9/11 Remembrance Form


.	Timestamp	Where were you when you heard of the events of 9/11/2001?	How did you hear of the events of 9/11/2001?	Who was the first person you shared the news with?	How did you share the news with that person?	If you answered OTHER to any of the above, please share.	If you would like to share any ofther memories of the day, please do so here.


.	9/9/2009 7:22:49	Home	Internet	Co-Worker	Phone		I was checking a bulletin board at Serenity Sisters online and saw that a plane had hit the towers. I turned on the TV just as the 2nd plane hit. I immediately called my boss. 1 hour later at school -- we had prayer. Someone mentioned while praying on how to handle retaliation and I think that is when it truly hit me what had happened, what might happen.
.	9/9/2009 7:35:18	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 7:35:22	Home	Spouse/Significant Other	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 7:36:21	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was pregnant with my first child and I remember thinking about how scary the world might be for my daughter.
.	9/9/2009 7:36:36	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 7:37:03	Work	Co-Worker	Student	Other	I am a school teacher and the teacher next door told me to turn on the tv that we were being attacked..... so I did and that is how I told my students about it.	It was just too unbelievable.... I was very scared because I have family that lives in NY. Of course I tried calling for days before I could ever get through.... everything was fine with them, thank goodness.
.	9/9/2009 7:37:21	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 7:38:16	Home	Television	Your child/children	E-Mail		My son was in Washington D.C. and we were unable to communicate with him until very late that evening. It was very difficult teaching that day. Everyone was scared and upset.
.	9/9/2009 7:39:03	Work	Television	Student	Verbal Chat		I was teaching 5th graders that day in Cleveland, Ohio. Because the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania had flown over Cleveland, many parents checked their children out of school, fearful of what may happen next. It was an unreal day.
.	9/9/2009 7:39:15	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 7:39:55	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Cell Phone		I remember my co-worker came in the school office while I was talking to my principal and said "A plane has hit the World Trade Center". We both looked at her and didn't say much thinking it was a freak accident. It wasn't until I got online and saw the extremity of it all that it hit me. The rest of the day was a blur for me.
.	9/9/2009 7:40:28	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 7:40:59	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was beyond belief of what I was hearing. The strangest thing to me, was we were in Florida and parents were streaming to the school to take their kids out. I guess everyone was afraid more events could happen anywhere.
.	9/9/2009 7:41:09	Home	Child	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		While getting ready for school, my daughter heard the news on the radio. She came in and told me and we turned on the TV. It was horrific and surreal. I had to go to school and by mid day most of the children were picked up by their parents. All those who worked in skyscrapers in Seattle were sent home.
.	9/9/2009 7:41:29	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		The sky was so blue it was such a beautiful day I thought this can't be happening. I could see the NY skyline from our town and the twin towers that I looked at every day were no longer there to see.
.	9/9/2009 7:42:27	Home	Spouse/Significant Other	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		A friend's daughter worked in the Towers. She was late going to work because she had gone to see a Janet Jackson concert the night before, so she got a call not to come in before she even left home. The interesting part of this story comes 5 years later when a reporter found a canceled check that she had saved, but it had been in the very back of her desk drawer. In all the rubble, that check had someone been spared and had all the writing on it and clearly had her name and address and phone number. The reporter was doing a "paper chase" on these found items and wanted to know if it had any meaning to her. It turns out it was the check that she had to pay to be sworn into the New York Bar after passing her Bar Exam and it was the final thing she had to do to finally say she was a lawyer. It had a lot of meaning to her and she was very glad to get it back admidst all the rubble that could have destroyed it!
.	9/9/2009 7:42:38	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		Wife got into a car accident and I left school to make sure she was ok. Heard that something had happened in New York, but was told to go ahead and leave to be with my wife anyway. 15 minutes after I left, they put the school on lockdown. Since I was on the train, I didn't hear any other news until I got into the hospital, and all the doctors and nurses were watching the TV's with the patients.
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.	9/9/2009 7:43:19	Other	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat	I was sitting on the St. Lawrence River in upstate New York fishing and on vacation. The only channel we got on our tv in the cabin we rented was CBC out of Canada. We went into the nearest town about 15 miles away about 1pm for lunch so we were a good 5 hours learning of the attacks after they happened.	Because of the 4 day delay in getting air traffic back to normal I was stuck up in Niagara Falls, NY where we flew in to for vacation for almost a week. Flying that close to after the attacks was a very harrowing experience.
.	9/9/2009 7:43:20	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Other	We shared person to person at school and then had to talk to our students about it.	The tragedy was just beginning as I walked into school that morning. The TV was already on in our teachers' lounge. We watched the TV as the World Trade Center came down. We cried & hugged one another as we listened to the news. Then we had to go to class and be with our students. We did a lot of talking about tragedy during the next few weeks.
.	9/9/2009 7:43:25	Work	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I remember watching the live coverage as the 2nd plane crashed into the WTC. We couldn't believe this was happening. The news reports were unsure after the 1st plane what was going on. We heard that a small plane (like a Cessna) had crashed into the WTC, but after watching the 2nd plane go in, we knew that we were under attack. The most vivid memory is how everyone froze for a few days after that whenever they heard a jet overhead...we never knew if we might be next. Very scary times...
.	9/9/2009 7:43:30	Home	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		After I heard the news on the radio about the first plane, I got up and turned on the TV. I was still hoping that it had been an accident. But then as I watched, the next plane hit. I knew that it was more than an accident. I remember going into school that morning and encountering people who had not yet heard the news. There was a wave of sadness and fear. Being on the other side of the country was surreal. We watched on television, but we also watched our own skies. The worst thing about terror, is not the attack but the fear and distrust it leaves for years to come.
.	9/9/2009 7:43:49	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		We were in school, teaching when someone from the office came to tell us what was happening. Since it was our planning/conference time, we got to a tv as soon as possible to see for ourselves what was happening.
.	9/9/2009 7:43:59	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I remember struggling to comprehend the events of the day and realizing that it would change our country forever. Many countries have had to struggle with terrorism and I remember thinking that we had been blessed to never have it happen here. I was teaching students in 4-5 grade at the time and I remember in the following weeks trying to figure out what to say to my students.
.	9/9/2009 7:44:04	Home	Television	Other	Phone	I first shared the news with my mother.
.	9/9/2009 7:44:37	Work	Co-Worker	Student	Other	spoke to them-all grades were rolling in t.v.'s to SHOW it-not good for elementary.	I remember one high school girl who was crying and out of control. She actually got the gravity of the situation. Many others were just blowing it off. She was hysterical.
.	9/9/2009 7:46:02	Work	Co-Worker	Student	Verbal Chat		During the second week of school we were almost done with our Pre-Algebra class and the secretary came to our room to tell us. We watched it on tv most of the morning in shock.
.	9/9/2009 7:46:02	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Cell Phone		I was very worried as I had a friend who walked through the towers each morning on her way to work for coffee.
.	9/9/2009 7:47:12	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 7:48:54	Work	Other	Student	Verbal Chat	I was handed a typed note by a school administrator as I was teaching class. He said nothing. Just handed me the note and walked out. In retrospect, it was very unnerving. I have a wonderful narrative to share about how the day penetrated and scrambled my worlds as a teacher, mother, wife, and individual all at once. If interested, please let me know. Actually, perhaps I'll blog about it... ;-) http://joangallagher.blogspot.com/ Check by end of the day Thursday if interested.
.	9/9/2009 7:48:57	Car	Radio	Other	Other	I shared the news with my mom when I dropped off my son for her to babysit for the day while I went to work. I shared it with her in person	We pulled a t.v. in to our classroom and had it on all day. we couldn't stop watching. It was an unbelievable feeling
.	9/9/2009 7:49:02	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		There was an announcement over the intercom not to turn on the TV in the classroom. On the way to lunch, my principal told me that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. I thought she meant a little prop plane. It never occurred to me it would be the tragedy it was.
.	9/9/2009 7:49:11	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		A very sad day for America
.	9/9/2009 7:49:25	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 7:49:45	Other	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone	I was at the YMCA.	My husband is a pilot and was flying to Washington, DC the morning of the 11th. He was quickly redirected back to our home city, Charlotte, NC. Of course, when I heard the news on the television, I called him. He was safe so I allowed myself to take a deep breath. That night or the night of the 12th, he woke me up out of bed and asked me to join him outside. Groggy me obliged. We, my children included, sat down on the steps and looked up into the sky. He told us we were watching history. This was the first time in our lives, there were no planes in the sky. The federal government had stopped ALL airplanes from flying. I will never forget that night. I also remember all of the American flags flying and the bumper stickers on the back of vehicles. The impact on me was great. I loved the patriotism and the love shown for our country. I would have liked to see that continue.
.	9/9/2009 7:49:51	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 7:50:23	Home	Spouse/Significant Other	Your child/children	Verbal Chat		I just remember being shocked and thinking there must be some sort of mistake. I tried to keep it together because I has a 22 day old daughter to take care of. I kept wondering what kind of world I brought her into. Now we can look back and see how the nation united and how proud we are to be Americans!
.	9/9/2009 7:50:38	Work	Child	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		You're not going to believe how I heard about the events of this horrible day. You see, I don't listen to the radio or watch TV in the morning. I just drove to school and hurried into my classroom to drop my stuff off because I had morning playground duty. While I was supervising the kids, one of my third grade students came running up to me and said, "Did you hear about the towers?" Of course, I was clueless and said "What towers?". He proceeded to describe the Twin Towers and what happened in his best ability. At first I didn't believe him and thought he was exaggerating and not telling the truth. Then a whole bunch of other kids started to come up and describe what they had seen on the news and heard from their parents. I couldn't believe that I had heard nothing until that moment. One of my other teacher friends came out to the playground and we exchanged solemn words of disbelief. We all wished that school could be cancelled and that everyone could go home and be with their families. I do remember many parents keeping their kids home from school that day. And to top it off, September 11th is my birthday. I turned 40 years old that day. I will never ever forget the men, women, and children who were lost that day and all their families and friends who still grieve.


