7th Grade computer class - We were all scared and parents were picking up their kids like crazy and I was thinking, "Why aren't my parents picking me up??" I actually came home that afternoon after school and turned the tv on and that is how my parents found out about it. My dad has always worked 3rd shift and my mom has always been on his schedule - they were both sleeping!
I was a sophmore in college. I had just totalled my car a few days earlier, so I was at a car dealership buying my car. I had no tv or hadn't listen to the radio all morning. So I had know idea anything had happend until 10am when I got to the dealership and was seeing everything on TV. Mind blowing.
Post by charmediamsure on Sept 11, 2013 10:09:34 GMT -5
I was working at a daycare. We were outside with the toddlers and I remember I was pushing kids on the swings. My supervisor came outside telling us a plane had flown into one of the towers and that it must have been an accident. When we were back inside we had the radio on and they announced the second plane had hit. I remember saying over and over "two planes isn't an accident".
H and I were long distance dating (he was set to move to Canada in October and we were getting married in December. Neither of us had cellphones and I was in a tailspin trying to get a hold of him. He was in Boston and I was worried that if NYC was a target that Boston might have been a target next. I spent hours off and on all day trying onto call his house. He called me that evening, he had left the city early and had been at his uncle's house in Maine watching the coverage.
I was at college in CA finishing up a summer program before starting my sophomore year. The RAs came in and woke us up and told us about the first tower being hit. We went down to the dorm lounge and all watched as the second tower was hit and then the continuing coverage. They cancelled summer classes that day and organized a non-denominational prayer service that night.
We spent all day checking in with friends and family; my dad was in DC for a business trip and saw the smoke rising from the Pentagon. He and his coworkers rented a van and drove back to NC right away rather than flying home a few days later.
Post by lolaburns on Sept 11, 2013 10:53:10 GMT -5
I was in my 4th year of college. I walked out to see the first tower on fire and then watched the second plane fly into the second tower. I immediately knew we were under attack. It was surreal. I felt so alone and lost on that day.
First year after hs graduation. I was working full time (did so for 2 years before starting college). Worked in downtown Pittsburgh. Saw it on the Internet and then my yearly performance review was cut short due to evacuating the city. I went to my dads work (he was a barber In pittsburgh) and got him. He didnt realize everyone was evacuating and was trying to cancel his appointments. It was so so crazy to get on the T (public transportation subway) and try to make it home. We got one of the last Ts before they shut down for the day. It was so insane and packed and everyone was screaming and yelling out news updates.
Post by charlielove on Sept 11, 2013 10:58:15 GMT -5
I was 18 and in college. I woke up and turned on the radio on and started getting ready. My mom called and said that we were being attacked and I was completely confused. Turned on the TV just as the second plane hit. I went to class and they ended up cancelling everything. BF now DH and my roommate and I basically spent the day in front of the TV.
I was 23 and I was at work. People started getting phone calls and information started circulating. We had no Tv's and no internet access. I think someone dug out a contraband radio at one point. It wasn't until people came back from lunch who had watched the news that we really started to realize what had happened. I didn't see any of the footage until I got home and turned my tv on.
Post by muppetinma on Sept 11, 2013 11:35:18 GMT -5
In a cop car in NYC (doing a ride-along with a friend). I heard a bunch of jumbled mess come over the rainbow. My friend pulled over, told me to get out of the city as fast as possible. He didn't know what was going on, but knew it wasn't good.
Post by thedahliharpa on Sept 11, 2013 12:09:46 GMT -5
I was in my college apartment sleeping in because I didn't have classes that day. Someone called me and woke me up. DH stopped by campus for his class but school was shut down. We just sat and watched the coverage for the next several days.
9th grade English. The principal came over the intercom and said he didn't wish to alarm anyone but that there was an incident in NY. The teachers turned on the TVs and we watched in horrified silence.
Post by carawestt on Sept 11, 2013 12:50:39 GMT -5
I was 11 and at home. My mom didn't wake us up at our normal time for school that morning, so I got up to see what was going on. My mom and step dad were sitting on the couch watching the news and they explained to us what was going on. That's really all I remember.
Post by spaghetticat on Sept 11, 2013 12:56:06 GMT -5
I was in my dorm room. I saw the second plane hit on the Today Show. I went to my 10 o'clock class and the professor didn't believe us. We watched tv in the classroom.
I will never forget that feeling of thinking anything could happen next. Like an attack could come from anywhere.
I lived in the international house. Many of the people I lived with were from the Middle East. It was very interesting seeing what they went through, too. We all had to do a house project based on our home country so I did a 9/11 one that year.
Eighth grade English class. Our teachers were instructed not to turn on the TVs or radios. Living less than an hour from DC, many teachers were scared. One of the nearby teachers' husband worked at the Pentagon, so she obviously ignored the request. My aunt came and picked me up soon after the 2nd plane hit, and my family spent several hours at my grandparents' together watching coverage.
At 13, I didn't really understand what was going on, but I remember feeling so lost. I taped all the coverage for the next several days on VHS's while I was at school. Despite being young and feeling so lost, I can remember sitting in front of the TV crying for days because I didn't understand what was going on or why anyone would ever do this.
Post by greenkitty98 on Sept 11, 2013 16:09:29 GMT -5
I was in my final year of college sitting in the computer lab finishing up some homework that needed to be printed. It eventually sunk in what people around me were saying about planes crashing into the towers. I spent the rest of the day (classes were cancelled) watching news and spending time with friends. We tried to go give blood, but the hospital had too many people donating and they couldn't handle all of us. I also remember the eerie silence with no planes flying overhead. It was one of those noises that you got used to and didn't really notice until it wasn't there anymore. It was also when I re-connected with my dh (we had a class together a couple of years prior but hadn't really had contact since then). My brother was in the Navy at the time, and I also remember wondering if he was going to be deployed somewhere.
I was in college and heard it from the guy sitting in front of me in class. The group of us there thought it was an accident at that point. We had no idea the extent and severity of what had happened. I remember that no idea feeling very clearly in hindsight.
Post by formerlyllizzyb on Sept 11, 2013 20:37:20 GMT -5
I was in 11th grade. One plane hit while I was in government and we didn't know for a bit. Then I went to my office aide period and saw it all unfold on the news they had on in the office.
Post by creamsiclechica on Sept 11, 2013 20:42:12 GMT -5
I am watching 102 Minutes That Changed America on the History Channel. And sobbing. I watch it every year, but it makes it as raw as it was watching it unfold then.
I am watching 102 Minutes That Changed America on the History Channel. And sobbing. I watch it every year, but it makes it as raw as it was watching it unfold then.