9/11/2001. Where were you when it happened?

I was driving to Fort Scott Kansas with no radio in the company truck. So i had no idea what had happened in New York.
I called my sister to wish her a Happy 30 th Birthday and she was very upset when she picked up the phone. I told her that turning 30 is not a bad thing.... and that's when she told me what had happened.

I was at home doing some odd jobs round the house when the wife called from work. Didn't get anymore odd jobs done that day either.

I was home just waking up - I had been working in the lab late the night before. My wife called to tell me what happened. This hit really hard - I was born and raised in New York City.

Pete

I was working at Learjet in Wichita when someone said a plane hit the twin towers. We all thought it had to be some small single engine plane or something like that. It didn't take long after that and every radio station started broadcasting about what was happening. We spent the entire day listening to the radio. It felt good to get home that afternoon and be with family.

Three of us were fishing the submerged and semi-submerged tree rows in the Timble area above the W bridge on Smithville Lake. We would tie up and work a tree lowering minnows on weld rods catching a few and moving on to the next tree. By 8:30 am we had our 45 limit. A bass fisherman came by asking to borrow a cell phone as his battery had run down while talking to his sister in NY City and he told us about the sad and tragic event.

I was in Canada on a Fly In trip. First time I didnt hear floater planes flying in the air to surrounding lakes.

im a trk driver i was driving down the road headed to west jefferson nc and it came on the radio it was a sad day for sure

I had just got up to head to college classes and flipped on the TV. Eat cereal and watched the towers colapse. Made it to class at coffeyville community college to do nothing but watch the news and discuss the event.

i was a utility worker was on a job at 99 and nall removing the service wire so they could upgrade their civil defence sirens heard a plane had hit the tower thought thats some bad lluck going to the next one at 72 and santa fe when the second tower was hit thought oh s--t and it down from there

I was walking to class at KU and a student in front of me was on his cell. He stopped and looked up at the sky and was telling his dad he could see a jet that was turning around headed toward KCI, but he asked if they were all ok. I wasn't quite sure what was going on until I got to class and our professor sent us home after telling us. A little later I was in a 30 minute long line at the gas station paying $6.59 a gallon before it was all gone.

I was sitting on the side of Interstate 81 on the Maryland/Pennsylvania line with a broke down truck. I was hauling bait fish to a hatchery in Penn.

I was at a trade show in Kansas City. I remember watching it all unfold on TV's outside the convention center and I remember everybody speculating about what was happening and what was about to happen. Everybody was frightened and paranoid to say the least. I remember being scared that we didn't have enough gas to get home and of course we all wanted to get to our families as soon as we could. We were lucky enough to find regular priced fuel and fill up after a half-hour wait.

My cousin lived and worked close to the twin towers, and we were very relieved when we finally got word that he was okay.

I also remember that the following year at the same trade show, it was totally dead. Hardly any of our customers showed up. Their businesses were all suffering because people quit spending money like they used to. In 2001 it was a busy place and there was lots of energy and excitement (before the towers fell), in 2002 it seemed like everybody was scraping by at best.

Driving to work when it came on the radio. Turned on the TV at work and watched the sad event that took place that morning and watched the whole world come to a complete stop. Made me stop and think about life in general and how lucky we really are with our little time here. <<<GOD BLESS THE USA>>>

We still lived in Hays and I was getting ready for work. At first I thought it must have been a small passenger plane that had mechanical difficulties. Shortly after, the second plane hit and then it was obvious it was not an accident.
I remember going to Wilson that weekend and there was hardly anyone there.

Sitting in a biology lab in college. Teacher came in and mumbled something about a plane hitting one of the towers. Didn't comprehend what that actually meant until I got back to my dorm at about 8:50. Sat in the basement of my dorm with the maintenance guy for two hours watching everything on the big screen.