What were you doing a decade ago when you found out about WTC attack?

[iowajerms]

A decade ago from today, I was late for school. I may have had a doctor's appointment or something, but I do remember showing up to school late and walking into the office and the first building was already hit. I was a senior in high school. I had no clue what was going on and I asked what movie they were watching. It really wasn't until later in the day before I realized what was going on.

 

[BigAppleBadger]

I went to my early class (first semester of college, so schedule sucked). When I got there, the big projector screen at the front of the room was showing a CNN live feed of the first tower billowing smoke. I saw the second plane hit live on TV, at which point people started leaving to call family, etc. Went to my buddy's dorm and watched both towers fall, and all the rest with Peter Jennings on ABC sweating through and changing his shirt about 5 times over the course of the day.

 

[gobigred]

Sophmore year of high school and in between classes and going to homeroom when teacher told us there had been an attack and went to room next door to watch the coverage.

I had been on top of WTC that summer before the attack so I couldn't believe it.

 

[Cobrabit]

Working in an electrical engineering lab when a janitor walked in and told us a plane had just hit the WTC and then he left. We all thought it was just a small personal plane like the one that hit the White House a few years earlier. It wasn't until I drove home after that lab that I saw how serious it really was. Classes were cancelled for the rest of the day (only one other time in my 6 years at VT did they cancel classes - the other was due to an ice storm where the transit buses couldn't get back to the hub for tire chains). My roommates and I just sat there watching it all in disbelief.

 

[ForkEmBucky]

21 years old, in college. Woke up after the first plane hit. Walked out into the living room and found out from my roommates. Went to a class because Bush said go on about your business...but didn't really appreciate that concept and went home.

 

[HighTide]

I was in 8th grade, and I didn't hear about it until I went to 2nd period history where the teacher had on the news.

 

[Uman5]

Laid up in bed with a back injury. Woke up turned on the TV just as the second plane hit. Had no idea what I had just seen. Laid in bed all day watching and crying.

 

[GunsUp_ShootinBlanks]

Running around the gym in 6th grade. They rolled in a tv and called us all around it. Terrible start to my 12th year on the planet.

 

[Mr Cane]

I was paying for gas at a station. The two girls working there told me we were getting attacked. I thought they was messn with me until I got home and turned on the TV.

I remember it as if it happened yesterday.

 

[antone112]

Passed out on my Moms couch. Didn't work the night before, went to the bar to watch a preseason game with friends. I remember the Giants scoring on the last play of the game and the kicker missing the extra point which screwed me out of some money. I said some unfriendly things about New York City. Kinda felt like crap about it the next day.

 

[WoodyHayes1951]

Math Teacher and Principal were debating whether to have us watch the scene in NYC or go on with classes. Math teacher won out and we were in class late in the afternoon when he told us the WTC was gone. Left HS that day really not know what he was talking about. I had thought he was joking. Completely surreal driving home with the radio coverage and then getting home and watching the actual thing.

 

[WestEndVol]

I was in the 6th grade when I first heard. When I got home from school, it was all over the news.

 

[tech_iceman]

just got done with 7th grade football practice and went to science class... we got there right after the 2nd plane hit, and our teacher told us... we didn't really know what to think

 

[BUCS_72]

The real question is not where you were on 9/11, but why the government failed so
miserably.
Why did government not take warning signs serious enough until a mass loss of life and property occurred?
They did however manage a great job at covering their butts after the fact.

 

[Tybo6014]

I was 16 years old. I walked into my second period U.S. history class and she had the news on. At that point I remember the broadcasters saying they still were not sure if it was an accident or an attack. My entire class set and watched as the second plane hit on live tv. Some people cried, the rest of us just said there in total disbelief as to what we just witnessed. I will never forget that day. It was just a very wierd day from the beginning. We still had football practice after school as usual, coach was cut throat, he didn't cut any practice short for anything, ever. I remember looking up at the sky late at practice that day and not seeing one plane fly by, normally you could see several jet streams. There weren't cars on the road driving by, there was absolutely no wind(which is almost unheard of in Oklahoma), just total silence. Couldn't hear anything but the sounds of practice, very eerie to say the least. I will never forget though, as tough and hard nose as our coach was, the speech he gave us before we went home. As he cried he told us to go home, go to our loved ones, hug them, hold them tight, and tell them you love them, because tomorrow is never guaranteed. The next day there was a moment of silence, and at the game that Friday there was a big ceremony, we all wore American flag decals over our normal decals on our helmets.

 

[Team Mookie]

Just got back from a deployment to Kosovo. It was around 5pm (German time) that I was standing in company formation when one of the shit bags who was getting processed out of the Army walked by and said good luck to you all. "We're about to go to War".

About this time the company commander called us to attention and began to explain what had happened. When formation ended everyone came up to my room to watch AFN news of what was happening in the states. I will never forget the look on everyones faces that day. After that..... Life got real busy for anyone in the service. lol

 

[KansasSooner]

I was drinking coffee and getting ready to go to work. Only other day that stands out more was JFK's assassination, but I was only 9 then and didn't really understand the implications at the time. 9/11 was a little more disturbing though because the images were live.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

I remember working and then we were all called in the conference room where our boss told us what had happened, got home that evening to my wife crying on the couch watching the news, we didn't lose anyone in it but we felt bad for those who did.

 

[KansasSooner]

I was 16 years old. I walked into my second period U.S. history class and she had the news on. At that point I remember the broadcasters saying they still were not sure if it was an accident or an attack. My entire class set and watched as the second plane hit on live tv. Some people cried, the rest of us just said there in total disbelief as to what we just witnessed. I will never forget that day. It was just a very wierd day from the beginning. We still had football practice after school as usual, coach was cut throat, he didn't cut any practice short for anything, ever. I remember looking up at the sky late at practice that day and not seeing one plane fly by, normally you could see several jet streams. There weren't cars on the road driving by, there was absolutely no wind(which is almost unheard of in Oklahoma), just total silence. Couldn't hear anything but the sounds of practice, very eerie to say the least. I will never forget though, as tough and hard nose as our coach was, the speech he gave us before we went home. As he cried he told us to go home, go to our loved ones, hug them, hold them tight, and tell them you love them, because tomorrow is never guaranteed. The next day there was a moment of silence, and at the game that Friday there was a big ceremony, we all wore American flag decals over our normal decals on our helmets.

And for anybody in Oklahoma or from Oklahoma the memory 4-19-1995 and the OKC bombing was still fresh in our minds.

 

[Tybo6014]

And for anybody in Oklahoma or from Oklahoma the memory 4-19-1995 and the OKC bombing was still fresh in our minds.

Yes it was. I still remember it to this day and I was 9 then. I remember them calling us to the auditorium and telling us what had happened. At that age I wasn't able to fully process what had happened, or what it really meant, but I will never forget where I was that day. Actually the next few years between the Murrah bombing in OKC and the WTC attacks were very rough times for kids in school because of all the school shootings that occured during that period. I remember we all had to have clear back packs and a lot of schools had metal detectors at all entrances. Kids that age just shouldn't have to be subjected to those types of things. Just goes to show how the times have changed I guess. Just frightens me to think what my children and their children will have to see in their time.