Where were you on Sept.11th?

[ar0ck]

Its hard to believe that it was 5 years ago... but where were you when it all happened?

[Tru2Chevy]

In one of my Spanish classes @ college, taking an exam. While leaving the classroom building, I saw a bunch of people in one of the auditoriums by the front door, and I stopped to see what they were watching. I walked to the door just in time to see the 2nd plane hit....

- Justin

[qwikz28]

i was in spanish class as well, but in high school. i skipped my next couple of classes to make phone calls and watch TV.

[Savage_Messiah]

bio class soph yr in HS... after that was homeroom, where they kept us (TVs on) the rest of the day until my mom called me out, then me and my friend rode our bikes to the Englewood boat basin to watch across the river

[BlackBADaSS02]

I was in my sophmore year in H.S. I was in Chemistry when the first plane hit, and in US History when the second hit

[Firebird67dude]

I was in Geometry which was second period in H.S. Math teacher was just like that sux and kept going on with the class. Went a few more classes of just watching T.V. then my moms came and picked me up.

[HardcoreZ28]

I was at Ziggy's Transmission shop when his wife came out and told us to put the tv on.

[WildBillyT]

Right after my AI class in college.

[iamsickofitall]

i was in my dorm room in hoboken...right on the hudson river. we saw everything except the first plane...it was so surreal to see that all happening from so close.

[Bandit]

I was tha Finance Director for St Peters Hospital in New Brunswick, as I walked into the office I watched the whole thing live as it happened.

The hospital was put on alert and no one could go home, State alert said thousands of injuries may flood all hospitals in NY and NJ. We were released that night, not a soul could be found on the streets and F-16's were in the sky.

[hardline_42]

I was in my History of Architecture class at NJIT. The rest of the morning was spent standing on the roof of the School of Architecture watching the smoke in complete disbelief as one of my professors who worked on the original structural design for the towers predicted within seconds how long it would take the towers to fall. It's hard to believe it's been five years.

[Rob WS6]

I was home in bed when the first plane hit... I was home on disability when I had one of the operations on my arm. My mom woke me up and I was glued to the tv all day...

[Fast92RS]

I was Home when the first plane hit. I Immediately got called into work.

[V]

i was in teaneck landscaping, while in and out of the trucks i didnt catch much of what was going on at first. When the fighter jets started blasting overhead towards the GWB and the city is when we stopped and listened to the radio to see what really was going on. We ended the day around 12 noon and went home, not knowing if more was going to happen that day.

[maroman88]

i was in my soph year of high school, i was sleeping in some class when i heard someone crashed a plane into the trade center, i figured some moron in a small plane flew to low, then i heard another one hit realized that somethin was up, we went to the TV media room and watched it on TV and did nothin else in school all day

[enRo]

high school, my junior year. after my math teacher told us what happened, me and my best friend cut school to watch the tv.

[Brando56894]

math class, 2nd period, soph year of HS

[lastcall190]

Sr. year physics... don't think I went to class the rest of the day just went to A/V and watched the TV.

-J

[slugger27nj]

I was at the corner of Boundary and Vanderburg Roads on the Colts Neck/Marlboro boarder when the news broke in on the radio. When I got to work, we were all in the CEO's office watching it on TV and saw the 2nd plane hit. The husband of one of our CSR's was in one of the Towers for a meeting that morning, and never made it out. She new he was downtown that day, but didn't know he was in there. Later that day, we could see the smoke streaking across the eastern sky.

[foff667]

at work listening to pst on the radio at my old bank...went home on my lunch at around 11am to see the **** going down...they called me back in to count down our drawers & we went home early.

[WayFast84]

I was in the 5th grade. They didnt tell us anything. One of my teachers didnt show up, she is quincidently my neighbor, Her son worked in one of the world trade centers,he died that day. When I got home my neighbor told me about it, I was home alone till about 9 at night scared to death till my aunt came over and spent the night.

RIP scott schertzer

[slasherbarb]

i was in my Ethics class senior year of HS...then after that i went to my psyche class and watched both towers fall...i remember my fried Tiffany running outside to her dad, crying hysterically, her mom was down there, but she was ok...i would never want to relive a day like that ever...

