3rd grade i had no idea what it was or what was going on and all of a sudden peoples parents started pulling kids out of classes i didn't really understand until my parents told me.
I was in 5th grade and remember turning on the tv and seeing the first tower on fire and wasn't really sure what was happening because I had never even heard of the World Trade Center. Then I saw the second plane hit and ran upstairs and woke up my parents who flew out of bed. About 15 min before I got on the school bus I saw the towers fall and when I told my bus driver that they had just collapsed she started crying. School was pretty normal though we just couldn't go to recess and all the adults were on edge.
What was more interesting for me was the next day I had tickets to go to the circus and when we got there it was so empty it was creepy and it just felt really solemn.
Looking out my classroom window and seeing a ton of smoke in the sky and papers flying around. i live in Brooklyn by the way. Definitely a day I wont forget. 3 people in our school lost a parent. Definitely a sad day.
teacher was talking and a girl asks "Mrs. XXXX why is there a huge puff of smoke in the sky?"
She told us it was a factory of some sort, but due to the excessive smoke and random paper flying around everywhere and the ambulance/cop/ and firefighters cars driving by every few seconds we weren't stupid enough to believe her. She told us later on, but by that point we had already knew what was going on.
I had been to a funeral for a relative who had been blown up by bikies in a revenge attack. He was the former head of the local CIB. Being in a pub with 700+ drunk cops farewelling a comrade and then watching those buildings fall....well the mood was the most morose I had ever experienced.
I was in 5th grade as well (a lot of damn 5th graders in 2001 lol)... I was coming back from PE when I got into my classroom... 4 teachers were in there watching the news, one of them was crying... They turned it off when we got in and didn't say anything about it... I didn't find out what happened until my dad picked me up from school and told me what happened... He was a fire chief here in Ohio and he, along with a couple of his friends were sent to NY to help with other Emergencies...
Most Fire Departments all throughout New York State and the surrounding states were sent to NYC, so there were shortages of fire fighters and equipment to deal with other emergencies for a couple of weeks, plus a large portion of FDNY's trucks were destroyed in the attacks and they needed short term replacements...
I was in my 2nd period English class in 6th grade and my teacher turned on the T.V. and we watched. We started watching after the first plane hit and my teacher gave us an assignment to write down everything in our notebook that we observed. As soon as I opened my notebook to start writing is when I looked up at the T.V. and see the 2nd plane crash into the other tower. I remember my teacher saying, "Holy **** About 2 minutes later the principle made an announcement for everyone to gather in the gym and we all watched the rest of the events on a huge projecter. Lots of kids had their parents come pick them up. On the way home from school I remember it taking forever cause there were like 100 cars in line at the gas station (I guess everybody thought gas was gonna shoot up in price?) and they were causing traffic jams.
My wife worked that day and I didn't so I slept in late. Got up, took a shower, went downstairs and logged onto the IGN boards and saw a huge thread that wasn't there the night before called "So, I guess this means war...". That's how I found out.
I was in 8th grade, and just before lunch we had our "Current Events" class, a way of getting the class of up and coming teenagers to learn about the world. So at about 10:30 someone came into class with the story that planes had hit the towers. I'm Canadian, so at the time the only way I knew about the towers was because of "that Simpsons episode". As soon as she said the towers had fallen I felt terrible for the lives lost, but never thought of the decade to come.
I was on my second week of secondary school. I came home to find my Mum and sister watching it on the news. I think I got home before the second tower got hit.
I remember it very well. It was my first week of high school and I was in the school library sitting at a computer with the rest of my class. The librarian brought a T.V. into the middle of the library, turned it on and I saw the planes crash... over and over again. My school had a moment of silence on the announcements.
I was in 2nd grade. I really dont remember anything being said to me about it actually, Im pretty sure I didnt know about it until much later I gradually found out.
Same here. My aunt came to get me all hysterical like cause my mom was working there at the time. Luckily she was late to work that day in case the OT cares.
[QUOTE="dave123321"]I was in 9th grad. English class. Diablo-B
Same here. My aunt came to get me all hysterical like cause my mom was working there at the time. Luckily she was late to work that day in case the OT cares. I was in grade 9 too.
I was in my 9th grade Science 1 class. School was dismissed though, and I remember waiting with some friends for our rides to get there... nobody spoke.
Too bad we can't do this kind of thread for the Hiroshima Bomb day august 6th, the atom bombs were dropped decades before the mass media era and the internet, that and everyone that lived during WW2 is too old by now anyway. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were far worse than the terrorist attacks, more innocent people died instantly in those cities.
I was getting ready for school (don't remember what grade). I watched most of it then I had to leave. I didn't get to watch it again until I got back because my teacher apparently didn't care... didn't even mention it.
Working in Piccadilly in London. It was the morning when the news broke, and as the drama gradually unfolded the City was slowly evacuated. I worked all the way through even though all of my clients had long gone home, and leaving at 6pm it was an eeire place, with the last planes waiting to land circling overhead and the usually busy streets largely deserted. I remember walking past the Ritz and into the tube station and not a soul around bar the odd tearful commuter. It was quite a surreal day - I can only imagine what it must have been like across the Atlantic
Was getting ready to go to elementary school (west coast Canada). Dad was watching news and I came in and on TV there was a bunch of stuff about a plane hitting a building. I went to school and my Principal did an announcement saying what happened and we had a moment of silence while the Canadian flag was lowered to half mast.
I remember waiting in line to sharpen my pencil in like grade 2. It's weird how I can remember that...the other kids were talking about it. I remember there was a terrorist scare in London the day I was coming back from Europe in 2006, good thing I'm from Canada, cause the USA line was ALL the way across Rome's airport.
I'm surprised by the response from the people not in America I didn't really think it was a world wide worry.Fightingfan
The ramifications of the attack were global. London was evacuated for fear of something similar happening (certainly the City and Canary Wharf anyway). The financial district in particular was affected, principally because many a person lost their trans Atlantic colleagues. I'm sure most people in the world will always remember what they were doing when the attack happened, just as people remember the moment they heard JFK was shot.
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