Where were you?

[Eagle Kammback]

I was in 5th grade, front row. the principle came over the intercom and told us the World Trade Center and Pentagon had been attacked. My teacher's daughter works in the Pentagon and got really worried, if I recall correctly, her daughter was driving by the Pentagon when it happened

[Revan]

Hmm, I was in primary 5 I think.
I came home and mum watching the news and she looked really worried.

I didnt know what was happening. I didnt understand so I didn't take it seriously.

[NeonLightChild]

I was walking to my chemistry lab and some kid remarked that "Somebody bombed the Pentagon." We had the teevee on in the lab while we did our experiments and after we all watched the towers fall while holding test tubes, none of us really felt like slogging through the rest of the lab. The rest of the day, pretty much every class (especially American Studies) was spent glued to the teevee.

[Chriz]

Driving to work. I got in and there was an email sent around that just said "a plane crashed into the WTC." I thought it was like a small 2-seater and some idiot pilot...

[WareW-Believer]

I had just gotten home from school wondering why half the kids were missing come lunch time (aparently, the teachers weren't allowed to tell us what happened). My mom had it on the news.

[Rylias Shadow]

Middle school, 8th greade, I had just gotten to my second period class when it was starting to be talked about. We watched the news a lot that school day, but I didn't really understand until I got home that day and my parents explained it all to me.

[Chiron Jackal]

I was in 10th grade. I heard about the first crash that morning from my mom. I spent the morning watching it over and over again as every channel except CartoonNetwork was playing it on an endless cycle. On the five minute drive to school the second crash was announced on my favorite radio station.

Probably the only day I was actually quiet in class.

[Klark]

I was in Meyersdale, PA, sitting outside a government office waiting for my mom to get done with her appointment when I heard it over the radio.

We made it home and saw the second one hit the tower on TV.

My friend Arttie, my mom's now ex-boyfriend Dave and I stepped outside and listened to the radio. I remember Dave pointed to the sky and asked me why there was a plane if they were all supposed to be grounded.

We watched that plane nosedive from the sky from my backyard in Salisbury. We immediately hopped into the car and drove in the direction of the crash. It lead us to a field near Shanksville about 24 miles from my house.

We learned on the way that the Pentagon had been hit.

By the time we arrived, cops had already cordoned off the field. We stood across the dirt road and just watched as the emergency personnel did their thing. We stayed until night fall.

When it got dark, cops began making fires to keep warm. Every few feet, there was a fire and at least two cops to keep people away from the scene.

I guess in some odd way because I saw Flight 93, I was there that day.

I cried when I watched the film about Flight 93 because I had watched that plane plummet that day, and seeing what may have taken place inside was a hard thing to watch.

It's also one of my friend's birthday, her 21st birthday to be exact.

[Chiron Jackal]

I always found it proper that that plane was flight 93.

93 is the number of Will.

[Alleycat]

I was only about six at the time and had just woken up to get ready for school. When I came into the kitchen my mom was searching crazily for any sort of tape to record the news. I gave her one I found. ( it happened to be Disney's Mulan. We now have a recording of 9/11 that begins with the Mulan credits)I stood there and watched the news with my two even younger sisters and my mom. My mom had explained the situation to us immediately and my sisters and I were all too afraid to go to school that day.

[Tempest]

I was in the 8th grade when the principal pulled my teacher out of the classroom for a couple of minutes. When he came back in, obviously sad, he told us that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I didn't believe it at first. I'd just been to NY 2 or 3 months ago with my family and I saw the twin towers. I remember a lot of kids went home because they were scared, and the principal told us over the PA that we weren't allowed to talk about it on the bus because they didn't want the younger kids knowing about it. When I got home I watched the news with my mom and cried on her shoulder for a long time. I was very disturbed that anyone could have done that. It still disturbs me.

[Tux]

Working in an MSG factory. Heard it over the radio.

