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.

[Elektra6, ASN, BSN, RN]

Jury duty, filling out a 100 page survey for a death penalty case. They wouldn't let us leave until we finished either. We had no idea what happened, only heard from employees that NYC was bombed!

[RN and Mommy]

I was at home and pregnant with my dd. I watched the show on TV the other night that showed all of the children that were born after 9/11 whose fathers died and I was crying the whole time!

[Midwest4me]

I had the day off work...it was early morning where we live. My husband came home from noc shift and said "Oh honey terrible things are happening---turn on the tv!!!" We cried for days watching horrible visions constantly repeating on the tv.

[MIA-RN1, RN]

I was home, getting dressed for work. I was watching the Today show and saw when the first one hit. I called my husband at work and told him that it couldn't have been an accident. We were on the phone together, both watching tv, when the second plane hit.

I had to go to work (in a high school) I was in the car when the pentagon got hit.

We spent the whole day at work not talking about it, keeping the radio on quiet. It was the only way we could think of how to deal with the fear.

I got home and picked up my daughter from school instead of letting her ride the bus because I was scared what the older ones would say and I wanted to tell her (2nd grade at the time). My son (8th grade) heard at school and they watched news footage at school.

I heard a plane fly overhead as I stood outside with my neighbor. I think we both stopped breathing for a minute b/c the planes were all supposed to be grounded. I am pretty sure it was a military plane. Rumors flew for months that we were on the top ten targeted list since we are on the water (Lake Ontario) and since Eastman Kodak is here. I still get creeped out when airplanes go over.

[arelius]

I first saw the new in the morning and then realized what was really happening in my 12th grade English class. The teacher cancelled the lecture and activities for the day and we just watched the news in class. I can't believe it's been five years already!

[MS._Jen_RN, ASN, RN]

I woke up blissfully naieve. I went to work (was a waitress then). I was happy 'cause it started out such a beatuiful day for me. The TV over the bar was on when I got there. We cried with eachother, with customers. It was a sad, slow day.

~Jen

[lpnstudentin2010, LPN]

i was in 8th grade. It was DARE class (Drug Abuse Resistance Education for any who dont know). The police officer who taught it had just put us to "quiet" work and everyone else was talking and since back then i did not have very many friends I was just working. I sat in the front row. I had finished my work and was just sitting there. The officer looked at his pager and left the room taking out his cell phone. about five minutes later our classroom teacher came back in and just started teaching. then our principal called an assembly for later in the day. You have to know that this was a TINY school 220 kids in all in a school that had kindegarten to 8th grade. No one knew what had happened. Then about twenty minutes before it was scheduled to happen the principal cancelled the assembly. Our homeroom teacher told us what had happened. and two little girls in our school their dad was supposed to have been on one of the planes, he missed checking in by two minutes. my class just sat and listened to the radio for the rest of the day. one of my classmates said, "it is like you see in one of those old world war two movies with the whole class just sitting around listening to the radio." another girl a year behind me who i am close with told me somthing a month or so later. her dad's company had downsized about a month before 9/11. he lost his job. if he had kept it he would have been on a buisness trip to the world trade center on that day. on one of the top floors. she said to me, "Meg, I am glad my dad got fired"

I will never forget any of this

[madwife2002, BSN, RN]

I had a new born baby and I thought the world was going to come to an end.

[TinyNurse, RN]

My son was watching the teletubbies, and during a commercial I flipped through the channels. I think I watched CNN for the next week straight.

I remember my father calling me and telling me that no time in history had the US airlines had ever shut "everything" down. My dad sounded worried, and that made me even more sad.

I'm anxious to hear from some of the NYC ED nurses.

[nursbee04]

I was in composition II and we were discussing possible topics for our next research paper. Terrorism was actually one of the topics to choose from. Next I went to A&P class and our prof told us "there is no more world trade center." We didn't know what to think. I get chills thinking about it right now. For days we watched news footage and just cried.

I know of a social worker who went to ground zero to help debrief and she says it was probably on of the most important things she has ever done in her life. She cried just describing it to us.

[-Midget-]

I was a few days into my freshman year of highschool on September 11, 2001. I had just woken up at about 7 AM Pacificic time, and as I do ever morning, turned on the radio to listen to some tunes while I got dressed. But this time there was no music, only news. I listened for a minute, then proceeded to get dressed, unsure of what I was really hearing. As others have said, I wasn't sure if it was real or not. Then I went downstairs, and my dad said this was a day I'd remember for the rest of my life, much like the major event of his generation was JFK's assasination. I then watched TV until the last minute, and he had to give me a ride to school. At school much of the day was a blur...but I'm almost certain we watched TV. It's hard to believe it's been five years already. Time flies.

[firstyearstudent]

I was standing in my kitchen and my husband was sittiing at his computer reading the New York Times online. He said, "A plane just hit the world trade center." I said, "Somebody hijacked the website. It's a hoax." He said, "Look out the window." (We only lived a few miles away across the Brooklyn Bridge...)

A few hours later I got stir crazy and in an effort to try to be of some help I walked to the hospital to see if I could give blood. There were so many people there wanting to do something. They sent us all away. There were few injuried. People either got out or died.