This is about 9/11/2001. If you were not alive yet, just say so. #1 Where were you? ex: At home in Orlando FL #2 What were you doing at the time? ex: Don't recall but either sleeping or playing a PC computer game (game: w or w/o networking). #3 What did you think at first, while you watching the reports on TV? Note: This depends on the time that you saw it (ex before the towers fell). ex: I thought it was a new blockbuster movie coming out. But then I figured it out it was real (not a new movie coming out) since a single preview don't last that long and among other reasons.
It wasn't long before I moved out of my parents' house, I'd been sitting on my bed watching my black and white TV. Came downstairs to find them sitting reading the papers, and was like "turn the TV on", they asked "which channel?" and I was all "Doesn't matter".
I was at college (17) and had nipped outside for a fresh air break when the news came through. Everyone in my class was watching live video feeds online from various news outlets. It was a really shocking event and I don't think most people ever forget where they were when the news broke.