Where Were You 9/11/2000 ?

50 where were you 9/11/2000

i was at work, received a call on my cell, someone crazy yelling and crying

yargh
boner was faster

My mom called me as I was getting ready for work. She said "are you watching what's on TV? We're getting attacked!"

I sat there in quiet disbelief and watching until I had to leave.

Then I went and taught my classes. I was teaching at the community college. I still had about 75% of the class showing up that day, and some didn't even know.

Antigua, watching CNN

In my room sleeping tight... ZZzzz

i woke up around noon from working the night shift the prior evening to get a message on my answering machine from my mom, telling me to turn on the tv and prepare for the worst.

Recovering from a hangover after burying my wifes Grandfather.

On this day in 2001 I was right here at home. I got onto GFY, saw the thread "The world trade center is on fire!", started reading it..... then turned on CNN and the day was pretty much set in infamy from there.

The image of that one guy plummeting down the side of the WTC to his death is burned into my mind for all time.

I remember it vividly like so many of you...

For me it was a surreal time of my life, I was making more money than I could ever want or need. I was living at the end of the block from the pacific ocean on one of the most pristine parts of the California coast...I was going to be a Dad for the first time soon, and it was a perfect morning, clear sky, great ocean air smell, and I was sleeping in from a late night at work...

The woman came in the bedroom to get me up as my father had called from work to let me know what was going on, she had the TV on already and was just watching it stunned...the rest of the day was spent as everyone else, glued to the TV...for me it was being glued to the TV for a few weeks...was an even more surreal feeling being a spectator as history was happening instead of being in the military as I had been for the past 12 years (I had only recently gotten out of the military in 99 so the 'time to pack and do shit' mentality had not totally disappeared)...

Also was strange remembering all the disaster prep (NBC) training & emergency management courses I had gone through in the military and in particular this one training CD that had a picture of the WTC in black and red with a scope target stenciled over it :/ Gives me chills to think about even now...

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I was in a video editing class. On morning break I ran to grab some smokes from the gas station nearby and saw what was unfolding on the clerk's little black & white tv. I was pretty stressed cuz the day before I saw my girlfriend away at the airport and she was leaving from NYC to Helsinki that morning. There was a real concern that she was on one of those planes. By 6pm that night she called and I found out she had never boarded. Damn I thought I had lost her to that.

I can still remember watching TV for 2 days straight with no sleep from that point onwards.....

;-(

went to work (I had a day job at the time) I remember watching it on the bbc and the chills I had. Very scary day.

I was at my old job watching it all unfold as it happened.

playing a game on my pc

i was watching the towers come down from new jersey...that day sucked

I was at my dad's place typing on my laptop when he called me to see the news on TV. The images were heartbreaking.

Was only a few weeks afer I started working for CJ. I just had my 4 year aniversary with the company. We all sat around the office watching TV in AWE. Then we started posting videos of the attack. CNN was down MSNBC was down and we were one of the few sites that had footage right away after the attack of the planes hitting the buildings. We got emails and calls from news organizations around the world because we had footage most didn't. The pics and vids came in minutes after the attack. It was quite crazy. I really felt like the world was coming to an end.