What were you doing on 9/11/01?

[TE]

I remember being in first period seventh grade english class with an old-ass cranky teacher. I had forgotten to turn in some important assignment that was due that day and was subsequently singled out by the old woman. She was about to lay some sort of academic penalty on me (giving me detention + calling my parents) until some teacher came into the classroom and brought in a television on one of those television carriers to show the class what was going on. I was bailed out.


Anyhow, seeing the events transpire was fucking surreal. Later on that day, I remember trying to get some sleep but I kept hearing planes flying overhead...


I'm pretty sure you all have some memories from that day. Let's hear them. :hat

[Ditty]

I was in 6th grade taking a benchmark, and before we started our teacher said he had some bad news, and some annoying faggot white boy named Colton, who I didn't like because his best friend dated some girl, I was trying to hit on for like a week :lol, anyways he was joking around saying that we got in trouble, and some other BS, then other teacher got all pissed at him, and told us a plane ran into the wtc, which I didn't know what building that was, and at first thought it was a small commercial plane for some reason, and thought it lost control, and all of that, and maybe a 20 or so people may have been killed.

I don't remember what happened after that or how the rest of the school day went, I just remembered my Dad was off that day or got off early because he works for the public transportation system in SA, and pretty much the whole country was on lockdown, I was just watching the whole situation but at that time the towers already collapsed, so I never saw them live on tv, then remembered them showing Afghanistan celebrating in the streets, and my dad telling me that the country is going into war. I never really understood the whole terrorist situation being so young.

[Ditty]

I'm sorry it was East Jerusalem not Afghanistan my bad

[TE]

Another thing I remember was getting picked up from school and heading to the local town store (I lived in a small ass town which probably had a population of over 1,000) only for the store to be completely packed with drivers who wanted to stock up on gas due to a fear of rising gas prices.

[TDMVPDPOY]

theres already a thread like this if im not correct, do a search bitch

[TE]

theres already a thread like this if im not correct, do a search bitch

:rolleyes

Find it then talk shit dumbass, I sure didn't find it.



edit:
I found a thread similar to this. But it asks a different type of question: what were you doing when you heard the news of the 9/11 attacks.

Sorry, my bad.

[CubanSucks]

random ass thread

I was in 6th grade but none of the kids understood the significance of what was happening till after school

[jimo2305]

i believe i had drove to school in my first car and walked into the library.. said what's up to a couple of my friends and one of them was like 'dude.. terrorists a plane just flew into one of the WTC buildings in new york'.. and i was like 'quit playin' around..' because he usually jokes about stuff like that (i know.. don't ask..) and he's like 'no im serious..' and i still didnt believe him.. then the other friend backed him up sayin' 'dude.. it's not funny.. some shit just went down.. look at the tv' and i saw a smoking tower 1 being televised on cnn..
they eventually had to go to 1st period but i had 1st period off so i just stayed in the library glued to the tv along with other students.. and saw the 2nd plane crash into the 2nd tower live.. everyone's jaw dropped.. wow.. whatta day..

[The Reckoning]

wtf i must have been the only one who still had to sit through lectures and take tests and shit.

[jimo2305]

lol i was still a young cat as my story was in high school.. not as young as the folks that posted before me tho lol

[IronMexican]

I was in the 6th grade.

[scampers]

Decided to skip school that day. For whatever reason, I flipped CNN on a little while after the first plane hit and people were still trying to figure out what was going on. Watched the second plane and both collapses live. Unreal.

[Dr. Gonzo]

Smoking weed from the time of the first attack until I had to be at work at 7pm.

[stretch]

i was sitting in class in 8th grade, doing absolutely nothing, when another teacher ran in and told us that someone bombed the pentagon. 2 minutes later she said they also bombed the WTC. shortly afterwards we got clarification that it was airplanes, and everyone was sent home, i watched videos of the airplanes hitting, buildings collapsing, and then i went and played nintendo.

[Dr. Gonzo]

i was sitting in class in 8th grade, doing absolutely nothing, when another teacher ran in and told us that someone bombed the pentagon. 2 minutes later she said they also bombed the WTC. shortly afterwards we got clarification that it was airplanes, and everyone was sent home, i watched videos of the airplanes hitting, buildings collapsing, and then i went and played nintendo.

What game?

