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?

[*This Confession*]

^Well your the same age as me.

I was in 5th grade as well. I remember the teacher walked out of the room and went in to the grade k. class across the hall that had the tv on cnn or something like that. She kept coming back and going to the classroom to check up on things. Then eventually she told the whole class to line up and we walked over there when another 5th grade class came over too. As they came one of my guy friends came ands sat by me and asked what was going on. And well I just said some plane decided to take a free ride in a building.

I wasen't really paying attention. Aparently my teacher's son lived in new york and he worked in new york city and was leaving where he lived to go to work when someone called him before he left to go and said there wasen't a city anymore.

Thats all I really remember, nothing really changed at my home.
I have family that lives in Maryland, but they were perfectly fine.

I went home, went over to my grandparents and had dinner. Got on the computer. Went to school the next day. And we locked all the doors and windows for the rest of the school year.

9/11 didn't really effect my life in any ways.. I feel bad for the families that lost people and never actually found some people.


Although now their making movies about it that make me kind of mad that their doing that. Its been years since it happened and people are starting to get over it a little and they make a movie to make those people remember all over again and yea just what they need.

[treschicgeek]

I remember that day. I was in fifth grade too. And in class that day, and the teacher asking us, "Do you guys know what is going on right now?" and us talking about it and watching the news.

I also remember that both my parents were on a flight to Chicago on American Airlines. They were supposed to going London that day. I was so scared because it was the first time in a while both my parents weren't home and it was just me, my little brother, and uncle at home. And when they said that one of the airplanes was from American Airlines since I was watching the news all day, I got really scared and couldn't stop crying because I thought my parents were on the flight with the attacks.

Luckily, in a way I guess, my parents were on a totally different flight and got to Chicago (and London) safely. I just mostly remember crying alot because I was in fifth grade.

I can't believe it's been five years. It feels like it's just happened yesterday.

[*yrrnotelekktric*]

I was in 7th grade. It was early in the morning when it was on the news and I woke up to go to school. I still went to school that day and all I remember of that day was how everyone of my classmates wanted to go home

[jennyjenny]

I WAS IN FIFTH GRADE TOO!

i didn't know what was going on. the school didn't really say much about it cuase they didn't want us 5th graders knowing about it. i got home and i found my mom at home watching the tv and she said she got let off early becaues they were afraid that they were going to bomb her building or like something in the city of boston. i didn't really think much about it, to tell you the truth. my mom was just like oh some planes crashed through some buildings and i didn't really panic or care about it.

[sprezzatura]

I was in 5th grade. Since I live on the West Coast, when it happened, I was still sleeping. Then I go to school, my history teacher showed us the news, and I found out what happened.

[aubbob]

i was in fifth grade as well... i heard my mom up at like 4am listening to the radio
because we didn't have cable yet. the weird thing was in math, we were reading about planes
the day before and our homework was to find a plane we would like to fly in.. when i went to class i got to see what happened, i really couldn't picture anything over the radio. it was so scary, i remember not wanting to go to school because i was afraid i was gonna die.
five years flew by so fast it's amazing..

[*This Confession*]

Everyone was in 5th grade.

its kind of freaky in a way

[kimmytree]

I cant believe its already been 5 years. I was in 6th grade.

I remember knowing something had happened while I was at school that day, but I didnt really know what exactly was going on till after I got home after school that day. My school didnt tell us what happened, but they told the older kids... who told the younger kids. lol.

I remember feeling really bad over what happened, but I wasnt too worried because everyone in my family lives in Florida. I think its too early for people to be making movies about it.

[heyyfrankie]

i was jus twalking into homeroom [6th grade] when peopel were tlaking about the whole incident.

i, of course, being the bastard that i was, didn't believe them and called them stupid.

then i heard abtou it again at recess and i was like, "omg, okay...C'MON GUYS!!"

then i get home and im like...WHOA. :[

sad. SAD. s a d .

[cassjamminx]

i was walking to school and the crossing guard was like "why are you going to school? didn't you hear what happened? practically no one is coming to school today!" so then i went anyways and my grandma ended up picking me up. we waited in our fire drill lines outside, but eventually went inside to wait, watched the news & movies. pretty interesting day. i cant believe how long its been.

[expoised]

I was living in NJ at the time and I was in 7th grade. It was during like... 4th period and the english teacher turned on the TV. Then, they called up all the students with relatives working at the WTC to the front office. At first, we thought it was so cool seeing these planes crash into buildings... I guess we were kids looking for action... completely ignorant and simple-minded.

It didn't really dawn on me later until i saw a friend of mine crying because her uncle was in that building. We didn't get early dismissal or anything, but when I got home, my mom drove me to Washington Rock that was like, 5 minutes away from my house. You could see across the river and look at the smoke coming up from where the buildings were. There was a huge memorial there later that night and throughout the entire year.

