Where were you in 01

[ebfd11]

Please don't bring politics or dissenting comments in this posting.. post your answers here..

RIP to my 343 brothers lost on this day in 2001 and to all those lost in NYC, Shanksville Pa and the Pentagon.

     LawnDart

[MrKrabs]

Middle school, period 3, Choir room

Total school lockdown and all period transitions were suspended until Period 7 after the faculty had small impromptu meetings on how to properly brief students fully and to calm parents down bombarding the school with calls...

The school was located just outside of Chicago and naturally feared a major city could be a target. Essentially many pre-cautionary measure to calm the panic and prepare for the worst.

[GScholz]

At work. Everyone was huddled around a small TV set. Not much work got done that day. 

[Plawranc]

Awake. Listening to it on the radio in my parents bedroom at an ungodly hour at night.

I was 7 years old... and I had never heard my parents so quiet.

[WEZEL]

I was at work and could see the story unfold in NYC

[Saxman]

The first I heard anything about it I was getting ready to leave for class at SIUE. The first report I saw on Yahoo news made it sound like it was just a small private plane that accidentally hit the tower and nothing about it being a terror attack involving a hijacked airliner. It wasn't until partway through my first class that I learned otherwise.

[Karnak]

At home in San Rafael, CA having been laid off from the tech industry two months prior.  Had slept in so didn't see it until after the towers had come down.

[cpxxx]

In bed asleep, finished a night shift and went to bed. We're five hours ahead here. When I woke up in the afternoon I turned on my TV in my room to try and wake myself up and found they were showing some silly disaster movie set in New York. So I flicked to the next station and it was there too and the next station.

Then I realised it was real.

That night I went into work. My supervisor, told me to not to let my guys watch too much of the ongoing events on the TV in the cafeteria. I totally ignored him. It was noticeable too that security was beefed up at our plant because we worked for a very famous American company. No one knew what was going to happen next.

[Ratsy]

I was sitting in a cafeteria at USAA working with two friends on a change management strategy.  There were about 10 televisions in there.  We watched the initial reports and, all being aviators, knew that what hit the first tower was not a "Cessna".  Change management seemed to be not so important that day, as meeting after meeting was rescheduled, and the whole company drew closer to support our members who might be victims.  There were members in the Towers, on the airliners, and, of course, in the Pentagon.

I was proud of the American response to this event and encouraged by the outrage and concern expressed by the entire world.

If terrorism now knows no borders, as some would say, then it follows that terrorists should not enjoy the sovereignty and protection of international law. 

  for peace.
  the fallen

[-ammo-]

I was at work in San Antonio (Security Hill). We all monitored our JWICS terminals watching the intelligence reports come in.  About 1200, the boss told everyone to go home to be with their families.

[Tinkles]

Was 7 years old, woke up to my mom crying. Came out to see her watching TV, crying and saying how horrible it was. I never understood the weight of what I was watching until years later. The ignorance of youth.



 

[Triton28]

College.  Just walked in to the building where my first class was and saw everyone around the TV.  At first everyone was saying it was a Cessna and I'm thinking, "how the hell did anyone do that on accident?".  Then the second one hit.   

[Chanter]

600 feet underground, Canadian NORAD Region HQ. 

[The Fugitive]

I had the day off and was flying in the game when someone said something about on the radio. Turned the TV on and watched it all.

[XxDaSTaRxx]

At home. I was about 8 years old or so... All I remember is walking into the living room and seeing the towers on TV.

Like Tinkles said, I was too young to understand what was going on...