[Mrs Bandit]

I was in Boston on business for a conference. We had one morning session before we were to head to the airport to fly home. I was in my room getting ready to head downstairs when I saw the first report. It was orignally being reported as just an accident. I went down to the session and about 20 minutes into it the whispering started. I went out in the hallway and found out what really happened.

The hotel was very gracious and extended everyones reservations as best they could. We were there for another 2-3 days before we could find a limo company to drive us back to NJ. There were no available rental cars within 200 miles, so we had no choice to stay where we were.

The night I finally got home I learned they had arrested one of the suspects in the very hotel we were staying at - about 20 minutes after we had left.

The toughest part of the day for me personally was not being able to get in touch with Mike or my parents. I was standing in the lobby of the hotel when I FINALLY got though to my parents. I broke down in tears the moment my Dad answered the phone. I did not get ahold of Mike until that evening. He and my parents were communicating so he knew I was OK eventually.

[baddest434]

i was one the road making deliveries. at 1 stop they mentioned about the first plane hitting ,my next stop i heard that the other tower was hit, go to my next stop hear about the pentagon and the plane in PA it was a completely ****ed up day and for a few moments i thought the whole world was ending. hard to believe it's been 5 years now and that scumbag mother****in bin laden is still alive!!

[enRo]

hard to believe it's been 5 years now and that scumbag mother****in bin laden is still alive!!


True. Lets go potato sack that mofuggha!

[97slpss]

i was in gym class but the crazy part was..my uncle works in the world trade center pretty much right where the plane hit, thank god he was golfing that day

[LS1Hawk]

In one of my Spanish classes @ college, taking an exam. While leaving the classroom building, I saw a bunch of people in one of the auditoriums by the front door, and I stopped to see what they were watching. I walked to the door just in time to see the 2nd plane hit....

- Justin
My story is similar. I was in Field Bio in college. Someone right before class said they heard a plane had it one of the towers and we just figured it was a small private plane that had lost control. Class ended, walked out and went down into the lobby and it was packed with people looking up at the TV. The minute I looked up one of the towers started coming down (honestly, can't remember if it was the first or second, I was just in shock). I just remember thinking how surreal it was and how this couldn't have been an accident. Then I sped home. My dad works a block over from the Trade Center and my sister was working in Times Square at the time, so you can imagine what was going through my head. My dad use to take the Path to the Trade Center for work, and he was in Trade Center about 20 mins before the first plane hit, and saw everything from his office window. And what's crazy, today is almost exactly like it was that day five years ago. Beautiful and sunny out, not a cloud in the sky.

[deadtrend1]

I was in my English class at BCC. I didn't hear about anything until I went home and watched it on tv and nothing clicked in my head that it was really bad at first.

So, I walked across the street to where my buddy lived at the time and told his dad "The WTC got hit by a plane or something, and there was something about "Camp David".

So he turned the TV on and watched what was happening and then it hit me about how much of a bad situation it all was.......

[Firehawk 526]

Since I work nightshift, I woke up 9:12 a.m. Monday, turned on TV and just saw the first plane hit the one of the towers.......needless to say, I was glued to the tube all morning!

[93 Trans Am WHAT]

I was a sophomore in H.S. when they made an announcement over the loud speaker that there " has been an incident at the world trade center and anyone with family should report to sister margie's( St. Rose catholic H.S.) office immediately"

[ShitOnWheels]

I was at home getting ready to leave for class at MCCC (Mercer). I went on the internet as I do every morning and read a thread on another message board that the tower was on fire. I turn on the tv in time to see the second plane hit on live tv. I then listen in my car on the way to class. I get there a little early, and the next room over has a computer playing it live on the projector. I go to class, and it's normal, except one kid comes in and says "I dunno if you heard, but the World Trade Center has been hit, my dad works there. I'm not going to be in class today." The prof hadn't heard anything about it, so he kept right on going. I then went to the park to listen on the radio between classes, and when I went back for the afternoon class, they closed the school. I drove to work, where they said most kids were getting picked up and they didn't need me, so I went home and stayed glued to the TV for the next few days.

[NJSPEEDER]

i was at home, sick, that day. i woke up when my phone rang and it was my mom all in a panic telling em to trun on teh TV.
back then i worked for the Community Blood Council of New Jersey. a local, non-profit, blood bank. so i got dressed and went in to work.
i ended up staying at work until noon the next day just like the rest of the staff. we all went home in shifts, ate and showered, and came back to work. i don't think anyone who worked there was off until the following weekend.

[12secondv6]

On a fire truck..... on my way in.

I heard about it.... skipped getting stripes on the bird w/ boon that morning... headed to my firehouse.

I spent a while listening into FDNY radio's.... I heard a lot of.... bad things... I knew it was hell over there.

Shortly after, we got the call, took one truck, eventually made it to the GWB staging area. I'm not sure what the park was... but it had 30 NJ FD trucks and multiple army chopers laning there.

Many hours later the gov said keep it FDNY..... they only called in 3 out of the 30 NJ trucks from our group...

Scary stuff

[ar0ck]

It was the begining of my junior year I think and it was between classes when I heard someone running down the hallway screaming "World War III, grab your guns they attacked the white house!" When i got into my history class I knew something was wrong because my teacher was pretty upset, and everyone was grabbing radios or tv's to tune in. Alot of people left school that day, who ever was still at the school was glued to the TV. One girl that we knew from midleschool lost both her parents.

[Mike]

i was asleep in my dorm at monmouth..........my mom called and woke me up and i ran around waking my friends up........we went to this chicks house in middletown and watched across the bay because sandy hook was shut down

[jimmyboy8301]

i was just waking up in my dorm at school when my mom called me and told me to hurry up and put the news on, that a plane had just crashed into the WTC.

[BigAls87Z28]

I was just walking into my 2nd period class, when the TV was on. The first plane had just hit, and they didnt have any info on what was going on....and then the 2nd plane hit. We didnt know if it was a small plane or what, untill the 2nd one hit the other tower. At that point, it was communication black out, and the only info would come from our principal over the PA system. Took till about 7th period, just about the end of the day, for a total wrap of what happend. They asked that if anyone had any family members there and would like to leave, to make there way down to the office....the hall way was packed.

[BonzoHansen]

I was at work. I always got in early and checked the news on the interweb everyday. When the first plane hit, they showed an early pic of it on yahoo news. There was no news yet, it was very instant news – very little smoke. The pic was taken from quite a distance, and it looked like the silhouette of a plane in the side of the building. I thought a Cessna or other small plane hit the building – the scope hadn’t sunk in yet, I didn’t stop to think about how big the building really was. Within fifteen minutes, as the news began to come in, the reality began to sink in.

Basically the whole company watched it unfold on 2 TVs we had in the lunch room. A lot of crying and upset people. People on the phone looking for people. My boss lost 2 friends in one of the buildings.

[r0nin89]

Sitting in 6th grade basic math class... I remember people getting called out left and right then the phone rang and it was my turn to find out why the teacher was crying. Man 5 years ago was a long time... I was a 6th grader in middle school now a Jr in high school...

[79dizZy28]

I was in history class, junior year of HS. Was just packing up to leave for the next period when the principal made a short announcement over the pa about planes hittin the wtc and for all the teachers to turn on tv's. My next class everyone was glued to the tv's but after that class the rest of the teachers turned off thier tv's and just went on teaching even tho no one was actually paying attention to a word they said.

[NP_00'T/A]

On a fire truck..... on my way in.

I heard about it.... skipped getting stripes on the bird w/ boon that morning... headed to my firehouse.

I spent a while listening into FDNY radio's.... I heard a lot of.... bad things... I knew it was hell over there.

Shortly after, we got the call, took one truck, eventually made it to the GWB staging area. I'm not sure what the park was... but it had 30 NJ FD trucks and multiple army chopers laning there.

Many hours later the gov said keep it FDNY..... they only called in 3 out of the 30 NJ trucks from our group...

Scary stuff



same here except we were stationed at the Staten Island Ferry station waiting to get deployed across the channel.... My company chose not to send in our new heavy rescue truck that day because we have a possible target in our town (Old bell labs currently lucent and boy was the military surrounding that place ), but if they did we would have gone over for sure.

[bad64chevelle]

I was a Junior in HS I was in woodshop class, I went next door to the drafting class to grab a pencil (the room was empty) and the art teacher came running over told me to turn the news on I turned the TV on and sat there the rest of the time watching. Sad sad day today.

