Where Were You?

Sailor Sapphire · Post by **Sailor Sapphire** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 9:26 am

As you all are well aware, Saturday marks the third anniversary of 9/11...

...but what were you doing on that fateful morning when you heard the news? Share your stories here.

Cardcaptor Takato · Post by **Cardcaptor Takato** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:05 am

I remember that I was sitting next to my best friend taking a test. I forgot the name of the test, but it was something like the TCAP, but not the same thing. They made the announcement about the Twin Towers being attacked on the intercom and after we took the test, we went to our classrooms where we watched what had happened on the news. It was a very frightening moment and all I knew was that the Twin Towers was being attacked and I had no clue what was going on.

Jed-kun · Post by **Jed-kun** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:54 pm

I was in the 10th grade and I heard about the first tour durring home room, I remember thinking that it was pretty unfortunate and wondering how they could miss a giant tour. Then durring latin, 2nd period, the 2nd tour was hit and murmurs started going around about it possibly being terrorism. Then the tours fell, we heard about the pentagon and the other plane that crashed in a field. By the end of the day everybody was pretty scared and confused and the bus shedual was changed so that all us military kids could get on befor they closed the base. I remember I couldn't even call Parakiss 'cause my dad needed the phone line to be open. It was really scary.

DuoTheShinigami02 · Post by **DuoTheShinigami02** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:39 pm

I was in class at Fort Gordon, GA.

I was getting to go on break, when I saw on the lounge room's TV that the WTC was on fire. Next, there was the Pentagon, and I was wondering what the heck was going on. The next thing you know, Fort Gordon was on complete lockdown, and our drill sergeants have to march us to dinner.

After that, I was glued to the TV I've bought for my room, stuck on NBC News, and I was worrying about my mom and sisters.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:08 pm

I was in my Civics class in 9th grade. We were doing some bookwork when some teacher comes in and says, "Something is happening in New York!"

She turned on the TV and we saw it. We saw one tower on fire and then we saw another plane slam into the other one.

I thought it was a movie. I heard some asshole laughing, but after we were told what was going on, I was really terrified. I remember crying for my family in New York (which most of them are there)

God bless the victims of September 11th, and the USA.

jupiter23 · Post by **jupiter23** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:15 pm

I was in 12th grade, and I was in French class when it happened. However, I didn't hear that anything had really happened until I got into my Geometry class, which was my very next class. Then, my teacher and a lot of us (around half the class) were crowded around her computer, looking for news about it on the internet, because the TV in her room wasn't working. Then I heard about the Pentagon being hit in my next class after that, but my English teacher wouldn't let us watch on TV. My final class, band, had us go outside to practice our field show, as the band director was cancelling after-school rehearsal in respect for this. I didn't hear about the full extent of the damage, including the plane crashing in Pennsylvainia or the towers colapsing, until I got home from school that day.

Akarui Kibuno · Post by **Akarui Kibuno** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:50 pm

I was lazying on the computer and was chatting on MSN.

Suddenly Dad puts the TV on and screams "SANDRINE COME SEE THAT! IN THE US! AN ATTACK!!!"

And the world crashed down in front of my eyes, if I can even word my thought like this.

DistantMemory · Post by **DistantMemory** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:07 pm

I was in my 7th grade science class just daydreaming. I only caught a few pieces of a conversation between my teacher and one of my classmates (and from the words that I caught, the topic of the conversation didn't exactly sound good; you know where this is going), but I didn't care.

I was eventually called down to the office because my dad was signing me out. I had no idea what was going on, but I trudged upstairs to my locker for my things and came back downstairs about 10 minutes later to find my dad in the main office. I asked him what was going on, and he told me, "The Word Trade Center just blew up." Since this isn't something that's said normally, I couldn't really believe it until I got all the details on the way home. I grew very nervous, especially since my uncle was in the city at the time (he made it out alright, though).

Sailorasteroid · Post by **Sailorasteroid** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:42 pm

I was at work, though I don't remember what I was working on. Bob Kjellman came in, and mentioned that a plane had been hijacked, and I didn't think much of it, but then he said that they had been flown into the Twin Towers, and I was in panic. I didn't think the towers would stand at all--I thought the impact itself would destroy the supports and make all the floors above it an unsupported weight. I was curious as to why no one seemed to be saying that, but I thought maybe I didn't know as much as I thought about the construction. But then the heat melted them and what I thought would happen did.

