NWR: Where were you...

mandysmear · September 2009

I was getting ready for school when my neighbour came barrelling into our house telling us to put the TV on.School went on as planned but in social studies we watched the news. I think both towers had already gone down by the time I turned on the news.

fangsiting · September 2009

I'm old too. I was in the library during my first year of law school. I was headed to my class when a girl told me a plane hit one of the towers, but she didn't have any other information. I figured it was a small little plane that flew into the tower by accident. After class I went down to the student lounge & the news was on. That's when learned about the second plane and how wrong my first assumption was.

hopienpaulie · September 2009

i was in 6th grade...i stood home that day, but my sisters were at school and could see the towers from the building..my dad worked right near them and didnt come home for 3 days because of all the people going to his hospital

ggmae · September 2009

Classes were canceled for the rest of the day, but school wasn't. We just sat in classrooms with the TV on. My geometry teacher was a wreck because her BIL worked in the south tower. He didn't make it.

arbolita · September 2009

I also remember when it was time for my next class, it was math and the teacher wouldn't turn on the tv and was making us do work. They didn't let us leave until after lunch that day, and I didn't want to be at home by myself so I went to my best friends house and watched the news on tv with her family

salt78 · September 2009

Sleeping off a hangover at my boyfriend's house. I didn't was in my last semester of college and didn't have class until later that day. When we woke up everything had already happened and I had about 50 missed calls from my mother on my cell phone.

Nebb · September 2009

I was at home and saw it on tv before I left for school (i had first period spare) it was just so unreal. Went to school and NO ONE knew about it, the teachers were instructed by the principal not to tell the students. A friend of mine was very upset about what was going on and ended up being sent home because he caused a scene arguing with the principal for witholding that information from students. By the end of the day though one english teacher had a tv going in her room so that anyone who wanted to watch what was giong on on the news could.

J&K10910 · September 2009

I was in Oceanography when it first happened. Went to English, then Trig. All the TVs in the school were on. We weren't learning anything, so by the end of 4th period, they sent us all home.

ac_in_dc · September 2009

I worked in the World Financial Center, across the street from WTC for 2 years in the 90's, and commuted through the WTC complex every day. It was pretty intense to watch the towers go down, because tens of thousands of people are in that area, and it wasn't clear that the towers imploded--I was afraid that they had fallen like dominoes, putting other buildings in the city at risk. It still seems miraculous that only 3,000 people were killed. I thought it was going to be a lot worse when I saw it happening.

salt78 · September 2009

That was supposed to be "I was in my last semester of college". Haha Fishy I'm old too.

Golfer'sLady · September 2009

I was in my college dorm room freshman year when I watched the second plane hit the Trade Center on the Today show live feed. I ended up going to my math class on campus but then they canceled all classes for the day. I watched the later coverage that morning after the planes hit the Pentagon and then in Shanksville on the big screen in the student union. I remember there were hundreds of students in there and it was silent. Just sitting and watching. Silent.

[Deleted User] · September 2009

6th grade!! Are you kidding?

MandaBelle1211 · September 2009

I was in 10th grade health class

shellydiane820 · September 2009

Sophomore year, Civil War history class. We were learning about civil war Guerrilla tactics. How ironic is that?

mandapanda78 · September 2009

I was in a research methods class about to take a test. I asked if I could make a phone call and the prof said yes. I tried calling home to NY three or four times but the lines were full. For some reason I went back to class and took the test anyway. I guess I really didn't know what else to do. FI, on the other hand, was sleeping on his parent's couch when his mom woke him up to tell him about it. He was home visiting them because he was about to go on a three year overseas deployment.

betrothed123 · September 2009

6th grade!! Are you kidding? Ditto. That makes ME feel old.

