Where you were on that Sept morn??

C&K*s Mommie wrote: This question was posed on another board I frequent, so I wanted to ask it here.

One month shy of 5yrs ago to the day, on Sept 11th, 2001-- where were you, and what were you doing when you learned of the news of the national tragedy here on American soil??

mckayleesmom replied: I was in my bedroom in the basement of my moms house. My brother yelled down the stairs....hes not to bright ..so I didn't really believe him. To be honest I didn't think he knew what the wtc was, but sure enough...I came upstairs and watched live as the second plane crashed . I seriously thought it was fake...it was really hard to grasp that it was real.

martzfam27 replied: I was getting ready for work and putting on my mascara I was kinda in a rush and had the TV on in the background so I wasnt really paying attention. I did catch the fall of the 2nd tower. I didnt know what the wtc was until that day

Jackie012007 replied: I was in high school, during first period study hall, watching the whole thing happen on CNN! They were broadcasting on the roof and I remember the broadcaster jumping up, turning around and screaming HOLY S$#@!!! We watched it all happen until the principal made everyone turn the TV's off

Nina J replied: At home, in my kitchen. A normal day, for awhile.

mom21kid2dogs replied: I was at work. I had just clicked on my internet to check something and saw it right after they hit the first building. From that point on, no one was working~we just watched it all unfold. They let us go home around noon. I remember all I wanted to do was be home with Stephen & Olivia and call my mom & my sister.

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: I was waking up to go to work. My in-laws were here for a visit and due to leave that day by plane. My MIL was watching the news and she came up and told us to turn on the TV. With the airports closed, my in-laws took a greyhound bus home. They still refuse to fly now.

ediep replied: I was teaching. I didn't even hear about it until about an hour after it happened. Another teacher came to my room and said "2 planes just hit the WTC and they think its terrorists, now go back in there and don't tell any students and teach like normal"
I was like "uuuhhh, ok" thats impossible. By lunch, my first break, thats when I got the full story

Momof3inMe replied: The boys and I were living with my mom. She and I were not getting along and I was in the living room watching the news when it all happened. I had just met DH in June and when it all happened all I wanted to do was call him and hold the boys close to me. I also remember getting a call from Michelle (pajamaMama) she was at school.

punkeemunkee'smom replied: Tay was a brand new baby so we were cuddled in bed Bill was in Illinois (he had driven his mom,who hates flying,because his Grandpa was sick) He called and told me to turn on the TV and that he was on his way home...I called my mom right away and woke her up to tell her the Pentagon and Trade centers had been attacked and I remember just crying and being so afraid of what was going on I spend the rest of the day at my friends house watching the news and praying that we were all going to be OK....I can't believe that it has been 5 years already-I never knew why my mom could tell you exactly where she was the day JFK was killed-but I know now.....

3_call_me_mama replied: I was working as a nanny in massachusetts. I was at the bank drive up window cashing a check and getting ready to bring the girls to gymnastics and the bank teller told me. It was only minutes after it happened (the first plane) that she told me. And then I turned the radio on and listened as teh second one hit and tehn we went to gymnastics. it all seemed so surreal at teh time. Everyoen was going about their duily function. Most of the moms and gymnastic instructors had no idea what I was talking about when I asked if they knew anything. Then the cell phones started ringing. and we got eh busy circuit thing cause the lines were jammed with people. My paretns adn brothers freaked cause tehy knew I was right near boston and took teh girls there often adn the wondered if it would be the next target.
I could write a book.... but lets just say it's somethign I'll never forget, to teh exact clothes I was wearing!

mummy2girls replied: i was watching cartoons with my niece that just had her tonsils out and it disrupted that show and then it showed the plane hitting the first tower:( I thought it was a joke until i saw it hit the other one:(

J-rod replied: i was in Design 2 class....buddy came in and said a plane hit the towers on the tv in hall...we ran out to see the second one hit.

Lynda836 replied: I was on my way home from getting my car fixed. I was halfway across the bridge when I heard on the radio that a plane had hit the twin towers...and they were thinking it was an accident. By the time I got home a few minutes later the other plane had hit. We were glued to the TV all day....we couldn't believe what had happened. I still remember watching TV as they were saying that the towers were in the process of being evacuating and thinking at least these people were going to be safe.....and then the tower collapsed. I felt physically sick and started to cry.

