Where were you in the World, at 9/11?

[yomotalking]

I was on my way to see some friends, in England.......we were lost at the time...and we were circling the counties......when the Towers fell.

We didn't know anything about it, til my brother or someone told us to turn on the TV........and there it was.....

[Iryssa]

I had just gotten into Social Studies...my first class of the day. I remember it seemed as though everyone was in particularly high spirits...until one of the guys rushed into the class (late) saying "Turn on the TV! Someone just bombed the States!!" There was a general commotion as our ever-tardy classmate was swarmed with questions ("Who did it?" "What did they hit?!" "Do they think they'll come here??"). After a few minutes, our teacher finally arrived. She was late because the principal had convened an emergency meeting of all staff to discuss how to ensure the student body didn't go into a panic. One of their tactics was to not let us turn on the TV (which I thought was dumb...fear of the unknown is usually worse than finding out what's going on, even if it's bad), much to our chagrin.

By the end of first block, everyone was talking about it. We all kept our voices low -- some out of respect, some in shock. We still weren't allowed to turn on the news on the school grounds, so (since we had a free block) three of my friends and I left in my vehicle to sit with the Jeep radio on at the park across from the school. I remember tuning the radio to CBC 1, the smell of school lunches (taken out to keep our hands busy...the alternative was biting fingernails), the grim sound of the announcer's voice, Kat clutching her rosary, while I thumbed the silver cross at my throat. Once we were done the better part of our lunches, we went back to the schoool where we held an impromptu prayer meeting. I don't remember my classes that day. After Social Studies, I don't even remember what I had. I went to a friend's place at lunch, and we saw, for the first time, the nightmarish images of the people who fell.

*sigh* Not many days are so poignant in my mind.

[Nevin]

I was on my way to see some friends, in England.......we were lost at the time...and we were circling the counties......when the Towers fell.

We didn't know anything about it, til my brother or someone told us to turn on the TV........and there it was.....

I was in South Africa - JHB - and was told to put the telly on and i was speechless

[Marnie]

I had the day off that day, thank the Lord, and was home in bed.

[cag7800]

I was asleep when the first tower was hit.I got on the computer and my son im"d me and said do you think its a terroist attack? I said what was? he told me that a plane had flew into the world trade center in New York. I turned on the t.v then went back to the computer.my son said they just flew another into the other tower. I turned to the t.v and saw it being replayed. I told my son *yea,It's an attack. I spent 2 weeks glued to the t.v praying they would find a pocket of people alive.cryed that who 2 weeks.

[Candi770]

I was on the job, my mom called me and I ran for the nearest tv to watch and cry.

candi

[nebula]

I was working on calculus homework in the Biology prep room (where I also work) at my community college just after calculus class. My boss came in (she was OK with me doing homework at the desk there - when she wasn't not there I could help lab instructors who need something that way), and she told me. Since CNN was on the campus TV screens, she let me run out and watch.

I got to the TV just before or just after word that Pentegon got hit. I recall the video switching from the Twin Towers to the Pentegon. It was on the Pentegon when the New York correspondant interrupted the talk to bring the video back to the Towers. I recall seeing one tower and a bunch of smoke . . . and as the smoke cleared the other tower was gone!

I am still feeling shadows of the horror I felt then as I saw it.

All those people who were still trapped inside. . . .

[MrsSealedEternal]

I was at home, when my friend called and asked me if I was watching the news. I said no. She told me to turn it on...

[buckthesystem]

"9.11" from a view in the Southern hemisphere. I guess all the drama occurred about quite late on the night of Tuesday Sept. 11 our time, though I think it was fairly early morning in NY.

I didn't actually hear about it until about 6.30am on the morning of 12 September. My daughter's 18th birthday was on 11 September 2001 and we were out celebrating her birthday that night, which would have been morning in NY.

At that time we had a family business selling and servicing computers and repairing TV sets and small appliances, my husband did the servicing and I did the paperwork and "booking in" and ran the shop. It was also our habit to watch the early morning news on CNN before going to work. The first I heard of the bombing was when I was walking towards the TV and saw footage of a plane seemingly going through the top of one of the buildings. At first I thought we were on the wrong channel and it was a movie.

I watched the whole news item and then kept switching channels to get more news on it. Then I went to work and stayed in the shop all day as there were no deliveries to make that day and no stock to go and get. We had several repaired TVs for sale so I displayed them around the shop and positioned them where I could watch them (I usually turned the sound off or down low and had the TVs facing away from me as during the day there is usually just soap operas on). All day I was bombarded with footage of destruction and smoke and flames and people kept coming into the shop to watch this and discuss what was going on.

So that was actually September 12. I don't remember what happened on the morning of Sept. 11 because it was just a Tuesday and the only thing significant at the time was that it was my daughter's birthday.

[Laura]

I was sitting in my living room that morning, drinking coffee, watching the Today Show.

My eyes were glued to the TV, from the time the first announcement was made and the pictures showed the reality of the happenings, from the first tower, then the second, the Pentagon and Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.

I suppose, especially the first week, I watched the news 24/7, unless at church. We had many special prayer meetings for the survivors, and the families of those that were lost.

Until this day, I watch whatever may be on TV of that terrible day in the now history of the United States of America.