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9/11 Thread. Where were you? What'd you do that day?
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:28 pm
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:28 pm
I was in French class when the vice principal announced on the school intercom that the WTC "had been bombed." I'm ashamed to say that I didn't know what the WTC was at the time nor the significance of the situation until later in the day. I thought it was something like OKC bombing. I think I remember the TVs being turned on in my next class and the whole school gathering later that day to pray / reflect.
Up until this point in my life, global terrorism wasn't even a thought in my head. Granted, I was young and naive, but it was a big wake up call that shook me to the core.
What were you doing when you first learned of what happened?
Up until this point in my life, global terrorism wasn't even a thought in my head. Granted, I was young and naive, but it was a big wake up call that shook me to the core.
What were you doing when you first learned of what happened?
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Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:29 pm to SUB
Driving home from working all night
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:30 pm to SUB
I was at work and was dealing with some damn heavy projects...they were all postponed for a few weeks. that day changed the world forever....
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:31 pm to SUB
Freshman civics. My teacher turned on the radio and asked us to listen without explaining what was going on. We weren't sure what was happening as we heard a reporter trying to investigate loud bangs... until he realized it was jumpers.
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:31 pm to SUB
Second week at college. Heard a little about it in my English class but had no clue what was going on. Didn't get to a tv until an hour and a half later. fricking LA Tech refused to even cancel classes for the rest of the day so I had to go to all my classes.
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:32 pm to SUB
Heading to work and heard on a local radio station that they have reports of a "small" plane had hit one of the World Trade Center Towers.
I went in to work and told others of what I had heard on the radio and initially some just shrugged it off. Very shortly later, some guy had a TV with rabbit ears set up in his lab and we watched a lot of the day's events there.
All the while the boss was ordering everyone to continue working (this was at a manufacturing plant)
I think I watched TV all night that night until the wee hours of the morning.
Very unreal feeling.
I went in to work and told others of what I had heard on the radio and initially some just shrugged it off. Very shortly later, some guy had a TV with rabbit ears set up in his lab and we watched a lot of the day's events there.
All the while the boss was ordering everyone to continue working (this was at a manufacturing plant)
I think I watched TV all night that night until the wee hours of the morning.
Very unreal feeling.
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:32 pm to SUB
Elementary school, we usually watched the school news but not today because we had to turn to the local news first.
Got home to my friend's house where her mom was crying her eyes out. The news kept replaying the towers falling and the planes hitting. I was pretty young at the time, but I was old enough to know that something was very wrong.
Later that night the entire neighborhood gathered to talk about what happened and that whoever was behind this was going to pay. Finally understanding that America was under attack was a pretty scary thought for a nine year old
Got home to my friend's house where her mom was crying her eyes out. The news kept replaying the towers falling and the planes hitting. I was pretty young at the time, but I was old enough to know that something was very wrong.
Later that night the entire neighborhood gathered to talk about what happened and that whoever was behind this was going to pay. Finally understanding that America was under attack was a pretty scary thought for a nine year old
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:33 pm to SUB
I was in a botany class at LSU. A few people's cells started to ring all at once. One guy left the class to answer. The professor (forgot his name but he was Tasmanian) was irked.
I remember calling my mom from a pay phone at the bottom of the Union and skipping the rest of my classes to watch the news with my friend at the KE house.
I remember calling my mom from a pay phone at the bottom of the Union and skipping the rest of my classes to watch the news with my friend at the KE house.
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:33 pm to SUB
In class. After the first one hit, our usually crazy Louisiana history teacher ran through the school with a gas mask saying the terrorists attacked the world trade center. We were like wtf, then the second one hit and we knew she wasn't a lunatic.
All the air force brats had to leave school by 10 or 11 because they closed barksdale. Bush gave his speech from there right after he left Florida.
It was a tense day because a lot of my friends knew their parents were going to be deployed. And we were scared barksdale might be a target.
All the air force brats had to leave school by 10 or 11 because they closed barksdale. Bush gave his speech from there right after he left Florida.
It was a tense day because a lot of my friends knew their parents were going to be deployed. And we were scared barksdale might be a target.
This post was edited on 9/10/17 at 10:34 pm
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:33 pm to SUB
I was sleeping as I didn't go to bed until 4am the night before because I didn't have to be at work until noon that day.
I woke up to chaos on the TV, but I still went to work.
I woke up to chaos on the TV, but I still went to work.
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:34 pm to SUB
quote:
What were you doing when you first learned of what happened?
Listening to Howard Stern driving to the Philly airport.
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:35 pm to dawgfan24348
quote:
pretty scary thought for a nine year old
Christ, I feel old
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:36 pm to SUB
10th grade. We were watching it from the beginning when they still thought it was an accident.
Then we all saw the second plane live.
I was in French class when the first tower fell and the teacher went on a glorious rant about the Muslims. The things she said would be an automatic firing these days.
Then we all saw the second plane live.
I was in French class when the first tower fell and the teacher went on a glorious rant about the Muslims. The things she said would be an automatic firing these days.
This post was edited on 9/10/17 at 10:38 pm
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:36 pm to TH03
quote:
our usually crazy Louisiana history teacher ran through the school with a gas mask
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:36 pm to upgrayedd
I was at work and a 72 year old coworker walks into the office saying he heard on the radio that "Some stupid MFing pilot crashed into the WTC". Only to soon be on the phone with another friend when the second plane hit and we both had the realization that it wasn't an accident. I was in my early 20's at the time.
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:37 pm to upgrayedd
shite there are people in high school that were born after 9/11 so even I feel old
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:37 pm to SUB
Away at boarding school in Vicksburg, MS in a class. They brought us all down to the library to watch it on TV.
Knew then my family would be changed bc I had a brother in the navy.
frick OBL.
Knew then my family would be changed bc I had a brother in the navy.
frick OBL.
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:38 pm to SUB
Fifth grade, first period. We evacuated for some unknown reason to these little mobile home like classrooms for second period and we all sat in them until noon when we got to go home. I had literally no idea what it meant other than adults seemed to think it was important.
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:38 pm to upgrayedd
She had a bad stutter so i kinda laughed when she said "the t t t t terrorists have at t t t t tacked"
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:38 pm to SUB
technology training specialist for a govt agency.
word spread fast after the first one. saw the 2nd one hit on a TV in the cafeteria
there was supposedly a threat to the transamerica building in SF and my daughter had a gig near there. I called her.
just kept working after that. 100 people depended on me.
word spread fast after the first one. saw the 2nd one hit on a TV in the cafeteria
there was supposedly a threat to the transamerica building in SF and my daughter had a gig near there. I called her.
just kept working after that. 100 people depended on me.
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