Where were you and what were you doing during 9/11?

[Anonymous]

I was too young to remember.

Nothing stands out



Workout I did to honor and remember those that passed and served during that day.
It's a 3 part.

First starting last night, second this morning, and third later on tonight

Rope pull-ups, deadlines, incline presses, barbell push presses, mountain climbers, toes to bars, kettlebell swings, barbell rows, dumbbell hammer curls, etc

Get some

Never forget

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I have calluses on my hands from pulling and lifting heavy weights. This time, I was lifting my barbell with more rough or severe grip combined with the weight ripped opened my callus or skin 🙂🤪

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I wish there was something that stands out happening on that day for me, but there was absolutely nothing. I'm 26 now, and 9/11 was about 21 years ago, so I was 5. My mom and dad both remember what they were doing and where they were at.

[Apple1996]

I had just turned 5 but I don't remember anything about that day. Probably for the best but I've heard that for people in our age range that lived through it yet don't remember suffered trauma cuz we don't remember a world without terrorism and had to lose our innocence in a way.

Which obviously saying it's trauma sounds dramatic cuz I don't feel traumatized but if 9/11 never happened I would have lived a very different life so it probably did change the way we grew up and the way we see life.

[ArrowheadSW]

It is hard to describe how awful of a day it was. I was going in to work at 9 AM that day and when I got up, I logged on to the internet to check email while drinking coffee. I saw online a huge fireball coming out the side of what looked like the World Trade Center. After checking out the story I saw how a plane crashed into the Pentagon also. And then the two World Trade Center towers fell. It was almost beyond belief. I went in to work and the mood was that of sorrow. After work I went to a local wine shop where I had a circle of friends. There were a few there and we just kind of hung out not knowing what to say. The next day I went to the gym after work and there were people crying while working out. Everywhere you went people were in a somber mood. They looked like they wanted to come up and hug you. It was one time where people came together. People looked at each other in the stores and supermarkets, knowing what everyone was going through emotionally.

[ArrowheadSW]

I also remember the following week I had to travel for work and I had already made, and paid for, my airline ticket. With all of the major turmoil at the airports, I decided to drive the 9 hours to my work destination instead.

For the next few months, that was the major topic of most conversations no matter where you were.

[BCRanger10]

I was in the 8th grade. We'd just taken our class photo. I heard some kids talking about seeing vapor circles in the sky. A little while later, one of my teachers told me that some airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center (which I'd honestly forgotten what they were).

My dad was flying out that day. My homeroom teacher told me that my mom, who taught at the same school, emailed her and said my dad was okay. Later that afternoon, the vice principal gathered the 7th and 8th grade classes together and told us all what had happened. I didn't see the first footage until after I got home from school.

[melanieeeB]

Uhm I was like 5 years old, living my final last year in turkey with my father, all I knew to that time was violence, not allowed to go out and talk to people, no tv, no news and besides that I don't remember how my days went lol

I learned about 9/11 years later in school, during English class, I was probably 14/15 or maybe even 16 ... I don't know

[OlderAndWiser]

I was driving to work and was on University Boulevard, approaching Atlantic Boulevard, when I heard the first radio news report of a plane striking the World Trade Center. My initial thought was that it was some crazy pivate plane pilot, drunk and horribly off course who probably killed himself but nobody else.

[Paulalove98]

I was 3 and a half almost 4 at the time since i was born in 1998 and since my birthday was the next month in October but still too little to understand anything going on but my prayers and condolences for those victims will always stay in my heart. Also awesome workout.

[Asker]

Yeah, I was 5 haha

And thanks

[Twalli]

I remember I was on the bus for a class trip to The Art Museum. I think our teacher was yelling at us for not recgonizing the statue (King/Saint Louis). Then either she or her assistant (we had two teachers) got a call on their cell phone. Without telling us why, we had to get back on the bus and head back to our elemtary school. The flag was at half mast, and it wasn't when we left. Our entire school was in the library and our principal told us what happened. Then we went back to class. All day, students who had family connected to one of the areas attacked were brought out of class with updates. My uncle worked in the second tower, and saved everyone in his entire office before the second tower was hit. So he survived. His wife took a taxi from Washington D. C. to New York, because she wasn't sure the buses would be operational.

[Googlemyahoo]

I was registering at college & the women were talking about a plane crashing into the WTC. It was playing on the tvs.

Suddenly the second plane crashed I commented another one hit they disagreed with me saying they’re just repeating but then realized it was a second plane. Then everyone went quiet realizing it was an attack.

Everyone I spoke to after amidst sadness wanted to strike back immediately

[sage2021]

I was in bed and very sick for years. So I had the unfortunate experience of seeing what was happening right from the start. That's when they were showing people jumping off or out of the building to their death. Thank goodness they stopped showing that after a while.
But everyday when I woke up I watched it until it was over. Those were the days when the whole nation came together with caring and love. It was so opposite of what's going on in America now. Sad.

[ArrowheadSW]

I remember hearing of the people jumping off the buildings, but I wouldn't watch it. And people did come together with love. I remember calling people just to "see how they were doing".

