Where were you on September 11, 2001? ~Lisa

Cleaning my sister in laws house because she was sick in the hospital. My mother in law wouldn't let me watch the tv because we had to clean.

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On my way to have my teeth cleaned. I remember thinking how could someone fly into the World Trade Center??? That's a pretty big mistake. Then when I got to the dentist we were watching on TV and listening to it on the radio and like everyone else, I could not believe what was happening.

Having my house professionally packed up to move cross county. Was without a Tv but still had a computer so I heard about it on mycoupons.

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Teaching Kindergarten... crossing my fingers that it wouldn't come up so that I wouldn't have to try to explain something like this to a group of 5 year olds.

I was at home sleeping because I had worked the night before... Was woke up by the trauma team at the hospital I worked at and was put officially on call. We expected alot of burns to be flown in. By 7 that night we realized there were none coming becuase of the amount of fatalities...
The plane that crashed in PA flew directly over my house, VERY LOW prior to crashing...I actually have a patient now who was one of the Air traffic controllers at the cleveland center that day taking the calls from the plane that crashed in PA

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I was a stay at home mom then, I lived in GA. I remember seeing the Today show and calling my mom in PA. I told her that a plane had hit one of the towers and while we were watching the other plane it. My hubby was working 3rd shift and he was sleeping. It took everything in me to stop myself from waking him up.

I wanted to rush around and got to the school just to have my children near me. In the end, I did not pick them up.

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watching Good Morning America before my DH left for work. Thanks goodness my kids were only 4 months old and 2 years old. I had the TV on for about 2 days and if they had been older, I wouldn't have been able to do that

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Lying on the bed with my then 16 yr old daughter who was covered from head to toe with chicken pox.

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In the drive thru at Mikey Ds waiting on breakfast on my way to work. When I got to work, I saw the news and watched the 2nd plane hit the other tower. It was the saddest day.

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I was at home and had the TV on.
I called a friend to tell her and she wasn't home so I told her (grown) daughter.

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Driving to the convenience store to get a cup of coffee and heard them talking about it on the radio. I thought they were joking and asked to the clerk if he heard anything and he confirmed. Went home and watched the TV for the next 2 weeks.

Judi

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I was working out-- heard the news on the TV. Drove as fast as I could to get to my daughter's school.

Holly

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6 months pregnant with DS #2, came out of the shower and saw the TV. Thought at first it was a really BAD movie. 2 hours later went to DS's school and picked him up-- couldn't be away from him another minute. My best friend lost her sister that day....

I was just walking into work. No one was there besides the manager next door, and he told me to look at the tv in the breakroom, I didnt know what the world trade center was at the time. I worked in a Lenscrafters, and everyone was somber the whole day, we had the radio on because everyone wanted to listen. THey closed the mall at 2 that day. I went home and watched tv for the next couple days.

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Debating whether or not to continue getting the oldest ready for school while feeding the little one's breakfast.

We were traveling east on I-80 in PA . Didn't have the radio on,
Odd but when we drove past a sign that said New York City 100 miles. I jokingly said to DH,"Hey, want to go to New York City?"

Stopped and went in a store and in a Mcdonalds for Coffee and didn't hear one thing mentioned about it.
Then got to our friends and they told us what happened.
We were so shocked.

I know the papers would have been already printed, but I still don't know why we didn't hear anyone talking about it in those place??

Standing at the bus stop waiting for oldest dd to go to school. The neighbor asked if I'd heard about it and I said no. I said it must not be too bad it's not on Good Morning America - she said it is now! I had just gone out to the bus stop before it was on. I sent oldest to school, took youngest to preschool and watched it all morning, alternating between calling my mom at work and DH at work keeping them updated.

