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Where were you???
On September 11, 2001?
Re: Where were you???
I was about to post this too, lol. (great minds think alike?
I was a freshman in college at UCF. I was in the old education building in an Intro to Education class. I came downstairs to the lobby and there were TVs on everywhere--- I asked what was going on. They said that some planes crashed into some buildings in NY. Someone told me they thought it was a prank or a movie... I watched for a few, but then left because I had a meeting at the Writing Center. I went there, same story- people watching TV. While I waited for my appt I watched the news and just felt like my world completely fell apart. For me (and probably lots of you) this was the first real attack on a country I felt completely safe in. I guess I'm naive but I have ALWAYS felt safe in my country...suddenly I didnt. I remember I called my husband, they canceled school for the rest of the day and I drove 528 to my husband's work--- he hadnt heard much because they don't have a tv/radio at his work... it was sooooo odd to drive down 528 and have no airplanes flying over.... very creepy.
9.11.01--- the day I think I really became a "grown up"
I was at work that day. When the first plane hit, I was in the back of the Rescue truck with a patient on the way to the hospital. When we got to the hospital everyone was talking about it and we went into the waiting room to watch the TV. That is when the second plane hit.
When we got back to the station, we just sat in front of the tv all day. It was such a weird, emotional day that I will never forget. That night, I had a hard time falling asleep at work. At about 3am we had a car accident call out on I95. It was a couple whose son worked for FDNY. They had not heard from him and they were heading up to NY in a panic. To this day, I always think about them and wonder if they found him.
I was following my usual morning routine. ?I got my breakfast ready and turned on the TV to a news station. ?The 1st plane had just hit and they were showing the live news feed when the 2nd plane hit. ?It just didn't seem real. ?I was also in my 1st semester at UCF, studying psychology. ?Our course topics definitely took a different twist after the attacks.
Also, my brother had gone in at 8:00 am to sign his paperwork for Officer Candidate School for the Marine Corps. ?When he came out, he found out what happened. ?Also, his b-day is 9-11. ?How ironic is that?
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It was my first year working for the Department of Defense, as a civilian for the Navy in Research Park. It was awful- and because we were in a federal building, everything was very frightening and very sad.
We all wandered down to the cafeteria where there were televisions broadcasting the news- it was so weird to see 1500 people crammed in that area to watch the reports, grown men crying.
It was my first year teaching and I didn't know what had happened until about noon. We have to keep our tvs on the school channel so we had no idea. I heard it from my students who saw the footage on the television at special areas...computers...the para there didn't care about school policy...
I will never forget how I was told...Miss Nelson, Miss Nelson we are under a TOURIST attack. I said OK, (with my eyebrows raised, with sarcasm) now walk quietly down the hallway. It wasn't until after school when I put on the my daily soap to grade papers did I find out what really happened.
That day brings back so many memories...
My dad worked for the Department of Defense and was in the Pentagon that day. My boyfriend(now husband) drove over to my apt in college and woke me up and said a plane had crashed into the Pentagon so I immediately called my dad and phone went straight to voicemail. I was freaking out... I had lost my mom a few months before that and now thought I had lost my dad too. I didn't know how serious the damage was...
Thankfully my dad was ok and called a few hours later. They were ushered into the bunker of the Pentagon until they knew the danger was over.
I honor and will always remember those who lost their lives that day.
sitting at my old job scheduling a patient for surgery. My backline rang and I picked it up, it was a co-workers husband who was in the military. He was very upset and quickly told me what happened before I passed the phone to her. Like many people we didn't think much of it until he called the second time.
We spent the rest of the day going in and out of our conference room watching the news unfold.
I was on a layover in Montreal. We had got in the night before and were scheduled to leave that afternoon. I was watching the Today Show eating my cheerios and saw the second plane hit and literally freaked out. I jump up looking for my phone but I was all concerned about roaming rates so I didn't want to call anyone!!?? Ya I know that sounds stupid but my mind was all over the place. I was glued to the T.V. for 48 hours. I was terrified! I don't think I slept for like 2 days.
We ended up being stuck there for 6 days. Everyday we would get dressed ready to go to the airport and they would cancel our flight. All I wanted to do was go home to see my family. I ended up taking a few weeks off and Delta was surprisingly supportive to all of their crewmembers who had a hard time with it.
