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1. 

   9/07/08

   whatweneed33

   My husband came in and woke me up saying we had been attacked (we were in Mountain Time Zone at the time, which explains why I was sleeping). I really didn't know what he was talking about and looked out the windows first. I started watching tv and saw the 2nd plane hit a few moments later.
   
   Then I sat around glued to the tv all day crying while wondering what the world was going to be like for my then 5 month old baby boy.
   
   :-(

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      9/07/08

      whatweneed33

      Oh, dear, as I re-read this how selfish it sounds! But with the terrible grief over what had happened and what continued to happen throughout the morning, what I couldn't stop thinking about was how different things would seem for my little guy than they were for me growing up. VERY Ameri-centric of me, but it felt like the world had changed.
   2. 

      9/07/08

      harleyblues

      oh no don't say your being selfish, post your thoughts hugs to you!
      hb~
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      9/08/08

      MidwestMom

      You know, my son was 3 months at the time, and I had the same thought. I spent the day wondering whether there would be more than just NYC and DC. I finally had to get away from the television (and just stop crying), so I took him and walked up the street to our public library in Plymouth, MI.
      
      I found about 10 other mothers with babies taking refuge in the children's section.
      
      Despite the fear of not knowing exactly what would happen next, we had all made a decision to keep the day manageable for our children. And in the process, we met each other.
      
      But, don't judge yourself for relating your feelings that day. Trust me, you weren't alone.
2. 

   9/07/08

   othellobloke

   I was walking down Newlands Park Road in Sydenham, London when my Yank girlfriend called me from Wisconsin telling me America was under attack so I went flying into a local Turkish Kebab shop and watched it all on the news.
   
   I remember telling the bloke behind the counter 'someone's going to in trouble very soon'. Course then I didn't know how much trouble.

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      9/07/08

      harleyblues

      how shprtlty after did you hear the news in London?
      hb~
3. 

   9/07/08

   Anniepooh

   I was on my way to pick my husband up from a one month stay at a 'hospital' with the 4 year-old, 2 yr-old and 3 month-old and heard it on the radio. We didn't have TV then, so I tuned in just as the first tower was falling. I picked up DH and we got the older kids from school and went to his mom's to watch the news.

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      9/07/08

      harleyblues

      Annie
      so crystal clear on what happened that day with most of us, as when Martin Luther King & JFK where assinated at their time.. This tho was a a much broader scale..
      hb~
4. 

   9/07/08

   kristilinauer

   I was on a bus, traveling from Istanbul, Turkey, to Eskisehir, Turkey.
   
   The bus was mostly filled with non-English-speaking Turks, and only a few Americans. One of us got a phone call telling us what had happened, but we had absolutely no comprehension of the magnitude of the situation until we reached our destination and could watch CNN.

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   1. 

      9/07/08

      harleyblues

      Wow Kristi
      you were in Turkey? Hope it was enjoyable..what was your reaction seeing this on TV out of the states?
      hb~
5. 

   9/07/08

   TragicComedy

   I was in the school office, working there during my study hall period. We heard it on the radio and then watched the second plane hit the tower from the tv in the vice principals office. I must have had this dazed look on my face because the school secretary, who was bawling and pacing and asking 'why has this happened?' stopped and looked at me in concern and asked, "Are you alright?" and I thought 'what a ridiculous question'.

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      9/07/08

      harleyblues

      perhaps they thought you were going to faint? scary visions isn't?
      hb~
6. 

   9/07/08

   jaffermaniar

   I was in School that day, classes and labs were being held as usual and everybody was as usual. There were televisions all over the buildings tuned to CNN. But I had no clue what was going on until I reached home.

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7. 

   9/07/08

   Sebastyne

   I was at school attending an afternoon class of job security in Finland - hence the time difference - when one of my fellow students got an disturbing text message. He interrupted the teacher saying that a helicopter had struck Pentagon, and something about Twin Towers being collapsed, it was quite unclear what he meant. I remember the expression on my teachers face, he wasn't quite sure what to make of it, whether he should believe it or not. He told the student to keep him posted if he got any more messages and said we would finish early today to go home and find out what was going on.
   
