S/O Bin Ladin- Where were you on 9/11?

mandalove7

I was in 6th grade when it happened, I think I was in Home Economics when all the teachers turned it on and we pretty much watched the news for most of the day. 

I'm shocked that 10 years later, Osama is now dead! Wow! 

ZombieNates

Con, I was just at Eagle Rock (Highlawn Pavillion) last night.  That view is gorgeous.

pixiedust84

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: S/O Bin Ladin- Where were you on 9/11? : No, I haven't but I just added it to my Goodreads list, thanks. I did however read the 9/11 related book about Cantor-Fitzgerald, and it was a very emotional, and interesting read.
Posted by mrs.jesse[/QUOTE]

Annnd I've just added that one to my list. Thanks :-)

SEWF

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[QUOTE]I was a sophomore in high school, and we first saw it during math class. I remember all the teachers had the TV on during the day, but when we got to English, our teacher scolded us for not focusing on school and tried to teach a lesson. It was kind of f'ed up, in retrospect.
Posted by polichik[/QUOTE]

<div>My biology teacher did the same thing.</div><div>
</div><div>I was in American Government. I was a junior in high school. One of the teachers came in to tell us about it. My American Government teacher was awesome and actually helped us understand and we had a class discussion about what this meant for our country. Most classrooms had the TV on. </div><div>
</div><div>When I got to bio, the teacher decided we should have class, but no one really paid attention.</div><div>
</div><div>I remember being scared because even though I'm in the middle of the country, I just thought about all the trains that go through here, and what could happen if someone decided to do something terrible to them.</div>

BunnyChii

I was in 6th grade (yes, I'm a youngin') and I was in gym class. Suddenly, we were told to sit in our spots on the floor. The gym teacher told us that the WTC had been attacked. I had no idea what the WTC was and didn't think it was a big deal, just some tragedy somewhere else in the country, y'know? Then our teacher took us back to the classroom and told us something bad had happened. My friend started freaking out cause he said his aunt lived in NYC. 

My principal came in to the classroom and answered a bunch of questions. I went home that night and watched the news replay the footage of it on TV. I was completely terrified and confused, clutching my American Girl doll. I can't forget the feeling I felt then - I was just so confused and scared. I had no idea what had happened and why someone would do that to our country.

I remember my grandmother saying that she turned on TV that morning and saw the footage. She thought it was a movie at first. She could not believe that it was really real. I think that was a common reaction: total disbelief.

azdancer8

I was in a hotel room. We were living there while our college dorm was being built. I remember waking up to my roommate watching the news coverage on TV before school. She had just called off her engagement the night before, so it was a doubly rough couple of days for her.

ConKFA319

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[QUOTE]A moment I'll never forget was maybe a couple days afterward.  <strong>We were having candlelight vigils in every town and everyone had a flag on their car.  I was driving down the highway, when we hit a wall of traffic--there were literally hundreds of motorcylces, all driving in a procession with flags in honor of the victims.  </strong>As I was sitting there, a motorcycle drove up next to me and the people pointed to the little flag on my antenna and gave me a thumbs up sign. <strong> It was such a sign of solidarity, a "we're all Americans in this together" moment that I'll never forge</strong>t.  I just sat in my car, crying and even now I get choked up thinking about it.
Posted by ZombieNates[/QUOTE]

<div>I remember this so well. It was incredible.</div>

ConKFA319

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[QUOTE]Con, I was just at Eagle Rock (Highlawn Pavillion) last night.  That view is gorgeous.
Posted by ZombieNates[/QUOTE]

<div>It was so intense up there. We were up there almost every day. The smoke went on for months, and when they started excavating the rubble, they put the lights up. We went up there to see them and we just stood there, holding each other, crying, for hours.</div><div>
</div><div>I also remember my mom coming home crying from work. She worked as a police dispatcher and many of the cops from the department went in to assist in the rescues. She said when they came back the smell was like nothing you can imagine. The guys would come back and just cry in the locker room. It was really hard on everyone.</div>

tunaep11

I was 14 yrs. old and a freshman in high school, in drama class. I remember watching the second plane hit live on tv and watching both towers fall live. I think all we did that day in school was watch the news.

musicalsunlight

I was in 8th grade and a friend grabbed me during passing time and told me the Wtc had been hit. Being 14 or whatnot, and totally removed from the area, I had no idea what that was. Once we got to our next class, we saw the second plane hit. The rest of the day was spent watching tv in all the classrooms. I remember the sheer horror of watching the plane hit live and then watching the buildings tumble. A friend of mine was worried sick about his mom, since she was a flight attendant and her flight that morning was to ny (and for awhile people didn't know what planes they were). Thankfully his dad called to let him know she was ok.

