Where were you when you first saw these towers being attacked?
I was only 13/14 and I remember coming home from school to the towers collapsing over and over again on the tv for ages.
It was a sad day and the trouble makers who caused this can never be forgiven for this and all the fighting it led to.
Such a sad anniversary
RIP
I was about 40 years old and I was renting a room in this guys house and working as a park ranger. I slept in that day and got up around 10:00 am and walked out of my room to the kitchen oblivious that anything out of the ordinary was happening.
I walked past the guy watching TV and started fixing breakfast. He said in a serious voice, “Nick, you got to see this”. Noting the serious tone I kind of half-jokingly said, “What is it, World War Three?” He answered back, “Maybe” so I walked back in the living room and watched crowds of people fleeing down a street from huge clouds of dust. And we kept watching as replays of the planes crashing into the towers and the collapse of the buildings.
I was talking to my American love that night. Went to bed. Mum woke me up and said someone is attacking America. Watched the news feed and saw the second plane hit the tower live. So crazy. Really did impact the world .
I was only seven but I kind of remember I was doing schoolwork at the time I was called into the living room to see what was going on on a news station covering the tragedy. Even at that young age I was pretty frightened and dumbfounded.
I was sitting in homeroom during 8th grade. My teacher flipped on the TV and they were playing footage of the first plane having already hit the towers.
It was all so surreal-- looked straight out of a movie.
The TV stayed on as the tower crumbled to the ground.
Paper and debris rained down as smoke and dust billowed into the sky.
Definitely an impactful moment in American life and around the rest of the world.
I remember, I was a kid, playing and watching TV, and suddenly there was breaking news about the towers. Shocking
I was watching the news when the planes hit. When the second plane hit I called to my sister who was getting ready for work that it was terrorists. She was still in disbelief. We went about our business getting ready for work but keeping an eye and ear on the news that morning. I dropped the babies off at daycare but as I was pulling out of the daycare parking lot the Pentagon was hit. I went back in and grabbed the kids, went home, called in sick to work and packed up the car and took off up north (here) to mom’s house, where we would be safe from terrorist attacks. We got half way to mom’s house when the president came on the radio and asked Americans to continue to go to work and not let the terrorists win. So I turned around the car and came back and went to work the next day. I panicked a little and the fight or flight instinct kicked in but the president snapped be back to reality. I’ll never forget that.
I was 19 and in my Gender, Sex and Society class in college. I lived about 2 hours outside of NYC. Lots of people with parents who worked in the city.
My roommate’s dad perished on AA flight 11 from Boston, the first plane to hit the towers.
I was working at a nuclear plant. We were taking a test on the computer, to test our knowledge of how a nuclear plant works. Somebody came in the room and announced it. I was 30 years old.
God bless America, home of the free.
I was at school working in a third grade class when the principal came to the classroom door and told us staff to come out to the hallway.
She then told us about an attack on the Twin Towers.
I was really frightened because we were only a little more than half an hour as to where it happened.
The school went into lockdown mode for the rest of the day, but during lunch break I went home and saw the news footage on TV.
I was in shock!
We were very frightened to say the least.
Such a sad day.
I was in 8th grade, in science class. My teacher suddenly stopped teaching and turned on the classroom TV. I thought it was a movie.
I was in 11th grade.
We had a TV in the class and tuned in just in time to see the second plane it.
At that point everyone still thought it was an accident.
We were all shocked.
It was 2 weeks after we came to Canada. I thought we were safe in north america. Saw it on the news.
I remember going home to watch cartoons, and even Nickelodeon was playing the news footage. Then I found out my aunt and uncle were working in the building and nobody could reach them. Luckily, they both woke up with colds that day and called in sick. They were trying to call, but the phone lines were all jammed.
I was living in Japan. We were home sleeping. I was in the Marine Corps. It was about 4 am I think. My sister in law called us and we woke up and turned on the tv. Saw the second one hit live.
Then I got called in to work. Stood up the Emergency Operations Center on the base. The world changed that day.
I was in my auto under one bridge in Miami. I had just had my breakfast and coffee. I had no TV but I listened to these events on my car radio. I had been in New York City in October 2000 and stayed quite near these WTC towers in my auto.
hey @77nick77 Is this like a tribute to american values…Like what we could have done instead…so it never would have happened…like a another matrxi??
I was 35 years old and at work at the shipping company. A staff TV was on and we saw the towers crumbling.
I walked outside onto one of the loading docks…lit up a smoke and thought to myself…“This is World War 3”.
I was 25. I was getting ready to log in at work. My job was credit verification for New Jersey landline phone orders. People called frantically all day trying to get phone service so they could call friends and relatives in NYC.
