Comments on: Where were you on Sept. 11?

By: Kent

Kent — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:53:03 +0000

I was driving to a computer class when I first heard about it. It was early morning in California, and the fog still hadn’t lifted. Driving through the fog, I turned on the radio and heard two guys talking about some obviously important breaking news. One of them said the two World Trade Center towers were “gone”, and I couldn’t figure out what “gone” meant. Then one of them said something about the Capitol in Washington being on security lockdown, or something like that. It made me wonder if some protester had gone on some kind of shooting spree there, as had happened once before. Then they said something about planes being grounded all across the U.S., and I realized it was all part of one big story. When one of them said something about a plane flying into a WTC tower, I briefly thought it might have been a small private plane crashing into a tower by accident – I know something like that had happened to the Empire State Building about 60 years ago. By the time I got to school I had heard the whole story, and I just sat there in the parking lot listening to the radio for 15 or 20 minutes.

By: phedrang

phedrang — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:14:24 +0000

I got a phone call my ex husbands friend and turned on the tv. Then I called my dad who was at his travel agency and said “Are we under attack?”

And he said “No, the planes are coming up with the code word for hijacked on them.”

I was working for a friend at the time and we went to Fergies and drank. They don’t have tvs there.

By: florence

florence — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:44:18 +0000

I was awakened by the radio saying, “All U.S. airports are closed.” This was the first thing I heard when I opened my eyes. I said, “What?????” and went and turned on the TV and saw the tower come down.