Muffin'sMom

I was at home...living in Cincinnati at the time.  My daughter had just started college and was 12 hours away.  She called scared because her dad traveled a lot and she wanted to make sure he was on the ground...he was.  She didn't sleep much for the next few months.  Her school was close to several different military bases on the east coast and the low flying planes and helicopters at all hours of the day and night were crazy.

I remember calling Heather and then calling my sister.  She was living in SoCal, and so it was 5am her time.  She answered and I told her to turn on the TV.  I could hear her husband griping, she's asking what channel, and I'm telling her it doesn't matter...just push the on button.  That was followed by several moments of silence and then I could her her husband say OMG.

The one that sticks with me was the recording of the daughter calling her mom and being so afraid...no way out and the building burning.  As a mom, I don't know how you live through that.

pixiedust84

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[QUOTE]I was at home...living in Cincinnati at the time.  My daughter had just started college and was 12 hours away.  She called scared because her dad traveled a lot and she wanted to make sure he was on the ground...he was.  She didn't sleep much for the next few months.  Her school was close to several different military bases on the east coast and the low flying planes and helicopters at all hours of the day and night were crazy. I remember calling Heather and then calling my sister.  She was living in SoCal, and so it was 5am her time.  She answered and I told her to turn on the TV.  I could hear her husband griping, she's asking what channel, and I'm telling her it doesn't matter...just push the on button.  That was followed by several moments of silence and then I could her her husband say OMG.<strong> The one that sticks with me was the recording of the daughter calling her mom and being so afraid...no way out and the building burning.  As a mom, I don't know how you live through that</strong>.
Posted by Muffin'sMom[/QUOTE]

Wow - I cannot even imagine. That gives me chills. How do you deal with that ever? Ugh. It makes me sick to my stomach.

bonnyandtim

Senior in HS.

2nd period govt. class.

sb9411

I was in Pittsburgh... on PITTs campus... and we were so scared. We thought that the plane that crashed in Somerset was coming towards the city... It was mayhem.

jess9802

I had just started my senior year of college. My radio alarm went off at the usual time; the DJs on the radio were saying something about a tragedy, loving family and friends, and I realized something bad had happened. Got online and saw the news on Yahoo's homepage, then immediately turned on the TV. I'm from the PNW, and so the first tower had already collapsed by the time I woke up. I remember thinking how odd the skyline would look with just one of the two towers. My dad called me from work and wanted to know what was going on; the second tower collapsed during our conversation.

katy0293

I was a senior in High School.. I was in my senior spanish class.  We turned on the TV's just in time to see the second plane and then the towers collapsing... I was in shock.  My next class was a study hall type class in the cafeteria. When I walked into the cafeteria, the plane hit the pentagon.  My father was working in the pentagon, about 100 yards away from the crash site.  I didn't know if he was OK until about 5p... one of the most stressful days of my life.

They put an article on me in the school newsletter... it was weird.

aprovencher21

I was a senior in high school and was in Chamber Singers and a teacher came running in saying the twin tower had been hit by a plane.  We thought it was an accident so we turned on the TV.  Just as we did the second plane hit.  It was terrifying.  I went to a boarding school in PA where a ton of NYC kids went.  The amount of kids who had family members working in or around the towers was terrifying.  My baby cousin had a scheduled school visit that day but was home sick (thank god).  ONe of our close family friends worked on the main floor of the building of the second tower that was hit by the plane (all of her coworkers that went in that day died).  She was on a business trip to Chicago, thank heavens.  Also because of where we all lived all cell phone and land lines weren't working.  I couldn't get ahold of my parents and family.  Due to increased security measures my parents couldn't get over to pick up my brother who was in middle school and I had him for the day as classes were canceled.  H, though I didn't know him at the time, was based at the main Navy base in NJ where you could see the twin towers.  What is absolutely terrifying is that its mainly a resupplying base/port for munitions.  If one of the planes had hit his base it would have blown up NYC and NJ.  It would have been complete devastation.  H shipped out the next day in his battle group.  On his next time back in the US on a brief shore leave we'd meet. 

Bkseller13

I'd worked a closing shift the night before, so I didn't wake up until after the 2nd tower fell.  My roommate told me what had happened.  It took me a while to process it, but then we were both glued to the TV the rest of the day.

number55

Dear God, this only served to make me feel very very old. 

