Where were you on 9-11?

[Katrina-Sisu]

Or where did you first hear about it?

I was 17 and in algebra when I heard it. All the school tv's were showing CNN and we saw the second tower be hit. :(

It was a beautiful sunny fall day in GA, just perfect outside. I remember driving home after school through the country, and there was no music anywhere on the radio. Every channel had coverage of what had happened earlier. I rolled down the window and listened to the birds.

Katrina

[longshot]

i was at work, i broke the news to my office, not long after the planes started landing in st johns and in gander. our office like most offices of my department swung into action to find accommodations and such for the thousands of stranded travellers, who were grounded on order from transport. canada and the faa. we, all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians opened our homes and hearts to those who needed it, as we usually do. i remember being so shocked afraid of the start of a world wide conflagration. then i remember getting so royally PO'ed. im still a bot po'ed. but i do remember wanting to run home to my family and staying at my office to take over the administration so that others could take to the field to do what we could for the stranded.

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[TNDadx4]

I was 33 and at work. I had just pulled into one of Bell South's Central Offices to do some work (I was with an Internet firm) and heard about the towers on the radio.

I walked inside and plugged my laptop into our network, but the news sites were too busy to pull any information.

I remember wondering "if this was 'it' or the beginning of 'it'".

[nancy1340]

We were in CA just getting ready to leave Yosemite to head to the airport in San Fran to fly back home to Texas. We had some friend from Oslo Norway with us.

We had all four gone into the office of the B&B to say goodbye to our hosts. When we walked into the office with big smiles on our faces our host said "You haven't been watching TV this morning have you?". We all four turned to the TV they had on. That was the instant they were replaying when the 2nd plane hit the Towers.

Later we all said we were trying to figure out what movie it was. I think one of us said that. Our host said "Not a movie, they have attacked the US".

I never carry my cell phone with me on trips (or used to not) but I happened to have it with me. Along with a tiny TV I had just bought from Radio Shack. We heard all the phone lines were jammed and there was no way we could call our friends daughter in Norway so I said let's go to the library and e-mail her. We sent her my phone number so she could call us. I didn't have international calling on my phone but she could call in. It wasn't a hour later that she called.

We called the car rental place thinking it would cost us a fortune to drive the car back to Texas and drop it off. All the agencies were dropping the mileage and only charging for daily use. If you had a car you better hang onto it. We ran into several people on the way back that had rented the 16 passenger vans and people who didn't even know each other were traveling home together.

It was so strange all along the way when you would go into a restaurant to eat and it was almost silent. The place could be packed but everyone was whispering almost.

John, our friend, was the driver for the Swedish Ambassador to Norway. The Norwegian prince was getting married and John and Bjorg (John's wife) had to delay their trip a week so John could drive the Ambassador to the wedding. IF they had been on their original schedule they had planned on being in the World Trade Center at 9am on the very morning of 9/11.

Their daughter thought that's where they were and was in a total panic.

[Whiskey_D.]

I was in classroom 411 at Christian County High School repairing a AC unit. We had the room to ourselves since it was a major repair. My co-worker and I had heard something about a plane hitting the World Trade Center so we turned on the tv in that room just in time to see the second tower hit.
I remember my dad telling me exactly where he was and what he was doing when JFK was killed and now I understand what he was telling me.

[bookwormom]

I was in Germany and the weather was nice. we had taken off wall paneling as there was a problem with mildew behind it and were renewing the plaster when the phone rang. It was our daughter calling from San Francisco.,she sounded agitated and said,Momma turn the TV on, the United States have been invaded.

[annabella1]

We were at the Anne Arundal county fair just outside of Washington DC. We had arrived on 9/10 to set up our puppet show and the fair didn't start until 9/12. We were planning to play tourist in DC that day and my husband in particular wanted to see the Pentagon. As we stepped out of the puppet trailer my son said he did not like how the flags were hanging off the top of the trailer. So I said go on up there and I will help adjust them from down here. My husband went back in the trailer as he is disabled and had to sit down while we worked. It was less than 5 minutes when my husband stuck his head out the trailer door and said "A plane just flew into the World Trade Center" I was trying to figure out what airport was called the World Trade Center and why it was important that a plane had landed there. Then like a light bulb I realized it was the buildings in New York. I went inside and had just said to my husband I hope this is an accident and not Osama bin Ladin when the second plane hit. Just a little bit later my son came in from on top of the roof of the trailer and asked "are we near an airport because that plane that just came in was awful low". We then heard on the TV that there was a disturbance and smoke at the Pentagon. We started telling the Fair workers what was going on and we soon had about 20 people crowded into our trailer watching the TV and very upset, some of them had family members who worked in and around the Pentagon. The Fair administrators then started broadcasting a local news radio over the PA system, and the workers left our trailer. We decided that we needed to get out of the fair site so we got in the truck and found that a lot of the roads in the area were closed. My husband was getting very stressed out (he's a Vietnam vet) and I suggested maybe we could go see a movie or something get our minds off of what was going on. We went to a nearby mall, I called my mom and let her know we were all right because I had told her the day before we were going into DC and I knew she would be worried. The theater at the mall's first showing wasn't for another hour so we bought tickets and went to the food court and got something to eat. We had just gotten our food when the Theater Manager came and said that the Mall was going to be shut down and gave us our money back for the tickets. When we got back to the puppet show we decided to change part of the show that involved a fox "bombing" the chicken coop, so we spent the rest of the day rewriting, rerecording and making props for the show. I don't think I will ever forget that day.

[jen_in_southtexas]

I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time and I would wake up at 6am every morning. The first thing i use to do was turn on the tv to look at the traffic reports. The first thing i saw on tv were the towers up in smoke then the airplane flew into a tower. I was still trying to wake up and thought that i had caught a movie clip or something. I was living with a friend of mine at the time and i could hear their(her and her b/f)voices. All the commotion going on in NY made me "snap out" of my morning fog. I stepped out of my room and asked them if they knew what was going on. My body went cold when my friend in a quiet but chilling voice said,"The US and World Trade Center has been attacked by foreign suicide bombers".

Its something you will always remember

[Txanne]

It was my 60th Birthday----I was off grid----my daughter called on my cell phone---

My world has been on fire ever since---the patriot in me is madder--than all get out.


We dealt with Japan---we have not dealt with this manic--YET!!


And in todays politically correct climate---we NEVER will.

He walks free--he hasnt had to jump from a burning building---nor been burnt to death---He hasnt had to drag long dead bodies from under piles of rumble-nor rebuild broken lives----He continues to taunt us---today.


Txanne

[bookwormom]

happy birthday annie, very best wishes, whatever you want for yourself. :)

[Txanne]

happy birthday annie, very best wishes, whatever you want for yourself. *:)


Book---Thank you.

It was a very good day.

And I was standing in the Post Office in Conroe,Tx. when
Kennedy was killed.

He as a politican knew the chances---of being asassinated.

The innocent ones in the Twin Towers--never even dreamed that September 11,2001 would be the end of all their dreams---their lives and our world would never be the same because they died---horrorably---needlessly----and killed by a religious fanatic---that had only recently been in our very own White House--as a guess of our own president---

Now can anyone tell me-----whats wrong with this picture?

How can this man still be alive?

thousands have died---civilains and soldiers---and he STILL breaths our air.

Txanne