Well the title says it all but one thing though...

NO POLITICS OR RELIGION!!!!!!!!!!!

I was twelve; I think I'd just got back home from school and was starting on my maths homework. My mum's friend was there and she was like "Look at what happened in America," and she turned on the TV.

I was 8 and in 3rd grade. I know this is going to sound bad, but I can't remember what I was doing at the time. I guess it was because I was so young. :confused:

I was in school. I was only about 7 years old, so I really have no recollection of how or when, specifically, I learned of it.

It was just after 9am, and I was at school in Corning, New York. In 2nd grade. A teacher came in the room crying, and our teacher went over to console her. They then turned the TV on and we saw the images of the towers. More teachers gathered in our room. We could see the smoke on the horizon for weeks...

9/11 is to me as JFKs assassination was to many. I remember exactly where I was. Very vividly.

By the way, listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZulLRzq5WzQ&feature=related while reading my post. I was listening to it by chance while writing it, and it made it alot more powerful.

I had just gotten out of school I believe and I was at my moms friends house while she was gone to work and someone turned on the TV and that's when I saw it. I have to say it was pretty shocking to see even at that age.

I was in Kindergarden. Didn't know what happened until much later but we did talk about it in class I remember. I don't take it as seriously as everyone else. Its terrible of course but in my opinion people think about this more than the deaths over seas from terrorist attacks. Not to mention the Holocaust.

Here in Canada it is a huge deal as well. We have reruns of news programs from sept 11 every anniversary and stuff like that. "On Friday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that September 11 will now be recognized as the National Day of Service. " That was last friday.

Don't know what a national day of service is but its because of the attacks I know that.

I was only in kindergarten, so it's really hazy, but I vaguely remember a man coming in and whispering something to my teacher, and I think class got cancelled, but I don't really remember

I was in Pre-School and when I woke up, my dad told me to look at the T.V and then I saw the news feed of 9/11. The events before that and after are extremely hazy but the exact moment of what I saw didn't go away.

home. i don't remember when i went that day or what i did or didn't, but i remember waking up and seeing on the news the coverage. didn't really get what was going on until the second building was hit. got a better understanding--that it was an attack on the WTC, when one then the other building went down. didn't really get what went on that day i think until the next day, i think.

what can i say, i slow to catch up sometimes. my cousin is married and with a second child on the way, but i am still not completely understanding just how much of a grown up i am now chronologically. (i say chronologically because it feels like i am 10 years younger and think that way, on the level of that age.)

Hmm yeah, well all I really remember was coming back from primary school and seeing the aftermath of the event, not really knowing what was going on. The WTC wasn't familiar to me at all back then.

Obviously, I remember where I was for the 7/7 bombings. A tragic day that was

I was at home bunking off school. When I very first turned on the TV I initially thought it was a film for the first 20 seconds or so because it didn't cross my mind that something like that could happen. I was 13 at the time

I was asleep while the actual attacks happened. 11 years old.

Woke up before school, turned on the TV, and there they were.

I was walking to school

did not even know about what happened until years later.

I was nine, nearly ten. I remember it really well. The actual attacks happened while I was in the car on the way home to my grandparents house where we were staying at the time. My grandparents were standing up glued to the tv with looks of disbelief on their faces. I saw on the tv the two towers on fire, smoke billowing out from them. I was told to go to bed because it was night time. The next morning I saw the replays on the news. There were a lot of moments of silence that day.

I was working. heard it on the radio. Its also the day I got my first apartment.

This, except i was 10.

I was back from summer school and it was on tv. I was majorly pissed off because the news stations kept talking about the incident and I missed my daily dose of Digimon.

I was 8 and waiting for my friend to walk over to my house. He got there and told us what had happened, we turned on the tv and saw it happening. It made my mum cry, she's not lived in the US for years but she had a friend that worked at the WTC. She immediately got in contact with him, luckily it turned out he no longer worked there, but it was a shock for us all. I went to ground zero when I was in NYC a few months ago, even with the construction going on it's a sad place. I ended up sitting at that church with all the 9/11 artifacts and memorials in it nearby just trying not to cry. Can't even imagine what it must have been like being in NYC that day.

I was at a friend's birthday party.

I was 18 and remember being on the bus home from College at about 1:50 in the afternoon when I got a text from my sister saying a plane had hit. I got home and put the TV on and spent the rest of the afternoon watching the news coverage on it.

Watching some TV show with my parents. Then a neighbour came by to drop something off and mentioned the attacks, so we immediately switched channels.

Was on my way home from work and it came on the radio as breaking news that plane had crashed into the north tower, so when I got in I immediately put the news on and what saw was heart breaking.

I was working afternoons at the time, and I was sleeping at 9 AM. My wife came home from an early class she was taking at the time (that they had cancelled, seemingly for other reasons) and woke me up. We turned on the TV. This was only just after the second plane.
I was glued to the set, and I missed work that day. I worked right next door to an airport, in Michigan, and when I returned to work, it was so eerie not seeing any planes in the air for the next couple of days.
I was glued to the set for weeks, and began archiving video footage of the event, and also did a lot of studying during that time, learning things I never knew before. I was 42 at the time.

In government's service (Finland has compulsory military service). I remember thinking "Stuff like this doesn't happpen in real life!"