Where were you on September 11th?

MattCameronKicksButt

I was on my final break at work and my boss came running in with an email about it.

(Don't worry, I'm not taking this lightly, I'm just curious).

Byrnzie

I was in the pub on my lunch break and was watching the news on t.v after the first plane had struck.


Where were you August 20, 1998 when the U.S bombed a medicinal factory in Sudan, resulting '...in the deaths of "several tens of thousands" of Sudanese people from diseases such as malaria and TB because they were deprived of the medicines manufactured at the plant?'

Delivered_Wings

I was newly single and living with my mom. That morning I was sleeping and my mom came into my bedroom screaming that we were being attacked. Unsure if I needed a weapon or what the hell she was talking about, I refused to get up until she ellaborated. She was freaking out and just hollered to get out of bed and look at the tv. When I began watching the first plane had hit but not yet the second.

I will never forget that day. The sky looked different, the air was different. Very surreal.

CorporateWhore

I was in the 10th grade in French class and the teacher received a note about it and told the class. It got everyone excited so we just talked about it all day.

Quite a maturing experience.

Brisk.

on the school bus.. couldn't believe it at first

MattCameronKicksButt

Byrnzie wrote:

I was in the pub on my lunch break and was watching the news on t.v after the first plane had struck.


Where were you August 20, 1998 when the U.S bombed a medicinal factory in Sudan, resulting '...in the deaths of "several tens of thousands" of Sudanese people from diseases such as malaria and TB because they were deprived of the medicines manufactured at the plant?'

I was 18 then... Nope, sorry, I don't even remember that. Pretty good point which I am already aware of.

Austicman

I was about to turn off the late news and jump into bed when they broke the story. I'd only just got back from 3 weeks in New York on the 28th of August staying with a friend who was working there for a year.

About the third night we were there we headed up to the "Greatest Bar on Earth" on the 107th floor and ended up having one of the best nights of the trip. All the staff were so polite and curtious. I sometimes wonder how many of then aren't with us anymore.

So I rang my mate to see if he was safe and when I did get hold of him his office window faced downtown and got a eerie commentary for about five minutes before hanging up to get in touch with his family and friends to say he was OK.

Brisk.

Delivered_Wings wrote:

I was newly single and living with my mom. That morning I was sleeping and my mom came into my bedroom screaming that we were being attacked. Unsure if I needed a weapon or what the hell she was talking about, I refused to get up until she ellaborated. She was freaking out and just hollered to get out of bed and look at the tv. When I began watching the first plane had hit but not yet the second.

I will never forget that day. The sky looked different, the air was different. Very surreal.

lol... sorry but i found this bit funny - "Unsure if I needed a weapon or what the hell she was talking about"

xavier mcdaniel

home. i worked the night before in jersey city, which is right across the hudson river. i was in the concourse of the world trade center at 2:30 AM going from the PATH train to the subway.

Delivered_Wings

I BrisK I wrote:

lol... sorry but i found this bit funny - "Unsure if I needed a weapon or what the hell she was talking about"

It is in hindsight. But at that moment I really had no idea what was going on.

It would help to know that my mom went through WWII, saw a lot of shit living in Yugoslavia. When the bosnian/serb war was happening my mom almost had a nervous breakdown. So the idea of war, bombs, etc. causes her to react.

She was really freaking out that morning and my first thought was that there was an intruder in the house. I was scared. 2 women...one 33 and one 65, that's why the weapon idea...I figured out of the two of us I was going to have to be the creative one.

keeponrockin

A teacher said 'there was something in the United States so kids going home for lunch don't tell anyone else'.

This of course led to mad confusion. my dad told me when i got home.

GraySaturday

I was in Math class back in Highschool.....

One of the pilots children went to my rival high school. I lived about an hour and 1/2 from NYC.. Many people worked in NYC that lived around us, and it was really scary for the kids I went to school with, everyone was trying to call their parents and stuff...


ugh...

wolfbear

I was still asleep. My hubby who was visiting in San Diego called and told me to turn on the tv. Wow. Watched when the second one hit. He was supposed to fly that day, waited another two, then finally rented a car and drove the 24 hour drive home. He just wanted to be home and I sure wanted him here. It's just so sad. :(

MattCameronKicksButt

wolfbear wrote:

I was still asleep. My hubby who was visiting in San Diego called and told me to turn on the tv. Wow. Watched when the second one hit. He was supposed to fly that day, waited another two, then finally rented a car and drove the 24 hour drive home. He just wanted to be home and I sure wanted him here. It's just so sad. :(

yes. I wish I hadn't asked now. It didn't have a big impact on me personally but now I feel guilty for digging up old memories. Sorry. XXX

Skitch Patterson

pooping.

markymark550

I was a freshman in college on 9/11. I woke up and started that day like any other and when I was leaving for my first class that day I heard some people saying things like "Did you hear about it?" I had no idea what they were talking about because nobody was saying what "it" was. Well, I got to my class and a guy that had been watching the news that morning notified everyone of what happened and the professor cancelled classes for that week. I got back to my dorm room and turned on the TV just as the second plane crashed. It was very surreal and scary watching everything on the news that day.

