Where were you when 9/11 happened?

[ChicagoDawg1991]

11 years ago I was still in elementary school when the whole thing was happening. I woke up, went down stairs and saw that my mother and brother were in the living room staring at the TV. I went to see what they were watching and I saw that the Twin Towers had both been hit. Of course being only 9, I had no idea what was going on other than the fact that two airplanes had crashed into them. Couldn't believe something like this was actually happening! I thought "This is all just a dream, let me wake up from this nightmare" but it was real.

School had been called off for the rest of the day and when we got back, we had to write an essay about why 9-11 shouldn't have happened. How the hell was our class suppose to know that? Nobody taught us political stuff and about terrorist organizations that hated us so I guess the only thing we could have written about it was why we didn't deserve this.

What was really sad is that my Aunt Judy had lost several friends and co workers on that day since for a very long time, she was a stewardess for American Airlines but got injured in an accident during takeoff when a cabinet wasn't shut all the way and apparently a cart that serves stuff came crashing down and she stopped with her arms but tore the muscles in both of them thus forcing an early retirement. When I heard about that later on, the only thing that went through my mind was "What if she hadn't been injured and was working on that day on one of the hijacked flights?" I almost blacked out just thinking about it.

I knew what war was but if I had known that these hijackings were a declaration of war then, I would have done more study on it. I never knew who was responsible for the attacks until my father told me when I asked him some time after my 10th birthday. I didn't do that much research until when I finally had the internet and now looking back at it, I still say it was an unprovoked attack like Pearl Harbor was.

Well anyway that's my story, what about you?

 

[inactiveuser1]

I was in Kindergarten and I don't really remember much other than the teachers crying and telling us that bad people did something mean :dunno:

 

[onebud34]

I was eating a doughnut in my living room.

Needless to say...I never left my living room that day.

 

[NCChiFan]

Was about to take the kid to school, they cancelled school that day. Sat and watched the events unfold... Sad day.

 

[Scoot26]

I was in 8th grade. I was at home getting ready to go to school when it started. Received news that a plane had struck the World Trade Center...my mom switched to the cable news and watched from there..I actually saw the 2nd plane hit, but the camera angle made it difficult to tell exactly what had happened..I went upstairs to brush my teeth and when I came back down the news anchors had all gotten the story straight and had multiple angles of the 2nd plane striking the tower. I went on my way to school then where everyone was talking about it.

1st period, my teacher didn't know anything of it. Halfway through the period an administrator walked in and whispered something into the teachers ear...2nd period, my teacher told us that he was told not to tell any of us this by the administration, but decided to say **** it and tell us anways. He told us that one of the towers had partially collapsed (as I would find out later, he was wrong on "partially"). The kid who had a locker next to mine had a radio in his locker..he started listening during the next passing period and said the Pentagon had been hit and the White House was being evacuated.

With the silence the rest of the teachers had that day and the fact 90% of the kids had some idea of what was going on...it was entirely frustrating not really to know what the hell was going on the rest of the day. I've resented my school a ton for keeping the facts from us in that moment and trying to pretend that nothing was happening.

 

[-Cago34-]

I was around 23 at the time, and lived in Maryland about 25 minutes from downtown Washington D.C. I was home that morning when it all happened and watched the news. Around 1 o'clock I felt like I wanted to go see what was going on for myself, I jumped in the car and headed to D.C.

Washington DC is a huge populated city for those who haven't visited. I drove around downtown effortlessly as it was basically a ghost town. Constitution Ave is an extremely busy street...I could have laid down and went to sleep in the middle of the road-not kidding, it was amazing. I grew up around DC and could not believe how silent and empty the city was, kinda broke my heart to be honest...I love DC, and my Country.

I then left DC and drove south on 495 which is the beltway that sorta surrounds DC, parts of Northern Va, and parts of Md...I got off 495 and headed north on 395 which basically runs north and south through D.C. The Pentagon is located right off the highway and you can see it plain as day driving up 395. I could not believe my eyes to see the hole and smoke. It was surreal.

