remember 9/11?

Discussion in 'Remember When?' started by polexiayay, Aug 3, 2008.

  1. polexiayay

    polexiayay Member

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    what were you doing on 9/11, how did you react? were you scared? how did you find out what happend? share storys here

    I was rather young but i remember our school shut down cos there was like some building owned by the same people who owned the school building or something in new york, and my dads office building got shut down to. I kept asking all the adults what was going on but they were just like "dont worry" (which is very hard when your country has just been hit my a terrorist attack.) So i tryed to watch the news to see what was going on but my parents didn't let me.
     
  2. March of the Meanies

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    I was in 6th grade and all our teachers were taken out in the middle of the class then all came back and told us something in New York happened and we had to leave the school. I remember our one teacher kept looking up at the sky and damn near making us run home, then when I got home my mom was there and she was watching the attacks on TV and she just held on to me out of pure fear.

    It was a kind of fun night, I went out to the movies with my friends...
     
  3. brack1936

    brack1936 Member Lifetime Supporter

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    This was remarkable.

    I was working as a fencing sub contractor up in the Chittering Valley where I lived. I heard the rado people talking about it - one was crying - and I looked around and thought - here I am, in a pristine environment doing something relaxing and that's what is now happening on the other side of the world.
     
  4. drew172

    drew172 Senior Member

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    I remember...It wa lunch at school. A friend came back to the school after being at home, he told us that their had been a terror attack and WTC was hit...Another friend was all worried and asking questions.

    I was like "so what?".

    I didn't really get it, I was young.

    By the end of that day, once the word got around, I started getting antsy and went home with my cousin to watch the news.
     
  5. Xac

    Xac Visitor

    I heard the next day, being in Australia. A friend of mine told me in the morning on the way to school (highschool). Remember the Armenian genocide?
     
  6. odon

    odon Slightly Popular

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    I was working and heard it over the radio...we had a minutes silence that day.
    I then went home and watched it unfold on the TV.
    I think my response to it was: Oh, for fucks sake...
     
  7. SpacemanSpiff

    SpacemanSpiff Visitor

    Great Idea for a thread


    I was sleeping ....got a phone call from my brother in law who works at the local tv station...he told me to " turn on the tv ...because something is going on"....the second plane had just hit.........I just watched the news all day..saw them fall as it happened.......

    This will be,or is, our generations version of "where were you when JFK?" or "when they landed on the moon"
     
  8. burnabowl

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    I had just started serving a mormon mission. I was only two weeks into the two years and missionaries don't have tv's or listen to the radio. So we got called by our superiors with the news and it was a strange feeling hearing about it. It was almost like "well what did they expect building those towers so high and conspicuous?" but at the same time I thought of all the ppl who had just kissed their loved ones goodbye and within an hour were facing their deaths.

    We still went out and did missionary work, but everyone was gripped by it so we just watched the news with them. I was amazed that the towers collapsed. It didn't seem right. What shoddy construction, I thought.
     
  9. drew172

    drew172 Senior Member

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    I just remembered this...

    There's a movie. I can't recall it's title however. But it was like the perspectives of many different people around the world when it happened...I only remember two segments, one in an arab country with a teacher who was trying to get the children to understand what happened and wanted them to pray or something (good segment, you could see her frustration and whatnot) and I think the last one with a deaf woman and her boyfriend in New York...who came back to the apartment after going to work covered in dust....
     
  10. Formertechno34

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    I was in grade 5, that's all I remember.
     
  11. x GET SNUFFED x

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    I was in grade six, my teacher walks in after reccess and he tells us something about planes hitting buildings. I didn't know what he was talking about and I didn't care. When I got home my mom was watching the news, CNN, and it just kept on showing the plane hitting the tower over and over. The headline was "America Under Attack".
    I think at one point my whole family was in the living room just watching the news. We watched it all day. Even the next morning and evening, that's all I watched.
     
  12. Diego_NM

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    when it happens, here in slovakia was about 16:00 - 17:00 o´clock.
    I was watching TV, when they stopped it, and on TV were world news....
    it was horrible...
     
  13. st. stephen

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    i was in 4th grade. we were watching it on tv all day and my parents came and picked me up from school early. i remember i asked them how long it would be before a movie would be made about it (i was a synical bastard back then too). it was about 4 and a half years.
     
  14. hannahannahannah

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    I stayed home sick from work that day, and slept until about 11am (EST). Mr. Wonderful was home as well and the second I woke up he called me in to see the news. The minute the first plane hit, he started recording. Something told him it wasn't the end of it. It was just too weird. He's got the second plane hitting on video. He's got a theory that when the news is too slow, something is going to happen.

    I can't say I was scared. But it was COMPLETELY WEIRD for someone my age to witness the US being hit so hard by "outside" forces. Nothing this huge had hit since Pearl Harbor. The word that comes to mind is "breach". Be it inside or outside. I just felt a huge "breach", of something.
     
  15. myself

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    I was in Romania, where I have been living since I was born. I was watching a movie on tv. The normal programme was interrupted and they kept showing the planes hitting the building in New York over and over again and talking about it. I expected to hear some talks and have some debates over it at school in our history class, but nothing of the kind happened. I was in high school.
     
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    I was at work installing a stereo into a new machine and heard about the first plane hitting from the shop radio. I got the stereo finished before the second plane hit, and decided to stay in the cab of the machine and do all the other electrical mods I had to in the cab so I could listen to it all without all the shop noise. I wasn't scared by it but I was kind of shocked and amazed by the scope of it. I didn't get to see the video footage till that night when I got home from work.
     
  17. Deranged

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    i was a sophomore in high school, in ap block (english and history together) when we heard that one of the twin towers was hit by a plane. we put on the news and watched as a second plane hit on live tv. istep (indiana standardized testing) was cancelled for like a week.
     
  18. xSOADxX075

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    I think I saw in second grade, and I remember a vague picture, but it was something like my teacher turned on the TV and we all crowded around it. When I got home, my mom was telling me about it, but that's really it. My dad's birthday is on 9/11, so that's really how I remember it.
     
  19. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    I was in downtown boston visiting friends and the city streets were completely deserted

    The skyscrapers were evacuated and the office employees were told to go home in the event of a second wave of attacks.

    I was riding my friends’ mountain bike near the harbor and the cops briefly stopped me suspecting I might be a terrorist testing the perimeter for weaknesses - it was fucked up :eek:

    Hotwater
     
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  20. moneris0

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    i was watching zooboomafoo (a TV show) then, and all of a sudden it switched to the news showing the plane crashing in the building, so i got into a throwing fit, and broke the cable box because i didnt want to miss Zooboomafoo.. my dad was cheering me on because he thought i was throwing fists for the terrorists.. i didnt find out about the 9/11 until 2007.. because i thought that plane was just a normal crash into some building in africa. my parents were talking about it when i said "wtf is 9 11?" then they told me there was a crash in 2001 lol.. and i said "well who gives a shit?" and they said that building was US's important building. lol
     

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