Where and how old where you on 9/11/01

I was in 4th grade so I'd say like 9. I had no idea what was going on. All I knew was my friends were being taken out of class one by one and soon it was my turn to go home. I didn't find out what happened until the next day cause the rest of that day I remember watching Dexter Laboratory.

"I was at my grand parents house, and I dont remember how old I was"

i was in elementary school

I was in the 5th grade. I remeber watching it in the classroom. I was 10 back then.

I was at Ft Polk, La... I had just gotten into the communications shop and we were watching it on TV, not 10 minutes later everything started getting locked down and guards were posted in every single entrance. It got so bad that my roommate was ordered to check everyone 's ID that came in the building and even had to check mine...

I was  20

I was in 8th grade in Social Studies class...so I was like 13-14 years old.

I was 17 and in my freshman semester of College, hastily trying to finish my Expository Writing paper in the computer lab, surrounded by others doing their work or goofing off. The paper was due in a couple of hours, so I knew I had to concentrate on my work. Back then, I thought I was hot stuff, because I'd gotten good grades in high school, and thought I could conquer anything college had to throw at me. How wrong I was!

So anyway, there I was, trying to finish my paper, when someone says to me "Hey, you know classes are cancelled, right?"

My initial reaction was disbelief, then elation, then curiousity. I asked him, "Why?"

And then I think he mentioned something about an attack. He said they were closing down roads and stuff, too. Well, I decided to finish my paper. I had no idea how serious the situation was until more people started leaving the lab, talking about it, and I started to feel a great sense of anxiety and worry over it.

I can't remember what I did next, other than calling my family and watching the news and such. I woke up the next day in my dorm room, turned on the TV, and they were STILL showing the 9/11 footage. That's when it really hit me that something serious had happened. I was stunned. As reports came in, estimates of the thousands that had died, it really started to sink in.

That feeling defined my entire first semester of college. Like much of America, I had lost my innocence. No longer was the future bright and shining and full hope.

And I ended up failing Expository Writing. Three times.

OMG O_O STAR!

I was 15 and i was sitting in my economics class. We were watching the tv and all of a sudden it went to CNN. We all watched and when the towers collapsed they cut the tvs off. I didnt even know about the other hits until I got home. And even then their was talk of evacuating the area I live in because I live about 15 minutes from a major Air Force base.

"I was 11."

you know what.........i really dont know XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
all i remeber is i got back from the arcade from comming back from school
and i used to watch a lot of cartoon network
and like i didnt really realized what happend cause i was like
FAHHHHHHH
SAME THING ON TV
IMA POP IN TOYS STORY(best movie ever)
and like i didnt know how bad it was untill people said it was a bad and iwas like WTF
TERRORIST
OH MAH GWOD

"OMG O_O STAR!

I was 15 and i was sitting in my economics class. We were watching the tv and all of a sudden it went to CNN. We all watched and when the towers collapsed they cut the tvs off. I didnt even know about the other hits until I got home. And even then their was talk of evacuating the area I live in because I live about 15 minutes from a major Air Force base."

"Kiara_Sullivan said:

"OMG O_O STAR!

I was 15 and i was sitting in my economics class. We were watching the tv and all of a sudden it went to CNN. We all watched and when the towers collapsed they cut the tvs off. I didnt even know about the other hits until I got home. And even then their was talk of evacuating the area I live in because I live about 15 minutes from a major Air Force base."

Oh wow, that's interesting! Scary. There was talk and ramifications where I live too, just because it's central New Jersey. It's really real when it's so personal... I remember one time shortly after 9/11 or maybe even on that day that I saw a girl crying at a pay phone inside the college building with the computer lab. It really was a tragedy that we shouldn't forget, even those of us young enough to not remember..."

I was 23 years old.. i was up late watching a movie living with my friend who was in bed. It was about 12.30 at night and i remember it so well..... i flicked off the movie and the news was on, the first image i saw was the first plane hitting.. i remember i thought it was  joke.. then i kept watching and saw the second.. i was so tense i didnt move from the couch for an hour and a half, finally i roused myself and went to wake up my friend to tell her about it, she came down and we sat on the couch in tears. I remember the next day i rang everyone i knew to tell them i loved them.. just cause i was so scared.. that if something like that could happen to America, what hope did countries like Australaia have who have wayy less defence. It was a day i will never forget.

i was about 19 and  i was laying in my bunk in the medical hold unit of basic training at fort sill oklahoma and we were supposed to be cleaning but i said "f" it there was no drill sergents around so i was taking a nap and one of my boys came in and told me what was happening and i told him he was full of sh!t and to go away....i still owe him one

10

I was arriving at school when a teacher told me what had happened (I was early) we turned on the television and saw the second crash..... I was nine in 4th grade

I was eight...3rd grade, although I was first informed by it long after school that day...and I don't think I've ever heard of WTC before that, so it didn't mean much to me at the moment =/

I was nine and in school.

I was 26 and sitting in front of a PC at work. It was a standard, boring morning until everyone's internet connection went down. As we were wondering what was up, one of my co-workers came running into the room yelling about planes and buildings. Then everyone spent the rest of the day in front of the TV in the cafeteria, staring in disbelief.

I dont remember what grade i was in but i was 12, and i was so scared i had to be taken out of class,they took me to my sister's class so she could calm me down.

i was 16 and i remember my mom waking me up cause she said that something bad had just happend...we spent the whole day watching the news..ive never felt so voulnerable in my life...

I was 7...Don''t know what I was doing...

I was 9 when it happened and I was in school.