   When I got home I switched on my little tv, and sat on the floor to watch it. It made no sense at all at first, I saw planes crashing onto buildings, clearly not an accident, and it really was end of innocence in a sense... US was one of us. Civilized. Advanced. These things don't happen in countries like ours. And yet it did. I imagined the horror the US people must be going through, and was happy I was on the other side of the Atlantic and that I didn't have to worry about my friends being there. Yet I bawled my eyes out, it was too horrible, too cruel... And we were shown images of Arabic people cheering, and I wanted to strangle each and every one of them one by one with my own two hands and then carve their hearts out. What evil must posses people that are that happy for other's destruction, I could not phantom it. I still can't.

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8. 

   9/07/08

   GetSmart

   I was sleeping when and the phone rang. It was my best friend calling me from SF to Las Vegas. She tells me to turn on the tv and that we're being attacked. We stayed connected by phone through this entire tragedy. I watch this news unfolding as the second plane hits the building and in shock in not believing all of this was happening especially when the two buildings collapsed. I checked on my four month old baby to see if she's ok. I then call my mom to tell her the news. I couldn't wait to see my husband to feel secure with his presence. It was a frightening moment to live through and feel so sad for those who lost a love one.

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9. 

   9/07/08

   csiunatc

   Work in Sweden, Got a call from my brother when the first plane hit. He was on his way to work.
   
   I made it home and was watching CNN when the second hit.
   
   The one thing that will always represent this to me is the Letterman Reflections.
   
   www.youtube.com/watch?v=xut56q77GK0

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10. 

    9/07/08

    drjay1966

    At home, getting ready to go teach a class, not online or paying attention to TV or radio. Then my mom called and told me what was happening. By that point both towers and the Pentagon had been hit and the plane had just gone down in PA, and I think one of the towers had just fallen.

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11. 

    9/08/08

    CrotchetyOldMan

    On my way to a meeting when I heard it on the radio. I had to stop in the P.O. and I let the counterperson know. They put the radio on. I went to my meeting. It kind of sucked because one of the women there had a B.I.L. in one of the Towers. I have no idea if he got out.
    I later found out my buddy Jim, a transit cop, died that day in the Tower.

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12. 

    9/08/08

    cooper

    A Junior in a High School living on the air path from the White House to Camp David, someone's parent had called the second the first tower was attacked - before anyone knew a second attack was coming or that it was even an attack - and told the school we were under attack so all the televisions were on when the second building and the Pentagon were hit.
    
    The school was locked down immediately basically, because when you live where we did that is what happens. We all just figured we were going to get nuked. People my age sadly seemed to be expecting the world to come to a nuclear end.

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13. 

    9/08/08

    howisbradley

    I was on a train on the way to work. They stopped the train in the middle of nowhere and told us they had been ordered to. They then proceeded to tell us that the country was under attack. They told us the World Trade Center had been destroyed by airplanes and that additional planes were being tracked towards Seattle, Washington DC and another place I can't remember.
    
    Later they told us that downtown Los Angeles was being evacuated and then told us we were backing up the train to downtown. This was confusing and a bit terrifying. Downtown was the last place any of us wanted to go after we heard it was being evacuated. When we reached the downtown station it was chaos as everyone was trying to get home on limited trains. The Metro System kept announcing more trains were being called back to get people out, but everyone was impatient (typical Angelenos). I was relieved when the subway finally got me home.

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14. 

    9/08/08

    SweetViolet

    I was also in San Jose. I was awakened by a telephone call from a friend of mine in the City who agitatedly told me to turn on my TV. I watched as the second plane hit.
    
    I went to work but little was being accomplished. Someone found a TV and rolled it into the executive suite where all of us clustered around and watched in horror.
    
    Even the aggravation of the commute home on 880 seemed a lot less important that day.

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15. 

