-Mart was packed (maybe people stocking up on groceries). So awful!

Rest in Peace and May God Bless and Protect our Country!

I was working Midtown Manhattan...I remember going up to our floor and everyone in the lobby watching tv...Only 1 plane had hit at the time...All of a sudden we were watching the screen and there goes the 2nd plane...Everyone jaws dropped...I ran to my office phone, because my sister worked 2 blocks from the Trade Center...I couldnt get in touch with her, so I panicked! I tried calling my mom (who was at work) and she was panicking too...Finally I got my sister who had to run with her co-workers out of the area into a bar...OMG it was one scary day...

NYC was on lock-down...It took me 6 hours to get home that day..It usually takes me an hour on the train...

I remember finally getting on the train and seeing what was left of the towers up in smoke :(

It is something I will never forget

I was on my way to Delanco, NJ to visit a friend to see her new litter of pups. I had howard stern on the radio (I dont usually listen to him) and heard about a plane crashing into the WTC. I called Mike at work and said to him what I had heard he had the same thing on and said this cant be real, upon listening to the radio I had heard another place crashed. I sat at my friends all day long watching it on tv with her. She lives near a base and all day long you heard fighter jets flying overhead. On my way home on 295 the road was completly empty and signs on the road saying all roads to NYC are closed

Doctor's office getting a pregancy test.
 

after arguing I had my tubes tied in the Navy in 98. and couldn't get preggers. so why waste my time and thiers on that. after all I was just sick all week with the flu. I remember getting the results back and being on the phone with my husband hearing the nurses screaming about CNN and the Towers, and what was once my favorite place to go when I lived in DC. and I had had some Dear friends that still worked in those offices.

God Hold John,Mealline and Alice. God Hold Ya.


Only Good that came of that day was I found out my daughter Abigail Marie was to be born. that's all.

I remmebr calling my xCo and trying like all mad to find out who died if anyone I knew and what the hell was going on. and anger terrible anger. I was more mad at what happened at the Pentagon and NY,than what happened to me. innocents. hearing the innocent dying,hurt murdered.

Mad me more mad and angery than I ever felt before. getting shot by a crook is one thing it's a game of cops and robbers and the good guy doesn't always win. but this wasn't something that could be controled atleast not by us. Hell I had a gun adn shot back.... they had nothing. nothing.

made no sense. and the stuff of nightmares.

God Have Mercy on those who left this world that day.



sorry all this is depressing and one of the many reasons I don't watch TV or the news on this day.













sometimes the good guys lose.

I had just started a new job a month prior. I was at a benefits orientation in a room that was on top of a mountain where you could see (far off) the whole city...and every plane in the sky prior to them being grounded. We all stopped and sat and watched the planes flying for about 30 minutes I guess.

I was off for a few days and was sitting on the edge of the bed, drinking some milk, and Muffin was lounging around on the bed, too. I already had the TV on CNN watching the news when they broke in with that report.

I was at work sitting at my desk with my eyes glued to the compuer screen. I watched the tragedythrough tears, live on my computer.

I was in false labor. I was up early in the morning watching the news while I was having contractions.
It was unbelievable to see the second plane crash. I will never ever forget that image.

OH wow...you right there then....:( :(
I can't imagine what you and all those other people were thinking.
Such a sad, sad day. Hugs to you and thinking of everyone that was there, and those who lost someone.....

I think today is also a reminder that we are ALL still Americans and must stand together....UNITED!

I was driving my daughter to work, and we heard it on the radio. I just didn't think it was an accident. When I got home, I turned on the TV and they were still saying it might have been an accident, then the second tower was hit. Next thing I knew, the Pentagon was hit. It was so shocking to actually see these events live as they happened.

I was playing with my then 3 year old daughter when my Mom called and told me to turn on the TV...I knew right away it wasnt an accident and was freaking out when all of the sudden the second plane crashed...it was so devistating and scary. I wanted to go get my boys at school but didnt. Such a horrible tragedy...I cried on the way to take the kids to school when they were having a moment of silence on the radio....

