Current Events > Where were you and what were you doing when 9/11 happened?

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I don't remember that day at all, I assume I was in school

Start of Biology Lab. Professor strolled in and informed us about the strikes, and asked us to inform ourselves further after class.

Highschool in a suburb of NYC. I remember it very clearly. Lots of kids had parents that worked in the buildings or for NYPD or whatever.

I got up for high school. I got my cereal and milk. Turned on the TV. Flipped the channels and ended up on CNN. Saw there were some breaking news that a tower was hit. Thought that was crazy.

I then went to school. There were murmurs between some students in class. "We're going to war! Did you hear? They're going into defcon 3." Then the teacher pulled out a tv and we watched the news. We did pretty much that throughout the day and they sent us home early as well.

A week later we had a school assembly and watched some tribute and memorial videos of the event. I remember some girls were crying.

Oh yeah, and when we were waiting for the busses to go home, there was this girl with the hugest you-know-what I've ever seen (at the time). It almost made me forget about the planes.

I dunno if I'd ever forget. I remember waking up that morning and seeing my parents watching the news as it happened.

It was different for me over some. At the time, I was in 7th grade when I lived in California. I remember waking up slightly early that day (I can't remember the exact time, but I think the second tower had been hit at that point) and hearing the TV from the living room. I saw my mom watching and talking with a friend on the phone who lived in NY. I felt like the experience was different due to being in the Pacific Time Zone while my wife was in 9th grade and found out as it was happening since she was already at school due to being in the Eastern Time Zone.

I was in middle school and remember being taken out of class and sent home. Mom picked me up.

I was asleep.

Born only a year before, so I have no recollection of it at all.

Was in college. Got woken up by a call from my mom telling me to turn on the TV. Both towers had already been hit, but were still up.

Pretty much was glued to the TV all day. All classes were canceled except for one because the professor wanted everyone to talk about their feelings. I went, but wanted to be back at the TV instead of there.

At the time, I was a software developer in my first failed dot-com. At that point, they were flying me between DC and Newport Beach, CA. I had just flown an American Airlines red-eye from DCA to LAX the night before, and woke up to the news. It took me a few days before I could reach my parents in NJ, due to phone line disruption. A week later, I had to fly back to BWI, since DCA was still closed.

When I got back to DC, I remember the distinctive skateboard-like sound of fighter jets patrolling high overhead, unlike the commercial aircraft I'd usually hear.

About five years prior, In college, I interviewed at two financial companies at WTC (Banker's Trust and Salmon Brothers), and even stayed at the WTC hotel during interviews. In an alternate universe, I took one of those jobs, and might have only been saved by my then-inability to wake up early.

7th grade social studies.

We watched the tv

My gf & I were getting ready to go to some college classes when we heard about it and found out that school was cancelled.

I was here, on Current Events, unwinding before going to bed.

Walking my dog

AurochSpirit posted...

I remember coming home from school and my parents were glued to the tv.

Pretty much this. Everyone was freaking out, they thought more attacks were coming.

I was too young to really "Get" the geopolitical side of it. I just knew a big attack had happened and a bunch of people were dead

am not old enough to remember :x

my generation had to learn about 9/11 in highschool. NO, we didn't think it was just a meme prior.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Pretty much this. Everyone was freaking out, they thought more attacks were coming.

I was in a tall dorm at college - over 20 stories. My mom was insistent that I needed to get out because we might be the next target. I had to try to reason with her that the terrorists plan of attack wasnt the World Trade Center, then the Pentagon, then my dorm.

In 4th grade, getting evacuated from my school.

was at school 7th grade workshop class, teacher put up a TV on his desk to shows the news.

The_Popo posted...

I was in a tall dorm at college - over 20 stories. My mom was insistent that I needed to get out because we might be the next target. I had to try to reason with her that the terrorists plan of attack wasnt the World Trade Center, then the Pentagon, then my dorm.

Some four star general probably told his mom that the terrorists plan of attack wasnt the World Trade Center, his office at the Pentagon, then some schmoes dorm room.

whitelytning posted...

