Where were you? What were you doing when you heard about the attack?

9/5/2013 12:56:51 PM

walking to history class

[Edited on September 5, 2013 at 1:09 PM. Reason : i had just recently turned draft eligible and was like son of a bitch]

9/5/2013 12:59:37 PM

i can't predict the future

9/5/2013 1:01:49 PM

at work. we brought a tv into the conference room.

9/5/2013 1:03:33 PM

i'm pretty sure i was listening to sean hannity when i first heard about bengazi

9/5/2013 1:05:20 PM

10th grade algebra 2. a random eccentric girl ran in and said the pentagon got bombed. by the next period we turned on the TV and saw what actually happened and my english teacher spent the entire 50 minutes of class crying.

9/5/2013 1:06:22 PM

Quote :

"i'm pretty sure i was listening to sean hannity when i first heard about bengazi"

weak

try harder

9/5/2013 1:09:05 PM

Sitting in physics class, senior year of HS

9/5/2013 1:12:16 PM

I'm gonna show how young I am with this:

I was in 5th grade. We had a substitute teacher that day. I don't know when she first heard about the attacks, but she wasn't the one to tell us. We were given a bathroom break and while in the halls we saw students from another class. They were all telling us about the attacks. One kid said that a plane crashed into the "Polygon". Our substitute teacher never turned on the news, and I really don't remember much about the rest of the school day. When the bus dropped me off from school I went inside and my mom and brother were watching the news. I still didn't fully understand what had happened. I do remember my mom saying "This is going to be World War 3."

[Edited on September 5, 2013 at 1:17 PM. Reason : f]

9/5/2013 1:16:54 PM

Walked into the band room after 9th grade English. Band director had it on.

9/5/2013 1:19:38 PM

Saw the 2nd plane hit at home while I was getting ready for class... listened to radio all the way to NCSU... went to freshman math class and tried to convince our teacher that barely spoke english that he should let us go watch the tv in the hall. He just grinned, laughed, and said "no no no" and gave us a quiz... wanted to punch him.

9/5/2013 1:21:05 PM

Going to my CSC200 class, right after buying some books in the bookstore. The cashier told me that a rocket had hit one of the buldings.

9/5/2013 1:24:28 PM

9/5/2013 1:26:30 PM

boy the age spread for the site is showing in this thread.


11th grade, pre-calc, walked into the classroom to hear a friend telling others that a Cessna had crashed into the side of one of the towers. We cut on a TV in the classroom and watched the footage of the 2nd tower coming down.

9/5/2013 1:28:49 PM

I was on my honeymoon in Mexico.

9/5/2013 1:30:51 PM

I was driving home from class when the first plane hit. It was Biochemistry, iirc. On the radio they were still reporting it as an accident at that point. I think about the time I pulled in my driveway they had ruled it terrorism. Walked in the house and turned on the TV and watched the 2nd plane hit. I had to be at work at noon so I watched up until 11:30 or so. Got to work (I worked at the Sprint Store on Glenwood) and convinced my boss to buy a TV at Best Buy so we could continue watching. After about 2 hours of the store/parking lot being completely empty (which if you know anything about this store, the line was usually out the door), my boss decided to close the store. Went home and watched the coverage late into the night with my roommates.

[Edited on September 5, 2013 at 1:37 PM. Reason : a]

9/5/2013 1:34:54 PM

3 years out of college. Woke up- late for work- scratching myself. Roommate called to tell me he heard that two planes collided into each other.

9/5/2013 1:35:52 PM

I just remember my roommate's Mom calling the house crying hysterically, freaked out that one of us was hurt. I was like "You know we live in Cary, right?"

[Edited on September 5, 2013 at 1:40 PM. Reason : a]

9/5/2013 1:40:41 PM

^ lol

9/5/2013 1:46:12 PM

10th grade, Computer Tech class, it was on tv coming in from morning break

9/5/2013 1:48:28 PM

Wait, did it happen in 2000, or 2001?

If 2000, it was fall term of 1st year of grad school, if 2001, fall term of 2nd year of grad school (at ncsu).

Anyway, that day I did not have classes, and must have been really tired, because I woke up around 3 pm or so, got dressed and went to my office in Withers Hall, then to a computer and found out what had happened.

Must have been 2001 because my office was in Daniels Hall first year of grad school, and I clearly remember being in Withers Hall that day.

9/5/2013 1:54:02 PM

Living in an apartment in Morrisville and working a 12:00-9:00 shift at a local tech company. My alarm clock was set to radio. The first time I woke up they were talking about it, but I just hit the snooze button. The next time I woke up it hit me that something really big was going on. I went to the living room and turned on the TV. At that point the second plane had hit and it was apparent that this was not an accident. I think the Pentagon attack had appeared on the news as well. I woke my roommate up with "Hey man, you might want to get up. It looks like America is under attack."