    9/08/08

    inmyredhead

    My husband, my then almost 3 yr old daughter, me, and my husbands parents and Sister were on vacation in DC. We had just gotten off the underground train (?) and everything was still just fine. We began to walk and got to the sidewalk at the end of the Capitol Building Lawn, were we stopped and pondered what site to see first that day. I was video taping the whole thing as we stood and looked around. I taped a smoke plume and suggested that there was a fire somewhere it looked like. His parents said 'Hmm, that's in the direction of the Pentagon.' But we blew it off and kept pondering where to go. Still taping... there began to be police cars. We watched for a bit and it looked like they were closing off the Capitol Building Lawn. You could see the entire square block around it and at each side and corner there was a cop car. But it was still very calm and i'd venture to say 99.9% of the people on the street still did not know what was going on. Eventually as we stood there word began to spread that something terrible happened to the Twin Towers, that they were on fire. That was about all we were able to gather. And that the underground trains were closing and we'd better hurry if we didn't want to have to walk back to the hotel to see what this was all about. The biggest panic then, was just that... everyone was worried that they would not catch a train. We did get back to the hotel and stayed there in front of the tv the rest of the day.
    
    The NEXT day however we did our sight seeing and enjoyed the lack of crowds EVERYWHERE. We had come all the way from the west coast, picked them up on the east coast and drove up to DC, so I guess we felt like 'what can ya do?" and had our vacation anyway.
    
    It's very strange to think how I was there and that smoke plume was in fact the Pentagon in flames, and if we had wanted to tour the Capt. building, those police would have been telling US 'Stay Back, No Entry'. It's also strange to think how you can be SO oblivious to something so big if you don't have either a cell to your ear, or a tv in front of you, or a radio on in your car. If you are just on the street all by your lonesome, you'd have to just HOPE you overheard something somewhere to know you need to get home and check on your loved ones. Scarey thought.

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    9/08/08

    fated82

    I still remember I sent my ex-girlfriend home that day at about 10pm and was taking a bus back. I was watching the news on the bus and I saw the planes crash into the towers.
    
    I went back home and watch the news all night. And was catching it for several days. It has to be the worst man-made disaster in recent years.

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17. 

    9/08/08

    kdawg68

    I was sitting at my desk at work. The guy next to me said a plane had hit the World Trade Center.
    
    "what kind of plane?" I asked.
    
    'Don't know" was the response.
    
    I dismissed it as a crop duster or some accident (such things have happened semi-frequently with the Empire State BUilding).
    
    When he said a 2nd plane had hit, I knew right away it was Al Qaeda.
    
    Then we got all these weird reports. There were "explosions" in DC and Baltimore (these turned out to be false), and the news of the Pentagon. I've got relatives on a local military base that was promptly turned into a fortress.
    
    Then we went home and like everyone else sat glued to the tv until you couldn't watch the images anymore.
    
    The next day we stood in line all-day to donate blood. It just seemed like the only thing we could do.

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18. 

    9/08/08

    CrystalRaven

    I was at work (same time zone) at a very large well known Canadian news station, CBC. I was one of the first to hear of it in the building as I was just passing the communications center as it broke out. Needless to say all hell broke loose.

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19. 

    9/08/08

    chrissymarie321

    I was on a coach. We were doing a battlefield tour and we were heading for Ypres. The news broke on the TV on the bus and as we went to WW1 trenches and cemetaries, it felt very poignant as the news was breaking through all at the same time.
    I remember when I got home a few days later, my son wouldn't stop hugging me.

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       9/08/08

       kdawg68

       Very poignant. My WW1 history is a bit fuzzy, but wasn't Ypres where one of the first massive "gas attacks" occurred?
       
       Had no idea you were a battlefield tourist. If you're ever in the Mid-Atlantic of the U.S. - I do a helluva Gettysburg and/or Antietam tour if I do say so myself.
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       9/08/08

       chrissymarie321

       It was where gas attacks occured and also known for huge loss of life on all sides. At the trenches museum outside Ypres you can walk in the trenches and then go inside and see black and white slides taken of soldiers taken of them back at the time. There are standing trees that were killed from the constant onslaught of enemy fire, these are covered with poppies and tributes. At Ypres, there is a memorial service held every evening, at which the last post is played. Back then, I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go on a couple of tours and as you say this sticks in my mind most vividly.
20. 

