Never Forget

Your Stories

Where were you when 9/11 happened?

  • AT MY SEWING MACHINE GETTING READY FOR A CRAFT SHOW EVERY ONE THANKED US FOR COMING

  • At work in the shop and someone came across the intercom come the lunch room that we are under attack.

  • Lying in bed watching the news. Saw the whole thing live! Will never forget!

  • Way underground mining for gold way up by Tahoe and about two miles underground and seven hundred feet down when we got out many hours later it was allover the news a truly sadding day for Americans we believe that the democrats are responsible for this intire incident it will come out one day in the future no doubt

  • At my job at the Hospital!!!

  • Operating a Redbird on the 6 line. Never heard the mta shut down the subway before. Then it hit me this is bad.

  • At home watching it on tv

  • I was in Utah…

  • I was 10 in the fourth grade

  • I was in tenth grade JROTC class Rahway high school

  • I was watching tv then breaking news come on then I saw the first plane hit then I saw the second plane hit then I went to go wake up my parents and I said quick turn on the news. Something is happening in New York. My mom knew what was exactly happening I was waiting to go to school that day with my sister and I was a junior in high school and I was just shocked and stunned. I didn’t know what to think. 

  • I was listening to on the radio on my way to work, wondering what I was going to tell my fifth graders. I decided to keep the classroom TV off. They’d see plenty when they got home.

  • As a teacher, I remember the sadness and fear as our principal came on the intercom to state the tragedy that had just occurred in New York!

  • A very long long story…arrived at work on Tuesday morning…allowed to go home on Friday afternoon.

  • I was at work. Credit card fraud investigation. After the first plane hit. All of our phone calls went down. We could call within the building but all outside lines were unavailable. No connections. It was a long day. One of my co workers has a son that is in the secret service. He was working at the Pentagon. She could not reach him for hours. He got through to her in the afternoon. It was his day off. Thank goodness.

  • Our big boss went home and brought in TVs to let everyone watch. If anyone wanted to go home. It was allowed… no pressure to stay. No work was getting done. I went home to my grandkids.

  • I was 43 and was working @ Gentiva as an account’s Receivable Rep doing Medicaid insurance collection .

  • Sitting on the couch lacing up my boots getting ready to go get in my delivery truck for Ace Hardware in Crescent City Ca

  • At home just waking ip for my day. Could not believe what I was hearing. Then, after a few minutes, reality kicked in. Went from sadness to real anger. Just a horrible day over all, thinking about all the families of lost loved ones. At work, I found out that one of my subordinate’s brothers was a victim in one of the towers. He just vanished— no remains— as of today. My day was a day of emotions. Her day was of tragedy. I just hope she was able to visit the NYC area and feel the air.surrounding what was, the towers. To all the families—- you are not forgotten.

  • Was working.Until I got home. Started to hear from my mother.

  • Who told me what happen. She was crying.

  • Had taken the older children to school, came back home with the youngest one and when I was babysitting. I normally would have put the TV on something for the children and got busy with other things. But my youngest was sick and insisted on being held so I was sitting on the couch watching TV the news and watch the second plane fly into the second tower. I had also put my son on a plane that morning, whom had just graduated from marine Boot Camp heading back to California. I’ll never forget that’s implanted in my brain. Can’t un see it or un feel it.

  • That day I didn’t have to go to work so I was watching the TV the first plane already hit the first tower and I was watching the second plane circling and I was sceeming that second plane going to hit the second tower

  • We were together as a family my two sons trying to figure out how this happened to our country our hearts felt frightened it was like a bad nightmare watching on TV our hugs were felt even tighter

  • I was at work

  • Getting ready for work on 2nd shift looked up in the sky and saw something I had never saw before you know what it was?? No air traffic nothing in the sky first time ever saw that clear sky’s for all the souls going to heaven

  • Fighting wild fires.

  • Going to work !

  • I was at work when it came on TV, thought it was a movie, but it was a horrible thing to see and I remember it well today

  • Walking in the door at Work seeing all the activity on the TV…..?!?!?

Silhouette of the pre-2001 New York City skyline, including the Twin Towers, against an American flag