Lisa

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Under extraordinarily traumatic circumstances, we'd only recently moved across the country. It was early that morning when I, a die hard homeschooling mama had sent 4 of my 5 remaining kids off to public schools. It figures that the one kid that was remaining at home waiting for his bus to his charter school school was my severely OCD kid.
It was my habit to watch morning news/entertainment shows. When I saw the first plane hit, OCD kid was with me and we were both shocked, but not overly so. Then, just before OCD kid was due to run outta the house for the bus the 2nd plane hit. OY!!!!!!
For several members of my fam, we are still dealing w/the after effects. Especially since DH had worked at the TT before the move and his carpooling person was lost in that catastrophe.
MZ

I was in the waiting room at the hospital while my mother was having an outpatient surgery. The nurse came running in and pulled a chair over to the TV that was mounted up high and turned it on. The volume wasn't working but I could read the bottom of the screen when she turned on CNN. I had taken the day off work so when I did get home with mom, we just watched tv all the rest of the afternoon.

I had just gotten out of bed to take my car to get a new tire on it. DH was telling me that the Towers were hit. I just told him (or mumbled to him actually) to shut up. I'm not a morning person and I needed my first cup of coffee to wake up and I had worked the night before and had very little sleep. I left to get my tire and it was all over the radio. It really hit me when I heard on the TV at the tire place about the plane going down in PA (of course they didn't mention what town). The guy there said I was as white as a ghost and asked me what was wrong. I then mentioned that I have family/friends in PA. I let out a sigh when I heard it wasn't anywhere near where I'm from, but was still upset that all those people lost their lives.

I was sound asleep when my sweetie woke me up after the first plane hit the towers. He told me something bad was happening and I needed to get up. I had just stumbled out to the living room to the tv when the second plane hit. We stayed glued to the tube.

When they told about the plane hitting the Pentagon I was worried to death because my SIL works for the DOI and my brother who is retired Navy drives her into the city everyday about the time it hit. I know that they drive right by the Pentagon building. They were fine but because of the snarl of communications we didn't know that until late in the day.

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I was teaching my class in a Catholic school in Maryland less than ten miles from the Pentagon. About 10:00 am, my class was starting their morning break. The art teacher told me what was happening. I knew that one of my studetns had a father who worked in the Pentagon. He also had relatives in New York. He was the son of my teaching partener. His father was not at the Pentagon on that day. His uncle was a New York fireman but on vacation that day. About 10:30 am, parents started coming to pick up their kids. I had a short break so I tried calling my dh, my dd, and my ds. I could not even get a dial tone. I found out later that day that my ds who was an army nurse at Walter Reed Hospital was called in indefinitely. All schools were canceled but we had to wait until the last student was picked up. Traffic was a mess. You could not get a dial tone even later in the day. When the last student left at about 1:30 pm my husband had made it back from Baltimore where he worked to pick me up. All airplanes around the DC area were grounded. It was strange to not heard or see any planes except fighter jets. School was canceled the next day. The next couple of days were strange. On Friday of that week, the Catholic schools had teacher's convention in downtown DC. Everyone was afraid to go but I went for a short time.
My son helped at a first aid station at the Pentagon on Saturday for workers in case they got hurt. It was a sad time.

We were on a cruise in the Carribbean on a tour bus. Everyone was listening to the radio in this one shop. We asked what was going on, they said a plane crashed. We were like, "Oh, that's too bad, on to the rest of the tour." Later when we reached our cabin and turned on CNN we learned the truth!

We were welcomed home by military people with machine guns all over the port/ship area!

DH and I just got back from our morning walk, I was 9 months pregnant (DS was born 6 days later). They called all of the volunteers in our area to drive ambulances and rescue vehicles to the city to help out.

If I wasn't so pregnant, we would have been on our way, just seeing it and being so close you wanted to go help out.

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In front of the TV watching Good Morning America with my 18 months old DS. My DH was on the subway train back from the Atlanta airport to his office. I kept calling him with updates and everyone was sharing the information with each other on the train.

At the time, we lived in the flight path of an Air Force Reserve base. For a very long time after 9/11 my DS screamed everytime a plane flew overhead. It took us awhile to figure it out, but as he got older, he was able to tell us why he was afraid of air planes. I figured he was too young to understand what happened, but he wasn't.

I later found out that a high school friend in the Air Force worked at the Pentagon and the plane hit very near his office. He was, fortunately, in a meeting in another part of the building.

