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September 11th, 2001: Where were you?

I was getting ready for school, when I was watching the TV with my mum, and instead of the usual morning weather, it was the news coverage.
School was still in session although there were only about 3 other people in my classes.. I still remember how silent the school was, every room had their TV on and no one was paying attention.
This was when I lived in California.
 
I was getting ready to head to class in Austin. I walked out the door before the second plane hit, still thinking it was an accident. My professor cancelled class that morning and we all ended up in the student union watching everything unfold.
 
I was in 8th grade. We heard the rumors during lunch. Around 11am as I remember.

The weirdest thing I remember was that the next day the teachers were forbidden to discuss the events.
 
I was at work, consulting at a nursing home.

Saw something on one of the resident's TV, but didn't pay much attention. After time with a resident, one of the nurses told me that something bad had happened in NY.

Went to check on resident's TV between appointments. :(
 
It's amazing that's it's going to be 10 years already. It doesn't feel like that. But to put it in prospective, the original iPod wasn't even announced yet. It was announced more than a month after the attacks, and it feels like the iPod has been out forever.

I am volunteer firefighter here on Long Island. I know what it feels like to wear all that equipment, and I find it amazing that those firefights in FDNY climbed all those stairs with all that gear on.

Never forget the 343.
 
I was on holiday in New York at the time.

To mark the 10th anniversary next Sunday, by sheer coincidence, I am flying from Frankfurt to London on flight BA911.
 
I had just got married in San Francisco on September 9th. We were eating the rest of our wedding cake in the hotel room watching the news.
 
I was 14 yrs old in California.having breakfast at home when my grandmother called and told me to turn on the TV. By the time I did it was 7 AM pacific so both towers and the pentagon had already been hit, and the south had just fallen. I went to school roughly an hour later, and continued to watch coverage in different places around campus. It was one of the most eerie days of school I have ever experienced.
 
Lots of youngsters!

Just got off work ( worked graves). The first plane had already hit. Saw the second one live. Finally went to bed around noon pacific time. Went to work that night. Not a single store was open. Even the local am/pm and 7-11's closed for the night. Very eerie.
 
Was at school, in Santiago, Chile. There, I studied at an american school. Suddenly, we all got called out of class and taken to the gym, where there was a projector screen set up tuned on CNN International. I was only 6 at the time, I didn't really understand what was going on until a few weeks after it happened.
 
In high school speech & debate, watchine the debate team cycle through tv channels because "nobody cares about this ****."

Of course, the following tournament was all "I was traumatized by the sight of it" ********.

Ugh.
 
I was in the second tower that was hit. I was on the lobby waiting for the elevator to get to my office which was on the 72nd floor. As the elevator door opened, i heard a loud bang. I quickly evacuated and went home which is about 9 miles away. It was scary. Good thing i was late for work that day due to my son having a dentist appointment.
 
Working at Citigroup in Weehawken NJ along the waterfront-maybe 3 miles from ground zero, Saw the 2nd plane hit. A sad day :apple:
 
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Holy ****, man. Is everyone here under 15 or something? I was still in the Navy at the time. The day after, I had watch at the Port Operations Tower dispatch. Took 4 hours to make it through the front gate of NOB.
 
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AbyssImpact said:
I was in the second tower that was hit. I was on the lobby waiting for the elevator to get to my office which was on the 72nd floor. As the elevator door opened, i heard a loud bang. I quickly evacuated and went home which is about 9 miles away. It was scary. Good thing i was late for work that day due to my son having a dentist appointment.
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Whoa. That totally shook me.
 
AbyssImpact said:
I was in the second tower that was hit. I was on the lobby waiting for the elevator to get to my office which was on the 72nd floor. As the elevator door opened, i heard a loud bang. I quickly evacuated and went home which is about 9 miles away. It was scary. Good thing i was late for work that day due to my son having a dentist appointment.
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So glad you made it out alive!
 
Pulled an extra long shift in the hospital that night for the cash. Was just working in the operating room, was still in college. Only had like 2-3 weeks left until school started up and was trying to work as much as I could. Was in the break room and saw it on CNN or some news program. Saw the second plane hit live on tv.

Busy week. People though more attacks were going to happen since we were a trauma center hospital. Being in Oregon I felt rather safe. Did allow me to work as much as I wanted that week.
 
AbyssImpact said:
I was in the second tower that was hit. I was on the lobby waiting for the elevator to get to my office which was on the 72nd floor. As the elevator door opened, i heard a loud bang. I quickly evacuated and went home which is about 9 miles away. It was scary. Good thing i was late for work that day due to my son having a dentist appointment.
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When I read this chills ran throughout my body. You are one fortunate person. You never really know how lucky you are until something like this happens to you.

As for me I was in 5th grade at school when it happened. I didn't see any news or any coverage of it until I got home. At first I didn't think it was real, I thought it was a movie or something. Looking back at that devastation saddens me.
 
I was walking around Lakeside Mall in New Orleans early in the morning, when I saw a huge group of people standing around the Circuit City Express store. I wandered over, and was just dumbstruck watching what was happening on TV.

I probably stood there for 20-30 minutes, then raced out to the car to get home, and sat in front of the TV for the next several days (I was in between jobs at that time.)

About a year later, I was manager of a bar, and we had a bartender who was from NYC. The TV was reporting the first anniversary of the attack, and showing images. He said, "Hey man, I gotta turn this off, I saw it live, and I really don't feel like reliving that." Wow, really shook me to be in the same place with an eyewitness...
 
I was asleep. I was at university at the time and the first person that I ran into, right after getting up, told me that the WTC had been destroyed. It didn't really register at that early hour.

It wasn't until I'd "woken up" that someone else told me that it was a terrorist attack. The guy in the next room from mine was American and he probably took at the hardest. I don't know whether he had friends or family in New York though (he was from Cleveland).
 
I was in my final year of high school over here in the UK.... sitting in class nearing the end of the day when a friend told me a plane had crashed into the WTC... we stupidly joked about some 'idiotic pilot' of a small plane, my teacher overheard us an let us know it was a passenger plane!

We listened to the radio for the rest of the class.

I remember spending the rest of the evening watching the news with my now wife and mother in law.... My mother in law panicking that World War 3 was coming and that I would be going to War.

That is a birthday I will never forget, that's for sure!!!
 
I had just started 8th grade (so I was 12, almost 13, we have a different class system). School was out, I was at the mall hanging out with a buddy of mine. Saw the first tower collapse on a TV there. Went home and watched until I got to bed.


Strange thing was, a few years earlier I stood on the helipad of one of the towers. Maybe it wasn't even as much as a year earlier.

Also, I remember hearing that a friend of mine was supposed to visit the towers that day, but overslept.
 
I was in Year 11, I think. We had assembly that day and I think it was happening then, there was one more lesson until home time. Nobody was talking about it on the bus home. I got in and my parents and my grandfather were crowded round the kitchen TV watching the news.

Can't remember being shocked or anything. All I really remember was my girlfriend coming into school with a red-white-blue scrunchy in her hair.
 
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