Good question - I'm sure it's a moment that we will never forget.
I was in my senior year of college and getting ready for class. A friend called and I really couldn't understand what she said other than turn on the tv, she was hysterical. I turned on the tv and it was right after the first plane had hit. No one really knew what to think at that point, it was not long after a teenager in Miami (I think?) had flown a Cessna into a building so we were all kind of wondering. Just a few minutes after I started watching and called all of my roomates in, the second plane hit and we just knew. We all sat on the couch, silent, not knowing what to say or do. I grew up in NJ not too close to the city but close enough. All the circuits were busy so I couldn't get through to any friends or family and that really freaked me out.
Emmer - I'm surprised your administrators didn't inform you. My mom is a teacher as well and they all received a memo so they knew what was going on. But, a lot of families in the town have parents who commute to the city so they needed to know that a lot of kid's parents wouldn't be able to get home for them that night.
I was living about 15 miles west of DC at the time. ?We lived about 1 mile from Dulles Airport which is where one of the planes took off from. ?I worked just outside of DC and was on my way in when it happened. ?Traffic was horrible and my boss called me and told me what was going on. ?I turned back around and went home and watched the rest of it on TV. ?
The only way to get in to Dulles airport is through a toll road which is always VERY busy. ?We lived on the toll road. ?It was the strangest sight not seeing anyone on that toll road since they had shut down the airport.
Also, they stopped all air traffic that day. ?Well, they used Dulles airport as the military aircraft refueling station so every time a plane flew over, all of our neighbors came outside wondering what was going on. ?I did see some very cool military planes that day.
My friend's dad was on his way to work when the plane hit the Pentagon. He was on the road right next to the Pentagon when it happened. ?Shrapnel from the plane hit the car 2 in front of him. ?Another friend worked in a building very close to the Pentagon. ?When the plane hit, all of the windows in his building were shattered. ?It was a very scary day to be living in DC. ?I can only imagine what it was like in New York.?
They call this a "Kodak" moment ... you will always remember exactly where you were and what you were doing...
I was home with the tv on getting ready for work with my oldest daughter (who was in 6th grade at the time) when the first plane hit. My younger daughter was already at school. We thought it was just an accident. I went to work and shortly after arriving, my oldest daughter called from home hysterical! She was trying to tell me through sobs that another plane had hit and the news was saying the US was under attack. Her dad is in Air Force Special Operations, and most of her friends and school mates had parents in the military as well. She was concerned that he would have "to go to war,"
We turned on the t.v. at work in the conference room and just kept checking it all day. The oldest daughter had to get herself off to school, and was so upset. The school was very understanding and let the kids whose parents were in the military call them to check on them and get reassurances.
I just remembering feeling so numb all day, and really most of the week.
I was at work. Then I was frantic b/c one of my close family members works for the airlines and it was very panic-y until the news reports released which airlines and flights were affected.
One of the executives in my office drove up to NYC immediately. Her sister lost her husband in one of the towers.
Scheduled IVF for April 2013--SURPRISE, don't need it! EDD 9/6/13
I was living here in Orlando but my Grandfather who lives down south was having a procedure at JFK Hospital in WPB. My Dad seemed to think it was bad so the whole family went. Turned out Dad was right. My Grandfather had to have open heart surgery. We spent days at the hospital because they kept cancelling the surgery for emergencies. Finally Monday am they HAD to do it because he ended up having a heart attack. So my Grandmother and I stayed at a hotel to be near the hospital - they lived over an hour away.
We were exhausted so we told everyone we were gonna sleep in. My Mom called and was yelling to turn on the tv. IM NOT a morning person. I saw the 2nd plane hit the tower and my Grandmother asked what was going on - I told her Mom wants us to watch some crazy movie. I turned the tv back off and went back to sleep SO not realizing what was happening. She called back screaming again when the 1st tower fell. By then I fully understood. We rushed to get dressed and raced to the hospital. The whole hospital was on lock down especially since the lantana airport is across the st. It was sooo weird. My Grandfather is retired Military and he was so drugged he kept telling the nurses he needed to get to work. Our country is under attack. They ended up taking the tvs out of the rooms because it was upsetting the patients.
