I know we have this thread every year, but I like reading the stories. Where were you that day? I was a senior in HS. I worked in the library first period because I was awesome. One of my jobs was to play Channel One throughout the school. After Channel One was finished, the VP (not a Dr.) came to me and told me to figure out how to get CNN to play on all the school TVs. I told her that it didn't work that way, that the TVs only would play what was on the system VCR. She then left. I had no idea what that was about, so I went back to flirting with the sophmore girls that were in the library that morning. Next period was World History. Our teacher had both the radio and the TV on. The TV was grainy, but we could still hear the news. The second plane had just hit. She explained what was happening, and told us to always remember this day, as we were watching world history. We stayed in that classroom all day. For the next 3 days, we never did any schoolwork. We watched the news in every class. I remember coming home and seeing my Dad crying while watching the news that evening. He is a fireman. He just kept repeating "so many men lost their lives today". Never forget
Mine is pretty boring. I worked 3rd shift at the time was sitting in a college CAD class that was I was taking during the day. We were in "Lab" doing CAD drawings and some kid next to me says wow some plane just hit the trade center. I thought to myself that how the heck can the pilot of a commercial air plane not miss the tallest buildings in Manhattan. Then the second one hit and you knew it wasn't an accident. I left class and sat in the college lobby and watched the buildings collapse. I left and went home and stayed up all day watching the news and still went to work that night. I wasn't even tired.
I was in the 1st grade when in Middle Village NYC. I didn't know what happened when every ones mom came to pick them up early. My brothers school was in lockdown and my mother was not allowed to pick him up. I remember having my whole family over to watch what had happened. I remember passing by the teachers room and watching them watch the footage for weeks. This is what changed the country and NY especially. Its very hard to watch the service but the things they built to remember is extremely beautiful. On my way home from my late college class I saw the two beams of light they put where the old towers were. This is in the heart of every New Yorker out there.
I grew up about 45min from midtown Manhatten, and most of my community is made of of FDNY and NYPD. I was in 7th grade in a science class. I remember a bunch of kids leaving school early in the day, but noone would tell us what was happening. My dad had worked in NYPD ESU for 15 yrs before moving to a local dept in the suburbs, and from what he says he was working out on his day off in our gym when the radio reports came on. Him and a few former ESU guys took a van down to Ground Zero to help out and were there for about 4 or 5 days helping in the recover efforts. That scared the crap out of me, because being only arounf 12 yrs old, I had no idea what was happening and thought he was involved somehow. He eneded up loosing two former ESU partners in the collapse, and many more were lost in our coomunity between police officers, firefighters and busniness men and women. I now work on a trading floor with many guys that were in the buildings and that lost business partners and friends on 9/11, but not too many people really talk about it.
I was at work and helping a customer design a business card when another customer came in and asked if we heard the news. We turned on the TV and watched in disbelief as the 2nd plane hit. Nobody said a word...we just sat there and all watched with eyes wide open and mouths shut. There was nothing accomplished at work that day. We pretty much just shut down and watched...feeling shocked and helpless.
Got up after working night shift and turned the TV on and was just in anguish for what had happened. My Dad is a retired firefighter, and my younger brother just started working for the local FD just this past summer. I woke my wife and told her what had happened, I left the house and picked up and extra case of AK Ammo just in case this was going to be something far more than what we were seeing on the TV. I still have that intact case of ammo, and will for many years to come if ever needed.... I watched the POTUS speak and heard his voice crack and watched his lips quiver a bit, and understood that he was a true American, a man who had feelings, and a man who could lead this country. I also heard a clip of Saddam Hussein saying he "was pleased with the day's events," and "would make his country a safe haven for those terrorists responsible." At that point, I assumed it was Iraq who was behind it.... 12 yrs later, it still devastates me to see a video of those towers crumbling and know there were people inside, watching the people jump to their deaths from the windows up above, etc....
I was in Mrs.Bingham's 6th Grade class coming back from lunch. All I know is all the teachers were very quiet and acting weird. I didn't find anything out untill I got home from school and my mother was on the couch watching the news.
I was in the 2nd grade and I was checking a book out in the library. I looked into a office behind the counter and I saw a plane crash into a building. I just remember going back to the class room and watching the new. I was way too you to realize what was happening but now looking back I see how horrible this was.
I was driving to work when the local radio station reported the first plane hitting. I walked into the office and the radio then reported the second plane hitting the towers. We didn't have a TV at work so we just listened to the radio that day. We didn't have a customer call or come in for 2 days. It was like the whole world shut down.