.	9/9/2009 7:51:28	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 7:51:43	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 7:51:52	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	I remember calling my elderly mom. She was very upset. "End of the world" upset! I told her you have lived through things like this...like World War II. The US will recover!	I know watching the news networks, CNN and Fox became a frequent passtime. In fact, I watched it so much it really caused me to be depressed. It was hard to "get out of bed" wondering "what was going to happen to my town." I live very close to the international headquarters of Federal Express. I couldn't get to my daughter at the University of TN and she couldn't get home. Planes were constantly flying around Knoxville and Oak Ridge because of the Nuclear reactors. One weekend, she finally "took off to the mountains." She passed the Knoxville airport. Fighter jets were poised on the runways ready to take off!
.	9/9/2009 7:54:12	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone	Work was at school!	I remember feeling very scared and sad.
.	9/9/2009 7:54:14	Other	Television	Aquaintance	Verbal Chat	I was a junior in college at Ohio Northern University. I had just walked back to my apartment from a 9:00am Physics class and flipped on the TV--and there it was. I went to my next class at 11:00 and we jointly agreed with our professor that it was best to cancel class.	I was worried and frightened because I could not get in touch with my father, who was supposed to be flying back into the U.S. that day from a business trip to Canada. All the cell phone networks were tied up. Luckily, was fine. He had to rent a car and drive from Toronto back to Cleveland, Ohio.
.	9/9/2009 7:55:18	Work	Co-Worker	Student	Verbal Chat		It was my first year teaching. The media specialist was working on my TV that morning and flipping the channels to see if it was working. She saw it on breaking news and quickly turned off the TV. Other teachers and I did not really find out what was going on until much later when we went to lunch or checked our email during our planning times.
.	9/9/2009 7:55:18	Car	Radio	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was going into school that day when I heard the news. As soon as I walked in all the teachers started gathering and trying to figure out what was going on. We instantly turned on the television and saw Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer interrupting regular programing to update us on the situation. We were shocked and simply stared at the screen when we saw the 2nd plane hit the towers. By then students had arrived to their first hour classes. We all had televisions on at the point and watched as a group. Teaching middle school students, we felt it was appropriate to watch the news coverage. The towers fell and instantly so did our hearts as we knew hundreds of people met their demise in that incident. Our students asked if we could pray even though we were a public school, and I agreed. We prayed for our country and that justice would prevail to discover why someone would do such a terrible thing. Internet usage was not as common then, so I would update the CNN website every few seconds to make sure we had the most current information. It was strange to know that there would be no waiting for answers when the Internet could inform us instantly of information. We eventually turned off the news and had to focus on school, but no one really did. It was if timed stopped altogether.
.	9/9/2009 7:55:18	Work	Internet	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 7:56:09	Office	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	I was at school that day. My principal told us and I didn't believe it. I couldn't watch the tv or listen to the radio or tell our students. It was a very stressful day.	When I returned home from school, I spend the night watching tv. It was incomprehensible.
.	9/9/2009 7:56:40	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 7:56:48	Office	Other	Co-Worker	Phone	My mother called while I was working in my office at the school with no distractions.	My mother called to ask if I was ok. My cousin worked in the tower. I had no idea what she was talking about. I was in my office oblivious to the world. She told me a plane crashed into the tower...I was picturing a small cessna plane. I walked down to the media center and looked up at the TV just as plane #2 hit the towers. I just stood there frozen with tears running down my face...I thought the world was ending. On a happy note for my family, my cousin had just accepted a promotion and moved to Denver so he wasn't in the tower at the time of the tragedy. I also have a cousin who worked at the Pentagon but she had called in sick. I will never forget the details of this day.
.	9/9/2009 7:57:41	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		We gathered around the TV in the art room that day and watched the news all the way through lunch. I remember one of the teachers saying "This is our Pearl Harbor." She was right, it was a day that changed the world as we knew it and a day that I will never forget. Three days later I found out that a high school classmate had been killed in the collapse of the second tower.
.	9/9/2009 7:58:37	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 7:58:46	Home	Television	Your child/children	Verbal Chat		My son was in 6th grade. He was home sick on the couch when it started happening. He said, mom, the news came on and a plane is crashing into a building. I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought it was a mistake. he asked, is this real? I watched in horror and started to cry, yes, it's real. I don't know why this is happening. He was very upset because I was so shaken. We had just moved to Atlanta from NJ. We knew people who worked in the building or the surrounding area. When the Pentagon was hit we were stunned as well. My brother in law often has meetings in the Pentagon. We didn't hear from him for several, long days, he was fine.
.	9/9/2009 8:00:41	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		We were in school that day and had to lock all of the doors so we would be safe. Some parents came to take their children out of school so they could be together with their family. We had one tv on in the library and the teachers all took turns coming in and watching the news. It was a very unreal experience that I will never forget.
.	9/9/2009 8:01:53	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		I was at home when the news showed the first plane hit the tower. At that time they had no idea what was going on. On my way to school I hear on the radio that a plane had crashed into the pentagon. By the time I had got to school, they knew what was going on. We watched the coverage all day.
.	9/9/2009 8:04:14	Car	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 8:04:26	Work	Other	Someone you did not even know	Verbal Chat	I was at school and a parent of a student a didn't know came in and told us that the 1st plane had hit.	I had a sense of overwhelming sadness for all of the people who were lost or injured. They just went to work like I did that day and wouldn't be going home.
.	9/9/2009 8:06:21	Work	Friend	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:07:25	Other	Friend	Student	Verbal Chat	Other: I was teaching class at Fort Hays State University when I heard the news from chatter in the halls.	The building I was teaching in had no TV, so everyone was looking for a way to watch what was happening. At that time, we did not get live streaming over the internet quite as well as we do today.


.	9/9/2009 8:07:36	Car	Radio	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I can remember this day like it was yesterday. I was driving to school at the time and I heard something on the radio about a certain incident that was happening. I didn't believe what was going on until I came into work and my co-workers were talking about how planes hit the towers. I couldn't believe what was going on! I thought it wasn't true, but it was. This was a day I will never forget!
.	9/9/2009 8:08:16	Home	Internet	Aquaintance	Verbal Chat	I was on my way to my child' school to help when the radio announced the 2nd palne and relized it was on purpose.
.	9/9/2009 8:08:18	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:08:29	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:09:36	Home	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:10:31	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		Our principal didn't want to alarm students so we would go in the library whenever we had prep so that we could watch the nonstop television reporting on TV. We were all in shock, and I'm certain students knew something was upsetting us. We were worried students would be scared when they got home and saw all this on TV. Some didn't understand that it was very far from where we live.
.	9/9/2009 8:10:33	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Cell Phone
.	9/9/2009 8:10:57	Home	Television	Other	Cell Phone	There was a man at my house fixing my air conditioner. I filled him in on what was going on.
.	9/9/2009 8:11:21	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		We have a daughter living in Manhattan and she works in the financial district. We were quite worried about her and didn't here from her until late in the evening. As it turned out she was a mile away. She helped with distributing food and clothing to those left without homes as the days progressed. People were frightened for a very long time in the city.
.	9/9/2009 8:12:32	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		We have a daughter living in Manhattan and she works in the financial district. We were quite worried about her and didn't here from her until late in the evening. As it turned out she was a mile away. She helped with distributing food and clothing to those left without homes as the days progressed. People were frightened for a very long time in the city.
.	9/9/2009 8:12:47	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		It was very frightening that day. I remember listening to the news pretty much all day. At one point I heard a plane outside the window. I knew all air traffic had been grounded so this was very disturbing. Later I realized that would have been Air Force One carrying the President back to DC.
.	9/9/2009 8:12:57	Work	Child	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		A student came in and told me about the news, so we turned on the television and started watching as events unfolded. The shock was unbelievable!
.	9/9/2009 8:13:05	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		I was 9 months pregnant with my son. I had a check up that day. My husband and I fell asleep the night before with the television on. I woke to the sound of Fox News Channel and I knew that is not the channel I fell asleep to. When I realized that I sat up and could not believe my eyes. I woke my husband. We continued on with our day and our check up. Once we had contact with others, we could see the sadness that had reached so far for what was happenning.
.	9/9/2009 8:13:10	Work	Friend	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:13:29	Home	Television	Your child/children	Phone
.	9/9/2009 8:13:53	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:14:21	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I remember that I was watching SportsCenter on ESPN and was surprised that they broke away to this type of news. I knew it had to be bad if they were covering something other than sports.
.	9/9/2009 8:15:33	Car	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I had a lot of family that worked in NY. Fortunately everyone was fine. Even though that was the case for me, my cousin lost one of her good friends that day.
.	9/9/2009 8:16:59	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		Many of my friends died in 911. I used to work for the Stock Market before I became a teacher. One of the groomsmen in my wedding and a father of 6 died that day. He never met his last child as she was expecting her daughter when it happened. I was also pregnant and it really made me rethink how little we have on this earth and that you never know when it is your time to go. Therefore, on a positive note: I try to make everyday enjoyable for myself, my family and my students.
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.	9/9/2009 8:20:58	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Other	In person, we were both home	It was very sad and unreal. My brother lives in Brooklyn, works in Queens, and we were unable to get a hold of him, so it was pretty "real" and scary for us. One of my best friends who taught with me at the time is a retired teacher from NY city. We called him, he hadn't heard. He knew lots of people who died at the WTC. We just sat & stared at the TV, unbelieving that this really happened. I didn't want to go to school that day, but I knew I had to be there for my kids. It was a solemn day at school. The kids had lots of questions & were scared. We shared a lot that day. We became very close.
.	9/9/2009 8:21:25	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		I remember how shocked I was. I immediately thought, "This could be it. The beginning of the end." I got on the phone and called my both my brothers, my sister, my mom, and my in-laws and asked them the most important question I could ask: Do you know beyond a shadow of a doubt, you will be in heaven when you die?
.	9/9/2009 8:21:27	Work	Friend	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		At that time I was an Elementary school teacher. I had been listening to a CD on the way to work so didn't know what was going on. As I parked in the parking lot - another teacher was getting out of her car and asked me if I had heard about what happened in NYC to the World Trade Center - I didn't - so she told me what was on the radio news. We went into the school and the office had it on the TV. It was a very eerie day because the kids knew something was going on - but we had been asked not to say anything. It was difficult to pretend nothing was going on.
.	9/9/2009 8:23:41	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		My 23 year old daughter was working in DC at the time and I was very frantic trying to get in touch with her. All the phone lines were jammed and I was worried about her safety in that city. She and her friends later gave blood and tee shirts to help the injured at the Pentagon.
.	9/9/2009 8:26:10	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:28:32	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		Just shock after being told of first plane, I turned on the tv in time to see the second plane hit the other tower. Stood in disbelief and tremble. Was not panicked or terrified, just unsettled after hearing the Pentagon and flight 93 events. My xhusband called me for some reasurance. Called my parents just to touch base with them. Had my kids second and 5th grade at the time, watch the news to see for themselves what was happening and I explained as much as I could.
.	9/9/2009 8:30:13	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:30:34	Other	Television	Someone you did not even know	Phone	I was in a college library.	I remember feeling anxious, I just wanted my family home in one place. Everyone was either at work or in school.
.	9/9/2009 8:32:26	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone	work-school
.	9/9/2009 8:33:44	Work	Other	Other	Other	I was setting up the classroom with a fellow worker, when a few people in the hallways said that an airplane hit NYC. Many of us rushed to turn on the radio or to go to where a tv was. We saw and heard what was going on and we even saw the Twin Towers fall. We were all in shock.	Fellow co-workers and I had heard on the radio and watched the events unfold. I just remember hearing this loud roar thinking that it might have been more planes flying over and possibly crashing into different areas. It turned out to be a whole fleet of helicopters. Quite a few of us rushed outside. Till this day whenever I see an airplane while on the playground, I always turn to look and see what it does. I think I will be doing that forever.
.	9/9/2009 8:39:25	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:40:08	Car	Radio	Your child/children	Verbal Chat		I remember being terrified and not understanding what had happen. I remember I had to be strong for my children but I was at a loss on how to explain what was going on and what had happened. We had learned that a friend of my eldest child lost both a mother and father in the twin tower collapse. Words could not express the fear we all had. I remember being afraid to go to sleep at night or turn off the T.V.
.	9/9/2009 8:40:32	Work	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	We could see the towers from the windows in our school. I heard screaming in the hallway from the teachers who had a direct view of downtown. When a colleague covered my class, I went out into the hallway where I saw both towers still standing, just before the second plane hit.	Horrifying, terrifying. Cell phone service was out so it was quite a while until I was able to be in touch with my family to make sure they were okay. The drive home became, for me, a race to get ahead of the dust cloud that was moving across the city. I have still not been able to return to ground zero.
.	9/9/2009 8:41:24	Work	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	Our school went on lock down. The principal told staff members.	It was a very confusing day that caused a lot of fear in Americans, no matter where you lived.
.	9/9/2009 8:42:30	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:45:14	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 8:46:28	Work	Spouse/Significant Other	Co-Worker	Internet Text		I just remember being so bewildered thinking, 'what in the world is going on, this can't be happening." Felt very uncertain and unsafe, like I've never felt before or after that day.
.	9/9/2009 8:46:34	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		My baby daughter was so sick that day that she had to be hospitalized. It was so hard to grasp what was going on in our country and deal with her illness as well. I will never forget that day...
.	9/9/2009 8:48:17	Car	Radio	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was on the way to school listening to the radio and the people on the radio started giving play by play of the planes crashing into the buildings. As soon as I got to school, I went into the library and turned on a tv and watched as much as I could before the students came in. I ended up watching again at lunch and during any breaks I had the rest of the day.
.	9/9/2009 8:49:13	Other	Other	Spouse/Significant Other	Other	Our family was camping in the outback of northern Australia miles from anywhere. There was a US couple camping at the same place and the ranger came and told us what had happened so we listened to a radio to get more details. We didn't get back to civilisation for a few days and we were then bombarded with non-stop tv coverage.


