Where were you on 9/11/01

Amending a pre-market update after the first tower was struck. That day was hell, for all of us in so many ways, but especially for those who lost loved ones.

I was at work until they made us go home. Remember being scared to drive home, wondering if the world was coming to an end.

Biology class Freshman year High School

I was about 1/2 mile from work when I heard it on the car radio. For some crazy reason, I thought the story was a prank put on by a local radio dj. Then, when I got to work, everyone was huddled around a TV watching the tragedy unfold. I'll certainly never forget it.

Working at a client in Cincinnati..until about 9:20 anyhow...then glued to the TV.

I was in History class my freshman year of college when the first plane hit. I left the class and noticed a lot of people gathered in front of the TV in the lobby of the building my class was in. I didn't think anything of it. I got to my dorm room and my roommate had the news on. We watched the first tower go down. We just stared at the TV for awhile speechless. It was hard to believe it was real.

51st floor at One Liberty Plaza (right across the street). Didn't leave until after the 2nd plane hit. Was supposed to be at the World Trade Center that morning for an interview, but decided not to go (it was to be an FA, and I had no interest in cold calling).

Was less then 5 blocks away when the 2nd building fell and walked uptown to 73rd where my apt was.

Getting chills thinking about it. I work with a guy whose brother worked at Cantor. I'm getting teary eyed just thinking about it. 2 small kids. What a nightmare.

Sophomore H.S. Bio Class

Working on sims at Barksdale AFB. Was out in the bay when the 1st tower went down. I remember walking in the hall and hearing that the second tower just went down. I went into the office to hear what was happening. It got crazy on base later that day with Bush being there. Some co-workers actually were going to have a meeting in the room where Bush gave his speech. They got booted out. I also remember driving across base and seeing some serious fire-power on the guards around the building where Bush was and at the gates of the base. No time to be f***ing around that day.

At work of course. They had a tv on there and the constant replays of the plane flying into the tower was awesome.

Computer Science class, sophomore year of HS.

I remember being in the gym right before (~9am) and hearing some kid mentioning how a fighter jet had launched rockets at the WTC.

We spent the whole computer class watching it on TV, speculating on who was behind it.

Next period was French... and our teacher said something along the lines of "Well there's no better distraction than learning our tenses" I don't remember any kid actually participating for the last 30 minutes or so.

The rest of the day is kind of blurry...

Walking through student union sophmore year. It was on all of the televisions. I just walked by on my way to class (i was late). I just remembered thinking to myself why was a stupid end of days 70's movie playing this early in the morning?

read what I wrote again please

In the context of that day, I thought we were under attack, at that time. Thats all, obviously I do not look back on it think we had a war on our soil. At some time during that morning I had heard that there were still a large number of planes in the air and were potential flying bombs. I hear Chicago was hit and many other cities were going to be the subject of attacks

I still have images of people jumping out of the building. Damn

Sorry to bother you, thanks for coming out, have a nice day

i was teaching Clinical Kinesiology at massage school in Boulder. One of my students went out of class to take a phone call and i will never forget his face when he came back in. Minutes later the president of the school came into the room and had tears in his eyes. I will never forget that moment and look. We did do a massage fundraiser at the school a month later and donated all of the proceeds to the firefighters families.

I actually was supposed to start Grand Jury duty in Manhattan that day so I was up a little earlier than usual and flipped on the TV, onto NBC, and saw a stationary camera image looking at one Tower where the first plane had hit. At that point, they actually believed it might have been an accident caused by a small plane like the one that hit the Empire State Building decades ago.

And then, when a subsequent fiery explosion occurred, at first the anchorman (Chuck Scarborough, I believe) thought it was just a late reaction from the first plane. From the only vantage point he had, it was difficult to tell that a second plane had hit (I guess was positioned so that the second tower was directly behind the first and couldn't be seen well). It was only when a weather reporter called him on the air and said "roll back that tape" that he realized a second plane had hit...and this was obviously no accident.

Obviously, there was to be no jury duty. And I started seeing armies of people in business attire taking the long walk back home (I live in the West 70s). The entire day seemed to render sci-fi, disaster, and political thriller movies sort of superfluous.

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Working on sims at Barksdale AFB. Was out in the bay when the 1st tower went down. I remember walking in the hall and hearing that the second tower just went down. I went into the office to hear what was happening. It got crazy on base later that day with Bush being there. Some co-workers actually were going to have a meeting in the room where Bush gave his speech. They got booted out. I also remember driving across base and seeing some serious fire-power on the guards around the building where Bush was and at the gates of the base. No time to be f***ing around that day.

B52 sims? I'm working on them right now...

Sophmore HS Bio for me too, found out in HR shortly after and just watched the news the rest of the morning until they sent us home early...

I was at work when I first heard about a plane hitting a building. I found some news on the radio and couldn't believe what I was hearing. A bunch of us went to a conference room and watched the whole thing unfold on TV. We watched as the towers fell. There were people from our company on Wall Street that day to do some PR work for a spin off. Everyone was pretty scared.

The feeling I remember most is not knowing how many more airplanes were hijacked or what other attacks might happen. My office building is about 35 floors and in the landing pattern of the nearby airport. Every time an airplane would come over our building you could tell people were scared as hell.

I had gotten out of the Marine Corps just a year earlier and was in the process of joining the National Guard. I was ready to go somewhere that very day and kick someone's ass.

Same sims

Did my commute like a normal morning, but a little later than usual. For some reason I had not had the radio on as I normally do, so I had no idea. I did notice an eery atmosphere on the light rail but nobody said anything. When I arrived downtown people were lined up at the bus stops apparently waiting to go home which was very weird for 9am (PDT). When I got to my office, the receptionist said we were closed for the day "because of the situation". WTF, I thought, did we go bankrupt or something? That was my first thought, being right after the dot-com bust and all. So I took the light rail back home. Now THAT was creepy. Train was full and nobody was talking. I didn't actually find out what had happened until I got back home. The rest of the day, and the next several days, I was just at home watching TV nonstop. Remember there were no commercials for 3 days? At least that was kinda nice.