Where Were You When....

[Hellion]

:devil

I first heard about it at work,from the Drew&Mike show,and at first I thought it was just a made up deal,untill I started getting phone calls like mad on my cell phone.

Pretty much I also had one of those Casio portable TVs in my car and I grabbed it,and happen to catch the part where the second plane blasted into the second tower.then I knew shit was about to hit the fan.We pretty much shut down the shop for the day,and bullshited for the rest of the shift.2 months later some of us got layed off from work.end of story.

[Dubh Aingeal]

I was in bed sleeping when the attacks happened. It wasn't until late afternoon when I found out. Watched the news for about 30 minutes then went about my day as usual.

[Anathema]

i was living in florida and hadn't gotten out of bed yet to goto work when the person i was living with came in and had me come into the livingroom to see what was going on in n.y. on cnn. i thought it was fake at first.

[SpidersMoment]

i was asleep as well, then my sister called and told me to turn on the news, and at the moment the second tower just got hit. I didnt think much of it at the time, i just wanted to go back to bed.

[Vater Araignee]

I was driving home listening to AM1270 when the new break hit about the first hit happened. I thought "How could somebody not see a building that big? Drunk Bassterds!"

When the second strike happened I was forced to pull over. Hell had frozen over that very instant because I began to cry. A cop actually pulled over to see if I needed help and all I could do was blubber and point to the radio and that's when I heard on his hand set somebody saying that the think we are under attack and the rage took over. I got home in time to see South go down live.

[BrassFusion]

I was in ear training 1. someone heard the first tower got hit and wheeled in a monitor so we all saw the second tower get hit. Some of us knew they were going down. Then they did... first the one, and then the other. And of course the other planes hit the pentagon and crashed in a field, but I forgot what order. I'm sure everyone but me remembers, heh. After that we all went outside to go home early and it was deathly quiet, empty air. It felt like civilization was about to collapse around me. And i know that's overblown considering I'm fortunate to live in a country that's NOT constantly being bombed, but i'm sure you all felt the same way i did.

[Homicidalheathen]

I was at work.

[kellygrrrrrl]

I was sitting at my desk at work,....doing a deal for one of the band members from The Suicide Machines.

They were on tour and the thing I remember about it was I had to do a complete fax deal cause they were on the road.....

(I will usually have people present to sign the apps.)

I went up to the fax machine and My co-worker John had the TV set up on his front desk watching...

I was like what are you doing?

He says come here, Look.....

I came over to see and I saw Tower 1 smoking, I said What happened? He didn't know....nobody knew...

Then BOOM! Tower 2 got hit as I was watching....my jaw dropped.... I was in complete shock.

I went back to my desk and kept my eye on Yahoo news updates every so often and as in unfolded I could feel the pit of my stomach getting sicker and sicker.

The thing about that Morning was on my way to work I remember seeing a jet plane flying very low towards Selfridge....I think that was when they ordered all planes to ground.

It was after 9:00 am.

I went home....I couldn't wait to get home. All I wanted to do was see the news because I had nothing but NPR and Yahoo news in increments throughout the day.

When I got home I didn't know the towers actually collapsed.

I saw that footage and became very scared. It was now real. As the day unfolded and the facts came through, I felt deep sadness.

I watched the President speak that night. I cried all night.

I still cry whenever I see that footage....the towers, the president, the images of people jumping in an effort to spare thier burning lungs.

It is nothing but horror. Absolute and complete horror.

[phee]

Getting the keys to my new appartment

[saechalyn]

I was in Rockefeller Center.

I wrote about it here.

[Brenda Starrr]

Wow....

[Msterbeau]

I was in Rockefeller Center.

I wrote about it here.

What a poignant piece of writing Angela...

Part of me wants to visit... part of me wants to stay as far away as possible.

I was at work when someone got a call after the first plane hit and they weren't sure what was going on. We stared at a TV at work for a few hours until they told us all to go home.

[CandyQuackenbush]

I was in Agri-Science class. We watched it on the TV.

Then the next day, we where making red, white and blue ribbons and giving selling them for any donation for the red cross.

I took it upon myself to sit thru all my lunches and make the ribbons and sold them at my highschool for a week strait. I ended up making over 2,000 dollars in one week. All the donations went to the Red Cross.

[Steven]

I was at work in Cali.

as soon as we heard about the first plane I knew it was an attack and not an accident.

as the day unfolded I waited for news of something going down in LA, but thank goodness it didint.

[on3_m0r3_fix]

i'm a youngen i know. it happened when i was a freshman.

actually i was sitting in my second hour english 9 class.

we were reading to kill a mocking bird and the hall moniters

ran in the room and told us to turn on CNN as soon as we turned

the tv on, the second plane hit. we thought it was a joke till we saw it hit.

[Head Wreck]

i was sitting around waiting to go to work, and thinking

"fuck, this happening,

holy mother of shit somebodies gonna get stomped bad for this, fuck. hold on,

arent D'Arcy and Twitch in the territorials..."

