Where were you on 9/11
By jane239
@jane239 (521)
September 10, 2011 6:17pm CST
Sunday marks the tenth anniversay of 9/11. It's an event that anyone who witnessed it in real life or on the TV will never forget. Where were you and what were you doing when you first heard the news?
5 responses
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
12 Sep 11
At school on that day. It was a rather surreal day. I think that during second period was when it had happened. In fact, that is likely going to match up right. I don't think the teachers really wanted to let us know what was going to happen. Although we did sort of find out before the end of the day. We tended to get fed bits and pieces of the information throughout that entire day at school, until everything broke much later on.
Naturally it didn't really hit me until the time I got home what had really happened. In fact, I think that there is a small part of me who really is at a loss to what happened on 9/11. I'm sure many people are in the same boat. It was like some haze, some dream that we could not wake up from. I do remember having an idea something had happened but it was not until I had arrived home from school where the full gravity struck me.
@cloud3315 (33)
• India
11 Sep 11
Hi,
I am from India and I remember the day clearly. I just came back from school and was surfing the channels and happened to come across this news on CNN. At first I didn't understand what the fuss was all about. Then I saw the first tower collapse and the magnanimity of the situation hit me. It must be very though for you Americans to have witnessed this terror activity from such close quarters. In India some or other kind of terrorist attack happens every 6 months somewhere in the nation. I feel you USA has managed the terrorist problem very well over the last decade.
@triplejazzm51 (1373)
• Philippines
11 Sep 11
Yes, today is the anniversary of the Sept. 11 bombing, a very horrifying, tragic event in history. I was at work at that time, i am working in a clinic catering to class B and C clients and at the waiting area we keep a television turned on so that that patients waiting for their turn can be entertained. Suddenly there was a breaking news about a plane crashing down at one building of the World Trade Center and while the news is being aired on TV we saw another plane crashing at the other building and there we saw that the upper part of the two buildings are slowly falling down.
It was so terrifying and i really felt sad because i was very sure that there are lots of people working in that building and there were Filipinos too. Besides, what happened to them might happen also here in the Philippines. So let's pray for the victims especially those who have survived but still living in trauma.
@Humanicon (328)
• India
11 Sep 11
How fast the days past.today its the tenth anniversary.
At the time of the blast i was at home. I came to know about the blast at school. It was the morning class. when the teacher came in the class the students started shouted and asked him about the attack. The teacher the description of the attack for at least 15 minutes.
@Judy890 (1644)
• United States
11 Sep 11
I live in NYC at the time I was in Junior High school when suddenly one of the teachers in the room got a all from her daughter saying that one plan had hit the twin towers. In my mind I wondered "what's a twin tower" suddenly we had to leave the school and go home early. The twin towers are located in Manhattan I was in Brooklyn and the smell was so strong it felt like it was nearby by. The teachers lied to us and said that the Brooklyn bridge had collapse to not scare us. That day was just so scary. I remember seeing papers flying in the air. When I looked at them they were papers that belonged in the twin towers but there were sort of burned up They were blowing all the way from Manhattan to here. I remember my school being closed for a few days because of this. When school opened again the teaches discussed to us what really happen I remember a teacher telling us that someday the terror attack that occurred would be in the history books so I knew when she said that this was something big.