Sarah.......mom to Jason & Devin

Oh yes!

My husband had left for an early dentists appointment and I was dressing to leave for my bridge group. My brother called and asked if I had the TV on and did I know where my son David was. He worked in the second tower. I just hung up on brother and ran to the TV and they were just showing the tapes of the planes hitting. Called the dentists office and had them pass the word to my husband. Then called my daughter and told her. Then called one of the bridge group and explained to her why I might not make it. Went back to the TV and waited for someone to call. I tried to call my son but phones were not working well. I could get his apartment answering machine but not his cell phone. Daughter called and said her best friend was missing, a flight attendant for American. She had left St. Louis very early that morning to fly to Chicago to get the flight she was assigned to, but none of her family knew what flight it was.

I sat and worried and cried for about 45 minutes. Got myself together and called my bridge group and said I would be there, but a little late. Said I would rather be surrounded by people I knew and have something to keep my mind elsewhere while I waited to hear.

Just as I was walking out the door my phone rang. It was my son. His office was one floor below the one struck and he was late going in that morning and missed it. Right after that I called the dentist and my daughter and brother etc. to let them know he was okay. The phone rang again and it was my daughters best friend saying she was fine, she had gotten the message I left and her flight was going in the other direction, but of course they grounded everything. so she was stuck in Chicago for a while.

So I gained a lot more gray hair, and was almost in a state of shock for several days afterwards. Found out a few days later that a cousins son lives down the street from the WTC. His name is David also. He worked in Brooklyn but lived in Manhattan at the time. He just missed all it of by going into work early that morning. And my David missed it by going into work late.

There was only one employee in my son's office that morning. You may have seen him on the news afterwards. He was blind and he was there with his seeing eye dog. He had a customer with him and all three made it out safely. Mostly due to the dog.

Yes I remember.... Now a lot of people are beginning to have to deal with the aftereffects of the bad air. They lied about the air being okay and for the next many years there will people still dying because of that.

I was on my way to a dr. appointment in Syracuse and had stopped to do a test drive and that is where I found out about it. My mother was with me and we talked the entire ride and didn't hear a thing. After the appointment, we drove home fast to get my kids out of school. Very scarey day.

I was at home, my brother had just stopped by and told us. I went in and turned the tv on and then immediately called my boyfriend and told him. We watched tv for the next several weeks.

At work. They set up a conference room with several large TVs on. We all watched in disbelief and then the VP in charge of our office sent us all home to be with our families. He had a big heart.

Later, we found out that the president of the company wanted everyone to work as though nothing had happened because otherwise, "the terrorists had won." What a jerk.

Thankfully our VP had a head on his shoulders.

I was teaching class, and the building principal was not in the building at the time. The secretary came into my room and whispered to me what was going on and did I want to have the news put on the room tv for students to watch. I told her "no", and for it to not go on in the building. In the front seat in the middle row of the room sat a beautiful blued eyed boy whose father was an international pilot who flew out of New York. I couldn't take the chance to frighten that young man that his father may have been a victim. Thank God I later learned his father was off, and at home that day, and the flights originated out of Boston.

I was in my car. I turned on the radio and remember thinking why is the national news on. Then they said a plane hit the World Trade Center. I remember being next to a white van when I heard the news, our eyes met as my mouth dropped to the floor in total disbelief! I immediately called my dh and parents and told them to switch on the news. I remember watching CNN for days...it was such uncertain and scary times that followed after the 9/11 attacks. I remember not hearing planes for days and jumping when the fighter jets protecting our skies flew over head. They were sooooo loud...scary and reassuring at the same time because we did not know what would follow...

We were living in Kodiak, Alaska at the time and with the 4 hour time difference, didn't even know what was going on until we had gotten up at 6:30 to get DD up for school.

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I was on the couch watching the Today show. I remember at first I thought it was a horrible accident (they did too), then the other plane hit. I was worried something was headed our way. I called my DD's school and they asked that we not come for early dismissals. It just made you want to get everybody that you cared about close to you and make sure they were safe. I still shudder thinking about it.

sleeping with the kids didn't have to be up till whenever the kids woke up, dh called about 5 mins after the first tower and ran to the tv. I closed all the window shades and blinds.

