What were you doing on 9/11/01?

[KarlMarx]

What were you doing when you found out that the United States was under attack?

I listening to the radio on my way to work . At first I thought I was listening to a report of a fire that was happening in my hometown. Then I realized that the voice of the announcer belonged to Peter Jennings. He then said that the WTC had been hit by a plane. I thought it was an accident, shortly afterwards he said that the 2nd tower was hit. I realized that moment that we were under attack.

[ConHog]

I was doing paperwork at my National Guard unit and of course my first thought was "I wonder where we will be sent." Ended up being Iraq in 2003, weird and slow response, but there you have it.

[Little-Acorn]

It's not important what _I_ was doing at that moment.

[LuvRPgrl]

It's not important what _I_ was doing at that moment.

yes it is

[Noir]

Was in Year Eight, English Class, last of the day, when our teacher left and came back and said there'd been a terrorist attack in America.

Gotta be honest, to some of us it seemed really quiet bizarre that so much was being made of a terrorist attack since we got them often enough, Wasn't til later I realised the scale.

[gabosaurus]

Living on the West Coast, I was asleep. And as the TV in our home was never on in the morning, I didn't find out what happened until I got to school.

[Psychoblues]

I was asleep. My neighbor woke me up with the news. As a Desert Storm veteran I have never recovered.

Psychoblues

[fj1200]

As a Desert Storm veteran I have never recovered.

Psychoblues

How do you connect being a veteran with not recovering? Just wondering.

[chloe]

It was my day off work and i remember seeing it on tv. It was shocking.

[LuvRPgrl]

What were you doing when you found out that the United States was under attack?

I listening to the radio on my way to work . At first I thought I was listening to a report of a fire that was happening in my hometown. Then I realized that the voice of the announcer belonged to Peter Jennings. He then said that the WTC had been hit by a plane. I thought it was an accident, shortly afterwards he said that the 2nd tower was hit. I realized that moment that we were under attack.

yeparoo, friend banging on my bedroom door, "ron, ron, the whole world is blowing up:" I never thought about this before, but the Prez had to consider all possibilities now, as to what the terrorists might do, and better safe than sorry, no safe haven for them, gotcha !

Great response by our Prez. he made everyone feel more secure, while pissing off the ultra idiot liberals at the same time..hahahhahaha

[SassyLady]

What were you doing when you found out that the United States was under attack?

I listening to the radio on my way to work . At first I thought I was listening to a report of a fire that was happening in my hometown. Then I realized that the voice of the announcer belonged to Peter Jennings. He then said that the WTC had been hit by a plane. I thought it was an accident, shortly afterwards he said that the 2nd tower was hit. I realized that moment that we were under attack.

I was in bed (on the West Coast) and my husband (who is in the military) called me and told me to turn on TV .... sat here all day and watched non-stop....I knew that everything as we knew it was changing...

[jimnyc]

I was on the 24th floor at 767 5th avenue, about 1-2 miles north of ground zero. First we heard a small plane had hit the WTC. Then a few of us went on a smoke break. The lobby of our building held CBS and they had their news aired on this HUGE tv that we could watch while we smoked. We saw the 2nd plane hit live on air. We went back upstairs thinking the city was under some sort of attack. After the 1st tower fell, we were instructed to stay indoors on that floor until further instructions. We left about 30 seconds later of course. I finally got a hold of my wife who was even further downtown... She met me up my way, we hopped in my car, and took a 4 hour ride home (which was normally 30-40mins). We were speechless and listening to radio stations the entire time.

[Abbey Marie]

I was wondering how long it would take for you idiots to move on and stop letting the government as an excuse to continually grab for ever more power.

Seriously, it's been ten years, we're at war in two countries, and the TSA wants to feel up old women and high school kids attending a school prom. Does it ever end?

Not until terrorism and hatred ends. Read: never.

[Little-Acorn]

yes it is

Was driving my kids and their friends to middle school here in San Diego, heard on the radio that a tower in NYC had "fallen". I thought they must be referring to one of those radio-antenna towers, made of thin steel girders, not an occupied skyscraper. Thought it must have been a big radio-mast tower, for such a relatively unimportant event to be on the national news. Then heard the announcer say that the southern part of Manhattan was "blanketed in smoke", and wondered what that could have to do with a radio-mast tower falling over - they have no combustible material. Maybe it fell on a car? I hoped nobody was killed.

Then heard the words, "World Trade Center", and pulled over to listen. Still thought it must have been a horrible accident, maybe a super-foggy day in NYC and a pilot got lost (though inconceivable any pilot would fly below 1,000 feet in fog without radar guidance in that area).

Then heard that TWO planes had hit separate towers.

Dropped the kids off (maybe wrong move?), then went back home instead of going to work. Told my wife that something had happened, turned on the TV. Saw there was no fog in NYC. Remarked to her that less damage than that had been done, and probably fewer people had been killed, at Pearl Harbor, and this attack meant we were at war. No one new many details at that point, I had guessed there might be anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 people in the two towers. No one knew if anyone had gotten out, or how many.

Went to work, donated blood that day.

A year later, changed jobs, went to work for the company that builds the Predator unmanned drone. Made some T-shirts for my friends that borrowed a slogan from an old potato-chip commercial. Showed a picture of our planes, with the words, "Crunch all you want. We'll make more."

Made LOTS of planes.

[Thunderknuckles]

My wife and I were enjoying a relaxing week at home after getting married 3 days earlier. My mother-in-law called us in the morning on 9/11 and told us to turn on the TV. We were pretty much glued to it for the rest of the day.