When did you first find out about it?

Did you think it was an accident or you knew right away it was terrorism.

Did any of the TV news networks that you had watched show innocent people jumping to their deaths from the WTC or were they all censored.

Who did you think the terrorists were that were responsible for the September 11th terrorist massacre.


I'm trying to compile a small survey. Your info is appreciated.

Thanks.

I was asleep. I don't remember the exact time the towers were hit, but I remember waking up a little after the second plane crash. I slept in late that day. My roomie woke me up. Since we shared a small two-bedroom apt. at the time, my room faced the livingroom and the TV. When she woke me up and I sat up in bed, I could see the TV from my room and all I saw (at that exact moment) was a huge cloud of smoke. At first I thought something has been bombed. Then I found out about the terrorists and the planes. I felt pretty sickened for the rest of the day. I didn't see any very graphic images until the next day. I have a pretty good idea of who was behind it, but I'd rather keep that to myself and just say that I am not sure. There are many stories going around and I'd rather stay unbiased until we know for sure.

I first found out that morning as I was awakened by the radio to get ready for work. (I worked at an elementary school - it was very hard to be there with all the frightened and worried children that day.) That was right after the attack happened (when the first plane flew into the tower). I immediately jumped out of bed and turned on the TV, which was the NBC network news that I watched. While I was watching, the 2nd plane then flew into the other tower. When the first plane flew into the tower, I did think it was an accident. When the 2nd one hit, I knew it was not an accident. I did not see any people jumping from the towers then, although I did later in the day on MSNBC or a similar news channel. However, on the radio program I was listening to (Pat Cashman in Seattle, WA) a woman who has an interior design radio program on the weekends, Tammy Michaels, happened to be in New York at that time, and was in a hotel across the street from the WTC. She called in to the station and was on the phone with Pat, and was describing how people were jumping to their deaths from the towers. It was incredible to hear this first-hand account of the aftermath. I was so much in shock that I did not have an opinion as to who could have been responsible, but I had a vague notion that it was probably some group from the middle east.

I turned the tv on right after the first plane hit and when I saw the second plane hit I thought it was a replay. When the first plane hit I absolutely thought it was an accident, but after the second one hit, you knew it wasn't. It was a scary feeling watching all the commotion at NY and then the having the news guy come on and say that the Pentagon had also been hit. You kept wondering who was going to be next.

I was going to sleep when the World Trade Center attack happened as it was nighttime over here whilst it was daytime over in America. So I woke up the next day and than I logged on the internet and the first website I went to was CNN. Right away I saw a shocking news picture of a large airliner going into the World Trade Center and I thought Holy S--t, this is major. Immediately I went to the TV and every single channel was broadcasting the terrorist attack. It was unbelievable. I couldn't
believe it at first. I remembered the commentators and the newsflash stating the death toll could be as high as 20,000 or so as the World Trade Center towers contained 50,000 office workers & 10,000s of tourists on any given day.

And the most disgusting pictures I saw, no not the people jumping to their deaths as that was horrific and sad in itself, but
the pictures of Arabs & Palestinians celebrating, laughing and cheering.

I knew right away who did it. Osama bin Laden. I knew Osama bin Laden had been treated with kid's glove all those previous years by Bill Clinton and this was the price America paid for being
soft on terrorism.

There was an omen to 9/11. One day prior to September 11th I remembered watching on the world news and there was these Afghans mourning the death of their leader. The day I watched it, I didn't make much of it. Only when 9/11 happened the following day, I knew the significance of it.

Turned out later that bin Laden had sent two suicide Arab terrrorists posing as journalists to assasinate the Northern Alliance leader who was battling the Taliban. The bomb was disguised in a camera. Bin Laden had planned this all along. He knew the US would use the Northern Alliance as a proxy army in the military retaliation campaign he was expecting for 9/11.

I also remembered the roads outside my home was UNUSUALLY QUIET on September 11th 2001. There was almost no cars driving by on what is normally a fairly busy road.

I was at school... they didn't tell us anything, they didn't even say anything had happened. My dad came and checked me out about 9am that morning and the office was just full of people, and it was obvious something had happened. My dad said "The World Trade Center has been attacked by airplanes", so we get in the car, and he turns the radio off, we went over to my sister's school and checked her out, again, same situation, people out the front door waiting to check their kids out. It seems like it was an eternity before she came out(even though it was less than 2 or 3 minutes) and we went home, I was glued to the TV for the next week. This started me watching and keeping up with world events, which I still do today. I remember 9/11 was very quiet otherwise, no clouds in the sky, and it was unusually warm, no one was on the roads, neither was anyone doing anything outside. We lived about 15 miles from a chemical weapons stockpile and we were downwind from it and there was some worry they would try to attack that. It was just a very horrible day...

