What were you doing on 9/11/01?

[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.

[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 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 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 " 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]

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]

[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.