September 11th: Where Were You?

[CashmereThoughts]

My bro had the bootleg a week before it came out bought from an African on 116 street & 3rd Ave

thats where i used to cop if i was shopping in my hood and not 125th. think his name was amadou

 

[Dynamite James]

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

In 7th grade wondering if there was a bomb in my school. Was trying to figure out why everyone was panicking so I snuck out from the side building and left.

 

[Cladyclad]

Skipping school to buy the Jay Z “The Blueprint”

 

[Micky Mikey]

Had just crossed the Williamsburg Bridge on the M train after dropping my son off at the babysitter. I could see the towers in the distance. Nothing had happened yet. I worked on 55th between 6th and 7th Aves, so I was underground while everything was unfolding. Funny thing about NY; in terms of distance, it's nothing from midtown to downtown Manhattan. But when I got out of the train station, you wouldn't have thought there was a terrorist attack taking place a few miles away. It was like a normal day, at least by where I was. It wasn't until I got to the office and dapped up my dude at the mailroom front desk, that he told me "yo, a plane hit the World Trade". I thought it might have been one of them small Cessnas or something. I went downstairs to my department and it was hysteria. One of my coworker's wife actually worked in one of the towers, and he was frantically trying to contact her. Since lines were scrambled, there was virtually no communication. Misinformation all over the place. One broad was in the lobby having a full on panic attack talking about "they blew up the White House!!!" Nobody knew what was going on.

I had no idea what happened or how it happened until I was able to get home with my wife and watch it on the news. That night, I got up like 3 in the morning to make my son a bottle. We had the windows in our apartment open, so as I'm walking to the kitchen, I smelled smoke, like something nearby was on fire. But I thought it was odd that I didn't hear any fire trucks. I poked my head out the window to see If I could see where the fire was. But I didn't see anything. Plus it was quiet outside. No people yelling "Fire" or anything. Then as I started to get my full wits, I realized that what I was smelling was the burning from Ground Zero. It had an odd effect on me, having the remnants from all that destruction and terror be right there in my house. I couldn't sleep the rest of the night.

Whatever happened to your coworkers wife?

 

[Hellmont]

I was 60 years old living in BK

 

[StarGirl]

Y’all old as hell.

Reconsidering my life decisions

 

[Blackrogue]

Was in flight school at embry riddle. Heard a plane had run into a building and thought it was one of the dumb ass students. Didn't help that reporters flooded the school after asking questions

 

[OG Talk]

I forgot

 

[Dr. Hibbert's Revenge]

i had just started the first grade. i didn't have an inkling that anything was out of the ordinary until the afternoon, when our information technology teacher came into the library from the computer lab and asked the librarian to confirm the trajectory of one of the planes. he made a downwards sloping motion with one of his hands into his forearm. i didn't realise the significance of what he was saying. we were seated in front of the librarian, who was reading to us. neither he nor any of the other the teachers said anything to us about the attack, and i don't recall any of my classmates talking about it. and of course no one was pulled out of class or anything like that. after school, my mother told me there had been a terrorist attack in new york, and i remember standing in my room and watching cp24 (local news channel) on the tv in front of my window. that's pretty much all i remember .

 

[010101]

school*

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I was in class and my elementary school is 3 blocks from where I live now.

Everyone’s parents were at the school getting their kids and my teachers were crying and wouldn’t tell us what happened.

My Haitian ass parents of course didn’t see any reason to pick me up tho.......

I could smell the smoke of the towers all the way in South Brooklyn.

That’s how bad it was.

Going to NYU and seeing all the missing posters for victims was also depressing.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

The 8th grade, in music class.

Seeing all that smoke and the buildings collapsing has to be some traumatizing shyt.

No diss to New Yorkers, but how y'all felt when y'all saw that shyt?

nyc looked like a movie set that day. Sheer panic in the streets on some independence day end of the world shyt

It was crazy that day

 

[Carolina Slim]

Whatever happened to your coworkers wife?

She was fine. She was on one of the lower floors and got out relatively easy. She was one of those ones that hit the

right after the first plane hit.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

I was in 8th grade, headed to History class, when I saw the TV in class was on the news. Didn’t really have class for the rest of the day (well, except 8th Grade Algebra), I remember going from class to class, watching the news. Didn’t understand what was actually going on until the next day, as the facts were beginning to be clarified.

After that day, the course of American history was forever altered.

Share your experiences, whether you have an interesting story to tell, or how it has affected US culture for better or for worse.

And please, don't let this devolve into a 9/11 "false flag" debate. I honestly don't care; people who are already convinced won't change their minds.

Ironically thats where I was at as well. Going to history class

I usually skipped most of my classes in the morning (I was the kid that rarely went to class or school) but I was there that day and actually liked my history teacher because he was this old, ex-marine dude that was cool af to me.

Anyway, I walked to his class and saw people in the hallways crying or being billigerent.

So when I got there he’s sitting on his desk watching TV in disbelief. I start watching and then the shyt collapses and we’re all in shock

 

[mson]

High School. Story kept on growing by the hour. My school right next to the bridges downtown BK. Was able to see people crossing covered in dust. Went to a class with the seniors that had a TV. The visuals were surreal. Got to leave early cause my bro had classes nearby and he came to pick me up.

Y’all old as hell.

Reconsidering my life decisions

Why?