Where and what were you doing at the moment you learned about the tragic events of 9/11?
534778
I was working on the telemetry floor in the hospital 3 days of 16 hour shifts,because there was not enough ,help,and I heard people complaining on the news about a tower,as I rushed in and out of rooms and had no idea, why people would not stop yappin about it,and then, on the fourth day,I came in for four hours and actually stopped working I was so damn tired and watched the story on the news,and then,I saw the tower come down on television, so I was a day late and a dollar short as usual
787418
I was in the World Trade Center on 9/11/01, I made it home by the Grace of God.  I always wanted to move out of NY and I did I am in FL now.  Been here a year.  \n\nYou can plan all you want, but God has plans of His own.
928421
Local actions: http://www.walthamlepc.org/cterr/LocalGovernmentPreparationforBioterroristActs.htm\n\nReports on preparation: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=17056\n\nState of preparation: http://www.ucgstp.org/bureau/wnp/wnp0017/secure.htm\n\nLets just say I know this articles are not the most current - but the situation has not changed much over the last five years since 9/11/2001!!!
368225
who did it? well it wasnt the butler in the hallway wilh a candlestick. how many different arab leaders are there in U.A.E.?i wouldnt know.however, it had to be a terrorist group of the arab world. look at the names listed they were all arabic.as for the official story, what we read and saw on the tube was as official as it gets.information concerning this tragic day possibly was edited just to be on the safe side. what i mean is that the story probably had more to it than what was said ,but with the turmoil in the world today, the increasing price of oil and fingers pointed at everyone, why say anything to start trouble? personally i dont think our country is the most advanced in defense or technology.our computers are made up of japans experts and as far as i know our defense systems are made with the same technology. i think there a a few small nations in the world that have come a long way as we have but secrets must be kept.hopefully im wrong but,i have read and surfed the web,i had found many items of interest that are questionable.im not a trouble maker and i think any information gotten will be sufficient enough to sustain my curiosity. i served during vietnam and i enlisted and would do it again. this country is my home and i was proud to serve.
731271
9/11 is a tragedy and the people at fault roams free whilst the victims family try to keep on living.
1034959
probably right now, World Trade Center by oliver stone.\nstv
451222
9/11/2001, the day my office was turned into a pile of rubbish.
501371
Yes i do. Personally, i was travelling the week before sept 11. I had just returned the 9th from a cruise to the Eastern Carribean on the Carnival Paradise. I being born in the US and all passengers had to pass through immigration to get off the ship in Puerto Rico and in St. Thomas USVI too. That was very awkward because i had been to puerto rico many times b4 and had never had to pass through immigration. the port also had alot of soldiers. We would ask the crew why we had to do such and they would just tell us that it was for security reasons. Back at Miami, we had to pass through immigration again, the longest time i have ever spent at the port after disembarkement. i believe that the us had some idea that they were going to have an attack but they were afraid to tell the public. i remember hearing opinions of passengers saying that something was wrong and that it seemed like something was happening. i also remember that when i heard of the attacks on Tuesday morning i was able to join the clues to conclude that the us had some sort of inforamtion of some way.
193009
I was in the 5th grade.  I remember that mother superior (I went to catholic school) made an announcement over the loud speaker that the president was shot and that we were all to proceed to the church to pray for him.  We spent a few hours in church praying, then returned to the school, where another announcement said that he was dead.  All the nuns cried.  I went home and my mom was crying.  It was a very very sad time for everyone.  \n\nWhen the funeral train passed through our neighborhood, we all went to salute it.  Everyone there was very sad.
1042088
Still a little in shock and such over the event. I was at my school (high school at the time) waiting for a class to start. The class clown of our grade, Sean, walked in saying his dad just called and said something about [I don't remember what he said exactly]. We all told him stop kidding. We then got the announcement over the PA of what had happened. I think at that time both towers were hit. We got to go home early. My dad worked in NYC but nowhere near there. As for people who passed on, a co-worker of my dad's wife was in one of the tower's on one of the floors that was directly hit. Her name is Laura Longing.
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lucky2bealive, I don't want to disagree with you but I don't believe you are going to find anywhere in the historical records that Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the 9/11 bombings. What he has done is praise the matyrs of that event. However, there would be more clarity and the issue can be put to bed finally if the government gave us the names of all the people that died in the various events. Where are the planes that crashed? Do you really believe that a building like the Pentagon would have cameras that are intermittent and take pictures every 7/8 seconds. Come.. Come. We are talking about the most technologically advanced country in the world. Something smells fishy and the stench cannot be dispersed until the Government come clean. Have you ever seen reports of the examination of  the so called crash sites?
