9/11 stories, where were you on 9/11? Options

[timeflies51]

The five-year anniversary of 9/11 has arrived. Care to share your stories? I'll start with mine.


I was in fifth grade, and we already had a half day scheduled. They didn't tell us what had happened. There didn't even seem to be tension in the school, or maybe I just didn't notice it. I remember walking around the perimeter of my schoolyard during recess, and randomly, I began to sing the "Mishaberach" to myself, which is a song we sing in Temple praying for the healing of mind and spirit.

When I got home, my mom was still in her exercise wear, squatting right in front of the TV, licking peanut butter off a spoon. I laughed and joked, "Oh, now you like watching TV, huh?" (She always picked on me for watching too much TV at that time.) She calmly told me no and explained what had happened.

That afternoon, as I went around the neighborhood for our school fundraiser, I predicted that everyone would be watching it on TV. And, of course, they were. I just find it creepy that I had a sudden urge to sing the "Mishaberach" even though I didn't know what had happened.


What's your story?

[*This Confession*]

^Well your the same age as me.

I was in 5th grade as well. I remember the teacher walked out of the room and went in to the grade k. class across the hall that had the tv on cnn or something like that. She kept coming back and going to the classroom to check up on things. Then eventually she told the whole class to line up and we walked over there when another 5th grade class came over too. As they came one of my guy friends came ands sat by me and asked what was going on. And well I just said some plane decided to take a free ride in a building.

I wasen't really paying attention. Aparently my teacher's son lived in new york and he worked in new york city and was leaving where he lived to go to work when someone called him before he left to go and said there wasen't a city anymore.

Thats all I really remember, nothing really changed at my home.
I have family that lives in Maryland, but they were perfectly fine.

I went home, went over to my grandparents and had dinner. Got on the computer. Went to school the next day. And we locked all the doors and windows for the rest of the school year.

9/11 didn't really effect my life in any ways.. I feel bad for the families that lost people and never actually found some people.


Although now their making movies about it that make me kind of mad that their doing that. Its been years since it happened and people are starting to get over it a little and they make a movie to make those people remember all over again and yea just what they need.

[treschicgeek]

I remember that day. I was in fifth grade too. And in class that day, and the teacher asking us, "Do you guys know what is going on right now?" and us talking about it and watching the news.

I also remember that both my parents were on a flight to Chicago on American Airlines. They were supposed to going London that day. I was so scared because it was the first time in a while both my parents weren't home and it was just me, my little brother, and uncle at home. And when they said that one of the airplanes was from American Airlines since I was watching the news all day, I got really scared and couldn't stop crying because I thought my parents were on the flight with the attacks.

Luckily, in a way I guess, my parents were on a totally different flight and got to Chicago (and London) safely. I just mostly remember crying alot because I was in fifth grade.

I can't believe it's been five years. It feels like it's just happened yesterday.

[*yrrnotelekktric*]

I was in 7th grade. It was early in the morning when it was on the news and I woke up to go to school. I still went to school that day and all I remember of that day was how everyone of my classmates wanted to go home

[jennyjenny]

I WAS IN FIFTH GRADE TOO!

i didn't know what was going on. the school didn't really say much about it cuase they didn't want us 5th graders knowing about it. i got home and i found my mom at home watching the tv and she said she got let off early becaues they were afraid that they were going to bomb her building or like something in the city of boston. i didn't really think much about it, to tell you the truth. my mom was just like oh some planes crashed through some buildings and i didn't really panic or care about it.

[sprezzatura]

I was in 5th grade. Since I live on the West Coast, when it happened, I was still sleeping. Then I go to school, my history teacher showed us the news, and I found out what happened.

[aubbob]

i was in fifth grade as well... i heard my mom up at like 4am listening to the radio
because we didn't have cable yet. the weird thing was in math, we were reading about planes
the day before and our homework was to find a plane we would like to fly in.. when i went to class i got to see what happened, i really couldn't picture anything over the radio. it was so scary, i remember not wanting to go to school because i was afraid i was gonna die.
five years flew by so fast it's amazing..

[*This Confession*]

Everyone was in 5th grade.

its kind of freaky in a way

[kimmytree]

I cant believe its already been 5 years. I was in 6th grade.

I remember knowing something had happened while I was at school that day, but I didnt really know what exactly was going on till after I got home after school that day. My school didnt tell us what happened, but they told the older kids... who told the younger kids. lol.

I remember feeling really bad over what happened, but I wasnt too worried because everyone in my family lives in Florida. I think its too early for people to be making movies about it.

