September 11

[raven_estrella]

What were you doing when you first heard about what was happening on September 11, 2001?

Comments

[edgyauthor]

I was in my seventh grade spanish class. When word starting going around school about what was happening, all the teachers stopped class to turn on the news. My teacher seriously said, "You guys are going to remember where you were when you heard about this FOREVER."

[marmadukesphinx]

i was standing right outside the train station in Sussex after getting back from my first day at Sixth form - a girl from my old school who I hadn't seen for ages came up to say hello and told me and my friend what was going on - when I got home I watched TV, I had missed it all but they kept playing it over and over again.

[raven_estrella]

This might seem like a really weird question, but how was the whole thing perceived in Britain? As a horrific event, obviously, but you must have thought about it somewhat differently...

[marmadukesphinx]

probably the same as America I imagine. horror and lockdown on security for us, we thought we were going to be next!

[afraclose]

I was working third shift at the time, and had fallen asleep on the couch when I got home. My husband (who had already gone to work) called me on the cell and it work me up. And he said, "Um, you know the twin towers, in New York. They're not there anymore."

We didn't have a TV at the time, so I couldn't see what was happening while he described what was going on, but I stood by the window and looked outside, and I just remember that the sky was so surreally blue...

[raven_estrella]

I also remember the blue sky. It might sound cliche, but the blue sky really did seem cold and scary to me. As a fourteen-year-old, that was the first time I got really scared about the world.

[geekygirl]

I was still in high school. In choir. The first plane had already hit and all of us watched the second plane. After school, I had to work and it was the longest shift of my life.

[raven_estrella]

I was in high school, too. It's impossible to go on with your everyday life when things are literally crumbling to the ground.