Where were you on September 11, 2001?

[CJoE]

I was about to take my test that time at my college..

 

[Blastin'Tyruntz]

At home, playing with my dinosaur figures? I was 3 so i guess that's what i did.

 

[Firox]

I was in High School [9th grade] when one of the teachers informed us - skipped the news that morning, woke up late for school.

 

[The Serious Table]

I was 6, and I was still living in France. I only heard about it 30 minuets later. My parents and I weren't really affected, but we still felt bad for the Americans.

 

[Altairis]

I lived in New York then, but I was really little so my sister and I were at school playing or something like that. My dad worked in New York City and my parents had a couple of friends who worked there too. Something wild that happened though was my mom's friend's husband actually worked in the tower, but he had missed his train so he wasn't actually in it when it happened. But since the phone lines went down, everybody thought he was dead. Like wow.

 

[Nick]

I was in my 4th grade class. I can't really remember what happened before, but my teacher left the classroom and I can't remember if she got a call, or if another teacher came. I just remember she went into the hall, and when she came back in she was crying.

I remember going home and it was all over the news, and I convinced myself that they would be marching in the streets killing people really, really soon. It was just a matter of when they would make their move and get to us.

 

[Shadowfall228]

I was a baby at the time and apparently my first tooth came out that day....

 

[Shiny Bunnelby]

I was in fourth grade. My teacher was a compulsive liar/joker about most things unrelated to class work, so I didn't believe him. When I got home, I saw it on the news and felt kind of bad that I was in denial and wished that we actually saw the coverage during class, rather than pretend it didn't happen. It was all everyone spoke about for days.

 

[Belldandy]

I was in third or fourth grade at school. We were guided to the library to watch the news on TV.

I wasn't emotional. I didn't understand what was happening lol

 

[Alpha May/Omega Brendan]

I was a little kid watching Sesame Street. I accidently clicked the TV remote, and it flicked to abc already reporting on it, and of course being at a young age I didn't know what was going on.

 

[Nathan]

I was 3 and I didn't even know that this was a thing.

 

[starseed galaxy auticorn]

I was in my 8th grade class at the time. We were watching it on TV, and I remember becoming really frightened by what had happened then. :/

 

[Polar Spectrum]

I was also in school, and the teacher had the news switched on so we could see the coverage. I remember, they thought it was pilot error at first - just a freak accident. But then the second plane hit the other tower. :/ Things became a lot more grim then. The school declared a "Code Yellow" and all the doors to the classrooms were locked and hallways were watched by monitor. I remember thinking it was silly, because "Why would bad men attack an school with kids" - but now I understand that as well as being customary given it was a terrorist attack - it was probably a good idea to air on the safe side of preventing a school shooting or some other crazy disaster on the same day.

also,

I was 6, and I was still living in France. I only heard about it 30 minuets later. My parents and I weren't really affected, but we still felt bad for the Americans.

This is nice. The world needs more of this kind of sympathy. Not just "Hey, it's not our country. What do we care."

 

[Pendraflare]

I was in school, I don't remember what class I was in, it might have been Art class or math, when my teacher was called and said that her sister had been in a plane crash. That's what I remember happening, anyway.

 

[DJTiki]

I was 3, and was playing with my Hot Wheels :D

Still tragic though. Too bad I didn't know.

 

[Honest]

I watched them collapse; I used to live in an apartment building that had a great view of all of Manhattan, with The Financial District visible on the far left. Since I lived on the top floor, I had a pretty good view. I was in first grade; it was one of the first days of classes. I remember coming home and seeing my uncle and mother watching the news, which was tuned to FOX 5, with live coverage (now that I think about it, it might not have been live; either I got home around 2 and it was a repeat, or I got sent home early, which is pretty damn possible, considering all hell was breaking loose right over the river). I actually remember watching the building collapse in TV very vividly, and the intake of breath the news reporter made. I didn't understand the real impact of it, but the collapse made everyone around me very frightened, and that seeped in. My mom actually recorded the whole thing on VHS/VCS(?). I remember watching it a couple of years later and reminiscing the details. Needless to say, I looked out the window, and it seemed as if half of Manhattan was covered in smoke.

 

[The Serious Table]

This is nice. The world needs more of this kind of sympathy. Not just "Hey, it's not our country. What do we care."[/QUOTE]

Yep, you bet. Actually my mom cried and I decided to stop everything I was doing and sit in silence for a while. It was around 30 minuets. For a 6 yr old, that was good.

 

[CoffeeDrink]

I cannot remember. It was an age long past, and it grates against me that so many were treated with such utter disregard in the aftermath. Volunteers were shrugged aside, and not compensated for the lung cancer they are now burdened with. Firefighters and the police themselves are still fighting to get medical attention even to this day. This is not how you treat your heroes.

It was also irresponsible for the EPA to state that the air was okay to breathe. Anyone that has read anything about asbestos will tell you that smoke from an asbestos lined house is not okay to breathe. In fact, ash particles are not safe to breathe. Why anyone in their right minds would put out that press release is beyond me.

It is ironic that the insurgents directly caused upwards of three thousand deaths, our own country cause an equal amount of damage through its shear incompetence and lack of careful planning. The entire ordeal sickens me, as the events that quickly followed spiraled out of control, and more than likely, put the US on the track it is right now.

 

[27thColt]

I was a few week old, in the Philippines before we moved to the States.

 

[Mark Kamill]

I was 8yrs old, first day of school. When I found out that the north tower fell I was promptly losing my ♥♥♥♥ because I went to sleep with the knowledge that my dad had to work in the basement levels all day long, and wouldn't be home till the afternoon. Thankfully he had a flexible program and did another job before going. He missed the plane crash by about 20 minutes, he was on the Brooklyn Bridge when it hit.