• MissMimi said on Sep 10, 2008....

  It happened a few minutes before 9 a.m. local time.  I had just woken up and turned on a morning news program.  What I was seeing didn't register as real at first.  I saw the plane fly into the second tower.  I recently ran across the frontpage section of the newspaper that I had saved from that horrible day.  The disbelief and anger and outrage was surprisingly close to the surface.  The world was changed forever.

• polarheart said on Sep 11, 2008....

  Hi Cuppa.  It was a moment I will never forget. . .ever.  We were still living in South Africa.  I was at work and it a news cast came on over the radio. . .I got immediate goose bumps all over my body, just I have now just writing this.  At that moment I really thought that it was the beginning of the III World War.  What a terrible event in history.
   
  Polar x

• pusscat said on Sep 11, 2008....

  I always do my  few minutes of silence at 2.00pm here in the UK.  If I am at work where the phones don't stop ringing, then I go for a cig in my car so I can do it.
  
  I remember it so well it's hard to believe it was 7 years today.  I was sitting at work in the small back office in the Child Protection Dept of Social Services.  I was a Service Advisor.  A Social Worker came in and told us about a plain that had hit the tower.  We all thought light aircraft and hoped no one in the tower was hurt.  We gathered that the pilot was most likely killed.  Then another came in shouting about the news on the radio.  Then our manager came in talking in rapid sentences.  The disbelief in the office soon turned to horror.
  
  I remember the phone ringing and I just let it ring.  I do remember then ringing my hairdresser and cancelling.  I know it may seem strange to remember something like that.  I remember talking to Laura and her being in total shock.  The salon had been playing a CD so they didn't know anything.  When I got through my front door my husband was there - he'd left work early being self employed - and I just burst into tears - just like now.   I don't mind crying for all those people. 
  

• blogacious said on Sep 11, 2008....

  It was early afternoon and I was walking around in a hardware store in Paris. The strange thing is I started hearing “Hail to the Chief” playing in my head – just as if it was playing on the radio. I thought it was weird but didn’t know what to make of it so I put it out of my mind. When we got home my husband’s aunt called us from Germany. She told us to turn on the TV and said something happened in New York. I turned it on and saw the plane crash into one of the towers. I was in shock. I used to work at One World Trade. I thought of all the people I knew there and the thousands in both towers and underground. At that point one of the towers came down. It was the most overwhelming, horrifying feeling and I couldn’t get through to anyone in the city for days. Finally, at some point I did manage to contact a friend and found out everyone at my firm had survived. But so many others were not so lucky. I don’t do too well on this day.

• quietone said on Sep 11, 2008....

  I was on my way into my daughters place when she said "look mom, something happened in NY"  I watched in total frozen shock as I saw the buildings smoke and the plane crash into the other tower. I fell to the couch and was in total shock.  I also thought it was the beginning of the end.. the 3rd war starting.  Today when I feel sad, etc, I think of all those people who died one way or the other on that day.  I think of the man that jumped out of the building to his death that was captured on the news.  I think then, how bad is my life really?  This is also the anniversary date of my job I started in 2000.  It is a somber day here in the US for sure.

• dailyachesandpains said on Sep 11, 2008....

  I, like a lot of us here in the USA, was watching the horror on live television.  I was on the computer going over some last minute wedding things with The Today Show on. Crying in a fit of shock and fear and then hearing another plane was still not accounted for.  We lived in a flight path for Logan Airport...where all the hell started and I couldn't stand the feeling of being alone. I needed Mr. Daily to come home from work, and he did. 
   
  12 days after this day, our wedding pictures were taken on the family farm of the Capt. of AA Flight 11.  Not a lot of people know that he was first, a farmer and a pilot second.  He taught immigrants how to farm.  He housed them, fed them and taught them the way to make everything grow and harvesting.  They would take the knowledge and return home and successfully farm in their home lands, or, they would continue farming here. 
   
  It still shocks me to this day that we knew several people on these flights and we were from such a small town outside of a big city.  We have a closer tie to this day that neither of us can talk about.
   
  I never got to hear what people were doing in other countries, or their reactions.  It's comforting to know that our country was being thought of by others in the world.
   
  Thanks for posting this. 
   
  Daily
   

• husbandhater said on Sep 11, 2008....

  I was watching the building go down infront of me. I watched as people stood and cried hugging eachother. I watched as everyone and their mother was scrambeling to get away from the scene that was unfolding infront of all of us. I watched as people walked around in a daze. I watched the anger,the fear,the sheer shock of the situation at hand.
   
  I watched the windows blow out and the top of the building fell and then the rest proceeded to fall in stacks. Then I watched it emlplode and the huge dust cloud that followed. I remember walking to work and the hospital I  was working for rush to convert the caffeterias into triage stations should we get any of the incoming as we were expecting  injured. I wasn't medical personel at the time. I was working in another capacity. But my job was one of those casualtys of 9-11 and I went back to school  not too long after being laid off and it was then that I picked the nursing profession(Much to my mothers' pride as she had been pushing me to tow the family line for years).
   
  God Bless the dead and the living.

• skald said on Sep 11, 2008....

  I went to a shop looking at furniture and then to my pool as usually. When I came out of the pool a woman was taking to one of the staff and said Crazy people and how awful and i thought she was hysterical. I went to the car opened the radio and then I heard what had happened. I saw the TV and so on. 

