Where were you during 9/11/2001?

[02ducky]

My dad always said that you will always remember where and what you were doing during tragic events. He was right.

I remember when President Reagan was shot (middle school); it was a Catholic Private school we went to the church and began to pray for him.

Space Shuttle explosion- I was at home sick that day and watched it live on TV

September 11, 2001- getting ready for work, got a call and watched the second plane crash into the WTC, needless to say I didn’t go to work that day and pulled my two step daughters out of school.

[zteknik]

I was on my way to work and I knew something was up.I diddn't have a radio in the car to hear what was going on.
I got to work and nobody was working-strange
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Then i heard somebody say they hit the towers,I figured it was just a small craft hit.After I watched it the second plane hit ,right when I said OH SH... my phone rang and I recieved orders to get down there ASAP.

I wound up pulling guard and assisting in rescue and anything else I can do.I saw a few boys get burried but by the time we got to them there was nothing to do.

Iv'e been in combat zones before but nothing gave me the chills more that having it basicly in my backyard.I still have those bad dreams.

[Great-Kazoo]

Driving to dmv listening to peter boyles. He was saying there were reports of a jet crashing in to the twin towers. I walked in to dmv and there was No One there except employees, quiet as all hell. When i left all radio stations were no sure what was happening only another plane had hit the other tower.
Was unable to get any calls to ny. When i was able my sister said there were emergency vehicles driving around telling everyone to stay inside over the loudspeakers. My neice/ her daughter was trying to get off madhatten, 2 cousins were working there that morning, another cousin was walking out of the subway (running late) when she saw #2 hit.
One cousin remembers the impact, walking around dazed unable to see, then out of nowhere someone grabbed him off the floor of what ever level he was one. He says the next thing he remembered was being in midtown with no clue how he got there.
My brother was out that day, a section of whatever jet hit their building and sliced it's way through several floors killing a co-worker who we went to school with , demolishing the desk he normally sat at, but again was out that day.
I have 8 other stories but you get the point.

[sturn18]

I was camping all that week in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota. Got in the water on the 10th and out on the 14th without any contact with the world. When the outfitter picked us up on Friday we asked what had happened while we were gone. His response was "You know, everybody always asks that. Usually nothing has happened." He then told us that the World Trade Center was gone and the Pentagon had been blown up. I called bulls**t, he just turned on the radio.

[SuperiorDG]

Slept through the whole thing. Didn't hear about it until it was all over.

[drew890]

Ft Lewis Washington, sitting in the platoon SGT office hanging out. Things began get stirred up there very quickly.

[Eggysrun]

My birthday, kinda why I'm never too happy about them anymore. It made enlisting into the army a few years later very personal. On the labor day weekend that year we had gone into NYC for a mini vacation. We had gone up to the very top of the towers, I still remember the cars bellow looking like tiny moving ants. I still remember the lady operating the elevator for the tour, I don't know if she's even alive but I think about her around this time of year.

[TFOGGER]

I was on my way to work, listening to the radio. Stopped by my dad's house in Lakewood, went to the shop. Spent the rest of the day listening to the news. Remember sturn18 being out of town with his girlfriend, wondering how they were gonna get back...

I remember the skies being eerily quiet for days, other than the military flights out of Buckley...

[Cman]

I was in a 1 week class in Maryland. Got trapped there for 2 extra weeks.

[Whistler]

Was working (work from home) and heard the commotion over the TV in the next room. Got in there just in time to see the 2nd plane coming in. Felt my heart drop through the floor and can't recall much else about the day except a mixed bag of anger, disbelief, horror, shock, back to anger...