[heyyfrankie]

i was jus twalking into homeroom [6th grade] when peopel were tlaking about the whole incident.

i, of course, being the bastard that i was, didn't believe them and called them stupid.

then i heard abtou it again at recess and i was like, "omg, okay...C'MON GUYS!!"

then i get home and im like...WHOA. :[

sad. SAD. s a d .

[cassjamminx]

i was walking to school and the crossing guard was like "why are you going to school? didn't you hear what happened? practically no one is coming to school today!" so then i went anyways and my grandma ended up picking me up. we waited in our fire drill lines outside, but eventually went inside to wait, watched the news & movies. pretty interesting day. i cant believe how long its been.

[expoised]

I was living in NJ at the time and I was in 7th grade. It was during like... 4th period and the english teacher turned on the TV. Then, they called up all the students with relatives working at the WTC to the front office. At first, we thought it was so cool seeing these planes crash into buildings... I guess we were kids looking for action... completely ignorant and simple-minded.

It didn't really dawn on me later until i saw a friend of mine crying because her uncle was in that building. We didn't get early dismissal or anything, but when I got home, my mom drove me to Washington Rock that was like, 5 minutes away from my house. You could see across the river and look at the smoke coming up from where the buildings were. There was a huge memorial there later that night and throughout the entire year.

[starlette]

WOW I FEEL SO OLD!!!!!!

I was in the 10th grade. I had to be at school at 7 am every morning for band practice. We had just come inside from our rehearsel, and in our ban hall we had these huge like 65 inch bigscreens up high where no one could reach and they were on. Apparently these tvs hadn't been used in over 10 years, so for them to be on was a big deal in the first place. We saw it before the second building got hit, before anyone knew what happened. we all thought it was a bomb, they hadn't confirmed that it was a plane yet. And we were all watching when the second building got hit. My future boyfriends stepmom was supposed to be on a plane to new york that morning so he was frekaing out. Fortunately she like got rescheduled to another flight and then it was cancelled all together. It was very scary. Loads of kids went home that day. The next day most people didn't go to school, the principle sent out a letter giving us all a day to get our things together because even though we were in texas, a lot of people lost loved ones and friends and things. So I remember staying home the next day and it was the first time I had ever heard of osama bin laden and all that terrorist mess. What was really insane ws in my debate we were talking about weapons of mass destruction, and what qualifies as one. and we were talking about how with the oklahoma City bombing a car became a weapon of mass destruction, and in turn anything could be used as one. and then the next day we see planes used. It was very...scary.

[EddieV]

I was sitting in General Science class where I have a full view of the World Trade Center. I see a missile type object crashing into the building. I told my teacher who at that time happened to be Dr. Czelozick. He immedietely called the school's office. While I was sitting on my desk, I noticed one of the buildings collapsed, after that I was speechless. It didn't seem possible, like I still don't find it possible, but it happened, so the whole school had an assembly in the gym, and we got dismissed. The next day, school was closed.

[starlette]

I was sitting in General Science class where I have a full view of the World Trade Center. I see a missile type object crashing into the building. I told my teacher who at that time happened to be Dr. Czelozick. He immedietely called the school's office. While I was sitting on my desk, I noticed one of the buildings collapsed, after that I was speechless. It didn't seem possible, like I still don't find it possible, but it happened, so the whole school had an assembly in the gym, and we got dismissed. The next day, school was closed.

dag yo. thats...heavy. I can't imagine how that would have felt. at all.

[demolished]

I was in my 5th grade class. My teacher told me about it.

And, i didnt believe it.

Until, i got home and watched the news.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

I was sitting in General Science class where I have a full view of the World Trade Center. I see a missile type object crashing into the building. I told my teacher who at that time happened to be Dr. Czelozick. He immedietely called the school's office. While I was sitting on my desk, I noticed one of the buildings collapsed, after that I was speechless. It didn't seem possible, like I still don't find it possible, but it happened, so the whole school had an assembly in the gym, and we got dismissed. The next day, school was closed.

wow i could imagine living in staten island having a full view of ny tower ...and to actually see it crash ..

i was in 9th grade during that time freshman year , i was in social studies class during that time when i heard people in hallways running and some people crying ...thats when i asked the teachers why there crying ....my social studies teacher who was a new teacher from the district left the class for a few min . he was nervous about all the responses people might think of giving him . "please don`t ridicule me though im half-armenian" so we were like all confused ...after 2nd period during the 2 minute beel everyone was like all dazed and confused ...some kids crying in tears .... .... i went straight up to the class of my science class.....there my ecstatic geeky science teacher with his beard . showed us a picture of the world trade center with the 2nd plane hitting in still images .... i thought it was a joke ...like some sort of movie . i wouldnt have believed it ....that is until i left home and got dismissed early when my older cousins picked me up from school . and i watched the actual horror taking place .... i cried the whole night ....manic depression was in my vains running again ...i couldn`t move on with my life till sr year. .... i thought about some people i knew .....pain turmoil and horror for the next 3 days.....and then i found out my 3rd gen uncle died there ....my dad cried ... i havent seen him cry at all in my whole lifetime.

