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.

Specializes in Tele, Renal, ICU, CIU, ER, Home Health..

I was working my first shift (nocs) as a travel nurse in California. The day shift nurses came in and told us about it. We all went to an empty room and turned on the news. I stood there with my head in my hands and cried. When I got home, I called my mom in Mississippi and we "watched" the news together for hours. Thankfully I was off that night because there was no sleeping that day. I'm crying now, just remembering.

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Specializes in ER,ICU and Progressive Care Unit,Peds.

I was a SR in high school, and it was 1st peroid Government/Econ. class. This guy in our class runs in the room and says someone just flew a plane into the world trade center. So we turned on the TVs in th classroom and that's all we watched all day at school.

We were hoping they would let school out for it, but that didn't happen. But the colleges in the area closed that day for security reasons.

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I was still in collge at the time and I was working in the library. It was a language center that housed all resources for the foreign language department, in a pretty isolated part of the library. I use to listen to the radio, and that morning i turned it on and heard an announcement about it midsentence and then it was repeated. I not knowing what was going on, thought it was a "today in history" segment. SO i went out to my boss and asked her if planes had once hit the towers. She said no, and i was sorta confused by her answer since she was big into history.

I went back to the radio and they were still talking about it and announced the same thing again, so i went back out to her and said "are you sure?? cause they are talking about planes hitting the twin towers on the radio right now" she followed me to the radio to listen and at that moment they announce the pentagon she just looked at me, walked to her desk, sat down and said "oh my god we are under attack" I had no idea what she was talking about for a good minute or so but then i understood.

My school was based really far out in long island NY, you looked up in the sky that day you would have never known anything was going on.

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Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.

I'm watching the movie, World Trade Center, right now.

It's almost too much to handle.

Those good men. Brave men.

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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.

Gosh, to see the event actually happening right before your eyes had to be so terrifying. I was just watching it on the TV which was horrifying enough...but to be out on a ferry & witness this! I am sorry for your loss and everyone elses'.

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Specializes in Psych, Med/Surg, Home Health, Oncology.

Hi

Oh does this bring back memories!!

I hadn't even seen this thread before.

I was off the nite before & therefore home. I was getting dressed to run out to see a patient---I had only one Home Health pt. that day.

I turned on the TV. And saw the first buiding burning & said to DH that something must have happened. Even as I was speaking I suddenly saw the 2nd plane go into the 2nd building. Couldn't believe my eyes!!!

Well, I had to go see the PT---CHF visit. While there, I watched as the first tower went down. We went straight home--I lived close to that pt.

As we got home, we watched the 2nd tower go down.

I will NEVER forget that day!!!

Just like I have never forgotten the day Kennedy was killed & what I was doing-- I was a Freshman in Nursing School.

Mary Ann

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Specializes in Being bossed around during clinicals..

I was a senior in high school. It was a beautiful clear fall day with an amazing blue sky. I was walking into my second period class, which was yearbook, talking loudly (and probably being obnoxious) with a friend. As I walked in the door my yearbook teacher told me to "shut up because two planes just hit the world trade center." I didn't really understand what she was talking about but I sat down and we watched the TV mounted in the corner of our classroom. A few hours later I left school early to be with my family.

It was a horrible day.

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Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

day off

had just woken up

watched cnn all day

big D was in ireland that week on vacation

but flew home on the sat after

one month later i flew to chicago to visit my best galpal

didn't think i would live to witness that kind of world/life changing events in my lifetime

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Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

felt very human that day, a member of humankind that was suffering greatly

those people that jumped from the buildings, that was their only choice for self-preservation

very scary time for the world

big D remembered the day that jfk was shot

i wasn't born yet

may we never relive such a horrible moment

the day the earth stood still

some times i'm so glad i don't have children...

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Going to work. Will never forget that day!!!:o

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I went to a wedding that weekend in Boston and took a flight back to North Carolina on Monday September 10th, just in time for my 7pm-7am shift at the hospital. I came home exhausted after my shift and slept all day. When I woke up, the phone was ringing of the hook. My friend Kristi was calling me all day, hysterical, because she thought that I was flying from Boston that day (9/11) instead of the day before. I could barely make sense as to what she was saying to me. When I finally realized it, a whirl of emotions came over me.

My cousin who had got married that weekend in Boston flew out of Logan Airport on Sept. 10 for her honeymoon in Aruba. When she found out about the terrorist attack she cut her honeymoon short and got the first flight back.

That dreadful day has had such an impact on so many people.

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Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

the world certainly changed forever after 9/11

we took a lot for granted before that

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