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Me, I was sitting in, oddly enough, American History 102 in college. After news came down of what was going on, the prof. told us to leave, because how could we learn about history if we couldn't watch as it unfolded.

And pretty soon after that, they started to empty out the entire campus.

I was down on the field during Zero hour doing marching band. I remember my band teacher saying something about how we think we have problems, just think about the people in NY. I remember him talking about a plane and the twin towers. I had no idea what was going on so I assumed it was like a Cesna or something small. After we went inside from marching the TV was in and they were showing images of the first tower going down, then I knew it was something so much more. Me and many other of my friends just stood there watching. Went to my next class and watched the TV coverage throughout the day.

I was working at my job, which was then in Crystal City in Arlington, VA, not a mile from the Pentagon. I remember hearing about the planes hitting the Twin Towers, then a few minutes later, the boss came around and told everyone to leave the building. I didn't know at the time that the Pentagon had been hit.

I was at work listening to Howard Stern via online streaming.. The report came in about the first crash, someone got a TV from the meeting room and moved it into my area.. While watching the 2nd crash happened..
Hearing the horror from Stern and his crew and watching it on tv was surreal.

I was fresh out of college, working at my first "real job" as a software developer in Sharon, Pennsylvania. It was a small office of about 30 people - very close knit.

When the news reports started to trickle in, most of us assumed it was a Cesna and just a fluke. When we couldn't hit any of the US news websites, eyebrows started to raise. Someone had a portable TV that we setup in the Director of Development's office and we all stood around it for much of the morning, dumbfounded.

I'll never forget the feelings of that day. The surreal nature of watching the towers come down. The shock at the amount of dust and debris and how it covered the city. The realization that this was no accident (about 2 seconds after the 2nd plane hit). The feelings of helplessness and uncertainty that followed.

9/11 changed my life and the lives of all of us who lived through it. Even though most of us did not experience it first hand (can't imagine what that must have been like), society today is far different. My grandparents lost their innocence when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. For my parents, it was the day JFK was killed. For my generation, it's 9/11.

May God grant peace to those souls who lost their lives that day, and to their families. Thank you to those who put themselves in harms way to help others that day (and every day).

I challenge all of you that read this to, even for just one day, put aside all of the usual day to day worries and think about how lucky we are to have the blessings in our life.

I'm out....

I was trying to enjoy my 21st bday...at work.

I was living in Colorado at the time, and I worked in Colorado Springs. You can see NORAD and the mountain from windows. I was on my way home from work (I had an overnight shift), and wondering why the traffic to get back into the military base was so long. After I got home I was eating breakfast with my grandma when my uncle called and told us to turn on the TV.
One of my best friends was in Hawaii at the time, he got kicked off the military base where he was staying with friends, and his vacation was inadvertently extended another week because air traffic had been suspended.

I was at school as I here of it, didn't know what was going on till the news showed it for the next 6 weeks.

I was on my way to school. I got out and saw some friends and then they started talking about what happened, though the details were nowhere close to the actual event. Then I went to my first class and saw it on the TV for myself...





I remember....

Taking a test in Algebra II. I was in 11th grade. I also remember an announcement came on to turn on the TV's, and when the teacher turned it on, it was a replay of "Channel One"(a teen-oriented news show they air in the mornings). A few minutes later another teacher came over and informed her that she was on the wrong channel, and then she told us to just finish the test. I didn't actually know what to think at the time.

Surfing then net till my parents told me that there's a Hollywood movie featuring the twin towers under attack. Then we all realised that we're watching the news channel.

The only thing I will say is today is my moms B-day try having this date as your birthday

Just an other day at school.
/care about 9-11

I was in the 12th grade, taking a test in the cafeteria. I went back into the classroom and everyone was huddled around the tv. That was the first of two enormous events for me that school year.

I was at JC Peir on the Husdon visiting my brother at his job. We watched the whole thing from across the river.

I lost 2 cousins and a handful of aquantences that day who will not be forgotten.

When the first plane hit, we thought it was some type of genuine accident. After the second plain crashed, we where both in a state out of time and place as we knew this was something bigger than anything that has ever happened in our lives.

We sat their all day, we saw them fall, we saw the dust rise.

Consciousness returned after several hours of watching emergency vehichiles head toward the scene. It was then that we asked his boss if we could use his shuttle bus to take whoever would come to the nearest hospital to make blood donations to help these people however we could.

That bus filled quick. We where turned away though as others had the same idea, and the hospital was out of collection supplies.

For 3 weeks following, me and 2 of my brothers worked as volenteers clearing debree. I was regulated to work as a general sweeper, but I was happy to do it.