.	9/9/2009 8:49:14	Car	Radio	Aquaintance	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:50:12	Car	Radio	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:51:37	Work	Spouse/Significant Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		One of my friends had just moved to NYC so her husband could attend law school. She was at school way across town and he was in their apartment very close to the towers. She could not call him, but he could call us....so...we spent the day relaying messages to them so that they could get to each other. They were not able to stay in their apartment for several weeks after the attack.
.	9/9/2009 8:56:12	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was at work and my principal turned the tv on in my room, which was unusual. He told me he heard a plane might have crashed into a building in New York. That was terrible enough. Then we heard that another plance had done the same thing. Then people got scared and knew it wasn't an accident, someone caused the crashes on purpose. When we got news that the buildings had collapsed, we were stunned. It was hard to teach that day and stay focused.
.	9/9/2009 8:56:32	Work	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 8:57:25	Car	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 8:57:50	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 8:58:43	Work	Radio	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was listening to my favorite morning show on the radio. One of the hosts who is usually very funny all the sudden his voice changed. I knew something was wrong. I quickly turned on the tv to see the 2nd towers go down. Just thinking about it as I type still gives me shivers. It was my kindergarten classes 2nd day of school.
.	9/9/2009 9:02:03	Home	Radio	Your child/children	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 9:07:57	Work	Spouse/Significant Other	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 9:09:23	Work	Spouse/Significant Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 9:11:25	Work	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 9:12:37	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 9:14:21	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 9:15:04	Other	Spouse/Significant Other	Other	Phone	I was at the Grocery Store. I called my Dad.	We live in Omaha and we have a special air force base here that houses underground buildings and protective spaces for the government. It was designed during the Cold War. I felt especially unsafe, wondering if that was also going to be a target. I went to my children's daycare and school and picked them up and took them home. It seemed important to me to have the people I love close and safe. Later we watched as Air Force One brought President Bush here to the Offutt Air Force Base. It was a strange sight seeing the only plane all day in the sky fly right over our house. I remember the great fear, mixed with sadness and anger and more fear. It was a horrific few days.
.	9/9/2009 9:16:12	Home	Friend	Other	Phone	I was still single at the time, so I called my parents.	At the time, I was working as a Corporal with Richland County Emergency Services as a Paramedic. I was also a police officer and I worked nights. So I got home Thursday morning after shift and went to bed. I remember being woken up around 3:30pm on that same day (it was 09/11) with a friend telling me to turn on the television. When I got to work, the mood was somber since so many of those who died were in public safety, as we were. The security around our headquarters was tightened up and rumors flew about possible further attacks. For years I wore a P.O.W. bracelet for Carlos Lillo, a Firefighter/Paramedic who was killed. I still have that bracelet at home. Chris Craft
.	9/9/2009 9:27:24	Other	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 9:32:51	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I went and told a fellow teacher when the first plane hit the towers. This teacher had taught in New York City the previous year so I knew she needed to know. She immediately called a friend in New York and was able to talk to her and make sure the school was ok.
.	9/9/2009 9:33:00	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 9:42:04	Car	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		We had recently moved across the country and this was the day I felt most alone, ever. If this horrible thing had happened with the technologies we have available today, I think I would have been reassured and less lonely because I could now connect with others through online tools like Twitter and I would not have felt quite so alone with my deep sadness and fears.


.	9/9/2009 9:42:15	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		For weeks after the event, people were more kind and gentle with each other. Everyone was hurt by this tragedy and there was no comfort we could give, so people just became nicer, more patient, more considerate. To me, that was a sort of comfort - even in the face of a horrible event like 9/11, the human spirit found a way to survive and connect.
.	9/9/2009 9:45:33	Work	Television	Student	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 9:46:53	Home	Television	Other	Phone	I called my father.	My college aged daughter came and watched the news coverage with me. We had just been to NYC in July of 2001. I could not look at my pictures that had the towers in them for several months. It felt very strange to see the footage of the towers falling. I did not see it live.
.	9/9/2009 9:48:02	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 9:50:12	Work	Co-Worker	Student	Other	I was teaching an American Government class when we heard another teacher saying a plane crashed into the WTC and I thought he was kidding until we turned on CNN and began watching and discussing the events as they unfolded. It was an amazing experience to share that experience with my students and watch them witness history. It is truly a day I will never forget.
.	9/9/2009 9:50:26	Work	Child	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I remember that everyone was rushing to get gas. Lines were very long at all the gas stations. Also, everyone wanted to get home as quickly as possible to be with their families. It seemed as if everyone was glued to their television sets watching the horrific events of the day over and over again.
.	9/9/2009 9:50:51	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I remember being so frightened because my brother had an office in one the Twin Towers. My thoughts immediately went to him-- praying he was ok. Thank goodness he had a meeting in NJ that morning so he was safe, but my heart broke for all of the others who perished, and for their families and friends. It is a day in history that I will never forget.
.	9/9/2009 9:52:13	Home	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 9:56:04	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 9:57:44	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		It was the first time that I felt like I needed my family to be home. All together. I didn't feel safe in the United States.
.	9/9/2009 9:57:55	Work	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 10:00:23	Work	Internet	Student	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 10:00:26	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 10:01:33	Work	Friend	Student	Verbal Chat		School was just starting that day. My 1st hour class was World History. Thus, you can guess what the topic/focus on that day's discussion.
.	9/9/2009 10:03:22	Home	Other	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone	Mother called to tell me.	My husband was overseas on business and couldn't get home. It was a very scary time!
.	9/9/2009 10:12:47	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 10:12:59	Home	Television	Your child/children	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 10:16:55	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was in school and we had students leaving, whose parents worked in the city. I did not know the severity of the day until I got home and saw it on TV. The rest of my family was already home watching it. We just cried.
.	9/9/2009 10:21:18	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		I was at home recovering from surgery and felt like the world had tilted on its axis. Never since the revolutionary war has America been attacked on our own home soil. It was a very heartwrenching experience that will always remain clear in my memory.
.	9/9/2009 10:21:53	Office	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I remember all the entrances from New Jersey to Staten Island were blocked to traffic. I had never seen that in all my life. I am on the departure flight path from Newark International Airport. It was silent overhead for a couple of weeks. The only sight and noise in the sky were Coast Guard and Black Hawk helicopters going to the World Trade Center area about 15 miles away. I'll always remember how strange it was to hear no noise of planes.


