what's your 9/11 memory? Options

[*lolita kitty*]

well, as julia stated, tommorow is september 11th. so my question is, what was your 9/11 memory? by this, i mean, where were you when you found out? what else happened that day? here's mine:

i was in 4th grade. it was first period or something like that. they were starting to say the morning announcements, and then our principal was like "the twin towers have been knocked down". something along those lines. the whole day i was really confuzed, because i had no clue what the twin towers were. in social studies, my teacher turned on the tv and we just watched the news, the whole period. i remember a few kids at school crying that day too >.>. when i got home that day, i turned on the tv, and every single news channel had the story on it. me and my dad talked about it for awhile, and he explained what the twin towers were and such.

er- yeah. that was my 9/11. what was yours?

[whooooshy]

i was in 5th grade. i was awoken by my dad, who was talking to my mom early in the morning. it must have been 6 or 7AM. my dad said something about new york city, that he was surprised or something like that. my mom rushed us to school, we have family in nyc so she must have been thinking about if they were okay or not. we got to school and i saw teachers, on the street, telling the people in the cars to go home, no school today. i was young and thought, "what's the big deal? how does something in nyc affect us?" i stayed home all day w/ my sister, and on practically every channel, was the news about the twin towers. i thought the whole thing was just crazy, why would anyone do this? we had a discussion when we went back to school the next day in class.

i still remember the day very clearly...it was just...so outrageous.