[AlexasMommy]

Where were you 10 years ago this day?

Do you remember what you were doing when you heard about the tragedy

[jenerik]

on my way to go tan, mom called and told me about it

[AndrewsWifey]

My dad was driving me to high school (freshman year) and we were listening to it on the radio and once I got to school we watched the news all day.

[MommaOnCloud9]

I had just gotten to work. The radio station did not say it was a commercial airliner but a small twin engine or something like that. So, I was being sarcastic and thinking, "What an idiot pilot! Oops, I didn't see that BIG building there." My office did not have any televisions and we didn't have internet access yet. So, I didn't SEE any coverage until I got home after 5pm. Even when we heard that another plane hit, I thought it a media plane (or maybe a helicopter) trying to get pictures of the first plane's damage to the first WTC. I know. I was so niave (we all were). It didn't really hit me that the US under attack until we heard about the plane at the Pentagon.

[AlexasMommy]

I was out on a field marching as band was first period, when we were finished they had it playing on the tv.

[Neads]

I was sitting in the hallway (sophomore) waiting for the bell to ring so school could start. A guy had heard about it and was run around telling everyone. The majority of people had a "So? Don't care?" attitude when he told them. I for one didn't even know the towers ever existed in the first place and didn't really understand what it all meant. The guy got really mad and started yelling that everyone was ignorant and so wrapped up in themselves and their pathetic high school drama and didn't realize something major had just happened.

[ASH_M]

I was a freshman in college. Had just gotten back from my first class of the day. My roommate meets me in the hall as she's closing (and locking) the door behind her. She tells me what happens - just the first plane at that time. She walks away to her first class, and leaves me frantically trying to unlock our dorm room door, with tears welling in my eyes. I have to get to my phone. I have to call my mom to see what's going on. (my dad is an airline pilot that flies in and out of the east coast about 6-8 times a week) I turned on the tv, and tried to call out to her, but of course, the phones weren't working. I hadn't heard what airline it was yet - so I had to just sit on the floor and watch all the footage until they finally said it was an American airlines flight (my dad is a pilot for USAirways, so at that point I knew he was more than likely safe, even though he does ride on other airlines every so often when he has to commute). It wasn't until the afternoon that I was finally able to get ahold of my mom on my cell phone. She told me Dad was ok - but he was in Washington DC when the plane hit the pentagon - he actually saw the smoke from up in the air. There was no way for him to get home since they closed down all the airports, and everyone had rented all the cars from the rental places. He and two of the flight attendants from his plane had to rent a Budget truck and drove from Wash DC back to Missouri that night. I'm so glad my dad is alright, I can't imagine what we would have done had he not been. But I always get so emotional thinking about it, because I an remember all the feelings I had that morning when I didn't know what was going on with him for hours on end.

[KristaBee]

I was at work, and usually had a TV on in the background. I had just turned the channel actually and I saw what was happening. A few other coworkers and I stood around the TV for the next hour or so, and we watched the buildings fall. I just remember feeling so shocked and sick to my stomach. It seemed like we were watching a movie, and it couldn't be true.

[1st.time.mama333]

I was a sophomore in high school and my dad was driving me to school when we heard it on the radio. It was the first report of it, and we thought it was a small plane, and we actually joked around about it. It wasn't until I got to school, and more kids started showing up talking about it that I realized how bad it was. All the teachers had their tv's on and we watched the towers fall. I can still remember that sick feeling I had in the pit of my stomach.