September 11...what were u doing?

[southernhorizons]

I was at work. I remember someone had gone into the office (where they were allowed to have TV), and came out and told us the news. Everyone was trying to get a radio or TV to listen. We didn't know exactly what was going on, and no one got very much work done the rest of the day.

[home_teachin]

I had badly sprained my ankle the night before and called in sick to work that morning. My mom called and woke me up. When I turned the TV on, only the first plane had hit. We watched the 2nd, then watched as they went to a split screen showing the Pentagon, and talking about the one that went down in Pennsylvania.
I had it on all day. I finally turned it off because my 4 year old son was watching it, and yelling Pow when the planes hit. Of course, he didn't understand it was real and I wasn't going to tell him. He doesn't remember it.
I remember the creepiest part of that week. We lived right next to the Indianapolis Airport and I was used to hearing planes constantly. When they grounded all the flights that week, it was so quiet, you knew something was wrong.

[rj4tr]

I was sleeping because I worked the night shift. I live in Pennsylvania and my friend's mother from Georgia called me to tell me what was happening! Then I turned on the t.v. Later I found out that someone I grew up with was in the second tower.

[andzigallery]

To get a bird's eye view of 9/11 based on my experience.  Here are some excerpts from "9/11 Memoirs-7 Years Later:"

"I'll never forget this day! The morning was very eerie. Yet, the sky was picture perfect blue but something didn't seem right!

Now that I think about it, there were no birds in the sky that morning. In fact, the usual flock of geese around the Kearney Rec site weren't around on that day either!"

"But on the morning of September 11, 2001, this is the image I saw: I turned my head and saw the Twin Towers on FIRE! I turned my head and I saw SMOKE! I turned around and thought, "Someone bombed Manhattan! What happened to everybody? What happened to my mom?"

I wrote about my experience two years ago on Squidoo.  For twenty-three years, the Twin Towers was a permanent fixture in the Tribeca community.  September 11, 2001 changed all that.  When I no longer saw those building it felt as if someone had literally pulled my heart out.  It was that painful!

[rbeal2324]

I was at work that day,  i can remember running to the TV  and just watching in horror. 

[constance312003]

I was working for my local Sheriff's Office and we had TV's in every room.  We watched in horror and people were in our office most of the day as we had so many TVs.  What I remember most was that my brother was in Africa, Kenya to be exact, and was out in the bush doing missionay work.  I was so fearful he would not make it home as the terriost had bombed the Kenya embassy a couple of years prior.  He did make it home safe but was not allowed in the US Embassy and had to stay in Amsterdam for a couple of days waiting on a flight home.

[dawn21207]

I was in fourth grade at the time.. I don't remember much except that we watched it happening on tv...

[jnjmolly]

I lived in Ny...I was supposed to be in school but I had a sleepover and when my mother woke my friend and I up, I thought it was to get ready for school but she turned the TV on and explained everything that happened...

[Shahrukhlover]

I was in first grade.  No one really knew what was happening. I don't remember any sense of mass panic or anything though.  I was too young.

[andzigallery]

My grandmother was 94 years old at the time.  She never understood what was going on!  She kept asking, "Why they keep showing that same war movie over and over again?"  It never occurred to her that this was reality!  We never told her what actually happened.  At this point in her life, she was developing Alzheimer.  Seven years later, my grandma passed away.  From that very day, she never realized the horror of this event.  She died never knowing what really happened concerning 9/11.

[catdula]

I was at work and ws getting all these reports on the internet and radio. We were all trying to figure out what happened. Then I had to get my brothers kids affter school, and they were all freaked out cause they did not understand it. They put their school in lock down and did not explain it to them. It was so hard for them to understand, but when we went to New York and DC later, they really got it then.

[makedoughonline]

I was at work, and I remember what happended to our country

[BeccaGoga]

I was at school and we were watching the news about what all was going on in New York and Washington and I remember one of my classmates making a comment about how it's a good thing that nothing like that ever happens were we live. A couple minutes later the local news cut in with a Special Report say that a plane crashed in Shanksville. The kid that made the comment about nothing ever happening here's mouth fell open. Were I live (and where the school I  went to is at) is only about 6 miles away from where Flight 93 crashed. That definatly was a scary day.