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I was working 10 stories up on the side of a building!

I was in an 8th grade German class when the principal came over the intercom. We turned on the TV and watched for the remainder of the period. Teachers inexplicably tried to keep the day on track (most didn’t have the TV on, and the ones that did kept it muted; I had to alert the rest of the class when the second tower fell). I had been in the observation deck just two months prior, so that was the main connection I formed that day, tenuous though it was.

What’s Your September 11, 2001 Story: I remember I was at work involved with a pretty intense formula in an Excel spreadsheet, when someone yelled from the break room “oh my God!” I remember watching as some people stopped what they were doing and began to file into the break room. When I heard an overwhelming amount of gasps I knew that I had to get up and see what all of the commotion was about. I knew something was wrong based on the reactions from everybody. I made my way to the break room and there I saw on the TV, one of the top portions of the twin towers in New York engulfed in smoke and fire. My heart dropped and I too gasped in disbelief.

Just another day, slept late the night before..late to school and heard people panic on campus and my after what I saw on TV, my heart just dropped.

I was in college and that day had a test and that morning and was told classes were canceled due to the tragedy.

I’ll never forget that Tuesday morning I was getting ready for my 9:30am Cultural Anthropology class. I was in the shower and my RA ran into the bathroom yelling, “America is being attacked!” I immediately had flashbacks of the movie “Independence Day” and naively imagined aliens were invading earth. I quickly ended my shower, tossed on my robe and ran down the hallway into my room. I quickly turned on my 13 inch TV to see an image of a plane hitting one of the towers of the World Trade Center. I was simply stunned and shocked that an airplane crashed into a high rise in New York City. I remember being alone since I had no roommate and most of the people on my floor were still sound asleep.

I was in my fourth grade class room. They announced over the speakers that the trade centers had been hit. I had just been in those building the month before. I sat by the teachers desk where he had a TV on. Although the rest of the kids my age really had no idea what was going on, I watched it all unfold live on my teachers television.

I was watching it on TV @ school until they sent us home. Then in my basement. I felt the world change on that day. My innocence went away. Its never been the same.

I had an early German class while at college. The news hadn’t quite hit everyone yet, and the TVs were on when my prof got to class. She made us all turn off the TVs and start class because we didn’t know what was going on. I didn’t figure anything out until later.

I was in my dorm room.