what were you doing when.....

Princess Diana, think I was just watching television at the time and found out.

September 11th. Well, I was in school at time, Science lesson. We were doing structures at the time seeing how much weight a cardboard bridge could hold before it would collapse by building it in certain ways. The fact that our bridges were collapsing on that day, during that afternoon, is why it sticks in my mind...

I found out on the way home, got a lift off Dad and got told a plane or two had hit the WTC. Got home turned on Sky News and saw the first pictures.

When I found out Diana had died i was cleaning my house.

When 9/11 happened I was going to practice with my (then) band.

I can't for the life of me remember what I was doing when princess Diana died, but I wasn't much concerned about it. Kudos to the woman for using her fame for some good purposes, but her death didn't hit me any harder than hearing of anyone else dying.

On 9-11, I was headed to class, and after that I'd be driving from the college to work. I had a tape in the radio, but I'd listened to it about three times by then and was bored with it, so I clicked on the radio instead, and heard about the first plane. At work, every time I got a break I'd go out to my truck in the parking lot and turn on the radio to see how the search for survivors was going and how soon we would find these SOBs and nuke them.

I honestly changed the channel, because I dont care for that women..... I was a young kid.

I don't remember what I was doing when Princess Di died.

I woke up in the morning on 9/11 and turned on the TV to see a plane crashing into the side of the twin towers on recorded broadcast. At first, I wondered what the hell I was seeing . . . but they kept showing it over and over again. I've never been too concerned with the twin towers before, so I didn't really know what these buildings were for . . . but when the building came down, I freaked out. I never thought a plane could decimate such a massive building. Then they broadcast the second plane. Hol--CRAP!! What the hell!?
When my parents got home, they instantly took over the TV since they had been hearing about it all day on the radio. I don't remember anything else from that day.

When Princess Diana died? I wasn't too happy. I was a young dude back then, and I heard that she helped a lot of people around the world, and so I was sad that someone who helps others passed away.

Diana: I most likely was sleeping (I live in France, it happened late at night), and found out the next day.

9/11: I was in class/test, and a Ph.D student came in to tell us he heard about it on the radio. We didn't rush to the radio and just kept on with the class/test, but it was quite the only topic of discussion around dinner.

Berlin wall: I was watching it fall live on the TV when it happened.

She died? Oh yeah! I was in class...I think it might have been math or english.

9/11: I was sitting in English class withmy teacher, Mr. Dennis and my class and all of a sudden, we hear over the loud speakers that the Twin Towers had just been bombed. Please calm down. And I'm looking around, confused and thinking, "Wtf? why is everyone so worried? What is going on?" I was in sixth grade and didn't get it. I don't think that I had even heard of the Twin towers then. I was on my way home and people are talking about it. We couldn't get on the subway or anything, and I didn't understand until later that night when I got home and school the next day. And then I was like, "Oh! Are you SERIOUS! Well...that's stupid. They might as well have bombed the whitehouse." I'm serious, I said and thought this.

Berlin wall: I was then too young... I think I was suckin my thumbs, hih. :p

9/11: It was school day for me. But I heard everything from TV. Strange that my friend just on that day draw a picture where two skyscrapers were crashing down before she even heard what have happen. Scary...

Diana: I remember that day forever. It was morning and I was watching TV. Suddenly there was a text which was telling that Princess Diana is dead. I did't really knew her but I thought she must been important because my favourite programme was interrupted beacuse of that! :mad:

berlin wall:I was still a wittle baby :)

OKC bombing:at school when all of a sudden a big earthquake happens then follows by with a large noise.

9/11:At school again and i noticed people were getting cheked out.Then On the way back home i saw a big line in every gas station with people getting gas.Man i remember the gas prices going up to 6:00 until the police started cracking down on it.

Diana - Just woken up, and found out.

9/11 - Got home from school (it happened 2pm time in Britain) and my younger sister was watching cartoons. I checked to see the news....

Diana - Don't know what year she died, but I think she died before I was born so... in my mom?

9/11 - I got to school and this fool in my class keep repeating "We're gonna die! We're gonna die! We were attacked! WERE GONNA DIE!!!!!!" Yeah... hard to notice...

I'd like to point out that you would have been alive when Diana died, because if you were at school on the 11th of September 2001, you would have been born at least 5 years earlier, and Diana died in 1997, 4 years earlier.

I was helping my grandpa draft a fantasy football team. I think we took Steve Young first overall.

September 11... I remember I was one foot out the door to go to school when I heard it on the radio. I had headphones I always used to use because it was so early in the morning (6 AM) and so quiet, and when I heard the news, I had to go back inside to see if it wasn't some kind of joke.

It wasn't, of course, as I turned on the TV to see the first tower fall. I remember the whole thing being very surreal, because the rest of my family was still asleep. Then, when I got on the city bus, I must've been the only person to know because there was no radio and everyone else seemed to be going about like it was any other day. Of course, by the time I got to school, it was pretty much all over the place, but for that little while... it was eerie.

It's funny. When I read the thread title, 9/11 and the news of Diana's death were the first things that came to my mind.

Diana - I was in France at the time, actually. We had just moved there. My family were staying in a long-stay hotel while we were looking for a house to rent. I was in bed, and I heard it on the television in the next room.

9/11 - I was in the chemistry lab at school, working on my IB project. My friend heard it from his mum, who called him to tell him about it.