My3LilMonkeys replied: I was in my 1st semseter at college. I went to breakfast and they had little TV's in the cafeteria with no sound so we could see that a plane had hit the 1st tower but couldn't hear what was going on - everyone assumed it was an accident at that point. I went to my computer class like normal & returned to my dorm 2 hours later to find a series of IM's on my computer from my best friend. I ran over to her dorm room and we just sat and watched it.

amymom replied: I was at work. But my brother was scheduled to be at the court house across the street from Building 7 for Jury Duty. But he was told the night before not to report. I did not know that and could not reach any of my family near NYC to find out if things were ok. Later when I did reach my dad I found out my older brother was watching the building fires from his office building in NJ across the Hudson River. One of my brother's had about 12 men that worked for him in a building that ended up destroyed from the collapse. His men all got out with very minor injuries. My SIL worked in the Federal Building in NYC and they evacuated after the 2nd plane hit. They had grouped up outside and the decision was made to go back in the building, retrieve weapons (law enforcement) and other items needed and the staging area was to be City Hall. (I think that is about a mile from the WTC) Inside the Federal Building she and her partner were seperated from some of their squad and cell phones were not working in NYC that day, they (Thank God) did not receive the message that their new staging area was under Building 2 (the first Tower to collapse, I believe) They continued to City Hall. When the tower collapsed she had to hide in a building about a mile away from the WTC in order to escape the falling debri. Her squad lost two members that day. Her brother is NYC police and he was on the recovery team. That day hits very very close to home. I have four brothers and three of them lost their jobs (I thank God none lost more) as a direct result of this terrorist attack.

On a side note my SIL who was involved in all that above, gave birth to her oldest dd on 9/11/02. So the day has happy things too!!!

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: I was laying in bed mostly sleeping but half listening to the bathroom radio while dh was in the shower. I actually thought that the very little I could hear was a joke so I got up and turned the TV on. That is the only day I remember dh actually wearing his bullet proof vest to work.

Our Lil' Family replied: I was at work and my co-worker that sat next to me received a call from her fiancee who was watching it on tv. We all thought it was an accident until we heard about the 2nd plane, right away I knew it was terroists. About an hour later we had a prayer service and left for the day. Thankfully DH was not working that day (paramedic) and was only in continuing ed. classes near me and rushed to my office and we left together. I remember we both filled up our cars with gas and each got $100 out of the ATM, we had no idea what was going to happen the rest of the day. We stayed glued to the TV that day and night.

TANNER'S MOM replied: Wow.. just thinking about this moment brings tears to my eyes!~

I was working in the shop of a trucking company. I had just sat down to work, turned on the radio and heard them announce it. That the first plane had hit..and all of us ran to the break room. We didn't believe it. I thought it was fake.. they were teasing us. We had a mechanics whose son was in the military, and he called his father while we were standing there, He said Dad I have a mission, they didn't tell us where but to call our families.. and I don't know when I will be back. When that father cried.. it was the saddest moment ever! I am crying thinking of it right now. His face, .. his son did come back but is in Iraq now.

I will never forget. I will never forget the tears my husband shed and the red ribbons we all wore so proudly. The way my children suddenly had to be afraid.. but were also beginning to realize what it is to be proud of where are you from, to begin to realize what our soldiers have fought for.

I can remember thinking that the world would never be the same, and how sad and upset I was for my children and wondering if I made the right decision to bring them in a world with so little love and respect.

The world has changed alot.. and we still have to worry about our children and their safety, but I personally don't take near as much for granted!

God Bless America.. and peace be with the familes of 911~

luvbug00 replied: I was at daycare working and we had the TV on and watched the entire thing and I left work immidiately because Brads dad ( Army commitioned and former army soldger) was working at the pentagon that day. We didn't hear from him for what seemed to be like hours and it was soo scary. but he was fine he was rushed out as the plane hit.

lesliesmom replied: I was at work. I work for a law firm that defends airlines so my boss called to tell me that a plane had just crashed into one of the towers. Didn't think too much of it, thought it was a bad accident/mishap. Went to turn on the TV and watch coverage and saw the second one hit. From there on it was downhill as we all know. I was so freaked and scared. I work in downtown Detroit so we weren't sure if we were safe or not. They let us leave about 2 hours later to go home to our families. DD#1 was in daycare, she had just started 4 days before so I ran over there to get her and take her home. For the rest of the day I just remember sitting there with DD, holding her, in shock.

