What were you doing on 9/11/01? (All conspiracy theories aside)

I remember I was two years old and sitting at home. My dad was distraught and went to my brother's daycare to get them (they were both three since they are twins and we used to live Jersey City, which was right across from NYC.) Do you remember anything on this day fifteen years ago?

I was in school, during math class until someone turned the tv on and instead of doing a lesson, we just watched the tragedy instead, especially the collapse of the building.

I was sick lying in bed and my babysitter turned it on.

@themanofpears: "I was sick lying in bed and my babysitter turned it on."

How old were you?

@FireEmblem_Man:"I was in school,"

Me too.

I was a sophomore in HS. The announcement on the attacks came on during third period and the rest of the day was basically watching the news.

When it actually happened I was at home asleep since I worked 3rd shift then and went to sleep when I got home. Got up later that day and went to work and wondered why everyone was freaking out so much when I went to work until someone handed me a newspaper.

I was in High School back in 2001 during the 9/11 attacks, I was a Freshman at the time. During school sections, we stop our school work and watch the news until it was time to go home and I was living in Atlanta GA as well.

Also I didn't know it's been 15 since the attack happen on Twin Towers. My Condolence to the family/friends/love ones out there to this very day.

@fenriz275: "when I went to work until someone handed me a newspaper."

Just imagine if we had social media/smartphones back in 2001.

Working at QVC headquarters in West Chester Pennsylvania.........QVC's shopping channel was preempted the whole day for the tragedy.

I was getting ready for work when i came down the stairs and saw it on the news. The day America changed for the far worse. It was an awful day for a lot of good people.

I woke up, left my room and it was the first thing I saw on T.V. It was a terrible tragedy.

In school

I was having breakfast at my home when my mother called me on the phone telling me to turn on the TV to watch the news about an accident where a plane had crashed against the WTC, I turned on the TV and was watching the TV when the second plane appeared and hit the second tower, litarally I choked on the piece of quesadilla I was chewing.

I was celebrating my 24th birthday with an office party at the time. I so remember the receptionist interrupting the singing of my birthday song so we could all go to the lunchroom to watch the TV.

@doozie78:

That's true, the 90's look to be the last great decade for America, it's been downhill since 9/11, Not a great feeling here anymore.

I was in school. Some students had heard it on the down low but I wasn't sure if it was true. I remember someone entering my history class to say something to my teacher and she sharing a laugh, a little celebration (at least that's how I remember it). I went to a liberal school with some true lefty teachers and I guess that particular teacher was happy to see the "Empire" knocked down a peg.

Next day in my Spanish literature class all we did was "meditate" about what had happened even though they never referenced the attacks, it was like mentioning them was too much.

@Master_Live: Where do you live?

People honestly remember in detail what they did on one specific day 15 years ago?

Puerto Rico.

I was walking to a class when one of my friends asked me if I heard a plane hit the WTC.

I asked him if it was a big plane since A BiPlane had crashed into the Empire State building a few years earlier.

While I was in class the second Tower was hit. I didn't hear about that till after class. We didn't have smart phones back then.

I watched the Towers fall while eating in the Student Center.

I was working for CIA and I was supervising an operation to make some Arab guys crash a few planes into some buildings. Fun story.

@sayyy-gaa:"I was celebrating my 24th birthday with an office party at the time."

So it's your birthday today?

@Treflis: I can when it comes to something memorable, after seeing the plane hit the second tower I went to work, arrived at work and went to my mother's house looking for more news ( my mother's house was a block away from my business, we open at 10 AM ), as I entered the living room I was able to see the tower collapsing on the TV, pretty much I was able to watch the entire drama since unlike other days the business was empty for many hours.

I was in 8th grade. All of the classes were brought to the gym and we were shown the news the rest of the day. It was pretty scary. My dad was stranded in the States for about a week cause they grounded the planes.

i had just started working after graduating college in may. i was driving to work listening to the radio and they were talking about an aircraft hitting the wtc. it wasn't clear that it was a passenger jet so i assumed it was just some idiot in like a little cesna or something.

when i got to work i told my officemate about it and we were trying to get on the internet to see what the news was. all the major news websites were basically unusable as they were getting slammed with traffic. my boss was able to get to the cnn homepage and there was the pic of the north tower with a giant hole in it smoking and i remember thinking to myself.. "damn.. it's going to take them a really long time to repair that"

shortly after news that the second plane hit and that an attack was going down came through. a bit later in the morning some tv's around work were turned on and showed the news live and we saw the 2nd tower collapse live. there were a ton of mixed reports coming in all day like that a plane had also crashed in boston or that the white house got hit which obviously didn't happen.

i left work a little early and went home and spent the rest of the night watching the news. i also called a friend of mine who was living in northern manhattan to make sure he was ok

Freshman algebra. It was insanely surreal, and like a lot of stuff from 15 years ago, it is weirdly vivid, and feels like it was a week ago.

I was too young to understand how serious it was. I came back from elementary school and my mom picked me up from the bus stop. There she told me about two planes hitting the twin towers. That's really all I can remember. Honestly, I didn't think much of it since I was very young.

USAFE, a few years from retirement. I was making a CD-based backup at home.

i was a typical college kid, which means I very nearly slept through it all, except I got a call from a guy my mom worked with (she worked in DC at the time) to tell me she was okay and that she couldn't reach us on her cell phone because, I guess, all the traffic on the lines. I was kinda like "why wouldn't she be okay," and he told me to turn on the tv.

i think the most surreal part of it for me was riding the DC Metro after the fact and seeing all the police officers with assault rifles and mutant dogs (seriously didn't know german shepherds could get that big) patrolling the tunnels. Seeing it on tv is one thing.