Dawn

I was at work, when someone said "turn your radio's on" the twin towers are on fire.

Wasn't long before we found out it wasn't a fire.

I was really concerned about working next door to the city/county complex, and really wanted to leave. I think they should have let everyone off work that day.

Watching the news, brought tears to me even now, 5 years later.

I was at work in Huntsville Alabama. I worked for the government and we had people in DC close to the pentagon.... it was a day I'll never forget.

We were on vacation in Wyoming and got up early to go golfing when we saw it live on TV. Our flight canceled, we later had to take a 40 hour bus ride to California to attend a wedding. I still remember stopping at every town to buy a newspaper or listen to the news. We also kept staring at the sky to see if planes were allowed in the air yet.

I was watching CNBC (was doing a lot of stock trading at the time). Remember, thinking after the first plane hit - Oh, I wonder how that could have happened and then just panic after the second one hit and I realized with the world what had happened. Never thought this would occur on our own soil! I can only imagine how the people of New York felt.

I came in late to school that day I was in third grade and saw that everyone in the whole school was watching tv even kindergarteners!! My mom freaked out when I told her because alot of the littler kids such as my sister were scared and balling their eyes out!! They kept asking if we were going to get hit by a plane too!! My mom so so furious that we moved within the next couple of days!! I totally understand that it's very crutial to our society now a days but for little five and six year olds to watch people jumping out of a building and watching them fall to their death was horriffic!! My condolences to anyone who lost someone on that faitful day!!

We lived in Brooklyn, NY at the time- I was home in bed, trying to get some more sleep after dropping my daughter off in school. My husband was online and that is when he read that a plane hit the first tower. He comes to tell me and I'm thinking yea right, he just wants to get me out of bed!
Eventually he put on the radio loud and I jumped up, I couldnt believe it. We lived in a 2family house, so we ran upstairs to my parents and continued to watch it live on TV. Suddenly plane 2 hit, we were all in shock. I started to panick, no one knew why, if more was to come and if it was an attack.

We rushed to get my daughter out of school early. I wanted to be sure she was with me. My brother works not too far from the towers so we made sure he was okay, he was and he actually video taped some of it. My sister and her husband are NYPO so we found out they too were not at that location at that time. We didnt lose anyone we knew but I couldnt help but feel a great sense of loss and anger.

I definately cried alot when we walked around the area a few days after, my heart ached for everyone, people crying all around you, posters all over with pictures of missing people, candles and flowers. Along with that was lots of debris, smoke that lasted for days and even a bad smell.

I remember it so clearly. I was on my sofa under a blanket watching television. I had a cold and I was miserable. When it came on the air and I was taking it all in as to what was actually happening my phone started ringing, first my mom, then my hubby and many others. It was a horrid feeling I remember and I also remember getting so angry. My heart goes out to all those who suffered the loss of a loved one at the hands of the terrorists. I still can't believe this really happened sometimes when I think about it. My heart also goes out to the families (of) and the individuals who are fighting to this day to prevent this from ever happening again. Hats off to you guys. You give the greatest sacrafice for us all to be able to sit here and type away in peace at our little computers and go about our daily lives raising our families, and I NEVER forget that.

I was in Algebra class at school..........we were sent home and the borders were shut down. I lived in Yuma, Az at the time.

i was starting my 1st day in the communications field... sitting in orientation and watching it on tv... and then saw the 2nd plane hit! we were on "lock-down" immediately it was a scary 1st day... everyone calling in was crying and some employees knew people in the pentagon
i will never forget that morning but then again i am sure most people wont...

It was the scariest day of my life...
 

