Where were you at and what were you doing when 9/11 happened?

I was in my home country, Pakistan and it was night there when it happened. I was playing some ps1 games or something and then my dad got back from work saying turn on the news now, something's happening. Then we saw it, we saw the 2nd plane hit. I just thought it was a movie and didnt even know what hijack meant at the time. My mom started calling family that lived pretty close to the WTC to see if they were ok.Uzumaki_Naruto5

How were they acting in Pakistan? Were the people celebrating or in shock with the rest of the world?

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[QUOTE="Suliman-Uchia"]I was luck I was on the 5 floor of the 1 tower and someone camedon with skin coming off saying explosion, explosion, no body understood than janitor came 1 minute later I looked outside and ran for my life. :cry:Dethshoot

SeriousLY?

Seriously but got anthor job in a diffrent the Empire State building.

I don't believe you :|

I will try to show proof wait.

Having a phone conversation with the pilot it went something like:

Me: i heard you guys got hijacked by terrorists

Pilot: who?

Me: you know, Al Queda

Pilot: Theres just a bunch of government guys

Me: what they say too you?

....

(Loud boom)

Hmm...

I was a freshman in high school in Ms. Schafer's science class at John Ehret High School. The principal came on the intercom and told everyone to turn on their TV(which were all tuned to be on one station and only one station). It was after the second plane had hitbut we all saw the towers fall live on CNN. That will FOREVER be etched into my memory. As well as everyone getting the next day off of school cuz alot of people begain harrassing people cuz they were Muslim and such.

I was just waking up, rubbing my eyes and getting ready to go somewhere, when I aw my mom, in the bedroom, looking astonished by something on the TV. Sinse things don't get her that easily, I turned to the television to see what was going on. I saw two towers, one fuming smoke, and people on the ground screaming an dcrying. I could tell it was in New York, so I thought with my young mind "Eh, it doesn't concern me." Later on, on another television, I saw the towers collapse in on themselves, and realized that people were still inside.

It was then that I realised that it did, indeed, concern me.

i was in grade 7 in elementary school when it happened. it was first period when the first plane hit. we got called down to the libary and i seen the second plane hit live. everyone was shocked and some of the younger kids thought it was a movie. pretty sad day.

I was in my fifth grade homeroom.GameFreak315

I was in music class. DIdn't really know what was going on so it didn't bother me at all

I was in school and my dad was luckily late to his job their

So much for moving on....

And I just left school when it came on the tv, apparently.

I was rolling out of bed getting ready for school. My parents had the news on in the background but I wasn't really paying attention to it. I guess when the second plane hit the WTC my sister glanced at the TV thinking it was something from a movie and commented on how realistic it looked. But I didn't hear about it until my mom was driving me to school and she told me what was going on. Just hearing about it didn't really affect me much though, even though I knew what the WTC and the Pentagon were (I was in sixth grade, 11 years old). When I got to school some of the school staff went around the school and talked to all the classes about what was going on. I remember someone asking our teacher if it was the Russians or something to that effect, and she said she just didn't know. That was the scariest part, for all we knew it was the beginning of World War 3 (and really, if things keep escalating with Iran/North Korea/Russia it might prove to have been the beginning of a major conflict).

After that talk though, our teacher didn't keep us updated on what was going on until the end of the day when she told us that both of the towers had collapsed, and she asked us not to watch the news, saying we were "too young to watch them carry bodies out of the buildings".

I got a ride home from school with my friend and his mom, and when we came up on my neighborhood, I could see that there were american flags on almost every single house. It was so surreal. When I got home my oldest sister was already home and she asked me if I knew was was going on. I said yes, and we both put our flag up. Then I went inside and turned on the news. And that's when the enormity of what happened hit me, seeing the huge plooms of smoke and silt behind the reporter, and seeing recordings of the people running as the buildings collapsed. I remember on CNN the headline was "America Under Attack". There was news about the attack on almost every channel.

It's surprising how much I remember, but there are some things that happen in life that you never forget.