9/11 stories, where were you on 9/11? Options

[Listelle]

I was either in 7th or 8th grade. I was sitting in Spanish class when all the teachers were called to cafeteria for a meeting. We didn't know what was happeneing but we noticed a ton of kids were getting picked up early. While he was gone, a crazy old substitute teacher that I loved and was obsessed with the news turned on the tv and we finally figured it out. We were terrified because my school was right outside of Washington DC and you could hear all the helicopters and planes comking out of Andrews Air Force Base. My dad came and picked me up. My mom was a nurse at the hospital where they took some of the Pentagon victims and she didn't come home for like 2 days. I had an aunt who was working as a security guard at Pentagon, but luckily she was at the other side of the building. We didn't have school for a long time.

[*digital.fragrance*]

I was in 7th grade.

I woke up, and everything was normal... my mom and I got in the car to drive to school and we were listening to the local indy news radio station. Then they started to talk about a huge firabll exploding from one of the Twin Towers. Mom and I were like "What the HECK?!" We got dead silent and my blood ran cold. Then the the worst part of the live report came in. Just as the man was talking about the one tower getting hit, he goes "Oh my god! There's another plane, and it looks like it's going to- ?! The second tower has been hit, the second tower has been hit!"

I got into class, and my future history teacher turned on the TV - there we were, watching the towers fall, watching the pentagon go up in flames, watching the smoking, gaping hole in Pennsylvania... watching people on the streets running for their lives. I walked around in a stupor all day. It affected me so much that I composed a piano song for all of those families that lost their lives. I still remember that song, and when I play it, it still brings tears to my eyes.

Yes, I was young, but I was one of those girls that was more aware of the world around her than normal - I knew the fear, the risk, the danger, the terrible act that was committed... but I was more stunned and shocked than anything. This overwhelming sadness pervaded my life for the next few days. I cried for those that lost loved ones, and I cried for those who died such a terrible death. Even though I personally didn't lose anyone, it was like I had.

[xoxo_proud]

I was in 5th grade to. My teacher didnt tell my class until after lunch which would've been around 12ish. When I went to lunch my friend kept trying to tell me what had happened and i thought she had said a building in Cincinnati had been hit (I live in Ohio). I freaked out but when I got back to class my teacher told us and turned on the news. Muy brother's soccer practice got cancelled. I dont know why I remember that

[HakunaMatata]

I was in 6th grade, and I had morning P.E. We dressed out but instead of doing the regular laps, we went to the gym to watch T.V., which was weird, because that only happens if it's raining outside, and it wasn't. So we watched T.V., all of us little kids grouped together, and at first I didn't get it; I didn't understand what a big deal this was. And then it came to very suddenly that this was something that none of us will ever forget. Ever. Every period after that the teacher had us listen to the radio, listening for new updates, for the new death tolls, for any news that we could get on the other side of the coast. I went home and hugged my family, and that whole day was unforgettable.

[*I Shot JFK*]

I was in 7th Grade, and (i think, hazy here, because i was late that day for whatever reason) when the first plane hit, and there was an announcement on the morning news thing saying what had happened... so i went to math, and our teacher had the news on, so we were watching that, when another teacher came in and told us that the principal wanted the news turned off. Mrs Byess essentially threw a hissy fit and we left it on, and then about then the second tower hit. We watched while the news came in about the pentagon and flight 93 came in, and then the towers collapsed.

[magicfann]

i was in 4th grade and i moved out of downtown manhattan exactly 2 months before 9/11

who's got skill, oh yeahh

[dinoooRAWR]

i was in the third grade.
it was an early day because of back to school night .. but i think it got cancelled after ? i remember i freaked out when i got to school. i told some of my friends about it. they had NO clue about it. then my teacher told us about it. everyone was scared including me. i wanted to go home so badly because i thought our school was going to get bombed. then we talked about safety and how if we got stuck there we have supplies of food somewhere around .. yeah

[julianamon]

i was in school and in the 4th grade. i remember my teacher was crying. i didnt really know what was happening, but parents started to show up at our school and take their kids home. by the end of the school day, only a few kids were left in the class. when i went home with my aunt, i remember she was trying to explain to me what was happening. i misunderstood and thought 2 planes crashed into each other and the remains or something fell onto the buildings. and then i remember being at my aunt's house and she was crying and praying because my uncle wasnt home yet. when he came home, he was with my dad who took me home.

