Where were you on 9/11?

[Lost in a Dream]

I was 8 years old then and I remember that I wasn't at school because I was sick, so I was on the couch watching some random crap on tv, until the news came on about it. I remember thinking about how fucked up it was when I realized that people were jumping out of the burning buildings. I didn't quite realize how bad it was going to get right then, but I know it was pretty scary to see it happening.

 

[HopeDiesLast]

I was staying at a friend's house and we were watching it unfold on TV. We were debating if we should wake up her dad who was asleep after working midnight shift as a cop. He'd always had a strict rule to NEVER INTERRUPT HIS SLEEP "unless someone was bleeding profusely or the house was on fire". We decided to err on the side of caution and let him sleep.

Well, when he got up several hours later he was PISSED because we didn't wake him up. Oops.

 

[Quinlor]

In a class room. I that time I was doing a preparatory course for entrance exam and I remember a colleague mine rise the hands and ask if this events (9/11/2001) would be in the exam... So stupid kkkk

 

[Ready2020]

I was in a company meeting when it started pinging up on our phones. I always remember first UK news report was a light aircraft..... That was bad enough.... As the news became clearer we found a tv and just watched in horror

 

[Sensei]

I had just written an article for the website I ran back then, and the topic was the probability of nuclear war. One of the scenarios I put forward was that terrorists would detonate a nuclear bomb in Washington D.C. and that the crippled US government would retaliate blindly on countries in the Middle East. I was told to put on the TV and the first thing I saw was smoke rising from a skyscraper and the headline "Attack on America". It scared the living hell out of me.

With all due respect, I think American disasters need to be put into perspective. The attack on WTC was absolutely a terrible tragedy, but let's not forget that five times as many people died in the earthquake in Gujarat the same year. Whenever there's a mass shooting in the USA, it's a tragedy, but let's not forget that the same day, there might very well be worse mass killings in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just my two cents.

 

[Ko9]

No clue but I would guess: in a plastic kid chair eating raw butter.

 

[NoCoast]

I was 11 & getting ready for school. My dad had the tv on so we watched the second plane hit before I had to leave for school. All we did in every class that day was watch the news.

 

[Shinbu]

Idk. I was a one year old when that happened. Pretty much impossible to remember anything of what I was doing.

 

[aukguy]

I was at work in London, just getting back from a late lunch when saw people huddled around screens. Slowly dawned that something was happening - just as the web started to grind to a halt. The old blocky BBC site soon reverted to plain text only. Those were the days when a 4Mb connection was cutting edge.

 

[ohhgeeitsme]

First period, freshman year of high school. An office aide opened the door and told my History teacher to turn on the TV and then left. Clueless, she turned it on and the needless to say, the rest of the day was spent watching the TV at school and then later at home until it was time to go to bed.

 

[k75]

I was just getting ready for work.
I spent most of that day at my work computer following updates with a group of people in the PS2 section of a video game forum I posted on at the time. It was all anyone could talk about. It's funny how specifically I can remember all that, but it was pretty surreal.

 

[Thanatos]

Watching cartoons, didnt know it even happened until I was a little older

 

[Lethe]

I was in first grade at the time, I think I may have been home sick so I wasn't aware of it until later. I was too young to recognize why it was such a big deal, as I thought events like that happened regularly when I was a kid.

 

[nirvana133]

I was in 1st grade, in northern NJ. I remember everyone in my class having their parents pick them up early. it was a crazy day for sure, but it was hard to compute at the time.

 

[TAW122]

During that time, I was in class in middle school and the TV was turned on broadcasting the event soon after it happened. I remembered there was an evening event that same week similar to like a get together for families and kids but it was cancelled as a result of 9/11.

 

[mediocre]

I was only about 7 in primary school. I don't remember it at all nobody around me discussed it or told me about it and I didn't really find out about it until years later through Youtube of all places! It was quite shocking.

 

[faraway_beach]

Paper from the towers was blowing through our street in Brooklyn. I looked out the window and saw people picking them up, but I didn't go out. My father said, "We're under attack."

 

[Grey-zone]

I'd been thinking about this recently... I was 10, almost 11. My parents went to their jobs early in the morning, so I didn't find out until I walked to school and all the kids were excitedly talking about planes, an attack, the atomic bomb, etc... The teacher trotted out the tv we had in class and we watched. In those first hours none of us had any idea what was going on or who was doing it--very strange, and I felt a surge of patriotic shock and anger afterward (I was a child then!). I don't remember the first time seeing the images, they're so iconic by now that it kind of fades--but I remember the place (my classroom, the tv), and that the weather that day was beautiful.

 

[narval]

i remember saw it in a pub's TV when i was child. more people than the usual was seeing TV.
that caught my attention

 

[a.n.kirillov]

Six yo watching the news with my dad and stepmom
.
Didn't find it horrifying but very thrilling tbh

 

[Jean4]

Tower 2. 85th Floor.

 

[Oyoy]

Tower 2. 85th Floor.

I'm grateful your here. Your amazing.

 

[TheSoulless]

In utero.

 

[Throwawaysoul]

I was sneaking in a nap because the cunt I lived with believed sleeping = laziness. She ran in and told me.