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Nine years ago? When you heard?
I was laying on my bed upstairs in my room. I was only fourteen. I was picking fuzzies off of a white comforter with yellow flowers and listening to my old clock radio. All of a sudden the female dj came on and said that today was a very dark day. She started to describe the tragedy and I just started crying. I was only fourteen. I didn't grow up too far from DC and I was scared. I slept in my sister's room that night. I remember my mom turning on HGTV and they had shut down I guess in honor of the tragedy. I can't remember a time in my life when a tv station has ever just went off the air like that (I'm young!).
I still remember that day so vividly. When I went to NYC last year and saw ground zero and candles and memorials left out still, I cried like a baby. I hope today everyone can try to put their differences aside and mourn the victims and support their families.
I was in 9th grade science class and people were whispering about the juniors/seniors were talking about something happening in NYC (our building didn't have TVs set up yet because it was new). After the second plane hit, were were all crowded in any place we could find that had a TV. When I went home, I couldn't watch anything on TV because it made me too upset (my best friend's father was supposed to be in that part of the Pentagon but they had delayed his trip beforehand).
I was in 8th grade science class getting my school pictures done. It was the day after I got my braces and the teacher didn't tell us anything had happened. When the bell rang we found out because everyone else was crying/upset and every other classroom had watched the television reports.
I was in my 7th grade Algebra class when I first heard, then my next class was History and my teacher left the TV on CNN and we all watched Live as the second plane hit.
It was my freshman yr in college...I always started my morning by turning the tv on while I got ready and when I turned it on to watch the weather I thought maybe I turned on the wrong channel. I thought maybe there was a movie playing and then I realized to was the news and it was live. I was in shock and scared because they said my hometown, Philly, could be next. I freaked out and called my parents but couldnt get in touch with anyone but just kept hoping everyone was ok. So not nowing what to do I went to class, some were canceled and in others we talked about it or watched the news. I remember walking down the street to class and seeing other students crying or praying. It was such a weird feeling, a scary feeling and i hope as a country, as humans we never have to experience that again.
Always remember those we lost from 9/11
@MissAsB: I was in science class too.
I was looking out the window and sullenly thinking what a gorgeous day it was, when the office sent my science teacher a message. He was in the reserves and was notified right away. He tried to get the news on the TV, but we didn't have cable, so there was one fuzzy news channel (ABC?). He had to stand there holding the television antenna in an attempt to get a clear picture. The office secretary ran down the halls telling the teachers, some came into the classroom, and we watched the second plane hit the south tower. One of my bridesmaids was in that class, and I remember turning to look at her, and seeing this terrified expression on her face.
Needless to say, the rest of the day was done for. The teachers talked about it among themselves, we had a moment of silence, and I think we might have been sent home early (a little fuzzy on that point).
A sad, sad day.
I was in 10th grade science class when they had the announcement.
i wa son my way to school. For some reason I was late that day, i think I hadn't been feeling well (just found out I was pregnant). I went into school, second hour Spanish and we watched everything on TV. There was a boy in my class that was complaining that we were watching it and didn't see what the big deal was. It was the most ignorant thing I have heard.
I don't know if it was the same for you guys but when the first hit, we thought it could have just been an accident so we didn't really get scared until we heard about the second one.
@MissAsB: Yeah, we were all like "what a horrible accident!" and then the second one hit and we were all like "that's too coincidental" and then we heard about the Pentagon getting hit and another plane going down in a field.
I was in 8th grade and I was at before school band sectionals. Then I went to math class and got more details. I remember it being a day where the whole school was holding their breath almost, hoping for it to be over and the death counts to be low.
It was my freshman year in college and I was actually in my 3 hour bio lab, so I didn't hear what had happened until I got back to my dorm and learned from my roommate (whom my mom woke up calling the room and telling her to turn on the tv).
It was the 6th day of boot camp (Air Force) at Lackland A.F.B. in San Antonio. I will never forget it. Our Staff Sgt. told all of us the news and we were immediately put under lock down. It was so scary and surreal. We couldn't call our family for a few days.
I can't believe it's been 9 years already. So sad...
I was working in New York City on 46th street and 6th avenue - I had just gotten to work - We all crammed in a conference room to watch on TV. The city was a sad place to be - Since subways, trains, everything was shut down and I had to get back to Hoboken, NJ, I walked across town to get the ferry - As I stood in line, people who were downtown would walk up covered in soot, crying - It was so horrible...
