Where were you at and what were you doing when 9/11 happened?

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#1 deactivated-614fa247a87ab
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I was in a ship driving simulator in Toledo, OH and they came over the radio and said "The WTC's have had planes fly into them". I was thinking "What does this have to do with being in a simulator on a ship in the Detroit River?". Then I came to find out what it really meant when they cut our training session short.

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Waiting for the schoolbus with my mom.
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#3 Lord_Daemon
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I actually caught it early live. Just by chance a friend of mine was over playing games with me until the wee hours and when he left I turned on the news while I picked up my apartment getting ready for bed - then the news hit about the first plane crash. Needless to say I didn't get any sleep that night.
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#4 Self_indulgence
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I was sleeping and my mom woke me up.. and then there were a bunch of phonecalls. i didnt really know what was happening at the time
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#5 GC4ever
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i was going to school
iwas in 8th grade when i got on the bus our driver who most of the time has old rock music on instead had the news radio on and telling us that the trade center got hit by planes
no one thought it was true until we got to 1st period when all of the t.v.s in all of the rooms had the news on
then most of ourstudies where canceled so we could watch to see what was happening

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#6 lonewolf604
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since i live on the west coast, it was still pretty early i was getting up from bed, needless to say i was very young (11) and what i saw didn't really affect me, but now as a look back it was devastating
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#7 deactivated-57e5de5e137a4
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I was at school and the teachers wouldn't let us watch it on the tv. I was pissed.
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#8 Kikouken
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Well back then I still lived in New York and I was going to school and I saw a bunch of people outside on cell phones going nuts and yelling. I didn't understand what was going on, so I kept walking to school and when I got there that's when I found out.
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#9 lycrof
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It was my first week of middle school. I woke up and the tv was showing vids of the it. The second tower had not fallen yet. Then all the teachers did at school that day was watch the news.
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#10 Stealth-Gunner
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I just came back from school and I had no clue wtf the World Trade Center was
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#11 deactivated-614fa247a87ab
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I was at school and the teachers wouldn't let us watch it on the tv. I was pissed.guynamedbilly

what kind of school did you go to? i remember when the okc bombing happened back in 95 and I was in 9th grade at a catholic school and they let us watch it all day and didn't give any classes. did they think9/11 was too violent for you guys to watch while it took place on live news? i'm just curious what their excuse was?

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#12 lonewolf604
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I just came back from school and I had no clue wtf the World Trade Center wasStealth-Gunner
me too, along with the pentagon
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#13 deadnoise91
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Just waking up to go to school. Didn't really affect me at all though.
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#14 sfenty
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I was teaching freshman composition when the first plane hit. I went up to a communal office held by other grads and someone had the news on the radio. Soon, someone had managed to get an old13 inch television up there.I stayed there stunned until the second plane hit. I stayed for a couple of more hours. Hardly anyone talked. No one knew what to say. The most surreal thing about it all was everyone's reactions. Some were shocked, some tried to act normal but didn't. Overall, I thought many of theyounger students on the UF campus acted like shallow rich kids. I overheard many of them talking about the typical petty stuff the same day and for the rest of the week. I realize now many might have just been hiding from the scope of the tragedy and just didn't know how to react. That is what I tell myself now anyway. I for one was in a daze for a few days.
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#15 Conanfan1
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I was getting ready for school.
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#17 steppinrazor88
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In the principal's office and when I walked into class I thought we were watching a movie :| I was like "Holy **** that was awesome!" and everyone stared at me.... :(
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#18 lonewolf604
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and to add

since i was young, back then i was pissed about it being on the news for weeks, it interrupted saturday morning catoons on fox kids (now 4 kids tv)

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#19 cjek
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I wasn't in school that day, so I was at home, watching TV. I naturally just browsed the channels, and came across news channels covering a plane crashing into one of the towers, before normal TV channels were interuppted. Seeing the second plane was a confusing moment, because I saw smoke from one tower, and a plane flying into the other. The idea of it being a replay from another angle quickly disappeared. I found it hard to sleep that night after watching so many people die. Seeing people jumping from the towers was hard to take in for a 10 year old. It's one of those days which you remember more vividly than even just 2 days ago. The same goes for Princess Diana's death, the Asian Tsunami and the 7/7 attacks.
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#20 IsNotInterestes
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Putting on deodorant before school started, then I turned my television on.

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#21 spazmaticmof0
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Eating breakfast before school
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#22 deactivated-614fa247a87ab
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Putting on deodorant before school started, then I turned my television on.

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on a lighter note of a dark subject, i bet your deodorant was put to the ultimate test after seeing that crap happen.