 

[RamiTheBullsFan]

I was in 8th grade in home ec class (my first class of the day). The tv was on silent. All they kept showing was the first tower smoking with the other tower being struck (it was almost like a .gif in slow motion. I knew exactly what buildings they were but everybody else in all of my classes that day didn't seem to. I didn't know the exact story (at least the one the mainstream media came up with) until I got home. It was then my mom told me that my brother and I should be careful at school because we had arabic names.

I was very torn up about what happened and it still haunts me to this day.

 

[derosabomb]

Chemistry Class 2nd block my sophomore year of high school, didnt believe the person that told so i made a joke about (didnt go over well). Right after that the principle got on the speaker and made the announcement that something serious was going on in NYC

 

[GaelicSoxFan]

I was heading south on Kedzie on my way to work.

 

[coop54]

I was a sophomore in high school bout to go to my gym locker when my PE teacher started yellin "coop get your ass in here and check this out, were under attack!"
The rest of the day at school we spent watching it on tv, got home and stayed by the tv the rest of the day

 

[MikeChase27]

Does it really matter were someone was when it happened?

 

[coop54]

Does it really matter were someone was when it happened?

No but it happens all the time with events such as these. People always remember exactly what they were doing or where they were.
Where were you when JFK was assassinated? Where were you when elvis died? ect...

 

[MDB111™]

I won't ever forget that day. I was home about to head to class at the University of Maryland. CNN was on but as I walked by it, the hole in the WTC didn't register in my mind. That day Jordan announced he was coming back so I was pumped. I got in my car and headed up 495 to college park. As soon as I got in my car the Howard Stern show was talking about it. I called me dad pretty worked up as live on radio the pentagon was hit. I was on 495 right by Andrews Air Force base and 2 separate wings of fighter jets screamed by. All the cars pulled over. I couldn't believe it. I decided to continue on to UMD and school was cancelled. I stayed in a friends dorm all day and just watched in horror.

A co worker was on 395 right beside the Pentagon for all the naysayers. He said 100% a passenger airplane wildly came over 395 about 25 feet over the highway. The explosion was so powerful it knocked out windows on the opposite side of Pentagon in crystal city. It was no missile.
That was the most surreal thing I've ever been through. It felt like a dream.

 

[Crystallas]

I was at Dews house, playing Nintendo.


Yeah, I'm sick of this question too. My grandkids can ask me, and I'll give them an honest answer. But for the most part, wgaf? I remember where I was when the Berlin Wall fell, I remember where I was when Jordan scored 63 on the Celtics. But nobody asks that.

 

[stangbangin69]

Does it really matter were someone was when it happened?

I was with my unit at Fort Polk, LA at the rapel tower training for future assault missions. Got put on red alert and prepared for a first class ticket to Iraq.
Pretty important to me.

 

[KittiesKorner]

I was asleep in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. My brother actually called me from the Reno Air Races to tell me what happened and I looked out the window and saw the smoke. Went and got my gf from school, and then picked up my sister, and we drove down to the Brooklyn Bridge where loads of people were walking over from Manhattan

 

[KittiesKorner]

and it was college, not high school, before somebody makes that joke. Nobody knew what to say. It was obviously surreal. Everyone just walked around in a daze, and people started getting drunk around 1 or 2 PM and I remember some arguments starting up about whether or not we "deserved" it which was disgusting

 

[Crystallas]

I was with my unit at Fort Polk, LA at the rapel tower training for future assault missions. Got put on red alert and prepared for a first class ticket to Iraq.
Pretty important to me.

Red Alert from JRTC. Attacked by militants in Afghanistan, but you were going to Iraq.

Hmmmmm.....

 

[Deng Defense Force]

Where were you when the Berlin Wall fell?

Where were you when Jordan scored 63 points?

cares.

 

[Crystallas]

Where were you when the Berlin Wall fell?

Where were you when Jordan scored 63 points?

cares.

Dewey's house, playing Nintendo.