Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001?

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[Mixolydian]

I was in school.

 

[MontyAC]

At work.

 

[Poulsonator]

Walking into work, on the phone with a buddy, who was telling me about the first plane.

 

[SaurusX]

In college at the time. I woke up and turned on Scifi channel as usual and watched an episode of Manimal (which I'd seen before). Walked to class and by then both towers were already down.

 

[brainhulk]

School

 

[dabuddha]

Getting ready for work.

 

[Brainonska511]

In school. No idea anything had happened till the mid-afternoon, when my mom stopped in to tell me what happened and that my dad was okay (he worked in the World Financial Center, which was across the street, at the time, and up until the 1992 or so, he actually worked on the 101st floor of one of the towers). I didn't quite get it until I got home and saw the news.

 

[Proprioceptive]

Woke up for school living in Saipan. Grandmother said a plane had hit the WTC... I figured a prop plane pilot fell asleep or something... then we turned the TV on and 5 minutes later the second plane hits... very surreal that morning.

(News was on a time delay so we didn't see it in real time.)

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I worked for Compaq in internal IT. I remember hearing people in the cubes outside of my office stating that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center and then a few minutes later, the other plane hit and it was clear what happened. They turned on the projector in our big conference room and showed the new coverage. It was an awful, awful day.

 

[jman19]

In college. Woke up, heard there was a fire in the WTC from an "accident". Went to my physics recitation - about 30 min in to it we were all told to go back to our dorms. Tried calling my parents (who live in Manhattan) but couldn't get through. Woke up one of my friends who was also from NYC to let him know what happened. He thought I was joking until he turned on the TV. Turns out his aunt worked in one of the towers but thankfully was not at work that day. Two girls in my hall who were from NY were crying hysterically.

Will never forget that day.

 

[rudeguy]

Day off. I slept in and woke up right after the first tower fell. I seriously thought I was dreaming.

 

[Thebobo]

I was at the Voice of America building down on the mall in DC in the Building managers office and he had the TV on as I walked in. He was watching the news of the first plane and we stayed and watched untill the second plane hit and then all hell broke loose in DC.

 

[Pardus]

Was home watching it and remember how the news reporters didn't think this was real or live at first.

 

[PowerYoga]

eating cereal and watching morning news, watching the towers collapse on tv.

 

[Meghan54]

Had just moved from FL back to GA, was watching TV that morning, taking a break from working/trying to resurrect my Dad's old BMW motorcycle. Saw the towers attack live on ABC. Still cannot erase those images.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I was at work.


That was a long long time ago.

 

[LookBehindYou]

In the Air Force, was at home watching it happen. I was down from duty with a sprained ankle, immediately wrapped it up, went to the clinic and got cleared for duty. Within an hour of being brought back up, I was armed and on my way to patrol the missile field for countless hours afterwards. I think I came home four days later long enough to do laundry and went right back out for another 5 or 6 days. As soon as we were in Afghanistan I was tasked with a deployment to go there, we cancelled at the last minute (bags packed, already processed through the mobility line) because it would have been too difficult to backfill us with guard and reserve because of the nuke mission.

Fun times.

 

[sixone]

Getting in the shower, heard on NPR about the first plane. When they reported the second plane, I flipped on the TV. News people were going nuts.

Hard to believe it was real, so used to seeing movies and stuff on TV that's fake. But when I went outside and there were no planes in the sky at all...

That was also the day our new combine was delivered. Was the most expensive thing I'd ever bought in my life.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

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.

 

[Arcadio]

I was getting ready to leave for school. Scientific Computing class at 10:00 am.

 

[LTC8K6]

At work. Didn't know until a late arriving employee gave me the news.

Quite a day.

 

[clamum]

At work. My friend came to pick me up for a college class shortly after as normal, and he said that my boss had said "We're going to war" after it happened.

 

[nageov3t]

getting ready to go to class.

had just gotten back from the shower and turned on the news to listen to as I got dressed... this was just after the first plane hit, before we new the towers actually fell. I spent the morning just assuming we'd be able to see them once the smoke cleared.

 

[NutBucket]

I was driving to work. Back then I listed to Stern on FM and he was talking about it. I wasn't quite sure what was happening until I got to work and turned on a TV. We were all in shock.