[NJSPEEDER]

to this point, i consider sept 11, 2001 to be the worst and best day of my life. i had no idea what was actually happening at teh time, yet i was surrounded by an overwhelming care and love for our fellow human beings.
it was certainly a scary day, to live through the first successful terror attack on US soil is something that none of us shoudl ever forget. but it was also a great tribute to the american spirit and our sense of national pride to know that we all stepped up and gave what we could for each other.
it may have taken a time of desperation, but it proved that we, the american people, really are living in the greatest coutry in the world. that is the only reason everyone moves here, and the only reason that the extremists hate us so much. because we have more to look forward to than they do.

[enRo]

to this point, i consider sept 11, 2001 to be the worst and best day of my life. i had no idea what was actually happening at teh time, yet i was surrounded by an overwhelming care and love for our fellow human beings.
it was certainly a scary day, to live through the first successful terror attack on US soil is something that none of us shoudl ever forget. but it was also a great tribute to the american spirit and our sense of national pride to know that we all stepped up and gave what we could for each other.
it may have taken a time of desperation, but it proved that we, the american people, really are living in the greatest coutry in the world. that is the only reason everyone moves here, and the only reason that the extremists hate us so much. because we have more to look forward to than they do.

:usa:

[79CamaroDiva]

It was my first full week of college at WP and I was getting ready to go to my psych class. My roommates friend called and told me to wake her up and put on the TV, that we were being bombed. I still went to class, and my professor didnt know it happened until we told him because he was listening to cd's on the way to work. He took attendance and let us go. That was the first day that I realized the skyline I could see from the end of my hallway was the NYC skyline, and everything could be seen.. up til then I didn't really pay attention to it, but thought it was Paterson or something. My roommates boyfriend drove me to my moms friends house because i didnt have a car on campus yet, and her house was on their way home.

While I was there I found out my dad and grandmother got called to go to ground zero with their rescue squads. Since my dad has his CDL, he was one of the drivers of the body trucks, and hasn't been quite the same since. Grandma was put on triage where there wasn't much to help except the firefighters and EMTs. I remember being petrified that I wouldn't see either of them again.

I try to go to hoboken every year to see the tribute lights as a way of paying my respects, which is where i just got back from. It's just as captivating each year as it was the first.

[Savage_Messiah]

yea, I drove from hackensack down thru little ferry and carlstadt, somehow ended up going thru JC and to the hoboken border then back up the turnpike, just looking at the lights and trying to get the best view.

[79CamaroDiva]

yea, I drove from hackensack down thru little ferry and carlstadt, somehow ended up going thru JC and to the hoboken border then back up the turnpike, just looking at the lights and trying to get the best view.

should have gone to the waterfront at hoboken. that's where j0n and i were.

EDIT: heres one of the pics from tonight.. ill upload more tomorrow..

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j274/79CamaroDiva/9%2011/_MG_4532.jpg

[r0nin89]

to this point, i consider sept 11, 2001 to be the worst and best day of my life. i had no idea what was actually happening at teh time, yet i was surrounded by an overwhelming care and love for our fellow human beings.
it was certainly a scary day, to live through the first successful terror attack on US soil is something that none of us shoudl ever forget. but it was also a great tribute to the american spirit and our sense of national pride to know that we all stepped up and gave what we could for each other.
it may have taken a time of desperation, but it proved that we, the american people, really are living in the greatest coutry in the world. that is the only reason everyone moves here, and the only reason that the extremists hate us so much. because we have more to look forward to than they do.

Damn straight screw those stupid extremist camel jockies! Can we rewrite the Geniva Convention around terrorists so we can eh employ more... effective punishment?

