Where were you when...

gina emlee · September 2009

Since today is the 8th anniversery of Sept. 11 I thought it would be nice to share where you were when you found out what had happened. I know that I will never forget that day.I was in my 2nd year of college and I remember that it was a Tuesday because that was the only semester that I had an 8 am class. I remember coming back to my apartment and my 5 roomates were crowded around the tv watching the news. This would have been around the time the 2nd plane had crashed. We were all in a state of shock.

brian&shelli · September 2009

I remember just having taken my kiddo's to school, coming home and watching it on TV.....shell shocked at what I was seeing and hearing!!!!!!!

doersam2010 · September 2009

It was my senior year of high school. I was in my second class of the day (pre-calculus) when the principal came over the PA system and told everyone what was happening. Every student went outside around the flag pole at noon. We all held hands in a huge circle and prayed the entire rosary (I went to an all-girls Catholic high school). We did not do school work in any other class that day, we just watched TV in horror at what was going on. I will never ever forget that day. I remember it like it was yesterday, I cannot believe it has been 8 years!

pinklori · September 2009

I was at home with my older sister who was visiting from British Columbia. She got delayed here an extra week due to flights being grounded-many flights coming from overseas to NYC were diverted to Nova Scotia for a few days for safety reasons. My University classes were cancelled because they used it to house people from the diverted flights. Many people here opened up their homes as well to the passengers as well! Even though the attacks were in the US, Canadians felt a strong connection to it and really felt for all the families that were needlessly torn apart.

slevesquemut · September 2009

I was a senior in high school. I was in a class in the auditorium when they made the announcement over the loudspeakers, but you couldn't hear what they said in the room I was in. Class went on, and when I got to my next class everyone was talking about it. It took about ten minutes for me to catch on to what happened. Every class after that we just watched the news.

Future.Mrs.H. · September 2009

I was in my 3rd year of College. I was in the Engineering Mechanics - Dynamics Class when the planes crashed.When I got out of the class everybody was in shock talking about it, so I went to the Student Center where they have big screen TVs to watch the news.That's where I heard about the Pentagon attack and I started to panick because one of my best friends was working on the Pentagon by the time of the attacks. I tried to call him again and again, but the lines where busy. Finally after 3 hours of panic I got ahold of him and he was fine, he was in some Senator's house near the Pentagon with a few other people that worked at his office; they were not allowed to go anywere until everything was safe.

suannoch · September 2009

I was pregnant with my son and happened to be on a news site that morning at work when the information was posted. We grabbed a few portable tvs from the store room and turned them on around the department. Not much got done that day as we watched, and it completely took us by surprise to see a second plane crash. I spent the day helping a friend try to reach his sister and I remember most of us leaving early to be with family.

Mistym05 · September 2009

I was a freshman in high school and in my math class. My first thought was completely shocked, my 2nd thought was I hope my brother was safe (he was on his way back to camp Pendleton where he was stationed as a Marine). He was unable to call us until almost 9 o'clock that night! He ended up landing somewhere in Nevada and a bus came and picked them up. He was in the first round of troops to go to Afghanistan, and was on the front line when they invaded Iraq. He has made 2 tours over there, and came home safe both times thankfully!! September 11th changed everyone lives, and will never be forgotten!

AprilJT · September 2009

My story is kinda long. I was a flight attendant for Delta and left NYC at like midnight that night (we were suppose to layover there because we were so delayed due to fires in Newark but the 11th was our day off so we got into it with the schedulars and they ended up letting us go home, thank goodness). I got home to Atlanta really early and left a message to my boyfriend to not call me and wake me up. Well he called. I was so mad at him for waking me up until he told me what was happening. I'm glad he called because I was able to call all of my family and tell them I was ok before most of them had heard the news. I had 3 other flight attendant roomies and we sat around watching the news all day. It was an unexpected day off and we weren't sure when we were going to start working again, so it was a very stressful crazy day.

