Where were you ?

[Bearwhisky]

4th grade english class. I didn’t even know what the world trade centers were at the time and I will still never forget sitting in that class room seeing the look on my teachers face and watching the second plane hit the towers on the classroom TV.


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[riversidejeep]

I was at the Pentagon as a first responder about 5 minutes after it hit, then worked in the morgue. Spent my whole adult life dealing with these aholes. Started with working Tanzania in 98, then in yemen with the Cole in 2000 followed by 9/11. Two trips to Iraq and 1 to Afghanistan. Those savages are patient and have a long long memory. They will come again when our guard is down after we willing welcome 10,000s of sheep in with some wolves hidden in the mix.

I usually just chill on 9/11 and don’t watch any of it.

Btw. I retired in March. 4 marines and 24 as fed was enough for me, times were changing to much.

You speak the truth about the sheep and wolves.

 

[NB7]

On a house call repairing an alarm system. I remember we were at first thinking the plane must only be a small private super cub type craft in a terrible accident. Couldn't process that it was a jet liner until I saw the second one hit, it just didn't seem possible. I'll NEVER forget driving down the road as I left that day and seeing an old man at the intersection waving a big U.S. flag back and forth figure-8 style. I wanted to enlist, but with a 4 year old and a 2 year old with major heart issues and surgeries pending, my wife refused. Instead I started down my road into LE.

 

[74Bronco]

Raking bunkers at a country club. Had a funeral for a coworker later that day, so the mood was already pretty rough. Everyone going half hearted. Club Pro comes up and says we are under attack.. I still comment on it whenever I play that course.
Brother was serving in Air Force overseas. All the guys watching TV, and he had started laundry. He goes down to change it out, and as he is looking out the window, he sees the TV they were watching falling down to the ground below. They had just showed the scum parading in the streets somewhere, and it didn't go over well.

 

[krisheilman]

On a fire in NW Colorado as wildland firefighter with the US Forest Service.


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[MTtrout]

Driving home from a college calculus class that I had to leave early and listening to Bob and Tom

 

[WCB]

I was a Sophomore in high school in first hour. I was in gym class on the rock climbing wall. When the second plane hit people went into the training rooms, weight rooms, teachers offices etc and watched the rest of the day. I remember people moving from class to class as the bells rang but no one was really where they were supposed to be. Next day and pretty much the rest of the year every truck had American flags flying.

 

[Newtosavage]

21 years ago?

Wife and I were on our way to work, traveling together since we worked at the same place. We'd just seen our older two kids get picked up by the school bus and by the time we got to work, all the news stations were reporting it. That was a "zombie day" at work. Nobody did anything. We just all hung around the radio for updates all day. Nobody had any idea what to expect.

I lost a friend that day on flight 93. Very sad day.

 

[Timbercrawler]

It was my 18th birthday... Walked into school from work release. The whole school was in the commons watching TV. Obviously something I never saw before. Stood there in a bit of a daze as I was young and thought nothing could happen on our shores...

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

Sophomore year. We left school early and went to my buddies house and watched the news for a couple hours. You know it was a big deal when 16 year olds were watching the news intently.

 

[CHSD]

I was a 3rd grader. It was my dad's birthday and we always had donut in the morning when it was someone's birthday. The only time in my entire school career I played hooky and got to stay home from school that day and watched the events unfold on TV. That was the first time I heard my dad swear, "Those bastards," was the comment I will remember always.

Now as a teacher I always make sure that we have a 2 hourish lesson on 9/11 to try and honor the people lost.

 

[SonnyDay]

Living in the "ghetto" section of Greenwich, CT... also known as Byram. Literally a stone's throw from New York.

My wife had just got her first job out of grad school teaching middle school. I was working remote with my brother doing web stuff.

That morning, my brother mentioned off-hand that some "crazy kamikazes had crashed into the World Trade Center." I pictured a little Cessna tail sticking out of someone's office. When I turned on the TV, we had crap for reception (I learned later that the TV antenna we normally got signal from was on the north tower--which had been severed as soon as the first plane hit). I figured out how to steal cable from my neighbor just in time to see the second plane hit.

I loaded my .22 rifle (only weapon I had available at the time) and put on boots.... and then watched TV all day.

I was on the phone with my mother-in-law when she felt the pentagon hit in her chest (they live ~2 miles from the pentagon). I told her to load up and get out of the DC area! (they stayed).

My wife spent the day with her students trying to locate their parents (many of whom worked in the WTC). Not a good day.

In the days and even weeks after... we could see the smoke, and many days smell the awful smell when it blew our way.

Still pisses me off.

 

[roymunson]

Sophmore english class. I remember hearing about it in the hallways, but didn't know the gravity of it at the time.

 

[flatlanderhuffandpuff]

7th grade science. I remember feeling like gravity shifted a little bit. No really knowing what it all meant but that is was going to change things forever.

I remember how much protection I felt from the teachers and administrators at our school. They really did a good job of staying calm despite not knowing much more than we did.

 

[lonedave]

I was hunting elk several miles into the William O. Douglas Wilderness here in Washington. I didn't even know what had happened until I hiked out to the road after the season was over several days later. A friend had come up looking for me and told me when I got to the trailhead where he was parked. I told him I wanted to hike back in and hunt some more!!

 

[rodney482]

sheriffs deputy

 

[JeffP_Or]

Loading gear to head to the airport on our way to Africa.

We were able to make the trip about 3 weeks later - the number of strangers in Africa - even the back-country locales - and elsewhere who expressed concerns and condolences once they found we were from the US was amazing.