Where were you that day? (9/11/01)

[240marcuSX]

it was like the first week of school, and some kid that i know sort of came up to me and said "hey, some idiot flew a plane into the world trade center" and i forgot what i said to him, but for the rest of the day, my school wouldnt turn the tv's on at all, which is stupid, and i got home later and called my mom, who works right across the way from the pentagon, it took a while because all the lines were busy, and i just stood at home and watched it on tv.

[colies97~240sx]

I was driving to my 9:25am Intro to Art Class at NKU... On the way to class I was listening to the radio but not really listening, I heard something about planes hitting a building but didn't pay much attention and ignored it. I got to art class and my teacher was in the front of the room crying. She had pulled a TV into the classroom. I got there in time to see the second plane hit. I saw what was happening and just froze. I remember thinking this cant be real, it can't be happening. When I left class it was such an eerie feeling... looking up at the sky and not hearing or seeing any planes.

I went to work later that afternoon to find out some international students in one of our classes had stood up and cheered when the teacher announced in class what had happened. Nothing angered me more than that moment. Some people have no respect. Those students had come to or country seeking a better education, seeking a better way of life, better than what they could get in their country. No one twisted there arm or made them come here and they showed no respect, no gratitude, no thankfulness, they just sit there and cheered at a horrible event. In defense to other immigrants I know that all immigrants are NOT like that. Just like any other human being, American or not, some people don't care about anyone but themselves.

[rydwhite]

I remember it very vividly. I was working at a law firm on the 47th and 48th floors of the Bank One Tower in Indianapolis. I got on the elevator along with one of the secretaries at the firm and she told me that she had just heard on the radio that two planes had crahsed into the world trade center. I really thought nothing of it at the time and neither did she. We figured they were single prop planes like a Cesna that probably collided and some of the wreckage landed on the building. Once I got into my office and turned on my TV, I was in complete shock as to what had happend. Slowly the other people in the firm started arriving and we all gathered in the board room to watch the news on the big screen. About an hour after the crash into the Pentagon we recieved word that they were evacuating our building because there were still a dozen planes that the FAA had not yet been able to get ahold of that they knew were heading west. Since we were in the tallest building between Chicago and Dallas, they thought we might be a secondary target and evacuated the building.

I will never forget what I was doing and where I was that day.

[SoCalS14]

I was heading to school, realized what had happened when I got there, was leaving when i saw some chick on a bike get whacked by a car. She was thrown six feet in the air! Tragedy was everywhere!

[HashiriyaS14]

I was on Semester@Sea (yeah, like Road Rules, but a different semester). We got woken up at 3am just as we were arriving in Japan (from Vancouver) and all we were told was that the US had been attacked and both the WTC and Pentagon had been destroyed. Everyone on the boat immediately thought that it was another nation that had attacked us, and my parents live in DC, so I was terrified. It wasn't until hours later that we learned what really happened. I didn't actually see the video of the planes hitting the WTC until months later when I got back in the States.

[krazy skwerel]

Chem Lab. My instructor burst in and proclaimed "They're bombing us!" Very freaked out we were.

[Rockenreno]

Chem Lab. My instructor burst in and proclaimed "They're bombing us!" Very freaked out we were.

For some reason I find that amusing I imagine a crazed teach running around oulling out his hair and frantically running through the halls.

Would have scared me though.

[darkeagle]

I was sitting in my Trades class and class was getting ready to start when our teacher says "Oh My God" really loud. We sat there watching the monitor in the room and I felt my heart fall down into my stomach when I seen that Tower fall. Not a feeling a ever want to feel.

My feelings now are wondering about that Pentagon and why the plane didn't destroy it all when it "supposedly" crashed. Watching that on Discovery right now.

[Jesda]

My feelings now are wondering about that Pentagon and why the plane didn't destroy it all when it "supposedly" crashed. Watching that on Discovery right now.

See my last post in the thread called "Eerie..." It contains eyewitness accounts that should clear that up quickly. Also: http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/....html