    9/08/08

    alexmcone

    I was at home in India. Mom was cooking dinner after having watched a couple of regional soaps. My dad was in the bathroom and my sis was playing with her six month old son.
    
    I flipped channels and stopped at Fox News. We didnt change the channel at all that evening and I watched the news confused and dazed till the wee hours in the morning.

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21. 

    9/08/08

    jafabrit

    I was supposed to go to New York that day with a pal but cancelled last min and went to the Gym. I saw it on tv while walking into the gym and rushed home. Apart from the sheer horror of it I had a roiling fear roll across my belly because my son was in the marines and I knew it was the beginning of a hellish journey. Some of my daughters school mates lost family in the towers so she was saddened in a way she had never felt before, frightened (for her brother) and horrified (for all those who suffered or lost loved one's).

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22. 

    9/08/08

    globalgirl

    I was living around Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, launching an internet cafe (see blog post here: tinyurl.com/internetcafe). We were the first satellite internet cafe around this region at the time and were always busy. I was walking to the cafe and passed a gal from Israel who told me that two planes had hit the Twin Towers in New York. Upon opening up the cafe, we became a news bureau for travelers around this small globe. It was amazing. I felt so safe in this little impoverished village of Mayans and global travelers while the US was reeling in fear.
    
    

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23. 

    9/08/08

    melindaville

    I was on vacation in Hawaii with my (now) husband, Les. It was surreal. It was six hours earlier than in NYC so the events had already occurred. We had been planning on flying from Kuaii to Honolulu that morning and so I turned on the news to see if I could get a weather forecast. It was the local, Kawaii news when I turned on the TV and the broadcasters were talking about, "not going to the airport--that the events on the East Coast of the U.S. had caused all flights to be delayed, even Island flights."
    
    At first (just for a second or two), I thought they were talking about the East Coast of Hawaii--although that didn't really make sense. I simply couldn't imagine what could have happened on the East Coast of the MAINLAND that would cause an airport clear in Hawaii to be closed!
    
    Then, the national news came on. And we heard.
    
    Our vacation changed from that moment on. I remember turning to Les and saying, "Things will never be the same again." And they aren't. Then, like the rest of the nation, I stayed riveted to the TV--we couldn't tear our eyes away from it.
    
    Two days later, I learned that two of my friends had died that day. One died in the WTC and the other was on flight 93.
    
    The thing I remember that struck me the most was in thinking about the people who jumped out of the WTC (I thought of my friend who had died in the WTC). I hoped that she hadn't suffered in her death. I wondered what kind of hell must have been in that building to make the option of jumping seem like a more favorable one.
    
    Bless those who died that day and bless the world. I hope we can overcome.

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       9/08/08

       jafabrit

       sorry about your friends
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       9/08/08

       melindaville

       thank you jafabrit.
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       9/08/08

       harleyblues

       oh my it's horrible to loose a friend..
       you were effected on a very personal level....
       hugs to you
       hb~
24. 

    9/08/08

    CreativeJunkie

    I was at home in Upstate NY watching GMA. We're about 6 hours away from NYC. I had just brought up a load of laundry to fold. It was a couple minutes after 9:00 a.m., and I remember being surprised that GMA was still on. Charlie and Diane were looking at the towers and watching smoke come out of one of them and that gaping hole. I was trying to make sense of what was going on when the second plane came and then watched it live as it crashed into the second tower. I remember Charlie saying something like "oh boy, this is no accident" or something like that.
    
    I watched it all live - the fall of the towers, the confusion about Washington DC, the Pentagon on fire and then the last plane somewhere in the sky, no one knowing where it was and then when it was reported that there was a crash somewhere in PA.
    
    I just sat there stunned. For hours. Everyone was calling everyone and there were hundreds of people driving to school to pick up their kids.
    
    We lived very close to a nuclear power plant and you could just feel the fear ... we wondered, because we were in NY, if that was a target ... you know, hit downstate AND upstate.
    
