Do you remember what you were doing on 9/11

[dbsneed69]

I was doing a fit evaluation for the pd. We were having a great time. The captain walked in, turned on the TV and said "Cancel your plans. It's time to earn your money."

 

[WallieTheTortoise]

I was in high school, 2-3 blocks away

 

[terryo]

I was sleeping, and my neighbor called me up and said to look out the window, that something big must be on fire. The whole sky was black and filled with smoke. Soot, or something was flying all over and the trees, cars, and houses were covered with it. I put the TV on and it was everywhere. Only one tower was hit, and then the newscaster started to scream and then the second tower was hit. We were trying to call friends who worked there, but you couldn't get through. Some friends made it out and others didn't. My neighbor was screaming in the street because her son was working there....he never made it out. My other neighbor had a son and nephew in the fire dept., and both died. The cemetery that my own son is buried in has a special hill just for the 9/11 victims who lived on the Island. Some only have a small part of their body that was found and identified, buried. We went to the ferry that crosses into Manhattan and there were hundreds of people looking across the water, crying and holding candles. Our Church usually has a memorial every year for the families in our neighborhood who lost family members.

 

[AnthonyC]

I will never forget what I was doing... I was working at a nuclear power plant at the time as a nuclear response officer. My regular shift was 6P-6A but that morning I was covering for a day shift buddy til 10A. I remember that the call when out over the radio for a code() which meant A) There was a critical release of radioactive material aka a meltdown or B) An organized/armed threat against the plant was imminent. The contingency event plan was activated and we were sent to our defensive positions. It was crazy yet so organized. Everything moved in slow motion. It was approximately 5mins later that we were informed of what had happened. I remember that we did a 48hr shift that day (we were happy to oblige). One last story... I remember early in the A.M. on 9/12 (1:00AM?) I heard all of my colleagues getting called into the administration building 1 at a time... 10 minutes later another colleague... 10 minutes later another colleague... until my name was called. I couldn't figure out what was going on. We were on radio silence so we couldn't verbally communicate w/each other (the post were spaced too far apart for normal conversation). When I got into the admin building I was greeted by my Sgt who escorted me into his office. At his desk was a man who was introduced as one of the company attorneys. They were calling us into the office to write up a quick 10 minute "Will"... just in case. It was surreal!

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

I remember every second of that day. I also remember the eery recording on the cell phone every time I tried to call someone. I have gotten that recording a couple times in the last 10 years and it immediately gives me the chill's. My sister in law work's in DC and we were unable to get a hold of her until late afternoon. I have never felt so scared and helpless in my life.

 

[Momof4]

Yes. We were in Issaquah, WA and we woke to the news on our clock radio!! It was sorta of a fuzzy "dream" at the time until we actually really woke up and we were in shock and turned on the Today Show. We were stunned by more events that as more events unfolded as we got ready for work!! We were just numb!!!

 

[RV's mom]

I was just finishing my shift at work. As I was walking out, I passed a waiting room and noticed a bunch of people ~ staff and patients ~ standing, watching the TV, silent. On the way home, I was listening to the radio as first one tower fell, and then the next.

My mother-in-law was in Chicago airport, waiting for her flight back to phoenix. She was very confused when security came thru and pushed people enmass out the door, the airport closed. She had to call her sister in Milwaulkee to come and pick her back up.

I will never forget...

 

[Neal]

I had the day off, so I woke up later than usual and I turned on the TV and saw what was happening. I honestly thought at first it was a movie or something until I saw that every chancel was showing the same thing, and of course I quickly realized that it was no movie.

Funny, that's how I learned about it too...thought it was a movie and turned the channel cause it looked boring.

Such a weird time...just started college, young buck trying to figure out what I want to do with my life...then this happened...strange times they were.

 

[stephiiberrybean]

I was in Latin class.
We were all working on an assignment (I think we had to write a letter to someone in Latin or something like that) so a few of us were on the computers doing it on there. Someone had sneakily gone online when we heard a massive gasp and that person ran for the telly.
Of course the teacher started yelling at us in english, latin, spanish and italian (she taught all them 3 languages) and then we looked to see the first building was down. We watched the whole thing unfold with the second building.

Even though we were in the UK everything ground to a halt at our school too. There were tellys on in every room that had one and no-one went to any classes till it was home time.

 

[Isa]

I did not have class that morning, I was at a store and my friend called me to tell me. I went home right away and opened my tv

 

[ChiKat]

I was in my 8th grade art class. I remember hearing that a plane hit a building, but at the time I didn't understand why it was such a big deal.
We weren't allowed to watch the news at school because of the disturbing images, but one teacher put a blanket over the TV so we could hear, just not view the footage.