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Do you remember where and what your were doing the morning of 9/11?

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I was living in South Florida at the time and most of my co-workers were transplanted New Yorkers. I was a field manager and had to "clock in" at 9:00 a.m. My routine was to arrive at 8:30 and eat my breakfast in the breakroom, just off from the offices of the CSR's and the dispatch room. I was watching the NBC morning news and when the news of the Trade Center attacks came across the tv, I reacted with an outburst of "OMFG!" and the others came rushing in to see what was up. With the majority of our staff being from New York, the entire place went into complete chaos, and my life forever changed that day.

I'm curious to see and read other members stories of that day. I hope to see what others have to say.
 
I was getting ready for work that morning at Record Town in the mall,my roommates had come in the bathroom and they were like you gotta come and see this on the news.At first i really didn't know that it was that serious til afterwards. My boss called me and told me that they were gonna close the mall early.
 
I was at home. I worked weird hours and that day I had to be up at 4:30am to be at work on time. I always helped myself wake up by turning on my TV. When I turned it on, they were already showing the first tower. I thought it was a movie or something so I went on with getting ready for work. I figured out what had happened and at that moment was when the second tower was hit, I saw it live on the west coast.

I really didn’t know what to think. After awhile as the newscaster talked I figured that is what other countries have to deal with all the time. Then I had to leave for work. When I got there my bosses were debating if we should take the day off, but we didn't.



A few days later, after all of the talk on the news about other possible attacks, we had a huge thunder and lightning storm. I lived in a one bedroom apartment and I slept with my bedroom door open. I was woke up by a huge crashing sound and light. I ran around my place as my apartment lit up with each lightning strike. It was about 2:00am and I was still sleepy.

It took me about 40 minutes to figure out it was just a storm. While at work that day I found out that lightning hit a lot of things in and around town. When I got home I was told the house I could see from my bedroom got hit with lightning and a few trees and other things in the neighborhood. That is why the sound and light was so loud and bright. Seems silly now, but that probably is the most terrifying thing I have lived through. I actually thought we were at war.

At the time I lived in a very government area. On one side of my place was a house. On the other down the road a little bit was the Oregon National Guard air base. On the other side was the offices for the ONG, and HQ for a few other things within government. And about a mile and half away was the capital building. Our local news said I was living in one of the best places to attack if it was going to happen in our area.
 
I was in one of the general postgrad students offices here in my department at the University, shooting the shit with my officemates, when my mom called to tell me that a plane had crashed into a building. She has an American in her office and someone had called to tell him, which is how they knew.

I remember browsing immediately to CNN on my computer and telling my officemates; it was about then that the second plane hit. About two minutes after that, one of the girls from down the corridor in the other postgrad office called to say "you guys need to come to the lab and see what is on TV."

We watched live as the two towers fell; I remember vividly thinking "don't forget that that's not a special effect" as the second tower collapsed.

I think I only registered about the plane which went down in the field the next day; I do remember hearing about the one hitting the Pentagon, though. I also remember my karate instructor struggling to keep everyone focused in the class that night, like 3 hours later, because everyone just wanted to go home and carry on watching the news.

-d-
 
I was getting ready for school. I was in 4th grade at the time. I didn't really understand the significance of it at the time. I don't think i even knew what the world trade center was.
 
of course I will remember and certain to never forget...I was sharing my parents old house with my kid-brother. I was online in the study and had my TV on in the bedroom...

I don't recall seeing any news flashes online or paying attention. For whatever reason I got up to go to the room and saw CBS news in real-rime talking about what was going on...

Very unreal and I never cried so much for days..
 
I was at work. Gossip was spreading that our country had been attacked. Some brought a television into the break room. I watched one of the towers collapsed on television.
 
I was in high school I think during biology course when we heard rumors spreading fast. And then I heard all of the emergency radio talk from NYPD,FDNY right after North Tower was hit, because we had this tech geek that always brought his scanners, radios and antennas to school every day. And everyone was surrounding him that day even the teachers to hear what the hell was happening. Now these same transcripts and radio tapes are all over the internet and I still have some of these radio communications in my memory. It was surreal hearing firefighters and cops screaming in distress. Even when we heard that towers collapsed, nobody could comprehend the scale of this disaster because we did not have a TV around. Then the guy's scanner pretty much went dead because the North Tower had the antenna for all radio signals but we didn't know that at the time.
 
