NWR: Where were you...

ggmae · September 2009

...on 9/11/2001 when you first heard about the terrorist attacks on the US? Many people say that those affected by that day will always remember where we were when we first found out.I was in 10th grade Spanish class. It's amazing that it's already been 8 years.

kkchisholm · September 2009

9th grade english class.

SwedishChick2011 · September 2009

I was going into my sophomore year of college. I was still in bed and my parents woke me up to tell me that the first tower had been hit. It was a bad day.

Night_Sprite · September 2009

I was in choir as a sophomore in high school.

betrothed123 · September 2009

I was in my 10th grade history class. The TVs were on throughout the school all day.

vallyhoo · September 2009

I was a senior in high school. I was in homeroom and someone got a phone call telling them to turn on our TV. Our teacher was awesome, so she allowed us. We all just sat there in silence. I remember leaving homeroom, thinking everyone knew what was going on, and walking by people at lunch just laughing and having a great time. I thought that was so callous and I was asking myself why don't they care/know what is going on? It was a surreal day.My American History class was that afternoon and we just watched the news coverage.

[Deleted User] · September 2009

I was working in a bank. We were getting ready to open and we had a tv in the lobby, so everyone gathered around to watch the horrible day unfold.

cmhershey · September 2009

I just woke up. I had off of school that day. My mom heard me get out of bed and screamed for me to tell me what happened. I was 18 years old.

pumpkinpumpkin · September 2009

I was in my 2nd year of university. Found out when I turned on the TV that morning, took me a minute to figure out what was going on, and why this was on every channel. Maybe it's because I'm Canadian and live in a small town, etc. But to be honest, I don't feel like it's affected me. I know deep down it has...but still don't really feel it. My aunt was supposed to fly home that morning, and she ended up having to stay with my mom and dad for an extra 5 days. This is my BSC aunt. 5 extra days with her is too much.

Stackeye210 · September 2009

I was busy with 4 kids as a nanny - but the mother of the kids and I ended up just standing at the TV for hours and let the kids do whatever they wanted as we looked at the news horrified.

mandybear7 · September 2009

10th grade geometry. Side note: I'm teaching high school now, and it is nuts that they don't even remember it... they were about 6-7 years old.

bbyckes · September 2009

Getting ready to leave my house to take my son to kindergarten.

alixzafiris · September 2009

Eleventh grade tech class. Or maybe tenth... No, I think it was eleventh. I suck at math.

ac_in_dc · September 2009

I was in my office, same one I'm in now. 6 blocks from the US capitol. We had an all-staff meeting scheduled in the AM, so everyone trickled in there and watched the whole thing unfold on a wide screen TV. Some of my friends in NYC (IMO) exhibit PTSD symptoms from being in the city on and after 9/11/01

danieliza1127 · September 2009

I was at home getting ready for work when the first plane hit. I remember sitting on a footstool in my living room stunned and watching Katie Couric on the Today show. At that point they were saying it was just a small prop plane, just an accident. By the time I got to work the second plane had hit. I listened to the radio in my office all day and my H kept calling me giving me updates. I had to leave work early that day because I had a doctor appt scheduled. The rest was a blur of constant news coverage. I watched Peter Jennings and cried when he came back on the air after just having talked to his kids to make sure they were okay. He got choked up. I love him, it's making me want to cry now.

lyndausvi · September 2009

I was watching the Today show. Which is something I did not do very often. I was also getting read to go to work. We actual still did one trip, but cancelled the other one.

tidetravel · September 2009

I was exercising racehorses on the track. I remember coming in and being told the first tower was hit. My co-worker and I debated about whether it was an accident or an attack. The when the second plane hit, we both looked at each other and went concluded that it was an attack.We went on with our day. While I was on the track, I could see the smoke from the pentagon. I didn't know what it was until I came in. We both stopped work for the day, set up the horse's feed for the evening and left before beltway traffic could get crazy.

