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@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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.