.	9/9/2009 10:26:37	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 10:28:06	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 10:33:39	Home	Spouse/Significant Other	Aquaintance	Phone		I took the day off that day to take my son to his first day of pre-school. Although, the school did not close, I felt that I wanted to stay home with him that day. Everything seems surreal and uncertain. When I drove that day, I could see the same concern on everyone's face.
.	9/9/2009 10:41:50	Work	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	I initially heard of the events in two ways; it was morning recess when the principal came to my classroom to tell me that the United States was under attack. He didn't say much, but continued on to other classrooms. I turned on the radio to find out what he was talking about. Later in the day, and for days to follow, I found out a lot from television reports.	It was a day I'll probably never forget. Upon hearing the initial news, then watching video footage in the staffroom, I had to inform my grade 5 students, then we had a whole school assembly to tell everyone what little we knew. I teach on a Canadian military base about an 8-hour drive from New York City, and some of our parents were immediately deployed to various places around North America. They (or their spouses) were coming to the school to pick up their kids to say goodbye, or just take them home. I remember a general sense of anxiety and confusion from everyone in the building.
.	9/9/2009 10:45:20	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		I remember looking into the sky and seeing that there were NO planes flying for a week. It was a really weird experience!
.	9/9/2009 10:48:46	Home	Spouse/Significant Other	Your child/children	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 10:49:29	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I will never forget my mom calling and saying "are you watching the news?" I wasn't as I'd just gotten out of the shower and was combing my hair- I couldn't believe what I was seeing at Matt and Katie on the Today Show were describing what they were seeing- no one knew what was really going on- I will never forget that day and the way I felt.
.	9/9/2009 10:53:05	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 11:02:50	Car	Radio	Other	Phone	I arrived at the community college and several of us had heard the news on our car radio and were very concerned.	I am a mother of 7 daughters, at this time, four of our girls were in high school and the rest were in the elementary school where I was to work in the afternoon. I just remember really wanting all the girls home with my husband and myself that night. Our eyes were glued to the TV and we all talked about the events enfolding before our eyes. We cried and mourned the loss of the families that would never have the opportunity to sit together as a family again. Thankful for what we had but so sad for those who had lost loved ones.
.	9/9/2009 11:08:36	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		Over here in Scotland we were all horrified when it happened and could not believe that America could be attacked . It seemed a safe country . I thought it was the saddest thing to watch at night on the news . It also made me realsie that the world is really not a safe place after all and that we should all live our lives for the moment.
.	9/9/2009 11:09:35	Work	Spouse/Significant Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was a kindergarten teacher at a school next to an airport. Thinking that I needed to leave the explaination to the parents, I sent my little friends home for the day in hopes the parents would tell them about the event. To my surprise, many children had several questions. When the planes were able to fly again, the experience of the first flight over our school was terrifing and enlightening. After we realized we were safe, we discussed how our country was once again safe & able to fly.
.	9/9/2009 11:14:06	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I think we were all in shock. My friend and co-worker came into my classroom and told me to watch on television. There were the towers coming down and no one knew right then what was happening. I remember thinking that this would be a day that would change America. And it has.
.	9/9/2009 11:20:38	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I teach in a Catholic School. It is funny that I remember that day that I did not turn on the car radio as I usually do. So I did not hear about it until the towers had collapsed... I remember feeling numb and during one of my breaks a co worker and I went on the net to watch the news broad cast. It was surreal. We couldn't believe that it happened.
.	9/9/2009 11:27:16	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 11:38:07	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		Watching a horrible tragedy unfold before our very eyes was very scary. One of the strangest things I remember was having no planes in the air for many days. We didn't know what to do, but realized that if we worked together with other americans (many we didn't even know), we would stand strong and be safe. It was inspiring to see how a nation that doesn't really take the time to get to know one another came together as one.
.	9/9/2009 11:43:40	Other	Television	Someone you did not even know	Verbal Chat	I was in my doctor's office and saw it all on the TV in the waiting area. Complete strangers were hugging and comforting one another. It was as if time stood still. I never did see the doctor that day. We were afraid to leave the building and stayed glued to the TV as the events of the morning unfolded. Thank goodness for cell phones. I called my immediate family members to just check in. It was a day that I will never forget. I hugged my kids that night a lot longer than normal. I told my family how much I loved them. It was a time our country came together.	My husband was an EMT at the time and he deployed to the World Trade Towers site in NYC. He was there for 7 days helping other rescue workers recover bodies. He had nightmares about it for a long time and the memories of that experience are still very vivid to him. It changed his life and he has never seen anything like it since.
.	9/9/2009 11:44:40	Other	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	I worked in the office and lunchroom of an elementary school, so yes I was at work but I was also at school so I chose other for the first question. It was very difficult because the decision was made not to tell our young students yet they knew something was very wrong because many of the teachers were crying and upset. It was lunchtime for grade 3 when one of the towers fell, a teacher's husband brought a TV from home for the teacher's lounge. The 3rd grade teachers were crying and upset the students during lunch. It was very hard to stay business as usual in the lunchroom.	We chose to allow parents to pick up their children and many parents came to get their students even though they were safe at our school. We had many students very afraid to come to school the next day. In November the high school students went to a marching band competition in NYC. It was very strange going to New York and not seeing the towers. It was a quite ride into NYC.
.	9/9/2009 12:04:52	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 12:15:00	Office	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I really did not believe what I was seeing on CNN. I kept thinking they would break in and explain that it was not real. When the second tower fell, I really was afraid our country was going to be involved in an all out full-scale war on our own soil. I was very frightened and wanted to get my children and go home and hide.
.	9/9/2009 12:16:25	Car	Radio	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat


.	9/9/2009 12:21:05	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	I was teaching a class of fifth grade students in Texas. My principal came in with a typed note that told us of the events- and instructed me not to tell the students. Parents started checking their children out of school- but my principal wanted the parents to share the news with the children- not the educators. It was a tough day.	Watching the news footage in the front office of the elementary school- we were in shock.
.	9/9/2009 12:23:22	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 12:24:29	Work	Co-Worker	Aquaintance	Verbal Chat		It was a free period when my class was at gym class, and I walked into the main office. The principal was in the office closet crying because her nephew worked in the Twin Towers and she could not get in touch with him. When my class came back from gym, parents began coming to school to pick up children, but they did not know why. I couldn't tell them what was really going on, because I did not really know myself, so I told them there was a fire far away in NY (we live in CT) and their parents were nervous about the fire. They went home early and their parents were able to explain to them what was going on. I went home and watched the tv to find out what had happened.
.	9/9/2009 12:28:24	Work	Co-Worker	Student	Verbal Chat		I remember that our school was still under construction. We had no access to internet or tv. All news was very word of mouth until lunch. All the teachers sat in the teachers' lounge huddled around a little portable black and white tv - very surreal - like a 1950s photo. That evening I seemed glued to the television to understand what had happened. I still look back to think if not knowing what had happened during those morning hours was okay. We had one family so tragically effected by what had happened on this day that I'm glad that life continued to be "normal" for those children if not for ust a little longer.
.	9/9/2009 12:28:58	Work	Co-Worker	Your child/children	Verbal Chat		I was in my first week of student teaching. My head teacher ran to the office to try to call her cousin who worked in the towers. I didnt know why she left at that moment. I had to wing it and teach the 5th grade until we all new what was happening. Supporting the students and staff as the info came through was one of the scariest feelings I have ever had. The difficult emotions and fear that I dealt with speaking to my children was incredible! The feeling that we had more coming, it was such a feeling of helplessness. My best friend, who is now my husband is in the army and worked at ground zero....that was hard, but made us proud.
.	9/9/2009 12:35:17	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 12:36:16	Work	Friend	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	It was my 5th day of my teaching career! I was devastated but my kindergarteners had no idea. Our school was brand new so we had no radios, tvs, etc. Scary stuff!
.	9/9/2009 12:39:18	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	E-Mail		I vividly remember when our principal come over the loud speaker and announced that the twin towers were gone. I got goose bumps all over--I have them now thinking about it. Two tears escaped and ran down my face. I remember my students looking at me and all I could say is that something very bad had happened (Iwas teaching K at the time and they didn't understand).
.	9/9/2009 12:40:30	Work	Co-Worker	Student	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 12:42:13	Work	Television	Student	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 12:54:37	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		Three of us were teaching three classes of first grade in rooms that were connected. The students were just finishing arriving for the day. Then students began to be called to the office to go home, one after the other with no explanation. We sensed something was wrong. No one called our classroom phones from the office nor did anyone come to tell us anything until almost 20 minutes after this "exodus" began. By that time, the rest of the adults had all found out. With no TV, radio or computers tuned to news, we were clueless but knew something serious was occurring. One teacher finally made a call to her parents, whose father happened to work for USAIRWAYS. We then heard of the chaos that was going on both in New York and in the skies over Pittsburgh. Finally the guidance counselor came to our room to tell the teachers what was happening. We were told to tell the students nothing, but that is difficult when they saw over half of their classmates being called to the office to go home. We simply shared with the students that some of their friends must have needed to go somewhere and that is why they were going home. The next day we were able to discuss what had occurred. Quite and experience all around.
.	9/9/2009 13:10:26	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was teaching in a school in Norfolk, VA. The school had a very large military population. Parents came in to pick their children up early, because of concern about base security. All bases were on high security alert. Many people knew people in the pentagon.
.	9/9/2009 13:12:41	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Phone
.	9/9/2009 13:20:04	Work	Co-Worker	Other	Cell Phone	I called my mother first because my dad is a pilot and all I had heard was that a "small plane had crashed in New York". I wanted to make sure my dad wasn't flying.	Just that there were so many speculations when it first happened and we didn't have immediate access to a news channel on t.v. that the "unknown" was very scarey. The "known" became an altogether different kind of scarey.
.	9/9/2009 13:21:59	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 13:28:39	Work	Friend	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I spent most of the day after school watching TV and trying to comprehend the devastation.
.	9/9/2009 13:32:49	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		I came home from school after hearing the news from a cleaner who had arrived for work. The details of what had happened were confused, and no one was quite sure what was going on. I came home to find my husband and son watching the news on TV. I came straight online to find friends from America and Canada on MSN waiting to hear what our news had to say. I was hoping for details from them but they said they weren't getting anything clear their side of the Atlantic. I watched transfixed as I saw close up film footage of the planes hitting the towers. All I could think of was how I would cope if I was watching television knowing members of my family were in those buildings. Today's technology leaves nothing to the imagination.
.	9/9/2009 13:41:19	Work	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 13:51:41	Work	Friend	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 13:52:00	Work	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	A student in my class came to school late that day and a "plane crashed into the twin towers on purpose."


