Where were you on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001?

[midnight Target]

It happened at 5:45 here. I hadn't turned on the TV all morning. I got in my car around 6:00am to go to work and the morning dj's were talking about a plane hitting the WTC, I was in shock and just sat in my driveway for a long time. Then I ran in and told my wife to tape CNN the rest of the day. Then I went to work.... and accomplished nothing.

[AKIron]

Was at home piddlin' around (work outta my home) and my wife called from work when the second plane hit. My son and I turned on the TV and watched in disbelief. We were both floored when the first building collapsed. Cancelled my appointments that day, too shocked to work.

I hope I never harden against the emotions still felt when I remember that day. Except the hardness of resolve to persue those responsible to the end of time.

[texace]

Just walking off the practice field after morning marching band practice. The first words I heard about the entire event were from my vice principle, addressing my band director.

"The World Trade Center collpased."

Most of my school sat transfixed to TV sets the rest of the day, crying and consoling and panicking and the like. I left and went home and watched CNN for the rest of the day.

[takeda]

It was around 15:00 here

I still lived at my parents' place, they were in Madrid for the day, my father attended a meeting there with personnel from 25 or 30 foreign embassies and my mother went with him because she was worried about him driving with some recent eye surgery.

So I had lunch with my girlfriend and my brother,  and after we finished my brother had some music channel on and didn't want to switch, but he got a phonecall and we got the midday news starting with the black fumes around the first tower, they still were reporting a "small plane accident". Then the second plane crashed and the commentator just had  to let scape a swear word...

I called my brother to hang the phone and come, and told my girlfriend to remember what she was doing right then, because she would be asked about it in the next years.

My parents called ten minutes later, and said that there had been a mobile phone beep storm at the meeting and everyone had gone back to their embassy, so they were coming back home.

We had to go back to work, but didn't do much there, just watched TV.

My girlfriend lived alone and felt pretty uneasy, so she stayed with us that night.

[Saurdaukar]

Just getting up - lazy college student.  None of the guys I lived with went in - the school basicaly closed because none of the teachers went in either.

The few that had early classes ended up being huddled around TV's in the union.

[Eagler]

watching, capturing and posting it

[Sandman]

Arlington, Virginia. Because of the Pentagon Renovation program, our office was relocated to Crystal City, a mile or two away.

By 10:00, the word from on high was that it was probably unsafe for federal employees to be gathered together anywhere so we were directed to go home.

I spent two hours driving the eight miles to my apartment in Alexandria.

The sky was filled with smoke and the streets were lined with people walking to the nearest open metro stop.

I watched as F-16s escorted the remaining aircraft into National Airport. It's odd... you never really notice the noise of air traffic in and out of National... until it stops.

[GtoRA2]

I was in the carpool lane heading to work....

We got to work and hooked up PCTV products so we could watch the news....

I think we caught the second plane live...

[Heater]

Was in my office in Amsterdam, My secretary came in and said I need to turn on the TV...Just in time to see the second plane hit the tower.....

strange now that I think about it, my first thought was, someone just signed their own death warrant!

[mjolnir]

I was still at the Academy, about to wake up and study for an Aero test I had that morning when my roommate burst into the room and turned on the tv, half-dragged me out of bed and told me what was going on.  We sat there and watched as the towers collapsed and the media kept replaying the image of the second plane hitting.

Still had to take the Aero test that morning too, the bastards.  Every other department had enough of a heart to reschedule.  There were guys in my class with relatives who worked in the WTC that they hadn't been able to get a hold of.  I guarantee they didn't care about airfoil design that morning.

[Mighty1]

I was home sick and my wife called me to tell me about the first tower so I turned the TV on just in time to see them fall.

[Pfunk]

Woke up called my buddy as we were to go fly our R/C planes that day. He had told me what happened, I in disbelief told him "yeah right" your full of chit. Turned on the TV then watched TV for the next two hours, skipped all my classes later in the day.  Called my buddy and went and flew our airplanes(just to get out of the house).  The one thing that stuck in my mind is how eriely quite it was.  We had the only "planes" in the air that day.

[FUNKED1]

Asleep like 50% of the world.

[Charon]

Was in bed when a friend called and told me what was happening. Turned on the tv and damm, he wasn't kidding. I work at home so I spent the rest of the day watching the tube.

Charon

[Saurdaukar]

Originally posted by Pfunk
The one thing that stuck in my mind is how eriely quite it was.  We had the only "planes" in the air that day.

Aye - the lack of any ambient sound from aircraft engines for the weeks following was 'odd.'