Where were you 11 yrs ago today 9-11

I was a junior in college at Florida. My roommate woke me up by screaming that we were being bombed. I didn't know what she meant - our apartment, the school...she turned the tv on for me and we watched in horror as the second tower got hit.

My mom called frantically asking me if I could get any calls through to NY. The rest of our family lives there - most of them working near Rockefeller Center. She couldn't get a call through to our cousins, although she had talked to her aunt. For some reason, I could get calls through. I called all three cousins and left messages at their houses and work, but couldn't get through on their cell phones.

I went to school - college of journalism - but classes were all cancelled. We sat around campus glued to tvs. To this day, it was the most silent day on campus in the 8+ years I was there.

By late that afternoon, we had heard from all our cousins. They called once they got to their various homes, saying they had to walk to get home (some just to Manhattan, others all the way to Weehawken). Everyone was safe, and we were glad. It still changed their lives. For a while they wouldn't ride on the subway together, thinking that their kids and mom would have one parent/child if something else happened. I've since lost one cousin to suicide, and it's so frustrating to think he made it through this but couldn't keep going. I wish he had reached out.

This has been a really thought provoking week - with today, and yesterday, world suicide prevention day. Both days bring a variety of emotions which mean different things to different people.

I was a freshman in college, I was not nearly as involved in news and politics as I am now...BUT I still remember thinking, "See what happens when we let George Bush be president." I remember my uncle's life partner lived in NYC at the time and worked in the towers. They were instructing people to NOT leave the buildings...thankfully he is just as much as a liberal conspiracy theorist as I and he managed to escape.

I was a freshman in college, I was not nearly as involved in news and politics as I am now...BUT I still remember thinking, "See what happens when we let George Bush be president." I remember my uncle's life partner lived in NYC at the time and worked in the towers. They were instructing people to NOT leave the buildings...thankfully he is just as much as a liberal conspiracy theorist as I and he managed to escape.

Lets make a remembrance thread political. Despicable

I'm in Australia, I was pregnant with my first baby at the time. I remember waking up around 11am ( aus time) and turning on the tv and it was on the news on every channel I couldn't really believe what I was seeing. I rang my partner he was at work and told him what was going on and he said yeah it's been on tv all morning. It was a very big deal to us even though it didn't happen in our country, we were all in shock and so sad and upset by what had happened.

I can't remember exactly but I think one of our Olympic athletes was over there at the time and he would have been in towers at the time it happened, but he forgot his camera so went back to his room to get it.

I was sat in my friends house holding my 7 months old baby, watched the news from the very start and saw the second plane hit. I was glued to the news reports all day and spent a good part of it in tears. Tried hard to believe it was debris falling from the buildings and not those poor souls who jumped. It's still just as heart achingly sad today as it was then. RIP xx

Buffalo, NY. I was just bringing my suitcase downstairs @ 9am, (had an 11am flight to Phoenix - I lived/worked in Southern AZ with the INS at the time). My Dad told me that somehow what they thought was a small commuter plane had hit one of the Twin Towers. As we were watching TV in the kitchen the second plane struck. He turned to me and said "We're under attack, you're not flying today". I insisted that he take me to the airport anyway. I think I was the only one going in while the rest of the people were evacuating the airport. I identified myself to security and offered to help anyway I could, (crowd control/security, whatever). They thanked me for the offer and said they had it under control.


With no way to travel back to where I was supposed to be working, I contacted the Ports of Entry and asked them to coordinate with my management in AZ to let me help them anyway I could until I could get a flight out. Request denied - :explode:

Spent the next five days, (until I finally got a flight), glued to the TV alternating between sadness and rage...

Social Studies class, 9th grade, 1st period. Teacher busted in the classroom and turned on the tv. We all sat in stunned silence.

I remember like it was yesterday where I was when the twin towers in new york were hit. I was at college. I attended Nicholls state University which is located in Thibodaux Louisianna about an hour from where I grew up and I had walked into the student Union to get something to drink before heading off to class.

In Georgia working as a Nanny...

Walking to philosophy class on campus. Remember it like it was yesterday.

When all the major events of 9/11 were going on, I was asleep. I was a college student at a college in the Western United States. The time difference explains it all.

I woke up at 7:25 AM for an 8 AM class. I made my way to class and people seemed to know the news in 8 AM class. There seemed to be a bit of confusion in that class.

My second class of the day was at 1 PM (4 PM Eastern, so many hours after it had all happened). That class had a scheduled test in it that day, and the professor did not consider 9/11 to be a legit excuse for postponing the test. I didn't do well on that test, but I am not sure that 9/11 profoundly impacted my test performance. That particular professor was rough on the GPA. I got a C in that class.

I was at work, a friend called to tell me about the first plane hitting the tower. I quickly turned on the TV, and saw the second plane hit. I will never forget that day.

i was taking my daycare kids for a walk. we walked passed the barber shop like we did everyday and he came running out to tell us.

In class. My teacher had written the date on the board that morning and said "Oh, it's emergency day!". An hour later someone ran into the classroom to tell us to turn on the news, and we spent the rest of the day watching. They didn't send anyone home but school was canceled, we just were allowed to find our friends and check in to a classroom to watch. I remember later that day being home watching the news when my mom walked in and our eyes met and we didn't need to talk, there was just nothing to say.

I had my 1 year old with me. Just had bathed her and a friend called to say there was a plane that crashed into the first tower. I thought it was a joke and asked what was her punchline? She told me to turn on CNN and we watched the second plane crash into the tower. It was surreal. The news said all flights were haulted until further notice, but we lived next to an airforce base in Trenton, Ontario and the planes were patrolling the sky. It was a day I will never forget.