I was a senior in high school, and walked into my government class, and my teacher was crying. The remainder of the day we sat in the auditorium watching TV.
9 years have passed, wow...
I was in my freshman year of college in "expository writing 1" class, someone came to the classroom and told our instructor about it, so we all walked down to the library and watched the TV there.
Huge tragedy, but seeing people band together was amazing. Though it's sad that in just a few years, nearly everyone has lost that sense of patriotism and unity as Americans that we had in the year or so following 9/11.
7th grade. I was just leaving my first class of the morning, French and going to Algebra. There was a crowding around the math room door, and I was wondering what was going on. Ppl were crying and talking, and not moving. When I got in the classroom, it was on the TV. I really didn't understand what was going on. I don't remember crying until I got home and could understand it. I didn't know what the WTC was!
I was a jr in high school and I was eating breakfast/listening to the top of the hour news. At that point no one knew it was a terrorist attack, only that a plane had crashed into the WTC. Once my best friend and I got to school everyone was freaking out and we watched tv that morning since we had history class and history was happening in front of us. My hometown is an hour away from Offut AF base in outside of Omaha and that was the destination of Air Force One with the President! That afternoon we went outside (it was a clear day) looked up and only saw one plane flying over our tiny town on it's way to the base.
I was in 10th grade english class--- we had cnn on as we did everyday to do "journals" when the first plane hit. strange thing was people were 'joking' at first about how terrible a pilot he must have been to hit the towers.. and then the second hit and everyone became silent.. like ok that wasnt an accident. it was very surreal.
I was in high school history class too... there were rumours flowing around about something happening in NYC, but they weren't too clear WHAT had happened. Then the principal came on the PA and announced that a plane had hit the Pentagon, and also at the time they thought another plane hit an office building in DC. I remember the look of shock on my history teacher's face and how she clapped her hands over her mouth. The rest of the day was spent watching TV.
I was in my theater history class. Someone came and told us to go home, and I went to my brother's apt. and my sister came over too, so we just watched the news all day.
I was in my 6th grade Science/Literature Arts/Flex time class when I believe there was actually an announcement or email for the teachers to read to us about what happened. My teacher wanted to know more so he turned on the news and we watched that for the rest of the period. We didn't find out until after the second plane hit. The rest of my classes had the TV the whole day and nothing was really accomplished.
My university is doing a Patriotic tribute today at our football game for half time in memorium. Hopefully it will go well (I believe today is also one of the days that we also give free tickets to those stationed at Fort Hood.)
I was in 10th grade chem class and they brought in a TV so we could watch what was going on.
I think I had nightmares for about a week after it happened
It was my third day living outside of the country!!! I was actually supposed to be flying out of the country on 9/11, but I moved up my date so that I could get set up before I started college. I remember I was sitting at a picnic table on campus (it was a really small campus - the International College of the Cayman Islands) just relaxing in the sun when the registrar of the school came up to me and told me what happened. I went into their office and watched it all on TV.
It was so strange. I was the only American in the room watching all of it happen. Even though that was true, everyone in the room, whether from Jamaica, England, Japan, Pakistan etc, was utterly devastated to see it on TV. I realized then how small the world really is.
I remember calling my parents after watching it on TV. My dad used to work at the Pentagon and my mom used to have clients in the twin towers. I know my mom lost some people she knew. It was crazy to hear all of her stories that day.
It's crazy to think it's been so long.
I was sleeping on the couch (something I loved to do back in gr 8 and 9) and my Mom woke me up saying "a plane hit some building" (we're Canadian, btw, so we didnt really know the significance of the WTC until 9/11). I didnt pay any attention until I got to my first class which was gym and we were all watching the TV in the cafeteria to see what was going on. It was super scary. I kept expecting the principal to come on the intercom saying we were evacuating the school cause there was a war going down.
I get chills reading all of your stories of where you were that day, but I think they are great to read and to share something that happen to all of us at the same moment. It is true what abbyful said about the country not being so united any more like we were the next couple of years after 9/11. But I do know that we as a country were still united for our troops and for our loved ones we lost on that day. We are also united in that we all took a stand against how wrong it was for the Florida Pastor to cause such an outrage and that he would have been wrong if he would have went through with it.
