Where Were You..

schumakr · September 2010

It's 9/11, and I vividly remember where I was that day.

I was a senior in high school in Government class. Our teacher brought a tv in and turned on the news. We tuned in in time to see the second plane hit the tower. The rest of the day, everyone in school was glued to the tv, or discussing what was going on.

Where were you?

MissySue20 · September 2010

I had just graduated from high school and was about to start college. I was working full time at 2 jobs over the summer and happened to be sleeping in that day. My Mom woke me up a little before 12 noon and I got up and was glued to the tv all day. I know we also shed a few tears together when they estimated the number of people killed.

We feared for my Mom's cousin who worked in the WTC but happened to not be at work that day, thank God. I think it is still a miracle that he wasn't.

BellaSposa223 · September 2010

8th grade. They called us grade by grade into the cafeteria to tell us that we all going home and what had happened. A girl I was friends with at the time, "Christina", was sitting next to me. When they had said the Twin Towers were hit, Christina instantly began crying and I had no idea why. She turned around and told me that her dad works in that building. I hugged her and just let her cry. They sent us home. My mom didn't want me to be alone so I stayed at a neighbors until my dad came home. All day I tried calling Christina to see if her dad was okay and the phone line was constantly busy.

Nine years later and they still haven't found him. Every year on this I think of Christina because we aren't friends anymore and her dad who I met a few times prior. I was so young but it still affected me and I still remember it like it was yesterday. My thoughts and prayers go out to the Oakley Family remembering James Oakley.

ccbean034 · September 2010

i was in history class during my junior year of high school. i remember a lot of people were panicking but the school wouldn't officially tell us what was happening. they wanted the parents to let everyone know when they got home. kids were finding out because their parents were calling them. and it was really freaking people out because most of the school had no idea what was happening. i didn't really know how awful it was until i got home.

kmuthig · September 2010

I was in class, it was my junior year of college. I had an 8 am class so I was there and at that point only the first tower had been hit. I went back to my dorm and took a nap and when I woke up I remember hearing everything else that had happened. I rembmer they cancelled our football game that weekend.

Jewels2010 · September 2010

I was a Junior in high school and I walked into study hall after coming back from coop classes at another high school. The halls were eerily silent and everyone in all the classrooms were watching what was happening on the tvs. I remember sitting in classes all day discussing what was going on and watching the news all the day. And how weird it was not to hear airplanes flying above our house (we didn live very far from Detroit Metro and can hear/see airplanes all throughout the day).

lca315girl · September 2010

I was a sophomore in high school. I remember watching "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" in my Civics class and when class let out it was dead silent in the entire school. There was only one other time previous to 9/11 that I remember the school being completely silent.

I didn't know what was going on until I got to my Home Ec class and the TV was on. I recall watching the second plane fly in to the tower in that class and just being in shock at what I had just witnessed.

mainemommy · September 2010

I think I was a Junior in High School. I was in class & it just happened to be a current events class so we were already watching tv when it happened.

It was shocking & scary & I remember thinking about how lucky I was that it didnt personally affect me.

Kniblet · September 2010

At home, asleep. My mom was blowing up my phone and I was PISSED when I finally answered. (Big rule: DON'T WAKE ME UP, EVER!)

I was laying there and she starts telling me about a plane hitting the Tower. And I flat out said, mom..planes don't fly into NYC like that. How in the hell did the pilot get that close???

Then when the sleep fog lifted in a few seconds, I pumped up and ran downstairs to turn on the TV. And soon after, I saw the second Tower get hit. I remember standing there shocked, it was like watching a movie. And then I realized people were jumping out of the buildings. And I started crying.

Called me then boyfriend and talked to him. And I called my BFF at the time and she had oddly slept in and called into work that day. So she got up and watched the TV, too.

Seeing the Towers collapse is something I will never, ever forget. It was like a bad dream.

I will also never forget the news people on CNN... they were speechless and trying to process it just like we were.

marisaocho · September 2010

I had just moved into my first rental house with friends from college and just started my first job out of school the day before. For some reason my new job didn't do training on Tuesdays so I was sleeping in. My sister called me and woke me up and she was freaking out telling me to turn on my television but since we had just moved we still didn't have our cable hooked up. I ran to get my roommate and we sat by the radio listening to what was going on. Our other two roommates eventually came home and we went to some friend?s house later on to watch everything that had happened earlier in the day. I will never forget that day.

I went to NYC 6 months after it happened and was there when they put up the two beams of light at ground zero on 3/11/02. I couldn't bring myself to go down there but for the few days I was in NYC and could see the lights at night, I was paralyzed thinking of 9/11.

Emma61210 · September 2010

I was a junior in high school. We were in 1st period... Theatre. Our Theatre teacher was Best Friends with the assistant principal and he came into our classroom and told us to turn on the tv. We watched the second plane hit. When the bell rang, we were the only ones who had heard what happened. After everyone got to their next classes, they called us all the the gym and told us what had happened... we watched TV all day long. I remember one of my best friends was at home sick and she ended up coming to school just so she wouldn't be home by herself.

I remember going to church that night for a prayer service and afterwards going to get gas. The gas stations were so packed with people because everyone thought there would be a shortage or something.

I will never forget that day!

amberpro · September 2010

I was student teaching and class had already started. A TA was walking from class to class telling the adults what was going on, but we didn't really grasp the severity of things or even really understand. We kept waling into each others' rooms trying to find out what happened.

Planning and lunch were spent in the library watching TV in complete silence. Everyone in total awe.