*scarpers offr to taunt them about joining the TA under pretense of "were never gonna be deployed ever"*

territorials from my area were deployed within the first wave that went over

[The Void]

I was at work when the woman I work with got a phone calll and told me. We had no radio on at the time. I was in disbelief...it seemed too surreal to make sense.

I did not believe it until I got home and saw it being replayed on tv aand even then I did not believe that that was what actually happened at the time.

[torn asunder]

i don't care to remember where i was - was not a good day for me....

[JaneDead]

i had just turned my tv on with the sound down. it was rare for me to ever have the tv on that early but i put it on for some reason that day. then i called my mom- also something i never did that early in the day. so as i was sitting on the couch talking to my mom, i see the first tower smoking and then i see the other one get hit. and i was like oh my god and started to tell my mom what was going on. i know at some point i started to cry. i wrote down a bit of what happened back then but honestly it is more of a blur now to me without going back and reading it.

i was pregnant with my daughter at the time and i remember being depressed for a LONG time after that. it was everywhere i went. on tv all the time. people talking about it non-stop. on tvs at the market by my house, the bank i went to, people in line talking about it. people freaking out over gas (lines of cars down the street) a lack of toilet paper and water and other things i noticed at the grocery store. it was depressing, stressful and disturbing. not just the acts of terrorism but what was going on in my very own neighborhood because of it. they were discussing it at my son's school. i hated that, he was only in kindergarten at the time. he came home EVERY day asking me questions i just could not answer.

my husband would want to come home and watch it on tv and i had to go lay in bed to avoid it. one day i broke down sobbing and begged him "please turn it off! i can't take anymore!"

i won't watch anything on tv about it anymore. all i think of when i think of seeing 9/11 shows/stories are the images i saw of people jumping out of buildings, running down the street filled with panic in a mass amount of smoke around them... then i get to thinking about the children and how terrified they must have been being around it and wondering about their parents and never finding them because they were dead.

3 years ago i had my 2nd daughter on sept 10. so i was in the hospital the next day and all they had on tv then was stuff about 9/11. i couldn't watch it then either. i know it seems selfish but i just had my baby and i wanted to be happy not depressed and reminded of how horrible that was and how i had to be exposed to it the first time around pg with my other daughter...

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

I was at home.. just saw the kids off to school. I was watching when the second plane hit... before they fell, my father came and sat on the couch with me. We sat there and cried all day. It took a week to get me off that couch. Shock does not cover it.

[Onyx]

I had just gone into my office and was just signing on to work. I was doing hospital reports from home (surgeries and such) and had the Today show on in the background.

When the first plane hit I assumed it was a small plane where the pilot had passed out and there was nobody in there with him to help. When the second plane hit I was so surprised and could not figure out why anyone would ram a plane into a building like that and kill all the passengers and themselves, or how they were able to get control of not one but two passenger jets.

My boss emailed and called all our employees to report in, expecting many stat reports to be coming in from the NYC hospitals our company serves. It was hard to concentrate on work, and I kept the TV on in the background. I turned and watched in disbelief when the first building fell, hoping most everyone had gotten out. I thought about those who were trapped and wondered if there were survivors buried in the rubble.

There were emails back and forth from my co-workers and we kept waiting for the deluge of emergency reports, wanting to help in even this small way. Nothing was coming through except the walking wounded with minor injuries and after awhile we realized that most everyone had been crushed to death.

Then when I heard about the Pentagon and flight 93 it seemed too much to take in.

In the days that followed I was so very sad. People seemed kinder and more subdued. There was a sort of sad bonding afterwards. The pictures people were putting up of missing loved ones especially saddened me (I'm sort of ashamed to admit why though. My marriage was really a cold, uncaring shell and I couldn't help thinking how there was really nobody in my life who would be looking there for me, should I have been one of the ones missing).

I made some very positive changes in my life after 9/11. It wasn't the only event driving those changes, but it was a major wakeup call for me. I need one now and again because I tend to forget how short life is and how it can end at any time.

[Onyx]

oops - double-post

[saechalyn]

What a poignant piece of writing Angela...

Thanks

[TygerLili]

I was on my way to school, having skipped my first class for some reason I don't even remember now. I was hearing about it on the radio as I was driving in, then I got there just as the first class of the day was getting out. The administration had pushed TVs into the halls, so everyone coming into the hall was hearing it the first time. Traffic just kind of froze in the hall, on the stairway, etc.

I went to the rest of my classes, but I don't think I listened to a word my teachers said.

[Scary Guy]

Didn't we go through this already?

Fine, alright, one more time. It was the day after my birthday and I just woke up and went down stairs. Saw it on the TV as my parents were watching it. Went in the bathroom and took a piss. Watched another minute of it and shook my head because I knew I'd never hear the end of it. Then I went back to bed.