just graduated college in may of that year. just started working a few weeks before. i was driving to work when i heard on the radio that a plane had hit the first tower. i assumed it was just a small little personal aircraft or something. got to work and tried to get on cnn.com or msnbc or something and the sites were getting hammered. my boss came in an said he was able to get a page up about it and it showed a pic of the huge hole in the north tower. the company i work for had tv's in some of the building so watched the buildings fall on the news. crazy.
How weak can you be crying on this at that time and still feeling sad:| .Dont know why would anyone be sad on such a thing just becasue they happen to see it on TV.Many people die everyday,just becasue it was the WTC,doesnt mean that now you have to get sad lol.:lol:
Hitman_887
I would love to call you so many names right now but I'd get myself banned. You are either just trolling or have no compassion whatsoever.
I was in college in upstate NY getting ready for a morning class. Just as I was about to leave my friend IMed me, "turn on the news." I remember trying to call home to make sure everyone was alright and for the first time ever, my call could not go through. It was terrifiying and surreal. I was glued to the television the entire day. My family was ok but our neighbors and family friends lost relatives. I went home that weekend - my family lives in another borough where we have a view of the towers - and remember being absolutely terrified; I wanted to leave NYC because I was convinced something else catastrophic would happen. When I went out to the balcony, there was a faint smell of concrete in the air. The skyline looked naked without the twin towers. It was strange to see military jets fly overhead and soldiers with weapons in the city too. It was a crazy time and remebering it still sends chills down my spine.
My mum was taking me and my cuson home from swimming, we dropped of my cuson at his house and through his window i could see the TV with the BBC news on, showing the towers ablaze.
I was watching cartoons on cartoon network, I think it was Scooby doo or one does old cartoons by Hannah Barberah... school would start in 4 days (if I remember correctly) and I was going to start 5th grade... then my mother told me to switch to CNN. I remember my mind struggling between whatching cartoons or the news, but then I caught the second plane live and I spent the next few hours jumping from news station to news station, american, british and national.
"where were you when they built that ladder to heaavon"....*southpark*... anyway... i was in biology class in 11th grade.. i was making a knee joint or something out of clay... but i heard it on the radio.. then i saw it on tv the next period...
i will never forget...i think about 9/11 alot..and yes dont forget about those 1st responders who are still suffering to this day with lung problems...
I was just getting into school when it happened. I remember seeing the school janitor turn on the tv in the cafeteria, just as the bell was ringing, to show the principal what was happening. I caught a climpse of it as I walked by it to class, but didn't know what is was until a formal announcement was made.
I was in my 4th grade class when it happened. I remember that many of my classmates were getting sent home and I was able to peek outside the door (which was next to the main hallway) and saw a long line of parents and was like "What happened?" until I rode home and saw what happened on TV.
10th grade English class. I was almost late to my next class because I was watching the TV in the cafateria with a crowd of other people in-between classes.
In the UK it was the middle of the afternoon and it was on the TV in work and I remember watching it being stupefied. It was awesome, in the true sense of the word
Asleep in Nashville, TN. I woke up about 12:30 local time (1:30 pm NYC) and noticed that everybody in the dorm was home. They told me they attacked the World Trade Center and my first thought was "We get out of school early for that", thinking it was some type of commemeration for the anniversary of the 1st attack. But once I turned on the TV, I got to see the entire thing unfold. Definitely a mind-numbing experience. It felt like humans couldn't even be capable of this, it felt more like an alien attack. All I kept thinking about was Independence Day and the scenes where they take out each city.
er... I had just arived home from school, second or third year at secondary (high).
At the time I didn't really appreciate the profound threat that terrorism posed, partially because I live in the UK, and this was happening over the sea. I was also a bit young then.
"where were you when they built that ladder to heaavon"....*southpark*... anyway... i was in biology class in 11th grade.. i was making a knee joint or something out of clay... but i heard it on the radio.. then i saw it on tv the next period...
i will never forget...i think about 9/11 alot..and yes dont forget about those 1st responders who are still suffering to this day with lung problems...
bsman00
My dad (an asbestos remover) reckons there was more than a share of asbestos rumoured to have been blown out during the collapse, though I never heard about that anywhere else, so maybe it's not true... Highly possible though.
I don't remember much, since I was only 6. But knowing what happened all those years ago, makes me feel so sorry for all those families who were affected by this. Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sons, Wives, Husbands. All of them died, in this one attack, almost 3000 of them.
