I had slept in that day, I remember things were quiet, quieter than usual, you see, my apartment was on 180th street. Usually the street was bustling with sound when I woke up, that time it wasn't. I...

Republic of Korea. Training U.S. Army Air Defense soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Division on use of Forward Area Air Defense-Command, Control, and Intelligence (FAAD/C2I). I was in my hotel getting re...

I was in gym class. we were scuba diving in our school pool, and when the first plane crash was on the news, i was underwater. i was all the way down in the 12 foot which was one of my biggest fears w...

On September 11, I was working in my office as a school counselor in a Bronx high school. My seventh floor windows faced south looking toward lower Manhattan. \nI recall that after 9:00 a.m. I sa...

I was at work, as a 911 dispatcher in East Haven, CT., on 09/11/01. Watching the news and talking on the telephone to my best friend, I informed her that a plane just hit the WTC. At first I thought...

I was at work for the Austin Fire Department, watching T.V., when the news broke in on our show. We all watched with our mouths wide open as the evens unfolded. I got off work that day and went to sch...

I was at a corporate training center for Metlife, which is located in Secaucus, NJ, and in fact, our building was tall enough to allow us a good view of the cityscape of the lower half of Manhattan....

I was on my way to work in Alexandria after dropping my son off at school after an early-morning dentist appt. I had been listening to a book on tape and hadn't heard the news. My husband called me...

I was a Chief Petty Officer (CPO) working for the Coast Guard in Chesapeake, VA. I had not long been at work when a fellow technician came to tell me that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Petty...