9/11
hi.

where was everybody on 9/11?. sitting in my living room reading.

it just came up on the news

[Miss Laura]

I was at school i was in S5 which is 16/17 year olds. I didn't know about it until I came home at 4pm.... I think it happened at 3pm ish my time. My parents were in the garden when I came in they told me. I walked into the livingroom my Sister was sitting watching it on TV. I called my friends and we were shocked. Next day at school we held a school assembly and held a 2 minute silence. I went to my morning class...Modern Studies (politics) thats all we spoke about my teacher was really good.

[Bugtussel]

I was in my 5th grade classroom teaching when the principal came around to tell us. We were told not to tell the children. They didn't find out till they went home.

[RoxanneToto]

I’m in the UK - I was at home watching tv when it came on the news, with images of the towers. In the aftermath, it was literally the one time in my life that I was grateful that English football, a sport I really dislike, was on all the time - because it felt grounding and somehow comforting to know it was still on. All channels understandably had tons of 9/11 coverage and it was hard to get away from it.
I still hate football even now lol!

[LiteraryLark]

I was in the third grade, completely oblivious. Didn't hear about it till 4th grade, didn't watch the footage until I was 14/15.

Freshman in college. Music appreciation class. Teacher was late, came in and told us. I left bc I was worried about my cousin in DC.

[Mountaindewed]

I was 8 and I was at home watching Bob The Builder and I was about to go to school. The phone rang and my mom answered it and it was my aunt asking my mom if she was watching the news and my mom said “what channel?” And my aunt said “any channel.” Then my mom turned and I was annoyed and I saw a plane hit a building and I was just confused. My mom took me to school and I was telling the kids in my class but they didn’t believe me. After school my mom picked me up and my sister had a dentist appointment and everyone in the waiting room just sat stone faced in silence watching the news. On the way home we saw people praying in the park. The next day all the kids were talking about it in school. I was very young but I remember how scared everyone was for awhile.

[Blue_Bird]

I lived here in upstate New York and was 7 or 8. Was in school and the teacher had the news on, there were a lot of kids who's family worked there and they were worried about them and wondering what was happening

[isnupi]

I was on my way to the psychiatrist. I saw some images on a coffee-shop's TV. I asked the people nearby what was going on. In spite of being very troubled, they gave me a short explanation. And I thought: The XXIth century has begun.

[SlumberKitty]

I was at home before school and happened to be watching the news. The whole day was just eerie. Even though I am on the West Coast, it was like no one knew if we were at war or what would happen next. It was scary.

[MuseumGhost]

I had just gotten up and started making coffee, when my husband came into the kitchen and told me what happened. (He was an early riser, always up and about before I was).

I was incredulous, even as I walked over to our tv in the livingroom and watched. A second plane had really hit another Tower. I knew immediately who it was, and what it would mean for our countries. I had just moved to Canada 6 months before. I knew immediately the Borders would be shut (indefinitely?) It took about a week for them to re-open, but it was the longest week of my life! I had an aging Dad and a disabled sister I knew I would be cut-off from. It was upsetting and instantly life-changing on so many levels.

But I could not pull myself away from the television, horribly entranced and stuck in a moment.

I had beloved, close friends who worked in Manhattan. I was frantic as I watched everything unfold; the footage made my stomach churn and sent icy chills throughout my body. I was aghast, and a bit in shock for days afterward, frankly.

It turned out somebody I went to school with for years was on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania. I still haven't summoned the courage to check the list of people who dies in the Tower collapses---I might never have the courage to do that.

I know in my heart that so much of what we're looking at today is an effect of what happened on that day. It changed everything.

[tigerlily84]

I had just started my senior year of high school. It was a typical Tuesday morning and I found my mom in the living room watching tv in shock. I stopped to ask her what was wrong and saw the second plane crash into the other tower. We were on the West Coast, so the image was delayed. I went to school that day and everyone was walking around in a daze, teachers included. In every class the teachers just had the tv on the news where they kept showing it over and over. You couldn't get away from it. I remember being numb for weeks afterward.

[*Beth*]

I was driving my son, who was in 8th grade, to school. I turned the car radio on expecting to hear rock music. Instead there was an official-sounding man talking about a "second plane" having crashed in Manhattan. I said, "Oh, my God...(my niece and her boyfriend) are in Manhattan!" My niece was there with her bf, a musician who was scheduled to be on TV that night.

When I dropped my son off I went home and called my older sister. She was frantic because she couldn't reach her daughter (my niece). It wasn't until late that night when my sister was able to locate her, and find out that she was safe - but definitely not okay, as she had seen the whole mess in Manhattan from her hotel.

I had family in NYC and in Brooklyn; everyone was safe but extremely upset, of course.

My son said he and his class watched the news on TV all day in school.

[divine1966]

Driving to work and turning on radio as usual. They started saying something about what’s happening and I thought it was a radio play about bombing and a war or something. I couldn’t grasp it was for real. Took me a minute. When I arrived to work, all TV sets were on and I saw that it was real.

[splitimage]

I was at work, and one of my colleagues came to my office and said, tune into CNN on your computer. I did and saw tower 1 in flames, then I saw the second plane strike the south tower.


Even though I was watching it live, I couldn't quite believe it, I thought it was something out of a Tom Clancy novel.

A guy who worked in corporate called me to ask about the budget and I was like "budget, who cares about that" and told him what was going on and that if he didn't believe me to watch CNN.

They let us leave the office early that day, and I went home and watched the news non stop for the rest of the day.

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[eskielover]

I was in the ER with a migraine. Watched it happen on the TV's they had in there

[possum220]

It was night time here when that happened. I rolled over in bed when I woke up in the morning turned on the radio and heard the news.

[Lonelyinmyheart]

I was in Tenerife about to fly home to the UK. We had the TV on in our apartment and the news came on showing the towers falling. It was horrifying.

[Travelinglady]

Now what year was that?

[SorryShaped]

It was the last time I ever made scratch cinnamon swirl biscuits. I can't do it any more. I get the stuff out and break down in the floor every time. Six foot one and bawling in the floor. I can't

[Photonate]

For some reason I've always been able to recall fairly precisely where I was and what I was doing when it happened.

I was in 1st grade, and we were all sitting around in our daily morning prayer circle (it was a private Christian school so). One of the other teachers came in and interrupted to tell our teacher what happened, and we watched the news coverage for the rest of the day.

[Buffy01]

Getting ready to go to work. When it happens. I went to work listening to the news on the radio on a slow day.

[Deilla]

I was living in the bay area and on my way to work in San Francisco. I was on a ferry when the news came. Everyone seemed shocked and scared. Once I got to work, they sent us all home. They were concerned there might be attacks in the city. Once I got home, I turned on the news. It was very scary.

[mugwort2]

I was in center city Phila. PA on my way to visit my sister and her then husband. I remember hearing about the horrific attack on someone's radio nearby me , within hearing distance/

[ArtieTheSequal]

I was at home getting ready to take my son to day care and head to work when I saw it on tv and ran to tell h who was in the shower at the time. then i called my boss and said um i'm working from home today, i'm not leaving my son. i was a web designer at the time and we had just recently figured out how to log in remotely to our server so we could upload web pages. i lived in the SF bay area at the time and like kit said, we didn't know if we were at war or what was going on.i remember it being so scary and not even being able to imagine what it was like in the areas where things were happening.