Today is the 7th anniversary of 9-11. Where were you when you learned of the attacks and what were you doing?

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I had just moved to Manhattan 2 weeks before it happened. The entire month was supposed to be a vacation for me of sorts; I wasn't even trying to look for work until October.
The morning it happened, my sis and I were asleep in our apartment up on 177th and St. Nicholas. The phone kept ringing over and over; we wouldn't answer it.
Finally, my sister got up; checked messages.
It was my mom, in Texas. "You'd better call me back and tell me where you are!! A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center!"

My sister woke me up.
"Wake up; a plane just hit the World Trade Center!"
"In Dallas?!" I said, groggily.
"NO, THE ONES HERE!"

I got up, we got in front of the tv. After a few minutes, I said "My goodness...someone must have made a mistake...was the pilot drunk??"

Then, before our eyes --the second plane hit the other tower.

We started screaming hysterically. "**** **** ****!"
"THATS NOT AN ACCIDENT!" "ITS GONNA BE WAR!!"

What do we do? What do we do?!?

Well we went to the bank and withdrew a lot of money, then we went to the grocery store and stocked up.

We didn't know if they were going to bomb the whole island or what! But we did want to be prepared that if we had to walk back to Texas, that's what we would do.

While we were at the grocery store we'd heard that the first tower hit had fallen.

We stopped home to drop off the goods. On the way, people were standing around. It was real eerie.

We walked out on the George Washington Bridge and looked toward downtown. We could see the smoke stacks.
We could also see the army personnel with their automatic weapons. Telling us to get off the bridge; the bridge had been shut down.

All bridges had been shut down.

As we went back to our apartment, there were many Jersey people stranded, wondering what they were supposed to do. They'd come in on the bus across the bridge. The buses dropped them off, and they weren't allowed to go back across the bridge...

That night was the quietest night I'd ever had in NY. No sirens, no people yelling, no cars honking. Nothing. Silence.

I may have been 200+ blocks away from the site, but I still suffered from Post Traumatic Stress disorder, and I still can't watch the news coverage without having a freak out moment. It was very scary, whether I was down there or not...