• KMT said on Sep 11, 2008....

  I was 16 years old and I was getting ready for school. My phone rang and it was my friend Krysta. She was yelling at me to turn on the T.V.
   
  I turned it on and we both stayed on the phone, but said nothing for about 10 minutes as we watched all the horror. It was awful.

• FutureGoddess said on Sep 11, 2008....

  I was on the last vacation I have taken - an extra long weekend on Block Isl. in Rhode Island.  I was checking out that day but had decided to take the early after noon ferry instead of the 8:00 am one.  I was just getting out of the shower and as is my usual habit had already had the TV on to the Today show when I glanced at the TV and saw the first tower burning.  Simultaneously, I thought:  Gee, I wonder what movie this is? as I saw the word Live in the corner of the screen.  I sat down hard on the bed and watched as the second plane went into the other tower live on TV.  I began freaking out.  I needed to get in touch with my family - my brother or sister or both could have been in those towers on any given day - I didn't know where my grandmother was (she lived downtown).  And I couldnt' get anyone on the phone because all of the phone lines were busy!!!

  I had to check out  but the next ferry wasn't leaving for another hour and half.  I watched the towers collapse on the TV in the Bar while hysterical crying and trying to explain to tourists why I was so upset!   Finally, I was able to get to my car in Port Judith CT.  and drive home listening to 1010 WINS the entire time (local news radio).  If you know anything about I-95 in CT you know that if you have out of state plates (particularly NJ plates) you will get pulled over if you are doing 5 miles over the speed limit.  It doesn't matter if you are following a CT plated car who is doing 85 in a 65 mile an hour zone - you will get pulled over!  I didn't care!  I did 95 miles an hour back to the state line of NJ (there was going to be a high speed chase if the cops came after me) until I could get in touch with my family on my cell phone (not as many cell towers back then).  While driving I got a call from my father who told me that the family was all well.  I pulled over and just cried for about 25 minutes in relief.  Then I drove directly to my parents place and we watched the towers burn from their apartment in Morris Plains NJ. 

  To this day, I still cry eveytime I watch ANYTHING that has to do with 9/11 - I couldn't even watch the memorial services today.  It just brings me back to the feeling of total helplessness and isolation. 

  Sorry that got a little long....

• Eilan said on Sep 11, 2008....

  I was still teaching at the time, and I had a class that ran from 8:30-9:45 that morning.  When I left the classroom, I noticed that the hallways were much quieter than usual, and I heard a student saying that someone had bombed the World Trade Center--he obviously hadn't seen what had happened.
  
  I went to the copy room to check my mailbox and noticed that several of my co-workers were in one of the conference rooms watching TV, and it was then that I learned about the planes had been flown into the buildings.
  
  I got to my 10:00 class a few minutes early.  Someone had turned on the TV in the classroom, and the students and I watched the South Tower collapse just before class was to start.  When the North Tower went down less than 30 minutes later, I dismissed the class--not that we'd really been doing anything but watching the TV, anyway.
  
  Shortly thereafter, my university cancelled classes for the rest of the day.  I went home to email my husband (then fiancé--we weren't living together at the time) and give my girls extra strong hugs.
  

• MissMimi said on Sep 11, 2008....

  There  is an Air Force base about 30 minutes from here, and almost immediately air traffic in and out of the base increased -- fighter jets.  (They sound different than the big ones.)   My son had just started college classes, and I was terrified to let him out of my sight.  I also called every one of my sisters and my mother just to make sure.  The world had turned upside down.  My daughter was in college about 125 miles away.  All I wanted to do was hold my children close.   

• Fallyn said on Sep 11, 2008....

  i was living in colorado at the time....but visiting my parents in washington.
  I was about 6 months pregnant with my second baby and my oldest was 3.
  just before i left to come here for the visit my ex and i had gotten in a HUGE fight he didn't want me to leave...even for a visit. ...i still have a scar from that fight.
  
  his last words to me before i got on the plane were "i know something terrible is going to happen"
  
  the visit went pleasantly enough until that morning. ...my sister and i were asleep in the guest bedroom (our old childhood room) and my mom came in and woke us up to tell us what happened. At first we didn't believe her. We thought she was telling us a horrible story to make us jump out of bed....we had slept in pretty late. ....my family can be morbid that way.
  
  but she was serious so we got up and turned on the news........and just after we got up the second plane hit.
  .none of us really said anything the rest of the day.....we didn't talk about it or anything...there was just this silence in the house......we were all in shock.
  
  then my ex called. DEMANDING that i come home RIGHT that minute.
  that if i hadn't left this horrible thing would never have happened. ...that i was responsible for all those people dying. i hung up on him.....i was too much in shock to even respond more than to say....i can't fly home the airports are all shut down.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• kelly said on Sep 11, 2008....

  I was sleeping (West coast).  My wife's mother called us at around 6 a.m. to tell us a plane had hit the Trade Center tower.  I remember thinking "wow, that's awful."  The full story hadn't been conveyed to me and when I started looking at the news hours later after I woke up again I was stunned, just like everybody else.  I had tremendous difficulty sleeping for a full week after and I still think about the horror and fear all those people had to feel before they died.

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