Never Forget

Your Stories

Where were you when 9/11 happened?

  • Never forget, prayers

  • Fixing our son’s breakfast before school

  • At work at JCPENNEY….

  • I was at home I was preparing for a day of college when my parents told me to get to the television

  • I was at work.

  • I was outside talking to my daughter about the plan for the morning. She was saying she was watching the TV and scream came out and she say mommy airplane crash to the twin tower building,  I run like crazy to the second floor and then I saw the second airplane went to second Tower that was so sad. It’s broke my heart. I never forget that day. 

  • Brooklyn NYC

  • I remember leaving work not caring what my boss would say, explained to my crew they can do what they wanted I’m going home to my kids and wife. She came home shortly after me, being a manager at Lowes.

  • Working in. Daycare Center

  • At home watching it on my TV

  • In Kansas and will never forget

  • Trying to figure out how the hell this happened

  • Home watching it on tv

  • I had taken my mother to the doctors and they came out and announced we were under attack.

  • I was at work I was working in a Furniture Warehouse which was run my Muslim I heard him my boss scream I come running to find out what was wrong he couldn’t believe his eyes and he was just saying it’s not us it was Mad Men meaning it wasn’t a Muslim like him and I sat down it was watching it with them it’s playing ran into the towers

  • Beirut Lebanon

  • Never forget

  • At home getting my boys ready for school and I turned on tv I will never forget that day

  • I was waiting on road services , to replace right steering tire on my tractor . My then wife called me about the first plane that hit and then called me back again when the second plane hit.

  • I was an 8th grader at Cawood Elementary School in Cawood, Kentucky, when America as we know it changed forever on that particularly terrible Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001.

  • At work, we didn’t turn the TV off for weeks. It was devastating. Relatives at the pentagon didn’t make it. Families I knew working at twin towers didn’t make it. It changed our world. Most of my family were in service or signed up for Marines and the Navy, to protect America.

  • Getting ready for work.

  • Making coffee before work I always would turn the news on. Turned it on after the 1st plane hit, and thought it was a horrible accident. Then came the news of the pentagon, and watched the second plane, and knew we were under attack. We watched the news from work all day, and everyone was in a daze. Never Forget!

  • Getting ready for work watching the news I’ll never forget.

  • Teaching soldiers

  • Sitting at home pull my kids out of school sat there crying and praying

  • In bed aboard the Headwest in the Los Angeles harbor

  • At home getting ready to go to work

  • At home, watching the Today Show when the first plane it! It was unbelievable, and scary! Something I’ll never forget!

  • At home

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