Man I can tell you every damn detail.

It was the beginning of the week and I was in high school (a senior), and we always review our football games in the mornings on Mondays or Tuesdays. So I was walking from my car to the classroom where we review film, walked in, and I thought it was an action movie so I was like "Woh what are we watching" and no one says anything then I realize it is a live news broadcast.

So I was at school and they can't really let us go home since we are already there (this was 2001, before safe spaces and every little thing was a threat....god I miss pre-9/11 America) so I and everyone at school basically went from class to class, and the teachers with TVs had the news on and we just kind of watched the reports all day. I live in California but sine the WTC served, on an average day, about 52,000 people there were a few students who got calls about relatives that may or may not have been in the towers.

I remember the initial death estimates of 50,000, then the more realistic ones that were still shockingly high, but the thing that stuck with my most was just the image of the plane/s crashing into the towers. It was so surreal, like...I don't know man, it's hard to explain. And then the towers collapsing, and that dust cloud! Oh man that dust cloud. Then the cell phone and video recordings came in and you started seeing things as they happened on the bottom floor, on the street, or the people that were jumping out to escape the fire.

It was definitely a defining moment in recent history, and things have been a little bit different after that. They were significantly different in the immediate years following it, too, that's for sure. Patriot act, two wars, loss of good will, W. Bush the warlord, Cheney and Rumsfeldt and all those bastards, etc.

9/11 was a terrible day for a variety of reasons; I don't give it much thought any more, but it definitely changed things for the US as a government and a nation.

Sitting in class at school. I was in 4th grade. We spent the afternoon watching the news. I live in Canada but my teacher had a brother flying up from the US that day so he stopped class for the afternoon.

I was home being lil ol' me getting ready for school and my dad said that there was an accident.

Mom comes home from work and says we're being attacked by terrorists and the first tower had just collapsed. I stayed home that day, venting to my mom that we should go kill those people and their family. Keep in mind, I was just in the 1st grade. She told me I couldn't watch the news because I was too aware of what was going on. She had to explain to me that not all planes are enemies, and that the Sikh's are not Muslims. I had your typical American reaction.

Did the CIA opt out for uninterruptible autopilot to be put on the planes?

I was living in Montreal,Quebec at the time and I was getting ready for work.A really sad time in history,still affecting the U.S. today and I guess the world too. :( God give those who are affected mental peace.

i was a freshman in HS, in my English class. we just watch the event on the news instead of regular class

Yessir. It was my bday. 9-11-77

@sayyy-gaa:

"Yessir. It was my bday. 9-11-77"

Whats that like having a birthday on the same day as 9-11?

What did you do for your birthday?

Well seeing as it was my bday long before it was a tragic U.S. event, I celebrated like I did the 23 bdays prior and the 15 bdays since. Enjoyed gifts from friends and family. Went to brunch after church. Ate some cake cooked by the Mrs. Watched some football!

I don't have any particular custom for remembering 9-11-01. I have donated to families of the deceased from the tragedy over the years but don't observe it any other way.

I was in a class at college when a teacher came in and told our teacher that a second plane had just crashed into the other tower. The rest of the day was spent watching the news. It was a pretty surreal day.

In training when I heard the news, thought it was a small Cessna plane at first, and related to the parachuting incident that happened the week before. All the trainees in their gray uniform crowded to the mess hall and watched as the second plane hit and tower collapsed. It was like that scene straight outta Starship Troopers (kinda crazy how analogous that movie was to 911). Didn't get through to my parents whom both were working in downtown DC until later that night.

@sayyy-gaa:"Watched some football!"

In NFL opening games always like that, then the season should always start on 9-11.

Some decent games yesterday.

I was in first grade and I remember we were in class going about our business when out of nowhere, someone came and told the teacher what was happening. I think we got out of school early that day. I was to young and shit headed to fully grasp the situation, but now obviously I do. It's a scary thing. I had to read a first hand account of what Rudy Giuliani did that day for one of my college classes and for some reason reading it gave me anxiety. I can only imagine how brave the rescue workers, fire fighters, and volunteers must have been.

Crazy.

I actually skipped my college class that day and decided to go home and just relax. Came home and my mother told me I should sit down and watch tv. I watched the whole thing unfold and was just in shock.

I remember going down to my friends house, we all met up there, sat on his front porch, about 6-7 of us, and didn't say a word for about 2 hours.

Somebody asked how we remember in detail what happened one day. If you watched it live and live in this country it kind of scared the living shit out of everybody because we haven't really been attacked in an act of war since Pearl Harbor. I honestly didn't know if more stuff was going to happen, if a nuke was going to go off or what. It literally scared the shit out of me.

@bmanva I don't think I ever said it, but thank you for serving my country.

In the UK I had just come home and saw it on the news. It was the main talking point in school for awhile until July 7th happened I was in year 8(8th Grade) when 9/11 happened so about 14/15 years old.

Have any of you watched 9/11 caught on camera , a documentary from different POVs of the event. Some people and a news crew catch live the second plane hitting the towers.

I was starting off third grade. The teacher told us what happened.

@gamerguru100: "I was starting off third grade. The teacher told us what happened."

Did she tell you it was an inside job?

@PSP107: No

Fifth grade. Some kids got picked up by there parents. The rest of us were told to stay inside. It was like we were expecting foreign troops to drop in and attack us any second.

I was 24 and at home on irc when it happened (shoud've been at Uni).

Got a notification from an American in the chat room that something was going on, turned the TV onto BBC and watched the events unfold.