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[MANDRL]

I am not sure if a post like this has been started in previous years, but where were you and what were you doing on the morning of September 11, 2001?

I was woken up by my buddy who called and said "We are being bombed, turn on the tv!" I had fallen asleep the night before on the couch in my studio apartment, five minutes away from the Fresno State campus when this phone call took place on the morning of September 11, 2001. I turned on the tv, half awake and saw all kinds of craziness on the television. I had no idea what the World Trade Center was so I was a little puzzled at first.

Then the reality of what was going on hit me as I watched in horror as estimated death tolls were shown and that it was most likely an act of terrorism. I remember going to McDonalds and ordering a sausage breakfast burrito and listening to the radio as people called in with all kinds of crazy talk about WW III starting. I raced back home and was glued to my television for the rest of the day. Classes at Fresno State were canceled for the week. What a crazy time that was.

[periwinkle]

I was working at a haggie. It was miserable dealing with giddy kids who thought planes crashing into buildings was cool.

[Horangi Munshin]

I was in my one-room in Korea channel surfing when the news report came up. I guess it was the same day, the first I heard of it anyway.

[CentralCali]

It was morning back on the US mainland but it was evening here. As for me, I woke up to get ready for classes at my community college back in my adopted hometown in California. I'm a news junkie so I turned on the news first and saw what was happening. I was shocked, of course.

[Binch Lover]

I spent the day in Budapest chilling at a spa with no idea what was going on. We got back to our hostel and found all sorts of text messages saying to turn on the tv. Then spent the evening watching the tv and thinking about whether we should return home. It was an easy enough decision not to.

[whatever]

I was trying to convince the TA of my communications studies class to let me make up an assignment that I brazenly blew off for who knows what reason...as class was filing out of the media lecture hall...when somebody turned on the giant, movie theater-sized screen to CNN. Whoa...quite dramatic a thing to engulf the room.

Everybody who was headed out of the door just sat back down and stayed basically in the same spot for the next 5-10 hours. I fell asleep there that night, didn't get up for a single thing...not to eat, use the facilities or anything.

It doesn't feel like six years have really passed.

[SuperHero]

I went to bed about an hour before it happened - early as I was dead tired. First I heard of it was riding the subway at 6am when I saw the Korean newspaper the person across from me was reading.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[write of weigh]

I was attending my morning chemistry class at my university. As the class was beginning my Professor made an odd joke about a plane crashing into the Sears Tower, as its just a mile or so away from our classroom. I looked around dumbfounded as I had no clue what he was talking about. Later I heard the news and classes were canceled. Mid-day Downtown Chicago became a ghost town - was an eerie day to say the least.

[tigerbluekitty]

I was on college campus back in California that morning six years ago. Having spare time before my morning class, I strolled into the student lounge to grab a quick bite when I noticed a bunch of students gathering around the televisions, watching airplanes smash into the World Trade buildings. "Holy sh*t! What the hell's happening?!" was all that was running through my mind as news anchors blabbed on about the avalanche of reports and speculation coming in.

During my morning class, the professor decided to put his lecture aside and have a class discussion about the current event, stating "This day will go down in history." Yep, that certainly did happen.

[Pligganease]

I was fishing that morning and walked in just in time to see the second plane hit.

I wept.

[Dome Vans]

I was in France on holiday. Best place really. The 24 hour media coverage would have done my head in. Went to the beach.

[hogwonguy1979]

I was in Miami working on my PhD and had just taken my wife to her job teaching at a high school. Got home and turned on my computer and noticed there was a problem getting into cnn.com . i went to yahoo and saw the headline about a plane hitting the wtc. immeditatly flipped on cnn and watched the rest.

had a noon class and went to campus, we just sat there and watched it all and tried to have a discussion on things, by 2p classes were canceled.

as result enrollments at the school where my wife taught dropped and she was laid off, as result we came back to korea in 2002 and have been here ever since

[VanIslander]

I was visiting a friend in Montreal for the month before scheduled to start another newspaper journalist job out west in October.

My friend went off to his hospital job that morning, and he didn't have a t.v. I was listening to Habs talk of the radio and editing someone's doctoral dissertation. I heard the whole coverage but saw nothing. Was like War of the Worlds in some ways, and hearing a sportscaster give a play by play of a disaster is frighteningly detailed.

I headed for a hospital just after noon to answer the call for blood, rounding up people on the way, marching into the hospital with about two dozen behind me. (as a journalist, taking charge in a crisis is easy: suicide, car accident, drowning, storm recovery... all comes easy after a few years). Nothing was set up despite a radio report to the contrary. We got a basement room converted, but took three hours to get admin to go along with it. Long day, but very satisfying in that felt like was doing something, helping out.

Heard a couple weeks later that overwhelming donations stateside meant provincial blood donations would be used locally. yeah, I know, it's needed there as much as anywhere, but we all wanted to help out the disaster survivors. Was irked by that.

[PBEnglish]

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