I had heard on my drive to work that a Cessna had hit the tower. Thought that was unnerving, and glad it wasn't a bomb like before.

I realized my code had a bad bug that needed to delay code lockdown. Went to my managers office and she said "later!" And someone else said "dear god".

Went to My computer and called up CNN and watched the second plane hit. The connection kept dropping, so I called my then-wife and said "turn on the tv and tell me what the hell is going on in new York." She choked up and just kept saying "oh god, those people. People are jumping." The connection came back and i watched, and watched as they fell and DC was hit. Went for a walk and bawled my eyes out wondering if I knew anyone from my time in CT. Went back to my desk and they announced tthe air shutdown, and we were told to go home and be with our families. I just wanted to hug my son.

Later we were in DC and I saw the hole in the Pentagon.

I did not watch any retrospectives. I remember like it was yesterday. When I take my son to NY next year, I don't know if I can go to the site.
 
I think about 60% of the West Coast was still sleeping through it. I remember where I was, I was still in bed sleeping and when I woke up I heard it on the radio.
 
I was lying in bed watching the Today Show. Normally I would have been working, but I had taken a late flight home the night before and was taking a little extra time before getting my day started. I watched it all unfold live as they reported. I was glued to the TV all day and didn't do much work. MSNBC replayed the Today Show broadcast from 9/11 on Sunday. That was surreal watching it all over again.

I was suppose in flight at the time of it occurred, but I finished a little earlier than planned and flew home the night before. Had a taken my scheduled flight, I would have been stuck at some airport for days when they made all the planes land at the closest airport.
 
I was 11 and in English class. Our teacher turned on the news, but we were so young that we didn't understand what was going on. Even the next day when our school had an assembly, I wasn't aware of the weight 9/11 carried.
 
Getting ready for work. Eating breakfast while watching the news on CNN when it came on that the first plane had hit the tower. I remember a lot of confusion and speculation about some terrible navigational error and everyone looking at the scene in horror and disbelief. Then the second plane hit and instantly everyone knew it was a terrorist attack. I remember getting dressed and going to work and then hearing the news that the first tower had fallen...and then the second. I remember hearing about the Pentagon and Pennsylvania and everyone was terrified about what could be next. I worked in an office in Downtown St. Louis right on the riverfront, literally just a few hundred feet from the Arch which is a National Monument. They were closing all National Monuments and evacuating the surrounding areas out of caution and we were sent home. I basically just sat there in shock in front the TV for the rest of the day.
 
I was in high school and when i got home I watched it all night and it was sad watching it and thought "why"
 
I was working in an architect's office, going about my typical routine, when I heard the first reports about an airplane hitting the Trade Center. My first thoughts were wondering if this was something similar to that B-25 that crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945. Then came reality :cry:
 
I remember were I was. I driving into Boston listening on the radio for traffic reports going to look at apartments when the first plane crashed.
When the second plane crashed into the towers in NY, I knew something was seriously wrong. I would not turn around to go back on the highway to go through Boston.

I knew danger was in air.
I said to myself, fuck this, I am out of here
I took a longer route home to avoid being in a city. I drove 30 miles out of the shortest to get back home.
It was scary.
 
I was living in New Jersey, driving to work as the towers were hit. I heard about it on the fucking radio. I walked into work raving about how this was all Bush's fault. My boss, a right wing closeted lesbian sociopath rolled her eyes at me. I had no idea. I was woefully apolitical. In fact, it was 9-11 that got me to follow politics.

I spent the day worrying about my friends who lived in the city because there was no phone service. I convinced Stubby McPsychotits (my boss) to let me go home at around noon. I went straight to the train station because I'm really stupid; there were no trains going into the city.

So I went home and watched the loops of the towers falling while trying to contact my friends.
 
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