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?

[YourSuperior]

I was in 6th grade, and it was first period also, and we used to watch the news every morning and it was on there. Everybody was like omg!

[emazing]

I was in fourth grade, too. My mom came out of the shower first, and then I came out second, so she knew about it first, but then she told me of this dream she had the night before about terrorists & such. It scared the heck out of me when she told me about 9/11.
I'll never forget the expression on my mom's face, much less everybody at school. '_'

[whomps]

I was at home in the morning, and my grandpa was watching it on television. He was like, "WAHH WHOAA Haha look at them go!" He couldn't undestand English, and probably didn't realize it was the News channel like I did, so yeah. I just thought it was one of those.. RealTV amazing stories shows.
Yeah, when I got to school, it really hit me on what happened when kids were talking about it.
On that same day, this first grader reported that there was a guy with a gun at our school. So our school had (it's first?) lockdown thing.. and all the children had to go into the cafeteria and the police was there.. and we were in the library, and the SWAT team or whatever came in with laser pointing guns and yeah. Rushed everyone to the cafeteria. Then after they couldn't find the man with the gun, they found out the girl was lying. It was so scary... and lame in the end. A lot parents came and took their kids home even before school ended.

[Looow]

I was in fifth grade coloring a name tag. Out fo nowhere the principal came and pulled out my teacher. Minutes later, my teacher came in and told us what happened. Of course, I didn't exactly understand what was going on at the time.

After school, my mom explained to me what had happened and turned on the t.v. I was so shocked. I felt as if it was a movie. I didn't understand why someone would do such a thing. Actually, I still don't understand why would somebody do that.

[*salcha*]

Sixth grade, first period band at school. Some people were crying, the teacher was startled. When my mom first found out she though, "Eh, no big deall..just a small hole in the building, right?"

How surprised she was when she found out.

[Skyline Drive]

I was in 8th grade. I remember we heard about it in Drama class and we turned on the TV and my drama teacher put her hands up to her face and started to cry. I didn't really know what was going on. I didn't even know what the world trade center was because I had just moved back to the united states after living in another country for 4 years.. yeah I was pretty much oblivious.

[delicateATROCiTY]

my dad was already driving my brother to school for his 6am practice, while i was still at home getting ready to leave. he heard on the radio when it happened and then called to tell me. at first i didn't believe him but theni turned on the news and saw for myself. at school we just watched the news a bit and talked about what happened and what it meant. no one i knew knew anyone in new york so it didn't have very much of an impact on me when it first happened.

[sadolakced acid]

7th grade. 1st period. it's 20 minutes into class. assistance principal comes in. gets the teacher over. he goes over to turn on the TV.

assistance principal says "the twin towers have been bombed. or, actually komikazied."

we were the only class that was allowed to watch it, because we were the 'smart class' and could 'handle it'

yea right.

while we were watching, the reports that the pentagon was bombed (didn't know it was a plane then) came.

of course we told the rest of the school, so by homeroom almost everyone knew.

teachers weren't allowed to turn on the TV, but in the office they had a TV on so every period we'd get reports of what was happening.

one teacher informed studnets that because of the army base, we had been right after new york and DC on the soviet nuclear strike list.

stupid 6th grades morph the story into 'they're going to bomb our school next'

and there were students freaking out...

like one kid's dad was supposed to be on a plane in new york

and then anther had an uncle in the pentagon. he was pulled out of the rubble a few days later.

[Heewee]

I was in 8th grade and in my 3rd period computer class. My teacher told us that a plane hit the trade center and I got really scared because at the time, my dad worked at the chicago mercantile exchange building in downtown Chicago, but then I asked her and she said it was the Twin Towers in NYC. We turned on the TV and a few minutes later, the 2nd plane hit. In every class of mine, all we did was watch the news. I remember, it was a Tuesday because I go to my dad's house on Tuesday nights (my parents are divorced). My dad came to pick my sisters and I up at my mom's house and he told us that he was actually supposed to fly that day. In fact, he was supposed to be on one of the planes. He had decided to spend a few more hours where he was (don't remember) and rent a car and drive it home. I was so shocked and greatful that my dad was still there. We also found out later that my mom's cousin, who works at the Pentagon, was missing for a few days but he eventually turned up and was fine. That was one of the worst days of my life.

[short_stop08]

I was in the 6th grade in my homeroom teacher's class. It was early in the morning obviously and she cut on the radio. Every day since then she talked about it in class. Talking about see that's what they're trying to prove our weakness. Education. I was like wth. shut up and teach so i can go.

[pshaa.shauna]

5th grade, at home, getting ready for school. I was putting on my socks, when I heard the guy from our radio station (U93), say wow...this is...wow, they keep playing the video over and over....wow....a plane just hit the twin towers.

I had no idea what was going on.

I went downstairs to take a drink, and my mom asked me what I was thinking about (I had my thinking face on), and I said "The guy from the radio just said a plane flew into a building, and that they keep playing it on the news over and over"

My mom told me to go upstairs right away. I didn't get how bad it was untill we got to school. We got into the classroom and the tv was on. after we watched it for a half an hour or so, our teacher turned it off, he said he refused to have us watch it anymore because all he saw was fear on our faces.



You know how they kept playing the planes crashing into the building oer and over? I never saw it, I still haven't seen it. I did see the firemen inside the building, with the video camera, and you could hear the bodies falling and splatering on the ground.... they sounded like comets. That was just......


After the shock of it wa sover, what sickened me was the fact that people took the pictures and edited them syaing "oh look the plane is coming!", or "look the devil is in the smoke!!" People are f**king morons like that. I hate this country. I'm moving to Canada when I'm out of college.

