Where were you on 9/11/2001?

[V.I.P]

Care to share any 9-11 experiences? Any connected to Sports?

I was in like 4th grade & all the teachers were like talking on the phone top secretly, but they didn't tell any of the students. I walked home from school to see on the TV what exactly was going on. I was like woah

God bless to all the 9-11 families.

[Caddy]

I was asleep when it happened.

[fenikz]

just waking up for school 7th grade, probably the 1st time i ever realized people hated america

[M.O.T.H.]

8th grade. Walking from my science class to my math class. The kids who passed us in the hall already knew, and none of us had any idea what they were talking about. Or really believed them, or anything.

A lot of the kids didnt even know what the World Trade Center actually was. So they didnt even know what people were talking about, until someone mentioned the twin towers.

One thing I do remember was football being cancelled for a little while. That first game back was kind of odd...I couldnt stop looking at the sky.

[jayceheathman]

I remember being in 9th grade English when the principal went over the loud speaker and said what happened.

[M.O.T.H.]

We didnt even get that. I just walked into a class room with the tv on and teachers crying. Yup.

[yodapoop]

just waking up for school 7th grade, probably the 1st time i ever realized people hated america

Same exact place and same exact realization for me. When we got to school, and just my class and the Spanish class cuz they didn't have a TV in the room cramming in a classroom to watch the tragedy unfold. It was just awful. I do remember going to the Minnesota-Purdue game the first game after 9-11. And at halftime they played God Bless the USA, and every fan, whether cheering for Minnesota or Purdue, sang along and waved the flag along with it. I am sure that happened at all stadiums the game after, but it was still a great scene.

[fenikz]

they wouldn't let us watch it at all, but at least most the teachers would talk about what was happening

[Brent]

10th grade. football practice. after practice we passed the trainer's room where they had a TV and like 60 people were crammed in there watching CNN. it was at that point the first tower fell. then we watched 24-hour news all day until someone called in a bomb threat (idiots) and I had to stand outside for like 3 hours until they just let everyone go home.

[eaglesalltheway]

I was in 6th grade Social Studies when I heard it first. One of the Guidance Counselors at my school came in to our class, whispered in my teacher's ear, and when he left our teacher, before anything, asked if anyone had any family working at the world trade center, and when no one said yes, he told us what happened. As we were turning on the TV we heard news of the plane hitting the pentagon, and I, not even truly serious, said to a few of my friends in my art class (classes switched about 15-20 minutes after we heard the news), that we should just watch out in PA, becuase I no one knew to what extent everything was going to be. About 20 minutes later, news broke about the plane that crashed out in western PA, and they both looked at me with the strangest look.

[prock]

5th grade social studies. I went home after school and remember being super pissed off that I couldn't watch Sportscenter because of all the coverage.

[TheBoyWonder22]

I was in 2nd grade and I guess no one told us about it so my mom talked to me about it. I wasn't until I arrived home that I really understood what had happened. I had no clue what the World Trade Center even was. Am I alone in that?

[General Zod]

I was in my living room folding laundry, drinking coffee. I was working 2nd hours at that time. And I just sat there glued to the TV, just stunned by everything.

[drowe]

it was my last year of college. i was sleeping, but the adjoining room was our common room. i heard everybody talking about something falling down. in my half asleep state, i incorporated this conversation into a dream where the large TV antenna on top of our house fell off.

i woke up, still heard the talking and walked outside just in time to see the second tower fall.

then, i heard about the Pentagon and scattered reports of a plane in PA. my only thought was; what's next.

[TimD]

I was in the 6th grade. a lot of families in my town work in nyc so it was a very scary time. a couple parents from my town passed away. rip

[RufusMcDaniel]

9th grade math class, principal announced it. Truthfully, I didn't hear the announcement when it was made, so only really knew about the whole thing when I got home.

[Jakey]

I was in English class (in England), we all got called to the Gym, some teachers wheeled in a TV and we sat and watched it for the rest of the day.

[TheFinisher]

I was in my 7th Grade Math class when we got called to the auditorium. There was no official announcement of why, but rumors were swirling that the WTC had been hit by 2 airplanes. My school was about 15 Miles from Ground Zero, parents were coming to pick their kids up and it wasn't until after I left my school I had learned it was a possible terrorist attack. No one knew what was going to happen next, we were kind of just anticipating another attack could happen any minute. Everyone was just in a state of shock.

