I was in violin class when the announcements came on. Some of the students were really upset but I wasn’t really affected by it. I was 11.
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i was at the grocery store and did not know anything at all about the first one. Then stopped by the gas station before heading home. It was there that the lady was telling me what happened. I didnt really understand the magnatude of it yet. i guess because i wa still in my twenties. i turned on the tv while putting away groceries. I got the strong feeling a lot of people were thinking the same thing i was: “uumm… i live in a large city. what if we are next.” i remember my first instinct was to head for the hills, but i stayed put. what struck me the most was the willingness to help and and unity surrounding survivors on tv later on.
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I was sleeping at home when my radio turned on to wake me up. The news station said that a plane had hit the World Trade Centre and I rushed up to watch the news on the television. I saw the second plane hit and watched until both buildings collapsed.
I’m wondering if it’s good for the American society to think about September 11 2001 each year on September 11. I am not talking about this thread but about the medias. I mean it was a real tragedy and it was traumatic, so is it good to remember each year a traumatic event because it is like reliving it again and again year after year. I don’t want anybody to forget but maybe people should concentrate on the present.
What do you think?
I started this post because I respect the victims dead and alive that survived the incident. It was the most devastating terrorist attack even above Pearl Harbor.
I woke up in the morning it was on the news, stayed home from work glued to the news
I agree with you 
I was just thinking aloud.
I was 20 when it happenned. I watched it on TV news and was really shocked.
In my bed, just waking up to the radio alarm when the news on the radio came on and I heard the news. I was 41. I wasn’t surprised. I had watched a show on Nostradamus where he had predicted it hundreds of years before it happened so I was prepared.
I was in second grade and wondering why my mom picked me up from school since she would normally not be out of work yet.
I was a technical writer at cramsession.com (now defunct) in Edmonton AB. We had venture capitalists in from New York that day looking to buy our company. Then 9/11 happened and everyone spent the day in the office reading and watching what they could online while our guests frantically phoned home to find out about loved ones. There were no discussions about funding us after that – it fell through.
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I was home for lunch, from school, turned on the TV and saw the breaking news.
I was sleeping on my mom’s couch and she woke me up to tell me.
I think I may have been at home during lunch from high school.
Was woken up by my mother saying they are attacking America. I was talking to my American girl that morning their time…late at night for me…I got up and watched as the second plane hit the towers.
Susan was ok down in New Orleans…but it was nice to talk to her that next night…terrible day for humanity!
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Asleep. My sister woke me up to tell me something was happening. It seemed like it took hours to figure out what was going on, but that’s not possible, because we saw the second plane hit. Then the Pentagon and Pennsylvania. It felt like the awful news was just going to keep coming. Work was canceled and I went over to my mom’s house just because we felt like we needed to have each other near.
We went to Chicago after the no-fly was lifted, and it was so weird to see planes in the sky again. One flew over the Sears Tower and it seemed like everyone around us on the street just shuddered.
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I was talking to my volunteer supervisor about a letter of recommendation for med school. She told me a plane had hit the World Trade Center, and I was shocked, but I thought it was just something small, like a little Cessna plane, had no idea of the magnitude of it until I got home and saw the news. It was my fourth year of college. I didn’t see the second plane hit, it had already hit by the time I got home, but I was watching when the towers fell.
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