Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

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That is amazing.

 

[hisdaughter]

I was at Bartow Middle School in Florida. Only on the job for a few weeks and the morning routine was to watch the news for a few minutes. They were showing video of the 1st plane hitting the towers and thought,"What a terrible accident." Then the second one hit and knew, it was not an accident!

 

[turney31]

Getting dressed to go hay cows, watching news, stunned silence and breaking heart. Fell on my knees in prayer on that old ranch house kitchen floor. I will never forget that moment.

I was also in the exact same spot cooking when I heard the space shuttle sonic boom when it exploded and rained debris all over East Texas. Unbelievable sadness of that day.

 

[sourland]

We were in the Catskills preparing to take a train trip into Canada with my childhood best friend and his wife when his son came running in with the news. His news was followed by a call from our son saying, "You are not getting into Canada. The border has been closed because of --->". We spent the day watching television and crying.

 

[Kaelinstorm]

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All the way in South Carolina?

 

[cupman]

I was in 10th grade, I was around for the second plane to hit but then I had to get on the bus to go to school. School was weird, somber mood across majority with a few kids laughing it off, I'm sure they didn't understand the severity at the time. I remember one girl crying her eyes out and not knowing what was going on, her dad was on a plane to New York, almost certainly he wasn't on one of the planes that hit but she was a kid and was panicking. I just remember the confusion, no attack like that had ever happened in any of our lives, all aged 14-18. Everyone was confused, in a haze, even the teachers couldn't focus on the subject manner, they were as upset and confused as anyone else. Will certainly be one of those days where I'll remember every detail.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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I remember that day too. I was in a haz-mat class all morning at the county commission room with 30 or so other firemen an police. Someone got a call telling us what happened so we took a break so people could fan out across the city to lower there flags.

Oklahoma city I was in high school walking from one class to another when I got pulled in to a class room where people were gathered watching it on TV.

I also remember being home watching the Challenger explode too but I was 9 or 10 at the time.

 

[HHandbasket]

I was working swing shift for a local hospital, so I was still in bed that morning. My phone rang, and it was a friend of mine. He asked me what I was doing, and I sarcastically said, "What do you THINK I'm doing? What time is it anyway?" (It was around 7:00 a.m. here on the West Coast at the time.) He said, "Get up and turn on the TV. The World Trade Center got hit." I turned on the TV just in time to see the second plane hit. I remember thinking that I had to be dreaming this whole thing, and as it unfolded and I woke up more, it was obvious that the nightmare was real.

 

[Sonic Pug]

I was on vacation from work, my first "real" job. It was early morning on the west coast. For some reason, I turned on the tv to flip around, which I never do in the morning. Saw the second plane hit, and every channel was broadcasting this horrific event. I sat alone in my bedroom in shock for hours. I had to be alone, to process what this meant for me, my loved ones, the world.

 

[JulieNKC]

I was on my way to work when it started. Me and my coworker sat in the backroom most of the day listening to the radio. I worked at a pet store at the mall at that time, and it was really quiet that day. Quite a few of the stores had to close for a few days, since their computer systems were based out of NY and no longer working.