everybody knows where they were when the attacks happened .... where were you ?

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about 10 blocks to the north on my way to a client who was based on maiden lane, a block from the towers....

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^^^ shit !!!

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here, at work, I remember the guy in the radio saying "hey, a plane crashed into the WTC!!!!"... and later... "hey, there goes another one"...

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Getting ready for class, listening to Howard Stern - I thought it was all a joke until I turned on the TV...

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i was working valet parking at a hotel in Brickell Ave. ( miami ) when this hapenned ... we all went to a room to watch the news for the whole day ... no work done that day

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at work - but watching it unfold on TV and the internet. Remember you coudn't get cnn.com cos of the demand. Trying to phone people I knew in NYC. All the rumours spreading when it first happened - that planes were on their way to Chicago, and everywhere being evacutated. Bomb threats emptying hospitals. Not pleasant.

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^^^ yea ... it was like that all over the country .. especially big cities

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Midtown Manhattan, a few blocks west from where I am now

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on my way to work...thankfully late as I work a few blocks south of the towers. When I was told what was going on I turned around and tried calling my family and friends who had been trying to reach me. Then I saw the towers go down from the roof of my building (only reception I could get in my building that day/week) and then wandered aimlessly downtown for the rest of the day.

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I was driving to work taking my sweet time cuz there was strike ( Picket line ) at work when i heard the news on the radio, by the time i got to work they had cancelled the strike. I spent the whole day surfing the web and reading newspapers online.

A sad day indeed.

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i was sleeping when my roomate came barging into my room to tell me. needless to say, i woke up pretty quick.

good post, btw.

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I was cleaning a pool (worked for a pool business at the time) and the owner came out to invite me in to see the news on what was happening..We hung out at his house for a few hours, even had a beer and smoked a cigarette with him. When I left there I just drove around in my pool truck for a while listening to the radio reports, then finally called it a day after doing one pool out of my twenty for the day..No one really worked that day and it was understood..We were all shocked.

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I was working for Domino's in my hometown when I heard about it. We had a tv in there and I didn't know about it until I got to work @ 10.

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I was in my room, about to go to the doctors as i was throwing up blood. I remeber watching the 2nd plane hit live on the telly, it was very surreal, like a movie.

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I had just stepped out of the shower when my roommate started yelling as the second tower was hit. I still went into the office, briefly, which in retrospect seems ridiculous to me -- I guess I just wasn't sure what to do, so I did what I always did. I remember looking out my office window at a sky that is normally full of contrails from planes at Lambert and thinking how unnerving it all was to not be sure that the planes that were in the air were harmless.

We weren't at work long at all -- spent all of it watching TV and checking internet web sites.

We shared a floor with the St. Louis office of Aon, who lost a large number of people in one of the towers on 9/11. Suffice it to say that while we were numb in our office, it was a different scene across the hall.

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I was working at the amazon.co.uk distribution warehouse here in the UK when I heard it - we had Radio 1 piped into the warehouse all day and I'll never forget Chris Moyles voice when he announced it. I really just wanted to get home to see the TV, but we had to work, although management did offer anyone who had US relatives the chance to call them.

Weirdest day ever - I also remember thinking 'Who's next' and just being really paranoid. I suppose because they just didn't have a clue who was doing it, or if the attacks had stopped.

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I was at the office when the boss came in and told something about a plane hitting the Twin towers. We thought it is a small accident but when I came home and turned the television on I saw what really happened..it still gives me the creeps when I think about all those people just living their lives and working there to have something in the fridge.

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i was in my bed when the first plane hit, woke up not long after and switched on the tv and remember thinking to myself "what the hell is a film doing on @ this time of day" then it struck me that it was real life, i honestly thought that would be the day world war 3 kicked off

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At work in an office.I remember everyone started spreading the word that a plane had crashed into the towers and everone was pretty shocked. Then when the other one hit it became clear it was no accident and everyone stopped working and switched on the tvs around the place.. I remember most the silence as everyone was watching open mouthed...

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was sleeping til noon that day as i had to work late the night before. neither of my punk ass roomates bothered to wake me up to tell me. later that night i hooked up with a co-worker, and she ended up moving in with me. that only lasted two months and ended with her trying to hit me in the face with a glass. i guess that relationship was doomed from the beginning. i remember watching the presidents speech that night around 8-9pm. tough day for a lot of people no matter how far or close you were to NY.

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It was my first time in the states on a holiday Visa. I was on a bus on my way to NYC when the first plane hit. The bus driver told us that a bomb went off in the WTC so we would have to divert to Baltimore. Remember walking around Baltimore with no one in the streets and no cars on the road. The whole city was on lock down, looked like that scene out of Vanilla sky in times square.

Finally got to a TV in time to watch the first tower fall. Very surreal and scary.

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I was working at Barnes and Noble and the lady working the cafe had a relative that lived right across from the towers and she called hysterically once the second plane hit. The store was pretty empty that day. everything just seemed twisted. Very odd vibe. I will never forget that day.

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mother in law woke me up with a call to let me know what was going on. was working 2nd shift at the time. spent the rest of the day playing with my boys and wondering what was to come next.

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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'

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I slept through it and woke up around 10:30 am to see it on the news. Sad day and a shitty loss for everyone. Cant believe its been 6 years and there is still a gaping hole at ground zero. BTW- MSNBC and Newsweek has put together a nice graphic to show the progress as well as other skyscrapers that have already been built since- [URL]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20714734/site/newsweek[/URL]

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Stuck in the Tijuana-San Diego Border listening to the radio for 6 Hours !!!!!!!!!!!!

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[quote=GregWhelan;526573]Yeah I also had the same feelings as TomTom and red1. Initially [B][U]I thought it was just a light aircraft, and that it was an accident.[/U][/B]

Later that day I did start to think 'Here comes WW3'[/quote]

same here, i was at work in my office and someone yelled out "a plane just flew into one of the WTC towers". I was thinking, my god, how the hell could that happen, not like they arent huge.. then when we got the tv on in the office, i dont think any one really spoke the rest of the day. i still cant look at pictures, nor do i want to see any footage of it.

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Was fast asleep in my then gf's place in Brooklyn...had the day off...woke up and her mother, old Puerto Rican lady in her broken English goes 'World Trade Center gone'...Initially thought it was the ramblings of an old lady but got a huge shock when I turned on the TV...

I remember feeling seriously depressed about the state of the world for the next 1-2 months...f*cking media

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[QUOTE=Steve Graham;526587]same here, i was at work in my office and someone yelled out "a plane just flew into one of the WTC towers". I was thinking, my god, how the hell could that happen, not like they arent huge.[/QUOTE]

Had a similar experience myself. I knew that a plane had hit the WTC before I hopped in the shower, but I had no idea it was a commercial plane, thought it was a Cessna or something. Thought it was a tragic mistake, but had no idea how tragic until a few minutes later...

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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.

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

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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...

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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.

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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.

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[quote=GregWhelan;526573]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'[/quote]Same here, same here. I remember spraying my coffee all over my PC at work when I saw the footage. Sad, but iconic...

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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...

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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.

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Champaign, IL

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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.