Where were you on 9/11?

[Gadzooks]

I was stationed at a small base about 30 min from the Pentagon and was getting ready for work listening to the Howard Stern Show when it happened.

[danethor_sol_ro]

i was in a big electronics market and was thinking to myself why all the idiots were staring at the tv screens when the 2nd plan hit

[Abraham1]

I was in a parachute, jumping out the cockpit before we hit!!!

[Itchybottom]

I was chatting with some chick in New Zealand on IRC trying to convince her to send me candy (Jaffas are good stuff, man) and she told me that the BBC is reporting there was a plane that just hit a tower. I flipped the channels around (Orange County - Cox cable) and couldn't find anything on it at the time it was mentioned. Five, maybe ten minutes later, it's all that's on TV. Found that a little weird that BBC caught it before west coast news television. Didn't get any candy shipped to me either. Overall, bummer of a day.

[Stickyfingers]

6th grade, 11 years old. They didn't tell us anything at school the whole day, then we got a letter at the end of the day. I didn't really care at the time, I just went and played EQ lol.

[Rogean]

I was at school, inbetween classes walking through the halls, one kid came down the hall yelling "The pentagon is on fire!". I shrugged it off cause he was a wacko like that anyways. Got into my next class and the teacher had the TV on, we watched it for 10 minutes until he turned it off, talked about it for a few more minutes, then school stuff resumed as normal.

[OngorDrakan]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was at school, inbetween classes walking through the halls, one kid came down the hall yelling "The pentagon is on fire!". I shrugged it off cause he was a wacko like that anyways. Got into my next class and the teacher had the TV on, we watched it for 10 minutes until he turned it off, talked about it for a few more minutes, then school stuff resumed as normal.

I don't get why people were just like, talk talk talk, ok done turn it off. This is history, this is nuts, this is an attack on America. A country what's made up of all types, even those types. *sigh*

[azeth]

Science class in Highscool, Mr Tarsi - "2 planes crashed into the WTC, we're having a moment of silence at suchandsuch time"


Then, Physics class.

bout all that happened.

[maya]

was in drum line practice.

our instructor said "we're under attack. the US is under attack!

ok, now don't rush that 3rd measure..." and i'm like wtf.

[frefaln]

I gotta tell ya, I'm a little disturbed at how many people are saying middle/high school resumed normally after so many minutes. Like I said above, I was at work on Federal property and there was nothing that was going to keep me there. For all I knew there were 30 more planes that were going to crash into God-knows-what, so I wanted to get home and connect with my family ASAP. It seems odd to me that schools would try to gloss over it and not get those kids home to their families pronto.