Where were you during the 9/11 attacks?

[formerkywrestler]

Freshman bio class at UK. Professor canceled mid class and I went home to attempt to contact my Grandparents who were supposed to fly back from a New England trip that day.

[Jumpman4004]

I was sophomore in biology at Boone County High School... I always remember a kid laughed when the teacher first told us about the first plane then right as she turned on the TV the second plane hit and that kid shut up real quick.

[halfback20]

High school, in math class.

[woodsrider]

At work. One of the guys that works in our warehouse came into the office and said the radio station he was listening to reported a small plane hit one of the towers. We didn't really think much of it and figured someone screwed up. Then he came running back in and said a second plane hit. That's when we turned on the radio in the office and tried to get an update on the internet. Every web site we tried was tied up with traffic.

 

There are 3 events that are craved in stone in my memory, 9/11 and the births of my two kids.

[75center]

Picking up my youngest from kindergarden. We spent the rest of the day playing outside until my older children got home from school. Then we watched it with them and tried to come to grips with what was happening.

[All Tell]

On my way to work. I turned my car radio on (and learned about the attack) just before the first tower fell. I got to work in time to see the second on go down.

[statmanhensley]

I was on my way back from my cousin's place when it started and when I walked into my house and through the living room, my Mamaw was watching and asked if I had heard about it...I said yeah but I was too tired to watch anything else so I went to sleep for about 5-6 hours then woke up and prepared to go work a volleyball match that evening.

[mcpapa]

I was at work, but pretty much everyone congregated in the waiting room all morning.

 

True story. We had a lady at work who was what I call a "fatalist" - always was the first to be the bearer of bad news. She voiced the concern - and I'm not making this up - that Maysville might be on the terrorists' short list because, after all, we are sandwiched between two power plants.

 

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

I was at work, but pretty much everyone congregated in the waiting room all morning.

 

True story. We had a lady at work who was what I call a "fatalist" - always was the first to be the bearer of bad news. She voiced the concern - and I'm not making this up - that Maysville might be on the terrorists' short list because, after all, we are sandwiched between two power plants.

 

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

 

That's almost laughable. If memory serves, the major areas in Kentucky that were defense concerns in the hours and days following the September 11th attacks were the Blue Grass Army Depot and Fort Knox. BGAD was a concern being one of the US chemical weapons stockpiles, and Fort Knox was a concern as the US Bullion Depository. To the north, there was also defense concern about Wright Patterson Airforce Base in Dayton, OH.

[Beechwoodfan]

Freshman year Health class. I still remember sitting there with the TV on watching until the bell rang. Then the teacher walked over to the TV and said and I quote, "This isn't important." and turned the TV off. Every other teacher in the school thought it was important enough as we watched in every other class that day. Never seen a high school lunchroom so quiet as it was that day.

 

What a moron. One of the biggest tragedies in American history, with the opportunity to help students deal with it and he/she wants to talk about the food pyramid?

[marvel]

4th grade Social Studies class.

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

I woke up to go to a 9:30 class for my first structures course in college (I had switched from a computer science major to a construction management major that semester). I was still living with my parents, and as I walked past their room on my way downstairs, I saw that they were both sitting on the blanket chest at the foot of their bed and were watching the news on television. My dad said a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I walked in to watch the news just as they reported that there was another plane headed towards the vicinity, and a minute or two later I watched flight 175 fly into the south tower. I was left kind of in shock and decided to go ahead and leave for class.

 

On the drive to school, I flipped channels to find new coverage to listen to, and I came across the Howard Stern Show, broadcasting live from NYC and including on-air phonecalls from their studio employees out and about in the city. It was unreal. They re-broadcast the show the following year on the anniversary. I actually got sick and vomited at work while listening to the replay.

 

Anyway, I got to school that morning and the parking lots at NKU were noticeably vacant (that doesn't ever happen). I walked into my class, and the professor had rolled a television into the classroom. There were 15 or so students in the class. We sat and discussed the catastrophic amount of structural damage to the building, due to the impact itself and due to the amount of heat being applied to the remaining structural steel members from the burning jet fuel. The south tower collapsed about a half hour into class, and the north tower came down a half hour later. The professor released us from class at that point, and he went to make some phonecalls, as he was one of the US representatives to the International Code Council. The following day he was taken by military escort up to NYC to help determine the scope of the damage to the buildings surrounding ground zero and to the subterranean infrastructure and subways of the city.

[dolamite]

Was a frosh in high school and was in Algebra class when my teacher got a phone call and immediately turned on the TV. For the rest of the day all we done in any of my classes was watch CNN, and I continued that when I got home from school that day until I went to bed that night. I can remember when the buildings collapse plain as day, but thing I remember most is when the 2nd plane hit.

 

Like many, a day I will never forget.

[Getslow]

Senior in high school. Found out during AP Calculus.

[GrizzlyAdams]

5th grade at lunch. I had a chocolate milk and a chicken breast for lunch that day.