where were you on 9/11/2001

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Many people were trapped on the upper floors and couldn't get out before the buildings collapsed.

I was just 3 years old. I don't remember it at all. My mom tells me I wondered why my parents had the TV on all the time.

I thought too bad they didn't have parachutes. That would have saved many lives. I thought maybe all tall buildings should start carrying them on each floor for in case a plane crashes into the building or of there is any fire so they can all jump out the window and land safely on the ground.

I remember when they first made a movie about this day starring Nicolas Cage my first boyfriend was not very happy about it because he believed the terrorists did 9/11 so we would make a movie about it and to get attention from all of it. I knew that was bull because they did it because they hated us and wanted to attack us, not so we can make a bunch of movies about it an make money off of that day. But I wonder if this thinking was part of his illness?

Many people did jump out of windows from the upper floors.

I was in school, I was in special ed class around the time I first heard about it I remember they started playing the news on all the overhead t.vs, I believe I was in science class when the second plane hit and the school decided to send everyone home for the day after that. This is what I remember, but I don't know how accurate it is that day was surreal for me and probably many others. I have a hard time seeing the videos of people jumping from the building but that is the reality of it, I feel very sorry for those people and everyone else who was personally involved as victims of the attack that day.

More than 300 New York firefighters died in the attacks. Civilians were running away from the buildings; the firefighters were running toward them.

I find the pictures instructive.

I was working a morning shift at a nursing home and was doing the drug round when it came on the morning tv news. We all stopped working and just stared at the programme in disbelief. It was horrifying and we just couldn't believe it was happening.

New York was not the only place attacked that day. A third hijacked airliner was flown into the side of the Pentagon in Washington, DC.

The fourth hijacked plane on 9/11/2001 is believed to have been on its way to destroy the US Capitol building in Washington, DC.

Passengers being held in the rear of the plane learned about the attacks in New York and Washington via their cell phones and realized that their plane was also part of this coordinated assault. They stormed the front of the plane with makeshift weapons and attempted to seize the cockpit, which forced the terrorist pilot to crash in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The plane is thought to have hit the ground at more than 500 mph.

I was seven years old and in elementary school. I remember we all had to go outside and everybody thought it was a fire drill and then later reading in the newspaper the next day about what really had happened.

I was at home 27 miles south of the Pentagon. I had just got back from Canada the day before. Had I not still been on vacation I would have been working in the Pentagon during the attack.

In New York in the days after 9/11, people posted photos of missing friends and loved ones who hadn't been seen since the attacks, hoping to find information that they might still be alive. Five years later, 24 people were still listed as missing. Many victims had been confirmed only by DNA analysis of tissue fragments found in the building wreckage.