[*salcha4u*]

I was in 6th grade and in band (it was lame). All I remember was that I was really confused, and the conductor had a strickened look on her face.

[ANG33ZY]

On my way to school. I was in 6th grade. Turned on the radio and all the stations were talking about it.

[pandamonium]

I TOTALLY REMEMBERED THE DAY.

I was in the sixth grade and it happened during recess, i lived in NEWARK, NJ which was about 15-20 minutes away from NYC and SO many kids were getting called out of school and everybody was wondering why?? They never told us because I was going to a catholic school so I guess it was our policy not to tell if something like that went on. So it was less than half the kids left in the school and it was the end of the day and my classmates mom said on the spanish channel they said the twin towers went down due to terrorists and I didnt believe him cause usually on the spanish channel they gossip and a lot of the stuff they say on the news isnt really true (no offense just personal experience) but then i saw it out my window, there was soo much smoke in the air.

But i was able to see the smoke from my house but never the towers. Whenever I was on my way to the mall i drove down this specific hill and I would see the Towers but the sky seemed so plain after that.

[silver-rain]

Eh, I was in 8th grade when it happened. My Spanish teacher asked if there were any students whose parents worked in the World Trade Center, because one of the towers were hit. We really didn't think much of it after until a couple of periods later when more news about it started to spread. We went to homeroom where we turned on the radio to listen to the news. To me, it was still surreal. As I was walking home, I passed by a hospital and there were many ambulances and injured people. When I got home and turned on the TV, the news was on every station. That's when it really hit me.

But, my boyfriend went to school right near the World Trade Centers and he saw what happened.

[datass]

I was in 5th grade also.

I'm on the other side of Earth so it was 9:30-11 at night, don't quite remember. I was kinda sleeping then I heard my mom and dad outside talking really loud so I went out and check out what's happening and on the TV, an airplane hits the building. I sat down and watch, moments later another plane hits the other building.

It was scary..I thought it was some horror movie.

[CandyCorn.]

The five-year anniversary of 9/11 has arrived. Care to share your stories? I'll start with mine.
I was in fifth grade, and we already had a half day scheduled. They didn't tell us what had happened. There didn't even seem to be tension in the school, or maybe I just didn't notice it. I remember walking around the perimeter of my schoolyard during recess, and randomly, I began to sing the "Mishaberach" to myself, which is a song we sing in Temple praying for the healing of mind and spirit.

When I got home, my mom was still in her exercise wear, squatting right in front of the TV, licking peanut butter off a spoon. I laughed and joked, "Oh, now you like watching TV, huh?" (She always picked on me for watching too much TV at that time.) She calmly told me no and explained what had happened.

That afternoon, as I went around the neighborhood for our school fundraiser, I predicted that everyone would be watching it on TV. And, of course, they were. I just find it creepy that I had a sudden urge to sing the "Mishaberach" even though I didn't know what had happened.
What's your story?

So Are you suddenly Physic? Do you think you're gifted? Supernatural powers? Quit joking around.


9/11 <|3 is all i can say

[bobby james]

Bobby's 911 chronicles.
Well, my dad was in the room ironing his clothes and i woke up to pee and then I looked at the TV with sleepy eyes. "What's that?" "Oh the building was bombed" "Oh". I went to the restroom thinking about how hungry I was and went back to bed. Woke back up when I had to and my mom was ironing this time, she was ironing my clothes again, I look at the TV... (there goes the face again) "this was on TV when I woke up, why is it still on." I walked to the kitchen and got breakfast ready and on I went to school.

My teacher brings in the TV turns on the news and then we're looking at it. there goes those buildings again., i thought. My teacher said what happened, to be honest, we cared but...well...we were just thinking about other things, like how we didn't have to do work that day . It's more serious to me now. Anyways, I find out it was an attack, and then I get the thinkin..cause I'm a deep thinker, Downtown L.A. where my father works, hoping they wouldn't target anything there. I get worried. Then I stop getting worried.

