where were you 6 years ago 9-11-01

[Santa]

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I was at work when one of my collegua said that there were planes crashed in New York. Got the whole story later that day when I went back home.

[Lifeless]

Re: where were you 6 years ago 9-11-01

@ home, doin some zapping till I saw it live on CNN, pretty sad moment

[res0nat0r]

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i was driving to my college class and was listening to bob and tom and then they started to talk all serious and it took me a minute to realize that they werent joking around. i walked thru the student union and saw a bunch of people crowded around a common largescreen tv watching it unfold. went to my first class and the prof talked about it for a minute and then we proceeded as normal.
after class i went back to the union and sat infront of the bigscreen with probably about 200 other people watching tom brokaw. i saw the towers fall and looked around and watched as everyone was stunned and people of all sorts crying. i remember some guy running to the front of the room and started screaming his head off and balling saying that he said his friend worked in the towers or something like that...

[AntonyM]

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It is weird how one moment can define your life
and even six years later I still feel a deep seated
emotion, thinking who the f' would do that and how
many lives it changed forever as well as solidifying
the course of our current foriegn policy. Being on the West coast
it was still pretty early as the footage came in. All I can remember
is being half asleep and wondering why all the television
in the hotel I was working at were on the same channel, then BOOM
the second plane hits, after that it was just feelings of
loss and anger, the day the earth stood still.

[hansh20]

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as all said it before, it was a really weird day, it was a "regular" day at school to me, i had to watch it through cnn.com on the latin american section (it never stoped working for me), with all students taking little breaks to go and check the news throgh internet, i remember i also watched the second plane crashing with the other tower, pretty unbelieveble scene cause the correspondant was on a roof with the twin towers as a backround and he didnt even notice the second plane have crashed, the man in the studio had to tell him that something was going on back there.

[KinKyJ]

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Yeah I also had the same feelings as TomTom and red1. Initially I thought it was just a light aircraft, and that it was an accident.

Later that day I did start to think 'Here comes WW3'

Same here, same here. I remember spraying my coffee all over my PC at work when I saw the footage. Sad, but iconic...

[JK224]

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I was in my sophomore year in high school watching footage in every class except english, which is the only class we did work in that day; teacher was a dumb bitch...

[DancingQueen]

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I was at home getting ready for work. I had just sat down to watch Regis & Kelly and eat a bowl of cereal before heading out the door.

I remember turning on the tv and saying "wtf is this? It better not be on long" The next thing I know I am watching the 2nd plane hit live on TV...as someone mentioned before...it was very surreal.

I called into work to tell everyone what had happened and my boss freaked out as his cousin worked in one of the towers. It took him over a week to find out she was ok and hadn't been at work that day...there was no way to get a phone call in or out for days....he and another family member had to drive down to her place after a week passed just to find out if she had lived.

[MusicJatt]

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Champaign, IL

[day_for_night]

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i got woken up my bro when the first tower hit...had a lecture in a few hours (it was something like 6am my time when the first plane hit). Watched the whole thing unfold on tv, both towers fall, and then went to university. was very surreal to be there. normally large and busy common areas were dead silent, tvs turned on there for the first (and only) time in my 5 years at college. the look on everyones faces is what I remember most.

My cousin was in one of the buildings right next to the 1st tower, and had the debris from the plane actually come through his window. Thats about as close a connection as I have with it...

Made the BONEHEAD move of routing my flight through London from Nigeria yesterday...visiting Heathrow on the anniversary of 9/11...not a brilliant idea.

[NastyD]

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I was in a hospital getting the bad news about my Mum's cancer. 9/11 has a slightly different significance to me. Especially as in Britain 9/11 is the 9th November - my wife's birthday.
My mum's hospital bed was on the top floor and we were watching the planes come in over London until they were diverted wondering if any of them would go down.

[nbpgt]

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sitting in the office, listening to howard, then straight to cnn.com or the like.

[nicomax]

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Taking a shower in the beginning of my 25th birthday... not quite a good day for celebration.

[nasserd]

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In downtown (but not "lower") Manhattan, waking up... insanely enough, I had spent the evening of the 10th at the WTC visiting my friend's offices (Tower 2, 77th floor). He lost a vintage (from the 40's) set of binoculars.

When they happened, I knew right away that classes (in college) were canceled for the week. Insane way to start a semester ... and I still feel bad for the freshmen who were already jittery for being in such an urban environment.

[beanzncheez]

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I was asleep like any normal westcoaster and a friend called me up and told me to turn on the tv. My wife hadn't called me up to check it out as she respected the fact that I'd gone to bed only 30 minutes prior. That was an interesting day.