Where were you on 9/11?

United States
September 11, 2009 10:51am CST
I remember I had sat down to begin my school in Charleston, SC, when we got the news. The naval nuclear pipeline is one of the most intense educational programs in the entire country, and they took a day off for everyone to call their families and friends. It was a very emotional and sobering time for everyone. Where were you? Anything specific you remember about 9/11? Dive Deep!
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@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
11 Sep 09
I was at work. I had just gashed my finger open on a utility knife and was on my way to the bathroom with my finger wrapped and bleeding. I had noticed that the music had stoped an all the radios and all I could here was unintelligable talking. A guy I worked with walked by and said to me, "hey1 did you hear?we're under attack, we're being bombed with our own planes as the missles!" Shortly after I was at the hospital, the nurse was bringing in regular updates for me while I was examined and stitched up. by that thime, the last plane had gone down in pensivania. I remember thinking, "this is going to change us forever". I was sent home for the day because they were concerned my wrapped and stitched finger would just get in the way and I was risking popping it open if I worked with it. I got home and my wife waas outside with a look of utter shock on her face. My neighbor's were outside talking, a few were crying. I walked numbly in to my house, cnn was on. By then the towers had alreday fallen. I looked on the tv and saw the gap wher the towers had been and my stomach lurched. I almost vomited right there. That was when the full scope of things hit me, and yes, I cried
@sk66rc (4250)
• United States
11 Sep 09
I was just going into work when it happened... I worked at a retail store that sold T.V.s & stereos & major appliances... Of course, when I walked into work, there's routine I do... I was setting my coffee on the desk when someone from different part of the store ran upto me & asked me to turn T.V.s on... As I turned 45 display T.V.s one by one, I saw one of the tower bellowing out large amount of smoke & somebody saying something about air-plane flying into it... I thought it was an accident... People started to gather around my department, we saw another air-plane slamming into the other building... It was really quite at work that day... As the day went on, I kept getting phone calls from different departments asking me if there's any development on news...
• United States
11 Sep 09
This is going to sound pretty bad...I was on a rooftop in Jersey City, NJ when it happened. We were up all night partying and decided we wanted to go to the roof. I was standing there watching the airplane and I turned to my friends and said, "Wouldn't it be messed up if..." before I could finish my statement, the first plane hit. It was the scariest thing I ever seen and just when I thought it could not get any worse, the second plane hit. You could hear people screaming over the water..it was horrible..It's been all these years since and I haven't been back near New York...