I go home and I'm talking about it to my parents and THEN that's when they wanna tell me. They tell me people jumped out for their lives and plane crashes and mess. Then I think... wait a minute, I am so glad dad cancelled his flight for today, which happened to be a flight that had crashed. I think of him and I tell him do not go to work, he says since he is boss he has to, and if something happens the captain has to go down with the ship. So I think "wow dad thanks, thanks a freaking lot, AND you happen to be on the top story AND you work for government, AND your building is tall,just wow dad." I thought about it at night time. Then I was over it 2 mos. later.

[starlette]

Then I was over it 2 mos. later.

I like to read your posts

not gonna lie, I was over it very fast. It never sank in for me. I mean it scared me and it baffled me as how people could be so cruel, but I cried when Aaliyah died, but the world trade center just...well it kinda just felt too far away for me. and I to this day wish I could feel morea bout. I feel for those who lost people and I feel sad for the human race, but it still doesn't seem real to me. I never visited New York and I never noticed the towers in the news and in movies. It wasn't until 9/11 I even knew anything about them. and of course now in every movie they are in people notice, and like last night I was watching Armegeddon and after the first meteor shower they show the holes in the twin towers from the fake meteor damage and my boyfriend points it out as if it was some evil foreshadoing. Yeah...

[Listelle]

I was either in 7th or 8th grade. I was sitting in Spanish class when all the teachers were called to cafeteria for a meeting. We didn't know what was happeneing but we noticed a ton of kids were getting picked up early. While he was gone, a crazy old substitute teacher that I loved and was obsessed with the news turned on the tv and we finally figured it out. We were terrified because my school was right outside of Washington DC and you could hear all the helicopters and planes comking out of Andrews Air Force Base. My dad came and picked me up. My mom was a nurse at the hospital where they took some of the Pentagon victims and she didn't come home for like 2 days. I had an aunt who was working as a security guard at Pentagon, but luckily she was at the other side of the building. We didn't have school for a long time.

[*digital.fragrance*]

I was in 7th grade.

I woke up, and everything was normal... my mom and I got in the car to drive to school and we were listening to the local indy news radio station. Then they started to talk about a huge firabll exploding from one of the Twin Towers. Mom and I were like "What the HECK?!" We got dead silent and my blood ran cold. Then the the worst part of the live report came in. Just as the man was talking about the one tower getting hit, he goes "Oh my god! There's another plane, and it looks like it's going to- ?! The second tower has been hit, the second tower has been hit!"

I got into class, and my future history teacher turned on the TV - there we were, watching the towers fall, watching the pentagon go up in flames, watching the smoking, gaping hole in Pennsylvania... watching people on the streets running for their lives. I walked around in a stupor all day. It affected me so much that I composed a piano song for all of those families that lost their lives. I still remember that song, and when I play it, it still brings tears to my eyes.

Yes, I was young, but I was one of those girls that was more aware of the world around her than normal - I knew the fear, the risk, the danger, the terrible act that was committed... but I was more stunned and shocked than anything. This overwhelming sadness pervaded my life for the next few days. I cried for those that lost loved ones, and I cried for those who died such a terrible death. Even though I personally didn't lose anyone, it was like I had.

[xoxo_proud]

I was in 5th grade to. My teacher didnt tell my class until after lunch which would've been around 12ish. When I went to lunch my friend kept trying to tell me what had happened and i thought she had said a building in Cincinnati had been hit (I live in Ohio). I freaked out but when I got back to class my teacher told us and turned on the news. Muy brother's soccer practice got cancelled. I dont know why I remember that

[HakunaMatata]

I was in 6th grade, and I had morning P.E. We dressed out but instead of doing the regular laps, we went to the gym to watch T.V., which was weird, because that only happens if it's raining outside, and it wasn't. So we watched T.V., all of us little kids grouped together, and at first I didn't get it; I didn't understand what a big deal this was. And then it came to very suddenly that this was something that none of us will ever forget. Ever. Every period after that the teacher had us listen to the radio, listening for new updates, for the new death tolls, for any news that we could get on the other side of the coast. I went home and hugged my family, and that whole day was unforgettable.

[*I Shot JFK*]

I was in 7th Grade, and (i think, hazy here, because i was late that day for whatever reason) when the first plane hit, and there was an announcement on the morning news thing saying what had happened... so i went to math, and our teacher had the news on, so we were watching that, when another teacher came in and told us that the principal wanted the news turned off. Mrs Byess essentially threw a hissy fit and we left it on, and then about then the second tower hit. We watched while the news came in about the pentagon and flight 93 came in, and then the towers collapsed.

