Where were you when the towers fell?

I was 15 years old, 2nd year in high school in my jrotc class. I remember them telling us what we couldn't under any circumstances wear our uniforms until, they said it was ok.

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I was 18; at home in bed with a migraine. My mom called; people were in crisis mode and she needed help at the store controlling the masses who were rushing to get gasoline.

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Well coincidentally I was in the 6th grade when the towers fell. We were doing algebra when all of a sudden one of my classmates pointed out that there was a huge cloud of smoke passing by the building. My school was aboout 5 blocks from the site so the windows got really foggy .My classmate screamed The twin towers are on fire! Everyone started crying and thats when the first tower collapsed.
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When they actually got hit, I was at home, asleep in my bed. When I found out they had been hit, it was about two hours later. I was sitting in Freshman English and an announcement came on over the intercom saying that they were going to put on the TVs because the pentagon had just been hit. Found out about 20 minutes later that the Towers were down.

Now, my boyfriend actually lives in NYC, and his dad was supposed to get off the subway to go up the towers that morning, but didn't for one reason or another. His mom was supposed to be across the street at Macy's because they were having a huge blowout sale that day. Apparently she got delayed going there. He and his little sister were freaking out half the day because they refused to let anyone call their parents.

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I was sitting in the King County Jail (on a bogus charge that was later dismissed) waiting to go to court. The guard was flipping through channels on the TV when me and another girl saw the towers go down. I thought it was a movie, but when the guards locked everyone down I knew it had to have been the morning news.

After that, court didn't seem so important.

i was a jr in high school, 16 yrs old at the time. i went to my first class and nothing had happened yet. or it just started to happen. by second class we started hearing things on the radio, there was no tv in the class room i was in at the time. 3rd period all we did was watch the news on what happened.4th period we watched the tv and wrote in out journals. it was like the 2nd week of classes for me. my sisters school said nothing to her about it. all our after school activities were cancelled. i remember walking to my moms work, and she got out early and picked me up. i remember while walking how quiet everything was. like the earth turned off for a day. no planes in the sky (we're near the airport) and i remember the only sounds i heard were the car radios playing stations talking about the planes in the towers and the pentagon. it was such an odd day.

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I was in my 8th grade, I think. The first time that I heard about it was about two hours after it had happened, and my older brother relayed the news. All he said was that there was a disaster involving airplanes, and I got all freaked our because my mom is a manager at the local airport. I thought something had happened to her.

Later I found out what had really happened. My parents tell me that we went to NYC and all the way up to the top of the first Trade Center tower when I was about 6 years old. I wish I could remember it; but then again, maybe I don't.

Either way, everybody remembers where they were on that day.

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I was at work on September 11th. I was employed by Philip Morris in Rye Brook, NY, which is about 15 miles north of New York City. My boss had a TV in his office. He had the news on, & they were talking about an incident that had taken place at the north tower. Initially, we thought it had been an accident. Then the south tower got hit, & it became clear that this was no accident. My sister had moved out to California two years earlier (from New York), & I remember trying to call her. It was about six o'clock in the morning out there when the attacks were happening, & I remember leaving her two or three frantic messages. She didn't call me back until after both towers had fallen. She was very upset because she had friends that worked in buildings close to the towers & she couldn't get in touch with them. Some of my co-workers who had children left early that day so that they could pick them up at school. I stayed at work until my shift ended at about 4:30 in the afternoon. If you're familiar with Westchester County in New York, you know the I-287 is very busy road, especially at both rush hours. However, it was eerily quiet that day. There were very fews cars on the road. I've never been able to forget driving home that day.

I had woken up to get the kids ready for school, turned on the TV and saw the first tower hit. It was intense, because it was at the same exact moment I turned the tv on, and what is even weirder is I never watch tv in the morning, it was almost as if something compelled me to turn the tv on. Other then taking my kids to school and picking them up I was glued to the tv ALL day and for the next few days (i am a little ashamed of that actually). I was 25 and not in school. It is true isn't it, that for most people we will never forget.
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I live in Mountain Time so when the towers actually got hit I was still asleep. My dad and I were backing out of the driveway when we found out. I was 11 and in the 6th grade. We didn't watch anything but the news that day and a lot of rumors were circulating where the next target was going to be but then we found out that all flights were cancelled. Crazy day...

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I was in 8th grade when the towers fell. I remember finding out pretty much as soon as it happened, The Principal came into our room and told my teacher. After that we didn't do anything except watch the T.V.

It was days before everything was back to normal and I remember thinking when the news stations were gonna start covering different news stories.

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I was about 21, and going to community college. I was standing on the first floor of my school waiting for the elevator, when a kid with dreads in my class said to all of us in the hall "hey, did you hear the trade center is on fire" And I was concerned becuase we actually have a trade center down the street (not THE trade center) but I was concerned. We all went to class, and then another. I didn't really know what was happening till I got home. I turned on the news. Shock and awe. Mouth hanging wide open. I couldn't believe what had happened. Cried. My brother lives in NYC, and we couldn't get to him through the phone, and I was worried. He actually worked a few blocks away and had friends who lived near the center, Wall St area. And so. The next few days the news was just smothered in the towers and you had to stop watching it. It was days before we could get ahold of my brother, who had been standing outside on break and saw the first plane hit the building. So. My bro stayed in New York, but some of his friends were not able to return to their apartments for a year due to the dust and debris. Half my family lost their jobs due to the aftereffects of 9/11. Eventually I was able to look at the memorial site they have on the web, and look at the faces and names of those who died. And you cry. No one in America will probably ever get over this, and someday we'll have to tell our grandchildren about it.

I was sitting in my 6th grade math class later on in the day. My teacher didn't tell us until near the end of the day. The principal wouldn't let us have any TV's on just for the sake that he didn't want any of us to think we were under attack in the school and be petrified to walk outdoors.
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