Highschool in a suburb of NYC. I remember it very clearly. Lots of kids had parents that worked in the buildings or for NYPD or whatever.

Was in middle school, but yeah, same here. Fucking scary.

Teachers were all quiet about it (how the hell do you break this news?), but you could tell some shit had happened. The teachers did their best to get through the day, and then we all went home and found out what happened. For some kids it was horrifying - their parents worked in the area. One teacher had a husband who worked in the WTC and she obviously wasn't at work for a few days - luckily he ended up making his way back home over the course of a few days - it was impossible to get out of Manhattan so folks hitchhiked, walked, and did who knows what else to make it back home.

I was at school.

I'd just got in from work. Spent the rest of the day on CE with the news on.

If I remember rightly, I was at work in an office building on the other side of the Atlantic. It was an open-plan office and someone else had the news on.

11 september 2001 was the same day my hamster died, so i was kinda preoccupied and missed the whole "Towers I've never heard of before" thing

I had just started "homeschool" in the 9th grade (didnt do anything though). I was playing GTA2 with a broken ankle when my Dad told me to come to the living room to watch live with my grandmother. Saw the 2nd plane live.

I was in bed and saw it when I woke up and turned on the TV. Every channel had "RED ALERT AMERICA UNDER ATTACK" or something along those lines at the bottom of the screen. I legit thought we were being invaded.

My mom called me from work and sounded like she was crying, telling me not to go anywhere and her job is being evacuated. Then all the local schools were evacuated. I watched the second plane hit and both towers fall as it happened.

I work nights, and I had just finished watching WWF Raw, decided to play some Perfect Dark before bed. Except my TV didn't have video in, I had to run my N64 into my VCR, then turn to channel 2 and go backwards to select the VCR video in. Turn to channel 2 (the local CBS affiliate) and there's one of the towers on fire. I vividly remember the newscasters wondering just how a plane could not realize they were heading toward a skyscraper, and right then, the second tower was hit. Talk about an oh shit moment.

DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...

and right then, the second tower was hit. Talk about an oh shit moment.

Right, my Grandmother gasped and my Dad said "were going to war".

It was my day off. I was playing Gauntlet Legends on N64

I was in a taxi on my way home from high school, driver told us (there were 2 other pupils besides me) and when I got in I asked my mum to turn it to the news, saw one of the planes hitting the WTC.

I was 16. Just finished a college astronomy test and went to the campus bookstore. Got in right when the 2nd plane hit and saw it live. I left with some friends and went to the nearby McDonalds because it was quieter in there and we could hear the news better and get coffee.

I was in elementary school and I remember they sent us all home.

I was in school. FIrst grade I think. I don't remember too much about the day but I definitely remember the mood.

I was on LUE at the time.

I was in high school and I was faking sick that day and watching Evil Dead 2 on VHS when it happened.

Am I weird that I don't know exactly where I was? I was at school, but I have no idea what I was doing.

I remember it being all over the news, though.

I was horrifically sick and stuck home from school, I didn't even learn about it from my parents til like 2 days after the fact.

8th grade English class. My dad picked me up from school before they even told us what happened.

I was at school

They pulled us all into the cafeteria to tell us the news. Other than that not much else happened to be kinda dark

I was in my sophomore year of high school, and was in study hall when the news of the first plane hitting was being talked about. We all assumed it was an accident, and then the second plane hit towards the end of study hall, and speculation was running wild during English class. Me and my buddy tried to get on the internet on the one computer we had in English, while our teacher sat silently, and most of the other students were just quietly whispering to each other. We couldnt get on the net though, as web traffic made it impossible to load anything.

I was sitting in my first period English class in 9th grade. A kid ran down the hall, slammed our door open, yelled in that 'The twin towers fell!' then ran to the next rooms. Then my teacher grabbed the TV from the corner of the room and we just watched the news all class.

I will NEVER forget all the people jumping from the towers, my naive brain thought they would be alright