I was sitting at my computer, having my coffee, waking up, playing a computer game. My husband IM'ed me and told me vaguely what happened. I think because of not having a television and getting it 4th hand info, he didn't realize how bad it was. I flipped on the television just in time to watch - from start to finish - the 2nd plane hitting the 2nd tower and it falling to the ground. I couldn't take my eyes off the TV. It looked like some kind of movie stunt, yet my brain knew I wasn't watching a movie. I had a hard time comprehending what I just saw for a good 1/2 hour.

I spent the next 3 days watching the footage over and over again, crying most of the day.

I remember feeling so helpless, like I wished I could have gone up there and helped those people somehow!

After that event, I realized what it REALLY meant when people talked about knowing EXACTLY what they were doing when they found out President Kennedy was shot.

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I was here at MyCoupons and read a post about it.

I was just finished dropping off my kids at school. My Dh was at work and called to tell me to turn on the radio. Then I called my friend, who I worked for at the time. I delivered for their dental lab and she told me to go home. My DS (who was very little at the time) and I, delivered down town and she said she didnt want us anywhere near downtown.

My mom works in a federal building in another state and she called me to say they were told they could leave if they didnt want to stay and she wasted no time getting out of her building.

It was a terrible day, and I just kept watching the TV.

I was at work, watching the horror unfold....

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I was at home, also six mos. pregnant, and mad at DH. We had rearranged the family room, and he had not hooked up the cable to the tv, and I couldn't figure it out. So, instead of watching Blues Clues that a.m., we were watching Good Morning America. The first plane had just hit, and they were showing that footage, and speculating that it was just a small plane and a coincidence that it had hit the building. Then the second plane hit. I just remember Charlie Gibson saying, "We are under attack." I went to the grocery store later on that day, and met a lady in the aisle who was just beside herself-cart filled w/ bottled water, loads of canned goods, etc. She told me I needed to do the same. The kids' dentist appts. were cancelled, and DH and I had plans to go to the Melting Pot for my bday that night (my b-day is 9/12. Needless to say, we didn't go-wouldn't have been able to eat. I made all the kids sleep in my room that night, and I honestly didn't know if we would all wake up the next am.

I had just dropped my husband off and said goodbye (he's Navy and was going on a deployment), when I got home he had left a message saying turn on the tv. Saw the 2nd plane hit. He called several times that day, the ship wouldn't initally leave and I remember I kept telling him, the ship needs to leave now. For those not in the military, think pearl harbor, I didn't want them getting attacked and have ships stuck inside the basin. I thought they'd be better off at sea. Eventually they left that evening. I was at home with a 2 year old. I watched the tv non stop and remember people stocking up on water, food, even gas masks. He was gone 6 weeks and he still doesn't totally get what everyone in the states went through because being at sea they didn't have the news and info like we did.

I was at work and a customer came in to tell me what was going on. i went into the managers office and we watched the second plane hit. I live 15 minutes from the airport and always hear planes going over head, it was scary to hear the jet fighter flying over for 2 weeks after!

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I was home watching it on the Today Show. I watched the second plane hit the tower and was just in shock. My kids were 3 and 5 at the time and I remember thinking that my son just started kindergarden and the world was going to end. That they would never get to grow up.That was such a horrible feeling. I remember going into their rooms at night and watching them sleep, thinking about that.

I was sleeping on my sofa next to my 1-1/2 month old, at the time, in her bassinet. She had colic and we had lots of rough nights. The night before 9/11 was one of them. My hubby called me from work to tell me to put on the news. I'll never forget where I was and what I was doing that terrible day.

