Where were you on September 11th?

[soccercruiser87]

i was in 8th grade and in school, actually in a study hall and my study hall teacher said she had bad news to tell us and turned on the tv and all the kids in the class were speachless.

 

[FroggyinArk]

was actually geting ready to leave for work when we heard the news,,was listening because it was hte day our very first radio spot for our bizz was running,, we had the only spot aired during the morning felt really bad aboout advertising a building repair service during all the devastation.

 

[MelessaG]

Lying on the couch pregnant while suffering with a bad sinus infection and watching Nick Jr. with my son. DH had taken the day off to help me out and was dropping our oldest DD off at school. He came in and said "put it on CNN the world is going crazy." We tuned in just in time to see the second tower fall. I wanted to go get DD immediately, but DH insisted on keeping her day as normal as possible.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Back than I was working nights, so I was in bed sleeping. Did not know anything about it untill about 2:30 that afternoon.

 

[JVL1018]

Home with my brand new baby(he was 6 days old) and my almost 2 year old..and then at the pediatrician for a 9:30 am appt..then back home to watch TV and cry, cry cry cry cry...

 

[DD2Disney]

We were getting ready to drive to NH to buy hockey tickets. My DS was only 9 days old. We made it to the end of our street when we heard on the radio what had happened. Of course we turned around. What a crazy emotional time. God bless the USA.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

I was at work in downtown Boston.

 

[dBugged]

I was just about to leave to ride a water mouse around the lake, we were staying at the Wilderness Lodge that year.

 

[roliepolieoliefan]

At the Magic Kingdom, on the C. O. P. to be exact.

 

[preshi]

Animal Kingdom, Tarzan Rocks. On a solo trip!

 

[buzzlady]

I was meeting my friend for breakfast.

 

[talicskai]

It was my day off and I was home watching Regis and Kelly when the second plane hit. Regis immediately said something like "Oh this is bad, this is no accident" I called my office right away because I am a travel agent and wanted to let my boss and colleagues know what was going on. They had me turn my TV to CNN and put my cordless phone next to it so they could put it over the speaker phone in the office. Our industry has never been the same since 9/11. So many things are not the same. I was so embarrassed that the Prime Minister of Canada acted so poorly that first few weeks. As a Canadian I travel frequently to the USA and also have several relatives in Michigan. I consider our country to be an extension of America. My thoughts and prayers are with all Americans as this sad anniversary draws near.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

i was in my 11th grade english class...that teacher was th etype that just went right back to her lessons ..thankfully my dad came into the school to take my brother and i home so we found out what was going on

 

[Deafmedic]

I was doing an autopsy when my secretary told us what was going on and turned the TV on in my work area. We watched it together while my partner and I worked. We watched the 2nd tower fall. Later that night my wife called to tell me they grounded her helicopter.

 

[Jungle Skipper]

I was working at WDW when it happened. Acctually the night before I had worked a late shift and hit PI with some friends the night before...I slept through most of the morning...I was supposed to have the day off...

The phone rang and woke me, it was my manager at WDW...knew I had no family there and wanted to know if I would come to the resorts and help him out. They were closing the parks and wanted as many CMs as they could have at the resorts to help with crowd control He knew I loved playing with kids and wanted me at the CR (since I knew it so well) to help with the children there.

Talk about a surreal day...I remember sitting in the lobby trying to be happy and playing with these kids...when I had found out 2 of my former CMs were in the WTC building when it had been hit. Like a trooper I stood fast and tried my best to create some magic...there was no way to make WDW a happy place that day...i think thats why is was so surreal..i've never seen the place so strange. But I like to think I helped keep some kids from becoming to engulfed in the situation. Hopefully I did my job...I was there for 24 hours straight before heading home..sleeping for 6 hours and going back to my Jungle boat. It was strange at WDW for quite some time after that..something I NEVER want to experience again.