[daonlylonely1]

let's see, i was in third grade at that time, and it was the first day of school. anyways, it was like a normal day in the morning even though my parents were talking about it, i didn't know what in the world the twin tower was. went along with my day until school started. went to school, and the teacher had the television on and then she was talking about it, so that was how i knew. and the rest is a blur -.- i have bad memory.

[sadolakced acid]

try to read through the list of victims.

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/

i tried by youngest first.
that hit me hard. i don't think people understand what nearly 3000 deaths really means.

[5ayuri]

I was in 5th grade.
I was walking to school with a friend of mine and she was telling me that two planes crashed. I didn't really think it was that big of a deal.
Most of the day my teacher had the TV turned on and we were watching the news. It was a fun day because she didn't make us do any of the work.
Also when I got home my mom and uncle were really freaked out and wouldn't stop watching the news.
I didn't really understand and didn't think it was a big deal, like everyone else was making it seem.
But it was..

[pshaa.shauna]

This kid named Trent, the year before,he went to our school, and then moved to New York. His dad worked at the twin towers, and he went there every morning, his dad and him. Brennan and I were really good friends with trent...neither of us know if he was in the building or not.

It is really sad what happened. I can't beleive, that so many people forgot. I even forgot about it, I don't think my parents remember... WE are celebrating mt little brothers bday tommorow (his bday is the 13th).

[ANG33ZY]

6th grade. i heard it on the radio on the way to school. i had no clue what the world trade center was until i watched the news. i couldn't believe my eyess. and like every channel on tv was talking about it.

[nopattern]

It was 5th grade and we were about to start math. Our teacher told us and I had no idea who/what/how big it was so me and the guy sitting next to me joked about it saying, "where were you this morning." Then we were listening to the radio a lot of the day. Lots of kids went home. One girl started crying because her family worked at the trade center in Dallas or something. Yeah.

[*incoherent*]

i was in 7th grade and i remember hearing about it, but didnt think anything of it. the teachers werent allowed to talk about it, so we just continued the day normally. on the bus ride home, a 9th grader at the time thought itd be cool to throw his backpack like a bomb to "prepare us". when i got home, i just remember watching the news all night because nothing else was on.

[PinkTrash]

I was in the fifth grade at the time.. but it didnt really affect me anyway - Im canadian. I just remember the PA system called for all the teachers to have an emergency meeting.. When my teacher came back he told us, although I didnt really understand at that age. I remember my friend crying because her mom was in New York city at the time; although nothing happened in the end.

[*xcaitlinx*]

grrr...why must we dwell on the past???

i was in 5th grade...in school. all of a sudden large amounts of students were getting called down to the main office for dismissal. one by one, we each started getting more suspicious. i wasn't one of the people that got called down...but me and my friends still knew that something wasn't right. i really wanted to know what happened but my teacher said that she wasn't allowed to tell us. so after waiting all day without knowing what was going on, i went home all worried. i remember walking into my parents' bedroom and my dad was laying on the bed. the tv was on and i looked and all i saw was a plane crashing into a skyscraper. i looked at my dad and his eyes were all red. my dad works in NYC. he had been in the WTC on the first floor checking out the stocks when he was saved by a police officer who told him to jump into a cab. luckily, my dad got out of NYC quickly and was able to take a bus home. what makes me sad is that the police officer that helped my dad get out ended up dying. im so thankful that my dad is safe and my uncle too who works in NYC and had to take the ferry home.

this is why i don't want to be reminded of 9/11.

[sharerol]

I was in 4th grade, and I was in my car. My dad was driving me to school. So he was listening to the radio, and he goes like "oh shit"... I didn't really know what was going on, and when i got to school, they told us to go home.. so yeah. Then I started to realize what had happened, and I got really scared. So since school was cancelled, my dad wanted to take us out to eat lunch. T_T I was all shaking. I was scared to go, but I went anyway. =\

[xoxoxx]

i was in 5th grade. uh i woke up getting ready for school. and on the news, it was showing how a plane flying to this building. and i'm like wtf. to tell the truth, i didn't care that much i thought it was fake or something. my parents were shocked. and at school my teachers talked to us about this and yeah.

[silver-rain]

There's another topic on this...

But anyways, I was in 8th grade in Spanish class when my teacher asked if anyone had a parent or knew someone that worked in the World Trade Center. A girl did, but we were wondering why she said that, and then she said that the tower was hit. We weren't sure what that meant, but when we went to Science, our teacher had told us what happened. We were shocked, and spent the rest of the day listening to the radio. I still couldn't believe what had happened, but when I was walking home, I saw that people were in disbelief and the hospital near where I lived looked busy. Then, when I went home and turned on the television, and all the channels had the news... It seemed unreal but I saw it happen over and over again as it was replayed on the screen...

My boyfriend was a freshman at Stuyvesant, the school near the towers, and he told me his story about what happened, and how every one was so scared and all. They could feel the vibrations as the towers fell, and saw the planes hit the buildings...

[Gigi]

I was 6th grade, I think. I still remember what happened that day. It was in the morning and my mom was listening to the radio. I was sleeping. My mom ran up the stairs and woke me up and said "OMG AMERICA'S BEING BOMBED!", and I was like "Yeah yeah, whatever, let me sleep." Until I woke up and actually saw the impact and hugeness of 9/11 did I realize how wrong I was. It was so surreal, watching these planes go offcourse and hit towers.

I disagree with PinkTrash, it affected me in a great way even though I'm not American. 9/11, like the tsunami a few months ago, tore people apart and in a peculiar way, brought us all together. The terrorist attack itself was not part of humanity's finest hour, but the sympathy that people gave out and with all the help the reached out with - that was truly a triumph of the human spirit.

It was weird. In the 6th grade I didn't really care about a lot of stuff. Nothing really affected me, but this did.