Where were You…..

I was on the way to vote in the Sept. 11 primary and just before I went into the public school someone said a plane crashed into the WTC. I assumed it was a small plane and an accident. After voting, on the way home I saw smoke coming from Manhattan’s direction and realized it must be pretty bad.

had I woken up on time – I would have been driving by when it happened. I left my house 15 minutes later then usual.

I have been waking up late since then just in case

I had just arrived at work in downtown Brooklyn, my coworkers told me that each tower had been hit we listened in disbelief as we heard about the towers falling, after leaving work not much after this reality set in i spent many hours on the streets waiting for the subway service to resume and watched the pillars of smoke across the water.

I’m in trouble!

I don’t have an alibi…

In yeshiva just finishing shachris,

at home trying to sleep

Beleive it or not I found out of OBL death from LSS’s thread here in the CR!!!

i was in the lower elementry grades and i remember my mother coming to pick me up from the bus stop even if it was at the corner of my block and that night i dreamt i was fighting the war in iraq…..lol

I wasn’t born yet.

I wasn’t born yesterday either.

I came home and my father was home from work – I was in 1st grade – when I heard about the 9/11 attack, I saw a replay on the news.

OBL: I was getting ready for bed when my sister told me! I went to bed much later because of that!

yeah so ppl know my id already so this is brand new sn 🙂

9/11/01:

i was in 2nd grade- one of the first few days of school and that morning it was super pretty outside and i asked my morah why we didn’t go outside for recess – and she never gave me an answer 🙁

and then i went home and my parents told me.

{no judging please} and then i wanted to watch tv and my older brother told me nothing was on – only the wtc news so i envisioned bugs bunny telling about the wtc

5/1/11

i was studying for ap’s and went to take a break and went on YWN of course and then i googled it bkz it was so crazy and then waited 45 minutes for obama’s public statement instead of studying 🙁

mbachur, I feel the same way, I meen people here saying they were in 2nd grade? that makes me feel like a grandfather.

I sort of am ‘thattt’ old.. in 2001, my oldest child was 22 & my youngest was 12 :-O

wishywashy- i was also in second grade…except when we drove up they just told us to drive right back home bc skl was canceled…so even i knew something was wrong.

Then last night i was doing the same thing as you-studying for AP (ironically) US history. Fortunately, i didnt feel the same need as you to listen to Obama:)

ahh twinziess.

it wasn’t really obama it was the idea of the news itself —

such a big major moment – and to say in the future oh, i was studying american history rather then living american history?

that i couldn’t do.

but then obama being obama– 45 minutes!

I was on Park Row in Manhattan, a block away, when the towers fell.

I was at home when I found about Osama bin Laden’s death.

The Wolf

In my office in Moscow reading the online news a few minutes after my employees left for the day (8 hrs ahead of NY). I just got to see the headlines before the news sites went down because of overuse. A few moments later I got a call from a local friend who informed me in a disgusted tone of voice that “in “Palestine” (this person is not 100% fluent in English and did not know the right English word to use to refer to Gaza) they are celebrating and dancing”.

I was at work, having an email argument with a friend about the efficacy of internet petitions. Then the friend emailed me saying something about the WTC being hit by a plane. I tried to get to MSNBC.com and couldn’t (the site was overloaded), so I knew something was really happening. I walked to the center of our building, where there was a TV hanging from the ceiling with CNN going 24 hours a day. There were already about 100 people standing there; I got there just in time to see the second plane hit. Our building and all buildings on the campus were evacuated a few hours later, as it was the headquarters of a major government agency.

I used to have a service business and did work in the south tower of the WTC, on a high floor, every month for over 10 years.

I often saw small planes flying down the Hudson River LOWER than the altitude I was at in the building, and sometimes even thought ‘Gee, if a pilot just made a slight momentary slip in his steering, he could crash into the building’.

So, of course, the day of the attack, when I first heard the news, I thought, ‘Hey, what I had thought about, actually has happened!’ Even a bit later when I heard that the “tower had fallen”, I thought they meant the big TV antennae on TOP of the tower. I never dreamed that they meant the WHOLE building!

Of course, shortly thereafter, I heard about the second tower being hit, and then the Pentagon, and it was clear that we were under attack.

I remember telling the person who told me “I don’t believe you” so I called Tell Me

I was in the second grade on Sept.11. Our teacher told our class the shocking news. Boy, were we scared! (When we saw an airplane we were POSITIVE it was Airforce 1 with Bush in there..:)) I couldn’t fall asleep at night from fear.