.	9/9/2009 13:54:45	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		What struck me the most that day was that I was not with my family. I worried that the destruction would continue and all I wanted to do was be home with my family. Soon after I realized that as a teacher, I would have the opportunity to help many children through a difficult time. While were were not discussing the events of the day with our students, from that day forward I made sure to treat all children as my own.
.	9/9/2009 13:58:41	Work	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	I heard from a parent that came into the school.
.	9/9/2009 14:00:16	Home	Internet	Co-Worker	Phone		I remember Peter Jennings -- or was it Dan Rather -- correctly the reporter when he said the first tower had collapsed. I remember the disbelief of everyone. I remember the days after, hearing stories, seeing pictures. I remember someone in one in the audience telling George Bush that they could not hear him. I remember hearing him say "but we can hear you....." and the eruption of the audience realizing we were in this together. I remember the flags, the bumperstickers, the prayers, the filled churches, the really feeling that we were a United States. My heart goes out still to the families who lost so much that day. And for those who are still affected by that day.
.	9/9/2009 14:04:31	Home	Spouse/Significant Other	Your child/children	Phone		I am in Australia and we were asleep when it started. My mother rang me at 7.00am that morning to tell me to turn on the television. She had been watching the coverage all night on the television and hadn't slept a wink. I sat with my mouth open, almost unable to breathe as I watched the replays of the horror unfolding. The senseless barbarity was / is beyond my comprehension even now. The whole of Australia was in a state of shock and disbelief as well. Between that and the Bali bombings, life was changed forever.
.	9/9/2009 14:14:11	Other	Television	Other	Verbal Chat	I was in college the morning of September 11th. Myself and other students were on our way to do our first day in an elementary school for a Reading Practicum class.	I was at my apartment when I saw the planes hit the Tower. When we were driving to the school, we heard about the plane hitting the Pentagon. It was so scarey not knowing what was happening. I remember just wanting to talk to my parents, sisters, family, and friends that day. It was hard to believe what we were watching on TV was taking place in the United States. I remember thinking,these things don't happen here.
.	9/9/2009 14:17:50	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I was mesmorized by the pictures and I couldn't help crying over how these innocent people were targeted. I will never forget how helpless I felt during that day. My children and I prayed for our country and for the people who were affected by this tragedy.
.	9/9/2009 14:24:09	Work	Internet	Co-Worker	Phone
.	9/9/2009 14:27:16	Work	Co-Worker	Your child/children	Phone
.	9/9/2009 14:32:27	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		Being in PA and not that far from Shanksville many of our parents hurried to school to get their children. My one stand out memory is of a conversation between 2 of my kindertgarteners - one who obviously had seen TV and one who just as obviously had not. The boy who had not asked what everyone of upset about and the other child answered that some men had knocked down some buildings with an airplane. The first child asked, very innocently, "did they build the building?" "no" was the reply. He then said, "didn't anyone tell them you can't knock down a building you didn't build?" That is one of the cardinal rules in our Kindergarten - if only life was this simple. Out of the mouths of babes. I lost a friend on the flight out of Boston, although it was some time before I knew that. My class will be wearing red, white and blue on Friday. God Bless America!
.	9/9/2009 14:32:52	Work	Radio	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 14:37:08	Work	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	I received an e-mail from my sister who told me to go to cnn.com.	I taught with a gentleman whose brother worked for the CIA and was at the pentagon on the day it happened. I remember breaking the news to him and was so scared.
.	9/9/2009 14:41:37	Work	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	I was teaching at the time and I believe the main office had people come around and let us know what had happened.	It was a very sad day for the United States. The United States always felt like one of the safest places in the world and 9/11 changed our lives forever.
.	9/9/2009 14:49:28	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I remember feeling threatened and uncertain even though the actual events happend many many miles from my home. I also remember thinking that I had no idea how to share this sort of information with my elementary music classes with really scaring them. It was a tough day both personally and as an educator.
.	9/9/2009 14:51:25	Other	Television	Other	Phone	I was in the hospital getting blood drawn.	We did not have cable at our house so I was glued to CNN and the other top cable news channels. I also gave birth to our 4th child two days later. The terrorist attacks on the US were the only thing on the news for the entire time I was in the hospital.
.	9/9/2009 14:53:46	Work	Child	Student	Verbal Chat		I was student teaching at the time and I heard the news from children in my class. I thought they were confused and it was not till I got home that night that I realized the terrible events of the day
.	9/9/2009 14:55:25	Work	Radio	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 15:01:55	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 15:03:21	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 15:08:48	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was teaching Kindergarten and had two college students observing in my room. Whne the custodian told me a plane crashed into the Twin Towers, I thought that was the oddest thing to interrupt my class. It wasn't until my break that I realized the significance of the whole thing. I quickly told my best friend and colleague...then called both my grown children and pleaded with them to come home...each was about 90 minutes away. Only my daughter placated me...my son thought I was not being reasonable and did not humor me. Then again, I tried to get my mom to leave her home which was two hours from me. She was right across the river. SHe refused even though she was very afraid. SHe said it reminded her of the bombing in her childhood home of Germany during WWII. Needless to say, those were anxious, terrifying days.
.	9/9/2009 15:10:03	Work	Co-Worker	Your child/children	Phone


.	9/9/2009 15:22:33	Home	Friend	Other	Phone	I called my mom, but she had already seen it on the news and was glued to it herself.	I was drawn to church. I needed to be around people. I needed to see that the world was still turning, that life in the USA was still "existing." I had never seen such tragic events in my lifetime. I was stunned, numb, devestated beyond words as all people were. How could people be so cruel? What is the mentality of people that can hurt other innocent people for absolutely no reason at all other than to "curse" America? How do we move forward? Now my husband is in the Middle East fighting for the cause, and frankly, I'm not sure that anyone can change the mentality of the people that have been living with these belief systems for thousands of years. I'm still fearful and angry and scared.
.	9/9/2009 15:49:57	Work	Friend	Co-Worker	E-Mail		I will never forget just getting my day started with my students when a parent came in and told me. I immediately emailed the staff and my mom. My mom was a state worker at the time and was receiving updates throughout the day that she sent to me and I forwarded on to my staff. I was in shock and couldn't really focus on teaching that day... I just kept the kids busy as I continued to find out everything I could about what had happened and was going on. That night I attended a prayer vigil at a neighboring church. Everytime I hear Alan Jackson's song, "Where were you when the world stopped turning" I remember that day all over again.
.	9/9/2009 15:54:24	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 15:55:09	Car	Radio	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 15:56:33	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was teaching in Bethesda, Maryland. We were very careful about sharing the news with students because the Pentagon had been attacked. Turns out one student's father was on the plane that flew into the Pentagon. He was a Vietnam war hero and received full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery...an amazingly powerful experience to witness. News seemingly spread too fast that day, in trying to ensure quality reports to students and their families we held an assembly at noon and asked families to come pick up their children. God Bless America.
.	9/9/2009 16:04:52	Car	Radio	Other	Phone	My ex-husband.
.	9/9/2009 16:07:57	Work	Friend	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 16:09:13	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 16:09:27	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		They say that their are times in our life that we will never forget where we were or what we were doing. 9/11 was one of those times. After hearing what had happened I tried to contact friends and family that worked in Washington, NYC and other big cities, and found that I couldn't reached them. Not knowing if they were near the accident site, alive, or dead was hard. I also remember how the United States pulled together at time and show our strength, as well as our pride.
.	9/9/2009 16:12:47	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 16:17:39	Work	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 16:33:22	Work	Internet	Co-Worker	Phone
.	9/9/2009 16:34:19	Work	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	I was teaching second grade on 9/11/2001 in a school not far from New York City. Our school principal always watched the morning news in her office which is how she heard the news. She sent the librarian or school secretary to each room to cover while each of the faculty took a turn first hearing the news from her and then viewing the news. We did not tell the K-5 students but our principal did have a conversation with the 6-8 students and asked them not to discuss it in the hallways or on the bus. We let the parents talk to the K-5. We are a Catholic school so we prayed the next day and for many after. Many families had NYC connections.	My brother-in-law was in New York City on business within walking distance of the Twin Towers and our family didn't hear that he was safe for hours. No transportation was available for him to come home for two days.
.	9/9/2009 16:36:02	Work	Internet	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 16:36:06	Work	Co-Worker	Student	Verbal Chat		I remember the students and I having some quiet time to think of those that were still in the towers and hope that they would be rescued.
.	9/9/2009 16:38:51	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I teach first grade and I just remember how hard it was to keep everything to myself and try and have a normal day for my students. I also remember going outside for recess...no one told us not to. The sky was a beautiful blue and it was so quiet. I live by O'Hare airport and there were no planes flying...strangely quiet. I also was thinking of all the people in New York and how much their lives had changed in an instant as well as ours.
.	9/9/2009 16:42:52	Other	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Other	My husband was at a training session in Pennsylvania, and I accompanied him for a few days away at a hotel. He needed me to pick up a few items at Walmart, so I went there early in the morning while he attended his session. I saw the planes hit on the TVs in the electronics dept. of Walmart. The next thing I knew, the cashiers were leaving because school was being dismissed early. It was all very surreal. My husband's training session was cancelled, and then we had to try to make our way home because we are from NY. On the way home, we discussed that we would probably know someone touched by this tragedy. Unfortunately, this proved to be true. My best friend since 1st grade lost her brother in the attack. He was on the 105th floor of the WTC. He called his wife to tell her that he wasn't going to make it, and that he loved her and their son. So sad.
.	9/9/2009 16:42:59	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		Our librarian first saw it on TV. We had only 24 people on staff but our little bldg. in So. Milw. had a son in law at the Pentagon,and 3 others in the city. My brother lives in NYC and bought his condo because it was only a mile from the Towers which he could see right out his window. My other brother had a meeting on one of the top floors of the Towers that day. (We later learned he missed his flight.) I immediately called them, there was no answer. Then the lines were jammed. Finally my parents received calls from each of them. My brother who lives in NYC had actually been on plane that left right before the fatal plane boarded. He struggled as the city went through this. He had to walk past the armory where names and pix were posted. He also passed a fire station that lost many members. He lost friends and family members of friends that day. One of his friends lost her husband. He was an off duty fire fighter but went in as soon as he heard the news. They found his inscribed wedding ring in the rubble on Easter Sunday of the next yr. They never found his body. My brother will never be the same and neither will the city. If you visit the site even today, people stand in silence. No signs ask this but people remember how horrible this was for our country. We should never forget!
.	9/9/2009 16:43:37	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 16:43:48	Home	Television	Other	Verbal Chat	I was in college getting ready to go into work. I saw coverage of the first plane crash on the TODAY show. I told my father who was also home at the time about what was happening.