[timeflies51]

So Are you suddenly Physic? Do you think you're gifted? Supernatural powers? Quit joking around.
9/11 <|3 is all i can say

Oh please, like I'd ever believe in that crap. It's just a coincidence.

[Mr. Slowjamz]

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...

yea i sank in turmoil when aaliyah died too when school started i just wanted tooo refresh my mind ...but then now sep 11 came it and it just doubled the weight i was trying to remove from my mind im a overly-sensitive person


i also felt affected when JFK Jr. Died

[Jeng]

i was in 6th grade having snack time. and i was in class sitting when my teacher turned on the tv, we saw what was happening, and didnt know what was exactly gonig on.and other classes came into ours and we just watched. :[

[goodcharlotte]

I was in school. Everyone got to leave but me and my sister and my brother. They rounded us up in a room and showed us a TV that had the news on. I was like OMG and so was my sister. My brother didn't get it. My mom got us later that day and my sister and I were freaking out the entire day.

[Gypsy Eyes]

I was just walking into class in 6th grade when we found out. A lot of people were freaking out because I live so close to the city and many people had parents working there/in fdny.

I just remember crying because my uncle and aunt lived in battery park. They got out ok, but it was one of the scariest days in my life. Later on that day we found out my best friend's(at the time) Dad died (he is a cheif for FDNY) when the second tower collapsed. I spent the whole day at her house, just comforting her. It was horrible

[bballchick1]

I was in my gr. 5 class and we just all talked about it.

It was a weird day at school...

[juliar]

fourth grade. nobody knew what was going on, people just kept getting pulled out of class. i remember i kept thinking that my parents would never ever pull me out of school, because well. they don't do that. but then i got a call to go, and i left.

i asked my dad what was going on. he said that the twin towers fell down. i didn't believe him, i thought it was another one of his jokes.

we went back to where they worked (my parents owned a laundromat that was closed that day) and there was one of those small crappy black and white tv's there. i watched the local news on there. every single channel was playing the same videos; the smoke billowing around the corner while people ran from it, each tower falling straight down, the collision of the airplanes.

my parents were frantically trying to reach my sister (she was a junior at stuyvesant, which is a couple blocks away from the twin towers). cellphone lines were all f**ked up that day since everyone was calling everyone. then we got reports of a plane crashing into the pentagon, and later one crashing into the field in pennsylvania. i remember being really scared and wondering where the next one would hit.

my parents and i were so scared for my sister. we didn't know where she was, what had happened to her, how she was getting home, IF she was coming home, if anything had happened to the school building, etc. finally in the afternoon my sister got through to us and told us that she was alright, that she was walking across the bridge to get home. all the traffic was stopped and everyone was walking. people were throwing their high heeled shoes over to the side of the bridge as they walked.

my sister finally got home at night and we were relieved. but everything about 9/11 didn't really sink in until last night, when i was watching the documentary about flight 93 on the discovery channel. weird. five years late, huh.

oh yeah. and one of my cousins who also went to stuy was late for school that day and was walking out of a subway station to get to school. less than a minute after she walked up the steps, the subway station collapsed behind her.

[*I Shot JFK*]

^ GOD i forgot about the cell phone thing...

my dad works for a phone company, nd he was woking late for a good few days after that trying to get everything functioning again. Apparently phones were f**ked up all down the East Coast.

[monxcheri]

i was in school in my math class. i was in 5th grade at the time. my teacher went out of the classroom, came back && turned on the tv. 1st thing we saw was a plane smashing into one of the towers. everyone was so silent.

[mocassinsx29]

Fifth grade. I was in class and our teacher just told us what happened. There was a window right outside our classroom that overlooked the city from far away (I was in Queens) and we saw really dark grey smoke billowing over some buildings. Parents kept calling the school and coming to the school to pick up their kids. The next morning my neighborhood smelled like smoke.

