Where were you on 9/11?

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

I was working in my office, when I heard the roaring of jet engines. Glanced out the window in concern, and lo and behold, a passenger jet was bearing down on my very building. I panicked until I remembered that I work as an ATC.

Good taste is for wine connoisseurs.

 

[The_Echo]

I was at school. I did not hear about it until I got home, and at that age I did not know what was happening

My case, verbatim. My whole school was pretty unaware. I came home to see my mom watching the news. I took a look long enough to see footage of the towers crumbling, and then I left to do whatever I did in second grade.

 

[kazikian]

I was jumping from a United Airlines flight over mid-Pennsylvania, finger tensed over the chute release cord, one eye on my wristwatch, praying to God that cell-phone coverage would work once I landed, and --through it all-- wondering how the hell things had gotten so damn out-of-hand.

(PS. Fortunately my contacts were reached, the money was wired to my account, and the helicopter left successfully with only slight weather delays, placing me on Russian soil well within the rendezvous parameters. Why the very next night I was in Moscow chatting it up with a lovely young thing named Svetlana, who had fortuitously already made the hotel reservations in advance. Of course neither of us was ever heard from again... but them's the breaks.)

 

[300lb. Samoan]

I was on my way to second period American History class when someone told me they just heard a small plane had crashed into the world trade center building. I didn't know what the building was back then, and I assumed they meant a small bi-plane driven by an amateur had clipped it. Then in the middle of American History (it was a two hour class) word got out to the teachers and we stopped everything we were doing to watch the live coverage. I was a junior in high-school at the time.

In related news, I remember the principal of my elementary school coming into my kindergarten class to explain the Gulf War to us. Went completely over our heads. That was in '90.

 

[lizards]

this is a weird topic for me right now because i was in highschool with a girl who i just ran into a week ago and now is living with me

i never heard about it until i got home the next day my friends uncle was on it though, luckily he was late to work that day and saw the plane hit the first 1 as he was walking toward it

 

[Dark Knifer]

When I got home from school when I was about 8. I was eagerly anticipating my usual afternoon of watching tv and relaxing, only to find all thats on the tv is something about some towers in america collapsing. I was quite annoyied that day, and every day for that week.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

I wrote a whole paper on this. I'd post it, but nobody would give a shit.

I was at school.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

I think I was... frankly I didn't really know much about it up until a year or two ago.

At the time it happened I think I was at my Aunts, the house was a mess and I had no idea why my Aunt seemed so frantic.

 

[C_Topher]

My dad worked nights and had turned the TV on when he got home. When I woke you to get ready for school, it was right there. I didn't understand what I was seeing at first, but when I did, it was an odd feeling. I had no idea how to react or respond. It should be noted that I'm Canadian, if that means anything for this kind of thread.

 

[Warbandit]

I was in grade 4, I think. I walked in from school, and my mom was home, she told me that there was an attack on the US. I said "Oh, and went to make my after school snack. It wasn't until about 7 that night while watching the news that I realized how serious it was.

 

[Blatherscythe]

School.

 

[Chicago Ted]

I was at school. I did not hear about it until I got home, and at that age I did not know what was happening

Same thing for me. Except I had no idea what the Twin Towers were since I was Canadian.

 

[tsb247]

I was in my second-hour science class my freshamn year of high school. I had heard something about it in my first-hour gym class, but it came on the news during my science class.

 

[Low Key]

I was in 10th grade social studies when a teacher came in and told us to turn on the TV. We pretty much watched it until we went home.

 

[The Hairminator]

I was like 8 or 9 and my dad came and picked me up from school. I heard he talking with the teachers how something had happened, didn't really listen/care. Then we got home and watched the news. It wasn't really a big deal for me, since it was on the other side of the world and I was just 8 and therefore knew very little of the world. But the way everyone else kept going on about this event made me realize it wasn't just news like everything else.

 

[Mozared]

I wrote a whole paper on this. I'd post it, but nobody would give a shit.

You wrote a whole paper on where you were on 9/11? Elaborate and I might give that shit ;P

Looks like most people were at school - I myself had that experience the next day. I went to sleep relatively easy after seeing the news but the next day we were forced to watch it again on the television at school.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

I wrote a whole paper on this. I'd post it, but nobody would give a shit.

You wrote a whole paper on where you were on 9/11? Elaborate and I might give that shit ;P

Looks like most people were at school - I myself had that experience the next day. I went to sleep relatively easy after seeing the news but the next day we were forced to watch it again on the television at school.

Yup...it was for an English class. Just talking about my day, and how it was my mother's birthday and how it all seemed so surreal.

 

[Skeleon]

I was assembling a new bed together with my father when my mother ran into the room to tell us.
We went to the living room to watch the first burning tower on the news channel.
It was unreal, like watching a crappy action or catastrophy movie.
Then the second plane hit.

 

[Mozared]

Yup...it was for an English class. Just talking about my day, and how it was my mother's birthday and how it all seemed so surreal.

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