Hooker, I thought the way you and Iowa always fight that you were an old SOB that was talking about Sep 11, 1961. Anyways, I was also in high school going to music class (late after the bell), met an someone I knew who jokingly accused of being the race behind the suicide attacks because of my race. Mostly joking, but I also had a mostly 50% White and 50% Mexican school. Didn't take those remarks personally as I knew they were kind of joking/being stupid. But I don't doubt that if I were a muslim/arab that day, the same guy would've treated me like **** in the next few weeks/months. I don't know if 9/11 is what caused me to join up or if it was just longing for an adventure, but I still remember that day and it seemed like straight out of a movie watching the plane explode onto the twin towers. I wasn't as touched by it because I had never been to the east coast nor had any relatives over there.
I was at work listening to it on the radio . Had a jackwagon in the bay next to me , laughing at it like it was some sort of joke
Was a senior in hs and we all sat in class watching everything unfold, during lunch I called my dad because he was a over the road truck driver and happened to be in NY at that time. Had talked several times about joing military and seeing as he got drafted during Vietnam he asked what I was waiting for. Left school and signed up for Marines that afternoon. Dad had to call back and ok it since I was only 17 and by time I got home my mom was pretty upset that I joined. Other than that watched a lot of news.
Freshman in college, walking to class to take a cultural geography test. When I got there most were talking about if we still had to take the test, In had no clue what was going on. Sat in my dorm glued to the TV the rest of the day. It's crazy and some of you older people can attest to this about different situations, but each year I hear of less and less interest in the situation.
I was at work and a sales guy said a plane hit the tower so being the bad employee I went to watch the tv then saw the second plane hit. I couldn't believe it at first, my mind put in "they found video footage of the plane hitting" file instead of the terrorist attack file. Still unreal after all these years.
Freshman in HS...I can still remember the teacher who had no morning class coming over into ours (friend's with my English Teacher) whispering something to her and then they flipped the tv on. No one said a word, it was very odd how even the idiots in the class that never shut up were silenced by what they were seeing. It was probably a good 10 to 15 minutes before the teacher said today we could sit and watch, work on assignments or read, but no organized class would be happening. She went back to her desk and simply stared at the screen...along with many freshman at their desks.
Junior in high school Heard rumors about it in Anatomy and Physiology. Got to my graphics class and it was on TV. Watches the second plane hit. Teachers showed it occasionally on TV throughout the day, but they still went on and tried to teach. I don't know if it was my naivety at the time or what, but the magnitude of it didn't hit immediately. I know tie it into a lesson every year if possible. My social media/interactive media class discussed it today and the differences in lines of communication during a catastrophic event such as 9/11 compared today with the onslaught of social media. You can see it as the latest post on my website (MrHensler.com). I won't let this new generation forget.
being 24 now, i was only in grade school at the time. I walked into my science class and our teacher, Mr. Graven, had his tv on watching the news. We all sat in silence and watched updates the rest of the day. Even being that young, it still registered loud and clear what was happening.
I was thinking the same thing this morning. I opened up Facebook expecting to see a bunch of posts about it, but there was only 1. Kind of depressing.
I was a junior at IU. I was scheduled to work that morning at Dial America, but work was cancelled. I didn't actually know what was going on until I heard the phone ring and it was the work manager telling me that I didn't need to come in that day. I then turned on the TV to see what was going on and by that point all the planes had crashed. I only had two classes that day, one was previously cancelled, but I had to attend the other class. It was a class on Nazi Germany. I always found it kind of funny that it was such a dark day in the history of this country and the professor of a class on Nazi Germany didn't feel the need to cancel class.
I worked about 18 hours a day then so I basically had stumbled out of bed and into my office and plopped down in front of the computers. One was my 'play' computer and it was on the community forum of the bowsite. I didn't pay much attention to it and instead started on my 'work' computer. Then my sister calls. She said "I guess I won't be flying today." (She was training to get her pilot's license.) I looked out the window and it looked to be a beautiful day. She is always kind of cryptic but I was still too tired to really play guessing games. "Is it too windy?" I asked. She replied "You aren't watching the news, are you?" She then told me something about a plane hitting a building, I kind of remembered seeing a thread on the forum about a plane hitting a building. I had figured it was a small plane accident. I went to the living room and watched the replay of a big passenger jet plowing into the tower. I was dumbfounded. Then they showed the second plane. There was no doubt it was a planned attack. I was worried for the people trapped. Then I watched on live news as those buildings collapsed. I cried. And I was really pissed. Then there was a big boom. The whole house shook and rattled. I looked outside and saw some neighbors cautiously coming out of their houses and looking around. I went out and my neighbor was out, looking around. "Do you think that was a bomb?!" he asked me. "I think it was a sonic boom." I answered. Two of my brothers had been at the China Lakes Naval Air Weapons Station so I'd heard a few sonic booms before. It turns out it was a sonic boom from jets scrambling to intercept an airplane near Chicago. But we didn't know it at the time and it just added to the whole surrealness of the day. Being at a loss for what to do, I went to the blood bank to give blood. There was already a long line and they were turning people away. On the way home I noticed all the gas stations were packed. I hate that we screwed up our response to this attack.