590398
I'm betting 9/11. duh.\nChanged everything.
321125
I was at high school, the school tried to keep the events secret but all the students of history and other social sciences had TV and radios in their rooms and they watched the events as other students went on their way to classes ignorant of the events that was taking place. I was one of the ignorant. What did make it out though was rumours. My mom came and got me during my fifth period class after flight 93 went down. The school said it was under lock down but my mom was able to walk right into the building. The Gym teacher came down and got me to tell me that I was wanted in the office. I went to the office and saw mom there. She told me to go to my locker and get my things cause I was going home. So mom waited for me at the office. I didn't know what was happening, mom wanted to tell me when we were home but I figuered that it was bad. While I was at the locker, one of the school counselors walked by with an arm around a girl who was crying, I was able to catch what the counselor said to try to calm the girl, "I am sure that your father wasn't on that plane." It was then I started to panic. I hurried up with collecting my things. On my way back to the office, my one friend stopped me, and he told me everything what was happening. I didn't quite believe it. He went back to his class and I went to the office. On the way out, I told mom what I heard and she stayed silent so I stopped where I was and said "I will not go any further unless you tell me, if all that is true." She said it was and I started crying. We both feared that it was an invasion. The high school let out half way during the day. In flight time, the school was 5 minutes away from the crash site of Flight 93. I still cry when thinking about that day.
518704
Approximately 2,986.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11#Fatalities
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September 11, 2011\n\nThe September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11 [1]) were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks upon the United States of America carried out on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.\n\nThat morning, nineteen men affiliated with al-Qaeda[2][3] hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The attackers crashed two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower, causing the collapse of both towers within two hours. Hijackers of the third aircraft crashed that plane into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Passengers on the fourth hijacked aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers; that plane crashed into a field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Approximately 3,000 people died in these terrorist attacks.\n\nThe attacks began with the hijacking of four commercial airliners. With jet fuel capacities of nearly 24,000 U.S. gallons (91,000 litres),[4] each aircraft effectively became a flying incendiary bomb. American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north side of the north tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) at 8:46:30 a.m. local time (12:46:40 UTC). At 9:02:59 a.m. local time (13:03:11 UTC), United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the south tower, an event covered live by television broadcasters who had their cameras trained on the North Tower. American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37:46 a.m. local time (13:37:46 UTC). The fourth hijacked plane, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed in a field in southwest Pennsylvania, at 10:03:11 a.m. local time (14:03:11 UTC), with parts and debris found up to eight miles away. The crash in Pennsylvania is believed to have resulted from the hijackers either deliberately crashing the aircraft or losing control of it as they fought with the passengers. No one survived in any of the hijacked aircraft.[5]\n\nThe fatalities were in the thousands: 265 on the four planes; 2,595, including 343 New York City firefighters, 23 NYPD police officers, and 37 Port Authority police officers, in the towers and on the ground; and 125 civilians and military personnel at the Pentagon. At least 2,986 people were killed in total. In addition to the 110-floor Twin Towers of the World Trade Center itself, five other buildings at the WTC site, including WTC building 7, and four subway stations were destroyed or badly damaged. In total, on Manhattan Island, 25 buildings were damaged. Communications equipment such as broadcast radio, television and two-way radio antenna towers were damaged beyond repair. In Arlington County, a portion of the Pentagon was severely damaged by fire and one section of the building collapsed.[6]\n\nSome passengers and crew members were able to make phone calls from the hijacked flights. They reported that multiple hijackers were aboard each plane. A total of 19 were later identified by the FBI, four on United 93 and five each on the other three flights.\n\nFor a short period, the precise identity of the 19 hijackers was uncertain. For example, the BBC reported 14 days after the attack that 4 of the 19 were alive based upon the initial identification supplied by the FBI.[7]\n\nThe hijackers reportedly took control of the aircraft by using box-cutter knives to kill flight attendants and at least one pilot or passenger. The 9/11 Commission could only establish that two of the hijackers had recently purchased Leatherman multi-function hand tools,[8] but some form of noxious chemical spray, such as tear gas or pepper spray, was reported to have been used on American 11 and United 175 to keep passengers out of the first-class cabin. Bomb threats were made on three of the aircraft, but not on American 77.
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I was at work, watching the Today show with Matt Lauer and Katie Couric.....I was stunned when I saw what happened.  It was chaotic, our office shut down and we were told to go home.  The courts closed and everyone went home in a frenzy and this was in Miami.
1096005
I say a bumper sticker somewhere that said...\n\n"I learned all I need to know about Islam on 9/11"\n\nI thought it was very harsh but it was truth.