Where were you September 11, 2001?

Ilumine · September 2011

I was one week into my new job. If I had been at my previous job, I would have been in the Pentagon (Tues & Thur were my client days) at the time of the attack.

Blessedly, I was with my Friend M. Her DH was on the second Ladder that arrived at the Pentagon (Arlington County had jurisdiction of the Pentagon AND was in control of the situation, NOT DC). Until they released the kids, we spent the day worrying about those we knew who were there.

Unfortunaltly we (well, I had only met him twice) lost a member/coworker...Max Beilke. Max was the last Combat soldier to leave Vietnam. He survived two wars, Korea and Vietnam, to be killed in third.

SpunkyBlowfish · September 2011

I was in my French class and our teacher stepped out. She came back in and turned the tv on. My cousin was supposed to be on the Boston flight (UA175) and woke up late. My aunt was on a tour bus in front of the WT Center that morning. It wasn't until that night we found out they were both okay.

It was weird - the day before and the morning of Sept 11 I had felt sick to my stomach and couldn't focus on anything. This happens a lot - same with when my best friend got hit by a drunk driver and again when my brother passed away, same as when I was a kid and told my mom something bad was going to happen. The next day the Oklahoma city bombing happened. My friends mother thinks I have some sort of sixth sense.

ErikandAfton · September 2011

I was a freshman in high school. My Mom was driving us to school and I remember the cell phone ringing as we were pulling in the parking lot. My Dad was calling to tell her to turn on the radio and what had happened. I felt like I couldn't breathe, and couldn't absorb it all at once. In my first period biology class we watched the news a little and my dear friend who's uncle works in the Pentagon found out that he had had a meeting in the wing that had been hit that morning but it was cancelled at the last minute and that he was okay. It was such a sad sad day.

GhostMonkey · September 2011

meltoine:

Where did you all go to school that you had TVs in class?

I grew up in the middle of nowhere in a 7-12 high school with less than 350 students. We had TVs in every room. And I'm old too.

I was a Junior in college. It started as I was walking to my first class, so I had no idea until after. I went to my second class and sat in back. A girl up front was talking to the professor and I vaguely caught something about a plane crash and a building being involved. Really wasn't listening though, but I had heard WTC mentioned in the conversation. A girl behind me asked what they were talking about. "I think she said a plane hit the WTC?" She looked at me like I had three heads. "Yeah, I must have heard something wrong." The professor asked if we wanted to have class or go watch the news. Dumb question. I followed the group to the student union and got to the tv area just in time to see the second tower fall.

Kendraish · September 2011

I was a Sr in High School, and I heard about it when I was getting ready for school.

Andrea121 · September 2011

I was 13 years old. I was in my classroom and all of my teachers was crowded around the tv in the office. About a few minutes later my teacher brought the t.v in the classroom and we all watched. As soon as he brought the tv in, the second plane had just hit the second tower. All I could remember saying was OMG!!

At first I really didn't think anything of it, because I was young. And now that I'm older I realized that hundreds of people was in that building and that things in this country would never be the same.

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