Where were you on September 11th?

[momx2]

At ASMo with DH and DD(3). I wanted to drive back home to be with my other DD (6mon.) But my DH and DF talked me out of it. It was the strangest, saddest day ever.

 

[KNBNESMOM]

Being six hours ahead of the East Coast, I was sitting at our computer waiting for the time to arrive to go meet my daughter at the bus stop. The Today show had just gone off (we get it live on the Armed Forces Network) and I remember the news coming back on and Katie Couric announcing the news of the first plane hitting the WTC.

 

[Kristi1357]

I work the morning shift at a Boston tv station. I have never worked under such stressful, crazy conditions in my life. I was working alone that morning since we were short-staffed at the time. Producers were calling me - screaming into the phones - with new info to type up for air. I typed for hours like a crazy person. All the while, producers were yelling at me - new things to type up, that I wasn't fast enough, etc. We were on the air live when the second plane hit. I just stood there dumbfounded with my hand over my mouth. As quickly as I could, I IM'ed my MIL and called my Mom at work.

When they called to have me type up something about the PA plane crash, I said something to the effect of no way, you've got to be kidding me, or OMG. They then just yelled "type it!" and hung up on me. It was so hard not having even a minute to take it in, grieve, cry, pray, whatever.

One of my co-workers was on her way in early that morning anyway, but they stopped the T in the tunnel for awhile as a precaution. I remember typing up a violator (words on bottom of the tv screen) that said they thought 20k were killed. THANK GOD that was wrong! I was never so happy to be out of work and out of Boston as I was that day. I went home almost everyday to watch more news and cry. I think I worked 12 hours days for 2 weeks straight.

I just want to add that my stress of that day and the weeks that followed, in no way compare to those directly involved. I can't even begin to imagine...

 

[Blueberry]

We were in the MK in Fantasyland just got off Winnie the Pooh when we heard....

 

[ravengirl]

We were on the first day of our holiday so we were up early and walking through Tomorrowland when I heard the hushed tones of cm's talking about another plane crash, it was only later when they shut the park and we got back to POFQ did we realize what had happened. it was unbelievable.
We sat in the bar drinking, watching the news and seeing the chaos all around us, it was surreal.
Cheers!
Elle

 

[monarchsfan16]

I was 14 and had just started my freshman year about 2 weeks before it happened. I was in Bio class when a gym teacher came in and started whispering to my teacher. I heard something about 747's. My teacher turned around looking so white that I thought he was going to pass out (and this is someone I knew took pleasure in the grossest dissections he could find). He told us we were going to get some shaky news during homeroom. Then the bell rang and we headed off to homeroom. My teacher had the news on so we learned pretty quickly what had happened. The next period they made an announcement that the WTC and Pentagon had been hit. We watched nothing but the news in any class but gym, which was held out on the field with army helicopters circling overhead. It was so eerie, because normally jets are flying overhead-the airport is just a few minutes from my school.
I returned home and spent the rest of the afternoon in mom's arms. She just couldn't let go of us. That night as she was tucking us into bed my aunt called saying that the cousins thought their aunt (my great aunt) had been on one of the flights. She called back about 10 minutes later to tell us that yes Aunt Thelma had been on the plane. None of us slept a wink that night. With the anniversary fast approaching I can sense everyone in my family getting crankier and sadder. Including myself.
I was totally naive then, and can't believe how little I knew about the world at the time. As the board outside the school said for about a month after- 9/11/01, the day a generation lost their innocence.

 

[kimwim8]

I was home on maternity leave (hadn't had my son yet). I don't remember what I was watching on tv, but the news interrupted it, and I watched the news all day (except for going back to DD's daycare & picking her up. My family all congregated at my house to watch the news. I went to the hospital the next day (thought I was leaking amniotic fluid) and all we watched on tv there was about the attacks. I finally had to turn it off, b/c if I was having my baby, I wanted to try to make it a happy event! (Didn't end up having him until 9/28)

What's ironic is, when I was home on maternity leave with DD (in 1999) footage of Columbine broke into whatever I was watching that day, and I watched that all day.

Horrible memories I have of events that happened while home on maternity leave for my only 2 children.

God Bless Us All.

 

[ZebraStripes]

NYC - 42nd and 3rd....the world will never be the same

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

I was watching it all live on TV and reading posts here on the DIS. I can remember it all like it was yesterday.

 

[crz4mm2]

I was at our monthly office meeting. Starts at 7 am so didn't hear until about 8:30. One of our staff had a baby the night before and we walked over to the hospital to see her. Saw it on the television in the waiting area of the hospital. Unbelievable. Didn't want to go back to work. Just wanted to go home and get my kids and DH....
Very weird to drive home that night from work and see the military planes (2 of them) flying over...... The only planes in the sky.
I remember it like yesterday too.

 

[gr8tpanther]

I think that is the ONE day that the whole WORLD will remember where they were!

I was sitting in front of my computer surfing the net and my boyfriend emailed me to turn on the news.

I watched for a week. And never will I forget!

