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Where were you on September 11th?

  1. mrsjazz

    coconut / 8234 posts

    @Andrea: So scary! I can't even imagine. My sister worked over there, too and also had to run for her life! She's had recurring bronchial infections since 9/11 and we think it's from running in that cloud of ash.

    I was in NYC, but not near the towers. I was working on Park Avenue. But I was so scared because both my mom and sister worked near the trade center (my sister was closer). We didn't hear from my sister until that evening, thank god she was safe!

  2. Smurfette

    GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts

    I just just graduated in May, so I was at my first real job. I don't remember who first told us about it. But there was an old TV in the building and we watched the coverage all day.

  3. mrs. wagon

    blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts

    I was a junior in college, asleep in my dorm room. My roommate woke me up and told me to turn on the radio (I think someone called her to tell her). We didn't have a tv in our room. My dad called because he couldn't get in touch with my brother, who worked nearby. Turns out he spent all day walking home to New Jersey totally covered in soot. He lost a few friends that day, including a guy who was supposed to be a groomsman in a wedding the next weekend

    My friend worked in the twin towers but was randomly called to a training in Jersey City that morning. His entire team made it out ok though.

    I remember attending memorial services at school because a student lost both of her parents. They were on one of the two flights departing from Boston... they were on their way home from visiting her.

  4. Shutterbug

    grapefruit / 4703 posts

    @mrs. wagon: Wow, I'm glad your brother was ok!

    I forget sometimes how much it affected Boston, too, since two of the planes came from there. My dad's boss was on one of the planes, and my friend's dad missed his flight (big dig traffic), and it saved his life.

    I went to school near an airport, and I remember the complete silence in the air for the next few days being so eery.

  5. kayakgirl73

    clementine / 750 posts

    I was at work in Washington DC. I remember my boss coming in from the office kitchen after she got her usual morning coffee. She said a plane hit the World Trade Center I said what? WE both got online ans started reading. Both towers had actually already been hit.n I'm not quite sure when we heard about the Pentagon. I remember hearing that there was a bomb at the State Dept. We also keep hearing about other planes supposedly headed for DC. We were unable to leave until after 3:30 because the hotel next door had a bomb threat. I remember finally walking to the Metro and seeing Fighter jets circling.

  6. Andrea

    GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts

    @mrsjazz: Sorry to hear about your sister's bronchial infections. It does seem likely that it was from that day. =(

  7. matador84

    papaya / 10560 posts

    I was a sophomore in high school...I remember that day we were doing a socratic seminar over the Scarlet Letter and all of a sudden my teacher randomly turned on the TV in the room...she must have gotten an email about it--and we watched the 2nd tower get hit. Super surreal.

  8. mrsjyw

    GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts

    Senior year in hs, ap english class... lockdown watching it all unfold on the tv...

  9. BoogieBea

    pomegranate / 3503 posts

    I was working several blocks away too. As I was walking over the manhattan bridge back over to Brooklyn, I watched the first tower collapse. It was so surreal and get chills to this day when I think about that morning. The next few days, all the awful stories started flooding in. I was pretty much in zombie mode for the next few weeks.

  10. Rainbow Sprinkles

    eggplant / 11287 posts

    I was homeschooled at the time, so I think I was home watching it on tv. I didn't get how serious it was at first at all.

  11. Turd Ferguson

    pomegranate / 3160 posts

    I was actually in the Middle East. I did a semester of school in Dubai (UAE), and was staying with my aunt and uncle.

  12. SugarplumsMom

    bananas / 9227 posts

    In my old apartment with my ex-husband. He was just about to leave for work. I was glued to the TV, horrified and scared.

  13. Crisark

    pomegranate / 3398 posts

    I was at my mom's getting my hair highlighted. I was just out of High School.
    I remember we sat there stunned. My then Fiance was in boot camp at the time and I was terrified something was going to happen to him.
    It's a day I will never forget.

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