[Gutter92]

I was in 4th grade on 9/11/01. We didn't have a TV brought in or anything, our teacher told us what had happened but didn't talk about it very much at all, so I only got to see what happened when I got home. It was the first time I had watched the news for longer than 5 minutes, but I didn't really understand why the planes flew into the towers..at first I thought they were just accidents, rather than hijackings. It was really weird, because I remember the reactions my parents had. My father was in disbelief, and my mom got scared, and said, 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.' I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought, 'Nah, forget it. Yo, homes to Bel-Air!' I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie, 'Yo homes smell ya later!' Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air"

[DesignatedT]

7th grade math class. Watched it on the tv in there.

[Dr. Gonzo]

All of you n-words with an "a" at the end instead of an "er" are young.

[SourCandy]

grade school. channel 1.

[CuckingFunt]

My girlfriend was scheduled to fly back from New York that morning, so I spent the day watching TV, working, and trying to make sure she wasn't dead. Good times.

[Dex]

Walking into Pre-Cal, 10th grade. They didn't dismiss our classes, so had to wait until I got home to see the news and find out WTF was going on.

[BlackSwordsMan]

at edison high watching kids from ROTC crying thinking they were gonna get drafted to fight in the war

[Darrin]

I was 17 and had just dropped out of high school (I eventually went back and graduated two years later than my original class). I didn't have a job, either. I had been up around 4AM and had turned on the news. Shortly thereafter, I fell back to sleep with the NBC affiliate still on. My mother had gone to work, and she had tried waking me up before she left, but I still fell back to sleep. My brother and father were doing some repairs on a house they were working on. I was at home alone.

I was drifting in and out of consciousness and started dreaming that the news events on the TV were a part of some sequel to the movie Independence Day. I woke up around 9:20AM and both building had already been hit. Matt Lauer and Catie Couric were talking, but the volume was turned down. I was wondering how both buildings had been hit. I thought maybe they had been shot down by the US military or something. That the two planes had missed each other and had landed in the buildings in some freak accident. I finally turned up the volume and heard we had a terrorist attack!

I wanted to know who had did this? Were they sure it was terrorism?

Despite the bombing of the USS Cole (2000) and the Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (1998) had put Osama Bin Laden on the map, this was the US mainland. I assumed, as did everyone, that they couldn't get over here and do that kind of damage. I was confused.

I wasn't fully convinced it was terrorism. It wasn't until reports that the Pentagon had been hit that I knew this was an historic day, a dark one. I watched the buildings collapse, heard about all flights being grounded, the Stock Market being shut down, the evacuation of the United Nations. I was convinced we were going to war. You have to remember that we treated terrorists like Timothy McVeigh before this day. The idea of going to war with a terrorist network was a new one.

As the day wound down, about 4PM, I had been flipping through the news stations. It was on MTV, local Detroit affiliates were broadcasting CNN--19 (of about 64) stations were carrying the attacks. You couldn't watch anything else. I landed on MSNBC and heard a harrowing story about a firefighter that had run blocks and blocks. He was at a loss for words, and I began to cry. That's when it really hit me.

New York and Washington, DC are still far away from the suburbs of Detroit. It was still on my television and I was young. I was disconnected from a lot of this and I never imagined that our government could fall. I wasn't thinking about the dead. This wasn't real to me during most of the day of watching the coverage. That firefighter changed that.

[RandomGuy]

I was playing an online space strategy game with the news on in the background showing the first tower after it was hit.

It was a "gee, that is tragic, but unusual" sense, until the second plane hit.

That was when it was glaringly obvious that it was not an accident.

I remember immediately thinking "Osama bin Laden", and realizing that the terrorist group he was involved with was most likely responsible.

By the time the news about the Pentagon was confirmed, I headed over to see my wife who was in training for a job that day and informed her of what was going on.

Her training was canceled, and we went home and watched the news.

I had one of my first accounting classes for grad school later on that day, and I will always remember that the professor very pointedly didn't cancel the class, and taught the entire way through. I have always admired him for that.

My most vivid memory of that day was of watching the coverage where a reporter was following a woman whose husband worked in the upper floors of the towers. She was unable to find her husband for a while, and right about the time where I thought "lady, you need to accept that he is gone", she found him. That was a point where I could no longer keep up a sense of detached analysis and just lost it.

My wife and I have had some serious conversations about what/when to tell our sons, 8 and 4 now, about this. The 8 year old asked a few questions about Bin Laden already when he saw us watching the news on TV.

