September 11, 2001 - where were you?

[Kirby]

8th grade math

 

[randal]

I had been at my folks house while my vacation winded down. I had just finished getting dressed, and I came upstairs and my mom said "Randy you have to watch this. Come here." So I walked over and was aghast that the WTC was on fire. It wasn't 3 minutes later that I watched, on their 13" brown-box ancient little television, the second plane hit. I cannot describe the dread that welled up inside me.

We sat in stunned silence for a long while.

 

[smut]

Was visiting an ex girlfriend in Hoboken, NJ when the planes hit!

 

[eakers]

I was in class and had no idea anything happened. I came out of class and saw huge crowds of people gathered around the televisions in the university center. I went over and had a look and saw what happened. Grabbed some breakfast, came back and saw the second plane hit. Watched a bit longer, saw the hit pentegon. Went to class, came back and saw they were bombing the airport in afghanistan.

The rest of the day was hearing people freak out about the start of world war 3.

 

[dartworth]

 

[intogamer]

4Th grade

 

[Pepsi90919]

i was in sheard's math class when he announced 'someone's flying planes into the world trade center' and turned on the tv

 

[TallBill]

In my dorm room in Newark, New Jersey accross the river. Watched part of the ordeal from the rooftops. Soon after all phones went down and we got locked into the dorms.

 

[d3n]

Andrews AFB, MD Hooking up comms for NAOC inbound from NB and watching the 1st Heli do its thing.

 

[Eeezee]

At your mother's house, giving her a good time. That's right, we were playing Scrabble.

Seriously, it was 5 years ago and it's time for us to move on. Everywhere I'm go I'm being told to "remember 9/11." Those who want to remember it will. Those who are prepared to move on will. Commanding me to remember it is not going to do anything significant except piss me off (not at the terrorists, but at the asshat carrying the "remember 9/11" sign or bumper sticker).

That event will forever hold its impact on some people, and on others it's just a distant memory. Nothing will change that. It's time to move on.

Not meant to be a flame on the OP, but the thread did remind me that I can't walk 5 feet without bumping into another "remember 9/11" sign.

 

[spidey07]

Eeezee,

never forget. Don't you dare dismiss an attack on our soil as you are.

never forget. I'm sorry you don't see the signficance.

 

[dmcowen674]

x 2996

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 VICTIMS

wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_attacks

FDNY Blood of Heroes

NY City Police Foundation.org/heroesRemembering 911

 

[fierydemise]

I was up early finishing an essay on how the government makes me feel safe

 

[xtknight]

I was in sixth grade at lunch time when it happened (well I was unaware about it until lunch, rather). I still had no clue exactly what went on until I got home. They didn't turn on the TVs or anything. I was too young to know how to comprehend it at the time.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

I was at John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport; just said goodbye to my grandmother. My grandmother had just boarded her flight which was delayed for about an hour. (Pre-9/11 still could walk all the way to the gate terminal and say goodbye). Walked out of the terminal and drove out to pay for parking I had just driven out of the parking lot when Z-100 the radio station announced that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I was like wow Z-100 going to news. I first though it was just a small plane. Kept driving home and got home to watch the news just see that the second plane hitting the second tower. At that point my mother and myself had as well probably everyone realized that this was no accident. We immediately left the house and return to JFK to see if my grandmothers? plane had taken off. It took about another 20 minutes to get to JFK and it was just mayhem. When we got to JFK the airport was being evacuated. Roadblocks where being put in place and we weren?t allow to go back in. We just waited and finally my grandmother came out of the airport and we told her what just happened. My grandmother had heard rumors from some people on the plane that had radios. My grandmother had started talking to a gentleman in the plane and he was with her when they came out. He had nowhere to go because he lives in New Jersey; we offer him a ride to our house to wait. As we rushed back to the parking lot to leave the first tower came down and you could feel the tremble all the way to JFK. We got in the car and started to drive out of JFK and security just wanted everyone out that they waived the parking fees. Just ?go?go?, they said. From the JFK parkway you could see the smoke that was spewing into the air. We drove home and heard the news on the radio and how the bridges were being closed and New York City was going into a lockdown and all planes in the United States where being told to land. As we got home all we could do was watch the news and then word came that the Pentagon had been hit also. As the day went on we learned about the hijacking of the planes, the crash in Pennsylvania and that it was a terrorist attack.

Five years later it is still very hard to watch the videos and remember.

 

[amol]

I was in middle school. I live just outside of Los Angeles, so the attacks occurred just before 6AM here. My dad was watching television and he was flipping through channels at around 5:50AM and every channel showed the first tower. At first, he thought it was a segment about a movie, but after more than 2 channels were showing it, he figured out it was either an attack or a huge accident. He went upstairs, woke me up, and I was down. I sat down and a couple of minutes later, we saw the second plane.

My sister was a freshman at The George Washington University at the time (she had been there about 3 weeks) and since she didn't have Tuesday classes, she would use those days to go out and see Washington, D.C. My family was afraid that she had been visiting the Pentagon and so we tried calling her but the phones didn't work. However, we did get a call at around 7:40AM our time and said she was fine, but she was a little jittered since she could see the Pentagon from her dorm window. We proceeded to call her roommates' parents, one from Oklahoma, and the other from New York City. The latter roommate's father worked in the Trade Center and she was having trouble reaching him, but somehow, we got through to a landline in New Jersey and found out he was fine and relayed the message to my sister via e-mail.

I still had to go to school. I was late by about 5 minutes. The first 20 minutes of school was a reading period where all students read a book of their choice. During this time, the teacher would listen to NPR on the front speakers (it was the band room). He turned on and started hearing about the attacks for the first time and the whole class' collective jaws (at least for those who hadn't heard) hit the floor.

I remember one period, my history period, my teacher was out the entire time trying to call his sister's cell phone, since she was an American Airlines flight attendant who did transcontinental flights. Luckily, he found out that her flight was a BOS-SFO flight that left around the same time as the BOS-LAX flight that eventually hit the tower.

 

[Wheezer]

I got woke up after working a 12 hour shiift, I ran out to the TV jkust in time to see the second plane hit....sad day indeed.

 

[Dualist]

I was a junior in high school when it all happen, then that's when someone came in on the loudspeaker to tell everyone to watch the tragic event on television. I shall never forget that day.

 

[Chaotic42]

At work at McDonald's in D'Iberville, MS.

We heard that it was a military attack. One of the customers said that China did it. I tried to get my manager to let us go home, but he wouldn't.

 

[nonnormman]

I was in 8th grade, half asleep in my 3rd period gym class, but I didn't really realize how serious the event was until I got home.

 

[chcarnage]

It was already afternoon and I was working for an IT project and surfing a bit in the WWW. Since I don't listen to radio in my office I heard about it in the forum of my clan. After quitting time I went home and learned about the rest in the evening newscast.

 

[Vegitto]

Oh, I dare .

I came home from school.. Put on the TV while getting out of my coat. I stood there for a good hour with my coat half-on.

 

[mrizvi66]

in bed...got up to check if class was cancelled...and saw that it was and finally figured out that this is pretty important and that i should watch tv...then went to work...

 

[Bull Dog]

Well I was 13 and I had just gotten up and I overheard something about the world trade centers, a terrorist attack, and falling buildings on my Dad's radio. I was homeschooled so I didn't have to worry about school that day. We don't own a TV so I tuned into NPR to catch more news. I was really too young to understand the gravity of the situation.

Looking back, I'll never forgive NPR for brainwashing me into thinking that the U.S. shouldn't respond to the terrorist attackes.............. (ignore this comment, I do not want this thread to get political)