Later in the day you were able to see the black smoke in the sky. Pretty surreal.

[Shane P. Hallam]

I was in 10th grade Chem. Didn't find out until the next period and we watched it on TVs up until Spanish, the final period of the day, where the teacher wouldn't let us watch the news about it. It was pretty numbing in general with some people freaking out. Very surreal.

[K Train]

5th grade math class, we watched the news aftert he first one hit and then watched the second one hit and the towers come down....i remember going shopping at sams club later on in the day...NO ONE was out

[phlysac]

Was living in my parent's basement :) My dad woke me up and said "an airplane crashed into the Trade Center." I ran upstairs to watch TV with him and watched the 2nd plane hit the South (I believe) Tower.

Once that happened I immediately called my girlfriend (at the time) to wake her up because her mother worked in Manhattan only a few blocks from "Ground Zero."

[T-RICH49]

I was just waking up and heard aboout the first plane on the radio.then went to watch on tv and saw plane #2 crash.I was stunned at seeing all of this unfold

[vidae]

I was actually asleep.. my sister called and was crying and it took me a few minutes to realize what was going on. She originally said that a plane had flown into the WTC and all I could think was wow, how could that happen? I didn't realize until I actually woke up and turned on the TV what was going on.

[tjsunstein]

I was in sixth grade. I don't remember the events prior to watching it but I remember being crammed in a classroom with about 40 other kids with a TV. I honestly didn't realize the significance of what had happened until who knows when. When I was watching it, I thought it was cool that we didn't have to do anything in class all day. People then started getting called to the main office to leave school early, that's probably when I thought something was up. I went home just like any other day and usually I was the first one from my family to get home. This time, my parents and my little sister were in the living room watching the news. I remember them trying to tell me what was happening but again, I was clueless to the importance. At one point, I tried different channels in the other room because no 11 year old likes the news that much. But, the coverage was on every channel from Nickelodeon to ESPN to CNN to the Food Network.

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[bantx]

I was in 6th grade in home room principal came over the speakers and told everyone to turn on the tvs and watch the news. It was kind of surreal because I didn't know what to make of it. Seeing the 2nd plane hit live gave me chills just seeing it happen.

[Nalej]

Senior in High School... I was entering my physics class.
My teacher was watching the television crying.
I saw a building on fire... I thought it was a movie at first.
Then I realized it was the news...

We just watched the news the entire class.
I have a lot of family in NY. Saddest day of my life.

[SolidGold]

Freshmen in college, just got done taking an exam for a class, was at my computer when my roomate walked in and told me. I thought it was a Cessna at first, I turned on CNN and remember seeing the second jet hit the other tower. Than hearing about the pentagon attack and trying to contact my family to check on my dad since he was in the Army at the time stationed in DC and attended meetings at the Pentagon. After that I remember hearing the about the jet that crashed in Western Pa, my ex gf went to school out that way so i remember being worried about her to until I was able to find out the exact crash site. It's pretty insane I can remember alot of the details of that day.

[vikes_28]

I was in 5th grade. I had felt like something weird was going on all day. My teachers did a nice job of keeping it a secret from us. Then I went home and started watching the coverage. A lot of things changed that day in my world and my mind.

[CashmoneyDrew]

Woke up and saw the coverage of the first plane crash on GMA. Didn't think much of it.

Went to class (8th grade) and everyone was watching it on TV. Not too long after the second plane hit and my mind just started racing about a bunch of things.

That whole day was basically a wash educationally. Watched news coverage all day long. It's funny I can't even remember what I had for breakfast yesterday but I can remember almost everything from September 11. Specific conversations and images.

[Hurricanes25]

I was in the 4th grade and very early in the school day, my teacher got a call. I saw on her face that something was wrong. She then went out into the hall and talked with some other teachers. Over the next 20 minutes or so, many kids were getting picked up from school. I was waiting to be picked up and still knew nothing what was going on. Finally my mom picks me up and then she told me in the car what happened. I didn’t know the severity of it until I got home and put the tv on.

[Ness]

My goodness I didn't know a lot of the posters here were so young.

