Current Events > What were you doing on Sept 11, 2001?

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First year in college. Was asleep in the dorms when the first plane hit. Buddy woke me up yelling about us going to war. Called my pops cause one of my uncles worked close to the Towers.
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i stayed home from school that day because i hated going. i was playing ff4 on my psx and i had pushed the couch over to in front of the tv for maximum comfy.
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I only remember that night. My mom was watching the news and repeating "holy s***" multiple times.
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I was either at school or on my way home. Im 25 now so i dont remember much
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I was in 1st grade at the time, so I don't remember a lot; my sat down on the floor in front of our teacher like we would when he'd read us part of a book and he told us the basics of what had happened - I think he might've shown a brief news clip or at least played some radio coverage. This went on for about 10-15 minutes and afterward we just went about our day like normal - I guess since we were so young our teacher + the school administration didn't want us to dwell on it too much. Honestly it didn't feel much different from any other day of school at the time, but memories feel so daunting in hindsight.
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I was a freshman in high school.
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I was in my mom for another 3 months...
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I was doing leisure walking (our high schools sport option for those not so physical exercise inclined... or cheap) and we were at the local mall. I was near the Maccas in the food court and saw the breaking news come up on the TV.

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I didn't even find out until later that day when we had a general assembly in the gym to listen to a couple of motivational speakers, unironically.
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TC is low key asking for your age in this topic
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I was asleep at the time, even though I live in NYS. By the time I woke up both towers were gone.

This topic will probably come up again, in a few days, so I might elaborate more then.
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I was getting ready for school (2nd grade)
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Getting ready for work
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In my grade 3 class...

How long am o going to have to remember this?
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I was 9

I remember the teachers being really worried and sending us home early without telling us anything. I just went home and watched spongebob
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When it happened? Sleeping

Later that day when I got up to go to work and turned on the news for a bit I was in complete shock. It was surreal not hearing/seeing any airplanes flying in the sky on my walk to work that day.
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I was a junior in high school. My schedule was pretty sweet at the time. I had study halls first and second period. Both will chill teachers that would let you sleep in class.

I was in my second study hall at the time. It ran from around 9 to around 10 am, and it was in one of the biology labs. I was napping. The principal came on the PA system, and said a plane hit the world trade center. They then turned CNN on all the TVs. The big CRT ones that hung up on mounts in the corners of the rooms with VCRs underneath.

When they first turned it on, everybody seemed confused as to why exactly. That summer, a Cessna or something hit a skyscraper, and people assumed it was that ll over again. The replays they showed of the first plane did little to reveal the scale. Not long after though, the second plane hit. I still remember vividly thing plane taking a bending arc into the tower, and then all the debris exploding out. The memory is almost hyper-real in my mind. At that point, everybody knew it wasn't an accident. The news, and everybody, thought maybe the first was a fluke.

They left the news on the entire day. My third period was honors English, and that's when the towers fell. The lunchroom was so weird. It was really quite that day, but you would hear people cry or some yell in anger punctuating the silence. I got home, and my dad was always a news junky. But I don't think he slept for a day and half. He sat in front of the TV all night. He was still there when I got up out of bed the next day.

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6th grade social studies class. our teacher turned on the tv and we watched the news for the rest of the class period. lots of parents came and picked up their kids and i don't remember doing any actual work for the remainder of the day.
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I dunno, in school I guess. I was in... 5th grade, I guess? I don't remember. I think we had to take a letter home from school for some reason? Maybe that was the next day, I don't know. Nothing really happened from my point of view.
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Playing some Pokemon Crystal and jacking it to Victoria's Secret
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I honestly don't remember much of that particular day(From my perspective, obviously the attack itself is significantly more memorable).

The only thing I really recall is coming home from school and being annoyed that my parents were watching the news, because I wanted to watch cartoons and "The news never has anything important in it".

Welp
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I was off from work that day. I didn't know about it until around noon when I heard a special report on the radio about what happened in New York City.

Later on that day, my dad told me about what happened at the Pentagon.
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jumi posted...

Sleeping. Then I got up to get ready for class, turned on the TV, and was like, "Holy shit."

Same here.

Superlinkbro posted...

I was in my mom for another 3 months...

Dang son you is just a babby still. Might be one of the youngest users on CE. CE is getting older.

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Umbreon posted...

I honestly don't remember much of that particular day(From my perspective, obviously the attack itself is significantly more memorable).

The only thing I really recall is coming home from school and being annoyed that my parents were watching the news, because I wanted to watch cartoons and "The news never has anything important in it".

Welp

To be fair, the news cycle was extremely slow in the months leading up to that day.
TBH, I actually remember thinking to myself, welp, at least the news will have some content now.
I always watched the new, ever since spending a lot of time with my grandparents in the 80's. I actually remember Chernobyl and Ryan White.
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I was getting ready to go to bed. This was at a time when I would be up all night and sleep till early afternoon. Needless to say, couldn't go to sleep at all after seeing that.

I was in Fort Knox, KY. Week 8 of Basic Combat Training, Warrior FTX. Some of the squad members were acting up, pissing off the DS's. Out of nowhere DS Knapp comes out screaming that the WTC was hit and they were going after the Pentagon. Majority of us were like, nah, he's just pissed and using that as a way to get us motivated. We asked Pvt Simmons, who was at CQ, and he confirmed what DS Knapp said.

My reaction was, "well, looks like training is over boys, we're goin to war"

needless to say, training didn't get interrupted.
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School

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IIRC, I was home because I had recently been expelled from my middle school. <_<
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I was in Sophomore year, 3rd hour when the news broke (around 9:30am)

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I was in 10th grade and our French teacher was absent. My friend Christopher was listening to 1010 Wins (why? that was random) and told me about the attacks.
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I was in 10th grade.

I first learned about the incident in 4th period Algebra II.

Didn't get to see it happen live, though.
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Being unborn.
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School kept going like normal but we might have gotten out early as the day progressed, I can't remember.
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I had the day off work. I turned on the radio as soon as I woke up and the first line I heard was, "this is the first attack on US soil since..." I literally thought we were being invaded, so I ran into the other room and turned on the tv just as the first tower collapsed.

I was in algebra getting ready to take a test. Teachers phone rang and he turned on the tv. As the day went on someone started spreading rumors that a nuclear plant nearby was attacked and all the students were freaking out.

Teachers had to have an assembly explaining to everyone what happened.
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Junior in high school, watched the second plane hit live on tv
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In 11th grade in either AP Science or Spanish (can't remember which). It felt surreal when they announced it, but I guess it didn't totally hit until next class where we watched it on tv. We did that for the rest of the day

Lunch time was really somber

I bizarrely remember my dad grilling hamburgers for dinner that night while we kept watching the news
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PoopPotato posted...

Junior in high school, watched the second plane hit live on tv

Being older than 30 sucks, don't it?

Oh wait, you probably have a family. Smh.
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Solid Sonic posted...

PoopPotato posted...

Junior in high school, watched the second plane hit live on tv

Being older than 30 sucks, don't it?

Oh wait, you probably have a family. Smh.

Yeah I got a family, bro. It's cool. What's more surprising is that I went to Afghanistan last year even though this shit happened 17 damn years ago at that point.
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Freshman year of college. Watched on a TV at breakfast, then got updates as I was going to classes. Went back to my dorm and looked at what people were saying on... GameFAQs. Fuck, I'm old.
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Antifar posted...

Going to third grade, then getting upset that Pokemon wasn't on after school

This
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