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I was closing on my first home. I bailed out, waited 6 months and got a much better interest rate. Not trying to be funny but I knew what the market was about to do.

Ground zero. Was in a meeting in the WFC. Watched the south tower fall, live, from less than ten blocks away.

I was in Grade 4. My teacher all told us what happened while crying, no one really understood what it meant though. In fact I had no idea what the WTC was at the time.

Unlike many of you on the board, I was 29 and me and my wife both had taken the day off. My wife was pregnant with our first kid and we were going to the doctor for her check up and also we were going to find out the sex of the baby. We were at home and the tv was on but neither of us were paying attention but they kept talking about it so I sat down. It was the eeriest thing...Not 2 minutes into watching the 2nd plane hit. My initial reaction was WTF??? When the first plane hit, I think I was like everyone else in thinking it was a accident. You knew when the 2nd plane hit it was more. I remember a feeling of shock and uncertainty.

Middle school in New York. School was locked down, we were all kept in our classrooms, and teachers would occasionally come in to talk to certain students. Only a couple parents of kids in my school died, but there were so many kids who were terrified all day just because they hadn't heard from their parents. Cell phone towers were all jammed, so we were all sitting in class praying that no teacher came in and called our name.

Damn....It would be hard to even begin to imagine.

I have a few friends who lived in NY at the time but their stories were nothing like that. One friend had to walk 10 or so miles home and he did with at least 20 people. He said nobody said a word.

Was in 9th grade - 2nd period woodshop class. Teacher always had a tv going running news, always gave him a hard time about watching the news and not Sportscenter. I was in the classroom part of the shop doing homework for another class and was the first one to see the coverage - ran into the shop and yelled what happend, no one believed me. The father of a girl I graduated with died in the South Tower, her birthday is September 11th.

It's weird, but I remember less about the tower dropping (I guess because it was so surreal) than I do about that walk. It was blazing hot out and I was in a wool suit. That and about a minute before the collapse my dad called from CA and was yelling, "ARE YOU WATCHING THIS!? WHERE ARE YOU?!" And all I was able to get out was "I'M RIGHT UNDERNEATH THIS..." before all cell service (and a good portion of residential service) dropped - for the next six or seven hours easy. It was totally unintentional but still feel guilty for putting my family through that hell.

Sleeping while I could (my daughter was almost two months old). My mom called freaking out and told me to turn on the TV. Right after that the second plane hit. I remember crying and thinking about what this would mean for my little girl.

Passed out, drooling all over my desk in 2nd period math class

Senior year of High school, was really pumped they let us out of school early

Got to work early, on our way to our customers houses we found out. I'm a window cleaner for mostly residential accounts - when I arrived at our customers house all we could do was sit and watch tv. She didn't even want us to clean her windows but she wanted us there so she had someone to talk to. She sent us home after 3 hours of staring at the tv, wondering what would become of that morning.

I was in 4th grade and didn't did out til I got home but I remember thinking my mom was watching Godzilla whn I got home