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#23 duxup
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I was on a conference call with people in the tower that was hit second.
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#24 X360PS3AMD05
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Waking up for school.
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#25 LitBolt
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I was alseep when the first plane hit. My mom woke me up and I kinda stumbled out to the living room before laying down on the floor, trying for more sleep. The TV was on, but I didn't pay attention to it until she said, "You're probably going to hear about this in school." I looked up and saw the tower on fire. That woke me up a bit, heh.I watched the second one hit before I had to go to school. All except one of my teachers just let us watch the news in class all day, so I got to watch almost all of it happen, even though I do live in Pacific Standard Time.
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#26 remaGloohcSdlO
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I was opening the camera shop I worked in as store manager. One of my employees arrived and said he was listening to the radio and something was happening in NY. We turned on a small TV we had at the shop, and didn't look away all day. I'll never forget where I was for the rest of my life. I was catching it all live, so I had that horrible feeling as soon as the second plane hit from the near instant realization that it was a terrorist attack.
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#27 deactivated-614fa247a87ab
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I was on a conference call with people in the tower that was hit second.duxup

What? For real? I believe you but the users here at GS would probably like to hear your story about it since you were actually there when it happened. I sure as heck would.

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#28 Ghost_702
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My mom was driving me to school, we had just got done picking up something at Smiths. My dad had called her on her cell and I saw her gasp. I immediatly thought a family member had died.
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#29 Headbanger88
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I was sitting in a science lab in school about to get started when the teacher put the television on. Then everything was called off and we were sent home.
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#30 FrozeN__54
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I guess I was at home or school or something. In sweden. :P
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i was just waking up to get ready for school andan australian reporter was on tv saying how terrorists had attacked the wtc in ny

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#32 duxup
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[QUOTE="duxup"]I was on a conference call with people in the tower that was hit second.jt222_us

What? For real? I believe you but the users here at GS would probably like to hear your story about it since you were actually there when it happened. I sure as heck would.

It sounds more interesting than it is. We were working with some guys in the basement and others further up in the building on a conference call. Suddenly the guys further up the building noted that there was a big fire in the other WTC building. Another person came in the room to say a passenger plane had hit it, but nobody seemed to be sure if they should belive them or not.

At that point it was decided what we were working on wasn't going to be fixed that day due to all the commotion and the guys in the WTC were told to leave the building so we all hung up. I didn't hear from any of them for a few weeks until they got setup in other offices.

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#33 X360PS3AMD05
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It was truly sad what happened, but next there should be a thread, "Where were you when 500,000 innocent Iraqi civilians were slaughtered?"................
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#34 tomxizor
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I was at my condo of a home in Santee, California. I was sleeping when the event actually happened. :|
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#35 JTWibble
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I was having a party as 9/11 is my birthday :(my party turned into a silent gathering around the TV
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#36 Dethshoot
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I came back home from school wanting to watch The Magic School Bus on FOX and I was pissed because all they showed was "some stupid tower on smoke". I didn't know what the WTC or Pentagon was at the time. Went downstairs to ask my mom if she could take me to Toys'R'Us. She said no because the country's been attacked. I asked where and she said New York. I remember saying "but we're in california :|". I just went back upstairs to watch more tv. Not till the next day at school did I realize what exactly happened.
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#37 Bill900
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I was in my bed, sleeping.
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#38 cifru
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It was 3.30pm here, i was watching TV, When suddenly the news came up.
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#39 danny_dm_moore
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got in to find it was on news, then had to go try and sell insurance to people through cold calling. needless to say it was tough.
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#40 3DayFinisher
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tbh i was sleeping, had to happen on my birthday >_>
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#41 -PureDemon-
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I was at a friends place and when I got back, it was on tv. It was two days before my birthday.
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It was truly sad what happened, but next there should be a thread, "Where were you when 500,000 innocent Iraqi civilians were slaughtered?"................X360PS3AMD05

Your statement is borderline "red herring".

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#44 RainandSunshine
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I remember, but I don't care. 911 is over hyped propoganda for senseless activities.
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#45 Grouch0de
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I was at home watching TV because I had diarrhea and couldn't go into school.
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#46 deactivated-614fa247a87ab
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I remember, but I don't care. 911 is over hyped propoganda for senseless activities.RainandSunshine

Yeah, but you're a paper boy. Didn't you make money off the newspapers?

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#47 X360PS3AMD05
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But he wasn't the one printing the papers, nor the one showing the footage over and over and over and over and over and over and over again on the news.
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But he wasn't the one printing the papers, nor the one showing the footage over and over and over and over and over and over and over again on the news. X360PS3AMD05

take a chill pill and look "deeper" into the meaning of the postins..... oh wait, i mean postings

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#49 Bourbons3
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I was at school. I'd only started secondary school the week before, and when I came home that day 9/11 was all over the television.
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#50 thanatose
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I was sitting at work when one of the network operations guys came in and said a plane had hit one ofthe World Trade Center towers. We turned on the TV in the shop and watched on CNN as the second plane barreled in. Needless to say it was very disturbing to watch it all happen.