Where were you on 9/11/2001?

I was in the car with my dad listening to the radio it was song after song we didnt understand why then Chris Moyles came on the radio saying he sent everyone home because of what happened in the US didnt go into it more then we got home turned on the TV to see what had happened needless to say we were glued to the TV to see what had happened

I came out of the subway just after the first plane hit. I was on my way to work, about ten blocks from the WTC. I got to the corner of Church & Lispenard Sts. and looked up to see the gaping hole in the north side of the north tower. My first thought was "What the?!" I stared for a moment and decided to continue on to the office. I got to the 16th floor before the second plane hit and everyone was semi panicked, but no one was thinking terrorism. Then the second plane hit and everyone was thinking terrorism. When the second plane hit we evacuated the building and were basically just milling around on Greenwich Street watching in complete disbelief. We watched for probably half an hour. When I saw the first person jump I left. I just started walking north towards my GF's office on 23rd St. When I got there everyone was glued to a few available TVs. She works at a cooking school and after a bit one of the insrtructos said "classes have been cancelled and the walk INS are full of food. If we don't cook it, it will go bad." so for the next five or six hours we cooked. When we ran out of food we took what we had prepared down to St. Vincent's Hospital. We figured they could use it. My GF wouldn' get on the subway so we then walked back up to my apartment on 87th Street, where I basically stayed glued to the tube for the next week. Then they let us back down to go to work...

Gary and I worked in midtown at the time and were driving in 2-3 days a week to go to the office. We were planning on going in that day, but didn't. Gary wasn't feeling too hot - but more than that, he just "had a feeling" we shouldn't head in that day.

I think it was 2 nights before the attack, we saw on the news there was shelling outside of Kabul (this was back in the day when what was going on in Afghanistan wasn't really news). I remember so clearly Gary saying that something was going on, and they (al-Qaeda) was planning something big. We found out the next day they'd assissinated Mohammed Shah Massoud, and Gary said "They're planning something REALLY big."

That morning we turned on CNBC before the morning meeting, and we were watching when they first broadcast the news that one of the WTC towers was on fire. Gary said - this isn't an accident! Then they got the footage someone videotaped that clearly showed a plane flying into the building, and then the 2nd tower went up.

Gary knew immediately it was al Qaeda.

We threw tapes in the VCR and taped for days. We gave them to a friend that collects 9/11 memorabilia.

Thankfully our friends at Morgan Stanley worked in the midtown office. I'm a C.F.A., and the CFA Institute was located on the lower floors, so everyone got out safe. Unfortunately, we lost a friend, one of the Portfolio Managers we worked with. Fred Alger was out of the country, but the Alger funds lost a lot of people.

We worked at One Liberty Plaza in 1999 and part of 2000. Thankfully everyone was safely evacuated from the building.

We think of those lost in the horrific act of terrorism all the time, but remember them especially today.

I was in the process of moving. I was evicted from my apartment because I had a cat.

My heart goes out to all that lost loved ones in this act of terrorism.

Lets not forget those who were not at the WTC but lost their lives.

I was getting ready to leave for Bali, we left the next day. We kept looking up at all the planes, wondering if something was going to happen to us. I know it seems a little paranoid but, that's what we did, we were scared.

Jackz, Jazzy & Ginga.

I was at work. It was a very quiet morning. We were in a bubble without access to radio or TV. Then customers began coming in and telling us bits and pieces of what had happened in NYC. Many of them were crying. When the second tower fell customers began leaving to go home. I work right in the downtown area of Indy and all the state offices and businesses began to close. People were leaving early to pick their children up from school.
It was a moment in time when we just wanted to hold our loved one close to us and try to find comfort. The real fear and horror didn't really hit me until I got home and saw it all on the news. The lost of all those lives was just devastating and still is today! I never cried so hard before then. I cried for all these people I didn't know and would never know. For their children, spouses and parents who would never spend another holiday with them...
They just left for another day at work that morning and woud never come home.

