Outside in my garden.I didn't have the tv on so had no idea,my daughter was getting off work from the night shift and told me to turn on the tv right a way.Needless to say I stayed with it all the rest of the day and long into the night for 3 days of continuous coverage.A sad day for America.
I was in the 4th grade, about 10 miles north of Boston. I was 9 years old. It was the normal story; my parents sat my sisters and me down and told us. But it meant very little to me, unfortunately. We were supposed to fly the next week down south to visit with family and we were wondering about that. (We ended up making the trip.)
It annoys me how I treated the situation. Though I understand, being just 9.
All that concerned me was that no baseball was on. No Red Sox games. Usually at most they had 1 day off but there was no baseball for a while, almost a week.
I wish that I could have understood the magnitude of the situation. I wish I could have understood the grief people felt, losing people they loved and were so close to, and how it was a day that changed a lot; probably the worst day in the history of the United States. Hopefully it remains that way.
Living near Boston, there were actually a lot of people that died from the area, since AA 11 and United 175 departed from Logan Airport. A guy who was 22 years old and lived a block away from me died. I don't think that even made an impact on me. Lots of children younger than me lost a parent.
Since then I've done my best to educate myself about the victims, their legacies, and how there were a lot of heroes that day or at least people who tried to be heros. Many great Americans, parents, friends, etc. lost. I still have trouble wrapping my head around it.
On 9/11/11, I drove my Dad to the airport early in the morning because he was flying nonstop from Logan to LAX. That also put things into perspective for me. It was just like any other day, like 9/11/01. It could have happened to anyone, which makes it difficult to understand.
I was repairing a water meter. I worked for a city government. We have a list of various codes that dispatch uses. Suddenly on my hand-held radio dispatch was calling out to "all units." Never heard that happen, they gave two codes that I also was not aware of. So I got out my codes book, and read;
1. City in danger. Possible terrorist attack coming.
2. Leave immediately and go far away from the city in any vehicle you can find.
That was a OH SHI-! moment.
I drove off, fast, emergency lights on. Parked and waited by a lake. Figured if there were any thing bad, I could go underwater in the lake. About an hour later, we were all called to come back to our offices, where we learned about 9/11. Everyone went home early that day. We shut down the entire city except for a few police and fire. All were volunteers that day. Funny, not one crime or accident happened that day or the next 5 days.
I was walking out of a conference room at work when someone came up to us and told us the news. I remember every detail: who told us, the other 3 people in the meeting walking out with me, even the order we walked out of the room. Time froze for about 3 seconds. ( Dawn told us, I was standing just past the door threshold, Thomas and Mark were to my right and Dave had gone left to go get a drink from the cafeteria).
I was listening to a music station on my way to work when it cut to a network anchor describing the collapse of the first tower. It took me a few minutes to realize what I was hearing. I hugged a distraught coworker in the parking lot, then went inside to send out an APB that our operations were suspended for the day due to the national emergency.
Living and working in Italy. The first I knew of it was when an Italian friend in NYC who was visiting her sister who lives in Manhattan sent me a text saying 'Urgent - Listen to the radio news' (she knew I do not have and have never had a TV)
I was in 5th grade at school when the teacher got a phone call and turned on the radio, that's really all i remember... people were scared and lots of crying
I was in Film Class in High School.
I was getting ready for work, tv playing in the background when the breaking news came on.
i was 7 in first grade. we were at school. let out early. i was confused as to why my mom was home from work when i got home. i didnt really understand what was going on. (im 19 now)
did you know that most people who are under the age of 20 don't have any good real remembrance of what happened during 9/11. So where were you people when it happened?
I was in school, My parents had to come get me. i was 6 years old. (I'm 17 now)
i was high
