Where were you, at this time, 8 years ago?
Me? I was waking up extra early, at about 5:45am, in Maple Ridge.
I had just turned on the television to watch some news while I was waking up, and getting ready to head downtown to go to a Macromedia conference at the Trade and Convention Centre.
I glanced over at the tv when I heard the tone of the news anchor exclaim that something terrible had just happened — and sat up with a start when I saw the horror which was displaying nearly live on Global TV.
A plane had *just* crashed into the World Trade Center. I couldn’t believe it.
If I wasn’t awake before (at about 5:50am PT) I sure was awake when I saw that.
My heart sunk. All I could think about while watching the smoke pour out of the building was how many hundreds of people must have died when that huge jetliner hit. The magnitude of the day had yet to become apparent.
My heart goes out to all those that lost a loved one during that most horrific day. It reminds me of how short life is, and how precious the people around me are.
Where were you at this time, eight years ago?
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It does not seem like its been 8 years already.
My brother was up early and was checking online before he headed off to school at 6:30(pt)and came screaming upstairs walking up my mom and I up.
All I could think of was I was in the twin towers in 1998 with my high school, are my friends in NYC(they okay) and the number of people who died.
I’ve 2 family friends take part in the looking for bodies days after it happened. They did not want to talk about what they saw. I also have a friend’s brother who helped with the construction of cleaning it up to what it looks like today.
I’ve been to NYC since but I never wanted to go to ground zero for the just because reason, if we were gonna go by it to get somewhere else then I might stop at it.
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I was house sitting for my friends Dave & Rachael. I had grabbed a bowl of cereal and plunked down onto their coach to watch some TV before work. The TV was an old one that takes a minute to warm up, So I found myself with a heaping sppon full of Life cereal poised inches away from my mouth when I witness the plane crash into the building. I have no idea how long the spoon hoovered there, but it was a while.
I was on vacation in Miami for a friend’s wedding and supposed to fly back to Vegas the next day. The friends who were staying with were a cop and a firefighter so they went on instant alert and we spent the next 8 days trying to get back home. Being away from home when something like this happens is extremely traumatic.
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I was still living with my folks at the time, and I remember the day clearly. I turned on the TV when my mom told me that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. When the second one hit, I felt as if time stood still. I will not soon (if ever) forget that day.
I was watching ABC’s Good Morning America; reading the paper when the first reports came in. The 2nd plane made it apparent that this was a terrorist attack and our world changed forever. I stayed glued to the TV all day and night.
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I was working in Boston at the time (more properly, Framingham, MA). We had a weekly staff meeting that morning at 8:30, and one of my colleagues came in late due to traffic on the Mass Pike…he came in and reported that he’d heard on the news that some kind of airplane had hit one of the WTC towers. We finished up our meeting, and by the time we came out, the main television in the corridor was showing the news live, and everyone was transfixed.
It was a very unsettled few days. I lived in Somerville at the time, and we could hear the military jets patrolling the airspace at night. I had an employee who had taken vacation time in Seattle, and had been scheduled to fly back on that day, but ended up trapped in Seattle for an additional week. I had a friend similarly trapped in Chicago at a conference, and his wife and I trekked out to the Hartford airport when he was finally able to get a flight.
Land lines (phone lines) and the internet basically collapsed, those few hours, so it was the TV that gave us all our information that first day.
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I was at work. I’d not long finished my lunch break and my boss walked in and told us what he’d heard. I didn’t get much work done that afternoon, I managed to connect to a news website (a lot weren’t handling the volume) and kept up-to-date with the news… It was so terrible. I hope we never see anything like this again.
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My work day was over, and I had come down fresh after a bath, to catch some movies or something in TV when my Dad gave me this shocking news. Mom and Dad were seated in front of TV watching the News in horror.
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I was driving across the city listening to Howard Stern when he mentioned that the first tower was hit. I thought it was a joke or one of his on air pranks.
It hit home when I reached my office and everyone was watching the coverage on TV in the boardroom. The office was by the airport and we heard they were diverting a lot of aircraft to land in Toronto. Approximately an hour later, all flights were grounded.
We were evacuated soon after, due to our proximity in the airport. It was very eerie going to my car in the parking lot and not seeing or hearing one aircraft in the sky.