What were you doing at 8:46am on 9/11/01?

[HMBeaty]

I was working at Beach Ford, packaging some parts to be shipped, then headed to the back by the receiving doors and heard it on the radio. I still can't help but shed a tear every time I see something on tv and/or photos of the events from September 11th, 2001. But, at the same time, I can't help but keep watching the coverage or looking at more photos.

[Wayne Luke]

It was 5:46 a.m. here and I had just woken up and was helping people get ready for work and school. I was woken up by my mother calling me and screaming in the phone that someone had bombed New York and started World War III. She over reacts a lot of the time. Anyway, I was pretty glued to the television for the rest of the day.

[ENF]

I was in America, standing in a 7-Eleven Convenience store, south of Washington DC when some lady came screaming in the store that America was under attack. She exclaimed it was Russian missiles that were hitting New York. I just thought she was nuts until I found a TV to see what was really going on. She was nuts, it wasn't Russians and not missiles... obviously. I wasn't close enough to DC to witness or see any of the activity at the Pentagon. What I do remember in that day and the next was the eerie absence of Airliners and contrails in the skies.

My, how the U.S. in particular has changed since that day. I absolutely hate flying in and out of American territories now.

[eJM]

In California, it was 5:46 and I didn't get out of bed until about 7:00am. At the time, I wasn't much for getting my news online, so it wasn't until 15 minutes before my 3 employees were due to show up that I turned the TV on, about 8:15. Seemed like every channel had something, so I kept surfing from one channel to another. When the employees arrived, I told them we wouldn't be going to work today (we did flooring installations). They also didn't know what had happened until then.

We all sat in my office watching the news for about an hour before I realized I should call my customers to let them know we wouldn't be there. No one complained and most wanted me to wait a couple days. So, I spent a lot of time in front of the TV, in a daze.

[Anthony89]

Never really understood why people ask this question every year. Why must we discuss where we were? Its not important

[Ace]

Sleeping. It was 12:54am here. My flatmate woke me up and apparently we watched it for a while, then I went to bed and got up in the morning and wondered why the TV was on.

[TheNewOne]

I respect your loss but it happened in another land thousands of miles away from me so it's not really a great concern of mine.

I live in northern Ireland same place my friend was from I still respect the dead

[Trevor Hannant]

Working for a support team in a Bank frantically running round trying to get people to stop following events on the internet as it was bringing down our network and sites...