Kaitlin'smom replied: I had just gotto work when the first plane hit, my first thougth was man someone really needs fling lesons, how could they not see a big building like that. Then the ladies who work in the build had the TV on so I went in to watch it and saw the second plane hit, I was in shock then told come back in the towers are falling it was awful, I am not to far from a base and when we heard all flights were caniciled and we heard somethign in the sky we were all scared. I just wanted to go home and hug DH.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: I was at work. I was wearing my favorite navy blue suit. Isn't it silly how we remember the dumbest details? We turned on the radio, like we did every day...and we just heard it. We listened until our boss told us that "they" were evacuating the building, since it was one of a a few government buildings so close to the Parliament. We went home for the day.

They evacuated a few buildings, and the Parliament, in case the attacks weren't only meant for the WTC. It was scary.

coasterqueen replied: I was on my way to work and about ran off the road in shock. I remember looking at other drivers and the look on their face was about what mine was. It was wicked. I ran the 1.5 blocks from our parking lot into work because I knew my co-worker was already there and we looked at each other and started balling. She knew I had family in the area and we were both scared. We sat in my boss' office in utter shock watching the tv show footage over and over again. My boss' was on his way to somewhere, can't even remember now, but he was flying, I do know that so we feared for him as well. We got ahold of him finally and he knew nothing about it because the airport had shut the tv's off and there was no communication as to what was going on. He dropped the phone when I told him what happened. His flight was canceled and I got him a car booked to get home. We were lucky to even get him a rental car at that point. His family was calling us frantic so we were spending the time relaying info back to them that he was ok. My boss asked me if I was alright since I had family there and I honestly told him no, I wasn't because I couldn't get ahold of them. He told us to leave, we shut the office down and I went and spent the day with DH's family trying to figure out if the rest of the family in NY were ok.

mammag replied: Man, it puts me in tears anytime I let myself remember that much....

I was having a completely normal day, babysitting and cleaning the house while the kids were at school. The mom of the kid I watched called. At that point only the one tower had been hit. So as I was watching the terror unfold I was getting more and more mad and more and more nervous. I called my sisters on three way and we all watched together. It was terrifying! I was pacing back and forth at one point not knowing what to do with myself. I remember thinking, "if I feel this way, how must the families of all those people be feeling right now?"

Chris ended up coming home and we drove over to the school, wanting to pick up the kids but then drove back home thinking it would be best for them for things to remain as normal as possible.

For a while after, I couldn't look at a flag without tears in my eyes. I remember watching the news and crying so hard for all those people.

TheOaf66 replied: I was on my way to work and heard it on the radio.

jcc64 replied: I was getting dressed, about to go down to work in NYC, 20 blocks north of the WTC. My dh called me, told me about the 1st one, and at the time, we both thought it was a small recreational plane that had made a tragic mistake. We were still on the phone when the 2nd one hit, as well as the pentagon one, and then we started to freak. My dad was a first responder on call that day as an EMT, my brother worked as a physician at one of the major hosptials in NYC, and he was not permitted to leave in anticipation of all of the incoming injuries.
The schools up here went on lockdown, and local roads were closed b/c we are so close to the NYC reservoir system, which they believed would also be targeted. I couldn't get to my kids at school for awhile. I couldn't get through to my brother and father in NYC. I couldn't get through to my co-workers just a mile or so away from the scene. It was surreal. Never before or since has NYC totally shut down so that no one could get off of the island except on foot over the bridges.
Even today, when a plane flies low over Manhattan, I tense up and look around. When I am in Penn Station every week, I constantly assess where the closest exit is.
Being in NYC, terrorism isn't an abstraction. It's a daily reality, and I am certain when it happens again, it will be here. Makes me wish I worked somewhere else.

gr33n3y3z replied: Everyone was in school but John bc he was home sick we were watching Fox news when it happend. What ever happend the rest of the day was a blur

~Roo'sMama~ replied: I was sleeping in my apartment - I was working overnights at the time so I'd been in bed for about an hour and a half when Jennifer called me and told me to go turn on the tv. I watched it for a few minutes but I was so groggy I didn't really understand what was going on and went back to bed. It didn't hit me what had really happend until after I woke up and went to Jennifer's house.

