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?

[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.

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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...

[bobby james]

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