And while the loss of life was tragic in itself, I was also sad that I would never again get to go inside those buildings where I'd been so many times. I remember reading a few weeks later saying it was no great loss architecturally, but for me, whose tastes run to Frank Lloyd Wright, boxes of glass, and similar modern buildings, it was the destruction of my favorite piece of architecture--two perfect square prisms, carving out the sky like New York's own personal highway to the heavens.

LadyFlameSniper · Post by **LadyFlameSniper** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:46 pm

It was my freshman year of college. First semester. I was sleeping. My roommate was watching the tv and she woke me up when she saw what was happening. It was when the first plane had crashed. I saw the second one crash on tv. At the time of the first crash, everyone thought it was an accident. Very sad and shocking moment.

Artemis · Post by **Artemis** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 8:07 pm

I was in fifth grade...I stepped off the bus, and some kid was like, "Hey, did you hear about the twin towers?" I said, "What about them?" and they said "These two planes crashed into them and now they've been destroyed" (or something like that.) I seriously didn't believe them until our teacher talked to us about it. I remember being really worried about my dad, because he was in Texas and he couldn't come home for another few days.

mizangelamy · Post by **mizangelamy** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 10:02 pm

I remember I was walking to my math class since I start 2 period then I walked in my teacher and 2 other seniors were watchin to tv. I asked them "What's going on?" one of the seniors told me somethin about terroriests (sorry if I spelled it wrong) back then I didnt know who they are. I'm not stupid its just I lived where there isnt any of those ya know. Then I saw the second plane crashin to the second tower I was so shock. Then later on every class i went the tvs were on even the ones where we eat at school ya know.

Jusenkyo no Pikachu · Post by **Jusenkyo no Pikachu** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 10:06 pm

I was sleeping while it occured (it was a school day. No way was I going to be watching TV at 11pm). I didn't hear about it until the next morning, when all TV stations were tuned to it.

Creepy coincidence #1: Around that time, the Queensland Choir had a concert for Dvorak's Stabat Mater (a piece referring to Mary watching Jesus die)

Creepy coincidence #2: This year's 9/11 anniversary has us performing the Berlioz Requiem...and then there's the thing in Beslan.

And now...should we be waiting for 1012 or 1210 days since the Bali Bombings?

RoastedTwinkies · Post by **RoastedTwinkies** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:55 pm

I was in grade 10 at the time. I was watching the news about ready to leave for school around 6:45. The news went on about stocks and stuff and then it's like 'we have live breaking news' and they show the twin towers. I was like 'what the hell?' I was really confused and horrified when I saw another plane fly into the building right on camera. Mind you, I saw this when it originally happened, not the repeat footage they were showing all day. We watched the news all day at school. There were dumbasses that were amused by it, but most of us were horrified. A girl who was in my grade ten science class was there exactly a week before it happened!

Which reminds me. I read something somewhere that 9/11 caused someone's divorce. A woman phoned her husband and asked where he was because she was all worried about him because he worked at the trade center. He was really cheating on his wife and was at another woman's house. He told her that he was at work! She then told him that he was full of shit and that he should turn on the TV.

usachan · Post by **usachan** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:51 am

RoastedTwinkies wrote:Which reminds me. I read something somewhere that 9/11 caused someone's divorce. A woman phoned her husband and asked where he was because she was all worried about him because he worked at the trade center. He was really cheating on his wife and was at another woman's house. He told her that he was at work! She then told him that he was full of shit and that he should turn on the TV.

I actually find that sorta' funny, in a sick twisted way. Sad too, poor girl, getting all worked up like that to find out her husband was cheating. Anyways, back on topic, I was in eigth grade at the time, and I was asleep, being it was about six a.m. over here. Anyways, my mom and dad had the t.v. up really loud, and it was getting on my nerves because I wanted to sleep. Then I finally got up to see why the t.v. was blaring, and I saw it on the news. I really at the time wasn't sure what was going on, but I can tell you I'd never heard my dad curse before, so I knew it was bad. It's so sad all those people had to die, just because they went to work, and the people in the planes too.

Ayane · Post by **Ayane** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:03 am

I was awakened by the phone. My grandmother answered it and it was my grandfather's sister, telling her that a plane had crashed into the first tower. Since it was rather unusual for a phone call to come that early, I was in their bedroom listening to the call; and I went back to my own room to turn on the tv. I remember I turned it on hardly any time before the second plane hit. I just sat on my bed and watched in disbelief. I remember watching the news and listening to the radio at the same time. It felt weird to be hearing the voices of the members of the morning show, usually so comical and carefree, being so serious and grief-filled. I think I was in shock a bit for about 20 minutes before I could finally cry.