When I left for work Davis Dr. was almost completely empty. I think I passed 2-3 cars from Morrisville to I-40. It was really eerie. I had planned to follow things via the internet at work, but every news site was under a load equivalent to a DDOS attack. TV was the only way to find out anything. I remember phones being nearly useless. I got the "all circuits are busy" message all day.

[Edited on September 5, 2013 at 1:58 PM. Reason : l]

9/5/2013 1:56:39 PM

I was in 9th grade during second period AFJROTC. It was the first day we wore our full uniforms to school. Our CO got a phone call and he told us a plane had hit the WTC and we turned on the TV. At first we thought it was an accident, until we watched the second plane fly into the tower live.

9/5/2013 1:57:17 PM

321A Bragaw

I was walking back into Bragaw from my 8am that morning, and I overheard some kid on his cell phone talking about a plane crashing into a building. So when I got back to the room, I turned on the TV and the second plane hit.

Whole rest of the suite was still asleep. I woke them all up. None of us went to our classes the rest of the day.

That was the quietest I've ever heard campus.

9/5/2013 2:29:45 PM

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[Edited on September 5, 2013 at 2:51 PM. Reason : /]

9/5/2013 2:51:26 PM

6th grade math class. I didn't find out about it until the bell rang for our two classes to switch rooms. The class dickhead asked if this was the meaning of a "stock market crash." Someone else tried making a joke about buildings hitting planes. I remember thinking the pentagon was the washington monument.

9/5/2013 2:52:38 PM

I turned 40 the day before

9/5/2013 2:54:17 PM

108 Lee Hall

I had just got back from some early class, and saw the second plane hit the tower on my roommate's tiny TV. Then I had to go to my next class.

9/5/2013 6:47:24 PM

Freshman year in HS. Was in Spanish when it happened, didnt find out until about lunchtime, i remember I was in english class. Even then teachers wouldnt let us watch it, which sucked as a lot of the school was military and I remember later a few people had family at the pentagon.

9/5/2013 6:55:02 PM

World History/Geography

9/5/2013 6:58:18 PM

I just got back to my dorm from class, after the first plane hit. They were talking about it on the news, and I started watching it on TV that my roommate had on. The, while watching, we saw the second plane hit.


After the whole ordeal, I was frantically calling my fam. in DC to see if they were ok

9/5/2013 7:01:52 PM

12th grade, between some class and Spanish class. First plane hit just before classes changed, so TVs were getting turned on. By the time I got to Spanish class, the second plane had hit, and everyone was confused as to what was live, replay, etc. My poor Spanish teacher was a first year, and tried to get us to focus on class, until one of the kids pointed out how ridiculous it was to ignore what was happening. So we watched.

[Edited on September 5, 2013 at 7:03 PM. Reason : 3]

9/5/2013 7:02:42 PM

junior year at ncsu, woke up at my house on hillsborough st near arby's just before 10am to buy String Cheese Incident tickets for their upcoming show in DC. website stated "due to the tragic events in new york and washington dc, tickets sales for this event have been postponed." i was confused, turned on the tv, shocked, watched the news, called friends, gf, and family. my ancient medical history professor emailed the class stating our 10:45 class is cancelled, but that all were welcome to meet in our studio classroom for discussion. i went to class and most others did too and we all watched the news and talked about it. then i went home and watched the news until 3am before i passed out. the entire day is still completely vivid in my mind.

9/5/2013 8:11:16 PM

8th grade math class. i think another teacher came in and told our teacher. the art teacher down the hall had a TV in her room that would pick up the news (all the other rooms just had CCTV), so they took us down there with a few other classes and we watched. both planes had hit by the time we got the TV on. watched them both fall and then went to our next class, iirc.

9/5/2013 8:47:44 PM

I was the ordnance officer on a Arleigh Burke class destroyer in Norfolk, VA. We were doing a general quarters drill, so I was at my station as Officer of the Deck up on the Bridge. One minute we were running attack scenarios in the Straits of Hormuz, then the captain comes over the 1MC to secure us mid-drill. Officers were mustered in the wardroom and the TV was put on CNN. The 2nd plane had crashed just minutes before and flash radio traffic was coming through alerting to a terrorist attack.

The entire base went into lockdown and I had to call away our emergence alert forces. I sprinted down to the armory to issue out our .50 cals, M14's, etc. We set up a machine gun nests on the head and foot of the pier, put a RHIB in the water, and armed all watches.