EyesForTheSkies

****sorry if this is in bad taste or whatever, but as soon as i read the thread title, that south park song came pouring into my head***


Where were you when they built the Ladder to Heaven?
Did it make you feel like crying?
Or did you think it was kinda gay?
Well I for one believe in the Ladder to Heaven
Ooh yeah yeah yeah, 9-11
I said 9-11 9-11 9-11 9, 9-11

norm

my alarm went off at 6 am pdt and i had bad radio reception so the only station i could receive was the am news station......all i heard was a plane had crashed into the wtc.....so i turned on my tv and as i was about to turn off katie couric i watched the second plane hit.......i didn't move from the edge of my bed for the next hour and a half......it remains the most surreal thing i have ever witnessed....

Zanne

Standing in front of my TV crying.

EyesForTheSkies

cutback wrote:

my alarm went off at 6 am pdt and i had bad radio reception so the only station i could receive was the am news station......all i heard was a plane had crashed into the wtc.....so i turned on my tv and as i was about to turn off katie couric i watched the second plane hit.......i didn't move from the edge of my bed for the next hour and a half......it remains the most surreal thing i have ever witnessed....

isn't it fucked up tho that this event that our entire generation will remember where they were when it happened, and the only thing everybody was doing was watching tv?...

MattCameronKicksButt

cutback wrote:

my alarm went off at 6 am pdt and i had bad radio reception so the only station i could receive was the am news station......all i heard was a plane had crashed into the wtc.....so i turned on my tv and as i was about to turn off katie couric i watched the second plane hit.......i didn't move from the edge of my bed for the next hour and a half......it remains the most surreal thing i have ever witnessed....

Someone else said something and it made me think where the rest of you might have been. That's all.

wolfbear

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

yes. I wish I hadn't asked now. It didn't have a big impact on me personally but now I feel guilty for digging up old memories. Sorry. XXX

Hey, don't feel bad. I thought it was an interesting question. It definitely did affect us all, but I do feel very sorry for the ones that were directed involved.

MattCameronKicksButt

EyesForTheSkies wrote:

isn't it fucked up tho that this event that our entire generation will remember where they were when it happened, and the only thing everybody was doing was watching tv?...

They were probably watching the news!

EyesForTheSkies

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

They were probably watching the news!

well yeah, obviously... but it's just weird that the single most unifying event of our generation is that, essentially, we all watched tv together that day...

MattCameronKicksButt

EyesForTheSkies wrote:

well yeah, obviously... but it's just weird that the single most unifying event of our generation is that, essentially, we all watched tv together that day...

hmmm. See, I am not the argumentative type but I'm not sure that's true. I think most peoples first thought's are why did it happen? and are we somewhat to blame? ('We' being the western countries).

Anyway, I was at work!

But these big (events) are always shown on TV anyway. It's better than reading the newspapers.

EyesForTheSkies

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

hmmm. See, I am not the argumentative type but I'm not sure that's true. I think most peoples first thought's are why did it happen? and are we somewhat to blame? ('We' being the western countries).

Anyway, I was at work!

But these big (events) are always shown on TV anyway. It's better than reading the newspapers.

i think you might be reading too much into what i'm saying... i'm not making an arguement or speculating on what anyone was thinking, all i'm saying is that i find it sort of ironic that the unifying event of our lifetime is that we were all watching tv that day.....

anyway nevermind... i'm going to bed...

MattCameronKicksButt

EyesForTheSkies wrote:

i think you might be reading too much into what i'm saying... i'm not making an arguement or speculating on what anyone was thinking, all i'm saying is that i find it sort of ironic that the unifying event of our lifetime is that we were all watching tv that day.....

anyway nevermind... i'm going to bed...

heeheehee. Sorry. Goodnight. XXX

lucylespian

I was on a boat in the Indain Ocean, coming back for a surf trip to the Mentawai Islands to Sumatra.
Whe we got in teh news hit, and the airport was shut and we had no idea when they would open or if WW3 had started.
Strangley, I didn't freak much, it was too surreal to be alarming.
I spent the day in a hotel room with other guys off the boat, including an Aussie pro surfer called Luke Egan. He broke out a block of Aussie Cadbury chocolate. He said he always carried some wiht him, for the times when shit was bad, and he needed some home comfort.
It worked. Thanks Luke !!
LAter that day, the airport re-opened, and I flew home. I was glad to get home.

xavier mcdaniel

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

heeheehee. Sorry. Goodnight. XXX

no problem. i don't mind talking about it. it's traumatic even after five-plus years but in some ways theraputic to discuss it.

Thorns2010

I got up and flipped on the tele. Saw the WTC on fire, and if I remember correctly the first tower had already collapsed.

Headed out the door to head to class, and by the time I got there the second tower had fallen. It was a Minorities in The Media class, so we had a big projection screen in the lecture hall. So of course for the rest of the class we all watched as everything was happening.

Classes were canceled for the afternoon that day and I still to this day think that it was crazy to shut down the campus. In the sense that it was in bum-fuck nowhere Minnesota. No fear of terrorist here, yet everyone seemed scared of them.

Now don't get me wrong, I feel bad for anyone in NYC that day, and for anyone who knew or loved anyone that was involved, but I was about 1,300 miles away, and had no connection to anyone there, so why would I be scared?

Byrnzie

The only unusual thing about 9/11 was the victim. America had been attacking other countries around the world with impunity for years. This time it was America that was at the receiving end.
I'm surprised that so many people were surprised.