I cannot believe it has been 9 years AND how much older I am from many of the brides on here... :(
I was working for a company based out of Massachusetts at the time and traveled back and forth between San Francisco (SFO) and Boston (Logan Airport) every couple of weeks for weeks at a time. I was awakened by a phone call by my ex-MIL who immediately asked upon my picking up the phone if I was home. I was annoyed because she had called our landline. If I picked up, then of course I was home. Sensing my rude awakening, she asked me to turn on our TV. When I did, the first tower was just about to fall. I was in horror!
My ex-husband wasn't home at the time. As a matter of fact, he hadn't been home for days (long story and a big reason we were divorced). So, I was alone dealing with the fact that it could've been me on those planes. I was supposed to be in Boston the week before, traveling back to San Francisco that very same day.
Around 11pm PT I decided to drive to work. My work required me to cross the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge was manned with two armored tanks on each end and there must've been only one other car on the bridge when I crossed. It was a very eerie sight, especially for a heavily traveled bridge.
I did travel back to Boston the following Tuesday. The airport was quiet like a library, you could hear a pin drop. Military personnel armed with machine guns patrolled the area and there were only 11 of us on the flight.
I was in 9th grade spanish class working in the computer room on a project. I remember that day like it was yesterday. Our spanish teacher was from Nicaragua and apparently wasn't a huge fan of the US. When news broke that the planes hit to WTC the computer room teacher turned the TV on to watch what was happening. Our spanish teacher said, and I quote "Turn it off, its not important". I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. Everyone in that room was beside themselves and she didn't feel it was "important". After that class was over I called my mother and she came and got me. I grew up in NYC (but moved upstate a few years prior) and unfortunately knew a number of people who died on 9/11. I had the pleasure of having that teacher again for junior and senior year spanish and well to make a long story short, the teacher and I did not get along. I spent many an afternoon in detention.
Like @mandb122, it was picture day at school. I was in 10th grade English class and we had just come back from the auditorium from getting our pictures done when we turned on the tv to hear the first tower had been hit. I was like, who's the freakin' idiot that hit the tower, but then the second one was struck...We went home soon after that. I'm from MD, so when we got home and turned on the news and heard about the pentagon, it was terrifying.
I was in college in a statistics class and the professor started going off on a tangent about planes running into buildings, no one in the class knew yet but the professor had just heard it before class. Everyone was whispering trying to figure out what was going on but it was like a minute tangent and then he went right back to statistics. We all went to a computer lab after class to see what historical event he was talking about, not realizing it was happening right then. Then I caught a bus to the other side of campus and heard about the plane in the pentagon. No one on the bus reacted or said anything, I don't know if people weren't listening or what. I went to our cafe where there would be a TV to see what was going on and no one was there except for one girl who had family in DC. Slowly people started coming over and within an hour it seemed like everyone knew. I heard a couple people say they just thought it was a movie advertisement when they saw the TV so hadn't paid attention at first.
I was sitting in my 8th grade socails studdies classroom when everything just stopped. I'm guessing my teacher got an email from the office as to what happened but he never told us. It seemed within 2 min of him getting the email students began getting called to go home, I was one of them. Walking down the hallway an experience ill never forget i looked into one of the classrooms and saw the second plane crashing into the tower. I stop and just starred thats all I could do. I then ran down the hallway to my mom who had seen the school resource officer who let her cut the line that wrapped around the building to get me. We grew up in NJ and were always in the city, My grandma worked in the towers and we would always take pictures of it when we went to the city. I didnt feel safe at home which was weird and I only felt semi safe at school. I always looked up at the sky after that afraid it would happen again down here in Fl. I remember not wanting to fly for a very very very long time. We lost family friends that day and some of our friends from upnorth lost their parents.
Damn, you guys make me feel so old. 7th grade class? Yikes :) Anyhow, I was about to get dressed to go for law classes. I was in my final year. My school is actually a few blocks from the former WTC in downtown Manhattan when my roommate told me there might be something wrong with the trains and we turned on the TV and lo and behold....arrghh, it was horrible. NYC was just devastated those first few weeks :(
First week of college on the west coast. One of my dormies knocked on my door to wake me up and tell me what had happened. We all rushed downstairs to the lounge to watch the television. My fiance's dad (then boyfriend) worked in the Pentagon so I was super worried...turns out he was actually overseas that week.
