Where were you at that fateful moment?

I was at work . . CNN.com.

We all went to our terminals to different web sites trying to peice together as much of the story as we could.

I remeber us all thinking what a terrible accident . . then the second plane hit.

Silence.

I said a prayer to myself then called my wife to see if she knew about it and if any of her family was near by.

She responded that while her immediate parents, siblings and cousins were likely fine, she was a New Yorker . . and her famly was there.

I went home and we watched in silence.

I was getting ready for work.  At the time, I was still in the Marines and Iusually had the morning news on while getting around.  I threw my uniform in the Mustang and hauled ass onto base.  It was a madhouse.

I was probably in second grade. Might have been doing my homework. Might be at school. I remember my dad watching the live coverage on CNN, so I think I was at home, I guess.

There wasn't much commotion at my place after that for some time, everyone was too shocked to take it in right at the moment...

I was at orientation for a new job.  I had just moved to Tampa, FL 2 weeks prior.  They sent us home as soon as the word came out about the towers.  I spent the next several days glued to the television set...I will never be able to forget...nor should I...

Our minds are so fresh , in remembering that day. I remember my mother talking when I was younger , about the day JFK was assasinated. She remembered details of that day , she wouldn't remember about any other.

I feel that way about this day.

The remembering brings us closer , and makes the senseless loss of that day sting less, knowing those who were taken from us still have meaning to us.

It is right to remember.

I was making rounds at the hospital and glanced at the TV....then the second plane hit and I said, "Terrorists."

I called to a friend and he looked at the TV and went pale. His daughter worked in the WTC. It turned out she was late that awful day.

I went on with rounds catching glimpses...Nurses and other MD's were mute or whispering quietly. Some cried.

I did my residency a 5 minute walk from the WTC....my late wife loved going to the top....now that was gone too.

As a famous poet wrote, "...and then we knew night."

I was sleeping. My roommate comes running up the stairs screaming 'We're going to war! We're going to war!'. I ran downstairs just in time to see the second plane hit. Was pretty wild. I thought it was a movie.

I was helping a friend with a remodel job of a house he had bought, house was vacant, we didnt have a radio, or tv, i didnt find out about it until late in the afternoon when i hopped in my car to go home, another one of those days, you always remember where you were at the time, (JFK assasination)not to date myself but i was in the third grade

Yeah, I remember when the Challenger blew up.  I was in gym class and the teacher had us all come in to watch the launch.  We were all excited...and then...boom.  We were a bit young and didn't really understand the implications of what we had just seen, but I do remember the teacher quickly shutting off the teli.  I thought of that moment about a day after this happened. 

I was at home on the puter and someone put up a link and I went to the TV.......JFK, I was in high school and they sent us home.

I was in my office. The next door neighbor knew I had a TV so he ask if he could turn it on because he heard on the radio a commuter plane had hit one of the towers. At that point NBC (Matt Lauer) was still talking small plane......then the second plane came...........

I had the day off because it was unusally cold here in Florida (doing Surveys back then). I was living in a real small town called Osteen at the time and there's nothing between it and the Cape but swamps. Stood in my front yard and watched it......a minute of so later I listened to it........that I'll never forget.

I was at work on the ship. all serving stopped as we watched it on TV

I'll never forget the sight of the towers falling. I remember thinking.... "this is just the beginning".

I was on the observation deck only a month before  9/11 and I'm glad I have that fantastic view caught on video.

I was at work, rigging up on a new location. The company man called me over to his trailer, he CNN on and I got there just in time to see the first tower crash. I went back to where my crew was working and told them we are going to war, I don't know with who but we will kick someones ass. And we did!

Drill, pity we still haven't kicked that ass of the actual criminals who committed the crime yet.   Ahem.

I can remember that day as clear as yesterday and it is funny that you brought this thread up Wulfie,  because while driving home from work today, I was thinking about that day and was surprised at how much I could recall in vivid detail.

I was sitting at my desk sifting through some paperwork and listening to Bob and Tom on the radio. They were doing thier normal morning skits. I believe they were getting thier mock phone calls from a regular, when a few seconds into it,  a silence came on the radio followed by Bob saying that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. To be honest I first thought it was a joke, But it was repeated on the radio followed by saying it was not a joke.

I sat there a second not believing what I was hearing when one of the girls from production came out to the warehouse yelling about a plane crashing into one of the towers. Well within minutes everyone was up in the conference room glued to CNN.

It was weird how everthing came to a screeching halt at that moment.  I could swear that I could hear the clock ticking stop that day...Will never forget.