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renee762001	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was at my job. My cubicle was right next to the rather paranoid multi millionaire bosses office. He comes running out to get security saying we're being attacked. I had no tv or radio or computer or cell phone at work. I spent the whole day fitting together bits and pieces of the story. My friend came and filled my car up in the gas rush that day and when I got off, we went to this quaint little bar, with the best cheeseburgers ever and I finally saw the video (without sound--we were in a bar!) Rated: +1Vote for this!
PHSensei	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I live on the west coast and I was driving into work. The radio show I was listening to relayed as much info as they had, and at the time it wasn't much. When I got to work they had a TV turned on and I saw the footage played over and over again. It took me a few time to realize that I was seeing another plane hit the 2nd building. I was amazed to see the first then second building tumble. I was in NYC in Oct of 2001, I visited Ground Zero and I remember the smell of things still burning even then. It was a very powerful thing to be there and experience the loss as well as the resolve of the people. Something I will never, ever forget. Rated: +1Vote for this!
raevynvelcros	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was in tenth grade however my school refused to allow me in school during that month because of an illness I have (motion sickness and whatnot) so since I wasn't going to be in school til october I took a volunteer job with my health department where I'd go into stores and try to buy cigarettes underage....anyways the director of the program had just picked me up from my house and we were in her car sitting in front of my house. She turned the radio on and all we heard was "the towers are down." We both jumped out of the car and ran inside my house as fast as possible and watched the news for probably about six-eight hours that day...the ironic part of it....that same day the highschool I should have been in had two bombs inside of it....so everyone was evacuated from the building....so my schoolmates didn't know about it until the arrived home later on that day. Rated: +1Vote for this!
eternitysnow	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM In a classroom. I thought it was a movie or something, since I didn't know what the news looked like. When I got home and my mom knew about it, I kinda figured it out. Rated: +1Vote for this!
terror29	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was in the back office of the dental office where I worked at the time. I was on the phone with an insurance company when the customer service rep said, "oh my god, a plane just crashed into the world trade center!" I was 8 months pregnant with my first child. Rated: +1Vote for this!
PeedeeDog	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was listening to the radio while, driving in the car on my way to the hospital. I couldn't wait to get to the hospital to find a TV and see what was going on!! Rated: +1Vote for this!
amadisonmom	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was teaching preschool in Hoboken, NJ. We had a view of the towers from our classroom window. It was a day I will never forget. Rated: +1Vote for this!
thirty30	Posted Sep 12th, 2008 at 12:25AM i am SO glad to see i'm not the only person remembering. people around me seem to caught up in their daily lives to reflect. i was getting ready ftor work, & my friend called & told me to put the news on. i was glued to the set for the next 4 hours. i remember, also, that the friday after, the president wanted the entire country to have a moment of silence in memory of the victims. at the time, i worked at a fast food restaurant, & i was really angry, because it was one of the busiest nights we'd ever had. i don't think anyone in a 30 mile radius was interested in slowing their lives down for one single solitary moment in a day that had 1440 minutes. Rated: +1Vote for this!
Momcat52	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was at work, getting ready to go to a department meeting when one of our respiratory therapists came running out to the nursing station to tell us that a plane had hit one of the towers. At that point we all thought it was a horrible accident. There was no way for me to get out of that meeting, and when we got there, our director said that another plane had hit the other tower; this was our first inkling that someone was crazy enough to do such a thing. I think I spent the rest of that day shocked and horrified that anyone could concieve of doing such a thing. My thoughts go out to all who lost loved ones that day.. Rated: +1Vote for this!
jerrica	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM i had just woke up and played my answering machine. my sister in law left a message saying the wtc second tower had collapsed. as big as they are, i thought she doesn't know what she's talking about. i couldn't believe something like that could happen. i turned on the tv and saw that she wasn't bs ing after all. i woke up my bf and we pretty much stayed glued to the tv all day and drank, we were just shocked. Rated: +1Vote for this!
eromreven	Posted Sep 11th, 2008 at 9:40PM I was in bed, asleep, dreaming about war. Rated: +1Vote for this!
fitterhappiervelc ro	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was in school. It was parent-teacher conference day so we were in the cafeteria doing work will the parents were in our classes. One of the parents had a blackberry or something and was giving the other parents updates as they went through our classes. I found out when I was sitting in the hall waiting to go back in. I was 10, and I'd never been to or even near New York so I didn't know what the World Trade Center was, so it wasn't until that evening and the following days that I really understood how bad it was. Rated: +1Vote for this!
sweetgirl49022	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was actually in school. The principle came and in we watched the news all day long. I was really really shocked Rated: +1Vote for this!
solarxmoon	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was in the hall outside of science class on my first day of high school. I heard someone talking about planes crashing into the statue of liberty and thought it was some stupid new movie.... Rated: +1Vote for this!
rusted	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM On my way to work listening to a Spanish radio station. I don't speak Spanish but I could recognize that they were using a lot of numbers. I thought something big might be happening so I switched over to an English speaking station. Something big was happening alright. Life hasn't been the same since that day. Rated: +1Vote for this!
NaelovesherArmyhu sband	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM it was my first year of college, and i was supposed to be in class. instead, i was at home, sleeping in. i woke up when my dad called. i figured he was calling to harrass me about whether i had made it to class or not. boy, was i wrong. he told me to immediately turn on the tv. i remember sitting on the floor right by my bed and just crying. how could anyone do something like this? i teach 3rd grade now, and i taught my kids today about what happened... and how innocent lives were lost. i couldn't teach it today without crying. my husband is serving in the army, and about to go over to afghanistan. i mourn for the lives lost, and the lives that fell apart because of this tragedy. words cannot even express the pain i feel for these people. Rated: +1Vote for this!
cassandrathethink erbleedsteal	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was in 8th grade and it was a school day. my mom came and woke me up early and said that a plane had crashed into the world trade center. I went in her room and watched the replay of the crash on tv. I was sickened because I thought of all the people. I went to school and we had a moment of silence and then we said the pledge of allegiance. Rated: +1Vote for this!
frustratedlady	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was at work in UAE, when everybody was in commotion about the news, everyone's eyes was on tv. So astonished and with teary eyes. Rated: +1Vote for this!
mamapolo	Posted Feb 5th, 2009 at 5:58PM I was staying with a friend in S. Carolina, and we were both on our computers when an online friend from Denmark of all places told us to turn on the television. Like most Americans, we sat stunned, glued to the images on the TV, feeling like the entire world was coming down around our ears in a shower of ash and rubble and blood and flame. A couple of days later, though, we drove to Boston to meet that same Danish friend and her husband, who'd come to the States for a wedding. I was immensely comforted to see that kids were still playing Little League ball and men were still opening car doors for their beloveds, and flowers still bloomed and birds still sang. We drove quite near to both the Pentagon and the Twin Towers, and except that people were being markedly nicer to each other, none of the devastation was visible. It healed my heart, that drive up the eastern seaboard. Rated: +1Vote for this!

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