I worked at OIA and had just moved here from where I worked @ PBIA. Its very strange that I wasnt there but the horror stories I have heard from both airports is amazing. Its a day none of us will ever forget.
I was a junior in college and was getting ready to head to class. My roommate yelled at me to get into her room as she was watching the news and saw the first plane hit. We couldn't believe it, but at that point weren't sure if class was cancelled. We saw the second plane and then had to leave. Our professor didn't believe that anything was happening so we had to sit through his Econ lecture. Classes were canceled for the rest of the day, and I watched the news with my roommates until I had to go to work. It was unbelievable. Several of my male friends claimed they would enlist, or that they hoped there would be a draft.
Ironically, my husband enlisted in the USMC a few weeks later, although we didn't know one another at the time.
Thats horrible
I was teaching my 3rd period Honors Geometry class. One of the guidance counselors and the assistant principal came to my door and asked to see one of the students in my class. Apparently his father was working in one of the towers that day and they needed to tell him first before an announcement was made to the school. Fortunately, his father survived!
Reading all these stories have given me goosebumps.
I was a Senior in High School - Cherry Hill High School East in Cherry Hill, NJ (about 15 minutes from Philadelphia). School had started the week before - this was my first year being able to drive to school. I remembered that it was a beautiful day - unusually beautiful, if that makes any sense. It was like a clear spring day - beautfiul, fluffy clouds and the sun was shining beautifully - out of the ordinary for the beginning of fall in NJ. My 1st period class was English. After English, I went to Commercial Art. I remember about 1/2 way through this class that there was an announcement made - something about a plane...whoever was speaking wasn't very clear. My teacher didn't seem concerned, so I didn't really let it bother me. I think I went to gym after that because I remember the teachers letting us all sit on the gym floor to watch the horrible events unfold on the television. People were crying all over the place and lots of us were just in a state of shock. I remember thinking "this is how I'm going to remember the beginning of my senior year." While watching the news, I remembered that my dad had recently started a new job and this job required him to work in NYC every so often. I started getting really upset and, after countless unsuccessful, unnerving, attempts to call my mom on the payphone, she finally picked up. My dad was fine (thank goodness). The rest of the day was a blur.....I couldn't believe this was happening!
I remember going back to school on September 12 and sitting in my first period English class. We got a graded papers back from the day before and I remember how strange it was to look at "yesterday's" date (9-11-01) and thinking....man, at this time yesterday, everything was still ok...none of this had happened.
I remember this day like it was yesterday. It is still unbelieveable that something like that happened. We are so lucky to have so many men and women who are willing to risk their lives to ensure that Americans are safe and free. It is important that we keep these men and women in our thoughts not only today, but everyday.
***For any teachers or parents who want to discuss 9-11's events with their children, I recommend the book "September 12, We Knew Everything Would Be All Right" (ISBN 9780439442466). The story was written and illustrated by a 1st grade class. It tells briefly of the events of 9-11, but focuses on how the kids knew everything was going to be all right....very sweet.
I was in my Junior year of high school. We had just switched classes and as I was walking into my english class the TV was on and I honestly thought it was a movie and asked which one it was. My friend turned around and told me what had happened. We kept the TV on for about 20 minutes. Our power ended up going off and of course that conveniently put everyone into more hysteria. They ended up calling all the buses to come take us home in case they could not get the power back on.
My uncle was working in the Pentagon that day... he was late to work though and saw the plane crash. One of my friends in high school was so dstraught because her aunt worked in the WTC. Eventually she got a hold of her mom who told her her aunt was ok.
I was also a Freshman at UCF, but didn't have class that morning. I woke up to my roomate breaking a bowl in the kitchen, and when I came out to see what the loud noise was, my other roomate came out crying. Her sister lived in NY and they couldn't get in touch with her. Turned out the cell phone lines were jammed due to everyone making calls.
Class was cancelled the rest of the day and everyone gathered at our apartment to watch the news. I even remember filling up my car in case I needed to leave to go back home, and gas was .98 at the BP by the campus. That station was always so cheap back then! I guess it seems silly now to think I would have had to make a quick getaway, but with everything that was going on there was no telling what could happen.