    All I did after that for days was watch CNN. I was too scared to move out of my seat for fear I would miss some vital piece of information. My husband actually had to force me to leave the living room and the TV - I was just mesmerized and couldn't tear myself away.
    
    Even writing this, I feel like I could cry.

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25. 

    9/08/08

    mikeny07

    I was at work and heard it on a radio. Not sure what was going on until I came home though. What I remember was how the country all came together united after 9-11, not like today where you have hatred for the other party.
    
    Bless George Bush for keeping us safe for 8 years after these attacks and preventing another attack from happening. We all owe it to him.

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26. 

    9/08/08

    tpvswp

    I woke up at 6.30 that morning in SLC (8.30 in NY), switched on the morning news, where Gary Condit's affair was still the only headline they had...BORING, so I switched off the TV, went for a shower, had a long breakfast, and then switched the TV back on...SHOCK!

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27. 

    9/08/08

    curlydesigh

    Too close for comfort. I was on my way to class at Parsons at 13st and 5ave. I actually saw the first tower just after it was hit and my jaded NY self assumed an accident happened. Within an hour I learned it was much more tragic. Thankfully, my friend from high school has just resigned from the AirForce a week earlier, she was stationed at the Pentagon.

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       9/08/08

       harleyblues

       you were a actual wittness. wow did you graduate from Parsons?
       hb~
28. 

    9/08/08

    mikeny07

    I don't know how many here ever visited it before 9-11, but the first time I did I couldn't believe how tall the buildings are. I couldn't even look up that high. It was dizzy type heights. You wouldn't think in a million years they can ever be knocked down.

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       9/08/08

       jafabrit

       I did and yes I couldn't look up at them without neck ache, and dizzying height is right. I never went back after sept 11th, couldn't bear seeing it.
29. 

    9/08/08

    creativedreamevent

    I was taking my morning break and went into the school office and the secretary told me about it and I at first thought it was some kind of horrible joke or an accident. It never occurred to me it was terrorism. After the second plane hit, I began to panic inside because we are a military family, lots of family members, not just my husband, who was out of harms way, but I had a cousin stationed at the Pentagon at that time. My sister lived in Green Point, Brooklyn, and she and her roommate both worked in the lower Manhattan area. Found out later that her roommate was one of the thousands on TV walking across the bridges to get home. My sister had worked the night before and was still asleep. She didn't even know it had happened until I called her to make sure she was ok, but the place she worked had to close down because it was so close to the area that it lost too much business. That day, the day Princess Diana, died, and the the one when the Challenger exploded are for me like the "Kennedy moments" of my generation. I went to visit "Ground Zero" not long after as they were doing the clean-up. It made it more real, seeing the huge crater, the missing person posters, the flowers and messages lining the whole blocked off area. I'll never erase those images or the ones from TV from my memory as long as I live. I like the idea of a "where were you memorial" post. Thank you for thinking of it and remembering the souls who were lost that day.

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       9/08/08

       harleyblues

       Hiya Creativedreamevent
       
       How could we EVER forget?!
30. 

    9/08/08

    FaithHoffen

    I was at home watching the entire thing from the time the first plane hit until after the 2nd tower fell. I was nursing my baby at the time. But my 3yr. son finally started asking me to give him breakfast; I was so shocked and caught up in the whole thing that I forgot to make him breakfast. I fed him and also called my husband at his job while watching it; I was the first one to let them know and then they all turned on their TV's and watched it there too. All that night and for a couple of nights, I kept waking up thinking something else awful was going to happen. When they finally started letting planes fly again, I kept thinking every time I heard one that it was going to crash into something.
    
    This is a very good post. I'm glad you started it harleyblues, especially because Thursday is the 7th anniversary of that awful event. Let's remember all who lost their lives that day. Many, lost them heroically trying to save others.
    