.	9/9/2009 16:45:23	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 16:52:31	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 16:55:17	Work	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 16:55:36	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 17:06:34	Work	Television	Your child/children	Phone		I never turn on the television in my classroom. So, it is very odd, that for some reason, I turned it on when my students were out of class having PE. I saw the fire, then the rush of people running away, and then the replay of the planes hitting the tower. I quickly phoned my adult children, one who was attending college. They could not believe me...I think everyone had a difficult time believing that this was reality.
.	9/9/2009 17:14:21	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 17:16:56	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Other	I was in my office and I ran to the school library. The librarian and I turned on the TV and watched what was happening. Other teachers joined us.
.	9/9/2009 17:20:06	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 17:22:02	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 17:22:46	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I remember feeling very scared; for my students, my family, and myself. It was the first time that I felt this way in my own country. But then I remember how lucky I was to live here, having lived in other countries as a child, and that we would all get through this horrible time together and work as a whole to prevent this from happening again.
.	9/9/2009 17:27:09	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		It was surreal. Everything seemed to come to a standstill. At first we didn't know what had happened. The radio was on in my office all day as we waited for more details. I shared with my teaching staff as the day went by. Praise God that we were able to come to HIm in prayer to give us peace in the midst of chaos.
.	9/9/2009 17:27:21	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 17:28:26	Home	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I was teaching a 6th grade class that morning - and all scheduled plans changed as we discussed what had happened.
.	9/9/2009 17:34:06	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 17:36:37	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		I remember staring at the tv in horror and watching the event unfold before my eyes. At our Christian school we had a time of prayer and gathered around the flag pole.
.	9/9/2009 17:36:50	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was only a few days into my new fourth-grade teaching position but was already aware that I had twin students whose father was an airline pilot. Although it was extremely difficult I refused to "let on" that there anything going on and kept teaching until we could assure the girls that their dad was okay. At the same time I was terrified because my nephew, Rob, worked near the WTC. Phone service was almost nonexistent in and out of NYC because circuits could not handle the massive volume of calls that were being placed. About noon I found out that Rob was okay but in the same conversation I discovered that another nephew, Brian, (Rob's brother) was in NYC on bank business and had been staying at a hotel across the street from the WTC. No one had heard from him! After several more hours of worry my family was relieved to find out late that afternoon that Brian was also okay. I will never forget the depth of my fear that day, of not knowing or understanding what was happening that day. I won't forget the silent but very real tears that I, and so many others cried. I won't forget the disbelief that this tragedy could even happen! Everyone was glued to their tv's for any bit of news they could latch on to. I remember watching tv and listening to the mournful symphony of the rescue personnel's locator alarms. I then remember how my sadness was compounded when the loss of so many firefighters and policemen was announced. The pictures and interviews on tv ripped at your heart. The skies were strangely quiet because flights were grounded. Churches were open and people flocked to them. As I finish this up, I also think that it's important to remember the tremendous and heartwarming outpour of compassion and love that occurred that day and in the following weeks and months from around the world.
.	9/9/2009 17:45:05	Other	Television	Other	Verbal Chat	I was in college with my best friend getting my books to start the school year. We walked into the bookstore and saw the television. I was supposed to work at the mall that day, but they shut it down.	It was a nervous day, wondering why and how someone could do this! I was horrified and saddened for anyone involved in this tragedy. This has so drastically affected our country in so many ways. I just sat by the television all day watching to see what horrific picture would pop on the screen next.
.	9/9/2009 17:45:26	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I felt like the terror would not end that day. I wanted my children to come home from school as soon as possible. I did not know if the terror was going to spread to other cities and sites.
.	9/9/2009 17:54:56	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		We were stationed in South Korea as my husband is active duty Air Force. We were living in military housing off base and knew this would mean either an evacuation or relocation for families, possibly without our spouses. We run drills for such events overseas that include gas masks. We were scared for ourselves, and cut off from contact with others in the United States which made near panic set in. It was evening when we heard the news. By 7am we were on a bus being sent on base for what resulted in a 3 week lock-down of sorts. A lot of weeping and prayers followed. We all missed being able to grieve with our countrymen at the time though the Korean people were incredibly kind and supportive. Dark days indeed.
.	9/9/2009 17:56:07	Home	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		Just couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing!


.	9/9/2009 17:56:33	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was working in a daycare center in a suburb of Boston, and remember many parents calling and/or picking up their children immediately...We were not far from the hotel that the hijackers had been staying in prior to 9/11.
.	9/9/2009 17:59:06	Work	Friend	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was teaching that morning when a parent came in to tell me that things were happening in NYC. As teachers we gathered quickly in the halls and were all in shock. We didn't say anything to our classes but all met in the library to watch the news...and to cry and try to take in what was happening. Living in vermont we knew we had parents that were in NYC and wanted to be sure they were fine. We told our classes at the end of the day so that they won't just hear it without a little background. I remember the time, the place I was and the feelings I had. I will never forget the weeks that followed or Emma that joined my class the next yeat after loosing her father in the bombings.
.	9/9/2009 18:01:38	Car	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone
.	9/9/2009 18:02:21	Home	Spouse/Significant Other	Co-Worker	Cell Phone		It didn't seem real, and we seemed so far away in New Zealand, feelings of disbelief. Then we realised that our friends were possibly in danger (they were teaching in Atlanta Georgia and there was a worry that the Infectious Diseases Centre there would be a target). So 9/11 suddenly escalated to a more personal level worry until we heard from our friends. It was heart wrenching to hear their accounts of how scared they were and what being in locked down was like. One can only imagine the heart break and devastation that those who lost loved ones. There are no words for that.
.	9/9/2009 18:06:19	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		Utter confusion...were we at war? What was going to happen? We went to church that night as a family to pray for our country and for those who died.
.	9/9/2009 18:11:08	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		The School Counselor, whose classroom was across the hall from mine (K-4 Resource Room)came over to tell me what was happening, and I immediately turned on the TV. Although my students were not able to fully comprehend what was happening, they knew that it was something very bad. They were not frightened, but were fascinated by the images of the planes flying into the World Trade Center. My paraprofessional, who was an unusually emotional person, had a panic attack and had to be taken home. My second oldest son was a college student serving in the Marine Reserve s, and I knew that it meant that he would eventually be involved in some way. Soon after the war began, he was deployed to Iran. I am thankful to say that he performed his duties and returned home safely.
.	9/9/2009 18:14:47	Car	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		It was my son's birthday and I had just dropped him of at day care. All i wanted to do was go home and be with my family. My uncle was also on a plane in the air we were scared and were waiting to hear from him. It was such a tense and scary day . My family was not impacted directly but the lose to our country impacted all Americans in some way.
.	9/9/2009 18:17:05	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I tried very hard to keep the children in my class informed, but not afraid. We wanted to wait for their parents to take the major role in discussing this trajedy. At the time I taught 4th grade.
.	9/9/2009 18:20:53	Home	Television	Other	Phone	I was watching "Good Morning America when the first plane hit the Trade Center. I called my mom and we were both on the phone talking. We watch the second plane hit the second Trade Center tower as it happened. I remember thinking, "wow that plane is really close to the tower." It took several moments before the full realization set in that this was an attack on the USA.
.	9/9/2009 18:30:11	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 18:34:16	Work	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	We were in our classroom. The whole fourth grade was out in portables at the time. The asst. principal came over the intercom and said we couldn't go outside because of the smoke coming up from Mexico. (we did have to stay in from recess at the end of the previous year from that) All the teachers were very confused. One of the teachers on our team went up to the office and asked what was really going on. Before they had gone up to ask I had gotten on-line to see if there really was smoke coming up from Mexico and it said that the second tower had fallen on the main page and I couldn't get anything else except for the picture and the headline from the website. I was confused, I knew they were talking about The World Trade Center. But it did not even register that, one of them could have fallen. Then after one of my teammates told all of us what was going on, it finally all clicked. At that time, something of that magnitude was not on anybody's radar. I couldn't get on-line the rest of the day at school. Our principal wanted us to stay inside because at that point they could not find the third plane that was hijacked.
.	9/9/2009 18:35:00	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		I had just flown home the day before from Washington D.C. I was to of come home on the 11th. From the time the first plane hit; one of my brother's was called up to active duty. He has been on active duty ever since. I only home that he will be able to come home soon. My brother's job is doing counter intelligence for the military.
.	9/9/2009 18:36:20	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 18:46:47	Other	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone	I was in the hospital waiting to be induced to have a baby.	Very bittersweet day.....was overwhelmed by sadness, anger, confusion, and joy. How could that happen in America? I was sad and angry that thousands of innocent mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, etc. were murdered. It was scary to think about what could possibly happen next. I was overjoyed about the upcoming delivery of my beautiful daughter. Lastly, I was concerned about the world we live in. I didn't want my child to grow up in an unsafe, evil world.
.	9/9/2009 18:48:22	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		My husband is an elevator construction worker and he works in NYC. He did not have a cell phone so he was uanble to get in touch with me. I knew he was working on 14th street but sometimes he was sent to other jobs for the day. I did not hear from him until he arrived home that night about 11:00pm. He saw the plane going toward the world trade (the very same buildings that my dad had put the elevators into!) and then he saw smoke in the sky. He heard all the sirens and was unable to use any public transportain. He and a lot of other people walked downtown and then they were able to get a ride with a friend to Staten Island. From there he was able to find another ride to New Jersey (where we live)We lost some friends in the World Trade and it is a day I will never forget.
.	9/9/2009 18:54:41	Work	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	I am a second grade teacher and my principal came around to tell us. We watched it on TV at lunch. We were not allowed to turn any TVs on in classrooms.
.	9/9/2009 18:56:22	Other	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Cell Phone	College class
.	9/9/2009 18:57:48	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		My first feelings were feelings of fear. What would happen next? Was this the beginning of something more? I wanted to get to my children and make sure they were safe even though I knew we were far from where things were happening! I think it's the most afraid I have ever been and I could only imagine how others closer were feeling. It was a sad,sad day.
.	9/9/2009 19:05:20	Home	Friend	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 19:10:15	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone


.	9/9/2009 19:10:40	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I remember it was such a clear, beautiful, and peaceful morning. I sang in the car on the way to work. I found coverage of what appeared to be a tragic accident in New York on the Today Show in our lounge. It isn't unusual for us to grab a TV when something important is happening. We all watched in disbelief as a second plane struck. All I remember is the fear and concern I felt for the people in the towers. I wanted to call my family in New York to be sure they were all okay.
.	9/9/2009 19:18:08	Work	Friend	Other	Verbal Chat	I was at school and our librarian told me. I then talked to my third grade class and we went to the library and watched the news and discussed what was happening. One of the children commented that it was like a TV show or movie and didn't seem real.
.	9/9/2009 19:20:46	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Other	In person.	I live in Mountain time, so we woke up to the news.
.	9/9/2009 19:29:42	Work	Friend	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I simply could not believe it was true, and kept asking about it over and over. It wasn't until I heard and saw everything on CNN that I fully believed it.
.	9/9/2009 19:35:46	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I was living in Rochester , NY and we heard about the crash in the first tower. We heard that the plane had originated in Boston, a city my sister often traveled to for work. My heart dropped and I immediately called my husband who called my sister for me. Fortunately she was fine, but there were many people I knew in upstate NY that lost loved ones that horrible day. I still mourn the loss of the people who died there.
.	9/9/2009 19:40:36	Home	Television	Other	Phone	My sister called to see if I had the news on. We stayed on the phone for about an hour. My husband was in the military and I kept trying to call him. Finally got him. Was unsure what his future might be. He ended up going to Iraq for a year.
.	9/9/2009 19:44:59	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		It was my first year working in a collaborative model classroom with 2 teachers and 3 teaching assistants. It was a pilot class- one that we looped with the next year. One of the Teaching Assistants was on the phone with her sister in a tower that was struck- and she lost communication with her. The whole incident was the most unsettling, upsetting day - probably of our lives. The students did not know anything was going on- we all tried as hard as we could to carry on like a normal day. It was very difficult! Those children are now in their first year of High school and we will always have that bond and connection with each other.
.	9/9/2009 19:46:27	Work	Internet	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 19:48:11	Other	Other	Someone you did not even know	Verbal Chat	I heard of the events in one of my college courses by my professor.
.	9/9/2009 19:49:48	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I was reading a book to my kindergarten class when my cooperating teacher came into the room. She had been crying. When I finished the book, she called me to the side and told me what had happened. At that time, only the first plane had crashed. I went to the mailroom where several others were watching the tv. The second plane had crashed. I called my husband and my mom. There was confusion and chaos. It was terrifying. I put on a happy face and went back to the classroom. I hugged all of the kindergarteners a little tighter that day. I will never forget their stories from the next school day. They are etched in my mind just as vividly as the planes going into the towers. The view from a 5 year old is....
.	9/9/2009 19:53:24	Work	Co-Worker	Student	Verbal Chat		I am a teacher and I had my class. After I heard about the New York planes, I heard that a plane had crashed in Pittsburgh and Washington D.C. My daughter lives in Pittsburgh and my son lives in D.C. It was very scary to hear. My friend's husband was scheduled to have a meeting in the pentagon that morning, but it was canceled. She did not find out or talk to her husband till after 6 PM that day.
.	9/9/2009 19:55:49	Other	Other	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone	I was at a workshop, so I guess I was at work but not in class. When the presenter began his introduction, someone's phone rang and the woman who answered it screamed something unintelligible at the time. The workshop was in a very large room, and there were probably over 100 people in attendance. After a few minutes everybody's phone started buzzing and going off. The initial impression was that NY had been attacked. We all went out into the hallway where there was a television and we saw that the the Second Tower had been hit. We were all in shock.	I don't remember much about my workshop, but it was a full day mandatory training and the presenter gave us the option of going back to our schools or staying on. Everyone stayed, but I imagine that none of us were really focused on anything that was presented at that workshop. Later, when I went back to my campus, the principal had suspended all after school activities and ordered everyone in the building to go home to be with their families. My husband and I were glued to the television set that evening, our phone never stopped ringing.
.	9/9/2009 19:57:27	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Cell Phone
.	9/9/2009 20:02:50	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Cell Phone		Just a sorrowful reminder of how times have changed forever.
.	9/9/2009 20:06:04	Car	Radio	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat
.	9/9/2009 20:19:00	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I really wanted to leave school and get my kids to make sure they were all right. Never before or since then have I had that feeling.
.	9/9/2009 20:20:14	Home	Other	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone	My mom called me at home because she feared that my brother was in the first tower. He worked in an office on one of the upper floors in the north tower and always arrived by 8:00 am. We waited for information all day, a phone call, an email, but nothing came. We began to think the unthinkable. At 7:30 pm, my mother received a phone call from Australia. The caller was a friend of my brother. He let us know my brother was safe but that he couldn't call anyone on the east coast. My brother had overslept that morning and was on the 9:00 train into Manhattan and never did make it into the city.	I grew up in New York and, unforunately, lost two friends from high school that day. One was a firefighter and father of 4 young children. The other was a financial analyst and just a really good guy. 911 will always be a very sad day for me.
.	9/9/2009 21:11:52	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was teaching 4th grade. We watched the events on the news off and on all day. We tried to keep calm so the students would not panic. It didn't seem real. How could this happen in our country?
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.	9/9/2009 21:37:30	Home	Other	Other	Other	I was just about to start college and so I was still living at home. My mom burst into my bedroom and woke me up to tell me. I don't remember who I shared the news with. Since I slept in, most people already knew by the time I talked to them.	I just remember feeling like I wished there was something I could do to help. I didn't really know what to think about it. I was a little bit scared too. One of my friends lives in New York City and she walked 5 miles to donate blood that day. She heard the whole thing while she was getting ready for school.
.	9/9/2009 21:40:09	Other	Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat	I was with my class at the Kansas State Fair - in lines at the Grandstand, waiting for our turns to ride in semi trucks around the Grandstand. One of the truckers stopped driving and said that America was being bombed by terrorists, and that bombs on airplanes had hit something in NYC. I thought it was a tasteless joke and remember being appalled that he would make up something like that in front of my class. After I realized that he wasn't joking, I tried to call home. I don't know if it was because of the volume of phone calls or simply my location in the Fairgrounds, but I couldn't get any reception on my cell phone. My coworkers and I gathered the kiddos up and called the school. We ended up heading back to school much earlier than planned and watching the news together at school. I was so nervous until I reached my parents, who were watching my new baby.
.	9/9/2009 21:52:24	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was in the copy room making copies during my break/4th grade specials/recess. My colleague, Bonnie, was in her classroom next door. She had turned on the TV (a NEW thing to have in each room that year) during her planning time to see the live news discussion and to call me in. We called out to the other teachers on the hall to join us, and witnessed the second impact. My co-teacher that next 4th grade math class wanted to keep it on after the kids returned for math class. I told her no-way, go to the lounge, I'd get class that day. Surreal day teaching regular math without any discussion with the kids. Found out later that day that one of my students' fathers had left that morning for New York on business. Never so glad to have waited and maintained normalcy in all my life. Remember how absolutely GORGEOUS a crisp, clear, blue September day it was. Called my parents to make sure that my brother in law had made it safely to his sales trip that day, knowing they would have already called my sister. There was an unquenchable need to check in with each other. I remember telling my mother that I now viscerally understood her stories of Pearl Harbor and being crystal clear that I would always remember where I was and how I heard. Our school held a memorial program that year and each year thereafter until all the kids old enough to remember that day had gone...little by little it changed from a remembrance of a shared moment to a teaching of history to elementary students with no personal memories or connections to that day. Our school art teacher had the idea to make gloves. A local hardware store donated a case of work gloves. Our students decorated them with markers. Our Assistant principal went to NY on a vacation trip each October. That year she took the gloves and donated them (after some calling/planning) to the sanitation department. The head of the department was astounded and grateful to have his crews remembered. Most of the accolades and attention went at first to the fireman and policemen -- and rightfully so as first responders. They forged a link. The next year, she returned to see how they were doing. His men had refused to wear the gloves as they worked to sort the wreckage and debris as it came into their station, but held onto to their gloves. Some were framed and hung on the wall of the main entry/office. That story had our school realizing how the unsung everyday heroes in our town were often taken for granted. We started making cards. The next year students were chosen to accompany our assistant principal to deliver them to the Sanitation Department, Sheriff's office, County Public Works office, Town Police Department, and med flight helicopter base. The police chief was so taken aback, that he came right to the school and asked to thank the kids on the PA system that very afternoon. My saddest thoughts today are to remember what we did then, and to think how quickly we've forgotten not to take it all for granted still.
.	9/9/2009 22:34:22	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		I was in shock. I knew two planes had crashed into the world trade center but was still in complete disbelief when it looked bent over. I guess I thought it was invincible as were we. I had to explain to my kindergarteners that NYC was very far away and that they were not in any danger. I took them out to the school yard and we walked across the large US map, from CA. were we live to NYC. I had a student in my class from Afganistan. I was worried about his families safety. Everything turned out fine. I will never forget that day.
.	9/10/2009 2:32:29	Work	Television	Aquaintance	Verbal Chat		it was terrible and shocking to hear and watch.the mighty building go down.Terrorism should be fought to the letter.Thats why in Springs Alive we have a peace and conflict studies division whose main objective is to see that where there is hatred we sow peace and where there is division we preach love and Unity.Thats we! We do campaign for a world without war,get to know more on this by clicking the links below; http://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/mediacenter/article.php?story=20080520101654904_en&query=Springs%2BAlive http://springsalive.pbworks.com/MAYORS+for+PEACE+INITIATIVE
.	9/10/2009 2:55:30	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		I was watching the Today show, and they reported that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. There were no specifics. I called my father to tease him, because he was indirectly involved in the incident during or just after WW2 when a plane hit the Empire State Building. My parents and I watched in horror (talking long distance) as the events played out. I had to get ready for work, and as a teacher didn't get to watch the news all day. Couldn't wait to get home and watch what had happened.
.	9/10/2009 3:16:35	Other	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone	I was at the Gym on the treadmill.	I first thought of my cousin who works for American Airlines in Dallas, Texas. He travels all of the time by plane. My worst fear was that he was on one of the planes that hit the twin towers. Once I spoke to him, I felt a big relief, but could not believe that this event could be real. It seemed so unbelievable. It was a very sad day for everyone.
.	9/10/2009 3:43:49	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Cell Phone		It was the first day of class and I was working with the children. My first thought was for my sister, brother and sister in law who worked on wall street. My brother's office was in the building next to the towers and my sister's law firm had just moved to the towers. My family was very blessed. My sister was at their mid town office and my sister in law had arrived at her office when the attack took place. It was several hours before we could locate my brother Joe but he was on the street when it happened and then walked up to 79th street to our brother James apartment. We have friends who did lost loved ones who were firefighters and went into the towers to save lives.
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.	9/10/2009 4:42:44	Work	Co-Worker	Student	Verbal Chat		The plane that crashed in Shanksville would have flown right over our school in Ohio as the pilot turned around. Such a sad day. Never forget!
.	9/10/2009 4:45:21	Work	Internet	Spouse/Significant Other	Cell Phone		I was walking into the school office when another teacher asked me if I had heard about the plane hitting the WTC. I told her no and asked more about it and she said she heard it was a small tourist plane. I ran up to my classrooom and got online. I thought I was watching a Hollywood movie. Then I turned on my TV and watched as the second plane slammed into the second tower. Later my principal said to turn off all TVs and computers and try to maintain a "normal" day. A lot of kids were scared and crying. Many families came and took their children home. When I got home I remember watching TV and just weeping for hours. Later that evening I wrote a poem.
.	9/10/2009 4:52:07	Home	Radio	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		As with so many others, I did not really believe what was happening. It seemed unreal and far away. I live in the midwest. In a short time, as I began to find out more of what was going on, the realization hit that this was our country! Also, it was/is my Mother's birthday.
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.	9/10/2009 5:21:17	Home	Television	Other	Cell Phone	I first shared the news with my mom.	It was very scary. We didn't know what was going on. The terror and pain in the faces of the people there was unbelievable. I was glued to the tv. I didn't want to go to school or work; I just wanted to know what was happening.
.	9/10/2009 7:02:01	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was told by a teacher who was bringing her students to my art class to turn on my TV. I was in between classes and turned it on in time to see the second plane crash into the Twin Towers. I was pregnant with my son who was born on Sept 16. I recall being worried about what kind of world my son was being born into and spent the five days before my son was born watching CNN with my husband. We cried for days thinking of the families of victims and the brave firefighters who lost their lives. We also mourned for the people who felt so desperate in their political and religious views that they had to use terrorist tactics. It felt like the whole world was at ground zero.
.	9/10/2009 7:02:28	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was told by a teacher who was bringing her students to my art class to turn on my TV. I was in between classes and turned it on in time to see the second plane crash into the Twin Towers. I was pregnant with my son who was born on Sept 16. I recall being worried about what kind of world my son was being born into and spent the five days before my son was born watching CNN with my husband. We cried for days thinking of the families of victims and the brave firefighters who lost their lives. We also mourned for the people who felt so desperate in their political and religious views that they had to use terrorist tactics. It felt like the whole world was at ground zero. -Nanci Lee Art Teacher Atlanta GA
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.	9/10/2009 8:37:38	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I remember walking into the teachers' room at school, and a number of people were clustered around the television. This was right before the second plane struck the World Trade Center. I remember a colleague remarkign with horror in her eyes, "This is HUGE! Oh my, God, this is huge." How right she was! It was a critical turning point in world history. I only hope that someday our nation and our world will be able to get past hatred and that we will achieve peace by respecting each other as human beings and recognize that everyone is important and deserves respect.
.	9/10/2009 9:01:46	Other	Television	Student	Verbal Chat
.	9/10/2009 9:24:54	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I had a Bible Study that very day about God being "a strong tower" . It really meant a lot that day, and today I read that passage and remember my strong tower!


