9/11: Where were you and how did you hear about it?

Question

They say everyone remembers what they were doing when JFK was assassinated. So, where were you and what were you doing on the morning of Tuesday 11th September 2001?

Answer 1

I was in second grade in chicago, and my teacher and the janitor were talking to each other and they were looking shocked.. then i knew about it..

Answer 2

I was in Canada on vacation, saw it on a special TV announcement.

Answer 3

I was still at home getting ready for work when my wife called from her work and told me. I spent the day watching the news.

Answer 4

I was just in 3rd grade when it happend, I remember sitting in class, and having about half my class get called home, and my teacher asking us for a moment of silence, becuase "4 planes crashed". Since I live in Jersey, there's a part of my town where I can see the NY skyline, and when I went home from shcool that day there were ppl taking pictures, and all i remember is a HUGE cloud of smoke that took up a good part of the sky. And as an 8 year old boy i watched the news for hours that day.

Answer 5

I was in school, second grade.  I don't know exaclty when it happened so I don't remember what I was doing.  My parents told me when I got home.

Answer 6

i was in class in 1st grade.. i was sitin there in da morning right wen i got there.  we always used to watch da news wen we got there and all of a sudden that came on...

Answer 7

They were the last thing I saw as I left New York the evening before, and when I got home My Daughter phoned and said put your TV on. I could not believe it....it was a shock...!

Answer 8

When it happened, I was at school (they didn't tell us about it).

I heard when I was stepping off my school bus at the end of the day. My mom was there at my bus stop and I was really confused. I asked why she was home, and he said there was a terrorist attack in NYC. I had no idea what that meant. So she walked me home and then I saw it on TV.

Answer 9

I was being driven home from school with my mother who told me.

Answer 10

i was just waking up when my grandfather turned on the television and thats is when we found out what was going on in New York. i was really sad and wanted to cry when i thought of all of those innocent people who died in the airplanes as well as in the buildings. all those people who did nothing but go to work. really sad.