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?

[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.