re: 9/11 Thread. Where were you? What'd you do that day?

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9/11 Thread. Where were you? What'd you do that day?

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I was in my 8th grade American history class. After some commotion with another teacher, our teacher turned on the classroom TV and we watched the second plane hit. I will never forget it and I will always remember is like it was yesterday.

Hungover as frick and heard my room mates yelling at the TV. I then woke up and the awfulness set in.

I was a student at LSU. That semester I only had classes on MWF and it was a Tuesday. I had an appointment at 10AM (I remember the details like it was yesterday).

Since I had an appointment at 10AM, I decided I would sleep in (my alarm was set at 8:30AM). My mom called to ask if I was watching a news and explained that a plane flew into the twin towers. I immediately turn on the TV and it had to be less than a minute after turning it on, the other plane hit the other tower.

At that point it was obvious it was intentional. On the way to my appointment, every channel on the radio was covering it. Although it happened in New York, it felt like it was an attack on all of us (Americans). When I got to where I had to go, while waiting, everyone was around one tv. The receptionist was crying and kept picking up the phone and dialing.. Hanging up then dialing again. Her daughter was in the military and in NYC. The phone rings and it's her daughter, the relieve on that lady's face is something I will never forget.

Her daughter was with a friend just outside of the city, but she was worried about others she had served with, who were near the twin towers. When I was done with my appointment I was talking to a friend who had just called me. He had gone to class and he said his instructor came in crying. She went through her routine and tried to start class, but then told the class she was just going to cancel class.

If I recall, I think a lot of classes (on LSU's campus) ended up being canceled. For the rest of the day, it was not business as usual (with good reason). It was a sobering time. In fact, even here in South Louisiana, for at least the rest of the week, the atmosphere in general, was as if it happened much closer to home, but then again, it was an attack on our country, so it was home.

It was the first time I ever heard of Osama Bin Laden. I was aware that there was an attempted attack on the twin towers in the early 90s as well as the attack on the USS Cole, but I didn't know much about who was behind it, but by afternoon on 9/11 the name Osama Bin Laden started to fly around. At that point I wanted to learn more about him and Al-Qaeda.

Before 9/11 I never took politics serious, I was young and in my world other things took priority. The first time I was eligible to vote for president, I had no plans on going. My dad called to ask me if I went vote and I told him I was it, he jumped my arse. I didn't comprehend the importance of our political system; I was just young and stupid.. But like I said, after 9/11 it changed my whole outlook.. In term of my view of politics in general, etc.. So it did have a very small impact on me (I don't know if that is the right way to say it. I don't want to say it as if I am putting it in the same category as people who were actually directly impacted). That's my story.

waking up to go to school. was in third grade

Thank you

on 6th ave and 14th street watching one of the towers fall .... it was especially eerie because you couldn't hear the tower falling.

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I had just finished PT(Pacific time zone) and was walking back to the barracks when someone mentioned that a plane had hit the WTC. At that point it just sounded like a freak accident. I was eating breakfast in the chow hall and watching CNN when the second plane hit. At that point it was obviously an attack.

Soon after we were told not to come into work and stay by a phone. We were finally called in that afternoon and worked until late that night bubble wrapping our equipment and loading it on to trucks but my unit didn't actually go anywhere for a few months.

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Almost word for word of how things went for me that morning...I was stationed at Fort Lewis, WA.

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6th ave and 14th street

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I know that intersection. PATH is there, and I bought my first digital camera at the Best Buy at that intersection in 2006. Coincidentally took pictures of the big hole in the ground where the towers used to be, and the PATH station in the corner of that hole.

I was in 4th grade. Heard about the first plane on the way to school. Arrived and waited outside with all the other kids until the school was opened. Everyone outside was talking about what they had heard.. "it was two planes colliding" "plane accidentally hit some building"...
The doors are opened up and we all head to our homerooms. My fourth grade teacher had the tv on the roller cart on and was sitting in absolute silence, transfixed on the tv reporting. The second plane had hit by that time. School never really started, all morning was spent watching the news. We were dismissed early from class that afternoon. Parents came to pick up their children, I hung around outside for a while and started to walk home.
I knew all flights were grounded, it was odd to me at that age to see no jet streams in the sky. I was close to home when I first noticed a massive jet coming in extremely low overhead. The noise was shockingly loud given the rest of the world had essentially stopped that day and i had never remembered seeing an aircraft that low coming in from that direction. I thought one pilot had not gotten the message and was directed to make a landing at the Air Force base near my house. Ran inside and saw shortly after on the news that Pesident Bush and Air Force One had arrived at Offutt AFB. That was the moment I'll never forget