[shinemdm]

Hey,

Where were you at the time of the 9/11 attacks?

I was a teacher aide for the hated-by-all Phys. Ed teacher in the 8th grade. I had the daily duty of mopping the gym floors every single day and there were like 3 full length basketball courts so this took up my whole period.

Anyways me and my friend who helped me with the floors always hung out in the athletic director's office after we were done. About 11:50 i believe (if i have the time right), his mom (who was the athletic director's secretary) told us that some airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Centers in New York City. Now, being the young, neive person that i was, I had never heard of the World Trade Centers before 9/11 and I thought it was no big deal (just another plane crash right?), until i heard some teachers saying that this was worse than the attack of Pearl Harbor.

Anyways that's where I was.

Peace out,

Max

[Godshope2246]

Well i was in my second day of classes (during my second class which was math) at my boarding school and the school called an all school meeting (wich they never do unless it is planned ahead of time) and then they cancelled school for the rest of the day and i went back to my dorm and wacthed the news covereage. such a depressing day in history.

[rdeford]

I was at work.....we all sat around the radio listening. I called my wife, who was a preschool teacher in her own building with no contact from the outside world and told her.

[Becky]

I was at the computer at home, working on school (I think).

My dad called from work. Told us to watch the news. At this point, I believe only one tower had been hit. And those on the news didn't know what was going on. It took awile to find a station that new anything. Both towers were still standing at the time. And I believe both were hit now. I didn't get to see the first one fall... because we changed chanales again, and by the time we got back to the one chanall that knew anything... the tower had follen. I remember the news people talking about the danger of the other one falling. what the liklyhood was, and what might happen to others if it did. I was praying that it wouldn't... as they talked.. you saw on the live footage, the second tower fall. AS THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT IT. You could have heard a pin drop.

[bingandbarry]

I had just walked into my 2nd class of the day--Honors Chemistry. I couldn't believe what I saw--and niether could any of the other kids. We had a test that day, and the teacher turned off the TV and made us take the test before we could watch it again. But he kept us updated. We were all pretty scared, including the teacher, but to me it seemed like he was using humor to try to hide how he really felt.

[Paulbre]

I was at work sharpening a chainsaw. I could hear the guys on the power company radio talking about a tower being hit by an airplane. My first thought was one of the main powerline towers being hit. But if this was the case, where was the poweroutage? I couldn't figure that part out. Then a car drove by slowly and my foreman heard something on their radio, so he turned on the regular broadcast radio, then yelled for me to listen. I sat in disbelief. The whole country seemed to stand still. It was a quiet day after that, but I didn't get to see any footage 'til I got home that evening. Even still today, it seems surreal.

[GMartin2R]

i was asleep in bed. normally i wouldn't have gotten up for at least another hour or so. i partially woke up when the pentagon was hit. it didn't make much sense until i got up a little later.

[Art]

I was in a sleeping bag, on an air mattress, in a tent, in a campground, where I was living at the time. I didn't have work that day (a Tuesday, as I recall), so I was trying to sleep in... Sleeping in isn't the same in a tent, though. It gets hot, and you wake up. So yeah, I woke up about half an hour after the damage had been done.