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I was the local Morning Edition anchor for the NPR station at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. I broke the news to the local folks before NPR went wall-to-wall. My News Director was listening in his car and said I sounded terrified...funny..I think I was.
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Where were you on 9/11/01?
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Nitsud Regnifloh
Valerio Heights
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in my apartment in BG, "prepping" for class.
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lifeontwowheels
Highland West
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2nd period Biology. Catholic high school, so our deacon came on at the end and briefly mentioned what happened and said a short prayer. I remember being in my 7th period class with the teacher putting the news coverage on.
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chaptal
West Side
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Coming back to work after a short visit east. We flew out of Long Island on 9/10. We visited NYC on 9/8, one of the best days I ever had. Brunch with my Aunt at the now closed Cafe Des Artistes, driving through Times Square (which you can no longer do) in a VW Cabriolet, seeing a surprise fireworks display on the East River from Sutton Place Park.
Started work at the circ. desk, then I heard a plane crashed into the WTC. Then another.
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Bear
The woods
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On a commuter train in Boston. An announcement came over the tinny speakers that an airplane had flown into the WTC. I was so amazed by the continued silence that I asked the conductor what the announcement had said, and she repeated it in such a matter-of-fact voice (and then just walked away... as if this happened every day) that I thought I might be on Candid Camera or something.
Then I tried my cellphone. No way could I get a connection -- towers were overloaded. When I got to South Station there was a long line of people waiting for the pay phone, all of them dialing and redialing their useless cellphones.
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catphish007
Columbus, Ohio
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passed out on the couch on the front porch. ahhh college.
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ohiojimmie
Westgate
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I just finished choir rehearsal in rural Ohio high school when an unreliable classmate as a source said "the Pentagon got bombed." The rest of the day was spent watching the news and trying to check internet news sites to find out what happened. No traditional learning that day.
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vestanpance
Harrison West/at work OSU
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Working at the marriott hotel in dublin
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BreakfastwithNick
Clintonville
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Driving home from our honeymoon in Maine. We stopped in a small town on the coast around 10 a.m. and noticed that they were playing the radio. Someone at the counter explained what had happened, so we went across the street to a pub and saw the images on TV. Drove the rest of the way home to Pennsylvania that day listening to the radio. It was a beautiful clear day. Not a single plane in the sky.
It's still unbelievable to me.
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Urban Dansigner
Downtown
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Was woken by a call from a co-worker prior to heading out for the day, I lived in Oakland CA at the time, he had been IMing with a mutual friend in France and was told to turn on his TV. I had some client meetings that day, so I still went into work ... there was no traffic on the Bay Bridge, I mean no traffic ... I knew it was going to be a strange day.
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JonMyers
HCMC ✈
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At the office in Manhattan, 28th between 5th and Madison. Preparing for a meeting in Jersey with the intention of catching the Path mid-morning.
I remember hearing from a bike messenger who told us that the first plane had hit the WTC tower. We all walked outside and stood on 5th avenue and could see the smoke pouring out of the tower. Decided then to skip the meeting I had in Jersey.
We went inside and we're able to check CNN.com to get some reports. Learned about the second plane on their website. Everyone decided to stay inside the office because we were afraid there might be a chemical attack as well on the city because toxic smoke was everywhere.
I finally left the office around one and decided to walk home. I lived uptown at the time. I joined the mass migration of people up town in empty streets with fighter jets flying over everywhere. From then on, I was glued to the TV for the next day and then decided to get back to work and "normal" that Thursday. The first few weeks back I walked to work rather than take the train.
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LeePaul
Southeast Burbs
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Doing my routine morning cleaning of my lovely senior neighbors
swimming pool. She opened up a window and said "Lee, something just happened at the WTC", and I assumed it was like the previous explosion(early 90's?) so I didn't rush to the TV. After further contemplation, I said the pool can wait, I better check this out......Posted 2 years ago # -
dru
IV
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i was working from home. fired up Outlook email and no problems. so i did my morning round of websites. CNN had a link about a "small plane colliding with the WTC." i thought it was interesting and clicked on it. the link was dead and upon hitting refresh I could no longer access CNN. Yahoo news, no. ABCnews.com, no. Something is up. Turned on Today Show just in time to watch the 2nd plane slam into the WTC. For the first few minutes I thought it was a replay of the first and only plane, but then they noted it was indeed the 2nd suicidal plane. After a few hours of staring at the TV, I eventually wandered outside to find some neighbors sitting on their porch, one of them worked in the Rhodes building and they were let out for the day. As @ndekke described PA, it was an amazingly beautiful day in central Ohio. We sat in the sun utterly astounded.
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