[magicfann]

i was in 4th grade and i moved out of downtown manhattan exactly 2 months before 9/11

who's got skill, oh yeahh

[dinoooRAWR]

i was in the third grade.
it was an early day because of back to school night .. but i think it got cancelled after ? i remember i freaked out when i got to school. i told some of my friends about it. they had NO clue about it. then my teacher told us about it. everyone was scared including me. i wanted to go home so badly because i thought our school was going to get bombed. then we talked about safety and how if we got stuck there we have supplies of food somewhere around .. yeah

[julianamon]

i was in school and in the 4th grade. i remember my teacher was crying. i didnt really know what was happening, but parents started to show up at our school and take their kids home. by the end of the school day, only a few kids were left in the class. when i went home with my aunt, i remember she was trying to explain to me what was happening. i misunderstood and thought 2 planes crashed into each other and the remains or something fell onto the buildings. and then i remember being at my aunt's house and she was crying and praying because my uncle wasnt home yet. when he came home, he was with my dad who took me home.

[timeflies51]

So Are you suddenly Physic? Do you think you're gifted? Supernatural powers? Quit joking around.
9/11 <|3 is all i can say

Oh please, like I'd ever believe in that crap. It's just a coincidence.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

I like to read your posts

not gonna lie, I was over it very fast. It never sank in for me. I mean it scared me and it baffled me as how people could be so cruel, but I cried when Aaliyah died, but the world trade center just...well it kinda just felt too far away for me. and I to this day wish I could feel morea bout. I feel for those who lost people and I feel sad for the human race, but it still doesn't seem real to me. I never visited New York and I never noticed the towers in the news and in movies. It wasn't until 9/11 I even knew anything about them. and of course now in every movie they are in people notice, and like last night I was watching Armegeddon and after the first meteor shower they show the holes in the twin towers from the fake meteor damage and my boyfriend points it out as if it was some evil foreshadoing. Yeah...

yea i sank in turmoil when aaliyah died too when school started i just wanted tooo refresh my mind ...but then now sep 11 came it and it just doubled the weight i was trying to remove from my mind im a overly-sensitive person


i also felt affected when JFK Jr. Died

[Jeng]

i was in 6th grade having snack time. and i was in class sitting when my teacher turned on the tv, we saw what was happening, and didnt know what was exactly gonig on.and other classes came into ours and we just watched. :[

[goodcharlotte]

I was in school. Everyone got to leave but me and my sister and my brother. They rounded us up in a room and showed us a TV that had the news on. I was like OMG and so was my sister. My brother didn't get it. My mom got us later that day and my sister and I were freaking out the entire day.

[Gypsy Eyes]

I was just walking into class in 6th grade when we found out. A lot of people were freaking out because I live so close to the city and many people had parents working there/in fdny.

I just remember crying because my uncle and aunt lived in battery park. They got out ok, but it was one of the scariest days in my life. Later on that day we found out my best friend's(at the time) Dad died (he is a cheif for FDNY) when the second tower collapsed. I spent the whole day at her house, just comforting her. It was horrible

[bballchick1]

I was in my gr. 5 class and we just all talked about it.

It was a weird day at school...

[juliar]

fourth grade. nobody knew what was going on, people just kept getting pulled out of class. i remember i kept thinking that my parents would never ever pull me out of school, because well. they don't do that. but then i got a call to go, and i left.

i asked my dad what was going on. he said that the twin towers fell down. i didn't believe him, i thought it was another one of his jokes.

we went back to where they worked (my parents owned a laundromat that was closed that day) and there was one of those small crappy black and white tv's there. i watched the local news on there. every single channel was playing the same videos; the smoke billowing around the corner while people ran from it, each tower falling straight down, the collision of the airplanes.

my parents were frantically trying to reach my sister (she was a junior at stuyvesant, which is a couple blocks away from the twin towers). cellphone lines were all f**ked up that day since everyone was calling everyone. then we got reports of a plane crashing into the pentagon, and later one crashing into the field in pennsylvania. i remember being really scared and wondering where the next one would hit.

my parents and i were so scared for my sister. we didn't know where she was, what had happened to her, how she was getting home, IF she was coming home, if anything had happened to the school building, etc. finally in the afternoon my sister got through to us and told us that she was alright, that she was walking across the bridge to get home. all the traffic was stopped and everyone was walking. people were throwing their high heeled shoes over to the side of the bridge as they walked.

my sister finally got home at night and we were relieved. but everything about 9/11 didn't really sink in until last night, when i was watching the documentary about flight 93 on the discovery channel. weird. five years late, huh.

oh yeah. and one of my cousins who also went to stuy was late for school that day and was walking out of a subway station to get to school. less than a minute after she walked up the steps, the subway station collapsed behind her.