.	9/10/2009 9:51:26	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I remember knowing my sister was attending a conference in Washington D.C. that day.She flies from Philadelphia, PA. I did not know how she was getting there. Fortunately, it was by car and she had gone the day before but still had to get out of DC that day which was a challenge. There were a few hours of concern when we couldn't get a hold of her husband to find out her whereabouts. One of the ladies with whom she was traveling had a loved one working in the Towers that day. He/She did not survive.
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.	9/10/2009 10:23:25	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		Shock is the biggest word that comes to mind. We were glued to the TV and in complete shock. For days to come that is all anyone could talk about or think about. Huge impact on the entire country.
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.	9/10/2009 12:30:21	Work	Co-Worker	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I was student teaching. Parents came in high numbers to check out students. I remember that it was surreal in that we could not stop watching the news.
.	9/10/2009 12:40:15	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		My principal did not tell the teachers. She did not want us to be "upset" and maybe not do our work. A school worker from another school came over to tell our school nurse, she told some one else. That's how we found out. My memory was and is a scary one. The teachers were called together at lunch time by the principal. She said that we were not to say anything to the children in our classes. The principal did not want to deal with "the crying and the upset that might happen". The children did know something was up; parents were coming for no apparent reason to pick up some of their classmates. They wanted to know why, and I could not answer them truthfully. I felt very bad that they could not come to me and get the truth. I found it scary that we were not trusted to be truthful and loving to the students we cared for by someone parents, children and teachers were told and expected to trust.
.	9/10/2009 12:52:19	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I just remember that it was my first year teaching Kindergarten, and all I wanted to do was make sure they didn't find out about it until they got home, so their moms and dads could decide how to share it with them. I was surprised at how much information parents shared with 5 year olds when they came back the next day!
.	9/10/2009 13:14:56	Work	Co-Worker	Other	Other	I am a first grade teacher. At our school, we were not allowed to discuss it during that day, talk to our colleagues, look at the news or internet, or phone call anyone. We had to maintain the instructional integrity of our school day and a letter was sent home explaining that the children would need to be availed of this information at home.	By the time I got out of school and home, everyone had known for 8 hours or more. It was very difficult to process because I had not seen the images and had the conversations that every other person in the world had been having all day.
.	9/10/2009 13:24:55	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Cell Phone		I was incredulous that such a thing could happen
.	9/10/2009 14:01:37	Home	Television	Co-Worker	Phone		My husband was coming home from a six month deployment and I was not sure that they were going to even let the carrier pull into port. Thankfully, they allowed the men to come home.
.	9/10/2009 15:38:11	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat
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.	9/10/2009 16:19:58	Work	Spouse/Significant Other	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		I was teaching a K-2nd multi age classroom. My husband called to tell me the news. At the time I didn't understand what it was all about. But we quickly turned on the TV at the moment the second tower fell. It was very difficult to finish the day without alerting the children to our distress and total sorrow.
.	9/10/2009 16:54:39	Car	Radio	Aquaintance	Verbal Chat		All I remember is wanting to see my mom. I drove two hours to go see her within an hour of hearing the awful news. I stayed at her house for four days.
.	9/10/2009 17:33:31	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		Wow! The memory is as clear as it happened today! My cousin worked in the building right next to the Towers and had to exit through the towers to get out. My uncle was visiting New York to be with her on this day! He was there for a Tennis Match which of course was not held. We could have lost her and maybe a favorite uncle too!
.	9/10/2009 18:01:45	Other	Other	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat	I was walking in the park in recovery from an operation with my husband. We noticed people staring towards NYC. We looked and watched as the second plane hit and the buildings came down. It was horrific and we cried for all we saw, knew and felt.
.	9/10/2009 18:08:24	Work	Co-Worker	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		Our school is very close to an Air Force Base so life for our teachers who teach at the base changed drastically. They had to catch a bus to get to and from the base everyday for about 3 months. Later in January following the events of 9/11 we had a terrible train derailment...anhydrous amonia spill. Some people thought we were under attack... it happened at 3am in the morning. i rmemeber waking to a horrible odor and that stung my eyes. Tragically 1 person was killed and thousands were injured. We really thought we were under attack after all we are so close to an air base with nuclear weapon silos.
.	9/10/2009 18:49:55	Other	Other	Your child/children	Verbal Chat	I was at the doctor's office with both of my children ages 4 and 6 at the time. Our doctor came into the office very upset and said planes are flying into the twin towers.	I remember sitting at home listening to the news and wondering if we were safe in our city? I remember wanting to take my family and hide somewhere.
.	9/10/2009 19:36:17	Other	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat	I was in college at the time.
.	9/10/2009 22:04:06	Work	Television	Co-Worker	Verbal Chat		We were having a meeting in the library at the school when someone came in and told us what had happened- we immediately turned the tv on to see all the updates- one of our faculty had family members who worked at the Trade Towers and another had a son-in-law at the Pentagon- needless to say- out came the cell phones and the calls started- thank goodness, all family members were found and okay


.	9/11/2009 4:52:24	Work	Spouse/Significant Other	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		I just gave birth to my first child in May of 2001 and for the first time in my life my "motherly instinct" really kicked in. I kept thinking - how am I going to keep her safe - what kind of world have I brought her in to? I also had a step-sister who worked on Wall Street at the time - we kept calling her mom to be sure dhe was OK.
.	9/11/2009 8:59:25	Other	Radio	Someone you did not even know	Other	I was in the hospital getting prepared for a c-section. My son was born shortly after all of the planes had crashed and the towers had fallen. My anesthesiologist had to check on his daughter before he was able to prepare me because she worked at the Pentagon. She was safely at home because she had decided that she just wasn't feeling well and thought that she'd take the day off...something she didn't do often. For my family, this is not only a day where we remember what happened and the person from my small town in Indiana that was lost when the towers fell....but it is also a day of celebration for us with the birth of my son.
.	9/11/2009 10:36:46	Work	Internet	Spouse/Significant Other	Phone		Parents started coming to take their students home. We ended up closing the school after all students were picked up about noon. I went home and was glued to the television watching updates. It is certainly a defining moment similar to, "Where were you when President Kennedy was shot?"
.	9/11/2009 11:55:13	Home	Television	Spouse/Significant Other	Verbal Chat		One of the saddest days of my life.