 

[T-CoTink411]

I was a sophomore in high school, and my mom was flying out that morning to fire an employee in Atlanta. I found out 2nd hour when the Principal was in our history class. The TV's were on in every single classroom in the building. I was freaking out because I knew my mom was in the air at the time.

In the middle of my 3rd hour class a purple note was delivered to me (and I still have it) that read: "Tara, Mom is on the ground and safe. She is driving home from Nashville."

My dad, sister, and I waited in the family room all night with the TV on until she drove in the driveway around 11:00 pm. Until then, she hadn't actually seen any of the footage.

 

[Morganpics]

I was at work. A coworker came in and said her BF had just called that an airplane had hit one of the Twin Towers. We went into the fitness room where there was a tv and watched as the second plane hit. With a sickening feeling in our stomachs we all agreed this was no accident. We were immediately put into lockdown as we work on a military site. When we were told to leave the first image I noticed and I remember vividly was the flag at the county courthouse at half staff. No traffic on the road. My DH was home with my Mom, DS called from Alaska where he was living, and DD called from NC.

 

[decker96]

My oldest's first day of preschool was that day. We were so busy getting ready in the morning that I didn't even know what had happened. Didn't turn on the radio in the car because we were talking about preschool and what she thought she'd do that day (she was a little apprehensive about going). I had to run into Target after I dropped her off. The place was pretty deserted and all the workers were over by the TV's. I wandered over to the TV section to see what was going on and saw the second tower fall. Needless to say, I left the stuff that was in my cart and went home. I watched TV all morning and just hugged my then 11month old DS. When I went and picked up DD from preschool, I gave her the hugest hug and cried. She thought I had really missed her and that's why I was sad!
I don't think anyone will ever forget where they were that day.

 

[The Duchess]

Stuck in traffic rounding the Union Street Curve in Braintree, Mass on my way to work. Just past the T Station Exit, almost to the K-Mart sign.

I was listening to Howard Stern and someone said...."A plane just hit the World Trade Center." and the show went on. I called my husband and said..."A plane just hit the World Trade Center in New York." He said. "That's weird."
When the second plane hit (I'm still in traffic), I called him back and said..."Another plane hit the other tower at the World Trade Center." He said" Oh my god, I'm going to go put on the news."

 

[eagle0112]

I had just walked into work when a co-worker said that a plane had hit one of the towers. We were all talking about what it might be and trying to find a radio station that would come in clear so we could listen. After the second plane hit most of my co-workers left for the day to try and contact family and friends who might have been in the area. I worked the day getiting updates from the people coming in and catching bits and pieces on the news.When I went home I found out that two of my younger brothers were only blocks away from the towers when it happened. It took them hours to contact us and get home.

 

[Xtine76]

I was sitting in Pharmacology class and for some reason my professor was late (she is never late for anything). One of the girls came in for class while we were waiting and said that a plane had hit the world trade center. At first i thought it must have been an accident. Our professor arrived and we started class. Then the dean of the science division came down to our classroom and told us that a second plane had hit and the pentagon had also been hit. At that point we all went up into my professors office and watched the events unfold on her little tv in her office. After we were dismissed from class I got a call from my National Guard unit and I was on my way to NYC. An experience I won't soon forget.

 

[4DisneyfansinNC]

We were in the MK, CRT to be exact. Our server told us what happened, but at that point it sounded like an accident. After we finished eating, we went to see the Lion King show (now Philharmagic) and when we got out of that, the CM's were telling us the park was closing. Still not understanding exactly what was going on, we headed toward the front of the park and it was such a massive crowd trying to get out. My cell phone rang, my mom telling me exactly what happened.

 

[QJ411]

DH and I were at work, and I heard the first incident and didn't know what was going on, when I looked out of my office window, I saw it and I was in total shock. DH walked down from midtown to meet me.

I'll never forget that sight or that day.

 

[storybookmum]

I was at home on maternity leave with my three-year-old and three-month-old daughters. We had no idea, the kids were watching Blue's Clues on the TV, and they never interrupted to say what had happened.

The phone rang, and it was my SD and SS's aunt, panicking that that United States was under attack and DH had to go get the kids out before they shut the borders down. We live on the border of the US and my DSD and DSS live in the US with their mother and SF.

I didn't know what she was talking about, and while we were talking, I remember frantically flipping the channels on the tv trying to find it, and just staring at it in complete shock. Both towers had been hit by then.

DH was out of town, and I spent the next several minutes panicking myself, trying to get hold of him, pulling him out of a meeting for an emergency. No one could get hold of DSD and SS's mother, all the phone lines to the States were down, and I didn't know whether to try to cross the border to get the kids or not, and was afraid to go with my girls and get stuck on the other side.

DH told me to stay put and started working on getting hold of his ex-wife...finally got her and she had the kids at home with her. I took the kids to the Red Cross to try to donate blood but was turned away because of having had a baby so recently.

DH came home that night and for the next few days we watched television and cried.

Everything about that day is crystal clear in my mind from the moment the phone rang. Even my daughter, who was three, remembers it. When I told her we were going to take a plane to Disney World, she asked if I was sure it wouldn't hit any buildings.



Kris