This was one of the worst days for America the Land.

However it was also one of the best as for a time we all put asside out differences and came together as a nation of family.

I was three days away from becoming a novice at a monastery in Kansas. It was a gorgeous day, blue sky, birds singing. I was outside painting a railing for a handicap ramp that led up to the door of the chapel.

Three people were fixing the roof of the monastery. They had the radio on in their truck. I could hear little snatches of what the announcer was saying: "Attack on America" and something about Washington D.C. The announcer sounded agitated. The workers clustered around the radio; they seemed agitated too. I wondered what was going on and thought: Are we at war? How can anything happen on such a beautiful day?

Then one of the nuns came out and said, "Have you heard what happened! A plane went into the Pentagon." She also said something happened in New York, but wasn't sure. We went into the community room. All the nuns were there and we watched the footage over and over. I was shocked. The psalms resonated with us that night at evening prayer in a way that was uncanny.

I was leaving for work when the new's of the first plain hitting hit the new's so I ran up to my roff and watched the secnd plain hit.It was so unbleaveable.I then got into my car and headed for work knowing that the city would be needing matirals from us [ I was a maneger for Home Depot at the time] As I was getting on the L.I.Expeseeway I stoped on the over pass to see the Towers from a better position and I watched them fall.It happened so quickly I was shocked!!!!!We closed the store down and gathered ever bucked,hardhat and many other suplys we could think of and handed it to the F.Department.After wards a few of my friends my daughter and myself picked up as many water bottles that we could get our hands and drove over to the Willemsberg bridge and started handing them to all the people walking over.I tell you the sight of those people covered in grey and white dust is a sight I'll never forget.

I hadn't gone to school that day since I had a doctor's appointment.

We walked out of the exam room and everyone was staring at the tv in the waiting room.

I didn't see the footage until about a year ago.

I didn't want to see it.

But, no it has to be shown in music videos, and its still shown on the news constantly.

I was playing cards with my friends in the morning before class in high school. One of my friends had a little portable radio with head phones, and he was telling me that they "bombed the Pentagon" or something. This guy had a reputation for blowing things out of proportion, so I didn't believe him right away. But I kept hearing people talk about planes and stuff, and eventually they made an announcement to the school on the intercom.

Apparently, the teachers were watching everything unfold on the TV in the teacher's lounge, but students weren't allowed to see what was going on. When I got hom (it was 5pm) I saw how bad it really was, the whole day I thought it was just a small plane crash, and nobody ever said anything about the buildings actually collapsing.

I spent the evening outside just walking around to clear my head - I was the only person outside for blocks and blocks. It was so surreal, like a nightmare.

at the time, I was working in a restaurant in Peoria prepping produce...I was cutting slices of lemons and putting them in a container, put a little "day dot" (a sticker with an abbreviation for the day of the week and a spot to write the date) and I was laughing to myself that it was "emergency Tuesday" about 10 minutes before the first plane. I felt pretty bad about that afterwards.

sparty2304 wrote:I was trying to enjoy my 21st bday...at work.

Well, happy 27th today.

i was in my world history class my freshmen year of high school.... i was scared out of my mind caus my cousin had an appartment about a block away from the twin towers and my mom's friend works at the pentagon(to this day i have no clue what she does cause she wont tell anyone)

Well I was being homeschooled when it came on over the radio so we turned the television on and cancelled school for the day. I watched for a while saying " oh those poor guys" then went to my room and went " YES!!! NO SCHOOL!!!"

I was at school in home ec. class. We're sitting there listening to the teacher prattle on about healthy foods or other such nonsense. Then another teacher comes in the room and says some happened but they weren't sure what. 5 minutes later the class ended and I was going to one of the rooms with a TV. A few of the girls coming out of there had tears in their eyes and one of them was saying that her dad worked there. I promptly ran in and caught it just as the second plane hit. Yeah. That was the end of what had started out as a good day.

Loki120 wrote:I was living in Colorado at the time, and I worked in Colorado Springs. You can see NORAD and the mountain from windows. I was on my way home from work (I had an overnight shift), and wondering why the traffic to get back into the military base was so long. After I got home I was eating breakfast with my grandma when my uncle called and told us to turn on the TV.
One of my best friends was in Hawaii at the time, he got kicked off the military base where he was staying with friends, and his vacation was inadvertently extended another week because air traffic had been suspended.

The same thing happened to my in-laws. Their anniversary is 9/11 (so is my sister-in-law's anniversary) and they were in Hawaii for their 25th.

BTW - Happy Birthday sparty and Wheeljack's mom!