[M.O.T.H.]

I saw a 2nd and a couple 4th grades in there. A little surprised.

Really, I think we have a decent average age. The majority seem to be in college or just out of college. Even someone in 4th grade back then would still be like 19 or so.

[ImBrotherCain]

My story is pretty much the same as everyone else's

8th grade tech class... Principle came over the loud speaker. Honestly the rest of the day was kind of a blur until I got home that afternoon an was talking with my parents

[TitansCJftw]

10th grade science/english, teacher comes in tells turn on news, plane hit WTC, everybody is like wtf? not thinking anything of it, go on to english 2nd plane hits on live tv...

[Xiomera]

I was in the 8th grade and lucky enough to be in the one classroom that's teacher didn't listen when told to turn the TV off.

[DoughBoy]

I was in the 5th grade when it happened, I remember my science teacher crying and chewing on her nails trying to get hold of her dad who had a scheduled flight to NYC that day.Our teachers crammed about half of our class in one room (around 150 kids) and the other half in another, they didn't let us leave to go to the bathroom unless we got escorted by a police officer...I'm not sure why they had so much security, but I assume it was because we were a stones throw from downtown Nashville. They didn't let us see anything and I didn't know really what happened until my dad picked my up from daycare that night.

[JoeJoeBrown]

My goodness I didn't know a lot of the posters here were so young.

No kidding. Makes me feel OLD.

I was at work and they had it on TV in the breakroom all day. My brother called me freaked out because I was supposed to be flying out of Boston that day, but the whole business trip had ended up being canceled.

[Babylon]

No kidding. Makes me feel OLD.

I was at work and they had it on TV in the breakroom all day. My brother called me freaked out because I was supposed to be flying out of Boston that day, but the whole business trip had ended up being canceled.

That you would spend the whole day in the breakroom doesnt surprise me.

On the west coast it was pretty early in my commute when i heard a plane had hit the world trade center. My obvious first thought was it was a small plane that lost it's way. My son called me a couple of hours later from Spokane where he was a sophomore at Gonzaga and the first thing he said was take your money out of the stock market, of course i didnt listen.

[Scott Wright]

I was in college, third year I believe.

Was just about to shower up for class when my roommate called me to the TV. It's strange, and I'm not sure how we knew, but right away we both said Bin Laden was probably behind it.

I watched for a while then went to class, but they sent us right home. Spent the rest of the day watching the television coverage with my roommates.

[TheBoyWonder22]

My goodness I didn't know a lot of the posters here were so young.
Yeah I'm 17 now. I went NFL crazy the same year as the attacks. Hard to believe it was over half of my life ago.

[Rob S]

8th grade, they didn't tell anyone in my school until lunch because of the high probability everyone knew someone that could have been involved. They were allowing parents to pull students out of class though and my Mom pulled me out of school in the morning right after verifying that my Dad was safe. I remember her telling my brother and I that the world is going to change from this point forward.

[Splat]

I was at home woke up turned on the TV and seriously thought it was just a movie till I saw it was on every channel.

[nepg]

Getting ready for school in Bridgeport, CT. It was my first week of classes of my freshman year in college. Watched what was going on on the TV for a bit, then headed to class (knew from the second I turned on the TV who was responsible). Doors were locked when I got to school, I could see the smoke from the buildings from Bridgeport. Headed home, and watched the towers fall.

[Babylon]

Anyone remember where they were when Kennedy was killed? I know of a few guys in here who were old enough to remember but i havent seen them around lately.

[TheBoyWonder22]

Anyone remember where they were when Kennedy was killed? I know of a few guys in here who were old enough to remember but i havent seen them around lately.
I was awaiting my mother's birth. Dad was 4...

[CJSchneider]

I was doing my student teaching. I had a test scheduled to give my 10th grade Health class. Students began rushing up to me asking if "I had heard." At first I thought they were joking. I responded back that the test was going to take place despite our country being under attack. My mentor teacher rushed in then rushed back out saying there was a TV in the shop and he was going to go find out what was going on. A few minutes later the Principal came over the PA system and told the school the news. Needless to say, I postponed the test another day or two.