Classes were not cancelled, but many people did not go. I did...we were reading Homer's the Iliad in my class, and we started a discussion about war and anger and relatd it to the current events. It gave me focus for that day.
I was in 4th grade (wow I feel even younger lol) I was asleep when my mother woke me up. I didn't really understand what was happening. I remember seeing the smoke and people running and being scared.
I was getting ready for school in the morning and heard something about it on the radio program I listen to each morning. My mom turned on the TV and we watched as we got ready. I also remember watching updates on the TVs at school that day. I was in Grade 9 (as many other ladies here were).
My mom had a bad asthma attack early that morning. So I took her up the emergency room. The doctor came in and said some idiot ran a plane into the WTC. Then he left the room. I thought wow...how does that happen. Then he came back in a bit later and said the second one crashed. Then I knew something was wrong. I got out my headphones and was trying to get a radio signel. That's when i heard about the pentagon. And then I started crying. When my mom was released from the hospital, I started calling all my out of town friends. I was really worried about the ones who just enlisted in the Air Force and ones that lived in Omaha where the president was being taken to. That was a sad day.
I remember that day like it was yesterday. My mom was driving me to school & her phone rang. It was my aunt freaking out, asking where my cousin & his gf worked. My mom said, "I think in or near WTC. Why? Is everything okay??" My aunt managed to tell my mom something horrible had happened, but the call dropped before they could talk anymore. So we turned the radio on & heard the first plane had hit, and we were thinking how terrible of an "accident" it was. I got to my 1st period class (I was a senior in h.s.) & started watching the news & that's when I realized how horrific this truly was. I was absolutely terrified, all I could think about was my cousin & his gf. All we did in school all day was watch the news. I called my mom around my 3rd period class to learn my cousin & his gf were okay & they were safe. My cousin's gf did work in one of the WTC buildings, but by some act of God she went to work much later than she normally did. She actually was walking up the steps to street level when the first building fell & was immediately rushed back underground.
It is sad to see how disunited our country has become.
i was a senior in HS.. we just had finished up a class meeting about graduation and all the senior year plans.. we were all walking back to our classes when a friend of mine ran over and said a plane accidentally hit one of the towers. When I walked into my English class my teacher had the TV on (our school spent THOUSANDS on TVs that summer and we had been joking about the insane expense for weeks, now im glad they did.) she was staring at it with tears coming down her face. everyone else was just silent. she had her cell phone in her hands. That is when we watched the second plane hit. She suddenly freaked out, grabbed her purse and ran out the door. We found out it was because it was her daughter's first day of work in the second tower (she ended up being late or something and surviving although she had to live on a gym floor and not leave manhatten for a few nights). The rest of the day was just crazy. every single tv was on and the teachers were not even trying to teach. students were just leaving as they pleased because so many of our friends and family worked in lower manhattan. i was sitting in lunch watching the tvs with my friend's sister (who had been upset all morning because her best friend's dad was in the building). I kept telling her that everything will be fine when we saw the first building collapse. We all left at that point. I grabbed my brother, who was a freshman, and we all gathered at one friend's house just making phone calls. later that afternoon we went up the street and saw the new skyline for the first time. i am crying now just thinking about that moment when i looked out at my beautiful city and just saw smoke. luckily, i did not end up knowing anyone personally that died, but i did spend many weeks sending peanut butter, towels, and waters to the helpers.
My FI was working on wall street at the time. he left his building when he HEARD the plane. he was one of those people covered in dust on the streets. he walked to the ferry and took a very stoic ride back to jersey city because he could not get to hoboken and i think he walked from there. he went and got a cell phone the next day. he hates to talk about it.
where we live now we see NYC skyline and giants stadium from our window. the other night i looked out and saw they had the bright memorial lights on where the towers once stood. I called him over to see and he said he was not interested. i am sure he saw a lot that day that he just cannot share. :(
it makes me sad to think that my kids will never know the skyline that i miss.
i definitely took a moment to reflect when i woke up this morning. Especially when the weather was so fantastic just like 9 years ago. not a cloud in the sky...
10th grade algebra class, the principle made an announcement that a plane hit, then they came back on and made another comment and told us we could watch on the tv in the assembly room. Class ended and me and my friend walked up the stairs to the assembly room and heard someone yell, "they just hit the pentagon". I remember being confused and then walking into the room and seeing the footage. I still can't believe it.
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