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

[redeemed098]

I had fallen asleep on my couch in the loungeroom at home in Australia and was just waking up. I had my Television set as a morning alarm. When I first opened my eyes, I thought I was viewing a movie. I was wrong. I dont think Ill ever forget that morning. Nothing grieved me more however than the sight of those people jumping out of the buildings. How horrifying must it have been in those buildings for them to see jumping as a better option.

Makes me wonder how horrible Hell would be..Only there's no jumping out of Hell..

Regards,

Ben.

[LadyRaven]

I was at home, it was my day off, I'd slept in and the first tower was hit before I knew what had happened. I saw stuff on the news about the wtc and thought it was a rehash of the first attack about ten yr before. Then the second plane hit and I saw the live footage.

[Avodah]

I was in bed when my roomate came yelling down the hall to wake up. I had been up a short time watching when the second plane hit the second tower.

[KarenJo5]

I always watched the Today show at that time . I was doing laundry that morning with the T.V on . I walked through the living room on my way to my daughters roomto get her clothes and saw the first tower burning and also thought it was an ad for a movie. when I came back through I heard it was a plane in the wtc. They were still thinking at that time that it was an accident.I sat down on the couch to watch and saw the second plane hit the other tower.I hardly moved off my couch the rest of the day,just sat there watched and prayed.

[Openly Curious]

I was at home in the living room as I hadn't been up that long and it was my birthday and I was thinking about how I was another year older and what I was going to do that day. then I turned on the tv and seen on the TV news what had happened and it was so terrible to take it all in. And my birthday will never be the same again as I will be forever reminded of 9/11 it was really horrible and heart wrenching and we shouldn't forget.

OC

[irishcowboy]

I was introducing my oldest son to the administration of the new school he would be attending, getting him enrolled and started...

my cousins husband was getting ready for a meeting in one of the towers (not sure which one, for the meeting was cancelled) ( they live about a block off Time Square)

a retailer here in town that i do a good amount of business with, was wondering about her son, which we found out later, he was on his way out of the first tower as the plane hit..... they took refuge down the street a ways and watched in disbelief....

there are others with in my life that were directly effected.

I can remember what I was doing when JFK was shot also,

I was on the living room floor, playing with Lincoln Logs when the neighbor ran to the door saying we needed to turn on the TV... that the President had been shot... and then another arrived saying that a mass was already being set up at that very moment... (at FairChild AFB)....

mike

[Abigailwc]

I was at work in DC. As the Pentagon got hit we were all asked to go home. It took me 2 hours to get out of DC as downtown was in a gridlock. It was impossible to use my cell to contact my kids. I was shocked at what just happened and as I was looking at other people's faces in the streets and in the other cars, it felt weird to know that we were all thinking and feeling the same thing. It felt like, for that particular moment, we were closer to each other than we ever have been and will be, until the next "attack" on the US.

[ayin jade]

I was all alone that day, and that week.

It was a hard time for me. I was still recovering from PTSD and my husband was up north with his mom, who was dying of cancer. I was very distressed inside to begin with. Then my husband called and woke me up to tell me to put on the tv. He couldnt say why. I watched the second tower fall. I spent the rest of that day and week glued to the tv, singing, crying, and no one to talk to. Hubby couldnt talk, he was spending his own personal nightmare watching his mother die. My friends and family had locked themselves away too. The pain of that day still aches.

[Guest LadyC]

i had just dropped my oldest daughter off at school, and had a little time before dropping my youngest daughter off at her school, when i heard the news about the plane hitting the first tower. i went inside and turned on the tv and told my youngest she'd have to catch the bus instead of me taking her. i was glued to the set. i can't remember if i turned it on in time to see the second plane hit the second tower, or if i was watching the re-play. but i was sitting right there in my living room in front of the television when each of the towers fell.

[kittyjo]

I was at home. I had had a very uneasy feeling all week long, so did mom. We had called family to check on them, just to make sure all was well... But still had a lingering feeling that something was amiss. That night I tossed and turned, I could not sleep, I gave up trying and went downstairs to put on the news... The TV was on for just a few minutes, when the first report of a 'plane accident' was announced. I remember thinking that was no accident. I wanted to more than the news was showing, so I tried to think of a live show from NY... The only one I could think of believe it or not was Howard Stern [co-workers listened to him regularly --- yuck], I tuned in to his radio show and sure enough, they were on and doing interveiws with people who ran from the buildings, with family and so on. Actually his real time reporting was unexpectedly good. So, we had both the radio and TV on as I got ready for a doctors appointment that morning. The TV was on at the doctors office as well, but no one seemed to be affected by it, no emotion, no response to it at all, it may as well have been a re-run of the Golden Girls.... I felt all alone in a crowd.