(edit)
I do remember also telling my wife that I might get my 30+ year old ass back into the army. As an intel analyst with some Arabic training (stateside during Desert Storm), I thought that I could probably do some good. She didn't like it, but understood.

I went to a recruiting station the next day or two and found out I was a bit past the cutoff age for officers, so I decided to simply pass that burden on to those serving and youngsters.

To this day, I still mull over working for the CIA/FBI or State Department, though.

[Sense]

I was in 8th grade .. match class.. they didn't say anything they just announced that everyone turn the T.V. on, on the news... there was a lot of chatter.. and once we tuned in everyone was just quiet..

It was more weird than anything.. even today I don't remember feeling sad or anything, it was just weird... I'm not sure if we finished school, but I do remember going to other classes and not doing anything other than watch T.V., some teachers tried to keep going but eventually we did nothing..

[2pac > Kobe]

then i went and played nintendo.
thats basically what happened with me, watched it for a minute didn't really give a shit and went a played my 64

[Greg Oden]

chillin in Ms. Edwards' 6th grade Social Studies class, imho.

[Girasuck]

I slept in. It was the first day after I was fired.

[mrsmaalox]

Living right outside of DC in Maryland, I had just dropped off my 2 older kids at school and was playing with my toddler. The phone rang, it was my husband (active duty Army, working for the Surgeon General at Walter Reed) saying he was at the Metro station headed for a meeting at the Pentagon, instructing me to turn on the tv cuz they were hearing about a possible terrorists' attack in NYC. I described to him what I saw, the first plane only, and he said he'd call later.

Then the second plane hit and I was really confused about what I was seeing and hearing. Then I heard Bryant Gumble say softly "Oh my God, now the Pentagon" and my blood went cold. I tried to keep it together, just then they flashed on the screen Maryland's governor closing all the schools and public buildings and that helped me regain some focus because I'd have to go get my kids. Then my husband called, he knew what was going on, Metro had stopped a couple of stops from the Pentagon and he was running the last couple of miles there. He said go get the kids, fill up the car with gas, and get as much money from the ATM as I could, then call him when I was back home.

It was surreal out there----everyone was in a fog like state, kind of in slow motion. It took several tries to get hold of him, when I finally did he was busy organizing teams to debrief witnesses and said he'd be home as soon as he could. We didn't see him until 72 hrs later.

[cornbread]

Was sleeping in my dorm room at UT and my roommate's girlfriend calls screaming, "Oh my God! Get out of bed! We're under attack!" She probably could have handled that call differently.

Lots of heated, emotional debates around next steps and flag-waving throughout the rest of the day.

[dallaskd]

I remember I was in 8th grade and a bunch of kids were being pulled out of class early that day. I was in my english class when my teacher flipped the class tv over to the news. we stopped the regular bell schedule that day to watch CNN for about 2 hours.

[Axe Murderer]

I remember being in first period seventh grade english class with an old-ass cranky teacher. I had forgotten to turn in some important assignment that was due that day and was subsequently singled out by the old woman. She was about to lay some sort of academic penalty on me (giving me detention + calling my parents) until some teacher came into the classroom and brought in a television on one of those television carriers to show the class what was going on. I was bailed out.


Anyhow, seeing the events transpire was fucking surreal. Later on that day, I remember trying to get some sleep but I kept hearing planes flying overhead...


I'm pretty sure you all have some memories from that day. Let's hear them. :hat

:lol damn i thought you were a lot older than me.

I was in 6th grade and I showed up about 5 minutes late to my first period class. I was a giant class clown back then so I was laughing as I was walking in, when I saw the whole class just staring at our TV. I was about to ask what was going on but my teacher just put her finger over her mouth giving the "Shhhh" sign so I just watched with the rest of the class.

I didn't take it too seriously until the second plane hit, which then it hit me that something was up. She shut it off about 5 minutes later so I really didn't understand what was totally going on until I got home later that day.

[SpursWoman]

I was 29 (ha), sitting in the dentist's chair.


We were listening to events unfold on the radio, making jokes about how some investor was pissed at his financial advisor for losing his life savings and ran his little plane into his office at the WTC. We didn't realize when they said plane, they didn't mean crop duster. :(

[redzero]

I was at school reading a children's book to a bunch of 2nd graders. Boy, I'll tell you what--it got awkward when I found out.