[*I Shot JFK*]

^ GOD i forgot about the cell phone thing...

my dad works for a phone company, nd he was woking late for a good few days after that trying to get everything functioning again. Apparently phones were f**ked up all down the East Coast.

[monxcheri]

i was in school in my math class. i was in 5th grade at the time. my teacher went out of the classroom, came back && turned on the tv. 1st thing we saw was a plane smashing into one of the towers. everyone was so silent.

[mocassinsx29]

Fifth grade. I was in class and our teacher just told us what happened. There was a window right outside our classroom that overlooked the city from far away (I was in Queens) and we saw really dark grey smoke billowing over some buildings. Parents kept calling the school and coming to the school to pick up their kids. The next morning my neighborhood smelled like smoke.

[theINSANITYclaus...]

10th grade (gah, I too feel old!). It was in gym class, and they were still dropping and adding people from classes and what not, so we weren't doing anything. Anyway, our gym teacher didn't come for like a half an hour (the class is 45 minutes long). Then she explained what happened. Like a lot of people who didn't see the footage, I thought it was a joke. It didn't completely hit me until I saw the footage when I got home (I don't think any of us got released from school before our time, because at one point there were going to lock down all the schools in the 5 boroughs). Then my mom was like "next they're going to bomb houses". Oh, thanks a lot for scaring me even more, Mom!

I was paranoid about planes for a while. Especially ones that flew low. To this day, my brother in law will not fly when he goes on vacation. He would rather take Amtrak.

[iheartjohn]

Feeding Geena.

[bobby james]

I like to read your posts

[hunterxhollywood]

I was in 2nd grade, and all of a sudden our teachers were calling our parents to come get us or something like that. We kept asking why and they just said to ask our parents. So my mom came and told me, but I didn't really understand till a couple years later or so.

[clarity]

Everyone was in 5th grade.

its kind of freaky in a way

I was in fourth grade.
Anyways, Well I live right in the border or D.C and Maryland... Well my parents we're in a meeting with the principle at school.. and I was doing a math test when all of a sudden the P.A system said, "Ms. [iforgottheteachersname] would you please send Lucy to the office with all her things for early dismisal" and I was thinking "err? why do i have to leave early?" and then I saw my parents waiting for me in the office and when we got in the car my dad took all these short cuts and crap and told me to duck and I was thinking "what the heck is going on?" and then we we got home my dad turned on the news, let me watch it, then he explained what happened. Then I got scared and I put ALL of the blinds down in the house, and at night I slept with my parents cause I though someone was going to put a bomb on our porch.
Surprisingly we had school the next day, and I was really scared.

Oh and my neighbor worked at the pentagon, she died. Her kids we're my friends, and they were devastated because their mom was the spirit of the neigborhood.. now I never see her kids, they're dad is so over protective now.

Gah, now I'm sad.

[SimplicityGirl]

It was the second week of highschool for me. I had just entered Grade 8 from elementary school, and that day started off normally enough. I woke up when my radio alarm went off, and did my usual washroom routine. I then went back to my room where I got changed. The morning show that I listen to was interrupted by the news people saying that an "emergency with the planes" happened in NY in that morning (I live in Vancouver, BC, so we were a couple of hours off). I didn't pay much attention to it because I figured it was probably one of those normal accidents that happened. I went to the kitchen for breakfast, and it was then that my Mom told me what happened because she was listening to the same radio channel as I do. I didn't quite believe it. She went to the living room to turn on the TV, with the intention of finding the USA news station. She didn't need to look. Every channel was broadcasting the image of the plane crashing into the Twin Towers. I stood there, watching the plane crash into the Twin Towers while trying to eat breakfast and to comprehend what really had happen. It really didn't sink in for me at that time. It seemed a bit surreal. Surely, this was NOT happening. I went to school somehow. And even though the teachers tried to go on with the day as normally as usual, it didn't work. Some of the teachers just plain gave up on trying to teach, and instead, watched the news on TV. An announcement on the PA by our principal told us what happened. We were all summoned into the Auditorium by grades to have a moment of respect for those who had died during the crash. As the day slowly unrolled, and more images of the plane crashing into the Twin Towers, and more news update on the situation, it slowly began to sink into me just how great a tragedy 9/11 was. But I didn't understand why. That took me about another year to fully grasp the impact and meaning of 9/11. I remember feeling lucky that I don't live anywhere near NY at the time...then I remember feeling guilty that I feel happy that I don't live there when a lot of people's lives have been claimed by the two planes. I still don't know how I feel about the 9/11. But I know that because of 9/11, I now treasure all my friends, and family, and I refuse to take things for granted.

[*danielle_x3*]

I was in 6th grade, and I went to a catholic elementary school. We had confessions that day, and so we were outside. ( I live in NJ ) I had a real nice view of the New YorK Skyline, including the twin towers. When you walked outside, you would see the towers up in flames. Right after confessions, we went back to school and watched TV. My mom had a meeting in the north tower that morning, but she's one of the lucky ones that escaped. However she came home around 1AM. The phones weren't working, and I couldn't contact her. I honestly cried, thinking what life would be without her. It was so hard, but when she came home I was so thankful that she's still alive. I still look outside my house window, remembering where the towers were. I practically grew up with them. Blaaah. I still remember looking outside of the science lab windows, watching the towers on fire, then collapsing.

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

I think I was in 4th grade at that time? Er. Yeah.
I went to this public school in Queens Village at that time. Thank God it was 10 miles from Manhattan. Thank God I lived in Queens at that time. Thank God my mom didn't go to work and my dad had night shift.
It was 10. I had math class at that time and then a lot of kids were being called out. I thought they had detention or something and then I was told to go to the office with my things. I was really scared. When I reached the office, my little brother was there with my parents.. My sister went to Stuyvesant at that time. She was a senor. Her school was less than 10 blocks from the WTC.. I asked my parents what happened and they refused to tell me. Instead, they took us home and turned the TV to CNN. I saw the towers fall and I started crying. "WHY? WHY? Why does this have to happen??" I screamed. And then I though of my sister. She didn't have a phone. She had no way of contacting us. I was really crying now. I thought something happened to her. I thought she died. It was really painful. We spent over 6 hours in silence sitting around the TV after that. At around 5, my sister came home and I ran to her crying.. She was crying too. She was crying more than I was. She had to watch the towers fall, the people jump out of the buildings. It turns out she walked home with a few of her friends.. We were all relieved. She was safe.

It was SO scary. I thought my dad went to work that day.. And he works in the United Nations which I thought was a target at that time. Thank God he had night shift..

I was really traumatized for about 2 years.. Everytime a plane flew over my house, I hid under the bed, thinking my house was a target. The worse thing was, I started to watch the news constantly at that time. I remember then talking about the "Silent Killer" (Carbon Monoxide) and kidnappers and serial killers and Al Qaeda.. That traumatized me even more. I was really depressed in 4th grade. I really changed that year. I became a little bit antisocial and stopped talking to my friends.

And y'know.. I don't think I've ever really gotten over it. I'm still recovering from it.

[HakunaMatata]

Every single story in here makes me shiver like crazy. Nothing can make us forget that day.

[EmmalieV]

I was in the 7th grade and we were in Science and we were talking about it , it never hit me , not even went i went to ground zero 2 years ago. I watched the documentaries , and everything else afterwoods.

But i do remember that I asked my science teacher who she thinks did it , and she immediatly said Al Quaeda.

Now , I thought the building fell over not crumbled , anyways I dont believe Al Quaeda did it , yes i believe the conspiracy theories.

GWB has f**ked us all. =)

[gelionie]

I remember the incident showing on the tv again and again... that was too horrifying.

And I still had to go to school that day (since I don't live in the US).

[Gypsy Eyes]

^only schools within 20 blocks were released.

GWB has f**ked us all. =)

Is that really necessary?

[think!IMAGINARIL...]

^only schools within 20 blocks were released.

My friend's school was 15 blocks from there and they weren't released.. Parents called and came to pick them up.

[KissMe2408]

I was in 8th grade.
Sitting in history class and all, and I remember the principle announcing that there would be no recess. Joey jumped up, "Wtf? no recess?! what possibly could of happened?"
I remember seeing the teachers run around, my science teacher turning up his radio and such. They didn't seem to care where the students went as soon as the bell rang. We just all kinda aimlessly wandered through the halls, until we decided to settle into our home rooms. I remember a few of my friends crying, and parents frantically running inside picking their children up. And I remember being the last one to get picked up.

[illriginal]

Hey I just realized today's NWO's birthday, Existing 5 years and many more to come

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Enjoy!

- You may check your inbox for your official verbal warning.

This post has been edited by Zatanna: Sep 11 2006, 04:43 PM

[Smoogrish]

All I remember was watching this video on minerals in fourth grade.
And then everyone went into lockdown (even though we were in MD.. well I guess it sortof made sense then).
And then one by one, everyone started leaving, and I was wondering what had happened and why we couldn't keep on watching the video, because we were supposed to be having a party. And I got really frustrated.
I was one of the last people to leave class, and when I got home, we turned on the TV, and I just remember thinking, "Is this real?" It was so frightening I didn't want to believe it.

