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So, where were you on September 11? I remember I had art class when the first plane hit, though I didn't learn about it for about an hour.
 
We were in the middle of putting together the next issue of the school newspaper. Phone rang, teacher picked it up and started telling us what was happening. We sent one of the freshman to find a TV while a few others hijacked the sole internet connection we had. First we heard it was one plane. Then two. Then two and a helicopter in the Pentagon. Then two and a PLANE into the Pentagon. We just kept working on trying to figure out what happened. When the bell rang, we all went to our next class, and basically the entire day was spent going from class to class watching TV. I even spent the lunch period in a classroom watching a TV.

Second school day of my life I spent watching TV all day. Can't say either one was fun.
 
It was after some science class I was having during community college. I came into the student center and watched as both towers fell. I couldn't believe it.
 
I was at school, I came home, had a snack, turned on the tv; strange... every channel is showing the news. The magnitude of it all did not strike me at first. Then I went online and people were freaking out so I decided to see what all the fuss was about.
 
I was at home recovering from a bad cold, so I missed school that day.

Not long after I had seen my sis off to school, my dad called my mom from work and told her "Turn on the TV! Turn on the TV!" We did, and I had to stop convincing myself it was a dream at I munched on my cereal. EVERYTHING, save for Cartoon Network, Toon Disney, The Weather Channel, and a few other channels, was pre-empted. If it wasn't pre-empted by the news, some channels had condolence messages on them the whole day and the rest of the week.

After the first tower had fallen, every channel was basically repeating themselves what we had already known. I hurried to my room, tuned it to the public radio station, and left it there, every so often relaying updates to my dad over e-mail, since he had no TV or radio at work.
 
I was in my 10th grade Math class. That's when I first heard of it when the Principal of my High Schol made an announcement over the PA system.

I wouldn't learn the true extent of just what had happened until later in the day (around noonish) when my teacher for the class I had then was watching it on the TV. Needless to say, I was absolutely shocked and horrified when I saw just what had happened.

We spent the whole class watching the news.

It probably hit me a little harder knowing that what was happening at the World Trace Center was a mere 40 miles away from where I live.
 
My mother came into my room to wake me up. She told me that one of the towers has been hit and she wanted me to stay home. I then heard that the 2nd tower has been hit, and the footage of the impact is something I'll never forget. I can't believe it's already been 5 years. How time flies.
 
I was sleeping. I live in California so we are like 3 hours off. I heard about because my dad had my mom watch it on the news in the morning like 2 hours after it happened.
 
I was sleeping on the couch for some reason, it was 6:30 am when I woke up to watch the news of when the two towers were hit.

It was between nearing the end of Period 2 (English) and Recess before the second tower collapsed, I'm not sure where I was when the first tower collapsed I was probably still having breakfast or was already at school
 
I was on my way to work at the carlot I was working for at that time. I stopped by an odds and ends store to see if they had any new gadgets for me to play around with. Well, I got there and Frank who owned the store pointed to the television and said "Jason, you really need to see this." I watched as the action unfolded and was shocked. When I got to work, I called my mom and told her about what happened and she merely said "you are joking, aren't you?" I told her to watch the news and she called back shocked.

That night I decided to go to the theater and watch a horror movie (Jeepers Creepers). The theater was empty... people afraid that someone would try to attack a theater out in the middle of bumblefuck.

That was my 9.11 day.
 
I was in school when both towers hit. I remember not being able to go outside for recess, even though it was a nice day outside. Later, the school principal brought the 5th and 6th grade classes down to the auditorium to annonce to the kids the towers fell.
 
Seventh grade math class. The teacher said she just got an email update from CNN that someone was attacking New York, and she turned on the TV and the World Trade Center's just in flames... we were all shocked.
 
Why must we have THIS particular thread every year?

A memorial thread, I can understand. But this thread? We'll be giving the exact same answer this time that we gave last year, and the year before that, and in 2003 too, and all the way back to 2001 (except on other forums in 2001, and 2002, obviously).

At least in a memorial thread there'd be room for not basically copy-pasting the same reply every year.

(Sleeping, incidentally, and my mother came in the room yelling. I asked her if she was saying stupid things just to wake me up.)
 
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I was at work when my boss, Lyn, came out of her office crying and saying that a plane had just struck the World Trade Center. We turned on the TV in the waiting room (this was a doctor's office) and watched the second plane hit. The rest of the day was spent agonizing, crying, and staring at the television in shock.
 
Sleeping, having just woken up from the radio (I'm three time zones behind, so it was about 6:00 am when I heard this). So, then I went downstairs and turned on the the television...plastered everywhere were reports about the attacks.
 
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