Where Were You?

[05venturer]

Just a little question for all my friends.

Who remembers where they were and what they were doing 12 years ago today when the 9/11 Attack took place?
I will start this out. I was on a roof in Hudson,WI doing a roof repair for Lester Buildings, when the horrible news was told to me by my foreman.

 

[mgolfd]

I was on the highway looking at downtown Manhattan watching the whole thing unfold.

 

[uberam3rica]

I was in school, the second grade to be exact. My dad pulled me out of school. I remember he took me to the gas station to get a snack, and everyone looked really worried. I didn't know why though. He then told me what happened on the car ride home.

 

[metalmilitia]

I was a junior in high school in second period Spanish class and the teacher heard the news and pulled a tv into the room to follow what was going on. I don't think any of my classes taught anything that day. We all kind of just say quietly and watched what was unfolding.

 

[chervokas]

I was standing on Madison Avenue having just gotten off the last commuter train into NYC before they shut 'em down, looking south at smoking billowing from the first building hit.

 

[flyguy]

I was at home (Boise, Idaho area), getting ready for work and eating breakfast. I turned on the TV right after the first tower was hit. At that time they (Fox News) speculated that it was an accidental plane collision. I was about to take a bite and witnessed the second plane smacking the second tower... a sad day.

 

[roadqueen]

I was working as a bank teller in a tiny town at the main branch. One of the management team came out to the lobby and told us what was going on. One of the other tellers found a radio and we listened.
I had just found out a couple of weeks prior that I was pregnant with my son. I remember being terrified not only for my fellow countrymen, but also for my unborn child and what kind of world may await him upon his arrival.

 

[cynyr]

I was just arriving at work, building computers. One of the other builders, a private pilot, looked at my monitor and said "Severe clear sky. Not an accident."
He was right. No computers got built that day.

 

[yaddy306]

Ironically, I was on my way to an anti-terrorism/chemical/biological/nuclear meeting at the police station in my city when I heard the news.

 

[crazypipe]

I was having my oil changed and watching what was happing on TV.

 

[fitzy]

I was sitting in my office in White Plains watching the smoke off in the distance trying to figure out where the fire was when someone walked in and said a plane crashed into the twin towers.

 

[undecagon]

I was in the 8th grade. The other 8th grade class found out first, my teacher was pulled into the hall and told, she came back in tears and said we all needed to go into the oter room. They told us, and we watched the news for the rest of the day. We were also told to be careful how much we said around te younger kids (I went to a K-8). It was a pretty scary day.

 

[petes03]

I was sitting in machine/tool and die class at Bradley Central High my senior year. We dropped everything and watched it the rest of the day.

 

[plateauguy]

Renton Boeing Plant under lock-down.
When we first heard, the messages were mixed. We all knew that there was a crash into a building involving a Boeing commercial jet, but we thought it was pilot error until the second plane. Everyone was so angry that our planes had been used by worthless human-waste to kill innocent people.

 

[rmason]

I was in elementary school second or third I don't remember, but I do remember the teachers and staff freaking out and the rest of us kids just wondering what was happening.

~Ron

 

[dread]

I had a late night working on a case at the firm, so I was still getting ready for work when my mom called me right after I got out of the shower. I turned on the TV and saw the second plane hit live. I was just dumbfounded and sat on the couch dripping wet.

 

[pchitti]

Same as flyguy, woke up to the news of the first plane. Remember clear as day thinking it was a Cessna and how did they not see the tower? Turned on the TV and watched the second plane hit. Went to work at Applebees a few hours later and we all just sat in the bar section watching the news.
Was a very sad day, and truly cannot understand how we have gotten to the point we are at. Our own President refusing to give a moment of silence for the loss of our countrymen so he can spout lies.

 

[plateauguy]

+1 pchitti

 

[pylorns]

A Flashbulb memory is what this is called.
I was at home initially and saw it on the CNN. I then went into work - I worked at Dell in the enterprise support department so we only supported large businesses. They had pulled a TV out for the support department to watch and the entire call center was dead. It was a bit surreal, that when it happened a call center that was used to getting 1000s of calls an hour goes dead, no phone calls, no nothing. Every single person was glued to their TVs. I want to say that Dell actually sent a bunch of people home, and the same for the next day.
Also when it happened we had some of our agents actually on the line with a couple people in the towers - they said something along the lines of "I gotta go, we're being evacuated I'll call back later about the computer."

 

[blendtobac]

I was at work teaching group keyboard lessons when my wife called to tell me what happened. Strangely enough, this was the second time I had worked for this company with about 10 years in-between tenures, and the first time I was working and was called by my wife about the Challenger disaster..
Russ