Where were you on 9-11-01

Question

hey guys just curious where were you when americas biggest tragedy 9-11 happened.i was in my 6th grade classroom when i got a call for early dismissal i had no idea what it was for so i get into my moms car and she told me to be quiet cause she was listening to the radio then she got my sister and then went home i was kinda terrified i was only 10 going on 11 so i didnt understand that much.so where were you let me know thanks guys later

Answer 1

I was at work in Richmond, Va. wondering if they were going to attack the Federal Reserve in the same city and terrified for the safety of my son.  

Answer 2

yr 4 and was in my classroom when the teacher got a phone call and turned on the tv and we saw it

Answer 3

I was at home reading the newspaper on the west coast when they broke in on the morning news with what was starting to happen.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

Answer 4

in my office.

Answer 5

on the other side of the world in singapore. maybe preparing for school or in school. i was 7 and didnt understand why that aeroplane crashed into that building until i was older.

Answer 6

I was in my 2nd grade class room...saw it on tv in class... but my lil cuzin use to live in NY at that time and it was his birthday on 9/11 ...and my auntie was just cryin on his bday

Answer 7

At home (sick), with my grandmother

Answer 8

I was at home.  I walked our puppy through a neighborhood near by and I was only home for maybe a half hour before my mother-in law called and told me to turn on the TV.  She told me "they" had just bombed one of the  buildings in New York and that I should wake up her son.  I didn't really want to wake up my husband since he had worked the night before but within a minute of turning on the TV, they were showing the second tower being hit.  Soon after my husband got up, they reported about DC being hit.  I got really upset because my dad was in DC speaking in front of congress.  All cell service was down in DC.  I didn't get to talk to him for hours later.  I will never forget that morning.  It's kind of weird that I usually have the TV on but I didn't that morning.

Answer 9

I was in my bed and was really ill, I remember my brother shouting up the stairs about it.

Answer 10

I was in California, watching GMA at 6:30AM . The first tower was a tragic news story...but when the second tower was hit..I realized I'd better wake up my room mates. The day was mostly spent glued to the television.

Answer 11

I was getting ready for work when my mom called and told me what happened.  After I arrived at work, the supevisor brought a small TV into our office and we watched the coverage all day.  I will never forget the people jumping to avoid the flames.  I will never forget the firefighters climbing so bravely to their death.   That is one of the reasons I don't believe in mollycoddling terrorists.  

Answer 12

I was at school when 9/11 happened and the teacher came to our classroom by announcing that the World Trade Center has been attacked by terrorists. I thought it was just a joke, but as it turns out, it wasn't.

Answer 13

I WAS AT HOME WATCHING TV WHEN THE DISASTER BEFELL US. I WAS SITTING IN SHOCK AND AWE. I COULDN'T BELIEVE.

Answer 14

sitting in my cubicle in Houston, Tx talking on a conference call with Paducah, Ky, and SanFrancisco, Ca.  I got a phone call from my friend driving in and I told the 2 guys on the phone.

I then stuck around while my co-workers all went to cry or pray or be with their families.  Someone had to hold down the fort, who better than the former Marine?

I only cried after I heard "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood.

Like the guy before:  I remember it like it was yesterday.

Answer 15

I'm living in Ireland, I was driving home from school when a news bulletin came through on the radio that a plane had hit a building in New York, nobody realised at that stage it was a terrorist attack

Answer 16

I was at school, too. I had just walked into my 2nd period social studies class (7th grade), and I saw a video on the TV of the first building crumbling to the ground. I honestly didn't think it was a big deal. At first I thought that it was a building being demolished on purpose. Then when I realized that it wasn't a planned thing, I started to take it a little more seriously. But I don't think I got the full effect until I was in my 3rd period math class and saw videos of HUNDREDS of bloody people emerging from the dust and rubble. Thats when it really sank in for me that there were people in there being crushed to death and burned to death. It was a very very scary thought.

I was living in Iowa at the time, and they didn't let classes out early at my school. In fact, after 3rd period they ordered that the televisions stay off until the end of the day. They handed out some card we were supposed to give to our parents that gave tips on how parents could talk with their kids about the tragedy, and also what to do if they knew somebody who was in the WTC buildings when they fell.

Answer 17

I was at home but the interesting thing was I would have been driving through New York at about the time it happened comming home from florida if we did not change the time we went to a week earlier

Answer 18

At high school,I didn't entirely realize what was happening until I arrived at home, when I suddenly was fazed of an image of a burning tower, and was told it was the South WTC tower that was hit. Although, many people may assume i'm crazy, or what-not, I knew this was pressumably going to occur, since before the "attacks", Alex Jones not only predicted, but aswell was DETERMINED that these events were to occur in the upcoming weeks!

I'm not refering to a 'occultist', or a "psychic" of ANY KIND, i'm speaking about a man who acknowledge from researching several documents before-hand, and broadcasting LIVE what he has read, it was shocking to hear, and for myself, this document seemed to foreshadow a true likely event, caused by our own government operatives.

