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On 9-11-01 Where were you when you found out about it? How did it change your life? (If it did)

I was at Madigan Hospital me and the exwife were checking out, I walked out to get the car to pull it up to the door. I turned on the car and heard the radio say a plane just hit the building. I didn't think about it much as I was worried about my then wife. We stated driving home then it sunk in. OMFG WTF just happened.

Spent the next few days glued to the TV, I needed a rest sis I decided to go get the mail where I found our tickets to fly home for Christmas. My wife never made that flight with me she deployed on 12-03-01 we split up the day she got home 3-22-02 one day before our first anniversary.

Had 9/11 never happened my life would be so different crazy to think how things big and small change our life.

I was heading North on 509 heading to work in South Seattle and heard it come across on the sports radio show I was listening to. First initial talk was that a small plane crashed into the building and it caught the building on fire. I got to work and the break room TV was on and saw the rest unfold from there.

Every single employee sat there for a couple hours in disbelief and calling random family and friends checking up on them. I ended up tagging along on a press trip with my ex in April '12 and took an entire tour of ground zero and the buildings in the area.

Standing in a hole that deep with the rubble piled up hundreds of feet all around you makes you put things into a size perspective real quick. Being there seven months later and seeing mini blinds still woven into trees all over the city and buildings several blocks away still missing windows was a stark reminder that this was real.

Back in 2001 hearing about a plane crashing into a building, the last thing I would have thought of is terrorism. These days, with any major event outside of natural ones my first thoughts are terrorism.

Sad times we live in.

Stationed here at Fort Lewis, C 5-5 ADA. Things got kind of tense at work, and the rumors flew.

In St. Peters Hospital sleeping after the wife spit out my hell spawn. That was about 1:45 AM, Friend called us around 6 AM to tell us about what was going on. Got the tube on just in time to watch a plane hit the second tower. Just couldnt believe this was real, we sat in disbelief and shock much like the rest of the world

Crazy morning for sure

I was on a break in classes at AIT in Ft. Gordon, GA. One of the Drill Sergeants came out and told us to come back inside right quick, there was an announcement to be made. After we sat down in class, they told us what had happened. Everyone was in shock, a few of the women began to panic because they had family in NYC. One guy was a wreck because his dad worked at the Pentagon as a GS. This was before we were allowed cell phones at AIT, so they let people use the pay phone to try and call relatives while the rest of us tried watching the news in the Drill Sergeant's break room. Planes crashing, people running, towers falling. Complete destruction and chaos. The Drill Sergeants told us we had better have paid attention at Basic, because we were going to war. That freaked out a lot more people, because while yeah, thats in the back of your mind......what are the chances is what most people think. I was ready, fuck it I said....this is my generations' Pearl Harbor, and a lot of people are going to get fucked up for what had happened.

I was stationed in South Korea one month later

For fucks sake, I don't know. Lol. I was either living on the Russian River (Monte Rio, CA) or in Ukiah, CA. I do recall seeing the aircraft strike the towers, on TV. Disbelief was the word of the day. Truly a sad day. Lest we forget.

I was sitting on my couch eating cereal and watching the local news (per my normal routine), it was just about 6am, but instead of the local news the Today show was broadcasting live, I watched as the second plane hit.....

Then they had Jim Miklaszewski was talking about what the Pentagon was doing in response (his office was in the Pentagon) when an explosion was heard in the background.

I called the office and told them I would not be coming in today, they had not yet heard the news. It appeared as if we may be going to war

I was just waking up it was the summer after high school so I woke up hungover. I watched the first plane on record I g and the second live. I couldn't wrap my head around it for a while.

Brooke Army Medical Center as a SPC, in the middle of an orthopaedic surgery, this dude bursts in and yells that we are under terrorist attack.

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was at work finishing up some stuff before the family was about to get on a plane and head to San Diego for vacation. our flight was 10:30 am . saw the plane hit on TV and in disbelief. we were the lucky ones that did not get stuck in midair or in another city or country. they shut down flights for a week after 9/11. people got home whatever way they could

I was at work at Boeing. Aft body structures when I heard about the first plane hitting the tower.
We we're all listening after that, when the 2nd one hit most of us went home to tend to family.

I was at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

I was in 8th grade. I saw the second plane hit and then walked to school. The bell for first period rang about 30 minutes later than usual, so all of us kids were standing around trying to figure out what was going on. We found out there had been a bomb threat called in to our school and the administrators didn't know what to do since all of the kids had just arrived.

I had algebra third period. Soon after getting to that class, they finally rang the bells for the fire alarm. The PD had decided to shut the school down while it was searched for bombs. They made us leave all of our belongings in the classrooms and lined us up along the chain link fence around the perimeter of the school. My math teacher totally lost it. His wife showed up and they were both crying and trying to hug each other through the fence. That really freaked us out, the only adult nearby had totally lost his mind and we weren't sure if another attacked had happened or what was going on. The assistant principal finally relieved him and sent him home.

Around lunch time they finally decided to let us all go home. My keys were in my backpack inside the classroom, so I walked home, jumped the fence, and then spent a while digging around in the backyard for the hidden house key.

It was my first year at school, and I was sleeping when my mom called to tell me a plane struck the first tower. I flicked on the news to start watching. I woke up the rest of the guys on the floor because I knew this was important to see. If I remember classes were canceled for the day. Crazy few days.

At work with 3 other prior service veterans.
Radio in shop had breaking news of first tower, we all figured stupid pilot....
As more news poured in and we turned on the TV, we knew it was time to walk in hell.
Two of those veterans reenlisted, and walked in hell.