Where were you 11 yrs ago today 9-11

I was in bed sleeping , I had worked a 3 shift ......... My ex hubby woke me up to tell me what was going on..

I was in 10th grade and we always had the TV on in homeroom and that's when it happened. We just sort of all stared at the screen. The teacher didn't take roll. We didn't even have the usual intercom announcements if I recall correctly. The bell rang to go to regular class and everyone, hundreds of students, were all like zombies in the hallway, only whispering. We got to World History and the teacher (who was always very enthusiastic about everything) had flipped a switch..and was just LIVID. And I understood WHY. After the initial shock, we were ALL angry. We spent every class that day watching the news. All of our classes were pretty much on learning hiatus for like a week or two. Everyone was really shaken up.

I was at work. My son was a freshman at NYU. Here is the email we got from him...

Subject: I'm fine...


I'm perfectly alright, just VERY shaken up. I've seen the buildings live,
so I can certainly verify that this is REALLY happening. I have to make
this quick so I can run upstairs to my theory class in a few minutes.
I'm using the school's computer right now. Because the Trade center was
hit, and the Pentagon was attacked by a plane crash, Manhattan has been
closed down; subways are shut down, and the bridges and tunnels to
everywhere outside the city have been closed. I've never wanted to not be
here so much. I want to be home right now, but I obviousy can't. Lots of
sirens now, gotta go. Talk soon. Love you both. I'm just nervous.

I was at my parent's house. I remember that I'd slept over and when I woke up and saw the first tower on fire, the first question in my mind was 'why are they playing a Die Hard Movie this early in the morning?' Then I looked at the station and just... froze. Just looking at all the people jumping out the building... It freaked me right out.

I think the hardest thing to watch after the towers fell was the response in other countries. I remember watching Islamic people on the news jumping up and down and celebrating over what happened like it was frickin Christmas and it broke my heart all over again....

Sitting in my 5th grade Science class not allowed to be let free. The person flying the plane bought the "How to fly" books in my town so we could not move.

Did they know that at that stage?

I was woken up by frantic phone calls from my mom to make sure I was ok. (god bless her, I lived in FL at the time ;0] ) I turned on the news and it was like entering the Twilight Zone. I thought we were watching fake movie footage or something, It felt like a hoax. I lived in NYC as a teenager and travelled through the Twin Towers twice a day going to/from high school.

Two months later I was on a plane headed to Illinois to attend Navy Boot Camp. While it wasn't the whole reason I joined, it was the final straw that pushed me over the edge to sign the papers. Every day I remember 9/11 and what it means to me, and how it has impacted the last 11 years of my life. I wish everyone could remember just how much the world changed for Americans on that day, and stop *****ing about the "inconviences" that we now live with because of this tragic event. There are over 5000 people who would LOVE to be dealing with these inconviences every day rather than what happened to them on that day, and countless more family members who miss them.

My heart goes out to any body who lost someone that day, and my thanks goes out to my fellow Brothers and Sisters in arms who sacrifice their lives and their time to make sure it doesn't happen again.

~Petty Officer First Class US NAVY - Forward Deployed in the Persian Gulf~

I was living with a guest family in the UK at the time. It happened probably during my last class for the day. After college we were standing outside talking for a bit, when someone told something vague about a plane crashing, no 2, no 3, no they're bombs, something. The way it was told it really sounded like a joke. I went to my guest family to watch the news but they just said 'there's nothing good on TV so we're watching this movie'. They didn't say anything about what happened, I'm not sure they even fully knew, they were just so out of tune with the rest of the world. If it didn't concern them they didn't care. The only reason they opted to be a guest family for exchange students was because they got money for it.

So it actually was the next day that I really heard what happened. And at that point people have adjusted to the new reality already. If someone tells you something as a basic dry fact you're not nearly as shocked as when that person is a in shock as well.

It was actually this year that I first saw any moving images of the event. I did get the newspaper so I saw some photo's. But looking at a discovery channel special this weekend really did make an impact. It made it more real in some way.

I was at work, listening to the radio, when the announcers cut into the music. Really, it was the tone of the woman's voice that caught my attention more than anything. She sounded in shock.

No TVs were accessible and news sites were overloaded so I ended up hearing the details between the radio and posts that were being made in a chat room, of all places.

I was home and first heard it on the radio. At the same time my dad was travling to Central Asia on a business trip. My family was really worried about him, as we of course did not know what was really going on. He finally called us and we told him what had happened. The airline and airport (on the stop over) had avioded any news to come through to keep travelers calm.

I was in the Air Force and on a plane landing in Norfolk Virginia after doing 120 days in Saudi Arabia. When I landed the first plane hit, then on the cab ride to my base the second plane hit. I told the cabbie, "we're under attack" we both sat in silence. I got to my base and heard from the securioty folks that the pentagon had been hit too. My brother worked there, I tried calling and e-mailing and after 12 hours I got a call from one of his coworkers telling me he was ok but couldn't come to the phone because he was working, but wanted me and my family to know he was ok.