[FalleNxWiZarDx]

I was in the 5th grade when it occured and I remember my teacher started crying...

we didnt understand what was going on till later I went home where my dad explained what was going on....

very very sad

[Nathan89]

I remember being in first period seventh grade english class with an old-ass cranky teacher. I had forgotten to turn in some important assignment that was due that day and was subsequently singled out by the old woman. She was about to lay some sort of academic penalty on me (giving me detention + calling my parents) until some teacher came into the classroom and brought in a television on one of those television carriers to show the class what was going on. I was bailed out.


Anyhow, seeing the events transpire was fucking surreal. Later on that day, I remember trying to get some sleep but I kept hearing planes flying overhead...


I'm pretty sure you all have some memories from that day. Let's hear them. :hat

7th grade,first period, elective where you learn to cook/sew/other home stuff

[Muser]

Got home from school when I was 12, saw it on the news for about 5 minutes then went and played some Playstation.

[z0sa]

7th grade math with that cunt Aldrete

[DMC]

You are all babies.

It was my first day off on a long weekend (I worked a weird schedule so my weekends were a mixed bag). I slept late and when I got on to check the news online, I saw the photos. I had been meandering around the house for a couple of hours before that with nary an idea.

Strangely enough, my friend and I were discussing the first WTC bombing days earlier and my friend said "what's to stop someone from hijacking a plane and flying it into those buildings? You know it's going to happen sometime". I was thinking that I had just flown that week and was allowed to take my Leatherman with me, and any knife that had a blade under 4". I was also thinking that a ceramic knife would pass right through the screening without a problem.

We didn't discuss our prior conversation much over the phone however... for obvious reasons.

[DMC]

I was at school reading a children's book to a bunch of 2nd graders. Boy, I'll tell you what--it got awkward when I found out.
In Florida no doubt.

[ashbeeigh]

Geez. Babies...elementary school? I was a junior in high school.

I saw it happen officially on the Today Show but wasn't sure how big of a deal it was. Got to school. My Spanish 3 AP teacher turn on the TV. We were doing these oral presentations, but she couldn't help but keep the TV on so we watched the events unfold first period. The crazy Baptist girl talked about the end of times, one girl ran out of the room to call her dad who was flying to Chicago and the rest of us just watched in awe.

There was some type of talk about it in every class after that.

[symple19]

Was hitting a 3 foot bong with my roommate and our friend while we watched on TV

Interestingly, I'd signed up for the Army only a few weeks prior and had to ship for training in late October. Basically, I sat there watching all day while dealing with the realization that I would almost assuredly end up in a combat zone somewhere, someday. Ultimately, I was right

Needless to say, no matter how much dank I smoked, I never really enjoyed my buzz. It was just too sad of a day

[CubanSucks]

wtf i must have been the only one who still had to sit through lectures and take tests and shit.

aren't you in college?

[CubanSucks]

chillin in Ms. Edwards' 6th grade Social Studies class, imho.

:lmao tbh I was chillin in Mrs. Howell's 6th grade Social Studies class

[Greg Oden]

:lol lot of young scros on ST.

[TE]

:lol damn i thought you were a lot older than me.

I was in 6th grade and I showed up about 5 minutes late to my first period class. I was a giant class clown back then so I was laughing as I was walking in, when I saw the whole class just staring at our TV. I was about to ask what was going on but my teacher just put her finger over her mouth giving the "Shhhh" sign so I just watched with the rest of the class.

I didn't take it too seriously until the second plane hit, which then it hit me that something was up. She shut it off about 5 minutes later so I really didn't understand what was totally going on until I got home later that day.

I'm only a year older than you.

[TE]

I was at school reading a children's book to a bunch of 2nd graders. Boy, I'll tell you what--it got awkward when I found out.

What kind of spider is that in your avatar?

[TE]

Was hitting a 3 foot bong with my roommate and our friend while we watched on TV

Interestingly, I'd signed up for the Army only a few weeks prior and had to ship for training in late October. Basically, I sat there watching all day while dealing with the realization that I would almost assuredly end up in a combat zone somewhere, someday. Ultimately, I was right

Needless to say, no matter how much dank I smoked, I never really enjoyed my buzz. It was just too sad of a day

Damn so when and where did you deploy?


Thanks for the service to our country btw :toast

[TE]

Smoking weed from the time of the first attack until I had to be at work at 7pm.

Damn
:lol

[xellos88330]

Holloman AFB. Was working on the F-117A when I heard the news and was called into the shop. All of us weapons troops were there and were briefed on what was going on and then the second plane hit. After that, we had to scramble and reconfigure the aircraft for possible mobilization. 30 minutes later, the fleet is ready to go. The rest is a secret.

