re: Where were you/what were you doing when it happened?

Was living off Esplanade in NOLA. Had my 1 y.o. son and my wife in the car. I was headed to Touro to drop her off a work. Listening to The End and Rod Ryan broke into the commercial and essentially said, Look, I know I joke around a lot, but this is not a joke. A plane has flown into one of the towers.

Made it back to the house just in time to see the 2nd plane hit. Remember later that night, looking at my boy and wife sleeping thinking about all those families that will never experience peace again. F'ing livid then and now.

I was in a training session for my job in Denver Co.

We turned on the TV and all watched in silence except for when the second one hit. We were dismissed immediately and went home and spent the day I'm sure like most Americans that day.

I was at work listening to Walton & Johnson. Someone called in and said that a plain had flown into the World Trade Center building. My first thought was that they were talking about the one in NOLA.

Had just finished nursing my almost 7 month old innocent perfect daughter. I was sobbing wondering what I had done bringing children into this world. Now that they’re 27, 22 and 18, I have hope that they’ll make a difference somehow.

I was in a plane....it took forever to get home once they forced us to land...terrible day.

Was in Exxon working. After second tower was hit they rushed everyone (contractors) out of the plant. I made it home in Central just in time to watch the first tower collapse....to give you a time frame of how quick it all went down in Exxon that day. I was then am still a full time fireman. I knew when the building went down the loss of fireman would be great. My brother also a fireman came to my house and we watched the second tower fall. We didn't say a word to each other for about 30 minutes. It was pure shock.

Standing in line at the local post office waiting to buy stamps and mail a package and overheard a lady talking about it.

I took care of business and headed straight home and watched it unfold on TV and was sickened by what I was watching as it became evident it was intentional.

Masturbating on an airplane. Thank God I was able to finish before Bin Laden ruined it for everyone

I had started teaching at age 33 at Plaquemine High school in August and on Sept. 11th 2001, I was in a new teacher induction training. The instructors came in and told us about the 1st plane and like most people our initial reaction was a small plane accident. A little while later they came back in and said another plane had hit the other tower and that we were under attack. They cancelled the training and sent us back to our schools. When I got back to school, we had a bunch of scared kids and everyone had the TV on in their classrooms.
Was a really fricked up day and days to follow.