Sit down and give your mind a rest, 9/11 topics merged Options

[Melie]

where were you on 9/11? tell ur story.




i was stationed in germany and i was doing maintenance on my PLS. a lot of the sergeants always tease me about being from NY and my heavy accent. so when one of the sergeants came out to tell me that a plane crashed into the twin towers, i thought they were kidding. finally, he comes back out and tells me that we have to go back to the unit because of an emergency formation (meeting). i didn't finally see the images of what happened until i was in the dining facility and saw it on TV. i cried because i couldn't believe it. plus, i have family that work by the tower. so i called my parents on my cell but i couldn't get through for awhile but finally they told me that everyone is fine.
that night, all of the soldiers were waiting for instructions on what we were to do. they closed the post so no one was able to leave and we were stuck. so one soldier brings out a boombox and plays afroman - "cause i got high". ever since then, that song reminds me of 9/11 but it gave us a little bit of hope. weird, i know but it was what made all of us cheer up on a horrible day.

[KryMeARiver]

i was getting head from this chick and the TV happened to be on and it said BREAKING NEWS: TWIN TOWERS STRUCK BY AIRLINER







and then i came

[*cakedout*]

i just wanna post so i can read my sig and giggle

[mackenziee]

I was in school I think.
I was to young to even know it was a big deal.

[misoshiru]

why are we talking about 9/11?

[superstitious]

I honestly don't remember what I was doing or where I was when 9/11 occurred.

As far as sitting down and giving my mind a rest is concerned, I wish I could. I've always got something I'm thinking about. I swear, my mind never shuts off. :x

[DoubleJ]

Because it is a few days away from now, and all of the buildup is beginning up here.

To stay on topic:

I was in my second freshman year that day. The United Airlines flight actually came over my school. I'll never forget when I was on the bus going home, and there was just the sense of urgency from people. This one lady gets on the bus and says:
AMERICA IS UNDER ATTACK! Everybody on the bust started busting out into different convos, there were a lot of people crying, and it was just an amazing experience for me. On that same bus, two middle eastern fellows were on, and needless to say, they were begging the bus driver to let them off of the bus. They barely escaped with their lives.

I can remember getting home and crying, because I called my mom at work, but got no answer. She would take the path over to her job down in the Wall Street area, so I knew she was on one of those trains. I didn't hear that she was safe until about 6 o'clock that night. When she came home, we all went to church and prayed, and thanked God that everyone was alright.

Looking back at the videos every year as I will do in my own privacy this year as well, I look at this as the one defining moment, that makes me want to become a firefighter.

[The-March-Hare]

In school. There was a whole big thing because the principal tried to make the teachers turn off the TVs and go on with the normal day, which did not go over well.

And I'm pretty relaxed, and try never to over-use my mind if avoidable.

[tokyo-rose]

As far as sitting down and giving my mind a rest is concerned, I wish I could. I've always got something I'm thinking about. I swear, my mind never shuts off. :x

Same here; I think way too much.

I was in my second freshman year that day. The United Airlines flight actually came over my school.

I can remember getting home and crying, because I called my mom at work, but got no answer. She would take the path over to her job down in the Wall Street area, so I knew she was on one of those trains. I didn't hear that she was safe until about 6 o'clock that night. When she came home, we all went to church and prayed, and thanked God that everyone was alright.

What high school did you go to?

I was sitting in my fifth-grade classroom when another teacher came into the room and said something to my teacher. She looked out the window at the Twin Towers, which were easily visible from my classroom, and started crying. She turned on the radio, my classmates asked her what was wrong, and she told us that the Twin Towers had been hit. So everyone, including myself, went to the windows and saw thick black smoke billowing from one of them. One of my peers said, "I think it's going to stand," since the towers hadn't started falling yet.

A lot of parents came to get their children from school, but my mom couldn't since she was working in Manhattan. I remember that I was really worried about my mom even though her office was not near the World Trade Center, but located in Midtown. I'm not sure when she got home, but she had to walk a long way with a lot of other people.

[DoubleJ]

I went to St. Aloysius High School in Jersey City. This was before I went to military school. I think that is the one day, where no crime happened in the US. Everything came to a complete halt.

[The-March-Hare]

^ Well. With the obvious exception of one fairly significant crime, of course.

[*paperplane*]

In school. There was a whole big thing because the principal tried to make the teachers turn off the TVs and go on with the normal day, which did not go over well.

This.

Must remember to translate something similar into Italian...

[DoubleJ]

^ Well. With the obvious exception of one fairly significant crime, of course.

Indeed!

[misoshiru]

Must remember to translate something similar into Italian...

i love it.

[Tomates]

I was in 4th grade and all the teachers were scrambling all around and stuff. Then when i went home i told my mom how out trip to the mayors place or whatever got cancelled and my mom was watching this all on the T.V.

I also learned a few years later that the teachers were thinking of getting everyone else out early because they were afriad that the terroist might go after detroit and i lived downstate at the time in Farmington Hills which was maye about 45 minutes away from Detroit.

[mackenziee]

^ thats scary.

[tokyo-rose]

I went to St. Aloysius High School in Jersey City. This was before I went to military school. I think that is the one day, where no crime happened in the US. Everything came to a complete halt.

Oh, all right. I thought maybe you lived in New York for a while.

The fact that the plane went over your school is scary.

[KryMeARiver]

What people don't know is that I was sunbathing nude that day. I got a huge erection and a plane's wing clipped my mile long wood.

And that's how I stopped a plane from hitting the White House by causing it to crash into a field in Pennsylvania.

[Eww]

I was in 2nd grade at school o_o.
My mom pulled me out of school for the day.
Then she made my sister and I watch the news..

[hi-res]

I was in my 11th grade Journalism class. I remember that whole day feeling kind of surreal.

[manny-the-dino]

I remember first hearing about it on the radio as I was getting ready for school. I don't know why, but it didn't seem like a big deal when I first heard about it. Then I went to the kitchen to tell my mom & she turned on the tv. I don't know what else happened after that. It's all a haze in my mind.

As selfish as this may sound, I was mad that they weren't showing any of my TV shows because all the networks were covering 9/11 lol.

[LoveToMySilas]

I was that girl whos parents never came to pick up in 4th grade.

[berrypop90]

I was in class(6th grade!) and an announcement came over the intercom telling us to remain calm(we didn't know what was going on though) we thought a bomb had gone off somewhere! When we went back inside my teacher turned on the news and we all watched what was going on. We got sent home early that day. I didn't fully understand the extent of the attack until I got home and watched what happened on tv.

[karmakiller]

I was in art class. My stupid, annoying teacher would always turn on the radio and sing and all that was on was the breaking news. She kept flipping through the channels I felt like we were going to be lucky that day and not have to hear her singing. Once I heard the news, I wish she would've found music and annoyed us all with her voice.

[moninja]

i think i was in first grade ;x i didn't know much nor understood anything D: