what's your 9/11 memory? Options

[Mr. Slowjamz]

It never really affected me because all I could think is, "There are worse things going on in other parts of the world every day and we don't seem to notice them, so why should we notice this?" I never thought that was fair, but then again, life isn't fair.

yea but there are plenty of people out there who never thought it could happen in a most civilized country....but i totally agree with your statement

well.....here we go again ....i guess its best to talk about my experience on that day

i was in my freshman year during my Earth Science Class in 3rd period , i never knew what had really happened before 3rd what all the commotion and fuss was about during the hallways ..until my teacher told us about it and showed it in the proxima ....the thought of it never sinked me in ....af first i thought it was just an accidemt ...and so class resumed ..as hours and periods passed too ...i start to see classmates crying and leaving home early ....now i start hearing from my friends that a 2nd plane crashed ....and it still never sunk through me ...until after 5th period gym ...the principle announced of what had happened ...and if its best that we would be safe in school till it ends...she also assured of many of the students that have loved ones working in the city go seek a counselour for help and contact. my mind started sinking through the depths everyone i knew started to think of anyone they know who worked in the city . all my friends were annoyed cuz they wanted to go home ...one of them being one of my close was in joy when he was allowed to be dismissed from the counselour ....lucky for me during 8th and 9th or so one of my older cousins picked me up my sisters and 2 cousins and headed home ....when i came back home i went to the kitchen just seeing my parents and grandfather staring at the tv all day .....and during that time because of the TV ....i starteed to think differently about everything around me and in my life ......i slept ...hoping it was a dream next day .... being so close around the city ...i guess many new yorkers felt deeply affected but also felt a passion to keep on doing what there doing ...so class resumed the next day ....during that day ..many of my teachers gaver speeches....many of whom started to see tears running through there faces.....it hit hard for us ...because we are from new york and all...but yet ...noone ever swayed back on what there supposed to do ....i still cant believe teachers were still able to teach...

3 days after-school i asked my dad if we knew that my tita ella was alright ....she used to live in a apartment suite next to the world trade center...thats the apartment suite where Russel Simmons and Kimora Lee Simmons used to reside (i was supposed to sing at a carol there but i was sick >.<). my dad said she was ok . my dad also told me he was supposed to get placed an interview in one of there business firms there during late july ...that suprised me ....3 hours later that night i went downstairs and hear my dad crying ...never heard him cry before ....we just found out that one of out close relatives "Hector Tamayo" is still found missing ....i felt bad because i know my distant cousins would have a hard time with that....out of all that....i was suprised i knew someone that died ...and i knew him ......just knowing someone that week....would make u cry ...after that i attened vigils and so on .....

alright so thats the end ....good bye for now

[*jooleeah*]

I remember...

I was in 5th grade, sitting in my math class..working on some worksheets? I don't quite remember. But...the announcement came on, saying that something tragic happened but the teachers weren't allowed to tell us exactly what had happened. I remember my friends telling me that some teachers cried...and I freaked out, because I really wanted to know what happened. Once I came home, I saw that the tv was on....and there were two burning buildings on the screen.

This makes me sadd.

[Aoiro]

I was in 4th grade, and I lived in New Jersey at the time.
I went to school, as usual.
Nobody knew what happened.
And we just go to school when it happened.
Throughout the day, nobody knew what happened.
Not even the principal.
And then when all of us got home, we were all happy.
And then my mom went up to me and told me to quickly come inside.
She explained to me what happened, and I didn't believe it easily.
And then she showed me to the television.
She flipped through every channel.
It had the same thing.
The planes crashing, twin towers burning, people dying, dust everywhere.
I just stared at it, and thought nothing.

Then when I came to school the next day, everyone was crying.
I showed no emotion.
It seemed like I didn't care.

Now every time I go to new York and see where the Twin Towers were, I just stare blankly at it.
I never knew that I would never get to go inside it.
I see nothing there at all.
And people walk pass by it and I look at their expressions.
No emotion.
And still I don't give any emotion at all.

[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.