One of my best friends lost her father in the WTC.

[fagget]

I was in 3rd grade, going to school all happy. Cheesin' my ass off thinking YES IT'S MY BIRTHDAY.
Then I saw everyone all sad, and I'm alone, cheesin', looking like a retard, thinking "wtfuck? It's my birthday.. "

[maguti]

I was in sixth grade. Throughout the day people kept comming into the classroom and pulling kids out of class. I remember going to lunch and half the kids left. No one told us what was happening, which made everyone mad. I remember in the end of the day someone came into our classroom and went down the attendence list and asked us where our parents worked and if anyone was usually home when we'd get home.

It wasn't until I got home when I saw my whole family in front of the TV.

[*krnxswat*]

I was in the 7th grade and we were in Science and we were talking about it , it never hit me , not even went i went to ground zero 2 years ago. I watched the documentaries , and everything else afterwoods.

But i do remember that I asked my science teacher who she thinks did it , and she immediatly said Al Quaeda.

Now , I thought the building fell over not crumbled , anyways I dont believe Al Quaeda did it , yes i believe the conspiracy theories.

GWB has f**ked us all. =)

Someone's sensitive.

[illriginal]

Whoa... I just had my content deleted.. this is exactly how media works... when you push a little truth, you get attacked.

Maybe it's time to find another forumboard

[oXMuhNirvanaXo]

5th grade. I was sitting in my class room when I got a call down to the office. My mom was in the office and she was crying when one of my techers pulled us both in to her office so that my mom wouldent get everyone up set. I wasent paying any attention to my teacher when she was talking to the both of us I was focused on my mother crying her eyes out. I thought my dad died or somthing. I didn't understand at all what was going on. Then my mother said " Lori might be dead and we have to get home as fast as posable. So, we booked it home before anyone else got out. My mother was the first one there. We got home just in time to see the second plane hit. That was one of the most scaryest thing I have ever seen in my life. Its even scary to hear about or to think about right now.

[*mona lisa*]

x2^I haven't seen it, but even if it had some truth to it, it must have been inappropriate.

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I was in the seventh grade in my social studies class (this was back when I actually lived in NYC). My teacher got a phone call (each classroom has a phone). She gasped, covered her mouth, and began to cry. She left the room for a minute, came back, stood at the front of the class and told us what's happened. She first asked if anyone's parent(s) worked at the WTC and asked them to leave the room to make a call. (One girl's mother worked there but thankfully, she was fine.) Then she told us that the two planes were hijacked and driven into the twin towers. A teacher had heard it on the radio/TV but thought it was a joke since there are radio shows that pull pranks. But, it wasn't and we were all sent home. Most of the TV channels were not working but I remember CBS was and I think it was Dan Rather who was reporting about it. I remember seeing horrible images on TV.

My dad was near the buildings a minute before they first began to fall. He was leaving for New Jersey and was just at the entrance to the Holland Tunnel. He didn't know about it till he left the tunnel and stayed over at a friend's house in NJ for the night. I'm thankful nothing happened to him.

I prayed this morning for all the families who lost lives five years ago and I'm hoping they will find peace.

[*Zatanna*]

Whoa... I just had my content deleted.. this is exactly how media works... when you push a little truth, you get attacked.

Maybe it's time to find another forumboard

If that is how you really feel, then by all means.

What you posted was irrelevant to the purpose of this thread. You know that, you just chose to make this a part of your political/theological agenda. Many people are saddened by the anniversary of 9/11, be respectful towards them. You also know very well those images were disrespectful, you just didn't care.

Let it be, please. There is a 9/11 thread in The Debate Forum. Move those type of sentiments and that type of "truth" there, but do so ONLY if you have FACTS to back it up.

[Gypsy Eyes]

Whoa... I just had my content deleted.. this is exactly how media works... when you push a little truth, you get attacked.

Maybe it's time to find another forumboard

Maybe it's time to realize that this is actually something serious? Not some excuse to "inform someone of the truth". Try to be a little sensitive

[GlecieC]

Wow, there are a lot of people who were in 5th grade when 9/11 happened.

I was also in 5th grade when this tragedy happened. I remember leaving for school when my aunt was watching the news in the kitchen. I saw it and I didn't really hit me then. I got to school and the TV was on (news). My friends and I were shocked. Some of us even cried. It was heart breaking. We got sent home early. That was all I remember.

But it really is a sad thing. Thousands of people died. Grr, it's just so sad. I don't wanna go on, because thinking about it hurts.