sarlah · September 2009

It was my first year of college and all of a sudden my mom came charging into my room and was like "Get up! You have to get up and look at the news!" And I was of course all groggy so I was asking why, and she says "Someone is attacking the World Trade Center in NY!" I got up immediately of course, watched the news, I honestly don't remember if the attack on the Pentagon had occurred yet, or the plane that went down PA. I don't think they had, because even though we were watching the news on the west coast, we were watching live early morning news. I then remember getting ready for school, I remember going to take a shower and I just cried and cried. I still don't understand that kind of hatred.

hed970s · September 2009

I was a sophomore in college... I caught a glimpse of it on the news before I went to class, then everyone was talking about it on the shuttle. When I walked into the student center, it was absolutely silent, and there were at least 100+ students crowded around a tv, watching the news. I'll never forget that feeling.

mydogbaloo · September 2009

I was sitting at my desk at work, listening to the radio. I worked about 10 miles from the Pentagon. As soon as the radio announcer said that the first World Trade Center building was hit, we turned on the tv. We were watching tv and listening to the radio, when other listeners started calling into the radio station saying that they were sitting on the beltway (morning rush hour traffic is horrible here) and saw a plane fly over them and hit the Pentagon. We started freaking out, trying to call people and to find out what was going on. It was very scary. People were reporting that other monuments were being bombed. They closed a bunch of the roads around us. It was the worst feeling not knowing if I was going to be able to get home, if my friends and family were ok, and what was happening to the world around us. I will never forget what happened. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

FutureMrs.McC · September 2009

Second year in college. I had an 8am studio class and didn't hear anything about it until I got to my next class at 10. Half the class knew and half didn't. I just remember trying to call my mom (she's a teacher and they had closed her school) but their phones were jammed. I drove my roommate nuts that week because I would not turn off the news. I just watched the same thing over and over.

Soon2bMrsNaylor · September 2009

I was a sophomore in HS and my dad was driving me to school. Since we're on the west coast it started while we were still asleep. I remember hearing the radio DJ say a plane had crashed into one of the WTC towers. My dad kept saying "are you sh!tting me?" It was surreal b/c we had just been there just two months before. In most of our classes we just watched the news, but there were a few teachers who thought it ws stupid to be watching it. Like we could concentrate on anything else.

Kahtie41 · September 2009

It was my freshman year of college, 8am English class. In the middle of class one guy left to use the bathroom, and when he came back in the room he interupted the prof and kind of dazedly said, "Um, is there a tv in here we can watch? Some plane crashed into a building in NYC..." It sounded so bizarre, and I think the prof was a little irritated that he interrupted her, so she said No and continuted with class. When we got out at 9:15, all the tv's on the main floor (where the bathrooms are) were playing CNN footage. Some were silent, others were chaotically shouting the news to people walking by who hadn't heard yet. I went back to my dorm room and called my family, and skipped my other class that day to watch the news. Even though I didn't have any family fighting overseas, I did lose a friend in the war. His name was Dan and was known on campus as Cowboy Dan. He started out in ROTC, but after the attacks on the WTC, he switched to the Army Reserves. He did graduate college with all of us before being deployed, but he lost his life from an IED in Iraq. On days like today I say a special prayer for Dan and all the others who serve for our country.

DanielleB1978 · September 2009

Was in my 6th year in college (I kinda took my time in school). I always put on my makeup sitting on the couch watching the morning news. I was getting ready for my French class and turned on the TV right after the 2nd plane hit. Wish I would have skipped class but didn't. Watched the towers fall right before the start of class with a big group of students in the hallway. I still can't believe the professor didn't cancel. I remember people crying while he lectured and trying so hard to keep it together. I was in shock and knew once I started crying I would be hysterical - which I was once I was back in my car.My mother was in the Navy Reserves for 20+ years. She was called up for active duty right after 9/11. She said the second she heard about the first plane, she knew she was going to war. She spent a year in Bahrain on airport security. It was a very scary and hard time.