I lived in the sorority house at the time. When I came home, everyone was in the living room silently glued to the TV. As girls came in, then just quietly found a place to sit. We stayed there most of the night with no more words than "wow" or "I can't believe this is happening".

barrelbabe004 · September 2010

I was sitting in zero hour English class when the first plane hit. At that point we didn't know what was going on. My first period class was Global Perspectives and we got in there and turned the news on to see what was going on.
My speech class was probably the most memorable that day because it was dark inside the classroom when we walked in. The teacher wheeled in the tv and didn't say a word the entire class. We sat there and watched CNN the entire period and when the bell rang we stood up and walked out.
The only class we didn't watch CNN was in geometry with a teacher who was from Russia and didn't see the "importance." I will never forgive her for not giving us that time to process.

JBs_Bride · September 2010

I was at my first grown-up job post-college. One of the girls was looking at cnn.com and they had that red breaking news banner saying that a plane had hit the WTC, more information coming. I was like "Oh it's probably a little private two-seater or something like that." Then when we saw that first picture with gaping hole in the first tower, we were all like, this is bad.... reaaaallllly bad. When the news came out that the second tower was hit and that there might be an issue at the Pentagon, our higher ups decided to evacuate the building. (At the time I worked at the John Hancock Tower - one of the tallest buildings in Boston.) After hearing that the Pentagon had actually been hit by a plane, we were sent home. I called my parents to see if I should go to Lexington to stay with their friends in case this was something that might happen in Boston. They said it looked like the planes had started from Boston and probably weren't going to come back... Looking at pictures or video from that day still freaks me out. Probably always will.

burnsbaby · September 2010

I was in eighth grade. In eighth grade at my school, the first two bells of the day were PE and then your elective. None of us knew in those two classes that anything had happened. It wasn't until we were walking to the back, eighth grade hall that we started feeling anxious. Teachers were walking out of their classrooms to go next door and talk to another teacher and the whole school just seemed odd.

I'll never forget the look of my sweet, first year math teacher. Her eyes were streaked with tears and makeup. Her class was my next bell. She wouldn't tell us what was wrong, only that something terrible had happened and our parents would tell us when we got home. The school had made a decision not to tell the students because were were all "too young." The rest of the bells until lunch were the same; sad teachers who wouldn't tell us what was going on.

Lunch came, and about 10 of us used to eat lunch with my English teacher. All four teachers on our team were in her room when we got back. She decided that then 10 of us could handle the news and she turned it on and let us watch it. That was the most silent lunch I had ever been in. None of us said a word.

We were even more terrified when the plane hit the pentagon. It was so much closer to us and we didn't know what was going to happen next. Our whole area was on lock down basically; we have some many naval stations, etc around us and some people thought those could be a target.

We had "early release" that day, but because they had to orchestrate buses, etc, we didn't actually leave until around 2.

BrittBritt22 · September 2010

I was a sophomore in high school and one of my friends told me between classes. My next class was journalism so we had CNN on. At the first lunch bell, which was really early like 10 something, they told us anyone who wanted to go home was allowed to leave (which of course the entire school took advantage of).

I spent the rest of the day watching CNN with my mom.

Midgette · September 2010

I was in college driving home from work because I had to do an Interview, and I remember hearing it on the radio, but the radio station always liked to joke around, so I changed it and heard it on another one. I rushed home and put on the news. Then tried to get in touch with my boyfriend at the time because I was not sure where he was working that day, as well as all of my friends that did work down there.

Last night from my parents house you could see the beams shooting into the air.

kmt_cas · September 2010

It was my first chem class in college - we were in lab going over all the generic lab rules you go through when it's your first day. A teacher came in and said NYC is being bombed - we all thought she was nuts. We were never dismissed, finished up the class, got back to my dorm and saw the towers fall. I thought it was a movie - we were all so confused. Then the school went under lock down. They thought Boston was a target for awhile. A scary way to start freshman year.

isufans4ever · September 2010

I was a sophomore in high school and one of my friends asked me in the hallway if I had heard about it. I hadn't but my next class was geometry and I knew that it must have been something big because there was no need for a TV in geometry class. The rest of the day every classroom had it on and everyone watched. We didn't do much class work that day.

sw_wedding · September 2010

I was a sophomore in college. Woke up at 7:45am to go to yoga class turned on the TV and saw what was happening. It felt like I was watching a horror movie when I saw the second plane hit. I was paranoid and remember all the phone lines being busy.. It sure was a crazy day one I will never forget!

hippie4yahweh · September 2010

I was a senior in hs and in my trig/stat class. All of the classrooms had tvs so everyone was watching before the second plane hit. Our school went on lock down, too, and everyone had to be picked up (leaving cars in the parking lot, it was nuts) because we were just a few miles from an Army Base and they were doing all sorts of crazy maneuvers/ preparations.

My senior pictures were supposed to be that day, we obvs. had to reschedule.

kayakrunhike · September 2010

I was a senior in HS. Another student and I were actually in town doing an interview for economics class with an insurance agent. We got there and he turned off his radio, saying something about a plane crash in NYC. We did our interview, and when we got back to the high school.. I'd never heard it so quiet. The hallways were deserted, and all the classroom lights were off. We stopped in a class and everyone was glued to the TV. It was horrifying.

It was worse bc so many people from my parent's area commuted into NYC every.single.day. I found a girl bawling in the bathroom bc a close family member worked in the towers, and she had no idea if they were alive or not.

I ache for everyone who was affected by that day.

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