5littleladies replied: I was home still asleep. Hubby called me and said that they were listening to the radio and they were saying a plane hit the WTC, Would I turn on the t.v. and make sure it wasn't a joke? I turned it on just in time to see the second plane hit. I got up, went downstairs and sat in front of the t.v. all day watching it unfold. I don't remember eating, I don't even remember feeding the girls. Our t.v. was turned on for 4 days straight, waiting for news of rescues which, for the most part, never happened. Sept. 12, I remember sitting out in my front yard and thinking how quiet it was-no one was around, no planes flying overhead. The first time I heard a plane after that made me quake inside-and I live in MN.

1lilpeanut2love replied: I was in 10th grade at High School. I was 16. I remember everyone talking about it and we weren't allowed to turn on the televisions. It was very scary and SO sad. At lunch time I remember my stepmom came and picked up me and my stepsister. A day I will never forget. I kinda even remember what I was wearing!!

AlexsPajamaMama replied: I was in phsycology class Sr year of highschool....a boy came into class late from a vocational class at another school...he started going on and on about what was happening and no one believed him, then there was an anouncement over the loud speaker and we turned on the news in the classroom

A&A'smommy replied: I was 15 and in the bed when my grandmother called and woke us up right after the first plane hit my mom came flying into my room yelling at me to get up because something happened (for some reason I don't remember her waking my little brother who was 11 at the time up) so I sat there for a minute not really understanding what was going on then I jumped up and ran in the living room just in time to see the second one hit... and then the pentagon... it was so scary and sad I balled while I sat glued to the TV and then when my friends came home all we could talk about was what were you doing when it happened.. and how we felt about the whole thing... we were all scared. And now to this day our tiny cities dam is still got a HUGE fence up around it.. where as we use to be able to go right up on it and go see a "museum" right next to it.. it still breaks my heart thinking about it now and that new movie that is coming out... I want to see it but I'm afraid I wont be able to watch it.. and definitely not until it comes out on video.. if then

MommyToAshley replied: DH and I were home. My sister called and I turned on the news right after the first plane hit... they didn't know at this time it was terrorist. Dh and I saw the second plane hit. We sat and watched the television the rest of the day... in horror and disbelief.

MommyToAshley replied:
OMG... how horrible for you. Especially not being able to get to your kids. I knew you worked in NY but somehow it didn't dawn on me that you were most likely so close when 9/11 happened. I am so glad you and your family were safe.

MommyToAshley replied:
Glad your family was safe.. how scary.

MyLuvBugs replied: I was in my apartment in Phoenix watching little house on the prairie and eating my cereal for breakfast. And I remember getting so po'd b/c they interupted the episode for a "special news" thingy.....then they showed a clip of the second plane hitting the tower, and ran to the phone b/c it was ringing. Dh (who was my boy friend at the time) was on the other end and I immediately said "OMG! what is going on?" and started crying as he explained what was happening.....And I'm crying right now just thinking about it.

JP&KJMOM replied: My stepson had a wreck on his motorcycle and broke his arm on the evening of the 9th. He ended up having surgery on the 10th and we were released on the morning of the 11th. We drove the hour home from the hospital and drove up to the house and my friend called and said have you watched the news. Needless to say we had not but we spent the rest of the day taking care of my stepson and watching the news.

I remember thinking this can not be real.

holley79 replied: I was dropping DH off at the airport for him to fly to Spain for something Navy wise. Needless to say he didn't take off that day at the airport, he left from NAS Pcola.

We were sitting in the terminal and I was Watching Good Morning America (I think is what is was.) Just finished reading the Left Behind Series and about had a heart attack. All I could think was, this is it, I have been left behind.

My2Beauties replied: I was still in college, class had just let out and I was down in the cafeteria area where they have 2 small TV's and I saw everyone crowding around, I was like what's going on? I looked over and saw the second plane hitting the second tower - my mouth just dropped. They cancelled classes for the rest of the day and they cancelled work. I just watched the news and CNN from home the rest of the day. I was so scared to go out anywhere. It was an awful awful day!

huggybugboy replied: wow. hard to believe that it has already been 5 years. I remember it all so vividly. I went to school that day (community college.) I had carpooled in with some friends and we didn't know anything about it. As I was walking to class I kept overhearing people talking about a plane crashing and didn't think anything about it. I got to my biology class and sat down. I was on time but our teacher was not there which was really unusual. Well she came up to the front of the class looking a little frazzled and started in on the lecture. I was sitting in the back of the class and from the back door and older teacher came in and motioned to our teacher to come with him. She was crying as she left. Man, I'm crying just thinking about this again. I live in California, up where nothing ever happens.

At this point I still had no idea what was happening, but as she left, people started whispering about her fiance being on the plane that crashed. The older man came and announced that all classes were cancelled for the day and that it was unknown if we would have class for the rest of the week. I was thinking, wth??? I went to the computer lab to find my carpool friend and we saw it on the internet. I think it was later that night that I found out that my teacher's fiance was on the plane that was taken down in PA. She didn't return to school that year.




It is still so vivid in my memory. May God bless all the families that were affected by this tragedy.

Boo&BugsMom replied:
I was at work at a local childcare center. When my boss came in she told us the news.

DansMom replied: I was home sick with mono, hardly able to eat or get out of bed. My husband was exclaiming about the first plane, and we thought it was an accident, until events unfolded. I'll always associate my physical illness with the horror of that day.

joshsophia replied: I was in cadaver lab at college and all of the lights blinked on and off twice. Our prof. left the lab and came back and told us what was going on. Classes were cancelled for the rest of that day and the next. My roommates and I sat in front of the TV for probably 24 hours straight.

YuMe-n-GavMakes3 replied: MommyToAshley, amymom, jcc64 and any others that that had family even Closer to the Towers than the rest of us here, Its so good to hear you made it through that crazy day in history!


I was home that morning watching the Today show as they interrupted telling about the first plane. Then as they speculated if it could possibly be terrorists and the Second plane hit. I knew then the country was under attack but still didn't place too much personal fear for myself because I live in such a desolate rural area.

The pentagon explosion was actually first called a construction accident on the Today Show. Shortly after they correctly said about the third plane at the Pentagon.

I still assumed the planes hijacked would soon start maybe attacking the far coast of Cal. or Some other major citys.
I Just did not believe what I heard next, like an Erie Dream they announced that a 4th plane had gone down in Lambertsville Pennsylvania "Shanksville"

Flight 93 had crashed into the ground 7 miles from my house! I went right out the back door got in the car and drove to the front doors of the high school and got my then Step-daughter out of school straight out of her class.
It made no sense! What were they attacking here? Coal Mines? Theres nothing here I tell you.

After that I couldn't just sit around and watch TV. I drove up to the flight 93 crash site to see if I could do something to help. There was nothing that could be done. Local Fire Department and Police had the area closed off. I'll remember that day forever and have gone back to the memorial site often.

I went back home and tried to find contact with my Brother who worked time to time at WTC finally hearing from him next day. And also finding out second day my sister and BIL were stopped from flying out of Boston the morning of 9-11 and had to rent a car to leave for Md.

C&K*s Mommie replied: I was working for a painting contractor in Tallahassee. When Chris called me with the news that a pilot had struck the WTC (I had no clue what the WTC at that time), like most people may have thought initially, I thought it was mere pilot error in a commuter plane, and all was mostly okay. Chris was in TN (I think) driving long haul trucks with an idiot of a student. We had an office a few blocks from the Capitol, and downtown and Jeb Bush is the Governor so we thought for sure that terrorists would attack Tallahassee, since it was the Presidents brother.

Then he called with news of a second plane, then news that the Pentagon was struck. By the time I got word of the second tower being hit, I got on the internet to see what was going on. I too thought "we are in WWIII" , after he called about the Pentagon all the circuits were busy on the phones so I could not get in touch will anybody on a cell. Even to this day when I hear that "all circuits are busy" line on a cell, I cringe and remember that terrifying day.

Many kudos to the American Red Cross for organizing an event that very night on such short notice. There was an event at a park, an event to begin the chain on humanity and brotherhood we all have lieing within us. That was also the first night I heard Amazing Grace on bagpipes. I still relate that & Proud to be an American to that day. I held my composure from not crying, but I was just as nervous and frightened as the next person. No one knew.....

I do not think my tv ( I was living alone at the time) came off of the news channels for a long time. I wanted to know every detail that I could possibly know about that day. Then the video showing the first plane hitting the south tower...... I could never forget that day.