[Don Vito]

7th grade, found out in science class. We were all sent home and I was in disbelief and didn't really understand what was going on. I'll never forget coming home and seeing two fighter planes fly over, that is when it really hit me. My father worked at Logan airport and he came home early and packed up the car full of water and food and a bunch of stuff and was planning on driving us up to New Hampshire because he thought the **** was about to hit the fan. Scary stuff. I can't remember some things I did yesterday but I remember everything about that day like it just happened, I remember football practice being cancelled and everything.

[keylime_5]

i was in english class and it's weird my teacher assigned us to read some Ray Bradbury short story that basically predicted something about twin lions falling or something like that . it was pretty crazy. very coincidental.

but i didn't know about it until the next class in gym when our principal came over the intercom and said something like "we'll pull through this together as a country, blah blah blah" and no one knew what he was talking about. then our gym teacher said "apparently some terrorists highjacked some planes and crashed them into the Empire State building." and everyone was like "waaaaahhhh???"

then we went to lunch and saw on the tvs in the library what really happened and we were in disbelief.

[The_Dude]

another thread validating how old i am.

post-college, i was working in a call center. one of my bosses walked by my cubicle and said "two planes hit the world trade center & one hit the pentagon..... we are under attack". I stopped working for a few hours while i listened to the news on the radio in a manager's office. Then i drove to minneapolis for an interview for my first teaching job.

i remember watching all of the planes flying by expecting them to blow up.

i took the next 2 days off of work to just sit & digest all of the news.

this year i will be teaching 8th graders who were only 3 years old when it happened. soon enough it will just be "something in a history book" to many kids. weird to think about.

[The_Dude]

oh, and i hate the fact people who were in middle or high school said that their teachers "hid" it from them.

that is ****** teaching in my book. 9/11 is should be the definition of a "teachable moment"

[The Dynasty]

I was in 7th grade at the time and I was in Gym Class when it happened. I had no idea what happened until I went to 3rd period foreign language class and my teacher told us what happened and we listened to the radio and the rest of the day that's all we talked about in my classes.

[TheBoyWonder22]

oh, and i hate the fact people who were in middle or high school said that their teachers "hid" it from them.

that is ****** teaching in my book. 9/11 is should be the definition of a "teachable moment"
My school didn't even tell us until the next day, I'm lucky my parents did because I would have been completely oblivious.

[JRTPlaya21]

6th grade english class. I'll never forget that day. It was probably one of the clearest/brightest days out & one of our teachers down the hall had a son in NYC and she was freaking out because she couldn't reach him at first but she did thankfully. It's all we talked about all day & I watched the news with my mom when I got home.

[yodapoop]

oh, and i hate the fact people who were in middle or high school said that their teachers "hid" it from them.

that is ****** teaching in my book. 9/11 is should be the definition of a "teachable moment"

Yeah I am surprised, well not as surprised anymore cuz I heard so many stories of that now. But we watched it pretty much all day. 5 of 6 teachers watched the first couple hours of things with the volume up. Then, muted it for the rest of the hour so we could still see it all and still learn. And of course we talked about what was happening. The other guy, who I had when the towers collapsed was the social studies teacher, he watched it all day, and just looked in shock. And our school cancelled all sports and other activities.

[CJSchneider]

i took the next 2 days off of work to just sit & digest all of the news.

this year i will be teaching 8th graders who were only 3 years old when it happened. soon enough it will just be "something in a history book" to many kids. weird to think about.

I remember being a zombie for the next few days as I would stay up until God knows when watching the news to see what was going on. Also, the sixth graders I teach this year were a year old when this happened.

[Mr. Goosemahn]

I was at home, getting ready for school when we received the call that school was cancelled due to a huge storm. It was the only time in the next five years that school was cancelled due to weather. The cancellation had nothing to due with the attacks.

I went downstairs around 6:30 to eat breakfast and was watching TV with my mom and sisters. We turned the TV on and we saw the towers with smoke on a couple of channels and I thought it was weird that different channels were showing the same movie. It was until we got to CNN while flipping channels that I realized they were different media outlets (whose logos I obviously didn't recognize) reporting this. By that time, both the towers had been hit, but had not yet fallen. I stayed glued to the TV until late at night, only standing up to go to the bathroom.