[sage2021]

@ArrowheadSW Before I had a chance to turn my head and not have to see people that were jumping, it was too late and I already saw them. Their images are still in my mind.
I saw what you saw - a lot of love pouring out to everyone.
The opinion's I am getting here doesn't sound like that will ever happen again. It's so sad that many people have become so hateful.

[ArrowheadSW]

It really is sad that people have become so hateful. And it is normally over dumb stuff.

[DryGermanGuy]

I was at university. I remember clearly when the plane crash into the first tower was treated as a horrible accident. Then everything else happened step by step and everything got worse and worse. We basically had a front-row seat with live reporting for the next three days. I also remember the German massive police/intelligence service investigations revealing that a number of these terrorists used Germany as a safe-haven.

[AviatorTom]

I was at work, banging on my computer, when I got a call from a colleague in Europe (I live and worked in the US for a multi-national company), who told me to check out CNN... buildings in NYC had been struck by planes. I stood up and called out to my office mates about what was going on. Everyone stopped what they were doing and started talking about what was happening. About an hour later, management made an announcement that we should all go home.

[Avicenna]

I was at work when someone came into the office and said, "A plane crashed into the World Trade Center- man that's really messed up". My response was, "that's no mere coincidence because the WTC is definitely not on a flight path- it must have been terrorism".

[art84]

I was in English III in high school and someone had came in saying the Twin towers got destroyed by terrorists airplanes. Spent the entire class just watching the news till class was over. My teacher was upset at what happened and just crying.

[Fuentes]

I was In like 3rd grade and I remember getting ready to go to school in a shelter we were all in and everyone in the shelter all was piled up infront of the TV and saying the US got attacked. Then when I got to school all the teachers all had the TV's on and watching the news.

[Vesuvius87]

I was in my freshman year of HS, watching it on TV in the library with a friend. At first I thought it was a movie and took me several seconds to realize it was in fact a terrorist attack on the WTC.

[ArrowheadSW]

It was almost beyond belief.

[Vesuvius87]

@ArrowheadSW
Yes it was unbelievable. I feel terrible for all those people who lost their families and the babies and kids that were left without a parent.

[Lyndsielee666]

I was in fouth grade and they made us watch it all day on the tv in the classroom. Talk about traumatizing 🙄

[Asker]

That's a little bit weird.

Why'd they make you all watch it all day?

[Lyndsielee666]

A depressing part of history I suppose. Not sure why they thought that showing a school full of little ass kids was smart though 😂

[Asker]

Yeah, maybe it was inappropriate.
They probably should continued going through class, remained calm, and acted like nothing really happened in front of the kids.

[genericname85]

i was at scool. honestly i was happy about this happening back then, cause it was one of these situations where the teacher would roll in the tv into the classroom instead of having a boring math class.

[BeMuse]

Not in building 7 or 6, or 5...

[susie22]

I was only 2 years old at the time, so I really had no clue what was going on.

[Asker]

Nothing stands out for you during that day?

For me, nothing.

I don't remember anyone yelling, distraught, etc.
Absolutely nothing

[Likes2drive]

That picture must be from the New Jersey side because of the direction of the smoke since I was in Queens doing deliveries in the truck and it was blowing to the left and really black smoke going south bound , I remember it well, I was 35 at the time

[Still-alive]

Just starting my senior year in high school

[Dazed0N0Confused]

Sept 11, 2001 I was 5yo & in class watching it all go down on the TV...

[FunkyMonkee]

I was asleep through the first half hour or so. Then I spent the next couple hours watching it happen live on t. v..

[Msputiton]

Tbh i was like 15 days old. So i probably layin in my crib making raspberries and stinkies🥴

[Zolly99999]

I was working and when I heard it on the radio I pulled over to listen.. every time I drive by that parking lot I still remember sitting there listening to the radio

[TacosRAwesome]

I was watching after lunch TV. Pretty sure I went school supplies shopping that morning.

[BJP21]

Ironically... I was taking a Pilot ground school course.

[TrillXHippy]

At school learning. That was 21 years ago. That fact is scary to me

[TacticalLizard]

I didn’t Care Cause I Was a baby and Had more important things on my mind.

[jimmy2]

I was off work at home my wife was testing to work and she thought it was a stress test for the job

[PeteBy]

Ask Hunt Garner.

[Greedier]

I wasn't even born at that time.

[Ckendrick06]

I wasn’t born yet

[Aerolyn]

I was a six day old infant.

[AsaKyo]

I wasn't born

[TwoToTooTutu2]

Playing with blocks probably

[boobliker]

sitting on the roof oy my boat supping tea

[MysteriousDarkness]

I was in high school in class.

[BLP11520]

Working for a coffee company

[petitedollbabee]

I was 3 weeks old.

[Blackcupcake]

I was 9 months old

[Asker]

I was 5 haha

[Petedavidsonfan]

I was a baby.

[Phoenix98]

At school.

[Ms_Facesitter]

I was in class.

[dudeinohio]

I was at work

[Keeping_myself_safe]

Not even alive yet