I see things all the time about people who got caught in a snowstorm on a mountain while they were ice climbing solo and die. The media calls them "heroes." I respect their untimely death, but I don't believe that they should be put in the same category as the NYPD and NYFD members who died trying to save the people who were caught in the towers. They're some of the true heroes. (Sorry to get off-topic there for a bit, but it always comes to mind when I think of 9/11.)

Vchan · Post by **Vchan** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 11:41 am

I honestly can't remember what time it was when we were told but:

I remember I was in eigth grade English class and someone came in and told the teacher that there was to be a school meeting. We kept talking about how we were in trouble for something, until someone said something like, "We're at war." The principal got up and told us that the two towers had collapsed, that the Pentgon had been "bombed" and that there was a car-bomb in front of the state department (!?). I also remember hearing that there was a plane "missing" (Flight 93). I felt terrible. My best friend's dad was supposed to be on a business trip to the WTC that day (thank God he got stuck in traffic on the turnpike; if he wasn't he would have died), another friend of mine lives in New York and his stepdad worked at the WTC (he got out alright). Another friend's father was supposed to be giving a presentation at the Pentagon, but it was a part of the building that wasn't hit. Someone put a television in the Common Room, and I cut a class for the first time ever to watch CNN. I didn't get so much as a slap on the wrist.

I think 9/11 was the most terrified I've ever been in my entire life (even more so than being in the middle of Hurrican Charley...). Since I live in Baltimore, which isn't that far from DC, and does have several buildings/landmarks that have been cited by terrorists, I remeber honestly thinking that I was going to die. Perhaps it was the naivetee of being only 14, but you have to remember that we really had no clue what was going on. I remember my teacher telling me Iraq had claimed responsibility... We didn't know if this was terrorism as it was, or if it was a full-scale war, like Pearl Harbour. What was next? Bombs being dropped from the sky? Nuclear or biological weapons?

Sorry to keep going on like this, but this is something I really felt like saying.

Sailor Sapphire · Post by **Sailor Sapphire** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:34 pm

I'll share my story...

The time: 9/11/2001, 8:00 local time
The place: My house.

My mom has just sent my sister to school, while I remain home with a bad cold. Just as she gives me my cereal, my dad calls my mom from work and says "Turn on the TV! Turn on the TV!" so we do, and watch the horror unfold...and watch footage of the attack loop ad nauseum. EVERYTHING (save for the Weather Channel, Cartoon Network, Toon Disney, and a few other ones) was preempted

After my three millionth viewing of the towers falling, I hurried to my room, turned on the radio, and left it on the public radio station for any developments, since all the TV was doing was looping the footage of the attack and the towers falling over and over, and over...

Since my dad had no radio or TV at work, I kept him updated via e-mail whenever the TV or radio had an update.

Sailor Europa · Post by **Sailor Europa** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:22 pm

I was in 9th grade. I was in my Music History class and we were all laughing at some joke Pat had just made.
The PA system went off and Principal Hinton stated that the Twin Towers had been attacked.
Throughout the rest of the day, people kept talking about it, and we managed to watch some of the news on the tvs.
Being that I live on Long Island, several people were extremely worried about their family members.
I later found out that day that my cousin Joanna had been in that area. Thankfully, she managed to escape before anything major happened to her.

Post by **Tiff** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 10:05 pm

Jusenkyo no Pikachu wrote: Creepy coincidence #1: Around that time, the Queensland Choir had a concert for Dvorak's Stabat Mater (a piece referring to Mary watching Jesus die)

Creepy coincidence #2: This year's 9/11 anniversary has us performing the Berlioz Requiem...and then there's the thing in Beslan.

And now...should we be waiting for 1012 or 1210 days since the Bali Bombings?

How on earth are either of those coincidences related to 9-11 or Beslan? Mary and Jesus have NOTHING to do with 9-11. Nothing. I honestly don't see how that's even relevant.

Honestly, it really just sounds like you're searching for something where there is nothing.

I was kind of hoping we wouldn't dredge 9-11 back up. Sorry, but am I the only one who's really..over it? It's sad, yes. But..I knew nobody involved in it, and so it doesn't DIRECTLY affect me. I mourned for about a day (the day it happened), and that's it.