Where were you on 9/11?

[fowacee]

I was in my first period of school, in the 7th grade at the time (I know I'm a youngin). Another teacher ran in and told my teacher what had happened. I had no idea what they were talking about. We turned the TV on and after I saw both planes attack it finally registered. My mom pulled me out of school too. Scary day.

[garretvs]

damn you were just a kid you old enough to vote yet ?

Yep...thank god too. I'm 19 now... Time flies eh?

[atomic]

Sitting in my 7th grade 1st period class watching the TV with the rest of my class and one of the coolest teachers I've ever had...

Man that was a long time ago considering I'll be a Soph in college and we still haven't got our shit together as a country. What a great leader we have...

damn you were just a kid you old enough to vote yet ?

[garretvs]

Sitting in my 7th grade 1st period class watching the TV with the rest of my class and one of the coolest teachers I've ever had...

Man that was a long time ago considering I'll be a Soph in college and we still haven't got our shit together as a country. What a great leader we have...

[Jon325i]

Ok....after reading this thread, I did some digging in my box-o-artifacts and found a few items from my trip to NYC back in July '01. These pics were taken with one of those disposable cameras and I scanned them into my computer.....sorry if the quality doesn't satisfy the Ansel Adams' crowd here :-P

Two shots I got from WTC plus my ticket stub to the observation floor (110 stories up) of the south tower....



Jon

[e30sd]

wow people are fucking young as hell here.

[NC325iC]

9th grade 2nd period Economics Legal and Political Systems

[golde30]

Of course you do.

I was getting ready for work, just coming out into the living room and turning on the tv to watch the Today Show, and there was something on about one of the WTC towers burning, something about a fire and an explosion. Then the other plane came into frame, smashing into the building and exploding in a fireball, and I can still remember actually gasping and feeling like someone had punched me in the stomach.

yeah i turned on the TV in time to see the 2nd plane hit also. i was on the phone with my friend who woke me up, and hung up on him and called my parents to wake them up.

[PiercedE30]

I was in my 2nd period Phys Ed class in 10th grade. I remember going into the gym and our teacher had a TV set up. I had no clue what was going on at the time. Watched it the rest of the day in the rest of my classes.

[abepark]

I was in HS and over the PA system our principle goes "the world trade center has just been hit by a plane, please finish your current class and afterward feel free to stop in the cafeteria and watch the news"

I had a free block next so I watched the second plane hit the second tower and watch the news reporter get bleeped out when he saw it.

I continued my day as normal but with a wierd sense of feeling. I knew the world was about to change and I watched the stock market fall (had a stock marketing class that year). most of the classes that day we talked about either religion or family or bin laden.

I don't remember much details of that day except I said something really stupid because before that day I'd had never heard of Bin laden so I asked "why do people care about Bin laden, He's dead now he flew the planes into the building and now hes dead why talk about someone who died" I just got laughed at for the rest of the year.
It put everything so small into such a bigger perspective that day. It reminded me of the movie "the russians are coming the russians are coming" I was waiting for people to parachute into the back fields with machine guns.

to this day I always talk about security at the airport, and in the back of my mind have been terrorized just because my thoughts have changed about travel.

[Sean]

Of course you do.

I was getting ready for work, just coming out into the living room and turning on the tv to watch the Today Show, and there was something on about one of the WTC towers burning, something about a fire and an explosion. Then the other plane came into frame, smashing into the building and exploding in a fireball, and I can still remember actually gasping and feeling like someone had punched me in the stomach.

Yep, that's a good way to describe the same feeling I got when I saw the plane in tower two. Along with my heart falling.

[Jand3rson]

I like this post.

Of course you do.

I was getting ready for work, just coming out into the living room and turning on the tv to watch the Today Show, and there was something on about one of the WTC towers burning, something about a fire and an explosion. Then the other plane came into frame, smashing into the building and exploding in a fireball, and I can still remember actually gasping and feeling like someone had punched me in the stomach.

[Maluco]

I left NYC the day before. Was up there visiting a friend, celebrating Brasil's independance day Sept 7th and my B-day Sept 9th. I woke up that morning turned on the TV, went into shock, called my friend where I was just the day before, he went into shock and we hung up.....

[kylebes1]

Algebra 1
Hated that day.

[JasonC]

After i woke up, i seen it on TV. I was in shock and then anger hit me. I had to go to work that evening, and gas stations was ripping people off by jacking up the prices.