chosen175 · September 2009

When the first plane hit, I was at home, getting ready to go to work. I remember thinking to myself "What a moron - it's not like you couldn't see the WTC coming up in front of you in time to turn." At that time, I had no idea the plane was hijacked. When the second plane hit, I was at a restaurant having breakfast with a co-worker I carpooled with. They had a TV on and I just couldn't believe it. At the time, I was running 2 group homes for autistic kids and I basically parked myself in front of the TV in the living room all day. The staff kept calling and asking "What's the plan for today?" and all I could tell them was "Same plan we have every day." It was VERY weird to not see planes in the sky, though - the group home was right under a landing path for a nearby airport so the absence of the planes was really odd.Rest in peace, all those who lost their lives. May their families continue to heal and may those who tried to help realize how heroic their actions were.

JSBB2010 · September 2009

I was just getting out of the shower. It was my day off from working and my Mama called me and told me to turn on the t.v. I did, and sat there in a towel and cried while I watched the second plane crash into the towers. I was shocked and amazed that this had happened in the United States.Remember those who lost their lives and those who protect us each day.God bless America.

alisonpilgrim610 · September 2009

It was my 2nd year in college. I had an early class, then normally met my friends out in the courtyard before the next class we had together. One of my friends showed up (whom I lived with at the time) and said that she had watched the news and a plane crashed into the first tower...we went to class, which was a studio class, and everyone just kept talking about what was going on. We learned that a 2nd plane hit. Then once there were threats of the 3rd plane being hijacked and threats on the pentagon, our college sent everyone home. People were freaking out b/c NYC & BOS were so close...My mom, friend, & I sat in our living room the rest of the day and watched the news. I just remember being glued to that TV totally dumbfounded by what I was seeing. we just kept saying "Oh my God!" and gasping, over & over again. Terrible....I'll never forget it.

ericandcindy · September 2009

I was a sophmore in HS. Every morning I used to get to school really early and hang out with some friends. So none of us knew until people started showing up late and telling us what was going on. At first we didn't even believe them. Our teachers ceased classes for the day and just kept the news on.

ericandcindy · September 2009

Misty, Katie and Danielle, your families and friends are all incredibly brave. It makes me proud to call myself an American because of people like them.

vateacher · September 2009

I was student teaching when someone told me something was going on. I didn't grasp what they were talking about. They made the teachers continue the day and not say anything to the kids. I took my cell phone and called my mom from the staff bathroom to ask her what was going on. I can still remember the next few days the kids would build towers with blocks and pretend that planes would crash them down.

Mrs.G_09 · September 2009

Ok, so it's not the 11th anymore but...I was a senior in HS. I had not heard anything about what had happened until I entered my 3rd period math class. Every class room had a tv, but they were rarely used so I thought it odd when I entered the classroom and the news was on. By this time both planes had hit and as I looked at the screen it took me a while to realize what was going on. Call me stupid, but before the attacks I didn't even know what the WTC was or where it was. At first I thought something had happened in another country, then I realized it was the U.S. and I was in shock. All we did was watch the news the entire school day. I was sitting next to one of my friends when the towers fell and she was crying uncontrolably because her aunt and uncle lived near the WTC. I will never ever forget that day.

merhou · September 2009

I know, I'm a day late but I was not on the computer at all yesterday.I was living in Colorado at the time. I was packing my suitcase getting ready for my flight to NYC for my engagement party. My fiance was, sadly, in one of the Towers. We met in law school and for the year after graduation he went back to NYC and I went to Denver...we decided enough was enough and I was going to move to NYC. Ironically, his father's bday is also 9/11 so it was a joint party. I was on the phone with him, making sure he had my flight information when all of a sudden he screamed "what the fu" and the line went dead. That was the last time we ever spoke. I buried 4 friends from that disaster.Life goes on and in a month I'll marry the man I know I was meant to spend my life with. In a lot of ways it seems like just yesterday and in others it seems like a lifetime ago, like I don't even know who that 27 year old girl was....8 years....wow.

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