a_schaal · September 2009

I was in college.. or was supposed to be. I was on the couch in my apartment skipping class and turned on the news.. didn't believe it at all. I did see the second attack live, that finally convinced me.

cdeshane · September 2009

I was working and a guy came in talking about it and we thought he was joking. H was stationed at Patrick AFB and they were spazzing out, everyone was getting their weapons and getting ready.

crfische · September 2009

Hi, I'm old. I was a senior in COLLEGE and staying at my boyfriend at the time's house. We got up, turned on the news, the headed over to campus. My college played the news all day on a huge projection screen in the chapel, and I think most of us stayed there for at least 2 days.

bbyckes · September 2009

Mandy, my son was 5 at the time. He has no point of reference - even today. Maybe I just suck at giving him history lessons.

arbolita · September 2009

We had our first senior assembly that morning, and I'd just gotten back to my sociology class. About 30 seconds behind me was one of our senior advisors who was also at the assembly, and he told my teacher what happened and he put on the tv as firemen were walking into the second building, and a few minutes later it collapsed

danieliza1127 · September 2009

Wow, you guys are all so young! Still in high school?!

ggmae · September 2009

Ac - I imagine a lot of people suffer from PTSD because of 9/11. How horrifying it must have been to be there and see such awful things unfold.

buttaflai · September 2009

I was in AP English my senior year of high school.

georgia_bride09 · September 2009

I was a junior in college. I was at work in the Dean's Office of the College of Education. My university was supposed to have a fundraiser that day, and the Dean came in talking loudly about how the University President better cancel it, and then went on to explain "something had happened in NY" but we didn't have a TV available, so once I got off at 10, I went home and watched it all day in my apartment.

mocha beans · September 2009

Freshman year of college, my Human Body class. Prof came in and made a comment that a plane had hit the WTC, but didn't specify any more. I thought, bummer, must have been a small private plane. On with class we went. I went back to my dorm, somehow not hearing anything of what was going on, and slept till noon. Got up, went to dance class, everyone was asking if I was still going to class, and to see if it was happening. Finally, I figured out what was going on. Class started, but Prof asked if we wanted to stay or go watch the news. Everyone watched the news.I wished I would have had a tv in my dorm room, I'm still irritated that I missed a bunch of the actual news coverage. It was too important of an event to miss it actually happening.

maggyruth · September 2009

I was at work. I was 22 at the time...working at a hospital in IL in the medical records department. A co-worker had come in saying she'd heard something about it on the radio. We didn't know what was going on until another co-workers husband called and told us about the 2nd plane.The hospital was put on disaster readiness because we weren't too far from Chicago and no-one was sure if there was going to be more attacks in major cities. We had to make sure to have our badges with us if we wanted to get in or out of any door other than the main entrance or the ER doors.

LovesMM · September 2009

It was my senior year of high school. I was driving to school and heard about the first tower on the radio. Once I got to school I went into the ROTC and told my teachers about it. They went into the classroom area and we watched T.V. I had ROTC for first hour so we watched the towers fall. Every classroom had the T.V. on. The Main office made and announcement that they were to remain on during the day but to put on mute so that it didn't interfere with 'instruction'. No one taught.

[Deleted User] · September 2009

First of all I feel old that so many peeps were in HS. I saw the news about the first one right before I went to class. I remember walking to class thinking what kind of an idiot doesn't see the World Trade Center as at that point they thought it was an accident.

LarissaAnn · September 2009

Pulling into the parking lot at my law office. I shared office space with other attorneys at the time. I thought it was a joke at first (I was listening to PLJ) and thought it was rather over the top. Then they started screaming, and I realized it was real. I raced upstairs and told the other guys, and we turned on a tv in one of the offices to watch. The only station broadcasting was the Spanish station - broadcasting for the first time in Spanish & English because they realized they were the only one in the area. Other stations bounced off the top of the WTC, the Spanish station was off the Empire State Building. I called everyone I could think of to make sure they were ok, including friends in other cities since we didn't know where they'd hit next. And I had people calling me to make sure I wasn't in the city that morning.

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