Where Were You?

[Angela]

When the planes rammed the towers?

[Charla]

Sitting in my room. I don't remember if I was scrapping when it happened, or I started doing it when I turned on the TV and watched the day unfold, but I got far more pages done than usual, from all the nervous energy. :(

[nbeaudreau]

I was home when it happened, but I didn't have the TV on. I didn't find out until later that morning when I took ds to his doctors appointment.

[Cynnder]

on my way to work...then we all sat around all day and stared at the internet..watching things unfold...

[RachelS]

when the first one hit, i was on a bus back to my dorm room. i got there just in time to see my roommate standing in front of the TV watching as the second one hit. we pretty much sat there all day watching the news except for the math exam i had to take that evening. september 11 is my sister's birthday as well. it was a bad day for her.

[InLoveWithDOTS]

I was online, the boys were little then and watching Blues Clues on DVD. I almost always watched the news back then so when a friend of mine called when the first plane hit, she was shocked I didnt already know. I couldnt believe when the second plane crashed. I have the chills just typing this and remembering what that was like. I was horrified the whole day.

I heard that MSNBC or one of those stations is going to rebroadcast the original news all day tomorrow. I wish I didnt have to work so I could stay home and watch. It's hard to believe its been 5 years. Seems like yesterday.

[adliutkus]

I was working at a daycare. We had an old tv on in the kitchen so we could follow what was happening.

[AndreaBurns]

I was student teaching in a 2nd grade class. The principal had come on the intercom and told us to turn the TV's on. My Head teacher and I watched the 2nd plane fly in.....

I was so afraid. I was just newly married, and I was afraid that WW3 had just started and that my husband was about to be drafted.

[AmberC]

I was driving in the car on the way to watch my sisters kids and I heard it on the radio, then I watched it at her house off and on through the day (trying to keep thekids away from the news a bit). I remember being very worried because my sister lived an hour away from where dh and i lived and I was worried that I might not be able to get back to him for a bit if anything else happened.

[ajoyfulheart]

I was at home too, recovering from a broken ankle...my hubby called me to tell me what was going on, so I hauled myself upstairs to watch it. I agree, it does seem like just yesterday :(

[tamra]

I was at home too and I usually never have the tv on in the morning, but that morning I turned it on and saw it just as it was all happening. I called my husband and told him what was going on... SOOO terrible!

[Hom74]

Didn't find out until I got to work. I was an early bird and there were only 2 or 3 other people at the office at that time. They were watching the news on the awful tv in the conference room. Most people didn't come in b/c we are in SF and there were rumors about the Bank of America building which we were a couple blocks away from. Pretty much rumors around all landmarks here though lol.

I got married on the following Saturday, the 15th. Our honeymoon to Hawaii got canceled :( so we drove to Vegas. A bunch of DH's relatives from Canada and hOng Kong weren't able to make it to our wedding b/c of flight craziness that week.

[rh_scrapbooker]

The first one happened while we were still asleep (5:30 a.m. or so Pacific), but the alarm clock turns on the radio and that's when we heard the news.

I was on my way to work when the 2nd plane hit, and DH tried to make me come back home, but I stayed at work.

One of my coworkers brought in his 13" TV and we set it up in the break room so folks could go in and watch during the day. I think we had that TV there for the entire week.

Rachel

[Valgal]

Angela, were you watching the special on CBS that I was? Dh and I were just glued to the TV. Brought back so many memories and feelings.

Like a lot of you I had NO idea that anything was going on. John was sick and had slept in, so we were all just laying around and letting Johnny (only 3 then) watch A Tigger Movie. My sister called and yelled at me, "Are you watching TV????" She totally confused me by rambling a bunch of crap about a plane and the World Trade Center. The rest of the day was just a sad, tearful blur.

I was watching when the first tower collapsed.

Then the second.

I remember calling dh at work (he went in late) bawlilng and telling him what I saw. Oh, so horrible. I really had no idea (innocent, eh?) that someone could hate the U.S. that much, so I was really confused.

And I wasn't even personally affected. Amazing.

[~ashleigh]

I watched the special on CBS. WOW...

5 years ago, I was staying at home with Corinne who, at the time, was not quite 7 months old. I worked for my mom on Tuesdays while she watched Corinne, so that morning we were getting ready to leave. Around 8 am (cst), I turned on the Today show and sat down to feed her a bottle. The first plane had already hit, and there was still a lot of confusion about what had really happened. Then I saw a plane fly into the screen, and it was haunting. That was the precise moment when we realized it was all intentional. Awful.

[thequeenofquirk]

i posted where i was on my blog this morning....it's kinda long so i'lljust link it. such a horrible day for everyone...

http://jancrowley.typepad.com/

[Laura_A]

I was asleep when it happened. Jaime was already at work and called me from his cell phone and told me to turn on the TV. I was so dumbfounded by what I saw... the 1st tower on billowing smoke but the 2nd hand't been hit yet. It seemed like just seconds after I turned on the TV, the 2nd one hit and I was just freaking out. I couldn't wrap my brain around what was happening. As I watched I realized people were stuck in those buildings and all I could do was sit there and cry. Then the 1st tower collapsed and I lost it. I called my mom and our pastor to make sure they were watching and praying for all those poor people. I was in anguish for them... and then when they started talking about the Pentagon and the other plane that crashed and that it was most likely a terrorist attack... I was furious. You should have seen Jaime. His boss let everyone go home and when he walked in the door he was crying and was so angry. About 2 days later he walked into the Army recruiting center for the 1st time ever.

