Where were u 9/11/01?

[k_cole21]

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.

[Bluehair]

On the phone with my Dad. Having coffee before work in CA, he was on the east coast. Kept thinking it was some action movie until I realized it was live. Dad passed away 2 years ago. That phone call was a very powerful moment for us both, and now even more memorable.

[eandgsma]

I was getting ready for work when my friend called me around 7am PST to tell me that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I am from NJ, born and raised, I could see the Empire State Bldg from my bedroom window as a teenager. I was working in a bldg on the Hudson (Edgewater, NJ) when the 93 bombing happened. Anyway, I thought my friend was joking. I even said to her, why are you calling me this early joking around? I went downstairs to turn on the TV. I saw the towers smoldering, then watched the first tower fall. I screamed and dropped the phone. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I ran upstairs to tell my showering DH and he got mad at me because I was such a blubbering, screaming mess at what I just saw. He couldn't understand what I was saying. My older son was 3.5 at the time and he saw me and the TV. They kept showing the planes flying into the bldg. He talked about the plane flying into the bldg for a LONG time after that.

Well, my very closest aunt worked in a bldg directly across the street from the towers. I have 3 friends' fathers who worked in the towers. I had two friends who worked in bldg 5. They all made it out. My aunt suffers from PTSD from what she saw that day. She almost died from the second tower falling. She went to duck under a fire engine but was pulled by a man into a building foyer instead. When they got out of the foyer, the fire engine was flattened. She couldn't go into NYC for 3 years. She finally did and finally told the rest of the family what happened to her that day.

I will NEVER forget everything I did that day. I will never forget what my aunt has told me or what my friends told me they saw that day.

[burn out]

I had just gotten home from working 7p-7a and had taken the kids to school, numb sitting in front of the tv half asleep in my rocking chair when my mother said "look the wtc is on fire", then came news of the pentagon bombing, and then to see that horrific scene when the second plane flew into the wtc. I knew we were under attack. Local news started reporting that the third plane was flying over our state-right over our heads- all the city buildings went on lock down, schools were going to shelter in place. It was one of the scariest days of my life.

[Lizzy6]

On the Staten Island Ferry, 8:45 am boat, on my way to work. I watched the second plane strike.

That must have been horrific Suesquatch!! I was living overseas in Turkey. I will never forget that day either.

[chadash]

I was about 27 miles away from ground zero.

America Attacked 9 1 1

the sheer horror of it all...I will never forget.

Thanks for the website...the news just does not cover this any more.

I was on my way to a home health patient and the local new station said a plane had hit the world train center, and then they said another. I remember the chill of realizing this was no accident.

The sadness for the victums and the family remains.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

That must have been horrific Suesquatch!! I was living overseas in Turkey. I will never forget that day either.

It was a wild boat ride, lemme tell ya!

I saw the north tower smoldering and was watching the harbor when this jet came down next to the boat. The Statue of Liberty was just on the other side of it. It kind of hovered and I remember thinking that I'd never seen anything flying so low. I wondered if the plane was in distress and was going to try to land in the Hudson river because to crash in downtown Manhattan would be disastrous. Then I heard the engines rev, saw it disappear into the grey skyline, and then saw the huge fireball.

I couldn't believe my own eyes. Everyone was yelling, "What happened?" "A plane crashed into the tower!" "What kind of a plane?" "A plane plane!"

The boat just turned around and went back to the island. Had I been on time for work I'd have been stuck downtown - the 8:30 boat unloaded.

I asked a cop if I should try to get into the office later - the ferry terminal was swarming with policemen - and the guy answered, "Don't try to go into the city today." We still had no idea what was happening.

My brother is with USAID and was in the State Dep't offices a block from the Pentagon when that plane went in.

I still freeze when a plane flies low.

We lost a lot of friends, acquaintances, and my husband, a cousin.

I don't think I'll ever forget that morning.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

xxxxx

[JeanettePNP, MSN, RN, NP]

Nobody remembers this but 9/11/01 was a primary election in New York. I dropped my kids off in school, went to vote, then went home. I called dh at work and I was put on hold with the radio in the background. I heard something about the tower crashing but I was sure it was something sticking out of the tower that crashed, not the tower itself. Then my dh got on line and confirmed what actually happened.

I did not see the towers falling but I remember the smoke and haze that covered the entire city. There was a sense of unreality in the air, the feeling that life would not be the same, yet we somehow had to keep going and stick to routine as much as possible. I also remember that they weren't exactly sure what the next target might be and many roads were blocked off and police stations were barricaded.

My SIL lost her brother in the WTC. She has not been the same since. She recently had twin boys and named one of them for her brother; I think that gave her some solace.

[RNOTODAY, BSN, RN]

I was at clinical, in nsg school, during my ob rotation...I was assisting for the first time with a lady partsl delivery... baby was born *just as* the newscast came on the tv.....I'll never forget it...

[RunningWithScissors]

I was at work, was doing an assessment on a post-op CABG patient; he was watching one of the morning news shows.

I asked him what was going on, he said a plane had crashed into the WTC...at that time, it was reported to be a small plane.

I said something like "wow, that was a big oops!"

[Cherish]

I was in Ft. Hood, Tx. I was in the Army and was going thru drivers training. At the time I was in the back of a LMTV, when someone told us, we all were joking and saying it was impossible and didn't believe the other soldier. When we got back to the motorpool for lunch our instructors told us what happened. I think everyone of us thought ok...we are going to be preparing for war.

The post was on lockdown. In Killeen the town thats outside Ft. Hood, it was basically a ghost town.

[RN 4 U]

I hadn't started nursing school yet. I was a my first job out of college, first degree.