Where Were You 9/11/2001?

I joined the Navy 3 weeks later.

i was in the 7th grade getting ready for school when my older sister comes out of the bathroom yelling the twin towers were attacked and we turned on the local news and watched the footage before we went to school :O each class period had a tv on showing coverage. i remember that day clearly :P

good for you man.. that says a lot.


Thank you.

It's absolutely the craziest thing you will ever see, right? I could see the pillar of smoke from my office when that guy flew his plane into the IRS building in Austin last year! The dust was enough to keep me from going for a smoke break. I know it's nowhere near the same magnitude, but it's a numbing sight!


I would imagine that Fort Bragg was high priority too!

It was the start of my 3rd year on college in south NJ.

That semester I made sure none of my classes started before 11 am.

That morning I woke up at 8:46 (I will always remember this time now) and I walked out to our living room because I was thirsty.

I noticed that my one of my roommates, who was annoying as hell, left the TV on from the night before. The TV was set to channel 3 for the playstation. Back then MSNBC was channel 98. I went to hit the power off button but hit the channel down button by accident which made the TV go to MSNBC.

There was a picture of twin towers with one of the towers with a small fire. The reporters said that 'something' happened and one of the twin towers were on fire. They were evacuating the 2nd tower as a precautionary measure.

I was about to turn it off and then suddenly the said the fire spread to the 2nd tower. I was like wtf how can that be?

A few minutes later they said a plane hit the 2nd tower. Soon after they had confirmation that the original fire was caused by a plane too.

I woke up my roommates after that. And told people walking by during breaks what I had saw on TV. Some people didn't believe me.

After than I watched that whole day and my work (Radioshack) called me to tell me that they were closing. Classes after 11 am were cancelled too.

in English class my senior year. Another student had a pager-type thing on him and that's how we first heard. Only a few minutes later there was an announcement over the intercom and they were going to send us home and help people check on relatives.

Yeah, it just doesn't seem real. Especially if you regularly pass that spot. It's completely different from seeing a new building on the skyline because the smoke is in a way so organic. It's almost like there's a dark ghost on the horizon.

I was in 8th grade, I was going to go to school early (always played some bball) and my cousin called me saying schools canceled and to turn on the TV. And I did and me and my Grandma watched the horrrible news reports as it was happening and it was just terrible.

I was eating breakfast when it happened. Was in sixth grade, and we all watched channel one news for a bit around lunch. Since I live close to the Mexican border, the school sent all the kids from Palomas home early, while the rest of us stayed.

Yeah I found out because I caught a glimpse of a tv at the time the first tower was hit. I thought it was a small plane, because it just didn't register what was happening. shortly after I got back to class the whole story came out. I passed the skyline on my way home, and watched the news for the rest of the day.

Before 9/11, growing up next to NYC, I went there all the time.

After 9/11 the first time I went back, was *** all sorts of emotional as hell. I initially stayed at school and covered for a lot of people at work who dropped everything to go help.

12/05/01 was my first trip back to NYC and wow, the whole drive up the parkway, wow. I'll never forget that ride either.

i was in 5th grade too!
they locked the school down and we stayed in our main teacher's class with the tv on and some students were checked out. i didn't really understand what was happening at the time.

Another Southwest person! ^^ I was living in Elephant Butte (right next to Truth or Consequences) at the time, about an hour away from Las Cruces, in New Mexico.

I was heading to work listening to the radio when the DJ interrupted the Tool song "Schism" to say that a plane had "crashed" in the WTC. He went on to report the rest as it happened. Too this day whenever I hear that song I stop and remember all that happened

WE'll NEVER FORGET!!!

USA!!

edit: Hope they toss pics of his body on the front page of every newspaper in the world

I was in boot camp for the Coast Guard. Was about 2 weeks in when it happened. Entire base went on lock down and information was at a premium. Company Commanders were being armed and recruits were wide eyed and admittedly scared. The only reason why I knew what had happened was because I was one of the few who needed to go to physical therapy for my feet. In the physical therapy room there was a TV on CNN and was able to see everything.

The surreal thing about it all was that no one was transfixed on what was happening on the screen....it was like we were all numb. The enormity of the situation didn't hit till recruits were being pulled aside and being asked if they have any family working in DC or New York.

I was in 6th grade, and they didn't tell us anything about it all day. No news at all. I got on the bus at the high school and my brother was yelling in my face about it, and I did not believe him. Got home and my mom was crying with the TV on, which was spamming the footage of the planes and the towers.

It took me a while to get back into NYC (at least a year), but when I did, the whole vibe, aura of the city was a little different.

ewww, what a horrible way to ruin a great song


<3 I moved to Albuquerque several months later. Yay New Mexicans and their food

I was too young so I never knew what was exactly happening at that time. No one would tell me exactly what was happening. All I remember was my mom not letting me watch the TV for a week and that's about it.

I went to a full day of school September 11th 2001, nothing to special about that day or any of the days after. Don't think Canada was too involved then.

How the hell old are you?

I remember my first cigarette break, was probably around 10 am, and some black guy I always saw, never knew his name until that day, but always kind of nodded too, I stopped him and said dude the twin towers were just hit by terrorists. He didn't believe me and so I finally learned his name and took up to my room and showed him on TV.

Oh, is that what you did with him in your apartment?

A 2.5 hour ride up the parkway was like a prelude to what I would see. Every bridge had American flags hanging down.

School.
Everyone was panicking and pulling their kids out of school early.

It is! You pretty much just summed up that feeling entirely! You can't feel anything and your brain ceases to function. You know you just saw something that is totally incomprehensible, but all you can do is stand there in dismay!


That must have been horrible. I feel for all of you that grew up in and around NYC at that time.

And to all of the military men/women that were enlisted or did enlisted at that time, thanks!

hey a 16 year old now would have been like 6 at the time..is that not strange?

My sister was born in 2000, I should ask her but I dont think she really knows what 9/11 is...which weirds me out thinking about it even though Ive known her, her entire life ofcourse. Its weird to think that she is 11 years old now and was a baby at the time.


this video on youtube is kinda interesting.

it was made for the ringing in of the 2010 year and focused on kids born in 2000. They ask the kids questions about 9/11 and the answers are...amusing..

I was eating breakfast in the Chow Hall, at this point i was already in the US Army for 1.5 years

WTH? Are we the unhealthy vice king and queen on here?

Cheers!

Freemasons
illuminati
Inside Jerb