9.11.01,Where were you, and what were you doing?

[Cerberus]

Where were you, and what were you doing when you heard about the terrorist attacks?

It was nearly 3.00PM, and I was on the bus when the driver announced what had happened.

[Viper_Fujax]

I was in bed and my mom woke my up right after the second plane hit.

I\'ve had to respond to this so many times lately, that I am just going to copy and paste my response.

I was in school, going to 4th period. I got there, the TV was on. Both buildings had been hit, but neither had fallen yet. At first I thought it was a movie. When I found out the truth, I was in shock, to say the least. That turned to fear, and then remorse. I know several people who worked within blocks of the trade center, and were in that area at the time. My father works for the New York State Court system, and has an office in the area, which he goes to frequently. Luckily, he wasn\'t there that day. I also know someone who ended up dying in those attacks. He was a friend of the family, and had no way of getting down. When he realized he had no chance of escaping, he called his wife, to say goodbye to her. He was on the phone with her until the building collapsed. He was a good friend of the family, and will be missed, like all the others who died in that event.

I just got out of the shower and the phone rang:

"TIM!  TURN ON THE TV!  WERE UNDER ATTACK!"

My initial response was whatever and sure enough, there it was, both buildings on fire and smoking.  Then they showed the pentagon.  I was home and I watched tower 1 and 2 collapse before I left for school.

I was in 2nd period (9:30\'ish), and ironic enough, everyone had done the pledge, except I didn\'t.


Now I do. Yes, I did feel like shit.

It was around 8:50 and I was on a field to a community college in downtown Columbus.  The professer told our class and we were kind of stunned and confused.  About an hour later we were forced to evacuate so my class decided to go out to eat.  We went to a wings place and thats when we saw the destruction on TV.  It was far worse than we had thought.

I just woke up, and my mom told me all about it. I was sort of skeptical, but when I got to school. One of the teachers was crying, because her brother worked there. All day we watched the news.

[Bladez]

It was going on during 1st hour.  That\'s what everybody was talking about the whole day and all Tests, Quizes, and homework was canceled.  A few teachers were crying that\'s about it.  Lets hope it doesn\'t happen again...ever.

I don\'t remember the exact time that it had happened, but I remember it was during 2nd period at school and I was in math class.  The teacher was explaining something on the board and suddenly the principal delivered a message over the loudspeaker to the entire school explaining that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.  I think just about everyone in the classroom was in shock, but we all believed it was an accident -- nothing terrorist-related.  Later in the period we received another announcement concerning the second attack on the WTC, and that\'s when people started getting worried.  The class ended and I went to my 3rd period english class where we spent the next 50 minutes or so watching everything unfold on TV.  The rest of the day, in each class I had, I did the same thing:  watch the news.  The faculty even set up a TV in the auditorium so the students could watch everything over and over again during their lunch periods.

It was certainly the darkest day I\'ve ever experienced in my life, and it was really interesting to see the reactions of all my teachers and friends.  I don\'t think any of them acted like themselves that day.

The radio alarm on my stereo went off at 6:30 or so and I was expecting on hearing my favorite morning radio show people\'s laughter.  Instead they mentioned something about a message from the president.  I thought "great...the monkey speaks."  I was still half asleep and heard the words New York, World Trade Center, attacked, planes.  Jerked awake and then stumbled down from my top bunk to see what\'s on TV.  Sure enough, The Today Show was covering it.  My mom was wondering what was I doing watching TV before I brushed my teeth.  My older sister who wasn\'t supposed to wake up for another hour came out of her room too.  I called Ryu to tell him as he had mentioned above.  Then my mom made some phone calls to her sister and parents in NYC.  They were all OK.  But I didn\'t find out if a cousin of mine was OK until three days after.

Let\'s see, I had a lateish class that day, So I woke up almost right after the two buildings had collapsed. No one was home and I was just sitting there staring at the screen for 5 seconds, I thought I was in a dream and fell back asleep for like 10 mins.

I woke up, and sure enough there was on the Television, I didn\'t even go to class that day just because I couldn\'t get my self out of bed and my eyes off the TV screen.

None of our relatives in NYC were hurt (thank god)

Good God is anyone in the work force!  Anyway, I was sitting at my desk staring at a simulation of cars moving along our city\'s traffic network and I get a call from a friend who is watching the thing happen on TV.  This is right after the first plane hit.  As we are talking he starts screaming that another plane is heading right for the next tower.  

Stupid me, I am thinking he is talking about some little Cesna or something, not a 747.  All hell breaks loose at the Government Center.  People are watching TV\'s in the Directors office and I finally see the replay of the second jet hitting the towers.  The rest of the day was quite surreal.

The next day we have armed guards standing by all the entrances with metal detectors.  Reality sinks in.

I was actually on these forums.  Someone had just made a post about it, nobody believed him including me.  For about 10 posts or so everyone was joking around, some were upset at the very thought...then one person posted something like "No, really.  One of the towers just got hit.  Turn on your TV."  

I turned it on and not 10 minutes later the second tower got hit...I watched it all the way up until I had a class at 1:30.  I got to class, we sat down and discussed what was going on.  Then we turned on the TV for the remainder of the period.  I came home and kept watching for any updates.

I was in a state of disbelief the entire day.

Yeah, Gig, I was in the workforce at the time. I was working second shift tho, and playing PSO with my friends all night so the only real sleep time I had was durring the mornings. So I\'m crashed out in my recliner, like usual, and my sis walks in and kicks the chair. I get all pissed off, and wondering WTF did she do that for? She\'s said, "We\'re under attack, the WTC jus got rammed by planes."

I rolled over and said, "Bullshit" and went back to sleep. About a half hour later I woke up and turned on the TV jus in time to watch both towers fall. I didn\'t really believe what I was seeing at first.. but it slowly sank in over the course of the day. I wasn\'t scared.. I wasn\'t concerned.. I jus kept rolling the thought over in my head.. "The WTC is GONE... " I didn\'t go to work that day.. I didn\'t wanna get stuck in a situation where everyone\'s all distracted and crying and scared.. so I jus stayed home and watched TV all day.. switching between TechTV, History Channel, Discovery, Starz, and MSNBC.

After a few days, the disbelief wore off and I jus got angrier. I knew it was war the moment it happened, and I wanted to enlist in the army, but they rejected me cause of several factors. I figure **** it.. they have my selective service card.. they\'ll call if they need me. Still, I\'m dissapointed that I wasn\'t there in the bombers blasting out Battle Cry of Freedom and various other "wrath of god" Civil War tunes over the battlefeild while bombing the crap outta Tora Bora.

I was in period 2 spanish, right after the 1st tower was hit.  We turned on a TV and watched the 2nd hit.  It was horrible, one of our kids parents worked in the WTC, but he was thankfully not there during that time.