[Ington]

I was in class in 5th grade, and suddenly a teacher came in, and my teacher and her ran into the hall where they had a TV. A bunch of the teachers were watching there, but none would tell us what happened. One of the teachers were crying.

I remember being pretty excited because we didn't work for the rest of the day, but then I wasn't so happy when I found out what happened.

[*suddenly she*]

i was in fifth grade stuck at camp. they didn't tell us anything, but a girl had a radio and the teachers made her cabin and the counselors not talk about it.

[eli5e]

hahahah mannn 4 years agooo ..i was in 8th grade... andi was at school when i found out

we were wathcing the news in most of my classes ..haha

[HongKongDong]

I was at home faking sick sleeping in my bed. My sister woke me up, I was bitchin all like what the f**k do you want? lol
She woke me up to tell me the horrible news. :/

[anniepiee]

i was in the 5th or 6th grade.
it was in the middle of the night since i was back in taiwan at that time.
my uncles calls my mom and yells
"THE TWIN TOWERS HAVE BEEN KNOCKED DOWN!"
yes. was up most of the night watching the news. =S

[ichiban]

i was in fourth grade. i remember waking up that morning and going into my parents room, and they were watching the news. my dad said, the twin towers crashed. and i had no idea what the twin towers were, so i was thinking, yeah so a tower fell down, your point is? until he told me it was the terrorists, a lot of people died, and i realized it WAS serious. at school, we talked about it and when i got home, i was scared that terrorists might attack my city. it was horrible :(

[ghjgfkgfk]

i didn't care.
and i still dont.
is that bad?

[cutelilmonkie930]

i wuz in 6th grade...n i heard it on the announcements...but i wuz confused...n mi mom had gone to ny for like a job or sumtin....i wuz a lil skard..but relle lost

[Mulder]

i was in 7th, 2nd period spanish..we turned on the news and there it was. people had been talking about it earlier but i hadnt heard about it yet. i left for school a little before it happened.

[BOLIN_Vee]

i was in 3rd grade and on the anouncements they didn't tell us anything about it (and i would have liked to know what was going on) and they were like, there are troubles going on now and the kids may be picked up if there parents want to. and i was like ahh w/e. so then....I ENDED UP BEING THE LAST PERSON IN MY GRADE WHO'S PARENTS DIDN'T PICK ME UP. then like a year later there was a bomb threat at the school and i was once again the LAST person to be picked up

[aznxdreamer]

i had no idea the wtc existed

[rinchan089]

I remember I was in 7th grade. It was a beautiful day in central New Jersey... Sunny, warm, just gorgeous. I was gazing out the window in Geography class about the time the WTC's would have fallen.

But I didn't know that yet.

At lunch, there were rumors that the Twin Towers had collapsed or they had been attacked. Skeptical of our 12 year old companions, my friends and I denied the event.

In 8th period Communication Arts, my teacher told us she heard on the radio during her lunch break that the Twin Towers had collapsed some time that morning. We were all shocked. Maybe it was true.

Not even five minutes after my teacher had told us what she had heard, the principal came on the loud speaker, asking if anyone had parents working in NYC and, if so, they must report to the main office immediately. So it had happened.

I left school early that day because I was having my pendulum (a stupid dental appliance to push my molars back) inserted. At the orthodontist's office, a TV had been brought in and everyone was listening (while either being worked on or working on someone) to newcasters detailing the day's events. It was so unbelieveable.

My mouth hurt when I came home on 9/11, but, when I turned on the news, I felt no pain. 3,000 people, MY people, had died. There was a possible terrorist attack on MY country. Why should I feel any pain when so many other people were dying.

16 people from my town died, many were fathers of young children and pregnant wives. 36 children in my town were affected.

9/11 has inspired me to become a stronger person. It has inspired me to love my country with every part of my being. If has inspired me to become a better American.

Even now, when I plane passes overhead at night, I worry something like 9/11 will happen again. Then I pray for the souls that had died in vain, for the children without parents, and for the country as a whole to be stronger than it ever could be.

Rin-chan

ps- Part of me is still in shock that it actually happened. I have stood in the hole left behind by the WTC's, but I cannot understand how so many people had died in the spot I was standing in.