Tele-Talk responses: Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001, and what do you recall from that day?

I had just finished a 12-hour overnight shift on the ambulance and was racked out in the bunk room when the phones started going nuts. One of the nurses from the ER was on the other end, telling me to get to the TV, we had just been attacked. I got to the TV in time to watch the second plane hit live. Then I froze and watched as they crashed down, surrounded by doctors, nurses, medics and students ... all in silence. The rest of that day and all night our team pulled patients out of upstate New York and into Vermont, to make room for survivors that never came. Ray Gilmore

I was in my senior year of high school, I live in Rhode Island. We had just finished gym class. The gym teacher was also the athletic director and basketball coach. He was a very serious individual. All of a sudden, two other teachers walked in the gym and his face turned white as a ghost, he then proceeded to tell us what had just happened. I remember putting my uniform back on and literally running to my next class, English, where the TV was on (each classroom had TVs). It was at that moment while I was standing next to two of my best friends — one would go on to be the best man at my wedding — that I watched the second plane hit the tower. The room fell silent and no one said anything for a good 10 minutes. It was after that, Mr. Boland spoke saying “let’s say a prayer” (it was a Catholic high school). How he was ever able to speak, keeping it together while calming everyone down and assure us that the USA would get through this will always stick with me. That one one very dark day. Christopher Clegg