    Also, this week is National Suicide Prevention Week. I know that there are probably many people still suffering flashbacks from that day. If you or someone you know has Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from that or any other trauma there is help available. Please don't delay in seeking help to heal, and especially if you are suicidal. I also am working on healing from PTSD. Anyone interested can visit my blog at hopetocope.blogspot.com.
    Faith

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    9/08/08

    VampireFaust

    I was making my morning coffee and watching the news before work when I first saw what was going on. I remember calling my boss and asking him if he was watching the news...it was all very surreal...

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    9/08/08

    wehireu

    I was about to be picked for jury duty when the planes hit. We watched it on television in the lobby of the courtroom. Then I walked home for three miles because everything stopped running. I could see a pillar of smoke from across the bay. I was on Staten Island. I went and laid down on the bed and stared at the ceiling for three hours and did absolutely nothing.

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    9/08/08

    rmaxwell142

    I was attending college back then. On that day, when I was getting ready for classes, I turned on the radio and heard the DJ say that the World Trade Center had been hit. So I went downstairs to the lounge to see it on TV. There were already a few people down there watching the coverage. When I got there, the towers had already collapsed. That day was so unreal. I felt like I was going to wake up any minute because it felt like a dream.

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34. 

    9/10/08

    sumpterc

    Iknow that this was a horrific experience for the whole country. For me, talking and writing which I do best eases my tension and makes it easier to cope. Please I look forward to the many stories that I hope people would post.
    
    
    
    
    As a native of NYC, I can remember exactly what I was doing that tragic day. I was in Physics class, and I just remember hearing blaring sirens outside. I went to school right on the FDR drive in NY, so there were always cars and trucks passing. However, the sirens never stopped. They kept coming and coming and I knew something had to be terribly wrong. A kid in my class had a handheld radio and he was listening and letting everyone around him hear. They said that the Twin Towers were hit by a plane.
    
    
    
    
    At first, we all thought it was an accident. No on thought it was a terrorist attack, after all what was that. We had not experienced something like that before. Next thing, I heard our loud speaker going off, and the principal had said that school was cancelled. Parents were called, for those whose service could get through. (The Towers were a main hub for cell phone signals and TV). We were told that we had to stay in school until a family member came to pick us up. I lived in the Bronx, and at that time the bridges out of Manhattan were closed to automotive traffic. The trains cancelled for a period of time, and buses took on the job of bringing people out of lower manhattan. I walked behind security and left school.
    
    
    
    
    I knew that I had to get home. I walked and walked and remember seeing streams of people walking up first avenue. Some of the people were covered in ash, but they kept walking; some had their heads down while other were smoking cigaretts. I joined the crowd and went home. My mother wasn't able to come home at the time she normally would. She was a nurse and during this time, any type of medical care provider was needed. Just recentlty, she talked about her experience there and it how it still haunts her.
    
    
    
    
    She told me stories about how she saw people jumping out the windows and ultimately who fell to their deaths. She remembers walking outside the hospital and hearing fighter jets swishing between the buildings, flying really low. We were told that another plan was still in the air and that the jets were looking for it to shoot it out the air. She told me that it felt like it was a movie, and indeed it did.
    
    
    
    
    My school was right across the river from a military base and all I heard was military aircrafts flying low over my head. I did not know what was happening and what could still be up in the air. I knew that I just wanted to be home.
    
    
    
    
    After I got home, just sat with my little sister, brother and stepdad and waited for my mom to get home. No one could get her and she couldn't leave the island of Manhattan, not at that time anyway. She got home late that night and none of us could have imagined what had happened that day.
    
    
    
    
    In the few hours that passed, there was nothing on TV but coverage of the disaster area. Also, the media kept playing footage of the Towers coming down. There was also the time when people were on TV with pictures of their loved ones asking if anyone had seen them. That was the saddest thing I could have seen and it lasted so long. Some people still to this day have recovered the remains of their loved ones. A few days after all this, all I did was cry in my bed.

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35. 

    9/10/08

    MadameX

    Damn...I went looking for a thread about this before I posted--I swear.

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36. 

    9/10/08

    jackpayne

    I was woken up, in my Northern California home, by a call from my son on Vashon Island (Puget Sound), Washington. The rest of the day I stayed close to the TV for details. Although, early on it had all the trappings of an isolated, but coordinated, terrorist attack, so I was not as heavily concerned about continuence--or it being some form of invasion--as many people were.