Jungle Josh

 

[HollyNEd]

We lived outside Washington DC and I was thinking it was a great morning our foriegn exchange student had not missed the bus for once so I was having eggs benedict and watching the today show when they broke in about it. When the 2nd plane hit I ran upstairs and got hubby out of bed (he worked nights at the IRS no less) babbling the world was ending. He came down stairs and just sat there staring in disbelief. When the one hit PA (about another 5 mins it would have hit our town) and the Pentagon we started to freak since a good friend of mine who lived across the street worked in the Pentagon. We had to get her daughter from school and try to keep her and our kid calm waiting for any news. It was the worst day of my life. Finally about 11 pm that night she got home and the whole neighborhood started erupting in cheers and all crying happy tears. Unfortunatly several people from our town were not so lucky and also hubby had to go through major security at the IRS after that it was horrible how a day starts out and you have no idea it will end so tragically. That is why we moved back to the midwest about 2 months after 9/11 I couldn't deal with it. Also we used to live in NJ before that so just too close to home.


Holly

 

[Goofymum]

I was at work at the time at that National Sara Lee Coffee & Tea Service Operations call center. My best friend who sat in the cubicle in front of me and I were standing up talking as were much of the office. It was unusually quiet that morning for some reason and then we finally found out why. Someone brought in a small tv and it was on all day. Every moment we could get away, there were people glued to the television.

I remember right after it happened someone actually in downtown Manhattan was calling us to complain that they had not recieved their service yet. I was so mad at them, I wanted to tell the guy to look out the window at that big smoke cloud hovering over him and tell him THAT is why his stupid coffee machine hadn't been fixed yet.

I can remember everything about that day. I remember the air was a little crisp that morning. Under normal circumstances it would have been a beautiful day. I remember sitting outside on my break staring at the sky wondering what was going to happen next. I worried about my son who was in pre-school and I remember that it was one of the longest drive home I could have imagined.

 

[Kendra17]

I had been driving to work listening to the local NPR station that hadn't mentioned a thing. . .nothing at all.

I got to work about 9:05, and a colleague smoking outside the building told me what happened after I said hello. I can't tell you how quickly it went through my head that it was Muslim Fundamentalists committing terror because of our foreign policy (I was thinking specifically about Israel; not their other gripes that were still unknown to me).

My husband was driving in from Boston (to Cleve, where we lived then), and we still didn't have cell phones, so our contact that day was limited. I spoke to his mother a couple of times, and I waited for him to call me at work. My father called me to make sure that DH had been driving rather than flying since the planes had departed from Logan.

A coworker's father worked at the Pentagon, and was just horrified the entire morning, but she really remained as upbeat as she could be.

Our Tv at work had horrible reception, but we all kept staring at it, anyways. We could barely make out any images but were able to listen to the commentary.

The kids' schools remained open so I remained at work. I didn't want to go home to an empty house and watch or listen to the news alone. Instead, we all stayed at work, unable to actually work, but taking some comfort from eachother.

 

[Gary M]

DW and I were at AKL at WDW.

 

[EltonJohn]

I was in my college dorm (Memorial if any Bears are reading) room at Baylor when I initially heard it. I was listening to the radio and the morning DJ said that a plane had just crashed into the WTC. I thought absolutely nothing of it-I don't think I connected the word "plane" with a huge commercial jumbo jet. I probably thought that it was a small plane like JFK, Jr's. I went back to sleep until my class started. I had two classes that morning. It was in between those two consecutive classes that a classmate told me not only that it had been a JUMBO jet that crashed into the WTC, but a SECOND jumbo jet crashed into the other tower and was on the verge of collapsing! (I'm not sure if the first tower had collapsed by then. If it did then she probably told me that as well.) She probably also told me about the Pentagon and Pennsylvania, but I don't remember.

I resembled this little guy ---> when she told me all of THAT. After the initial shock wore off I said a prayer before class started. When class started we then had a moment of silence for the victims. I believe I had one more class that day-it was Portuguese and the prof gave us a walk-the prof was visibly upset about it.

Godspeed to the Victims Christ have mercy.




Edited to add: I just printed the entire page 2 of this thread when I only wanted to print my own post for posteriority's sake! Where's the D'OH! emoticon?