In Rememberance of the 9/11 attacks...

[Melody]

I remember that day....I was in 8th Grade.
It was a clear September day, and as usual I was staring longingly at the classroom window and the sunlight when the P.A crackled to life and informed all teachers to turn on their T.V. sets (Yes, there was a T.V. in every classroom).
I remember glancing at the T.V. casually wondering what the school wanted us to see. What I saw shocked me. As I watched the news report and realized what happened, a part of me died inside knowing what had happened. Around me, some of the other students were taking the news in different ways, some indifferent, others very angry or in the case of one female classmate, crying her eyes out because her father was in NY at the time. (later we found out he was ok.)
I reflected silently all the rest of that day. Anger stirred deep within me and I wondered how someone could have the guts do such things. As the days went by...I learned more about what was going on and what had happened. I felt sorry for the people who lost their loved ones in the attack. Deep down I knew that 9/11/01 would be another date Americans would never forget. I was awed that such a historical event happened but was sad that the event was tragic.

To this day, I don't know how anyone could actually do something like that and think they'd be admitted into any form of heaven.
Ah well. I guess that it goes to show you that anyone can be tricked into doing evil deeds.

I'm sure that God will sort them all out eventually....

 

[AK87]

hm... I remember this like today... 9/11 I has back from school at 4 PM (Moscow time zone) and turn on TV... I remember I felt irrational fear and body shiver... I was scared. But, when proofs of Ben Laden's case was published (about his money support in conflict in Afganistan in 1980's, when was killed so many soviet soliders) I begun thinks that 9/11 is proportional answer to this, like Perl Harbor attack after stops of oil transfer to Japan...

P.S. Not shure, but it still look like bonus to start war in Afganistan, like blow houses in moscow in 1999 for begun start second war in Chechnya and support Putin's way in policy

 

[Percy Thrillington]

Wow, you reported me? Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Oh right, I guess you're getting influenced by your corrupted government already~

I have to admit that I laughed while reading that post.

Regarding 9/11, I really don't remember that much or what age I was. It was a half-day in my school so we all went home early and I was playing in my estate with my friend and my mom called us in to watch the news. I was around six or seven, I think, and I got to see the second plane crash into the second building a couple of minutes later. I'm not going to lie and say that I felt really sad at the thought of everyone dying; in truth, I felt pretty indifferent. Nowadays, I truly feel for the people who were harmed in any way regarding 9/11, but back then I was young and I really didn't have a clue what was going on. My uncle was presumed dead that day as he had some business around the area of the twin towers and thanks to the phone lines being down, but he was found to be safe and well.

If anyone starts telling me I'm heartless because of this post, you can expect to be ignored. I was young and immature and all of you shall deal with it.

 

[doesn't matter]

I have to admit that I laughed while reading that post.

Regarding 9/11, I really don't remember that much or what age I was. It was a half-day in my school so we all went home early and I was playing in my estate with my friend and my mom called us in to watch the news. I was around six or seven, I think, and I got to see the second plane crash into the second building a couple of minutes later. I'm not going to lie and say that I felt really sad at the thought of everyone dying; in truth, I felt pretty indifferent. Nowadays, I truly feel for the people who were harmed in any way regarding 9/11, but back then I was young and I really didn't have a clue what was going on. My uncle was presumed dead that day as he had some business around the area of the twin towers and thanks to the phone lines being down, but he was found to be safe and well.

If anyone starts telling me I'm heartless because of this post, you can expect to be ignored. I was young and immature and all of you shall deal with it.

I was just as immature as you were. I was actually angry since all the channels in the morning were showing the news rather than cartoons, haha.

 

[Nick]

I remember what I was doing that day too. Strangely enough.

It was class. I was sitting down and listening to my 4th grade teacher lecture about some history (which is strange how we had a history lesson while this occurred) and a secretary came and called my teacher over, giving her a piece of paper that I am assuming had details about what happened. A few minutes later, she came back in crying and had to leave for the day because she was so emotional. Well, we only had about an hour and a half left of school (seeing how it became a half day due to this).

I distincting remember having the fear in my head of us being under attack by them again. Only, this time, they'd be sending soldiers or something in on us and they'd be raiding the towns or something and killing innocent people.

What some people aren't seeing as that it effects not just us, but the whole world seeing how it made effects on other countries as well, opening the eyes to the strong evil some people have in them.

We had a moment of silence in third period of school [this year]. What had happened was I was in the hallway doing a Lab with my group and then the principle had came on and asked for a moment of silence that was literally a moment (well, 10 seconds to be exact). I was extremely mad about that and that anger lasted all the way to my first post (which is why I said what I did at the very beginning of the post). With that said, no one was really taking the moment seriously which got me even more pissed off at it. But I guess their is nothing I can really do to change how people feel. Immature is what they all are, though.

It took severel years for me to understand how big impact 9/11 was to USA and how serious consequences it would have.

I'm the same way. Over the years I've grown more mature and more patriotic, if I do say so myself and then realized that there was more to life than playing video games and riding bikes (since I was a forth grader back then, I didn't have much I could do).