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37. 

    9/11/08

    CrotchetyOldMan

    I posted a tribute to my friend, a decorated hero, who died that day.
    
    crotchety-old-man-yells-at-cars.blogspot.com/2008/09/in-memory.html

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       9/11/08

       harleyblues

       I'll read it later CoM
       
       sorry bout the loss of your friend~
       hb
38. 

    9/11/08

    PetLvr

    I was online chatting at my computer when someone did a "flyby" comment to all the chat forums about 3- minutes after the first plane hit. I was tuned to the internet and CNN pretty much for the rest of the day like everybody else. I can't remember if I was on MSN Messenger or ICQ but, i IM'ed my wife and told her what happened after the first plane and everybody thought I was kidding. After the 2nd plane well, everybody tuned in.
    
    My cousin and her family lived in the 200 block on Broadway and was there when it happened and its alway mesmorizing listening to their stories and telling of what happened when they hit town every couple of years or so.

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39. 

    9/11/08

    ThriftShopRomantic

    It was an extremely strange day for me because while the single worst US tragedy I can recall living through was going on, I was...
    
    Doing the walk-through on the house I was in the process of buying. My real estate agent got the call from a relative telling us to put on the TV.
    
    So the agent, the house inspector and I all watched the current homeowners television to see this horrific news coverage.
    
    The contrast between what should have been a happy event-- getting a home of my own-- and the fact that the Twin Towers were simply no more.... it was really hard to rectify in my mind.

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    9/11/08

    Shiley

    I just put a post up mythoughts-ssb.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-thoughts-remembering-911.html

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    9/11/08

    Vex

    I went to the store that morning. I got back and turned on the Howard Stern Show. They were talking about what had happened. I didn't know if they were making some sick joke or if it was the truth. I turned on CNN and found out that, yes, the Twin Towers had been run into by airplanes.
    
    I was stunned and felt sick to my stomach while watching the footage, seeing all that destruction and death. I'll never forget any of it.

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    9/11/08

    JaydenVasara

    i was at my university; walking out of a early morning history class. there were all these people gathered around a TV in the lounge watching the reports after the first tower was hit.
    
    i ran home and turned on the news in time to see the second plane hit. i called my dad (an army officer who worked in intelligence) who said "this is going to cause a war"
    
    he was right. and i was in shock for the rest of the day (like most of our nation).

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    9/11/08

    canubapartofmylife

    I too made a post. canubapartofmylife.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-dont-need-any-lecture-or-class-i-...
    I can't write it out again...it means reliving it. Thanks for starting this thread.

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    9/11/08

    annz

    I was at a conference that my company was hosting. I'd just finished giving a talk and left the room and saw that everyone was huddled around a computer screen watching what was going on. After standing around in shock for a good long while, I finally walked the couple of blocks back to my office, pausing to join a crowd outside of one of the TV stations to see if there was any other news. They sent us home early from work, not because we were in any danger, but more because no one was going to get any work done. But my husband was working at a website that provided stock market news for one of the major TV networks. Since the stock market was closed, and they were used to getting so much traffic on a day to day basis, the network re-routed all of its internet news traffic to that site, and he and his co-workers were terribly busy keeping it up and running. I think in a small way, it helped him feel like he was helping out by providing information to others.

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    9/11/08

    LGramlich

    At the time I lived in Canada & hadn't watched TV in years (& didn't even own one.) My friend knew it & called me to tell me. The call woke me (so I was groggy,) & he yammered on horrifically about "armageddon" which put me into a kind of shock. I just dropped the phone & stood there, waiting for the end of the world for a little while until I got myself together & called my other friend (my current hubby,) who explained things a little better & recommended that I NOT seek out a TV. To this day I wish I would've followed that advice. Then I instantly went into fear for all of my NYC friends (I grew up in the area.) It was all very chaotic (for most people,) of course. There was also a lot of crying that day (& subsequent days, as well.)

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