I was at work in downtown Brooklyn just off the Brooklyn Bridge. A co-worker heard the news on the radio and we put on a small tv set in the office and everyone gathered around. We saw the whole thing unfold live in the news. We were all so shocked after the towers collapsed that everyone started running out of the office to go home and check on their families. One of the most vivid memories I have of that day are the people I saw when I walked outside. People were covered in soot and debris. They were fleeing Manhattan on foot over the bridge and they were all covered with dust. At the time, I was so shocked that this didn't register with me and I wondered what all of that was. People were walking like zombies. There were thousands of people in the streets but you could hear a pin drop. I felt like my whole world was collapsing around me. I have never been so scared in all my life. There was no mass transit running that day so I walked for 3 hours to get home. I visited Ground Zero a few weeks after. It was the most devastating thing I have ever seen. There were mountains of steel and debris as far as the eye could see. You would get off the train and the first thing that would hit you was the stench of burn and death. That smell is forever tattooed in my memory. I was lucky that I didn't lose anyone that day, but I felt like I lost a part of myself. My beautiful city was violated and I felt like all that I had ever known and felt secure about was taken away from me. I still get emotional about it to this day. God bless all the heroes and innocent people that died that day.

i think i just had got to work at jfk airport. my co workers were outside looking towards nyc at the smoke. the first plane had already hit...by that time, the whole building was outside not knowing what the heck is going on.
all in a panick...when we finally realized it was a terror attack , we really panicked cause we were in the same building as us customs and federal agents sooooooooooo, thats a target right there... finallly they stopped all
air traffic, not a plane to be seen, very cold and calm and sickening, remember i work at jfk a/p and i hear planes every minute, this was sick and scary.. they sent us all home and that night i heard the fighter jets fly over my house, amazing.... also that night i took a walk to the beach, a block away and out in the far ocean their were barges, boats all lined up for miles
protecting us soil............it was some scene, brought chills to everyone...

I was sleeping in and hubby called and told me to go turn on the tv. I remember i went to the living room and turned it on, watched it a moment then went back to bed. Hubby called again and asked me if i had seen it, i said ok there was a plane crash so what. After hanging up, i realized the importance and went and watched the tv the rest of the day. So much for waking me up from a sound sleep.

I was home getting ready for work, my dad came in and told me what happened. It was like unreal. We were watching when the second plane it, I was shocked. It was like no way did I just see that, then they collapased. I was like oh my God. The signficance of the events still hadn't really registered though. It was like i was in disbelief. I went to work, we talked about it all day, etc.

It wasn't until later that evening or the next day as the turn of events were being reported that I really realized what had happened and the significance of it all.

i stayed home from school that day so i knew b4 my friends who were at school i really didnt understand it at first as well as i do now!

I was at work and remember one of by bosses called to tell me that a plane had hit one of the towers at the Trade Center. We had a TV in the office so we were all sitting there and right before our eyes we saw the second plane hit. My mother worked right across the street from the trade center, my heart dropped when I was calling her to see if she was ok...luckily though she stayed home from work that day. They let us out early from work, and my normal 20 minute ride home had become 3 hours because they closed the expressway and the northern state. Days later, just like Gina was saying I took a ride down to Long Beach and saw all the huge boats that were lined up just protecting our shore line, what an erie feeling it was to see something like that so close to home. A few days later I went down to ground zero, never prepared for what I would see there. Poster and posters from family members looking for the lost. It was so quiet there, flowers everywhere, people crying and the smoke still rising from the burning towers. The unfortunate tragedy is something most won't forget, especially those who live here. This was our home.

What a tragic day, R.I.P to all the poor people that lost their lives that day, and my prayers for those who lost relatives/friends/co-workers. :(

I was actually on holiday in st.cyprien (south france), all around the campsite people were shouting and talking,it was chaos. we knew something was wrong, but didnt understand their language.

We went to te bar and saw it on the frech news chanel, but again didnt understand the language, just understood the horrific images infront of us.

I called my mum back in england and she told me what had happened, a day i will never forget. :thumbdown