9/11 - where were you?

[2brides]

where were you 14 years ago today?

[bexincanada]

High school science class. There are few moments like that that ingrain in my memory so strongly.

[kekaellypula]

Skipping college and at home playing euchre online with a guy from New Zealand. He told me about it and I turned on my TV. I thought it was a joke, then an accident.

[jazibel]

On a bus heading to work. The bus driver made an announcement over the comm. It was surreal.

[karlamo]

Heading to the airport from vacation. I was flying back to Boston and my best friend was flying into JFK. So the 2 worst airports to be trying to get home to. We were stranded for 3 days without flights until they reopened the air space. Except Boston and JFK were still closed so we flew into CT instead and drove.

[rikkiandjulie]

7th Grade English. We all Turned on the TV and we were released thirty minutes later. Got home early and my mom didn't even know what happened. We just watched the TV for hours that night.

[2brides]

I was at work at a hospital about 25m from the Pentagon. They thought we might get patients, but we never did. The nurses and I sat at watched the news in one of the patient rooms. I was supposed to go to class for grad school, but they were cancelled so I drove home talking to L on my flip cell phone and listening to the radio. L and I sat at watched the news until L said she couldn't watch it any more and we turned it off.

[kh826]

I was a Senior in High School. I was in music class (Concert Choir) and a bunch of other kids came in talking about a plane flying into a building. I also initially thought it was a joke and then an accident. Within a few minutes it became clear that it was neither.

I went to High School in a suburb outside of Boston. Our school was placed on lockdown and students went to the auditorium, cafeteria and library and watched the news all day. There were no counselors available since we were on lockdown and not allowing anyone in or out of the school. We really didn't even know what we were watching at first, other than the fact that it was terrible. Most of that day seemed very surreal. They finally let us go home about 6pm, and everyone's parents came to pick them up.

One of the girls in my grade lost her mom that day. She was a flight attendant on one of the planes that hit the WTC. I sat next to her in the auditorium while we watched the news coverage that day, and she had no idea that it was even a possibility that her mom could have been on one of those planes.

My college roommate my freshman year also lost her grandfather that day. He was a fire fighter (fire chief actually in Hoboken, NJ or Jersey City - I forget which). He went to help with emergency response and was trapped in one of the towers as it collapsed.

I can't believe that it has been 14 yrs...

[wittyandwaiting]

I was at a downtown Toronto hospital, scheduled to have an ultrasound since I was pregnant with DS.

Although I'm in Canada, I'm only a few hours away from New York City so it was pretty scary here as well; although we certainly didn't experience the mass losses that our American neighbors experienced, many flights that were already in air at the time that were headed to the US were directed into Canada.

My heart is with you all on this very difficult day.

[mahler5]

Driving to class in Kansas City when I heard it on NPR. I had planned on going to NYC for a grad program that Fall and would have been living in student housing in lower mountain, but my mom got sick and I decided to stay home (she's fine now).

Ironically DW was living in NYC at the time. She doesn't like to talk about it much. She wasn't in harms way but it really shook her up.

[2mrsks (mrs&mrsk)]

I was in training at my job outside DC. We lived in DC. I didn't see the smoke because there were no windows in the training. Driving home was surreal because there were government hummers everywhere. I thought I wasn't going to be able to get there!