Like the day the Challenger blew up, time stopped that September day.

luvmykids replied: I was at home getting ready for work and watching the Today show, when the first plane hit everyone thought it was a terrible accident and then right there before our eyes the second hit ... When they started talking about it being a terrorist attack I thought surely they were wrong and something must be screwing up the plane's control panels ...I don't think I believed it for what it was until the Pentagon got hit because I just couldn't wrap my mind around it. I actually called in sick to work because I was, just sick at heart and especially once the towers started collapsing all I could think about were all the people who had lost dear loved ones and especially children who would never see there parents again. I honestly don't think I moved away from the TV for about 3 days.

MomToJade&Jordan replied: I've had tears and chills reading this thread. It's been 5 years, but seems like yesterday when I actually sit down and think about it. I was in West Virginia at my in-laws house. We had slept in, I think because we had been out late fishing at the river. It was around 10:10 am when my MIL came into the room and said your dad's on the phone saying a bomb has gone off at the WTC. Well we imediately turned on the tv and all we could see was smoke. I lost it there. I was born in NY and had seen those towers so many times. I just couldn't believe my eyes. DH is in the Air Force and was on leave before we moved to Hawaii. We had no idea if he would be called away or what. Let's just say I cringed everytime the phone rang that day. I remember calling my Mom up in tears and asking her if everyone was okay. A cousin of mine is a firefighter in the city, but had been sent to the Brooklyn Bridge. I don't think I walked away from a TV for 3 days. Two weeks after 9/11 I boarded a United Airlines 757. To this day I still don't know how I managed to get myself on that plane. We were in Hawaii for 4 years after that.

I don't know if you have all heard the song by Alan Jackson. It's called Where were you when the World stopped Turning...
If you haven't I would go look up the lyrics because that song sums it up for me.

God bless America and a prayer for those families who lost loved ones on that horrible, horrible day.

luvmykids replied:
Amazing song, CA. So sad that it takes such tragedy to wake us up to the "little" things and to each other as well.


Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day
Out in the yard with your wife and children
Working on some stage in LA
Did you stand there in shock at the site of
That black smoke rising against that blue sky
Did you shout out in anger
In fear for your neighbor
Or did you just sit down and cry

Did you weep for the children
Who lost their dear loved ones
And pray for the ones who don't know
Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble
And sob for the ones left below

Did you burst out in pride
For the red white and blue
The heroes who died just doing what they do
Did you look up to heaven for some kind of answer
And look at yourself to what really matters

I'm just a singer of simple songs
I'm not a real political man
I watch CNN but I'm not sure I can tell you
The difference in Iraq and Iran
But I know Jesus and I talk to God
And I remember this from when I was young
Faith hope and love are some good things he gave us
And the greatest is love

Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day
Teaching a class full of innocent children
Driving down some cold interstate
Did you feel guilty cause you're a survivor
In a crowded room did you feel alone
Did you call up your mother and tell her you love her
Did you dust off that bible at home
Did you open your eyes and hope it never happened
Close your eyes and not go to sleep
Did you notice the sunset the first time in ages
Speak with some stranger on the street
Did you lay down at night and think of tomorrow
Go out and buy you a gun
Did you turn off that violent old movie you're watching
And turn on "I Love Lucy" reruns
Did you go to a church and hold hands with some stranger
Stand in line and give your own blood
Did you just stay home and cling tight to your family
Thank God you had somebody to love

I'm just a singer of simple songs
I'm not a real political man
I watch CNN but I'm not sure I can tell you
The difference in Iraq and Iran
But I know Jesus and I talk to God
And I remember this from when I was young
Faith hope and love are some good things he gave us
And the greatest is love

I'm just a singer of simple songs
I'm not a real political man
I watch CNN but I'm not sure I can tell you
The difference in Iraq and Iran
But I know Jesus and I talk to God
And I remember this from when I was young
Faith hope and love are some good things he gave us
And the greatest is love

The greatest is love
The greatest is love

Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day

luvmykids replied:
I remember that also, I get chills just thinking about it. Since that day I can't hear any patriotic songs or say the pledge without crying.

flirtycuddle replied: I still remember that day I was in 12th grade sitting in my WE THE PEOPLE class working on our presentations. No one knew what was going on when the principal got on the intercome and told all teachers to turn on the TV. We turned it on in time to watch the second plane hit. The rest of the day we just sat watching in our 1st class. The didnt even ring the bell to switch classes just to go to lunch then let us go home after that. But we were in NV so they did a release to parents only cuz they thought the Hoover dam was going to be hit next

