Where were you- 9/11 25 years ago

Walking to third period Spanish II from second period Chemistry

I found out when I got to work.

I tried to take money out of the ATM a few minutes earlier and got a communication error. Stopped at the coffee shop on Carrollton and hear the radio say all airports were closed and thought it was weird.

I was 21 and still in college, but that morning I was off, so I was in my garage working on something and heard breaking news on the radio so I went inside to turn on the TV

I remember calling my GF after the first plane. She was in class and I told her school would probably be cancelled then the 2nd plane hit while I was on the phone with her.

Just pure confusion and disbelief. She came home and we were glued to the TV all day.

Spanish as well, can't remember if it was I or II, but had an announcement by principal and put it on TV I'm sure, that day was clear but also a blur if that makes sense

I was literally on premises at the Pentagon and Capitol Hill that morning. Was also at the US Supreme Court as news broke about the first plane and when the second plane was hit.


I walked all the way across Northwest that day to ultimately get on a shuttle to go home, past the Pentagon which was still smoldering and maybe still in flames.

I will never ever forget this Hispanic kid looking at me on the bus and asking, “ why them people did that?”

The next idk how many months I pretty much thought every day that I could be a victim of some terrorist attack.

ETA Security at the SCOTUS told me verbatim “Get the frick out of here right now.” When I walked away from there, congressman st one of the office building were being whisked away in black cars.

Crazy shite that day. People saying the “mall was on fire.” We were like the MallMall or the shopping mall?

Also by the time I got in that bus, rumors already going around. I heard some chick say into her cell phone (btw remember this was pre-iPhone) “yeah they shite it down.”

High school senior

does anyone else remember fox reporting that the sears building in chicago had been hit?

I was a LSU student as well and had Tuesdays and Thursdays off that semester. 9/11 is the only reason I remember that, but I had an appointment. I was in the process of getting my ramp van modified with electronic hand controls and had to go to the place where it would eventually get done and do some measurements, etc. I remember every radio station was covering it and when I got to where I was going. I went inside and it felt like the air was sucked out of the place. One of the ladies who worked there had a daughter in the military who was in New York city and she couldn't get in touch with her.

Everyone was glued to the TV. The woman who had a daughter in NYC wasn't panicking, I remember she saying that she knew she wasn't in one of the towers, but where she was staying was several blocks from the towers. I remember a lot of details from that day, but eventually that lady's daughter called her. I remember being happy for her because she was clearly worried.

I worked nights. Was about to leave the shop, and went in the office for something, and the 1st plane had just hit. Stood there with them and watched for an hour.