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Where were you approximately one year ago?

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MiataGirl

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about 359 days ago actually..if my math serves me correctly 🙂..we were discussing this a bit in class, and i'm very interested in hearing your stories from that day.

now, I'm the type of person who can't remember what i ate for breakfast.. and whatever took place a week ago often seems like it took occured an eternity ago.

what happened last year though is a day that i don't think I'll ever be able to forget. even though i have no physical ties over there, and live about 3,000 miles away..what happened couldn't have hit closer to home.

while i do remember that day vividly, i cannot at all remember what happened. the day went by in almost a blur as i was still trying to capture what exactly had happened.

waking up to the radio i remember hearing about all the incredible stuff that was happening, like something straight out of a movie..and given that i was only half awake at the time it seemed completely as if i was still dreaming.

when i fully got up though, i finally got to know what exactly had happened, but i still didn't believe it...and to this day i still don't..

even though the event affected people over in NYC the most, obviously, i suddenly felt a stronger connection toward the people around me, and began to realize how precious, and also fragile a life is.

how was your day like?
 
i was actually asleep when it happened (west coast). woke up, took a shower, then i heard about it cuz my dad was watching the tv.
 
i had just moved from the east coast to los angeles, (grew up in NY, but spent 4 years at school in baltimore)...my friend who drove out with me left on the 9th...i was asleep and my new roommate woke me up just in time to see the towers fall, just before 7am local time...

had to go meet with my new advisor at around 1...almost canceled but i couldnt deal with being inside anymore especially because of course i couldnt contact any of my friends in NYC
 
Originally posted by: MiataGirl
how was your day like?
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it sucked. The girl that i was kinda dating, i've managed to shut out, even though i'm forced to interact with her for most of my work day. My motorcycle has a flat tire. My explorer is nearing 76,000 miles and i know i'm not gonna be able to get jack for it. My jaguar seems like it's in 500 pieces, most of which are lost. And i have two motorcycles that i need to sell on ebay to make SOME kind of money.

-=bmacd=-

edit: i sooo misread this thread. last 9-11-01, i was thinking that my bday was going to be in three days and how much i hate getting older. BUT...i was at work and everybody was going crazy. We were even contemplating shutting down our store for the day and we actually pulled all of our guns and ammo off the shelf at kmart b/c people were on a weapons spree.

-=bmacd=-
 
My September 11 was surreal, just like many other people's.

It started out normal - school started at 7:40 EST like normal and it wasn't until between second and third period that I heard someone telling their friends that a place hit the WTC. However, I had a calculus test that next period so I was concentrating too hard for it to register.

After Calc, I had lunch and we turned on the radio in the car (we were allowed to leave campus for lunch). I couldn't believe what I was hearing. After lunch we got back to the parking lot and everyone just sat in their cars listening to the radio. That's how the rest of the day went. The entire school was glued to the TV and no one really knew what to do.

We were supposed to have a cross-country meet that day but it was cancelled. My coach still held practice at a local park and I was one of the three people who showed up. I felt proud to be an American, but I felt saddened by the whole chain of events. I'll never forget any of it.
 
I was in Kuwait. We were watching CNN due to some other things happening in the area and were watching to see what was reported about it. Anyways, CNN showed what we were looking for, I pass it up the chain, and all's well. Next thing I know it cuts to the World Trade Center. We were all like WTF, how can a plane crash into the WTC? A few minutes later we saw the other plane hit the other tower. After that it got really surreal. I felt safer in a "danger zone" than most people felt back home. That thought alone almost brought me to hysterics. All I could do the rest of the day was kind of chuckle about it. I thought about it, and hated my reaction. Then I realized that I was responding the only way I knew how, that I was in shock. It's still kind of hard to believe that it actually happened. I had just re-enlisted 4 days earlier, and after all that happened, I knew I made the right choice to stay in.
 
I remember waking up, and everything was as normal. I did some cleaning, ate, etc. I sat down to ATOT and that was the first I heard of it, but i wasn't really aware of how serious it was. I left for work not long after (I was supposed to be doing the mailing database, but I spent most of the day in front of the tv at work in shock).