My dad was in Atlanta and he saw the second impact live. He was going to fly back home that day, but since all flights were cancelled, he wound up taking a major road trip back home. He arrived the next day after some major hassles. I was very worried for him, even though I shouldn't have been since he wasn't going to fly. I was just nervous there would be another attack somewhere close to where he was. And of course, I was 10 with a very wild imagination.

The next day in school our teachers gave us fifth-grade appropriate explanations of what had happened, how many people were involved, and what the attacks meant. We had a moment of silence and all students had the option of talking to someone in case they had questions.

I think this is the #1 "Where were you" moment in my entire life.

[eaglesalltheway]

I didn't like the teacher who told my class the news, but I think he handled it perfectly. He first asked if anyone in the class had family seemed like he was checking to make sure no one or their families were going to be directly affected by the actual attacks) then let us know, asked us if we wanted to watch the news (we did), and let us watch the news. Then actually talked to us about it, letting us know things were going to be different... Looking back, that really does earn him a lot of respect in my book.

[Rob S]

oh, and i hate the fact people who were in middle or high school said that their teachers "hid" it from them.

that is ****** teaching in my book. 9/11 is should be the definition of a "teachable moment"

Well, in NY it was a tough situation. At my school, they gave the parents 1st shot to get their students out of school and a lot did (including my Mom). However, they would up telling everyone at about noon and it was bad news, multiple kids crying thinking people they knew had died. Bad stuff. Now, it is on the parents/relatives for not getting them, but still perhaps not appropriate to watch it live in school here considering.

[ncst8fan83]

I went to my grandma's house to see her after my 8am class when I heard about it on the radio. She was in the living room, standing up, hand over her mouth, crying as she watched the news coverage. I'll never forget that morning. RIP to all who lost their lives and a huge debt of gratitude to all first responders who risked everything to help those in need.

[Halsey]

I was asleep in my barracks room at Naval Base Pearl Harbor. My girlfriend of the time actually woke me up at around 5:30AM Hawaii time to tell me what was happening. Not long afterward we were all being told to head to our boat, where we spent the next couple of days rotating guard duty and watching news coverage.

[Rosebud]

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I was actually riding home from a celebration dinner in Berlin, Germany cause I had the external brace drilled out of my leg earlier in the day. Flying back on one of the first cross atlantic flights after 9/11 was one of the most surreal moments in my life. **** that tricky bastard!

[MaxV]

I was getting ready to go to school. Turned the TV to check the weather forecast minutes after the 2nd one hit.

[The_Dude]

Well, in NY it was a tough situation. At my school, they gave the parents 1st shot to get their students out of school and a lot did (including my Mom). However, they would up telling everyone at about noon and it was bad news, multiple kids crying thinking people they knew had died. Bad stuff. Now, it is on the parents/relatives for not getting them, but still perhaps not appropriate to watch it live in school here considering.

Yes, i imagine that NY was a different scenario altogether.

And in the panic of that morning, i remember mn closing down their tallest buildings in mpls & even the goddamn Mall of America.

[bantx]

Ive read stories about people who over slept and missed their flight crazy stuff

[scottyboy]

I was in 5th grade, history class actually. It was a half day for us because it was one of the first days of school. The teachers were acting weird and I really couldnt grasp what was going on. they didn't outright tell us, I got home and my grandma was there to watch me and my brother before our parents got home from work, and she was crying. I didn't know what had happened and she turned on the TV and it was on every news channel.

[NotRickJames]

I actually hadn't gone to school that day. I was watching Toy Story when my mom came in freaking out and told me to turn on the news. She was really upset and I had no idea what was going on.

Will remember that moment for the rest of my life.

[dj825]

I was in French class and my teacher got a call and she told us what happened after she got off the phone, i was pretty upset cuz my cousin worked in the second tower (the first to get hit). I didnt get to actually see it until i went home.

[TitanHope]

I was getting ready to leave for the airport.

[Rob S]

Ive read stories about people who over slept and missed their flight crazy stuff

My friend's Dad stopped to eat breakfast before going to work in the towers and saw the 1st plane hit.

Also, my JV line coach has a pretty tremendous story regarding a heart transplant that took place on 9/11. Crazy stuff.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748907/posts

[CashmoneyDrew]

Wasn't Seth MacFarlane supposed to be on one of the hijacked planes?

