World Trade Center

Editor's note: The Herald-Mail asked readers to tell us their memories of 9/11. Many of you replied, sharing your poignant accounts of how you learned about the terrorist attacks and how it affected you. On Sept. 11, I was on my way to work in Germantown, Md., when I turned on the radio. Rather than the usual music, I heard a news story and the announcer sounded a little shaken. I thought at first it may have been a commercial or a special very early-Halloween promotion of some kind.

HAGERSTOWN- A firefighter - a brother - died on a cataclysmic call at the World Trade Center. An investment banker - a brother and a son - called home just after a plane hit his tower. Employees at a Hagerstown office heard a phone message from a New York City colleague and wondered if she survived. At the Pentagon, a worker ducked under a desk when a plane hit the building. An Air Force officer evacuated after being told that a bomb had gone off, but realized the truth was more terrible.

On Sept. 11 I was on my way to work at Citicorp and I heard on the radio at 8:48 that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I really didn't think much of it until they started talking about terrorism. Right after I heard this on the radio I happened to be at the stop sign right across from the Hagerstown (Regional) Airport and while I was sitting at the stop sign a plane flew right over my head. It was crazy. After that I went to work as usual in customer service at Citicorp.

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It was a day of horror and disbelief. A stunned America watched as terrorists used four commercial airplanes as weapons, flying them into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. Where were you, and what did you do when you heard about the attacks five years ago on Sept. 11? E-mail us and tell your story. The personal accounts will be published in our newspaper and on our Web site. You must include your name and the town in which you live, which will be published with your comments.

It was a day of horror and disbelief. A stunned America watched as terrorists used four commercial airplanes as weapons, flying them into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. Where were you, and what did you do when you heard about the attacks five years ago on Sept. 11? E-mail us and tell your story. The personal accounts will be published in our newspaper and on our Web site. You must include your name and the town where you live, which will be published with your comments.

For my generation, it was a day that will live in infamy I'm talking about Sept. 11, 2001, the day that seemed to forever change our sense of security in a deep and profound way. That Tuesday morning, while many of us were either at work or driving to work, the first of four planes completed their suicide mission by crashing into the World Trade Center. I was sitting in my office at the time, scanning through the overnight barrage of e-mails. At that moment, one of our editorial assistants, Mia Hoover, walked in and said something to the effect: "I think you need to know that a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.