[redzero]

What kind of spider is that in your avatar?

The kind that crawls into people's ear canals when they are sleeping.

[CubanSucks]

The kind that crawls into people's ear canals when they are sleeping.

http://files.sharenator.com/You_Lie_I_AM_NOT_DIXLESIC-s301x360-147478-580.jpg

[Axe Murderer]

I'm only a year older than you.

tbh when you called in the mono show I would've guessed late 20's. I guess I could see it though

[MavDynasty]

Tbh it was when I was in 3rd grade when I first moved to Texas from Cali. We didn't know what the fuck was happening besides the teacher. We were all watching it on TV but the kids including myself were confused and thought it was just an accident. We knew shit was going down when we saw the 2nd plane hit the tower on live tv though with news from the pentagon coming shortly after. At that time they locked down the school and parents were checking out the kids. I thought the explosions and towers collapsin looked pretty neat back then IMO

Senior yr in hs now

[Cuppycake Gumdrop]

I remember driving to college, hearing about the first plane hitting, thinking about how I never wanted to fly again cuz of all the drunken idiot pilots.

Then I got to class, and 15 minutes in, another professor walked in and just said "They attacked the Pentagon, we're going to war" and walking out.

After class I rushed out and got all the info. I was upset about all the deaths but tbh the main thing I was thinking was "fuck my life, I'm going to get drafted" since I was 19 at the time.

[Darrins Essay Grader]

i was 17 and had just dropped out of high school (i eventually went back and graduated two years later than my original class). I didn't have a job, either. I had been up around 4am and had turned on the news. Shortly thereafter, i fell back to sleep with the nbc affiliate still on. My mother had gone to work, and she had tried waking me up before she left, but i still fell back to sleep. My brother and father were doing some repairs on a house they were working on. I was at home alone.

I was drifting in and out of consciousness and started dreaming that the news events on the tv were a part of some sequel to the movie independence day. I woke up around 9:20am and both building had already been hit. Matt lauer and catie couric were talking, but the volume was turned down. I was wondering how both buildings had been hit. I thought maybe they had been shot down by the us military or something. That the two planes had missed each other and had landed in the buildings in some freak accident. I finally turned up the volume and heard we had a terrorist attack!

I wanted to know who had did this? Were they sure it was terrorism?

Despite the bombing of the uss cole (2000) and the embassies in kenya and tanzania (1998) had put osama bin laden on the map, this was the us mainland. I assumed, as did everyone, that they couldn't get over here and do that kind of damage. I was confused.

I wasn't fully convinced it was terrorism. It wasn't until reports that the pentagon had been hit that i knew this was an historic day, a dark one. I watched the buildings collapse, heard about all flights being grounded, the stock market being shut down, the evacuation of the united nations. I was convinced we were going to war. You have to remember that we treated terrorists like timothy mcveigh before this day. The idea of going to war with a terrorist network was a new one.

As the day wound down, about 4pm, i had been flipping through the news stations. It was on mtv, local detroit affiliates were broadcasting cnn--19 (of about 64) stations were carrying the attacks. You couldn't watch anything else. I landed on msnbc and heard a harrowing story about a firefighter that had run blocks and blocks. He was at a loss for words, and i began to cry. That's when it really hit me.

New york and washington, dc are still far away from the suburbs of detroit. It was still on my television and i was young. I was disconnected from a lot of this and i never imagined that our government could fall. I wasn't thinking about the dead. This wasn't real to me during most of the day of watching the coverage. That firefighter changed that.

c-

[sonnytris]

I had just gotten home after work(16:00) watching the USA news on satellite inside the Aramco oIl camp in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and thinking how this would effect my retirement (1/27/02) Lump Sum package ..... which was based on the 30 year Treasury bond rate.............. Had to wiat the lONGEST 4 months of my life to see the outcome and am still cussing OSB everyday
Is This Country Great or What

[TE]

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Crazy footage I stumbled upon. The reporter, NJ Burkett, was IN ground zero during before and after both tower collapses. Surreal scene at 3:10.

[CubanSucks]

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/brainblog116.gif

[BRHornet45]

drove over to Houston to watch Bonds and his home runs play the Astros, bought the tickets at 8am or so at the box office, then stopped at a porn store out of boredom and watched the entire thing there on a small ass tv.