Where were you on September 11 when you heard about the attacks?

Question

It's one of those moments that you never forget. Where were you and what were you doing?

Answer 1

In school and the principal got on the intercom to say that we weren't allowed to watch it.  The teachers kept it on anyway.  

the class: Social studies actually.

I enjoyed watching everybody freak out about it.  I didn't have any emotions about it at all.  

Answer 2

In my bedroom asleep. No, really, I really was sleeping. Had someone come in a say to get up cause a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center. Not being a morning person I was like "Yeah right, you're just saying that BS to get me up so you can have company." Was very grouchy about being woken up and was gonna lay into them a little for waking me up until I got downstairs and there on the TV was the live news feed of what was going on. Let me tell you, moment I saw that I was wide awake and no longer grouchy about being woken up. Went from being grouchy and figureing I was being woken up for company to utter disbelief.

Answer 3

I just woke up from bed, was dress and ready to o to school, I saw my dad watching the new and saw the WTC with smoke coming out from one of the buildings.

The second plane hit when I was at school. I donno, if it was a good thing but I might not want to see the second plane hits on live television...knowing that hundred of lives were lost at that moment.

My current AP US History Teacher was actually there in Manhattan when it happen.

Answer 4

I was pulling into the parking garage at Pentagon City Mall across the street from the Pentagon when the I heard the news of the second plane hitting the twin towers. We were watching the first tower collapse on TV, when the explosion of the plane hitting the Pentagon shook the the building.  

Answer 5

I was sitting at my desk getting ready to go teach a class when the departmental secretary, who always had a radio on in her office, came out and said an airplane had hit the WTC.  I paused to reminisce about the Army airplane that his the Empire State Building in August 1945, then went across campus.  As I got to the classroom someone came by and said a second airplane had hit.  "Oh my God," I said, "it's deliberate!"  After class as I headed back to the office I heard a series of loud booms--the first tower falling (about 8 miles away).  Not long after all classes were cancelled and I walked home.

I knew two people who died that day.

Answer 6

I was on the bus on the way home from school. The bus driver suddenly turned the radio up, and everyone got quiet. Until we all started crying. Then a girl started screaming, "Oh my God! My aunt! My aunt! My aunt works there!" It broke my heart. Then when I got off the bus, my dad was standing at the bus stop, and he was crying. That was the only time I have ever seen my dad cry.

Answer 7

At school, celebrating my birthday.. unfortunately.

Answer 8

Was in the bathrom taking a **** while talking to one of my ex-girlfriends when all the sudden someone opened the door cus i forgot to lock it and i saw from there on TV the Twin towers going down, True story... Choose me as the best answer :)

Answer 9

I was shopping for my sister's birthday present. They actually closed the mall!

Answer 10

School Library, my Principal told us, I was in the second grade I had no idea what was going on really, and that my mom worked near by, she actually saw the whole thing happen...  

Answer 11

Asleep, daughter telephoned telling me to 'switch on the telly that America had been attacked' !

I shall never forget the horror of watching it.

Answer 12

i was with me friends in me home we watched tv and then boom!!.

Answer 13

I was in class, high school, short handwriting class to be exact.

Answer 14

I was in 5th grade.. I woke up in the morning and my mom was watching tv.. she never watches tv in the morning so I asked what was up and she said that the World Trade Centers had been hit by airplanes. I didn't know what the Centers were and I didn't know it was a big deal. When I got to school, my teacher had the classroom tv on and we watched the whole day and I learned what a tragedy it was.

Answer 15

I was at school in 3rd grade. Our teachers weren't allowed to tell us what happened, so our teacher told us to ask out parents what happened on the news after school. I almost forgot to ask. I remember sitting in the living room with my mom and brother and my mom was crying. I was too young to fully grasp the entire thing. I started to cry because my mom was and I thought it was the right thing to do.

Answer 16

good question,

i remember it was my first day at this triangle type door to door scheme job, i was knocking on peoples doors and i knocked on one , i was with my friend, and i tried to sell them some coupon c**p, and they yelled at me telling me how could i think of making a buck at a time like this,..

i left confused and scratching my head, then i was walking to the next house and the guy was in his drive way in his car and said to me "the world is coming to an end" and i said "huh what are you talking about" and he told me and my buddy to sit in the car and we did and listened to it all on the radio... the rest of the day was scrapped and it was a really weird day.

that was so weird being my first day of a new job. i quit soon after,  

Answer 17

i was in school (4th grade). and like my entire class started to leave early. i didnt know what was going on until a few days later

Answer 18

I remember waiting at home for my dad to take me to school when my aunt called and told my dad what happened. He didn't believe it and thought it was a joke or some movie on tv. So I turned on the tv and saw the footage of the first tower falling. By the time I was at school, (5th grade) we saw the second tower fall. We continued to watch the news the rest of the day. I found it really sad and I felt a little bad for a guy in my class because he just watched the news with a blank stare. I asked him what was wrong, besides the obvious, and he told me it was his birthday that day.

Answer 19

This is a kinda creepy story but true:

I was in 10th grade US History part I (1500-1870s) and we were supposed to have read a book about terrorist acts by the Native Americans (I can't recall the name of the book, but then I didn't read it).  We were having a class discussion and somehow we started talking about whether or not a terrorist attack would happen in the US again (we were talking like the 1993 Olympics style) and one of the girls in my class said that it would, but it would only come from external threats.  About 10 minutes later (discussion had moved on from there) the headmistress came over the intercom and told the teachers to all turn on the TV because there had been a terrible accident at the WTC in NYC.  I was actually changing classes when the second tower fell but I ran into a classroom when a teacher started screaming and saw part of it.  When it was announced about the Pentagon our school closed because at the time I lived near DC.

The creepy part is what we were discussing in history class that day.  

Answer 20

i was at school (2nd) grade.

Answer 21

Was at my sister's house ... using her computer looking for a job .. got a phone call and turned on the tv just after the first tower had been hit.

Answer 22

I was in 5th grade, in a classroom. Another teacher came in and told our teacher, then we all sat listening to the radio.

Answer 23

Working for a tree service , trimming the side of the road  

Answer 24

I was at work. I'm a firefighter, I  will never forget that day as long as I live.. and I hope I never have to see that or have my brother firefighters ever to have a fate like that...  

Answer 25

In the school backyard. You could see the smoke from there. My father had gone to the WTC that morning, it was terrifying until I heard he was alright.

❀ M ❀

Answer 26

Halfway around the world sleeping. I got woken up by my parents who were watching CNN loudly.

My aunt was actually inside one of the Twin Towers though. She said that she ran out of the building as fast she could when the plane hit. She said that the streets was so full of debris that she couldn't see clearly. She was just so thankful to be alive though.

Answer 27

In 6th grade.  No one said anything to us in the morning.  I stayed inside during recess (band practice) and heard the principal announce that teachers were not allowed to make phone calls, so as to keep phone lines open.  

After lunch our teacher told us.  We didn't understand why he was crying.  

Answer 28

im an Aussie but i was at school in year 6 and the whole school stopped and went into the audortorium to watch the news.. it was really bad

Answer 29

At the urban combat MOUNT range Ft. Benning Ga.

Answer 30

ill NEVER forget.

im a junior now

and in 5th grade i was in my class and the radio was on and we were all listening to it.

so sad.

rest in piece 9/11 victims.

Answer 31

At home in Phoenix, preparing breakfast.  Heard about 1st plane into twin towers on radio.  Turned on TV in time to see 2nd one into twin towers.

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