9/11 was the worst day of my life. I didn't lose anyone that I knew, but grew up in NJ, and from my childhood home, you could see the towers from the top floor. I was at work, as a Front Office Manager in a hotel in Florida, and HAD to work because a hotel is 24/7. Kept really busy that day, since allf lights were cancelled and the parks shut down, so the hotel stayed full. I went home and watched coverage for days. (when not at work) I have never gotten over it and never will. I think a part of me died that day. My DH and I watched some home videos from 99 and 2000 the other day, and you can see how different I was. Much happier, and thinner too. About a year later I tried to kill myself. I have huge guilt over taking things forgranted - it is amazing how many times you might look at a building, and think that's what it is, a building, and nothing more. The truth is, people work there, reall people just like us, and it took that day for me to realize that.

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I was on my way to my daddy's house to take him out for the day. I heard it on the radio and ran inside and we watched it on TV for a while and then while we were out we listened to it on the radio. I can remember it like it was yesterday. My daddy died two months later.

May we never forget what happened on that horrible day.

I live on LI and knew too many people that were involved in many ways. Still too hard to write about. But I just wanted to give you a :HUG: Analaney

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I was at Edwards Air Force Base. I had just moved out to California about two weeks prior.
I didn't have the tv or radio on before I got into the car, so I didn't know that it was anything unusual about the day until I got into the car and was flipping around radio stations. I landed on NPR and heard report of a plane hitting the World Trade Center, a bomb at the Pentagon, fires on the Mall in Washington DC...things were still really sketchy at that time.
When I got to the base, there was a longer line than normal to get through the gate. The young marines who had smiled the day before as they waved me through the gate were now in full battle dress, checking ids, searching some cars...no one was smiling. As I drove through the gate, one of the marines was changing the force protection level from Bravo to Charlie (Delta is the highest level).
The turnstile into the compound where I worked was manned and one of the guards looked through my bag. Not long after I got in, an announcement came over the PA system that we were at Force Protection Level Delta, the base was closed an no one was allowed to leave the building they were in. Some of my coworkers were in another building briefing for a test flight. Once someone in charge finally decided that there was no way we were going to fly that day, my cubemate called and asked what was going on. They knew less than I did, as I had access to the internet (which was slower than I've ever seen it) and a local radio station broadcasting the audio from CNN playing over a channel on the phone system. A little later on, people were allowed to return to the building where their desk was, if they were stuck somewhere else.
About noon we heard that the main gate had reopened. Most of us decided to leave at that point, mostly because we weren't sure how long the gate would stay open. We didn't want to get stuck on base overnight.
When I got home, I turned on the tv and finally got see more than just a few pictures I had seen on web sites. I called my mom and talked to her for a while. When I hung up, I felt really, really alone.

That is a day I will never forget
I was in the hospital, waiting to be taken in for major surgery. My dd was with me. She reached up to turn on the tv to break the boredom. The first tower had already been hit. The newscasters were in total shock. You could hear the emotion in their voices. Just about that time the second plane came in and hit the second tower. I was in total disbelief of what I was seeing. And then you could see the bodies as people were jumping out the windows from way up high.
And just about that
time they came to get me for surgery.
When I came to all the nurses were walking around wearing little flag pins made from little safety pins and red, white and blue beads.
A couple days later while watching Montel Williams. He had the wife and 2 little sons of the passenger in the plane that went down in Pa. The older of the 2 boys had written a note to his father and was reading it on tv. The tears were just rolling down my face. About that time a nurse walked in and saw me. She thought there was something wrong with me. I told her I was fine, just too much watching tv.
I'm in Indiana and was not connected to anyone who was lost or injured that day (thank God my step daughter had left the Pentigon several days prior) but believe me we were quite shaken.

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Actually I was in NYC. It is not an experience that I would ever forget. My aunt lives in NJ and I rode the train in the city with my kids and my mom. When we heard and saw what was going on we hightailed it back to the train station as fast as we could ( that was the fastest we ever ran) go and went back to Jersey. What should have been a 20 min train ride , took us about 2 hours. Then another couple of hours to get to the house. We went back about 4 months later. My Aunt and cousin was taking food to ground zero to the workers. That is one picture I will never forget, they did let me get some nice picts down there. We were there again on the anniversary of 9/11. Those pictures are even better!

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