Where were you? (9/11)

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Where were you? (9/11)

In memory of 9/11, where were you???

I was sitting in an accounting class and another instructor slipped in and informed our instructor. She said that an airplane had hit one of the 2 WTC towers in New York City but that was all she knew. My next class was literature and I was early to it. There was a television in that classroom...I hooked up the cable and the power and all we did was continue to watch live coverage of it.

At the time, I don't remember being immediately fearful for my family. My kids were safe at day care and school, and I at the college. But when I got home, I called my mom, who was a federal government employee in a FAA facility at the time, to make sure she was okay - she lived 3 hours away then. She said she just saw the FAA employees fleeing rapidly from the building, so she didn't ask any questions and just left (she was NOT an FAA employee, different department).

I was at work when I heard. Obviously there was not much work done that day. It still makes my stomach hurt to watch the film of the planes flying into the buildings! May we NEVER forget that day!

I was working in Estonia but home with a cold that day. It was late afternoon there and I was lying in bed listening to the BBC World Service when they announced the news. I got up and called my husband at work, who didn't believe me until he told our boss and they got the images up on an Internet news stream. A terrible day for the world.

I was at home before heading to the college for class. If i had done my normal morning routine that day, I would have been watching the Today show right when it happened, but I skipped it that morning. And strangely I didn't listen to the radio on the drive in that morning, so I was clueless until talking to classmates a few hours after it happened.

My husband was at work & I was either at the library with my eldest (he was 4 at the time & we spent a lot of time in the children's section there) or at home... We had just moved into the antique cape we had bought a month earlier & were in the process of gutting the bathroom (water damage all the way down to the subfloor & in one wall there was some mold as well), so I may have been at home dealing with that the day it happened. I just remember being so shocked. I didn't have any family or friends that worked in that area, but I was still broken up over it - all the people losing their loved ones. Felt so bad for them...

I was going through my own tough time & was in group therapy...of course they stopped everything, turned on the tv & we had a whole discussion about it.

I was in the cafetaria of the hospital I was staying for a year when I saw it on the news. Nobody else was really watching, so I kind of made an earthquake there smiley

I remember it very clearly....
I was ill at home. In Germany it was early afternoon then. My mom called me, and I watched the falling of the second tower live on TV. It was such a horror.

September the 11th is my husband's birthday. We live in Italy (I'm American, he's Italian). On that day I had been here for less than 1 year. I never watch TV during the day. That afternoon (Italian time) my husband walks into a coffee bar. They had the TV on when he walked in, and everyone was just standing there watching. The 2nd plane had just hit. He thought it was a movie or something, so he jokingly said "Hey, look at those 2 big candles they lit in New York for my birthday" and everyone looked at him thinking he was either a complete idiot or an evil sadistic monster. When they explained what was really happening he felt sick, like everyone else.

He went back to his office and called me on the phone to tell me what was happening. He had to tell me 3 times. The first time he told me in Italian, and my mind could just not grasp what he was trying to say. The 2nd time he told me in his halting English, and I thought he was just misunderstanding something he saw on TV - it couldn't possibly be what he was saying. The 3rd time he repeated in Italian, very slowly, and my brain started to finally kick in. At that point I asked him to please come home, and he did.

While I was waiting for him, I turned on the TV and turned it up really loud so I could hear the American reporters speaking in English (they dub over it in Italian, and at that time my Italian still wasn't so great). Besides being just sick about the terrible tragedy of all that loss of life, I was really frightened because I'm an American living in a foreign country, and everyone was saying how Americans were going to be targeted for acts of terrorism all over the world (they had already been saying it before). But by the time my husband got home from the office that day, I had already decided that I wasn't going to let ANYONE make me afraid. I told my husband "They can kill me, but they can't make me be afraid. I choose to NOT be afraid. That is what they want."

A couple days later, when he had a day off, we took the train to Rome to lay flowers at the gates of the American Embassy and stand there...and I just cried and cried.

Friends of mine in New York used to have their offices in the World Trade Center. They had just moved out 1 month before into an office across town. They lost hundreds of friends and former business associates who were in the offices near where theirs had been. Another friend of mine who had an apartment in the area has had several horrible illnesses due to all of the toxic fumes, smoke and dust that she was exposed to.

Like others have said, we must never forget.

I was at home getting ready for school (I was in high school). I turned on the tv and was dumb founded. It was on every station. Im in Australia and so much of it had occurred overnight here.
We had assembly that day and I fully expected to hear about it there too but not a word.

I live in NZ and was woken up about 7am with a phone call from my mother. She said America has just been attacked. I was barely awake and in total disbelief thinking who would be mad enough to do that? And how could they do it? And why? She had to tell me to go turn on the tv. It was shocking news to wake up to ...I couldn't reconcile having to get ready and going off to work as I normally would with such a terrible thing taking place in the world as I did so.

I was at home when the attacks happened. My mom called and asked if I had seen the news. At the time, only the first building had been hit and was on fire and they were unsure if it was an accident or not. I turned on news and watched in horror as the rest of the events unfolded.

I was in Alaska, getting ready for work. I always watch the news while getting dressed, so I saw it happen on the television. It was like a nightmare. My husband had traveled to Russia that week for his employment, and was stuck over there until the ban on international air traffic was lifted. I worked for the Federal Aviation Administration, so I had a very heavy day at the office, for the days, weeks, and months following the tragic event.

i live in Belgium .I was at work and as I came back at home,my husband ran to my car before I park it in the garage to tell what was happened...I thought that he has bad understoud the radio (french is not his first language-he was born in Germany)