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Anyone remember exactly what they were doing during 9/11? Where they were? What your initial reactions were?
I remember I was in the hall in highschool, waiting to go into Spanish class. Maybe 10 or so of us out there. All of a sudden one of the students comes running up, eyes wide and babbling like he'd just popped 10 speed pills, tells us a plane flew straight in the twin towers.
I remember thinking the guy was full of shit. I don't think our Spanish teacher knew a damn thing about it yet, so the class took place, though some students didn't show up. After that, all further classes were cancelled and we stood in classrooms watching what was going on.
I remember some of my teachers, who'd always been so polite and kind and measured, swearing and having so much difficulty controlling themselves in front of us.
Re: Where were you during 9/11?
at grade school
Re: Where were you during 9/11?
8th grade, social studies. At first the teacher turned on the TV, but after a little while he turned it off, and we had class like normal. I don't remember the school doing anything special either.
Re: Where were you during 9/11?
I had just signed up to go to the military like 2 weeks before that happened. I was preparing to go to basic training about a week or so after 9/11 happened and I was working full time at hardees until my time to go to basic came around the corner. I went to work in the morning came back home after I got off work and turned on the television set and that's when I saw the twin towers being destroyed! I thought to myself this means war and I'm heading to the military in a week!
Leo
Re: Where were you during 9/11?
I was back in England doing some work with the radio on as background noise. At first I didn't believe what I was hearing, I thought it was a play on the radio. I then went downstairs and put on the tv, that changed any doubts I had. I remember about a month later I went to a UFO seminar at Leeds university and one of the speakers there lived just across the river from Manhatten and he was telling us how he watched it all happen from his window.
Re: Where were you during 9/11?
I was driving to work on expressway when the first plane crashed. When the second one came in, I turned around and went back home to watch it on TV. I never made it to work that day.