[BeerBaron]

I was in my 8th grade 2nd period English class. It was class pictures day and we were all waiting to go down to get them taken when the principal came over the loudspeaker and announced it to the school. We didn't realize how serious it was until I went to my next period class (Geography) and watched it on the news.

That's all we did the rest of the day was watch news in our classes. That memory is still move vivid than stuff that's happened much more recently.

[Scott Wright]

Wasn't Seth MacFarlane supposed to be on one of the hijacked planes?

I believe so, but he overslept.

[CC.SD]

I was getting ready for the first day of school and our house got called by a friend, 'turn on the TV' that sort of thing. It was bleak, and then the second plane hit and it was actually really terrifying, no one knew what was going on.

[moninghaly]

i was in my high school having my class , and just watched the tv just saw that 911 happened . terrible as it turned out to be . so many people died because of it . sorry to see that .Our family are starting to consider about the safty of our nation.

[yodapoop]

I believe so, but he overslept.

Yeah, he was hungover and was given the wrong time and showed up 10 minutes too late to board.

[ImBrotherCain]

They keep playing "We will remember" promos on the Sports talk radio station I listen too... Its pretty rough hearing all the recollections, the news reports and the phone calls from the plane that went down in PA.

10 years later and its still hard to look back on that day and recall the massive tragedy that should have never happened and the heroes that sacrificed themselves to save anyone they possibly could.

[The_Dude]

I saw this on Sportscenter last sat. I am showing it to my 8th graders for the last 15 min of class. Their assignment is to pay attention to/watch some of the 10th anniversary stuff that will be dominating the airwaves this weekend.

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[V.I.P]

I was watchin "Bay New 9" (local station), and they said something about terrorist are already in the US, and will attack again Sunday. Is this true?

[Rob S]

I was watchin "Bay New 9" (local station), and they said something about terrorist are already in the US, and will attack again Sunday. Is this true?

Mayor Bloomberg game a press conference last night and said there is a confirmed threat. There are threats all the time though. Plus, NYC has beefed up security to insane levels.....I highly doubt there will be another attack (in NYC anyway). It would be devastating if there was though.

[BeerBaron]

I plan to just stay in my apartment and watch football all day. Yanno, just to be safe...

[yodapoop]

Yeah, u had to see the threats coming.....we all could prolly see it.

[LonghornsLegend]

English Pre-AP in Junior year of High School. Still had no idea of the magnitude of what was happening but I knew it was big since school just stopped to watch the news. It honestly didn't sink in until well after, seeing how much damage was done and how many people were inside the buildings.

[Go_Eagles77]

I was in 5th grade. My teacher told us what happened but being 10 years old I barely knew about the twin towers at the time let alone the gravity of the whole situation. Our school didn't show us anything on TV so it wasn't until I got home that I began to get an idea of how serious it was.

[CJSchneider]

I saw this on Sportscenter last sat. I am showing it to my 8th graders for the last 15 min of class. Their assignment is to pay attention to/watch some of the 10th anniversary stuff that will be dominating the airwaves this weekend.

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Great minds think alike. I watched that with my 6th graders today. I was rather impressed with their maturity.

[Go_Eagles77]

I saw this on Sportscenter last sat. I am showing it to my 8th graders for the last 15 min of class. Their assignment is to pay attention to/watch some of the 10th anniversary stuff that will be dominating the airwaves this weekend.

wwWzjjbIISw

Who the hell is chopping onions?

[CJSchneider]

My current Facebook status: "Let's Roll" - Those two simple words should echo through our hearts and minds this weekend.

[YAYareaRB]

i was in 7th grade getting ready for school. my parents turned on the tv and it felt like everything just stopped. never forget that day

[eaglesalltheway]

My current Facebook status: "Let's Roll" - Those two simple words should echo through our hearts and minds this weekend.

Wait... and I know this is off topic... but you have a facebook? This is almost like when I realized how to post pictures...

[broth223]

I was in my senior year of high school I remember walking to homeroom from my locker a friend of mine ran up to me and said a plane hit one of the big towers in New York City we all watched it throughout the day the only exception was my AP biology class the only classroom without a cable ready television. I remember the teacher saying that there was nothing we could do about what is happening in New York and we continued the experiment. That was about the time the second tower was hit.