Where were you on 9/11

[Goobergal99]

Every generation seems to have it's shocking moment (or as Oliver Stone calls it "defining moment" )My mom still remembers exactly where she was when Kennedy was shot. Sitting in her 4th grade classroom when the nun came in crying and told all of the kids that class was being dismissed because the president had been shot. My grandfather always told me his recollection of where he was on December 7th 1941 (Pearl harbor)

So it got me thinking with the 5 year anniversary fast approaching.. where were you on September 11th 2001.

I remember it like it was yesterday, it was my second week of sophomore year in college. My DH (then DBF) was sleeping as he had just got home from working the night shift washing dishes at a resturaunt (oh how far we have come ) I was downstairs at the computer writing a paper for Nursing 101 and my DD was propped in front of the TV eating cereal and watching playhouse Disney (she was 2 at the time, and yes I know shame on me for using the TV as a babysitter but Hey! I needed to get that License!! ) In any case, the phone suddenly rang and my mom was on the other line calling from work. The conversation went something like this:

Mom:"Hey.... are you watching the news"

ME:"Nope, I am writing a paper that's due tonight"

Mom:"Well a plane just hit the WTC"

So I switched the channel,much to my daughters dismay and just as I did I saw a plane hit the building

Me:"Oh I see mom, they are replaying it"

Mom:"Oh my God! no there not, that was another plane"

and sure enough as I looked closer and saw the smoke billowing out of both buildings I realized that she was right.....

So where were you?

 

[imsorry]

I had just arrived at work - in NYC. I don't really want to think about it too much................

 

[kimmikayb]

I was driving to work when I turned the first of the news on. We turned the tv on at work and nobody worked the rest of the day. I remember it like yesterday.

 

[akhenaten]

I had just arrived at work - in NYC. I don't really want to think about it too much................

I'm With you Imsorry...
I live just outside of NYC and it was the day after my Dear Dads' funeral.

I don't want to think about it either............
I will NEVER forget but don't want to relive it either....

 

[oxfordcircus]

In a closet of an office at work. I check a message board and thought the plane must have been a small one, till there was a post about the second plane. I got to the tv to see the first tower fall.

 

[AuntieM03]

I was at work listening to the radio when the first plane hit. I went to the kitchen and turned on the news just as the second plane was hitting. I spent most of the day in the kitchen watching the news.

 

[RealMickeysGirl]

I was at work. Checking the news headlines - one of the things I do in the mornings (you know how it is, check email, check messages, quick check of headlines on news website, go on with work).

The whole morning seems kind of surreal. After the first plane hit, I went down to the conference room that has a tv. It was turned to cnn and they were showing tapes of the first plane hitting and then the second plane hitting. I just stood there kind of numb.

Then the buildings collapsed and we had to go on with our day. Our work couldn't stop even though something major had just happened.

 

[SplshMtn99]

MGM Studios at WDW. And from our pictures & video time stamps....either enjoying Rock n Roller Coaster or Tower of Terror. We had NO IDEA!!!!!

 

[cardaway]

At work. A co-worker with a radio at his desk stood up and told those around him (including me) that a plane had hit the tower. We were discussing that it *could* have been an accident until the second plane hit and it was obviously not an accident.

 

[Tricia1972]

I had just arrived at work - in NYC. I don't really want to think about it too much................

So sorry



I was at work. A coworker was listening to the radio and told us. We thought it was a little cesna or somehting. An accident. We went to the breakroom (all 10 of us working there) and turned on the TV. We watched and saw the smoke billowing. Then the second plane hit. At first we thought (hoped) that it was a replay. The announcer (Charles Gibson) even seemed a little confused. Moments later they confirmed the worst.

I called my entire family that day, most workers spent the day on the phone just talking to loved ones and trying to get something accomplisehd while watching the news. I will never forget that day or the weeks that followed.

 

[BelleBoo&AmisMum]

I was sleeping upstairs, we're on the west coast so it was really early for us. DH was sleeping downstairs (I was pregnant and sick so he took the couch) and had turned on the TV for his normal two hours of news before actually waking/getting up. I heard him scream and I can still hear the sound of him running up the stairs. We put the tv on in the bedroom and watched the news. We spent the day watching the news and keeping DS (4 at the time) away from the news. I think I spent the next two weeks falling asleep watching the Gameshow network, I just couldn't sleep.

 

[Nancy]

I remember where I was when JFK was killed (kindergarden, it is actually one of my only memories of that year).