You guys need to WAKE UP! If you're still accepting this as a "terrorist attack", or an "insurgent attack", you need to step out of your bubble! As long as you are continue your apathetic & ignorant ways, the U.S. Government will CONTINUE TO IMPEED LAWS THAT DO NOT ENBELISH YOU IN FREEDOM, BUT MORE INCLINED TO BONDAGE!

Wake up fools! Turn off COPS! Turn off Fox News! You are the one who needs to get outside the bubble of American propaganda and realize the age of imperialism is over! Accept the fact that people have decided over and over to resist oppression and not be slaves.

America does NOT make/cause/propose/etc. change towards positive enlightenment, and Iran will receive LESS of an ultimatum from the Israeli Zionist's pockets.

It's sad to say, but, right now, both Iraq & Iran are suffering from an ultimate War Corporatist global conflict, that of which, foreshadows the usage of nuclear weaponry.

The United States of America has not only been infected; we have virtually been in a coma of despair, loss, and murder of our children in Bush Oil Wars. We have basically lost EVERYTHING!

People say run. But here we still are. Here you are and here I am, still breathing, still fighting the good fight, and suddenly much more aggressively setting the stage for the biggest political/social/patriotic SMACK DOWN of local and international evil for the last several millennia.

Barack Obama added this ominous warning:

“The greatest threat to that security lies in the tribal regions of Pakistan, where terrorists train and insurgents strike into Afghanistan. We cannot tolerate a terrorist sanctuary, and as president, I won’t. We need a stronger and sustained partnership between Afghanistan, Pakistan and NATO to secure the border, to take out terrorist camps and to crack down on cross-border insurgents. We need more troops, more helicopters, more satellites, more Predator drones in the Afghan border region. And we must make it clear that if Pakistan cannot or will not act, we will take out high-level terrorist targets like bin Laden if we have them in our sights.”

In November 2005 Bush said "don't throw the constitution in my face, its just a goddamn piece of paper."

Has anyone reacted to this? No one cares. What the h**l is going on?

With the stroke of a pen, all our rights and freedoms can be wiped away. "The pen is mightier than the sword": Winston Churchill

The government is creating the framework for the second coming - h**l on Earth if you're not a chosen one. There will be no time for legal proceedings, too many people to process. They're creating a world for the devil to get his rocks off. I have to wonder, what's in it for them? They get to be spared?

I really hope EVERYONE read's what I have wrote, whether you agree, or disagree, you CAN NOT turn aside the facts!

Martial Law is coming folks, as long as you stay QUITE!

DON'T ALLOW THE VICTIM'S TO DIE IN VAIN d**n IT, STAND UP AND DO SOMETHING!

Answer 19

I was at work, Active Duty USAF at the time, at Tyndall AFB!  We where all watching the TV when the second plane hit.  I knew at that moment it was no accident, and we were under attack!  

Answer 20

Tuesday afternoon in england, day off work. Around about 2pm I turned the tv on and saw smoke coming from the 1st tower. Thought it was a light plane collision. As the events unfolded it got really creepy as I was reading don dellilo's novel about the rise of the terrorist and the power of the media: Mao2. That night I couldn't sleep, it seemed as If all of a sudden the world and everything established within it was in a state of flux.

Answer 21

I was in Plato's Closet in Louisville selling stuff  . . . i didnt understand what was going on, then i got in my car and heard howard Stern flipping out and drove straight to work (radio station).

Answer 22

I was at work, i remember alot of companies were evacuating downtown houston

Answer 23

I was just getting off of a night shift at 7-11 when it happened, as soon as I got home my boyfriend told me about it, we watched the news all day and friends came over, we all had a big discussion about it

Answer 24

i was framing a house and we found out and then turned on the radio the next day the homeowner had a huge flag and we made a pole out of 2x4's and left it stickinjg out of the roof until the house was almost completed

Answer 25

at school (3rd grade)

Answer 26

I was at work in NJ , I spent most of the day on the roof of my buidling watching the towers burn.

I lived in NY at the time, and since they closed all the bridges and tunnels, I had to sleep at work

Answer 27

at home asleep until my husband called me and told me to turn on the television

Answer 28

At work in  wisconsin,but my thoughts and prayers were with those perished and their familes

Answer 29

I was asleep in my dorm room when it happened.  I woke up, listened to phone messages and everyone of them spoke about what had happened, but did not tell me what had taken place, only that there was an attack.  I turned on the television and immediately saw an image of the streets of NYC covered with debris, and people running. I called my GF, and she directed me to a website that was updating the info instantaneously...we decided to go and pray for the victims.  

Answer 30

in 1 of the airplanes

Answer 31

I lived in Colombia and i woke up and turned the news on...i did not know anything about this country and my mom lived here..so i assumed she had died..i cried but then i came and realized i was dumb lol.