Where were you 11 yrs ago today 9-11

I live is South Africa... I am sure just about everyone in the world can tell you where they were and what they were doing when this tradegy took place.

I was working in a hotel in the midlands and were had just finished with lunch and were setting up for the arrival of some guests. It was sleeting outside and I was making a fire in the bar area.

I will never forget how sad I felt watching what happened. The guests that checked in sat in the bar with us that night and insisted that we all have dinner there with them. (They were from the UK) and just as saddened by the events.

I was on annual leave back home in the UK from my job as cabin crew for a middle eastern airline. A friend and went into a pub for something to eat and there was a TV on the bar and everyone was stood watching it, which we thought was odd. So we went to see what they were watching and it looked like they were watching a Bruce Willis action movie or something, and then we realised it was the news and it was real. No-one was speaking, everyone had a look of horror and disbelief on their faces.

Bless the victims and their families and may the fallen rest in peace.

I had just got picked up from school by my dad in his car, and he was listening to it on the radio. I couldn't grasp the magnitude of the situation since I was 14, it was in America (I'm in the UK) and I didn't really know any better, I just thought it was something my dad was 'interested' in hearing. On the drive home we listened to the news on the radio. It was until I got home and saw the news on the TV and actually witnessed the destruction that had happened/was happening that I realised how bad it was.

I will never forget that day! Just as I will never forget the day of Princess Diana, I slept in my sisters room the night before because I had a 'bad feeling' woke up the next day to see it everywhere on TV. Weird.

I had just woken up, Turned on the TV putting fox news on for background noise, saw the footage of the first tower on fire, thought how weird. Then saw the second plane hit and I knew this was not good. I sat on the couch the rest of the day watching the whole thing.

Was at home after school. Dad called asking for my mother and he was frantic. We were living in France at the time. I was told to go get her immediately.

Very sunny summery day, at Lakeside Bowling alley in England on very empty lanes, practicing for the match we had later on with my bowling team. The scores went down and every TV had the towers on them, it was surreal, at 19 it was hard to take in and make sense of

I was at home in England about to go and collect my then 5yr old son from school when the news broke, i remember watching the tv when they thought it was an accident and then seeing the second plane hit. I cried all the way to school and rushed home afterwards its was surreal, watching it over and over i think the images are burnt into my memory forever. no matter what else i forget in my life that day will always be etched in my memory!
My thoughts and prayers are as always with those who lost someone to 9/11 either on that day and in the days weeks months years since the hundreds of servicemen and women who proudly served their countries and gave their lives. And my deepest respect to those who currently serve

Serving my country in the U.S Navy and proud to be doing this for last 15 1/2 years!!!
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Today just makes me reminds why we do what we do. Thank you to all who serve past and present!!

Thank you for your service!

I was 13, so I am guessing I was in school.

I remember I didn't know about it until I came home and my Mom told me.

I was 14, I had gone home for my lunch break and it was on the Tv. When I went back to school, classes were stopped (but they had to keep us til 4) so we just watched the news in my french class in silence for the rest of the day. I hadn't even known what the WTC was. x

I live in England, and I was at work, when a friend sent me a text message saying a plane had flown into the twin towers. At that point I didn't know what twin towers she was talking about (22 years old, never been to America, not especially interested in America either) and I was like "what does this mean, is this war"! I looked on the internet, and I couldn't even get the BBC website up as all the web traffic was crashing our internet server. Another friend who I worked with emailed me about it as she had the radio on in her office, and then someone brough a television into our area as the head of department's brother actually worked at the WTC...

Thoroughly horrific events. I can't understand why, to this day, it happened, and I don't want to understand the frame of mind that does that. My thoughts are, as always, with the families, friends and survivors of the attack.

As we entered the lounge area of the exercise studio after boot camp a small TV was on - the first plane had struck. After watching for a few minutes, I started the drive home with the radio on and then the second plane struck. As we drove around the metropolitan area during the following days we always saw the spiral of smoke from lower Manhattan. Everyone I know here in NY knows someone who was lost. Everyone in Manhattan that day speaks of the endless walk as all transportation was shut down. We drove into Manhattan a few days later - we were permitted only as far south as Canal Street where we stood with many others paying our respects to those lost and offering support to the workers coming and going from the WTC. Many were touching pieces of the reckage as it slowly passed by atop a constant flow of large flatbed trucks driving north. I will be listening today, as I have every year since, to the memorial program and the reading of the names.

I live in the UK so it was lunchtime here and it was live on the tv. I watched in horror as second plane hit and could not believe what i was seeing. Thought the world was coming to an end or something.

May all the souls that were lost on that tragic day rest in peace. x

I was in Houston as an exchange student (I'm Dutch). We had English, and had a project or something that placed us in the computer room. All of a sudden the principal came on the speakers, telling us not to panic and that he and the team were monitoring the situation. We had no idea what he was talking about, so we all went to CNN, BBC, whatever news website we could find. And they were all down. CNN came back up, white with just line for line of info. I remember that many planes were "missing" those first few hours. After English I had website design, in the office of one of the teachers, and we had the radio on and news websites on constant refresh. I remember teachers that kept coming in to get the latest updates.
During lunch I called my mom back in The Netherlands, convincing here that there were no targets in Houston that they could possibly hit (never mind all that oil). The rest of the day was just insane. Everybody in shock.
A few exchange students from the organisation I was with went home a week or so after that, I staid.