9/11 stories, where were you on 9/11? |
9/11 stories, where were you on 9/11? |
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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? |
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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. |
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