[Jessica*]

I remember I was working at a Pet Lodging facility/kennel. We received a phone call from an employees mother with the news. We immediately brought a tv out into the lobby and caught the news just after the first plane hit. I remember the phones at work went silent, and suddenly, nothing else mattered. I, like everyone else, was in shock. Once the President grounded all the planes, then I remember a flood of calls coming in that people were not going to be able to pick up their beloved pets.

What a sad day, but it's nice to see that no matter how people feel about the War in Irac, at least we still come together and remember this day.

[chloe]

I was at home, it was the afternoon for us in Europ, working on an essay I had to write for an anthropology class, and I decided to have a break. I turned the tv on, saw a building in flames and thought "oh, no, not one of these bad movies with fire in high buildings!" I changed the channel, and then realized it was not a movie... It was so horrible, I couldn't belive it, I still remember thinking "who? why?". Then I thought about my family in the US (I learned later that one of my relatives was in NY that day, in one of the World trade center towers, and even lost her boss in the attack) and about my friend Stephanie who was in Vancouver, Canada. I was so afraid for them (and for us: we have a huge chemical factory in my town, I was afraid there could be an attack there too!)

[Rynonut Mom]

I was asleep. Michael got up to go to work. He was working on private airplanes at the time at the Local Mesa airport. He turned the tv on and then came to wake me up saying it was a bad day. I was, what?, 3 months pregnant with Matthew. I had just started staying home with Ryan, having gone to work to no more jobs in July, 2 days after finding out we were pregnant with Matthew. We wouldn't find out that he would have ds until the next month. anyway...
Michael finished getting ready and went to work. I sat in front of the TV and cried most of the day, holding onto my belly. I kept distracting Ryan as much as I could in the other room with movies, so he wouldn't see. It was so strange to not have planes flying overhead in Phoenix. It just about put Michael out of a job with the private planes not flying for so long after. It almost put his company out of business.
I have watched many of the shows in the last week and really feel that we don't need to forget.
Chick's Life this week is about this... come join us and get your memories down.

[scrappinmichele]

I was running errands at Target with my 2 youngest. It was the 2nd week of school for my oldest who was in Kindergarten. I got home and checked my e-mail and had one from a friend who just said.....TURN ON THE TV! I did and I was in shock. It was about 8:50 am and I'm in the Washington DC area. Right after I turned it on the plane hit the pentagon...about 15 miles north of where I was. My dh was in Germany and I was panicking. I had just sent my oldest off to school and he wasn't due home for 2 hours. I wanted to go get him and bring him home and just hide away in my basement. I had no idea what was next and I was scared since I lived in the DC area. I spent the rest of the day crying and glued to my TV and scared that more was coming. I don't think I slept until my dh got home. The schools were all closed here the next day for fear of what was next I think...and I was so glad. I had a hard time sending my 5 yr old to school on the 13th. Brings tears to my eyes just remembering those feelings again. And we couldn't use our phones...all the lines were busy and I was trying to call my dh in Germany and I finally got in contact with him and they were in meetings and had no clue yet.

And then I was terrified for my dh who was supposed to come home the next day from Germany. He ended up being delayed 1 day, but I was never so happy to have my whole family in 1 place.

[JennStar]

I've been thinking about this for a few days. My nephew, Parker, was born on the 10th late in the night. I skipped school because I really should have been at home writing a paper for my 8am class. SO I e-mailed the professor when I got in, letting him know about my nephew and that I wouldn't be in class.
When I woke up the next morning, I turned on my computer, and on the front page of AOL was the headline that a plane hit the 1st tower, which my husband and I visited just 3 weeks prior. I turned on the TV just in time to see the 2nd plane hit. . .and then the 2nd tower fall, . . .and then the 1st. . . .All the fresh joy from Parker's birth just hours before was quickly washed away.

[JennStar]

Oh Laura, I didn't know that about Jaime. I'm thankful for all of the men and women who stood up at that time to defend our country. Thank him for me please!
CNN is doing some stuff on it today- they have a ticker at the bottom, listing the names , ages, and city,state for each of those who passed away that day. And along the side, they have "what was happening at this exact minute 5 years ago."

[noralong]

Like others, I was home. I wasn't dressed yet, and turned on the tv. At first I wasn't sure just how awful it was, and then it started to sink in. When Bill got up, all I could say was "This is bad."

[windgefluester]

in the afternoon i had a free afternoon,
i saw it in the TV... and first i thought it is a film and go to another programm.
but the same in all programms...

then i knought it, it wasnt a film :(

in my thought im by the families and friends whos lost a people on this day...
and also I would like thank say to all firemens and policeman