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What were you doing on September 11th, 2001? How do the events of that day hold meaning for you now?

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[info]ljswritersblock Writer's Block: 9/11
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[info]torpidai Writer's Block: 9/11


I was sat programming and watching the TV when it came on the BBC news, laughed when I saw the "Face of the Devil" in the flames and having seen that assumed it was all a hoax complete with tecnical w
 
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[info]ozma914 Writer's Block: 9/11


My girlfriend at the time was a 911 call taker for the New York Fire Department. Not knowing exactly where she was based, I spent most of the day trying to get in touch with her cell phone -- but her
 
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[info]debikm Writer's Block: 9/11


I was working at the Fisheries Depratment. One of the guy's wife called and said something about a plane crash. We at first thought it was local, then we got more information. I went out into the shed
 
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[info]xenaclone Writer's Block: 9/11


It was my daughter's 16th birthday.

One of my work colleagues was [and still is] a volunteer fireman.
When he came in, looking white with shock, I knew it was bad.
We watched New York come apart from a
 
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[info]pladbelle_87 Writer's Block: 9/11
I was in the 8th Grade at that time... We started school around 9:30 in the morning and I usually watch TV before going to the bus stop in the morning, but for some reason, I didn't watch it that
 
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[info]buymeaferret Writer's Block: 9/11
I was on the bus on the way home from school (UK time) and it was on the radio. It was the only thing on the radio. Everyone else was chatting away and my friend and I thought it was some sort of ridi
 
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[info]angelis_kjc Writer's Block: 9/11
On 11th September 2001 I was sat eating my breakfast like normal when GMTV (a morning program in England) featured a hand-filmed video of something collapsing...
It took us a while to figure it out and
 
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[info]nrgbunny Writer's Block: 9/11
I meant to answer this that day, but time got away from me so I answer it now as I catch up on my blog reading that is seriously behind.

What was I doing? I was at work at BMW Financial Services,
 
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[info]possem Writer's Block: 9/11
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[info]jeant Writer's Block: 9/11
Where wuz I on 9.11? Asleep (remember that 9 am in NYC is 6 am on the west coast.) My daughter and I were scheduled to fly to China on 9.15. She was watching TV while dressing for work, when the live
 
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[info]wwcitizen Writer's Block: 9/11

Sadly, I have waited and waited to answer this Writer's Block for 9/11. It's sad on two fronts: 1) On 9/11 this year, we didn't have the TV on while I was playing with my 1.5 year-old nephew at the be
 
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[info]quoting_mungo Writer's Block: 9/11

I was doing the usual, going to school and shit. I remember thinking the videos they were showing of the twin towers collapsing was a hoax. I don't think I found out for sure that it wasn't until the
 
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[info]htracy0884 Writer's Block: 9/11


I left for a cruise on September 11th so I wasn't around to see this, but I was a senior in high school, and obviously in school on a Tuesday. It was second period, I think, and I had AP European His
 
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[info]bazzab59 Writer's Block: 9/11


I know it's not Sept. 11 but I didn't see this before, so here you go.
I was only in...3rd grade I think. That makes me 8. So I might not remember everything, hah.

I remember waking up at like 7 am, not
 
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[info]waterkelpie Writer's Block: 9/11
My oldest son took his first steps. My husband and brother missed it because they were glued to the TV which I was avoiding at that point because I had seen pictures of people jumping and it was too
 
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[info]wolfmatix Writer's Block: 9/11

I was getting ready to open my first kitchen as an apprentice chef.  I had the news on, and i thought what i was watching was a tasteless hollywood b-movie, so i turned off the tv, and went
 
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[info]sarahsnuffles Writer's Block: 9/11

I was at home, talking to my man online as he was still in the USA. I was due to fly out on the Friday 14th when he was to become my fiance. I was due into work at about 4pm. I got a message from a fr
 
[info]sparkynash Writer's Block: 9/11
i was working "second shift" at the abc tv station in nashville, so i got home around midnight and didn't go to bed till 2ish (i was a major night owl then).  my friend called me around
 
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[info]elvensilverdoor Writer's Block: 9/11


Would have answered this earlier if I hadn't been so damn busy...

In 2001, I was home for a year from the Woods, going to KVCC. I had class that morning at 9 am, so I woke up and got ready and headed f
 

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