We were locked down on the ship for 3 days and no one was allowed on or off the base during that time. Ships who were close to deployment and thus had a full missile loadout were sortied within the hour to go sit up off of Washington DC and NYC. We had come back from our deployment just 3 months earlier, so we were furthest from ready. But my ship ended up in a rapid deployment schedule as wars ramped up and ended up firing in the first salvo of Tomahawks sent into Iraq in 2003. I missed pulling that trigger by three months. Instead, I was the XO of an anti-terrorism detachment in San Diego at that time. I got real bitter when my old boss sent me a photo of the first tomahawk going up over our battle ensign. But now I'm glad I missed out.

[Edited on September 5, 2013 at 8:54 PM. Reason : .]

9/5/2013 8:49:14 PM

4th grade

hell, its makes ME feel old

9/6/2013 12:37:27 AM

i was in the middle of changing for my second-period weight training class, tenth grade. someone ran into the locker room and announced it to everyone.

9/6/2013 1:01:29 AM

9th grade economics class. The teacher always turned on the news for the last 15 minutes of class. A plane had crashed into one of the towers and the news anchors didn't know if it was an accident or a hijack. Then another plane hit the other tower and it became apparent America was under attack. Two minutes later the bell rang to go to second period. We didn't do anything for the rest of the day except watch tv and talk. In physics class the teacher talked about how the tower's were going to fall and why. So I guess he tried to make a lesson out of it. A lot of parents picked up their kids from school. Everyone was concerned that they would target nuclear power plants and we lived about 50 miles from one.

9/6/2013 1:39:12 AM

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"Wait, did it happen in 2000, or 2001?"

Are you fucking serious? The guy that is the ulimate Muslim extremist sympathizer on this site does not know if 9/11 happened in 2000 or 2001. Gimme a fucking break.

9/6/2013 8:39:07 AM

I was attached to the 101st Airborne's 801st main support battalion during 9/11. I had finished PT, showered and changed into BDU's and was heading back to work when the 1st plane hit. At first, I thought it was a malfunction of a plane, but when I got to work they had a TV in our break room and the 2nd plane hit. All hell pretty much broke loose at that point. We were told to go home and get out A and B deployment bags and report back at 1030 hours. It was the scariest time of my whole enlistment. I always re-watch the video every 9/11 of the planes hitting the towers and the collapse....Never Forget.....

9/6/2013 8:51:16 AM

I was a senior in high school. I walked into the cafeteria to get a cheese biscuit and the lunch lady told me

9/6/2013 8:54:19 AM

never forget the day when the government used a false attack to gain support for going to the middle east, and here we are today, about to try to gain control in Syria, over some videos that could be propaganda for all we know. I wonder what sort of stops they'll pull for Iran

9/6/2013 8:56:07 AM

shut the fuck up troll

9/6/2013 8:56:45 AM

Jay > what the FUCK is wrong with you? Almost 3000 people died and you think it is some kind of false attack? Do the world a favor and crawl back under your God-forsaken rock. Better yet, what do you fuckin' move to the Middle East and then report back here if you can.

9/6/2013 9:02:42 AM

he's trolling, just ignore him

9/6/2013 9:03:52 AM

yeah well troll or not, he needs a combat boot planted firmly in his ass

9/6/2013 9:06:13 AM

playing command and conquer three in some bs comp sci class with classmates because i finished my program

9/6/2013 10:29:42 AM

i was playing chess in my 3rd period computer class. my opponent almost had me in checkmate, but i destroyed my own queen to rile up my pawns and get them on my side, so that my king could do whatever it wanted, but ended up losing anyway.



[Edited on September 6, 2013 at 10:44 AM. Reason : .]

9/6/2013 10:41:56 AM

^^^I dunno man, Jay may be on to something. I just watched Loose Change and it brought up some good points. Even more than the episode of Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura that covered 9/11.






But yeah, I actually heard about 9/11 from tdub. I was in my dorm room, dicking around on the internets before CH201, and someone posted about it. I didn't have a TV in my room, so I ended up skipping chemistry and watching it unfold in the lounge with one of the cleaning guys - who I ran into years later when he was hired to draw charicutures at a work party I went to with kiljadn.

[Edited on September 6, 2013 at 10:44 AM. Reason : COOL STORY BRO]

9/6/2013 10:43:44 AM

Senior year in high school, taking a calculus test. About 1/2 of the way in to it, my teacher makes an announcement that we were under an attack and a second plane had just hit. She said when we finished our test, we could go into the neighboring class and watch it on TV until our class period was over.

I just remember being really pissed that none of our other teachers would let us watch or tell us what was going on. It's not like they were really going to be able to get students to listen on a day like that.

9/6/2013 10:48:46 AM