We All Remember Where We Were On September 11. These Are Your Stories.

We asked our readers to share their memories of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks 13 years ago. Here are some of their responses. Share yours in the comments, or tweet using the hashtag #WhereWereYou.

deb ruffin

@HuffingtonPost #WhereWereYou I was in the sixth grade I didn't grasp how big 9/11 was until I saw the adults in my school crying
— BBB (@JustFilming90) September 10, 2014

kimberley mccoy

soren bn

jackie bryant

stephanie downs

“I started out at home -- I’m from Littleton, Colorado, and I was watching the TV and I honestly didn’t know what was happening… I work for the federal government at the Federal Center in Denver. I went to work, and over the course of the next three or four hours, I think we started figuring out that it was a terrorist attack. We closed the government and we went home. It was a shocking thing but for us, we’d already been shocked once: I live within three, four miles of Columbine High School, so we’d already had that tragedy as well." -- Stephanie Downs, above

roohi and rashid

@HuffingtonPost I was 8, in Australia. I remember kids as school saying WWIII had started.
— Ella Kelly (@oxellabellaxo) September 10, 2014

gera bizuneh

@HuffingtonPost #WhereWereYou Far away in India but the horror and shock could be felt across all those miles. And a sense of disbelief
— Sriya Ray Chaudhuri (@SriyaRC) September 10, 2014

lacy crawford

@HuffingtonPost #WhereWereYou. At my apartment in NYC . Then walked to work. My most stressful day bartending. Tears in the drinks.
— Paula Lukas (@penguinbar67) September 10, 2014

liz schuelke

doug jarnot

teresa sprung

joan mazzonelli

Some responses have been edited for clarity.

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