re: Where were you when 9/11/01 happened?

24 years old working tech services for ConAgra

At LSU in a botany class.

The professor was from Australia. Two cell phones started ringing at the same time, which was odd at the time. I called my mom from a pay phone under the Union. Most people had a Nokia brick back the. and mine was usually dead.

I skipped class but stayed on campus just so I could keep watching cable news, and was watching when the second tower was hit.

I had been in Houston for about 3 months after graduating at LSU. My boss and most of department were in Virginia for an ADP (Payroll) conference.

I heard the CFO mention the 1st plane and a few coworkers gathered in conference room to watch TV footage. The consensus seemed to be an accident.

Then I saw the 2nd plane and it all of a sudden became obvious. I watched about 10 minutes more, then went to call my dad.

He said every generation has at least one event where you know the exactly what you were doing. For him it was JFK and this would be mine. He was right and that comment 10 minutes after enforced the gravity of the situation.

Rocking my 7monrh old baby.

There’s a poster here or there was who said he was a teen at the time and his dad was in one of the towers. Every year I think of him and wish I knew the screenname — he’d be 36Ish now. I remember him saying it was hard and that he tended to pretend his dad was on vacation to not be sad about it.

Oddly enough the first I heard of it was from Jerry Jones while on my way to work.

I was listening to a radio interview with him and he ended it with “our hearts go out to New Yorkers” or something like that and the tone told me something bad had happened. I flipped to a news station after that.

Got to the office and everyone was in the break room watching on TV. We were given the afternoon off, in shock of course.

On the job, took a break,ran to a store for burritos.

Got back to the plant and it was all over the radio/tv.

My Mexican helper was worked the frick up.

I was on a treadmill at Travis AFB and it came up on the news. I remember everyone saying get ready to head to Afghanistan. Then I recall thinking there wasn’t any chance in hell we would ever mobilize and attack the Taliban to get a rogue Saudi prince. I certainly never thought we’d spend the next two decades blowing up sand huts in Afghanistan while forging our alliance with Saudi Arabia.

I was in my freshman year as well. This thread always makes me feel old when people respond saying they were in 2nd or 3rd grade etc

I was working in a smaller city in England and was the only American at the site. I got stuck there for over a week because of flight restrictions. This was before it was so easy to call home but there were Internet cafes to keep up with email and I’d buy 3 or 4 tabloids every day to read the latest and see boobs.

Driving to work in Dallas. Third week at a new company. My daughter wa 13 days old.