My birthday was two days later, but it seemed so small and almost hollow compared to the magnitude of what had happened.
 
I was driving up to school when I heard about it on the radio...I remember looking across the highway at other people who were staring back with the same :Q on their face....

To my suprise, both of my lame ass teachers continued to teach, but I can't say I paid them any attention. This was before I knew about AT so I was all over the web looking for any new bit of news I could find...I'm sure you all remember...every news site was hammered for the whole morning.

Once class was out I FLEW home(30 min ride in ~14) and sat infront of the TV for a few hours until I had to go to work...I'll never forget that day or the morning before it (9/11 early AM) I was on the phone with my buddy and we were laughing hysterically about the most moronic things.....like we were trashed but we really weren't...and then this happens...I don't think I'll ever forget this day 🙁

Ben
 
I was at work. I didn't believe that it happened.

Rumor got spread that we were under militar attack (like bombers and stuff).
 
Jeez, I had just woken up and was half groggy when my wife called from work. She works in advertising, so the TV's are going all day long. Well, of course she was freaking out while I turned on the tube just in time to see the second plane hit. Needless to say, not a good thing to wake up to. I'm standing there in my jockies with the curtains open, seriously losing my mind. Absolutely couldn't believe what was going on. Shoot, still can't. *sigh*
 
I was at work. We watched everything on CNN as it unfolded. Everyone was devastated and calling their families and friends. I work at a government installation so security immediately increased, and eventually we were sent home around noon ET. The power was out at my house so I had no way of knowing what was going on until the power came back on around 5:00 p.m. During that time period i remember just sitting on my front porch and comtemplating the mornings events and life in general.
 
My teacher walked into class where i go to college... He said both WTC towers just collapsed and school is shut down... I will never forget the way he said that...
 
being on the west coast, i was sleeping, but one of my house-mates ran into the room yelling "blah blah exploded blah blah"... suffice to say me and my roommate were scared sh!tless, and bounced quickly out of bed, ran out to our tiny 13 inch t.v. and saw the towers in flames...

schools were closed, so we sat at home all day watching news and such
 
I got up and got ready to goto work. Picked up my friend I car pool with and we went off to work listening to the Stern show. I wasn't quite sure of what was going on; Stern wasn't registering or something. So we went to work, right through the Sepulveda Tunnel (runs right under two of two of the runways at LAX for those who don't know). Get to work about 7:10 and everyone is gathered around a tv watching what's going on. We watch the second tower collapse. Then the annoucement comes that we're going into emergency shutdown at work (Aerospace industry). So we go home about 8:30 or so back to my friend's place. We watch the news for a while b4 I go home. I didn't know what to make of it at the time. I don't think I've ever felt so lost.
 
Driving into work (in the parking deck). Parked and ran upstairs to get on CNN and Anand. I heard the plane hit the second trade center and saw it on tv. Seeing the people jump was the worst thing I ever saw in my life. One of our attorneys was two blocks away and saw it live. If I had been there I would have died too....trying to save lives. Thats just me though.
 
Originally posted by: tweakmm
In my AP Computer Science class
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i was too. it just finished and i went upstairs where we had the tv on. people were telling me about somethign happening. My next class we jsut watched the tv all day....
 
I was asleep. I worked graveyard shift. And my phone started ringing off the hook with people calling telling me to turn on the tv. I got up and watched the news coverage pretty much most of the day. Went into work that night with little to no sleep.
 
I woke up at 6:00 am and was at work at 6:45am in Grissom Hall. I learned of the attacks while browsing the Hot Deals forum of AT. At 9:00am I left work and went back to my apartment. I was then glued to the tv until 11:15 when I went to class. I got to class only to find out it was cancelled. I then returned to my apartment and watched the coverage until 1:00pm when I left for my interview at AE Staley. I returned to my apartment at approximately 2:00pm and watched more coverage until I went to bed at about 11:00pm.

Enough details there? I could include more such as all the phone calls I made making sure that my grandfather and uncle were not around the buildings at the time of the attacks.
 
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