[kathryn]

I believe I was in the 6th grade, middle school, in gym. A group of kids pulled out a tv and I saw a shot of a plane crashing into the towers. I knew what the towers were and what that meant, but at the time I was going through my own personal problems, so I just thought "I've been there before..." turned away and went back to playing basketball.

I didn't really care until a few months later or whatever when we were studying it in a class of some sort. In a small way I still feel numb about it.

Unlike my aunt, who heard about it when getting a birthday call from her daughter. Yup, nice birthday present.

[Binkx]

I was in my 10th grade world history class when my teacher got a call on his school phone and turned on the TV for us to watch. I just remember sitting there wishing my class would shut up so I could hear what was being said on the TV rather than their anger at the situation that they weren't even paying attention to.

[MetaKittie]

It was around I think third grade? Before that I think. I was still in Kansas. We were doing whatever hyperactive kids do then they turned on the TV and we sat down and watched footage of the towers falling. It kind of stuck to us. I just remember sitting there while everyone was for once silent in front of the TV.
Also I think Bush came on and addressed the public about it, I forget. We also had a moment of silence. I don't remember the days after it though.

Ever since then I haven't liked watching TV.

[BlackRosePhantom]

I was in 3rd Grade. I'm pretty sure it was second period. My friend Gina got called out of the class, as well as 2 oter kids. All we knew was that she was sent home. When I got home I learned of the attack and the next day I learned that one of Gina's relatives was killed in the towers. I also remember blaming Bush because the year before during a campian debate he said that under his presidency we wouldn't go to war to counter Al Gore's statement that if there was a war, he would try to end it as soon as possible. It thought it was stupid and just made the terrorists mad.

[Shaun]

Damn I feel old, I was a month away from turning 19. I was in trade school at the time for my electrical license and our teacher had the radio on in class as we worked. I remember I was having a bitch of a time with a complex circuit breaker and was freakin pissed. I slammed the piece down and realized everyone around me was sitting still. I stopped and heard the announcement and immediately called my dad who was working a job in that area. Never in my life have I ever felt so much fear. Thankfully he was far enough away from it and our teacher dismissed class so I headed home and spent the day in front of the TV with my parents and sister. But that fear has stayed with me, even now, sometimes I'll call my dad when I know he is doing a job in New York just to check in on him.

[BlasphemousHeart]

um... I was in 4th grade, and in P.E. when it happened. When we came back to class our teacher and student teacher were sitting in the back of the room sobbing as they watched CNN. None of the kidsa in my school at the time were allowed to know any details until we went home. My mom says I was lucky, because we had been to NewYork that spring.

[Chiron Jackal]

I spent the day watching just hour upon hour of TV specials about it on the History channel. As I watched I remembered more about how I felt on 9/11. I remember wanting desperately after the second crash to believe that it was still an accident. An unbelievably unlikely accident.

My brother was in 3rd grade at the time and I talked to him about it after watching the various specials. It made life much more real for both of us. You hear about acts of violence or terrorism in the middle east and you're not shocked. Upset or horrified, but not shocked. Violence and terrorism in unstable nations in the far east or in Africa are also expected. Even the attacks that go on in Ireland still have a certain small of expectancy.

Neither Joe nor myself have ever really bought into that idea that America is the amazing perfect super-nation that rules the world, and we knew something like this could happen. But realizing that we're vulnerable and then actually experiencing that we're vulnerable are two very different things.

I suppose it's like being diagnosed with some common illness like cancer. All of us know we could get cancer, but actually getting it is a huge and devastating shock even if you end up recovering. It's almost as if when we acknowledge that this could happen to us, we don't actually believe it. Like we're just smiling and nodding in our own minds, agreeing but not really paying attention.

I can look to that and point it out as being an awakening of sorts. That was the moment that, in a lot of ways, I grew up.

[Pinnz]

I was in grade 9, science class, and the teacher came in and told us that the World Trade Center had been bombed. I went home at lunch and watched it on the news.