Where were you on 9/11?

[jayhawks147]

Well today was the 8th anniversary of the most tragic day in American history, 9/11. I'm curious to know where you were on 9/11, how you found out, what you did after, etc. My story is this:

I was at school, my junior year in high school. We were switching classes when some kid said that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. I had no idea what was going on. I walked into health in which the teacher had a TV on of the World Trade Center on fire. He told us what happened and said we could watch to learn more. Not far after, a plane crashes into the south tower, which I got to witness live. The rest of the day all we did was continue to watch the news about the event and discuss it. Lots of people were crying and scared. I'll never forget.

[whitewhale5384]

I was a senior in high school and a couple kids were talking about buildings falling down because of a plane. I thought they were talking about a video game because neither of them were flipping out. I had gym the next class and our gym teacher told us that NYC had been shutdown. I left and went to the school's tv studio and like 40 students/teachers were all hovered around a 13 inch tv watching what was going on. I thought it was WWIII.

[suns]

School 4th grade.

[rollercoasterfreek]

I was in middle school and unaware of the news until 12PM. of course I was sleeping when it actually happened. Everyone was comparing this to the bombing in Oklahoma City. They just said a "tragedy happened" and I didn't see the exact news until I got home from school. I remember staring at the same replay of the 2nd plane crashing for 20 minutes. I also remember wondering what would happen to my A's and Raiders just because of the delays. My mother was supposed to go to Minnesota later in the month but all flight stuff was cancelled.

I remember the date originally because on alerts that it would be the first day tardies would count.

[Kige Ramsey]

It was a normal September morning I had just started my freshman year of high school, I woke up that morning got ready to go to school my ride to school was supposed to pick me up at 7:30 a.m. to take me to school.

I arrived at school at 7:46 a.m. just like I normally did I waited in the school hallway for the 8:00 bell to ring. When the bell rung I walked down the hallway to my locker to get the textbook for my first class which was Health. We were supposed to have a test that day which was supposed to start after the morning announcements. I finished my test at 9:15 and started reading the book that I had brought to class to read after the test. It was a book about United States history specifically the President’s of the United States.

At 9:25 our school principal comes over the intercom and says the following “we are alright right now, you may turn on your TVs now, we ask you to keep in your thoughts the people in New York and in Washington.” When he said this I was stunned “what’s he talking about” I thought to myself. So the teacher turns on the TV and on TV I see something on fire I had no idea what it was cause the TV was really small I did not know what was on the TV until one of my classmates yelled out loud “that’s the World Trade Center” i am like oh my gosh. At that moment I looked down to mark my book when I was reading it just so happens the page I was reading in the book was about the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.

After I bookmarked where I was reading I looked up to see a building collapse I am like whats collapsing. I did not know until two years later that I saw the north tower collapse live on TV. The rest of the day was a blur it went by really fast. When we got out of school I went home and for the rest of the day watched the coverage of the attack on TV.

[rollercoasterfreek]

I'm one of the few who didn't witness it live or watch the replay in school. I know others did watch the news during their classes but for the most part all my classes were just talking about it. I was in 6th grade when it happened.

I remember being confused as to what everyone was talking about. I didn't watch the news before coming to school but obviously the news was already 3 hours old by the time it came here.