Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001?

[Rudee]

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but these "Where were you on 911?" questions have been asked and answered over and over on this board each year around this time.

 

[tophatfield]

Sitting my lawn chair under a pear tree

 

[techs]

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but these "Where were you on 911?" questions have been asked and answered over and over on this board each year around this time.

It's a remembrance for those who fell.

 

[T9D]

For some reason I woke up early at home. I was sleeping in front of the TV on the floor. I hardly ever watch TV. Something told me to turn it on. When I did I saw the buildings smoking.

Years later I would find out that a guy from my graduating high school class was killed in the building.

I planted bamboo that day in my yard. I see It's still growing strong when I drive by. In fact I can see it on google maps.

 

[chimaxi83]

I was sexing a woman who thought I was 5 years older than I really was. TV on in the background. Saw it all from the first "breaking news" interruption, and was glued to the TV until the next day.

 

[SheHateMe]

6th Grade, Mrs. Johnson's History class. She flipped shit because her boyfriend was on a flight to New Jersey that day and we were watching the shit go down live. She didn't know if it was his plane or not. We had TVs in the classrooms back then. We used to watch a newstation for schools called "Channel One", she was flipping to that channel when we came across CNN and saw the headline.

I must say though, none of us...except for her knew what we were witnessing. We thought it was an accident.

Towards the end of the day the Principal called the whole school into the cafeteria to have a discussion about not bullying any of the Muslim kids in the school. We all agreed, but we still had no clue what happened and why he was saying not the bully the Muslim kids.

That was definitely a weird time.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was still in high school at the time. Just started Grade 11. I had first period off that semester. Was at home eating breakfast when I saw the news break on TV. Went to my class, came home for lunch and learned the towers had collapsed.

I live on a flight path. Was so weird in the days following not seeing any planes in the sky.

I remember the day after, or whatever day it was that they allowed flights again, looking up at the sky and seeing like 3-4 jetliners at a time in the sky, it was weird to see so many at the same time. All the smoke lines were crossing.

 

[T9D]

Yeah it was incredibly and eerily quiet with all the planes grounded. Amazing how much background noise planes make. Even when you aren't close to an airport.

 

[dbk]

Freshman year at my off-campus apt. I had just sat down to watch TV with some cereal.. Didn't go to class that day.

 

[alkemyst]

Deleted.



You have your own thread for that kind of remark.

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[dave_the_nerd]

Class.

My 11am class was with a n00b prof who had just gotten his doctorate at (I think Manhattan School of Music) a school in Manhattan. He came in, visibly shaken, stood up in front of the class, looked around, and told us to take the day off.

 

[ipown1337]

I was in high school I remember the media reporting it as if it was an accident, then the second plane the other WTC tower. I remember the teacher pacing back and forth and saying this is war. Looking back at this now I realize that in my teens I did not understand the gravity of what was going on.

 

[Ares202]

I was in school, and would have been 12 at the time.

I used to run home from school so i could use the PC before my brother got home (about 2 miles) but since he was off sick that day I couldnt get on the computer because he was already playing unreal tournament or something,

So i turned on the TV, about 3:15pm here (BST) I remember that the first plane had hit and I was like 'wow how can a pilot make such a stupid mistake' then shortly after another plane came into view live and struck the second tower. My mum got home from work shortly after and I told her and we just sat and watched........

 

[StinkyPinky]

I was in New Zealand during that time. I was typing an email out to my brother and had the TV on in the background. I glanced at it and saw what was happening.

 

[luci5r]

It's interesting to read that there are other people here who saw one of the planes go into the tower live on tv. Most people I know saw & came to know of the events after, I was always the exception.

I had just returned home from work; used to teach Web Development at a local Institute. Had been a long day; this was evening time where I was. Had been a long week in fact.

Was taking off socks & changing into something comfortable, and as a ritual, had the news running on TV, CNN if I remember correctly. They were reporting about the first plane crash into the tower - reporting it as a crash - since no one knew what this was at that moment between the first & second crash.

I saw the 2nd plane coming in as they were focusing on the burning wreckage in the first tower, and saw it crash into the second tower as they were talking about the fire. The reporters didn't actually notice the 2nd plane until it hit the tower, or at least didn't mention it until it actually hit.

I think for a few minutes I was frozen in time. I believe I had one sock off, the other one still in the process of being removed. No one else was home at the time. The word "terrorist attack" started to take shape in the running commentary that you could barely hear over the pandemonium in the background. I wasn't sure what I had witnessed; I hadn't seen anything like it ever before - like most of us.

Terrorist attack was a "concept" at the time; prominent in Asian countries, especially the middle east; but not so much in the western hemisphere. Although I was in India at the time; most of my family was in the United States. It took me a few minutes to realize what was going on, and to come in grips of what I had just witnessed on live tv.

I didn't stop watching the news till Monday morning when I had to go back to work. My bag & some other things were in the same spot Monday morning, where I had dropped them off Friday evening when I reached home & turned on the news.

 

[Anarchist420]

In world geography class with probably my favorite teacher I had in high school.

He was the coolest, brightest, most abstract minded, rule-breaking teacher I ever had. ENFP I would say.

 

[alkemyst]

In world geography class with probably my favorite teacher I had in high school.

He was the coolest, brightest, most abstract minded, rule-breaking teacher I ever had. ENFP I would say.

so did you fuck her or not? if not she wasn't breaking rules that much.

 

[lupi]

so did you fuck her or not? if not she wasn't breaking rules that much.

...

 

[halik]

I learned of the attacks on this very forum. At the time I was in the Air Force and stationed in Washington State, and was reading the forums before work. A couple of weeks later I was deployed to a classified location in the Middle East in support of Operation Enduring Force.

Err I thought you are an attorney?

 

[natto fire]

I was late to drop the Alky tagline, but I guess he tried. Apparently there are mods who don't want ATOT to convulse into a juvenile pit of horror.

I was in college at the time, and a lab I was really looking forward to was more or less cancelled when they brought a TV to start many on the drug that is 24/7 media. I think all the major channels pray for another incident like that, as I personally don't remember people thinking they had to watch the news at 3am, "just to make sure".

 

[datalink7]

I was asleep. My mom woke me up. I walked into the living room just in time to see the second plane hit.

 

[Anarchist420]

so did you fuck her or not? if not she wasn't breaking rules that much.

The teacher wasn't a female.

 

[StinkyPinky]

And to lighten the mood...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajXMVL8DCM

 

[momeNt]

Err I thought you are an attorney?

12 years is a long time buddy!


I was in school.

I was worried sick that our beloved television stars would be targeted during the Emmy's. Thankfully it was postponed until we had boots on the ground in Afghanistan. A close call for all.

 

[Harrod]

I was in college, walking to class, I kept seeing people glued to the tv's everywhere I went. Most of the classes I went to were almost empty. No one was talking about what happened, it was sometime around lunch when I found out.

I thing I remember most was being in a discrete math class and seeing the teacher just say something about "everyone go home, we can mess with this later".