QOTD: infamy

question of the day: where were you/what were you doing on sept 11 2001 when you heard about the attacks?

I was sitting at my desk working the helpdesk when my coworker received a call from his wife that a jet crashed into the first building. He is originally from Brooklyn thus having family and friends in the metro NYC area. Even had friends who worked in the towers. I went to his desk to check out CNN online when we saw the second plane hit and knew it was a terrorist attack. The whole company practically shut down with TVs turned on in every available office. The silence was never heard louder that day at [company]. Then came the reports of the PA jet going down. By @2pm, all were told to go home, as many in the company were in shock and too busy confirming the safety of loved ones. Yeah, 2 months later I got laid off...

i was unemployeed and slept in that morning. took the dogs out and said outloud what a beautiful day it was. came inside and picked up a magazine and my roommates mother called saying "did you hear about the towers? put on the news". and i spent the next two days frantic on making sure all friends and family who worked in the city were ok - unfortunately my family wasn't so lucky. definitely a day i will never forget.

i was in the office and heard a co-worker talk about it. Watched the second plane hit in the conference room and decided to go home and watched the news the rest of the day.

I was at my desk working when I got an email from my husband. He said there was a rumor going around that a plane had hit one of the twin towers.

I was at home, it was my parents 30th wedding anniv... I thought my mom was callin to say she got the huge bouquet my dad sent but instead it was to inform me of what happened and have me make phone calls to make sure our family was ok.

I was actually unemployed at the time, it was a month before I got hired here. I had to take my grandmom to a doctor's appt. in the morning and it was on the TV there.

I was driving to work in TN & heard it on Howard Stern. About halfway through the day, they closed off downtown Memphis and I went and bought a TV. It suddenly seemed like a good idea to have one.

I was working. I had a flight scheduled the next day from Newark to LAX... I was supposed to go on vacation with my boyfriend at the time. Originally, we were going to go on Sept. 11, but it is my mother's birthday, so we rescheduled for the next day so we could have dinner with her. We never went to Los Angeles.

in french class the second week of school of my senior year in high school

Sitting in my office in DC, listening to Howard Stern.

I was working 10-7 that day so I was on my way into work. I was sitting at the light at Bear Brook Rd. and Alexander Road in Princeton listening to Howard thinking to myself what a beautiful day it was. As soon as they mentioned that a plane had hit one of the towers I immediately switched over to an all news station to see if it was true.

i was chatting online with mom through msn from singapore...and she's like -- umm a plane just went into the WTC. i thought she was watching the tv version of tabloids...and then she said another plane hit a building...i checked online...and that was the beginning of a long night trying to find friends with a tv (everyone i was close to were other study abroad students, so none of us had tvs...crazy)

due to late night the previous day, was sleeping unfortunately instead of being on a bus to work in NY

I was at home to call about a job and set up an interview, so i called the guy and the first thing he said to me was "did you hear what happened?!", i had not since i pretty much just woke up. so we set up an interview time and after the phonecall was done i switched on the tv just before the second tower fell.

I was working as a Geologist down in Paulsboro, NJ, pumping out contaminated water on an environmental clean-up site (an old oil refinery). My truck was close to where I was, so I was listening to Howard Stern on the radio when he started reporting the attacks. Since it was Howard, I thought it was just a joke. I tuned to some am news radio stations and realized that he wasn't kidding. I was frantically trying to call my dad because he works right by there, but I was unable to reach him. Scary day...

I was here at [company] and I had just come out of the computer room from changing the backup tapes when I overheard [coworker] say something about a plane hitting the WTC. I looked over his shoulder at CNN.com and thought what every other American did at first....it was an accident. I resumed my normal work habits and then heard about the second plane hitting the other tower. I thought at that moment "this is no accident....this is an attack". At this point I tried contacting many friends I had who worked there or around the area, but got nothing. I even recieved calls on my cell (I had worked there a year earlier) from people who thought I was still in the city. I found out days later that most were fine, but one I never heard from again.

working here

at home sick watching TV. I wound up talking on both my home phone and cell phone to all my friends and family at work because none of them could get updates on what was going on. I saw the last couple of planes hit the towers live on TV.

Was just about to check email at work ...