Where were u 9/11/01?

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They only reason I'm starting this thread is b/c where I was on this date will forever be memoriable to my nursing career. Just 1 or 2 phrases to tell where u were at the time of the attacks....

I was in Fall semester Nursing School, senior year....1st days on the floor of our Psyc Rotation....all the TVs on the unit were on. It was a very interesting place to be during such a time.

: "Yep. And we ought to drop the bomb on them, like we did on Hiroshima and Nagasaki". "That'll never happen, Daddy", I responded sadly. :(

On who?

Where?

You are sad we will not "drop" a nuclear weapon??

Sorry, but I found this response disturbing

I was sleeping, of course! I had had the nite before off, but was sleeping in. My son on the East coast called, assumed I knew what was going on, and was ranting and raving about it.

Specializes in Pediatrics.

I was a freshman in college, did not have class that morning and was sleeping late when I heard someone's voice outside my door whom I knew was usually in class at the time. I got up and she told me what had happened and at first I thought it was a joke. I then spent the rest of the morning watching the TV in the dorm lounge, then at noon went to the college chapel with a friend, there was always a service there at that time on Tuesdays and needless to say it was very different that day. I will never forget it. And how quiet it was and the sky so blue. And the service that night in the community chapel with so many people from the college and the city communities all coming together, the huge conversation in the dorm about it... So many things, a day none of us will likely forget. As well as the first time I saw a plane flying again after that day, just after an outdoor prayer vigil on campus... do you remember that moment too?

It is hard to believe it's been five years ago.

Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

I was on a plane headed to New York when the world crashed that day.

I was at home and my husband came rushing in from walking the dog. Someone stopped him on the street to tell him the news. We put the tv on and watched in horror. 10 days later our first child was born. It was a time of such extreme emotion.

Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.

I was sleeping late because I'd worked so late the night before. My mom called and woke me up. I was irritated at being woken up. She said something like, something serious is happening in New York, and that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. My mom is prone to being quite melodramatic. I rolled my eyes and said to her: "I don't care if some little plane hit the antena on top of the World Trade Center." Then I immediately went back to sleep. Got up about an hour later, and turned on the news. I sat there in shock watching the tv for the next 18 hours.

Specializes in Peds Cardiology,Peds Neuro,Pedi ER,PICU, IV Jedi.

I was at home watching everything unfold on Good Morning America. Sheer disbelief and then horror as the planes flew into the WTC. :madface: :madface:

Scarier for me still was that my brother lives about 8 miles from the Pentagon and is in that particular area for work. I was going nuts when the plane hit the Pentagon...couldn't reach him for a few hours but all turned out well.:uhoh21:

But I'll never forget that day...or the days after, when our DFW skies were silent. Never have I gone outside here and not heard or seen a plane in the sky until that time. It's a VERY wierd and uneasy feeling.

I was at home on a beautiful day in NH. I had just gotten back from a neighborhood walk. Then the plan was to pack a lunch and go the beach.My nieghbor called and told me the news. We never left the house or the TV that day. My thoughts are with the loved ones left behind and personnnel involved in rescue and reconstruction. I am flown many times since then but still very leary.

Specializes in LTC/Rehab,Med/Surg, OB/GYN, Ortho, Neuro.

I was in nursing school at the time, some of us had just finished taking a test, waiting around for the others to finish. Could tell that there was some kind of commotion going on in the instructor's office and main office, just didn't know what. Finally everyone finished the test, and one of the instructors called us back into the class and told us what had happened. I started panicking, my aunt did business at the towers. Took three days to finally get a hold of my family there. Luckily, she was late for her meeting, and was stuck in traffic.

The next day, was my youngest daughter's 2nd birthday. It was so bittersweet. I wanted to rejoice for this milestone for her, but I felt so guilty for feeling any kind of joy. Hell, to this day, I still feel guilty on her birthday.

My kids are 8 and almost 7 now, and they will be doing something at school to commerate that day. It's hard trying to find appropriate answers to their questions. I hope that they will never have to experience this level of sadness or despair that we've had to.

The thing that I remember is how the sky was such a beautiful shade of blue. I think I actually suffered stress syndrome because I was in a fog for days. One of my coworkers said the same. It was also weird when there were no planes in the air. I lived near Dobbins AFB in Marietta and I knew something was up a short time later, there was so many planes flying in and out of Dobbins. We had not seen that before.

Specializes in ICU,ER.

I was in Albuquerque on a travel assignment and just down to sleep after a night shift. My boyfriend called from Oklahoma and the first thing he said was "Do you know what's going on?"

The way he said it gave me chills because I knew it was something huge.

Specializes in Pediatrics.
The thing that I remember is how the sky was such a beautiful shade of blue.

yes... I remember that too... I wasn't in your part of the country but it was the same thing.

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