Do you remember where you were on 9/11?

It was night time when it happened and it came home very late from work after an afternoon shift and went straight to bed unaware of what had happened.

The next morning the alarm went off and I heard people talking about smoke and planes hitting buildings.

I ran to the tv and couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

Everything changed after that the building I worked in went from largely free access to at first having a dozen security guards on the ground floor checking passes to then having speed stiles that people had to swipe through for access.

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I was living in central IL at the time. I was in my sophomore year of high school, and was in gym class (First Hour) when the disaster occurred. I didn't find out about it until I went to my Second Hour class (Introduction to Physical Science, or IPS for short) and saw my teacher and some of the earliest students watching the tv, and what looked like a pair of gray chimneys burning and spewing smoke on the screen. There was a lot of confusion going on, but we slowly learned what was going on during the day. I remember writing about it in the journal I had at the time. Everyone had their eyes glued to the tv screens no matter where you went for over a week. It was almost unreal, like something out of a badly-scripted action film.

2 miles north. My mom heard one of the planes flying low and thought it most unusual. I was sleeping late that day. We saw the 2nd plane hit on tv as it happened. Some time later a parade of people were walking north and it was just amazing you could see some people covered in white dust. Many people lined up to donate blood, but really there was no one who needed it. Later the thing that choked me up the most was school kid drawings posted in various places, one in particular of a plane flying towards a building and a child's scrawl "sorry."

I went down there to check it out maybe a couple weeks later. It was like one of those post-apocalyptic movies.

in the car listening to howard stern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_KM9pwu-V4&ab_channel=%EB%B0%94%EC%B9%B4%EB%9D%BC%EB%85%B8%EB%B9%A0%EA%BE%B8TV-NO1

Sophomore year math class. The teacher turned on the tv and then she and all the other staff got together to discuss what to do. We were dismissed early, but we saw the towers fall before leaving the school.

Yes, I remember. Posted about it in your other thread from last year.

https://moviechat.org/general/General-Discussion/63fb1c4082a54872f689fa1a/Where-were-you-on-911-when-it-happened?reply=63fc40c0fbd0cf11389a2eba