Your 9/11 story, where were you?

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I was 4. My grandma called from Florida to tell us in the early morning hours. I don’t recall whether I went to pre k that day

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I was in chemistry class in 10th grade. My mother saw it from her building so she came and got me early. I did a painting that day that has been stolen since by movers. I was really worried

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I cant remember tbh

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I was 40 years old and renting a room in this guys house. I got up and I was half asleep and I walked through the living room to get to the kitchen and the guy was watching TV in the living room. He called to me, “Hey, you gotta see this.” Not knowing what was going on I said jokingly, “What is it, WWIII?” He said, “Maybe” and sounded serious so I went back in the living room and saw a plane crashing into the tower. I watched for awhile and then went to my park ranger job that day.

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I can’t remember

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In highschool history class. Had to wait until school was out to see it on the news.

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Was working a summer job in the university library. A woman from the library offices came up and told a colleague his girlfriend was on the phone (was before we used mobile phones that much).

He came back 5 minutes later and said we need to check the news. We were all students at the uni so we signed into a library computer and watched it unfold on the bbc news website.

I believe we saw the second plane live.

That was my JFK moment

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I watched the first plane hit the towers on the morning show…turned to cnn and then the other plane hit and we knew it was terrorists…horrible horrible day.

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17 years old, at home watching it on TV because I called out sick from school that day.

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I was at home with my daughter. She was a toddler. It was so scary to watch because I didn’t know if it meant war or not. I was thinking about how to protect her. Scary times

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14 years old in grade 8. I got to class and my teacher announced it to us

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I was 33 and at work at a dot com back in the day. Had a 2 week old kid at home and the whole thing was freaky. Potential buyers for our company were in from NY that day and they were obviously devastated.

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First period ninth grade. My second or third period speech teacher told the class that we’d never forget where we were when to towers were hit. I could go in more detail, but I still remember that day.

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I was at home off school with the flu. Year 8 (dunno what that is in colonially terms). My TV show was interrupted. I remember it clear.

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I was studying my a levels in college. I happened to be on a break at the time and was watching it on the news. Like @Jimbob I also saw the second plane hit live.

I walked home and remember thinking WW3 was gonna break loose.

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I was 17 in grade 11. I think the first time I saw it on the TV news was one morning before leaving for school.

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I was 14

Got back from school and it was on repeat on every channel

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I was in the break room at work getting ready to clock in. I worked for the phone company. We did credit screening for New Jersey customers. We were Hella busy that day. People from New Jersey were frantic not able to reach their loved ones in New York. You didn’t know what to say to them. You didn’t know how to calm them.

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3rd grade, they rolled out the TV and we watched it on the news. Now that I remember, my uncle worked at the Pentagon but did not go into work that day.

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I was 27 when it happened..

Working in my saloon,some girl dropped by and said some plane crashed into building.. I thought some small plane who had malfunction.. I saw all when I came home 9 pm.

To mention, bombarding my country was 1999. There wasn’t just military objects hit,but schools,private buildings and lot of cassette bombs that killed citizens. So we got immune to war, terrorism and such things..