Where were you 8 years ago?

I was 17 and was sleeping on my grandmothers couch when the first plane hit. She woke me up to tell me about the first crash and I chalked it up to an accident. After she woke me for the second plane crash I realized something was going on.

I saw a recruiter a week later and shipped out for the Army Oct 3 2001...
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I was in High School. The principal came over the speaker system. The only time the principal ever spoke on the speakers was when someone died or we were in trouble.

He announced that something was going on and that all classrooms should turn to the news stations.

I will never forget that day :-)
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I was on a 3-day class trip to a camping site up north. No one told us anything until we were on our way home, and only that "Something Happened". I never went back on the class trips again.
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I was unemployed sitting at home, getting my kids ready for school. I got my daughter on the bus, came in the house just as they were showing the smoke coming from the first tower. My son and I, who was in kindergarten at the time was watcing with me when the 2nd tower was hit. I still remember his words, "Oh no, that poor plane."

I pray we never forget how we felt on that day.
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I remember seeing the news coverage of the first plane, and at the time, I'm thinking it was a small plane piloted by someone who didn't quite know what they were doing. Just as I'm think "what idiot crashes their plane into one of the tallest buildings in the world", I saw the second plane hit.

At that point, I clearly remember going dead cold.
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I was a week and a half into my present job. My wife and I were staying in an extended stay hotel and she called to tell me a plane had crashed into one of the towers. I alerted all my new co-workers. I went to the hotel at lunch to see for myself. It was hard to fathom.
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I walked into a Business Law class just before the second plane hit. Seeing the television show the first tower smoldering. I thought it was a movie, so I asked what it was. "It's CNN". Then the second plane hit and no one had any words.
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It was the 2nd day of 10th grade. I was sitting in my history class when word broke out about the hit and my teacher brought my class to the next door classroom where they had a tv on and we watched the events until the end of the class. I also remember I had an allergy doctor appointment and had to leave school early. It was an eerie feeling day. It was a warm, completely cloudless day with a slight breeze.
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Was doing field service work and was on admin time at home doing paperwork.
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I was working in Boston and the whole company went down to the employee lounge to watch the coverage after the first plane hit. We all watched in horror as the second plane hit. I'll never forget the feeling. My head was buzzing, and everything was happening in slow motion.
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I was at work, listening to the "Bob and Tom" show, when they suddenly turned seriously reporting. Went up to the main office where the receptionist had a small tv and watched the footage of the first plane crash and seeing the second plane hit live.

Another one of those days that you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard, much like the assassinations.
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I was at work, which is and was an Army Installation. It's one of those times when the world stops and you look at a tv screen in disbelief. No work was done and everything stopped.

Some time during the day the local news arrived trying to ask questions (before 9 11 many military posts were wide open) but I "escorted" them to the DOD police station.

Later that day on my way to another installation (also in NY) I got stopped by a cop for "supposedly" running a red light but I was in uniform near the HQ building and he let me go. I remember looking at him in cofusion, thinking "don't we really have more important things to do right now?"

Many of the people I work with were trying to call people they knew in the city but couldn't get through as much cell phone service was interupted or just non existant. I also remember seeing signs saying the "NYS THruway is Closed"

When we finally were released for the day (11Pm or so) A friend and I went walking to our cars in the parking lot that was also near an airport. It was of course completely silent, eerily so in fact. About half way to our cars we heard a low rumble that kept getting louder and louder and louder. About the time Connie and I started plugging our ears the F-18 took off like a shot and was gone in seconds. We looked at each other a bit spooked and simply went home.
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I was traveling with my then wife & her parents to visit a family friend. We got up to their house just after the 1st plane hit having no idea what was going on until we walked into the house and started watching it on the news. We never really did much visiting that day. On the way back home we were passed my countless State Police motorcades traveling south from Upstate NY to NYC.
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Sitting on the couch, before work. Reading the paper, drinking coffee, watching the Today show. What I remember most was that evening, sitting on the front porch with candles watching others with candles doing the same, or walking around the neighborhood. Talking to people.
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I was at Tech School. I'd only been in the Air Force maybe 6 months. I was stationed at Brooks AFB in San Antonio. We got put on lock down for a week. We could not leave the dorm, not even for class. We basically sat around all day watching CNN. When we had to go to chow, we were escorted in a bus by 2 Humvee's with Mark 19's on them.

It was surreal. Nobody ever thought something like this would hit us at home.

:-)
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At the unemployment office in Charlotte, NC. But later that night I was working a shift at Hooters and was robbed at gun point while watching CNN after closing. I will never forget...
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In school in New Jersey about 35 minutes from the City. School was on lock down. I remember going down to the beach afterward and seeing the smoke and everything. It was pretty awful. The only students that were allowed to leave school were those who had parents working in/around the towers. It was a tough time for our community

I will never forget it
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I was having a meeting in my office at work. Turned to check something on my web browser, and my yahoo home page had a headline about the first plane hit. We went to the CNN page, and the meeting ended when we realized what was happening. I will always remember one of the guys in my office saying "this will change our lives forever".
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Working in Washington DC at the time when we heard the first reports of a plane striking the World Trade Center and then a second one. By the time we were able to get to a TV to see what was happening, we could see smoke coming from the Pentagon. We then started hearing rumors about planes striking the White House and the Capitol. Somewhere around 11, we were told to leave the building and go home. The city was in a complete panic, traffic was bumper to bumper with no place to go. Cell phones wouldn't work and people were out in the street with no idea of what to do next.
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I was sleeping in my college dorm room. My buddy from across the hall woke me up and said you have to see this.
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