I was in my first year of teaching. It was the 2nd week of school. So I had taught 4 full days at this point. Nobody knew what was going on except for one teacher, who always had the radio on in his classroom. When I got to the staff room for lunch people were talking about it. I actually immediately suspected BinLaden (this was at least a day before the name was mentioned) because I had lived in the Middle East most of my life. It was kinda weird because I brought his name up in the staff room and people where like "Who the hell is he?"...my father had told me about him years before when we had lived in Saudi.

Anyways, when I got back to period 4 a lot of kids knew about it because some of them had gone home for lunch. They were too young for me to be allowed to show it on TV (plus we didn't have cable) but we talked about it a bit and then moved on.

I remember listening to the radio all the way home (45minutes) and then being glued to CNN. 

lisa89760

I was a junior in high school and in pysch. class watching Breakfast Club.  A history teacher ran into the room telling the teacher to turn on the news.  We just watched the news for the entire day in every class.  We weren't allowed to leave our school even though the rest of the schools in the city were let out.  There were riots in the streets of Dearborn so they thought it would be safer for us to stay in the school.  (the city i went to HS in has one of the largest muslim populations outside of the middle east) My Athletic Director let as many students as possible call their parents because the school wouldn't let us and our parents were freaking out due to the riots being on the news. 

katiewhompus

It was my senior year in high school and I was in AP gov. My high school suddenly went on lock down but told us that it was just a drill and the day continued as normal about 10 minutes later. I later found out (via my dad who taught there, but was unable to get word to me because of the lock down) that the principal had sent runners to all of the teachers ordering them to turn off any tv's or radios that were being used in the classroom and not to tell students what happened.

We found out about 2:30pm when the kids from the separate Governer's school came in. One of my friends was white and shaking because his sister worked in NY and I asked him what was wrong. He went "Wtf do you think is wrong? I'm scared?" I go "Scared of what? No one's going to shoot up our school dude" (thinking Columbine scare/bomb drill we had just had).

Then I went to work at 3:00 and saw the footage of the planes flying into the tower and just about lost it. We shut down the fitness center and all just sat on the couches for 6 hours watching the footage.

One of my (older) friends also worked in the Pentagon at that time and I was freaking out because I couldn't get him on the phone for a good 2 days.

tayylor65

I was in 7th grade computer class.  Our middle school head came to all the classrooms and tried to explain what was happening in a way we'd understand, I didn't realize what was going on until I got home though.

smilygrl17

I was a freshman in HS, in history class. Someone came in and said that the World Trade Center had been hit. Even though I live in NJ and so close to NYC I didn't know what the WTC was, I only knew them as Twin Towers. Our school (a small -abt 200 students- Jewish private school) went for an assembly to say some psalms. Then, since people come from Brooklyn, Staten Island and all over NJ, we all went home due to bridges closing. When I got home I watched with my mom on TV.

TheCranberry

I was getting ready for work (I worked in downtown Manhattan within walking distance of the Twin Towers).  I was late that day so I was watching the Today show when they cut in and said a plane had crashed into one of the towers.  They interviewed a witness over the phone who said it was a jet, not a small plane.  I thought he was crazy because jets don't fly that low.

One of my friends called as I was leaving the house and said I probably shouldn't go to work, but I thought it would be fine.  I went up to my subway station, which was above ground right in Brooklyn, and could see all of the smoke and debris already flowing our way.  I was in shock as was everyone else on the platform.  My mom got through and told me not to go to work and everything was so confusing.  I let a lady borrow my phone to try to call a family member (I can't remember who) who worked in the towers, but she didn't get through.  I went downstairs to go back home and then heard people screaming so I ran back up to the platform.  The second plane had hit and people were crying and screaming on the platform. 

My mom told me to go home and stay inside so I did.  I had just moved to NYC two months before so I didn't have cable yet, and the only channel I had was CBS so I watched that all day and kept my mom on the phone.  There were rumors that there was looting going on, but it ended up not being true. 

I was so lucky that I was late that day because my coworkers were at first in the building's basement and then they evacuated the building either after the second plane hit or after the first tower fell.  Everyone was running, and I would have had to walk home over the Brooklyn Bridge.  I still remember what I was wearing that day.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

I was a senior in high school.  I had gotten out of my 0-period anatomy class and was on my way to first period English.  My speech coach taught sophomore English right next door to the senior English class room and was making a huge ruckus about how everyone MUST turn on their televisions.

