I was at our agencies Shooting Range for qualifications when we heard about the WTC being hit.

I was a senior in high school sitting in my homeroom class watching the tv with my teacher as she cried. I don't think i had ever heard the class be that silent. All you could hear was the soft cries of the students as we watched in horror what was happening to our country. It was a day I will never forget. Shortly after, many of my high school friends joined the army.

Medicine Hat Alberta.

I was bow hunting for antelope.

I was in our appartment's business office off 280 just after the first one hit. I had no idea what was going on but was furious over a stupid water bill issue that they were supposed to correct. Needless to say I showed my ass and couldn't figure out why all the women in the office looked so sad. As I was driving to school at UAB I got caught up on what was happening and heard when the second plane hit. I will never forget that morning and as I looked around at others in their cars most were crying. Spent days watching the coverage and it took months to get a decent nights rest. Thank you to all those on this forumn who stepped up and served.

Mr Taylors 9th grade history class. I remember him saying "Boys, this is gonna effect a lot of y'all".....Boy was he right.

Cochran’s corner.

I was a freshman in HS, sitting in Ag class when the Band Director came into the classroom and told what was happening and turned on the tv. I remember everyone discussing and thinking it was accidental at first. Then when we saw the second plane hit, we knew.

Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia. getting geared up to fly an Operation Southern Watch flight over Southern Iraq.

Austin, Texas - wife 9 mos pregnant with our twins - was watching CNBC/Squawk Box when they broke into the coverage & first reported a "small aircraft" had hit the 1st tower ...

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2011/05/25/mark-haines-september-11-2001.html

Fort Sill Oklahoma

Working in Milwaukee, WI. For the next 3 days, Hertz was blowing up my phone telling me I was not allowed to drive my rent car back to Texas. Lucky for them, the airports re-opened before I was scheduled to return home.

I was in bed from working night shift. Woke up and turned the computer on to check AlDeer. Saw it on the AOL main page and cut the TV on just before the second tower collapsed.

I was in Sanford Florida on a construction job working nights. My parents called and woke me up just before the second plane hit. My roommate and I woke up all the other guys that were working with us and everyone eventually wound up in our room watching.

I was living in upstate New York two hours north of NYC watching Fox news. Back when Steve Doucy was a weatherman,,Brian Kilmeade the sports guy.

Saw the first plane footage and knew it was an attack. Then they were showing the damage from the first plane when the second one hit. I remember the second plane coming in and a reporter saying "OMG theres another one". Everyone knew then it was no accident. Sad, sad day for sure.

Senior in high school in biology class.

Ft Benning

In my 6th grade history class. I was pretty worried when I found out the news because my dad was supposed to be flying from Tallahassee florida to south Dakota that day and nobody could get up with him for quite a while but fortunately he was grounded in Atlanta due to what had happened.

I was up near the state line at Leonia, Florida talking to a landowner about a tract of timber.

I was sitting in history class junior year of high school. We had not quite gotten started for the day when another history teacher next door popped his head in to ask my teacher if she saw the news about the WTC being hit by a plane. At that moment he and all of us thought it was just someone flying a personal plane or something, but within minutes it was obvious this was a major event and deliberate. The rest of the day was pretty somber and most of us were terrified because the school had to communicate with all teachers and students the plan for evacuation should Browns Ferry Nuclear be targeted and hit. I think it was in the top 10 sites in the US or something.

One of the most memorable things I have from high school came out of 9/11 though, our teacher in the days after assigned us all a project to make a journal/timeline of the events using newspaper articles along with our own written opinions of what was happening. I still have it today and from time to time will go back over to look at it and read the newspaper clippings I glued into the journal and the things I wrote down. It's a great way to remind myself of the price paid by so many civilians, first responders, police, firemen, etc. It's odd feeling because my generation will be the last one that has memories of 9/11 and where we were.

I was at work. A guy came in the shop telling us about the first plane. I scolded him telling him that wasn’t funny. We spent the rest of the morning watching the news. Saw the second plane hit the tower live on tv.