Where Were You on 9/11?

We asked U.S. News & World Report readers to share their memories. Here are
some. By Lylah Alphonse | Managing Editor, News Sept. 9, 2016, at 1:18 p.m.

Lit candles are placed in front of a sign on Sept. 14, 2001, as a memorial

for the victims of the September 11 terrorist

attacks on the World Trade Center. (DAVID
KARP/AP)

In 2001, the Islamic terrorists attacked the

World Trade

Center in

New York and the Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia. Unfortunately, 2,996
people died that day and more than 6,000 others got injured.

14

I was a sophomore in high school... I I
I was excited was stressed sitting in
coming from Manhattan. She when
saying she was stuck in traffic on a
and morning. So, I turned on the radio
on the news. I’ll never plane hit the
there forget, it was a surprising event
drifting into our street Americans.
that disgusting smell.
was living and working in Brooklyn and
math class about meeting a colleague
another teacher came to our called
summer classroom, he was frightened,
in the car and heard a told us to turn
World Trade Center. I drove home,
for was smoke, paperwork and ash
because I live close by. I’ll never forget

Jessica Bennett Anderson, Sparks, Nevada Kat Driscoll Barlow, Springfield,

Virginia
I was tired but I walked into my U.S.
history classroom and the television
was showing the tower burning. I asked
my teacher what movie we were
watching, it seemed interesting. Sadly,
she said it was real life. We watched in
horror the entire period. A day I will
never forget… Andrew Flores,
Scottsdale, Arizona
It was my freshman year of college and
I was bored in calculus class. That’s
why I was on instant messenger with a
friend and he said something about a
plane crash. When I got out of class,
every single TV in the school was
turned to the news.
Ariane Woods.

Name Where was he / she? What was he / she doing? How did he / she
 feel?
Jessica she was in math class She is student She was stressed

kat She was driving She was working excited

andrew She was in history class He was going to class. tired

ariane in calculus class He was coming out of class He was bored