My first two periods of class that day were spent watching CNN, pretty much in silence.  When the towers fell I pretty much wanted to puke.

I am so glad that motherfucker is dead.

ETA - Ben's first period teacher didn't turn her tv on since she was administering a test that morning.  He was shocked when I told him what had happened.

mehgank

I was in my senior year of high school. I was brushing my teeth when I heard my mom say "OH MY GOD!" from the living room. I came out and asked her what was wrong, and she pointed to the tv showing a live feed of the WTC and said "A plane just crashed into the World Trade Center. I don't understand, those buildings have flashing lights on them and everything. This doesn't make sense..." and just when she said that last sentence is when the second plane hit. I will never forget that feeling of dread that I got in the pit of my stomach, watching that second plane hit. My mom then looked at me and said "This is serious. This was intentional."

I took the bus to school and by the time I got there, a plane had gone down in PA and hit the Pentagon. All of my classes were tuned in to the news. I remember thinking how lame my classmates were for trying to get out of school for it, when our school was probably the safest place for us.

The feeling I remember most vividly is being on pins and needles, expecting the terror to be widespread throughout the U.S., and since I lived so close to Seattle, I kept wondering if something might happen there.

SCBojangles1138

I was a freshman in high school. We came back inside from gym class and the principle came to tell us. I felt so stupid because 1) I didn't know what the WTC was and 2) I thought it was a little cessna plane.

I walked over to my aunt's classroom and she showed me the TV. At that point another aunt who is a naval officer had just moved to DC and we still weren't sure if her office was in the Pentagon or the Annex building. We didn't hear from her until midnight that night. Her office was in the annex and the shadow of the plane crossed over her window just before it hit.

I was in shock - the weight of it didn't hit me until I saw the fire trucks crushed like children's toys (my dad's a firefighter).

Y I Oughta

I was at work in a drug store running the front register. We thought the customer was joking when she came in and told us what happened. We found a little portable tv we had for sale and set it up so we could watch while working. The photolab person and I watched together.  After the plane went down in Shanksville it got real for us. My Step-Grandmother lives near there and nobody could get a hold of her. The first reports around here was that it may have went down into some houses. We were freaking out. Turned out she felt the earth shake and thought it was an earthquake. Her first thought was to go check on the 80+ year old woman in the next house over to make sure she was ok.

I remember my mom freaking out and picking my kid up from daycare because they were closing down for the day. They were located near downtown Pittsburgh, which had a lot of businesses closing down due to the fear of something happening there. It was mass confusion because of the Shanksville plane crash, nobody knew if it was really headed for Pittsburgh or D.C. at first.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

I was a sophomore in college. I had all 5 of my classes on the same days (Tue/Thurs) starting at 8am. Went to 8am class. Everything good. Showed up at my 9:20 class which I had with 2 of my BF's roommates. They told me a plane had hit the world trade center, and I thought, "wow, it must have been flying really low for that sort of accident to occur." Then they said while they were watching GMA ANOTHER plane hit the WTC. It was still barely registering with me. I said, "So they used planes as weapons? WTH?" and one said, "Well, yeah, you're not thinking like a terrorist!" Lol, they're brilliant, apparently.

After class we rushed to the news room (we were all journalism/TV majors) where they had 3 TVs all turned to different news stations. By then WTC 1 had collapsed and I remember one girl gasping in horror as we watched WTC 2 collapse. I think I skipped my 3rd class of the day but during my 4th class we just listened to the news coverage. And my last class of the day was either skipped or dismissed. The professors didn't blame us for not coming to class that day. There were a lot of people at my school from the NYC area (we were about 5 hours away).

Hays2be

I was working.  The other nurse in my room came back from her break and said that a plane had hit one of the towers and it was on fire.  By the time I got to the lounge, the second one had hit and we knew it was on purpose.  It was the only time in 13 years working at that hospital that it was silent in the lounge--usually, you couldn't hear yourself think.

Then the Pentagon got hit and I thought they were coming down the coast--did I need to get my kids?  J was at UNC-CH and A was in middle school.  What the h3ll was going on and were they coming for us next?

Before I left work that day, I said it was bin Laden and everybody told me I was crazy.  A few days later, they were all "how did you know that?"  I was also the only one that had heard of the Taliban (read it in a magazine--it was mostly about the poor treatment/abuse of women by the Taliban)  Once again, all amazed.  It's amazing what you can learn when you read everything you can get your hands on, and not just the novels they saw me reading at work. 

It's my generation's "Kennedy" moment.