Where were you on 911 ten years ago?

[dbsaus1]

I was sitting at my desk at work when someone came running into the office and said a plane had hit the World Trade center. We all went into the lunch room to watch the television.

The next day we had a power outage and the building had to be evacuated. That was a little tense. 

[kodomfulmanar]

I was in 4th grade, so I don't remember much, but I remember being in school...and then everyone going silent and slowly getting sent home

[kingreyam24]

I was in the military, stationed in Hawaii. I was around 4 in the morning and something woke me up. I turned on the TV, which was on ESPN, and I thought it was a movie. While I was busy questioning why there was a movie on ESPN, the second plane crashed into the tower. So chilling to watch live. 

[tjshorty]

I had just got home from work, getting the kids off to school.  When I seen what I thought was a really sick commercial, then, it hit me.  We were being attacked.  What I expected would happen after that didn't.  Seemed like business as usual.  School didn't close, nothing just sit and watch, helpless.

[tashamjoy]

I was in 5th grade i remember our teacher sat us all around in a circle and asked doyou guys know what happened today? A child said there was a bus accident earlier that day, one bus got in an accident coming to school but nobody had any idea what happened then i think our teacher explained what happened i am assuming but do not remember but i think i was too young to comprehend what happened at that time .

[acurtsinger2]

I was at work when a lady ran in and siad to turn the tv on....it was very sad...i saw people jumping out of the building because thney wanted to avoid being burned alive....very sad

[mrstina08]

I was at work, .  hurt and heart broken my aunt was in the building that day. She was just fine. I think she left early that day. Thank God.

[LenoraMinogue]

I was totally oblivious to what was going on that day, until I got to my first job right across from my state capitol and it was pretty much abandoned. But they were renovating the building at the time, so I didn't find it that unusual still, not to find people there. I was actually grateful for the peace and quiet to get some work done. Then just as I was settling in, I got a call from my mother, who was frantic, since she heard they sent everyone away for possible bomb scares cause of 911. I remember I still wasn't very afraid, just quietly gathered my things and left. Things like that are so out of my realm of experience, it's hard to think that they could be really happening. But I still didn't linger around the place. I remember watching the news later, and it almost felt like watching something from an action movie, seemed too unreal. And I was really young, so I didn't understand exactly the impact of what was going on.

[mom21b]

i was at home fighting with my now ex b/f  over his cheating-beating ways. plus caring for my mom,grandma and a great uncle. plus on top of everything dealing with
the loss of my dad who passed on july 17,2001. so it was a rough time for me. so 9-11 i will always remember.

[2getherwewin]

I was in Hardeeville South Carolina.

[jessicaroselorr]

I was at school on the west coast. It was very weird knowing that, this was a very terrible thing happening but also being so far away made it even more unreal for me. On the 11 this year I saw the replayed footage from the Today show ten years ago and just sobbed the whole time. It really was much more real to me now then it was ten years ago.

[tzs]

I was in South Austin, TX living with my husband in our little apt. I was working at Mervyn's at the time, and before I went to lunch that day,  I saw the first plane hit.  I was discusted, and knew immediatelly that terrorism had EVERYTHING to do with it.
When I got home, my husband was watching the television, I ate my lunch, and before I headed out the door, the second plane hit! The scale of the terrorist attack put me in awe, so I stayed and watched the tele a little longer, because I couldnt pull away.

And then, the towers began to fall...... The first one fell, and I broke down immediately and cried in my husband's arms. He had to hold me up slightly, because my knees buckled a little bit. He also began to weep. All of those innocents in those buildings, just gone. Forever. Then you wonder..Why? What for? What's the point of all this? I finally pulled myself together, and drove back to work. I felt so hollow, like a ghost, just going through the motions of driving my car. I was still aware of my surroundings, but I couldn't bring my thoughts away from what I just saw.


Ironically enough, on the same day, my (indifferent, mean~*bleep*, no sex having, grouchy old woman) manager had told me if I was late getting to work, or coming back from lunch or whatever, (even if there was an "act of GOD" was how she put it) she would have to let me go. And of course, about half way back from lunch, I got stuck in traffic, by a train!!! I knew for sure that my job was over at Mervyn's, but I just didn't care at the time. I just sat in my car, and sobbed.

I was let go that day, all of my pay was handed to me and I walked out the doors.  My husband called me, and asked the obvious.  

"Did she fire you?" he said.  "Yes, she did." I said.

"Are you OK?", he said.

 "As okay as I can be, I guess.", I said. "They gave me all of my pay ($475) and sent me home."

And then my husband said........" I got paid today, Wanna go buy a car??!?!"

"WHAAAAT! Are you SURE??", I said.

"YEP.", he said!!!

And so, we did. The dealership was a ghost town. It was very surreal, only one or two people in the building, no other customers looking at cars. You could hear a pin drop, and every word that we where saying. For instance, everytime the car salesman left to get paperwork: "WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?!?!?!?! THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END AND WE ARE BUYING A FREAKING CAR, ARE YOU SURE WE SHOULD DO THIS?>??" Upon the salesman's return, ther would be nervous laughing and silly banter, just trying to make things "more real", so to speak. We sat there, went through the paperwork, and bought a new Jeep. Being that the american economy was the way it was back then, I think we did a good thing.

So, on Sept. 11, 2001, I watched the worst terrorist attack on american soil, got fired from my job at mervyn's, and bought a 2001 Jeep Wrangler TJ SE with my husband.  THat's where I was and what I did on that day, and it still fells like it happend yesterday, and I think it always will be that way for all of us. Never Forget 9/11.........

[hollister237]

I was rolling around on my living room carpet, confused why my parents were watching tv about planes crashing into a building.