TheCatSaidQuack · September 2009

I was in a hallway at school...a friend came up to me and told me about it. An announcement at gone over the loudspeaker while I was in class for teachers to check their email ASAP, but mine never did - so all the kids in my class walked out to an hysterical mess.

ggmae · September 2009

Shelly - Pretty ironic if you ask me. DH said that the night before, he and his mom were talking about the 1993 WTC bombing and she was saying that it was only a matter of time before something else happened.

ricksang · September 2009

I was at the vet.

jeannigirl · September 2009

Taking my daughter to school and we were listening to the radio and it got interuppted with the tragic news. My daughter and I was just looking at each other and saying OMG what? Got to work and they had hooked up a tv in our office and we watched it all day and just was all in shock.

SwedishChick2011 · September 2009

When we woke up everything had already happened and I had about 50 missed calls from my mother on my cell phone. Your poor mom! She must have been panicked!

opalsky007 · September 2009

I had just left 11th grade English. I was walking to calculus when I passed my history classroom and saw my history and government teachers watching the TV. I thought I heard something about a plane hitting the WTC but shrugged it off. I thought I must have misheard, because stuff like that just didn't happen.In the middle of calculus, one of the other math teachers ran into the room, yelling "they've just hit the Pentagon". Several of my classmates had parents working there. Since my dad bounces between a few offices, I had no idea whether he was in there or not. All we got out of him that day was a garbled phone message that he was "trying to get people out of the building". As it turns out, the building he was in hadn't gotten the evacuation order and people were too busy standing around watching CNN to leave on their own volition. Idiots.

Puppylove*85 · September 2009

I was also in 10th grade Spanish class. My teacher turned on the tv just before the second plane hit.

brookelynpaisley · September 2009

I was a junior in college. I didn't have classes until that evening, so I'd slept in and woke up expecting to find the Young and the Restless on TV. It took me a few minutes to figure out what was going on. I still feel bad for those few moments where I was pissed that the news was on instead of my soaps. Interestingly, I was in a Grief and Loss class at the time, and the class essentially became a therapy session.

ggmae · September 2009

Opal - I would have been beside myself not knowing where my dad was that day. Thank goodness he was okay.

amlewis83 · September 2009

It was my 1st week of college, freshman year. My mother was dropping me off and there were piles of people coming out of the building. I mentioned how it looked weird to have the quad so packed that early as I got out of the car. As I made my way to the building a girl stopped me and said the school was closing NY was under attack. I was so scared and confused. I got a ride with a friend to my father's house and turned on the TV and saw the 2nd tower get hit. I am getting teary just writing about it.

Marina007 · September 2009

I heard on the way out of school, senior year. I went to an International School in Norway, and a guy told me in the hall that an airplane had crashed into a building in NYC. I didn't really believe him, but felt weird on the bus home. Ended up getting off at a friends house and watched for HOURS on end. At the time I was convinced WWIII was going to start because of this. I still get goosebumps (the BAD kind) just thinking about it.

opalsky007 · September 2009

I was, ggmae. When we were finally released from school that day, my BFF drove me home, and then straight to church when we didn't find him at home. I didn't know where else to be right then.He finally made it home at about 6 PM. I was absolutely furious with him for not letting us know what was up.

BecW2be · September 2009

I was at work, and it was my first day back from maternity leave with my dd (see 9/11 post below for that story) Sort of related: One of the first times I visited my sister's new house with her then-FI, I was getting ready to leave and I saw a small frame right by the door with a plane ticket in it. I walked over, thinking it was her FI's first flight, or something, and my heart stopped when I realized it was a Flight 93 ticket from Sept. 11. He missed his flight, and was at the airport, trying to get a new ticket, cursing his busy, rushed corporate life. Mid air on his new flight, they got word what had happened and diverted to Dallas. He was escorted out of the airport by armed guards, and completely changed his entire life. He moved to the mountains, stopped killing himself with work, joined a spa/gym, and met my sister at that spa the next summer. Every time he leaves his house, he sees that frame and reminds himself to slow thefuck down and enjoy life.

ggmae · September 2009

LovetheBeach - DH was a member of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) of CT and that night, he was filtering calls in Hartford, CT from people who were looking for missing family members. He said that was really hard to do. I remember wanting to help, but at 14 I felt like I couldn't do much.

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