[its Jeanne-Marie]

i was in physics lab junior year of high school....we heard the news and it was kinda unreal for a while so we went about our day. actually the way they were talking about it at first they made it sound like an accident, and being that at that point there was only one plane we were kinda like "wow what kinda idiot has an accident like that??" then we heard about the second one and it all came together. i was worried cause my uncle's law office is literally across the street from the buildings (that's where i was working this summer) and the gym he used to go to every morning was in 2 world trade. well that morning he went to the gym like usual and was in the shower when the plane hit. so he had to get out right then and there, and his suit was locked in a locker...so he had to run out onto the street in nothing but the towel he had, no shoes, nothing. as you can imagine, with the explosion there was so much debris on the ground and he got some pretty nasty glass wounds in his feet, but that's beside the point. thank God he was ok for the most part. working there this summer and coming in EVERY day on the path, into the remains of part of my country's culture that some animals decided to mess with, really really built more resentment toward them. i have no use for these people

[WayFast84]

heres how I feel as of now

While the attacks of september 11, 2001 were devestating, In my mind I see them as unsuccesful, They people who performed the attack's wanted us to be scared, scared for ever and scarred for life. While MANY and almost ALL of us where that day, WE ALL BANNED TOGETHER! We all displayed our pride for america, By displaying flags,whering shirts with the flag on it, attending memorial service's, donating blood etc. We as american's have our pride, and no one will ever take that away from us!!!

God bless america, and those who are fighting for us to keep america safe!!

RIP to all of those who died on september 11!!!

[qwikz28]

my friend George Zaki lost his father. he's a sarcastic kid thats always crackin jokes and such, it was hard to see him the way he was after his father never came home. its amazing what everyone did for him after they found out. my friend pete and joey drove him down to the city to look for him. they didnt get home till morning and they all went to school the next day. alot of people stuck by him and he got through it.

definately a time in my life i would like to forget but at the same time you can look back and admire what we still have, and what we didnt notice we had until then.

[bad64chevelle]

:werd: tough times...

[Teds89IROC]

It was junior year of HS during gym, I was in the weightroom with a few friends and the principal came on the loudspeaker for us to stop what we were doing and listen. As a lot of you said, we all thought "some idiot flew a little plane into the building" so he told us to say a prayer (Don Bosco Prep HS) so we did that and went back to what we were doing. We were then informed of the second plane and knew our country was under attack. So the whole school met up at the stadium and we all got sent home. I remember going with my dad to this cliff in Hawthorne that is the highest point to NYC and at this point the buildings were already collapsed but we could see the debris and smoke pouring up into the sky as clear as day. I'll never forget it.

~Ted

[Oddball]

I was at work. Since we make software for digital cable set top boxes all of had multiple TV's in our cube. I'm not sure if I had CNN on at the time but I heard someone yell (Holy ***** a plane just flew into the WTC). At the time, our office was pretty small so we frequently would make comments telling people to turn on specific channels (i.e. Blind Date).

We spent the morning watching competing coverage of that terrible day and calling friends / family.

Months / years later we all had our TV's on to watch the war porn of us invading Iraq.

[unstable bob gable]

I was on my way to a part time auto parts job I had at the time. The DJ came on the radio and said a plane had hit the WTC, and I was thinking little private plane. Whoa, was I wrong. My full time job is right next to Jersey City, and one of my buddies was up on the roof of our building and saw it all happen. He told me he never ran faster to get the hell outa Dodge and get his ass home to his family. I didn't go into work that night, and it just so happens that 9-11 is also be my wedding annv. My wife and I sat in a diner that night, wondering if the world as we knew it was coming to an end...

[NJSPEEDER]

stupid extremist camel jockies!

that is an extremely ignorant thing to say. before you go pointing fingers about who extremists are you need to know very important fact, more wars have been fought and people killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other icon in history, religious or otherwise. you know who fought those wars and killed all those people? a bunch of northern europeans, thatsright kids, it was whiey's fault back then too :)

[unstable bob gable]

it was whiey's fault back then too :)

Who is this Whiey, and why does he want to do bad things to good people? :D

[Batman]

Sorry for the late reply....

I was at work at the base, getting ready to go fly a local when they shut everything down and evacuated the flight line since planes were diverting in from everywhere into Stewart. Then I spent the next 3 hours in lockdown on base watching the rest unfold on TV, interrupted only by the sounds of the fighter jets flying down the river overhead. After that I went home, packed up my stuff, flew to Georgia to pick up an airplane and two days later we were flying bombs to Afghanistan and have been going non-stop ever since. I still remember how eerie it was having just the military planes in the sky. It was amazing how quiet all the radios were.
-Nick

[chrisfrom nj]

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