Maddie&EthansMom replied: I was at home watching the Today show so I saw it from beginning to end. I didn't leave my TV for days and I don't remember eating, either. I had to force myself to leave the house and when I did I was so overcome with emotion that it was hard to look others in the eyes. Flags were flying everywhere, people were so kind. The streets were pretty much empty...like someone else mentioned, the skies were free of planes. We had just been in NYC 5 mos before the attacks. Scotty was supposed to be there the following weekend on business. I just remember this strong feeling coming over me that I had never felt before. And still when I think about it, I get this same feeling. It's so hard to describe. I love that song by Alan Jackson b/c it really sums up a lot of the feelings people had. I didn't fear other people after it happened...instead I felt such a strong bond with Americans and I realized for the first time in my life how much we are all affected by these things even though we may not live in that town or know some of these people personally. I will never forget that day.

Oh and Sept 11 is my parent's anniversary. They didn't celebrate it that day.

Just today I saw a firetruck drive by with a flag on the back and I'll be darned if it doesn't choke me up everytime I see it.

kimberley replied: i was at school. i went to an adult high school to get my diploma and had to go to the office for some reason and all the girls there were glued to the radio. the said the world trade centre was bombed and i thought OMG that has to be wrong! and as i stood there they announced that it was a plane that slammed into the building. i was in utter shock! i went home and was glued to CNN for about 2 weeks. i felt absolute disbelief.. this couldn't *really* be happening! my ex's mom (who lived in NJ) phoned upset because her office had a roof top garage and when she drove in, everyone was talking about the first plane that hit the tower. as they stood on the roof watching in horror, they SAW the second plane hit! what a rude awakening. i still get chills thinking about the horror of that day

God Bless those who lost their lives and also those who were left behind.

garrettsmom replied: I was at work, assisting with a procedure on a cat, when one of the doctors came to the back and said that his wife had called him and said a plane had hit the WTC, my first thought was it was a big air traffic control accident. He kept coming back with updates every few minutes. We don't have a tv in the hospital, so everyone had their radios on in their sections and that's all anyone could hear because we were all on the same station. It was eerie.

redplaydoh replied: I was at work and couldn't believe what I was hearing on the radio. A few of my co-workers and I sat in utter disbelief... then we remembered that one of our wheelchair athletes (Paul Nitz) was to be there at 9:00 for a meeting. He's typically punctual but for so many reasons that morning he was running late. He arrived shortly after the second plane hit the building but of course he just came back home. Sadly a short time later we found out another co-worker's father was there and he became one of the victims, Richard Keane.
DH was in Chicago and I never felt so scared for him and so alone. He was staying next to the Sears Tower and I just had in my mind that the terrorists were targeting tall buildings...
I'll never forget that day.

Brias3 replied: I remember hearing about it from my mom- we were living overseas at the time. She informed me that night (with the time difference, it was morning here in the U.S. and it was JUST happening) that a plane had crashed into one of the towers and I remember thinking how horrible. By the next morning my time, it was out of the woodwork what REALLY occurred and I was in contact with both our families all day. I remember Bruce's parents being really worried about his younger brother, who was at the time attending college and actually living in the largest dormitory in the U.S. (at the Illinois State campus). They were freaked out it was going to be a possible target, since they were clearly going for volume of people in one place.

Celestrina replied: I was at work. We lived in MD at the time and my DH worked right by the Pentagon. The telephone lines were jammed with calls and couldn't reach him for three hours. He was so close he could see the smoke from his office window. I remember when the first plane hit they thought it was an accident. Then after the second one hit it became quite obvious what happened. We were numb. There was a restaurant right next to us and we would take turns going over. The owners of the restaurant were from Afganistan. They were horrified with what happened. About an hour after the attack we got permission to close for the day.

Kirstenmumof3 replied: I was on my way to work. I worked in a Highschool Cafeteria. MY FIL was driving me and we heard about the first tower being hit on the radio. Then when I arrived at work, the students were all talking about it and I found out that the other tower had been hit. I remember being in shock! Then shortly before my shift ended the head of the company that I worked for came to pick up some supplies from us, they ran a cafeteria at the airport and there were a lot of people stranded there and they were running out of food. Probably not as many people as the bigger cities, but a lot for Thunder Bay. When I came home I watched the news and I couldn't stop watching. The tears didn't come until later, it was just shock!