I was at a friends house. We turned on the tv and the news happened to be on and there was footage of the towers getting hit. At first, I was like "Oh cool a movie!", then we figured it was actually the news and went serious.
It was late at the time (UK time) and I was only in year 6 at the time,so I didn't really understand and as sick as it sounds is was almost exiting watching two huge towers up in smoke it was almost interesting to watch, (i was only like 10 so don't judge me for being so ignorant towards the people dieing up there). But anyway the next day at school my teacher made us all send some huge long email to our "pen pals" in the USA.Mine never replied for like a week or two and when he did he told me his parents kept him at home for a week because they were paranoid something was going to happen to him. I was jealous of him at the time because he had the week off. I just remember seeing the people jumping from the top, it was sad because you could hear people crying in the street watching them fall. But I didnt understand back then how much this affected people...
[QUOTE="astiop"]I was playing xbox. I heard a shout from downstairs saying to switch to the news and so I did. A bit later I continued playing xbox.Videodogg
That is impossible. The original xbox launched Sept 15th, 2001.
I'd only started secondary school the week before. I came home to find my mum and sister watching the tv, with the terrorist attacks all over the news.
I was in year 6 at school. I remember coming home and seeing it on the TV. I knew something terrible had happened but I was annoyed because none of my favourite cartoons were on :|
[QUOTE="astiop"]I was playing xbox. I heard a shout from downstairs saying to switch to the news and so I did. A bit later I continued playing xbox.sammyjenkis898
That is impossible. The original xbox launched Sept 15th, 2001.
Actually it was released November 15th.
Ah, that is what i ment...even more impossible then.....
I had vacation on that day and was watching some Ranma 1/2 (when it was on public TV)... then the news came about some tower getting hit. I didn't put much attention and started playing some games... after that, I found out it was actually true and that thousands of people died... I was kinda shocked... ~ de arimasu
My mom, on the other hand, thought it was a movie since she was shopping and saw a place with a lot of TVs... ~ de arimasu
Senior in highschool in the library fixing computers for the libarian. All of a sudden I heard a couple of people from the faculty in the librarians office with the tv on saying omg. I went in there and everyone was silent, no one was talking, everyone was sitting there with their hands over their mouth in shock. While I was sitting there watching this in awe, all of a sudden the second plane hit and I felt hopeless, I felt like I needed to do something, but there was nothing that I could do. Then we all watched the buildings fall, it was just unbelievable.
I was sitting in my grade 5 class in Ontario. Someone in my class who went home for lunch heard what happened, and told the class. It wasn't that big of a deal to us though, because we were only 10 and not American, so we dropped it.
believing in the ladder to heaven? lol, but seriously I was just waking up and getting ready for school and then saw my parents watching the news. it was about 9th grade I think, and my english teacher kept telling us at school that we're gonna see this in history books from now on, this is our pearl harbor.
Seeing how I'm Canadian the news didn't travel too too fast. But I remember before lunch time in Grade 8 we had a current events session, and one girl said "Two planes crashed into the world trade centers in New York City". I'll always remember that moment.
Waking up, and trying to watch cartoons. I was younger, and I was wondering what was happening. It was on basically every channel. I didn't know about the severity until I got to school, and we watched the news all day, and talked about it.
Cla ss in grade 2. I didn't hear about it until the day after in the announcements though. My grandparents saw the event from their backyard and my current science teacher is actually a 9/11 survivor.
I was living in Arlington, VA. I was attending elementary school as a 5th grader which is about a 10 min drive to the Pentagon. We were doing some arts and crafts when kids started getting called out of the room, one by one they got called out of the classroom. Finally it was my turn to leave, I saw my dad waiting for my sister and I, he came to pick us up. I asked what was happening, he said something about terrorists, of course I thought he was joking, turns out he wasn't. I remember seeing the smoke coming from the Pentagon on the way home...a hellish sight. I think that's the first time in my life when I felt true fear, I didn't know what the hell was happening, all I knew is that I wanted it to end.
I was in forth grade, and in gym class when I first heard anything about it. After that we had some assembly (it had nothing to do with what had just happened, and I don't even remember what it was about), and then classes were cancelled for the rest of the day. We didn't go home, we just watched the news all day in the classroom.
I was in grade 5, our class was in the library, then the principle came on the speaker and told us what happened and we took a minute. I'll never forget it.
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