[theINSANITYclaus...]

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.

[iheartjohn]

Feeding Geena.

[bobby james]

I like to read your posts

[hunterxhollywood]

I was in 2nd grade, and all of a sudden our teachers were calling our parents to come get us or something like that. We kept asking why and they just said to ask our parents. So my mom came and told me, but I didn't really understand till a couple years later or so.

[clarity]

Everyone was in 5th grade.

its kind of freaky in a way

I was in fourth grade.
Anyways, Well I live right in the border or D.C and Maryland... Well my parents we're in a meeting with the principle at school.. and I was doing a math test when all of a sudden the P.A system said, "Ms. [iforgottheteachersname] would you please send Lucy to the office with all her things for early dismisal" and I was thinking "err? why do i have to leave early?" and then I saw my parents waiting for me in the office and when we got in the car my dad took all these short cuts and crap and told me to duck and I was thinking "what the heck is going on?" and then we we got home my dad turned on the news, let me watch it, then he explained what happened. Then I got scared and I put ALL of the blinds down in the house, and at night I slept with my parents cause I though someone was going to put a bomb on our porch.
Surprisingly we had school the next day, and I was really scared.

Oh and my neighbor worked at the pentagon, she died. Her kids we're my friends, and they were devastated because their mom was the spirit of the neigborhood.. now I never see her kids, they're dad is so over protective now.

Gah, now I'm sad.

[SimplicityGirl]

It was the second week of highschool for me. I had just entered Grade 8 from elementary school, and that day started off normally enough. I woke up when my radio alarm went off, and did my usual washroom routine. I then went back to my room where I got changed. The morning show that I listen to was interrupted by the news people saying that an "emergency with the planes" happened in NY in that morning (I live in Vancouver, BC, so we were a couple of hours off). I didn't pay much attention to it because I figured it was probably one of those normal accidents that happened. I went to the kitchen for breakfast, and it was then that my Mom told me what happened because she was listening to the same radio channel as I do. I didn't quite believe it. She went to the living room to turn on the TV, with the intention of finding the USA news station. She didn't need to look. Every channel was broadcasting the image of the plane crashing into the Twin Towers. I stood there, watching the plane crash into the Twin Towers while trying to eat breakfast and to comprehend what really had happen. It really didn't sink in for me at that time. It seemed a bit surreal. Surely, this was NOT happening. I went to school somehow. And even though the teachers tried to go on with the day as normally as usual, it didn't work. Some of the teachers just plain gave up on trying to teach, and instead, watched the news on TV. An announcement on the PA by our principal told us what happened. We were all summoned into the Auditorium by grades to have a moment of respect for those who had died during the crash. As the day slowly unrolled, and more images of the plane crashing into the Twin Towers, and more news update on the situation, it slowly began to sink into me just how great a tragedy 9/11 was. But I didn't understand why. That took me about another year to fully grasp the impact and meaning of 9/11. I remember feeling lucky that I don't live anywhere near NY at the time...then I remember feeling guilty that I feel happy that I don't live there when a lot of people's lives have been claimed by the two planes. I still don't know how I feel about the 9/11. But I know that because of 9/11, I now treasure all my friends, and family, and I refuse to take things for granted.

[*danielle_x3*]

I was in 6th grade, and I went to a catholic elementary school. We had confessions that day, and so we were outside. ( I live in NJ ) I had a real nice view of the New YorK Skyline, including the twin towers. When you walked outside, you would see the towers up in flames. Right after confessions, we went back to school and watched TV. My mom had a meeting in the north tower that morning, but she's one of the lucky ones that escaped. However she came home around 1AM. The phones weren't working, and I couldn't contact her. I honestly cried, thinking what life would be without her. It was so hard, but when she came home I was so thankful that she's still alive. I still look outside my house window, remembering where the towers were. I practically grew up with them. Blaaah. I still remember looking outside of the science lab windows, watching the towers on fire, then collapsing.