9/11 I was at home had a rare Tuesday off, I had just dropped youngest DD off at school, came home and turned the TV on. Usually watch Lifetime in the morning but I decided to flip channels instead of going directly to it. Had on NBC and they were showing footage of the smoke billowing and talking about a plane flying into the building. I was thinking "how could a pilot make such a dreadful error" How could he not see how low he was and that there was a huge building in front of him. Then when the second plane hit, I was still wondering how 2 pilots could do that, it took me a good 2-3 minutes to realize that something was horribly wrong and it wasn't just an accident.

It wasn't until DH called me and said where are R & M's offices are they still in the trade center that serious panic took hold of me. I knew R's were not, but wasn't sure about M. (R & M is my BIL and his wife). I am glad I was home cause I was a mess, there was no way I could have stayed at work.

I do remember coming onto the DIS boards that morning. I was trying to reach my sister by phone and all circuits were busy so I came on here and sent a message to her.

 

[Binkrin]

I worked at a local news station on Long Island (NY). I had to be at work at 9 that day. When I saw the news while I was getting ready I left as soon as I could because I knew that it was going to be a busy day... I stayed there for the next 2 weeks. It was a strange place to be but there was no where else I wanted to be.

We lost a photographer and a good friend that day. He was a videographer for the NYPD.

 

[SuBeat]

Exactly where I am right now, sitting at the computer with the TV on in the background. I turned to watch when Matt & Katie on the Today show talking about the first plane, saw the second plane hit. DD was not quite 4 at the time, she was playing nearby. DH had taken the day off from work to take care of some legal issues for his parents who had passed away that summer and walked in right before the plane hit at the Pentagon.

 

[Jrsy Boy]

I was walking from the light rail to my office and passed a hotel that had a bar in front that had the TV on. There was a crowd of people around the window watching the TV. I got to work and tried to log onto a news website and everything was bogged down, so I called DW and had her turn on the TV. Being in a high-rise in downtown Denver, we were sent home shortly after just to be safe.

 

[mommy*RN]

I was sleeping and DH was getting ready for a shift at the hospital. He came in and woke me up and told me. I was glued to the TV then until both towers fell...basically crying my eyes out most of the time. I composed myself and went to a local garden center and bought and American flag...I knew we were going to need one.

My mom remembered the day Kennedy was shot with clarity too and it always saddened her to talk about it. I was a little glad she wasn't here to see the WTC attack...she had a big heart...

 

[Blondie]

I was sleeping. My DH called me up and told me to "quick, put on the TV!" He could tell by my voice that he had just woken me up.

 

[thewishfire]

It's a moment none of us will ever forget.

It was during English class, my second week of High School as a Freshman. Every teacher got a notice telling them to see if any student's parents worked at the Trade Center, and if they did to report to the office. She told us that there was an accident there and left it at that. Later in the day we heard more and more about what happened. Several people were pulled out of school.

When we got out that day I went with my friend and her mother to watch the skyline from a nearby hill. And even though I do not attend church, I went that night and it was packed.

My mother watched the towers falling from my town. I know people who should have lost their fathers or brothers that day but they didn't make it to work. I know a NYC cop who could tell you stories you'd never want to hear. People who were stuck in the city all day.

It's sad that I've seen those towers my whole life and the only time I'd ever actually been there, they weren't.

 

[TinkNH]

I was in my classroom full of second graders. The principal came in and handed me a paper with a few sentences stating there had been an apparent attack and to not say anything to the kids...await further instruction etc. We looked online while the kids were at lunch and found little information, and no visuals. I remember taking the kids out to meet their parents at the end of the day, I still was not sure of the events, having been in the classroom all day. Parents were very quiet and concerned about how to tell their children.....
It was not untill I got home that evening that I saw the footage on tv...I think I sat on the couch in my coat for hours just in total disbilef.
The next day I had 25 little children sitting around me and it was not long into our routine that someone asked the one question I couldn't answer...why?

 

[Cindy's Mom]

I was 6 months pregnant with my little guy; I was home, getting ready for work, had the Today show on in the background. DH's had the day off, was laying in bed w/ DD10months, he told me to come into the bedroom to see the TV, I saw the second plane hit. Not fully realizing what the outcome would be, got in my car started to drive to work downtown (about 8 miles) when DH call me on the phone and told me to get my butt home. I was listening to Howard Stern (who by the way was FABULOUS that day) realized DH was right; I turned the car around - went back home to be with my family and watched TV all day and cried.