That morning I was at school. Im a kindergarten teacher and at that time had all my children out on the playground. Another teaceher came out and gestured that I speak with her, she told me that America was under a terrorist attack and that one of the Trade Towers in NY had just been hit.
Our school went into immediate emergeny lock down. I had to gather 20 4 & 5 year old in seconds. We immediatly entered the school and were in lock down for the next 5 hours. Although my children in class were young, and had no idea what was happening there was a sense of immediate calm, and silence while teachers gathered to listen to the horrible announcements on the radios. Little by little children were picked up by nervous parents.
Over the next few days, even weeks children would come to me with the details they had seen so many times on television. What most ppl dont understand is that children, young children dont understand the concept of instant replay. These young children viewing this on television had no idea that what they were watching was instant replay. To them, it was happening over and over again. The towers were hit over and over.
This was a hard time in school, children have so many questions. But it brought the school closer together. Just like it brought our country together.
America is strong, and always will be. :blush:

I live in the Pacific Time Zone and usually work a 5 PM to 2 AM shift. That morning after work, I finished reading the book Seabiscuit at about 5:05 AM. Normally I would turn the TV on before gong to sleep, and almost did that morning, but instead I slept until noon. At 5:05 AM (8 Eastern) I might have caught the attack as it unfolded if I had left the TV on for 10 or 15 minutes. Can't believe none of my friends or family called while it was happening.

When I turned the TV on, Judy Woodruff's voice was strangely out of place on CNN Headline News. Then I read the scroll at bottom of the screen, and was absolutely stunned. When I read, first tower collapsed and second tower collapsed, I remember saying, "Oh god, that's thousands..."

I know it would be disturbing and perhaps graphic, but I would like to see the TV coverage replayed as it happened. A&E did that in 1988, on the 25th anniversary of the JFK assassination.

And remember, Clinton's national security staff immediately briefed Condaleeza Rice & Co. on the escalating threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al Queda. All indications are the warning was all but ignored for months, and only in the weeks prior to 9/11 did the current administration begin to seriously consider a plan to deal with them.

I live in the Pacific Time Zone and usually work a 5 PM to 2 AM shift.


Awsi, what sort of work do you do that involves working that late at night?

Well, I was at home getting ready to go to Manhattan. It just so happened that as I was ready to walk out the door, my sister came back from her job interview and told me that two planes had hit the WTC. I didn't know how serious it was at the time because I hadn't turned on the news and it had happened before, but I was unaware of how much damage had been done to it the second time. I didn't take it very seriously after she told me and I said something to the extent of : "Oh. Again?" I actually said it casually. I finally decided to watch the news to see what was going on and boy, was I in for a big surprise.

I was taking a visual basic class at the university monday and wednesday. Since tuesday was my day out of school, i laid in bed with nothing turned on, being real depressed and stuff about how the class was going. My best bud called and she said a plane crashed into a building in NY. Sad, but it didnt alarm me. Then after maybe half an hour, she said the "new trade center"
She always gets stuff wrong, but since that was really close to the word World Trade Center, I flipped the tv on. I did a research paper on the 1993 attacks a loooong time ago, so this was an area of interest of mine. We both knew it was a terrorist attack, because the news was going on with a bunch of dumb stuff about, "why would a pilot fly into a building" and it was like, well der -- he wouldnt. Even with a gun to his head, he would go crash in a field. Somebody had to take over the controls."

It was really crappy how irresponsible the media was that whole morning, going on about, "its war! its an act of war whoever did this!" and the kids and my friend were all asking, Oh my God, who are we at war with?" and i had to tell them, that jerk reporter doesnt know, hes just spouting off. <G>


Like others were saying, it was very quiet EVERYWHERE. We went shopping the next day at walmart, and the store was silent. People walked really slow and were polite. Nobody at school mentioned it, really. Too much work to do, but things were quiet for a good week, it seems

Pardon me for saying this, but I'm not sure what 9/11 has to do with Unsolved Mysteries--unless you're talking about the UM segment about Dr. Sneha Philip (the NYC doctor who vanished the day before the 9/11 attacks), or the segment regarding the anthrax letters.

No offense, but if you wish to post a message unrelated to either the show or any of the cases it featured, please do it elsewhere.