9.11.01/what were you doing?

[Tim Rutledge]

How did you hear about the terrorists attacks on 9/11/01?

What were you doing? And what were your intial thoughts?

[Ferd]

I had been up working all night. when it broke we were listening to the radio and I was pretty confused.

we were in the middle of a huge data conversion and I had to work thru. I worked something like 29 hours straight, went home, got a few hours sleep and had to go back to work.

It wasnt easy for our team to focus. everybody was pretty numb considering we didnt have the time to process what was going on.

[Mrs. LPW]

Originally Posted by Tim Rutledge

How did you hear about the terrorists attacks on 9/11/01?

What were you doing? And what were your intial thoughts?

Making Coffee. Phone rang, my friend told me, I turned on the radio and the computer. I thought it was WWIII.

[rgcraig]

I was driving to work and listening on the radio. I ran into work to a conference room where many were gathered watching it on TV and saw the second plane hit.

It was hard to work that day - we mostly sat listening to the radio and the other areas were targeted wondering where it would stop.

I remember for the first time in my life I felt vunerable to war in America.

[Sherri]

Eddie's mom called us and told us to turn on the TV. We saw the buildings collapse; it was so surreal. We had just stayed in the Marriott in the World Trade Center the Thanksgiving before and had reservations to stay there again in October - a month after the attacks. It was a very weird feeling.

[nahkoe]

Originally Posted by Tim Rutledge

How did you hear about the terrorists attacks on 9/11/01?

What were you doing? And what were your intial thoughts?

I woke up, went downstairs and sat at the computer before my then husband and kids woke up. I was 8 months pregnant with our third. My ex had just gotten out of the Air Force, was actually on terminal leave (aka...still enlisted, but they let him use up his leave to move and get paid for that last month). A friend asked me how I was...was I ok? I couldn't figure out what she meant...she said "turn on the tv". I did...and was shocked to see what I saw. I had tuned in just before the second plane hit.

My initial thoughts were that it would be completely miserable to be in a new town with 2 very young children and give birth without my husband if he was, for some reason, recalled. He wasn't.

[Esther]

I was at work at a new job when someone told us and we watched it on the internet.

It was very unsettling as I worked with a lot of foreigners at the time and you felt you couldn't trust anyone.

[Sherri]

We debated whether to go on to New York in October of that year. We decided to go, since it was for Zac's 13th B'day, and he wanted to go. There were a total of ten people on our commecial jet!!! TEN! And four of them were my family. New York was eerie. By 8:00 pm, no one was out on the streets at all. It was a very sad time.

[SDG]

I was teaching American History to a 7th grade class in Springfield Gardens ... Queens ... New York .... when Mr. Miller, my team teacher, walked into the room and said a plane just slammed into the WTC.

We then tuned into CNN and MSNBC online and realized another plane had hit the other building ...

We all ... he, I and the kids listened for hours in awe ... of what we heard ...

Of course .... by day's end ... many kids had been pulled out of school ...

Smoke could be seen from the third floor of the school building ... Teachers gathered in the library dumbfounded as they watched the news.

That day and the days that followed, New York was essentially under martial law ...

All highways and bridge crossings were closed ... and only opened to emergency personnel throughout the 5 boroughs.

A 15-20 minute trip ... took me almost 3 hours ... to get home that evening.

Dreamt for over a year ... of another attack ...

My mind raced daily through many scenarios as to what we would do as a family if there was another attack ... for several months, also.

[ChicagoPastor]

I was sleep.
My Mom called me and woke me up , told me that I needed to turn the TV on and see what was happening....

hard to believe that what I was seeing was really happening..