Eleven

[TheMatrix31]

[redsrule]

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Yeah I can't believe it has already been 11 years. When that happened I was in second grade and didn't know the gravity of the situation.

[dickey1331]

I'll never forget that day. I was in 7th grade and we watched the 2nd plane hit live. It's also part of the reason I joined the military.


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[DickDalewood]

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It was my Freshman year of college. All classes were cancelled and we sat in our dorm rooms the entire day watching everything happen. It was completely surreal.

[TheMatrix31]

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I was in 9th grade. It was the first couple days at a new school for me. I usually woke up at 7:15am or so to get ready for school. On that fateful day, for some reason, my eyes open around 6am. I turned on the TV and I found out why.

I didn't really want to go to school that day. We were listening to the radio on the drive to school as news and speculation kept trickling in.

My first class was English class, and the bitch teacher told us to "write in our journals" about something unrelated. No TV. We only got to watch coverage in history class.

Came home from school and was glued to the TV for hours and hours and hours.

With each year, I get angrier.

[Blue]

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1st grade for me. I was on the east coast then so I was well into school when it happened. I only remember watching the news all day from a very small tv in the classroom. We never left the room, not for lunch, nothing the whole school went on lockdown for the entire day. I was in my second week of school and I was the new kid so I was oblivious in every single way.

[iamthepro]

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I was 5. I remember that tuesday like it was yesterday. Just a horrible, horrible day in Americas and the worlds for that matter history.

We rember it today with the memory still fresh in our hearts. A generation lost its innocence. May we not forget that on the 25th, the 50th or the 1000th anniversary.

[8]

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Damn this thread makes me feel old... I was in my Junior year of college, and in a class when it happened. It was a graphic design class and we had a huge screen at the front of the room attached to a projector so the prof could teach off of it.

There were rumblings in the hallway outside of the classroom which was odd because no class usually let out at that time. Our prof went out to see what was going on. All I remember hearing was that a plane ran into a building. The professor came back in and turned on the projector but ran the TV through it and we instantly had a very large wall sized screen of the twin towers, one had already crumbled and we watched live as the second one did the same. No one said a word.

I just remember getting up and going to the teacher and telling him I needed to go call my parents becuase they worked for the department of defense and there was another plane that was unaccounted for. He just kind of mumbled and I left. Of course you couldn't call anyone because all the circuits were busy. After finding out they flew into the pentagon as well I became even more worried because my parents worked on a military base near DC. Eventually I got through to my dad so that put my mind at ease.

Afterwards things were so strange, I remember thinking what if we have a military draft. Of course some loser later that day called in a bomb threat to the local wal mart which was real classy. Obviously that will be a day that will stay with most of us forever. I have an american flag in my garage that shows a siloutte of the towers where the stars would be with the date September 11th 2001 above the towers. God bless to all those who lost their lives that day.

Sorry for the length, everything just kind of came flowing back to me as I started typing.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I hate hate hate my math teacher for cheating our class out of that coverage. I don't care what her motives were or if she was trying to "protect us" but damn everybody else in the school was watching the news coverage and were learning math that I haven't used since.

I remember that day being crazy hectic when I got home. Parents were all types of worried and I just couldn't grasp the magnitude of it I guess as I was strangely calm and nonchalant. I was in high school. Freshman year in math class. The vice principal of the school went to the classrooms and told the teachers and that's as far as it went for my class.

The rumors floating around that day were truly insane.

[kingkilla56]

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I was in a sixth grade science class when the teacher came in late visibly upset and told us what happened. A girl in my class burst into tears as her father worked in the Trade Center. I remember everyone trying to console her. Luckily for her her dad was stuck in traffic that day and never even got across the bridge.

I remember taking the bus home and everyone on the bus looking out the window into the sky at the enormous clouds of smoke in the air. It hit me then that it was so close to me in Brooklyn.

When I got home my mother grabbed and hugged me as she was in tears. I had never seen her cry in my 11 year life until then. She works in Manhattan and miraculously had the day off. I remember watching coverage and listening to my mom frantically call family and friends and even co workers in Manhattan and being unable to reach.

Fortunately for me non of my family was greatly affected by loss in this tragic event. I will never forget that day and the pain it brought on so many people.

[gerg1234]

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It was my Senior year of HS. My mom came downstairs and told me to turn on the TV because my dad just watched an airplane crash into the World Trade Center. I saw both buildings on fire. I was in the shower when I heard my sister yell that they got the Pentagon. I watched both towers come down live.

My first class was US Government. My teacher didn't say anything. He wrote on the board the summary as we received information. That's all he did. Just got up every 10-15 minutes and wrote on the board.

My second class was English. My teacher told us that "We've seen enough of this. We need to get to our lessons." I got up and left. Spent the rest of the day at a friends' house watching coverage.

[slickdtc]

6th grade, I was 11.

Didn't understand it. But it really took away that feeling that we were kind of alone in the world. That true evil was out there, and could steal from us at any time. That day was really just a whirlwind. Nothing like it since, and hopefully never again.

Today is about remembering those who lost their lives, celebrating the heroes who made a difference or sacrificed, and honoring all troops who protected our nation and also dealt out the punishment for what those evils did to us.

[Candyman5]

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I remember watching this in my class. I was in 6th grade and we stayed in our math class all day watching the coverage. I remember the biggest thing that brought the biggest smile on face my was the people who after the buildings collapsed raced into the debris to try to help as many people as possible. You couldn't see the ground because there were so many people willing to help, really showed how people could drop their differences for the greater good.

[Brandwin]

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Watched it all unfold on some tv's in a waiting room at a hospital while my grandfather was having triple bypass.

[BurghFan]

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3rd year in college. Woke up around 11:30 (no morning classes on Tuesdays that semester) and took down my AIM away message before starting to get dressed then one of my friends IM's me and told me what happened. Later we were looking for one of my hallmates who was from NYC though I forget which boro (I want to say Brooklyn, but that may just be because he had a Brooklyn Dodgers hat). I eventually found him at the campus food court while I was getting lunch and he said he'd been in touch with his family and they were ok.

Classes weren't cancelled that day, but attendance wasn't being taken so I went to my 1:30 English class. Instead of the normal noise of many conversations going on simultaneously that you usually hear before a class started, it was almost totally quiet. The only noise was 2 girls whispering to each other somewhere behind me. We waited for the professor to show up but then another professor came in and told us the class was cancelled. Apparently the professors in-laws lived in NYC and her and her husband (also an English professor at my college) hadn't been able to reach them yet. They were eventually able to get in contact with them though.

Spent the rest of the day following coverage on TV or on my computer.