I was at work. I heard someone saying a plane had hit the WTC. I initially was thinking private plane, but I couldn't get into any of the news sites to see what it was. Then someone said a second plane had hit the second tower, and we all knew then it was deliberate. When I heard a plane went down in Pennsylvania, I really panicked because I have family in PA. I kept saying where in PA?! Where in PA?! Until I finally found out the details. We all stood around in the conference room watching the TV, then around lunch time I went and picked up my husband because they didn't have tv where he was working. We came home and watched it here for awhile. One of the guys I worked with had been scheduled to attend a meeting at the WTC that day, but it had been cancelled.

I was at home, making chicken salad for my mom to take to a church meeting. I used to keep the TV on CNN most of the time, but the TV was off that day. I called my dad and he told me what had happened. I never dreamed when I was watching the news that a high school friend's girlfriend was killed. She was on the plane that hit the Pentagon. Her destination was to have been Australia for vacation.

I had an anatomy class scheduled that night and saw a plane flying high above on my way to school. It seemed very surreal, because all the planes had been grounded much earlier in the day.

When I returned to work I learned that some of the inmates had celebrated the attack.

I was working as a night inspector for "next day" financial reports, so I had completed my midnight-to-8AM shift, but there was extra work to finish. Finally I punched out to head home to Williamsburg (Brooklyn) a bit before 9AM (likely around 8:55 or so). Near the subway entrance, I noticed what looked like small groups of strangers gathering and listening to information with confused facial expressions. You could tell something had their undivided attention. I thought: "Hmmm. Odd.", but I was soooo tired from the nightshift I continued on. I arrived home around 9:25 so by then both Towers, which I could see from my living room window, were burning. Turned on the TV and learned of everything.

Where I was, is something I'll never forget. I was on my way home from work from night shift. I walked in and turned on the TV a few minutes after the plane hit the first tower. I sat there glued to my chair and crying for the next several hours.

My ex came into the bedroom that morning and he was telling me that there was good news and bad news. I never did find out what the good news was. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I grew up watching those towers being built and taking anyone who came to NYC to see them. My first business Christmas party was at Windows of the World. I had the opportunity to take both my kids there.

I couldn't believe my eyes that morning. I cried so much. I found out later that my high school friend, Charles Garbarini, Lt. Div. 03, Bat 09, Manhattan FDNY, had been one of the victims. Please remember him in whatever your religious prayers are.

I was out taking an old friend of my dads shopping as I did every week. He came out of one store complaining the clerk was distracted....a plane had crashed in New York.

I never turned on the truck radio till I was almost home and all I heard was something about they didn't know where the Presidents plane was. I thought this must be some kind of "war of the worlds" joke.

I pulled in my driveway and a friend pulled in right behind me. I hollered, "whats going on". He said "they are going to kill us all". We came in the house and were glued to the tv. Disbelief.

He finally stood up and said lets go for a ride on the motorcycle. We left and spent the day touring all our usual country roads. It was like a nuclear attack. Saw no one. No cars, no one working outside. We are in the landing pattern for Buffalo airport. We would always see planes coming in from the distance. Nothing.

I will never forget. No one should.

I was at home playing Sims on the computer, when I heard it on the radio. I ran to my parents' house to watch the news, and saw a tower fall. I had heard on the radio that one tower had fallen, and I was devastated. I watched the tower fall live on the news, and was wondering how it got over the radio before it fell live on tv. Then I realized there wasn't another tower standing, and I had just watched the second tower fall.

My dad and I went to the hospital to see my mom, and I was worried because she had terminal cancer, and I wasn't sure how this would effect her. When we got there, she was out of it, like she was dying. I asked what was going on, the dr told me she was on Morphine (she was allergic to morphine) I told the dr that, and he went white. He showed me the paper she signed asking for it, and I realized that she had decided it was time.

I went back home and listened to the radio, and cried. I was hurt that humans could be so cruel to one another, and because I knew I wasn't going to have my mom much longer. I hope she didn't see what happened on tv, or heard about it. I would like to think that she left the earth not knowing the worst thing that happened on American soil. For me... September 11th is one of the worst days in my life. I will never forget.

I was living in Guam at the time so the whole thing happened in the middle of the night for us. My boyfriend at the time was a scuba instructor and was teaching a class of submariners from the Navy base. A little after 3:00am they came pounding on our door to turn in their scuba gear and told him that the US was under attack. He drug me out of bed to watch CNN. At first, I thought it was all a big joke or a War of the Worlds thing...until they mentioned the plane that went down in Shanksville, PA., which is not even 1/2 hr from where my parents lived. THAT is when it hit home. I mean, if someone wanted to play a sick joke, NY or DC would be obvious choice...not a small town in PA.

I tried to call my parents, but all the lines off island were busy so I didn't talk to them until the next morning. It was so strange not hearing any planes (except the air force bombers) and seeing the Navy ships just circling the island standing guard for weeks.

The victims and their family are always in my prayers...not just on 9/11 but all through the year. It's still just hard to believe.....

I was at my friends house after school (it happened closer to 4pm our time) and we were making coffee and waiting for a specific tv-show to start when they suddenly aired the news. We were watching the whole thing live from tv. I was 16 back then and thought that worse things happen every day so why all the fuss now. I was thinking that this was again a good reason not to be involved in religious stuff and was happy to know I lived in a small country who no one cares about.

I was registering for TCS. One of the first posts I ever read as a member as one by hissy saying a plane had just hit the WTC.

i was at school, of course. we didn't have TV, but we had internet info. after the 2nd plane hit, i called my folks - my brother & his wife had gone to the hospital [she was pregnant w/their 1st daughter]. so he & she spent most of the day there, watching the coverage on TV. my neice Lauren was born that afternoon - makes it really easy to remember not only her birthday but also her age!
we were fortunate that no one we knew was harmed during the events of the day. neither was anyone in the community where i taught [one of the kids, i remember, had a mom who was a flight attendant - she called the school to tell them she was ok, but might not be home that evening, since planes were grounded].

I was in Union Station in Chicago having a cup of coffee before a job interview with a recruiting agency. I was sitting at the bar at the Snuggery watching tv with a few other people. The first thing I saw on tv was the smoke and fire after the 1st tower was struck. People around me started getting phone calls saying office buildings were being shut down. I called the place I was supposed to go to at that point to see what they wanted me to do. We mutually decided to re-schedule the appointment because the recruiter wanted to go home to her family because she was scared. This company was in a building right accross the street from Sears Tower. That building was shut down immediately. I called my hubby at work to see if he knew what was going on intially because the sound was not on where I was watching tv. He told me that 2 commericial airplanes had crashed into the world trade center. After people came in saying that Sears Tower had been closed there were people saying they had heard a plane was missing and that Sears Tower could be a target. I was so surprised and freaked out that I just sat there and continued to watch the news since someone had put the sound on. Everyone that was walking by was just stopping in their tracks to watch the news. My hubbby called me back and said his work was being shut down so we should take the train home together.

It took a little while for Metra to get things organized since most of the companies in the Loop started sending everyone home. They had to stop all the incoming train traffic and re-route things as well as get all the staff in the right place. My hubby and I could not even find each other on the plat form or the train. The trains were jam packed and had to make multiple stops at some of the platforms to let everyone off. They had to use what are normally express trains as locals and they were too long for some of the platforms they do not normally go to. There were so many people on the trains that the conductors did not even bother to try to collect fairs. People that had lap tops with internet were sharing their screens with strangers so people could see what was happening. Hubby and I spent the rest of the staring at the tv. My hubby has a friend that works in Manhattan but he was home sick that day. His friend's wife got stuck in the subway for a while because she was running late that day for some reason. She wound up at a co-workers place in Jersey and was able to let people know she was ok. Hubby's friend sent him an e-mail that they were ok.

People were being really polite to each other and sharing their cell phones/lap tops to help each other call people. I made phone calls for complete strangers so that they could call people for rides home. Compelte strangers were offering people rides home if they were going to be stuck once they go off the train.

I was at home and had the TV on at the time,I was stunned at first.I could not believe i was seeing this and it was REAL on my own tv.I never left my tv after that for 2 days.I have many friends state side but only one in NY.It didn't matter if you new anyone or not that day,we were ALL CONNECTED by this monstrous act.

I was traveling for work at that time, and was in Lexington, KY and had just walked into the office right after the first tower was hit. I was totally separated from my entire family (since I was traveling), and could not get home (even at my scheduled time) because all airports were closed. I don't think any of us will ever forget where we were on that morning.