[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.

[EddieV]

I was sitting in General Science class where I have a full view of the World Trade Center. I see a missile type object crashing into the building. I told my teacher who at that time happened to be Dr. Czelozick. He immedietely called the school's office. While I was sitting on my desk, I noticed one of the buildings collapsed, after that I was speechless. It didn't seem possible, like I still don't find it possible, but it happened, so the whole school had an assembly in the gym, and we got dismissed. The next day, school was closed.

[starlette]

I was sitting in General Science class where I have a full view of the World Trade Center. I see a missile type object crashing into the building. I told my teacher who at that time happened to be Dr. Czelozick. He immedietely called the school's office. While I was sitting on my desk, I noticed one of the buildings collapsed, after that I was speechless. It didn't seem possible, like I still don't find it possible, but it happened, so the whole school had an assembly in the gym, and we got dismissed. The next day, school was closed.

dag yo. thats...heavy. I can't imagine how that would have felt. at all.

[demolished]

I was in my 5th grade class. My teacher told me about it.

And, i didnt believe it.

Until, i got home and watched the news.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

I was sitting in General Science class where I have a full view of the World Trade Center. I see a missile type object crashing into the building. I told my teacher who at that time happened to be Dr. Czelozick. He immedietely called the school's office. While I was sitting on my desk, I noticed one of the buildings collapsed, after that I was speechless. It didn't seem possible, like I still don't find it possible, but it happened, so the whole school had an assembly in the gym, and we got dismissed. The next day, school was closed.

wow i could imagine living in staten island having a full view of ny tower ...and to actually see it crash ..

i was in 9th grade during that time freshman year , i was in social studies class during that time when i heard people in hallways running and some people crying ...thats when i asked the teachers why there crying ....my social studies teacher who was a new teacher from the district left the class for a few min . he was nervous about all the responses people might think of giving him . "please don`t ridicule me though im half-armenian" so we were like all confused ...after 2nd period during the 2 minute beel everyone was like all dazed and confused ...some kids crying in tears .... .... i went straight up to the class of my science class.....there my ecstatic geeky science teacher with his beard . showed us a picture of the world trade center with the 2nd plane hitting in still images .... i thought it was a joke ...like some sort of movie . i wouldnt have believed it ....that is until i left home and got dismissed early when my older cousins picked me up from school . and i watched the actual horror taking place .... i cried the whole night ....manic depression was in my vains running again ...i couldn`t move on with my life till sr year. .... i thought about some people i knew .....pain turmoil and horror for the next 3 days.....and then i found out my 3rd gen uncle died there ....my dad cried ... i havent seen him cry at all in my whole lifetime.

[*salcha4u*]

I was in 6th grade and in band (it was lame). All I remember was that I was really confused, and the conductor had a strickened look on her face.

[ANG33ZY]

On my way to school. I was in 6th grade. Turned on the radio and all the stations were talking about it.

[pandamonium]

I TOTALLY REMEMBERED THE DAY.

I was in the sixth grade and it happened during recess, i lived in NEWARK, NJ which was about 15-20 minutes away from NYC and SO many kids were getting called out of school and everybody was wondering why?? They never told us because I was going to a catholic school so I guess it was our policy not to tell if something like that went on. So it was less than half the kids left in the school and it was the end of the day and my classmates mom said on the spanish channel they said the twin towers went down due to terrorists and I didnt believe him cause usually on the spanish channel they gossip and a lot of the stuff they say on the news isnt really true (no offense just personal experience) but then i saw it out my window, there was soo much smoke in the air.

But i was able to see the smoke from my house but never the towers. Whenever I was on my way to the mall i drove down this specific hill and I would see the Towers but the sky seemed so plain after that.

[silver-rain]

Eh, I was in 8th grade when it happened. My Spanish teacher asked if there were any students whose parents worked in the World Trade Center, because one of the towers were hit. We really didn't think much of it after until a couple of periods later when more news about it started to spread. We went to homeroom where we turned on the radio to listen to the news. To me, it was still surreal. As I was walking home, I passed by a hospital and there were many ambulances and injured people. When I got home and turned on the TV, the news was on every station. That's when it really hit me.

But, my boyfriend went to school right near the World Trade Centers and he saw what happened.

[datass]

I was in 5th grade also.

I'm on the other side of Earth so it was 9:30-11 at night, don't quite remember. I was kinda sleeping then I heard my mom and dad outside talking really loud so I went out and check out what's happening and on the TV, an airplane hits the building. I sat down and watch, moments later another plane hits the other building.

It was scary..I thought it was some horror movie.

[CandyCorn.]

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?

So Are you suddenly Physic? Do you think you're gifted? Supernatural powers? Quit joking around.


9/11 <|3 is all i can say

[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.

I like to read your posts

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...