Where were you on 9/11?

[cassiesmom]

I'd started a new job just a few days before and was getting ready to go to work- I was going to the home office of a co-worker who worked from home. I remember Katie Couric on the Today show as I was dressing and putting on makeup saying that it was unclear why the plane was flying over lower Manhattan, maybe the pilot was ill. I wasn't in the office but at the co-worker's home - a vendor in Baltimore told us the office was closing and the entire staff was excused for the day. We pretty much kept working all day. When I got back to the office later in the day, they'd had the radio on almost all day. That's when I understood the magnitude of it. One of the passengers on the flight from Boston to L.A. was a part-time pastor at my church (Christ Church of Oak Brook, IL), so our senior pastor was interviewed and we had a prayer service the next evening. The most spooky part of it for me, like Karen said, was no airplanes- I live under a flight path to O'Hare so I'm used to planes all the time. I couldn't listen to the radio or watch TV for several days afterward, I just kept it on the classical station because that was about all I could handle.

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[Roxyluvsme13]

I was in 4th grade, 9 years old. I was just really confused as to why everyone was leaving early... The parents were coming and getting everyone and I was wondering why I wasn't going home. Our school didn't tell us what was going on and I didn't find out what had happened till I got home.

I believe we had a flag gathering the next day to remember those who lost their lives.

[Casper]

I was a week away from turning 10 years old and in middle school. The principal was going around to all the classrooms and telling the teachers to turn the televisions on to the news. Now that I think back, that wasn't a very clever idea. I think half of the middle-schoolers were convinced the world was ending... I was too dumb to understand anything that was going on, so I just sat quietly in the corner.