Americans: What were you doing on 9/11/01 when the crash happened?

watching it on the news .IT WAS A LONG DAY

I was sleeping still. It was only 6am here

I was in eighth grade taking an algebra test before school officially started so that I could go to a cross country meet during my algebra class time later in the day. The meet got postponed.

Watching IMUS IN THE MORNING on MSNBC(?) when the first report came in; then watching live as the second plane hit.

Getting my kids ready for school. Until my neighbor burst through my door bawling and ranting., I had no idea.

I was in bed, crying as I watched the towers collapse.

I was building a cabinet

probably sucking my hands idk

I was in midair. I left one of the same airports as a hijacked flight. Same airline. Same make of jet. Same departure time. No kidding. We just happened to be flying to a different location. I was really fortunate.

i was at home, watching it live on the television. it was surreal, and then it turned horrific when people started jumping and when the towers collapsed.

I was already forward deployed and the mission took a drastic turn.

Taking a test in Lubbock Texas

I was at my college, it was fall registration day. Was going into Boston after registering to have lunch, but couldn't, they shut it down . So I watched the towers burning on a professor office Tv..just awful 🇺🇸😢

I was in the machine shop at work when it came over the radio. I remember sitting on a stack of pallets and breaking little pieces of wood off them as it progressed. My hands were full of slivers that night.

I was in South Carolina during my trip around the US and a friend from Sweden messaged and told us to turn on the tv.

I was working in houston, there was a client I'd been getting ready to go see on site in the financial district, but they were kind of a pain in the ass... so I never went.

Was in the shower when the first plane hit. Was watching when the second hit on live tv. Watched the towers fall and people jumping from work

Saw it on breaking news just before vhf I was getting ready to go into work

I was in England. I didn't understand. It looked like a scary movie.

I was on bus heading to work in Las Vegas

I was on the Grassy Knoll

I was in NYC, working in TV, 3 miles away. It was nuts.