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Post by Escape The Rules on Sept 10, 2014 18:25:05 GMT -5
It's now past midnight in the UK, meaning it's been 13 years since the horrific September 11 attacks in New York that killed thousands of people. For me here in Glasgow, I was 9 years old and it was a nice sunny afternoon. Every Tuesday after school finished at 3pm, I'd go into town with my dad and get a new wrestling figure. On this day I got the TTL series 8 Rock figure(Ring attire, red design and came with a sledgehammer accessory). After that we headed to McDonald's and got something to eat and then planned on going to my dad's house for a bit before he took me around to my mum's house where I live. We got to my dad's at about 5pm and I settled down & chilled for a bit while he put on the TV and it was all over the news. My dad was flabbergasted but I couldn't really comprehend just how big of a deal it was. I obviously knew it was bad while seeing replays of the twin towers collapsing. I think at first I actually thought it was just a demolition or something. After a about an hour, my dad took me round to my mum's which is just 5 minutes down the road and she was in with my older cousin and his girlfriend, they were talking about it and watching the news also in disbelief. I talked to my cousin, showed him my new figure and played with my TTL figures and SmackDown ring in the living room, it was still a nice day outside at this point and I was still able to enjoy my day due to being so young and oblivious to how big of a tragedy 9/11 was. Now that I'm 22 years old, seeing documentaries and footage of this depresses me. I can't imagine if something like that happened to my family, friends or my girlfriend, it makes me nauseous thinking about it. So, where were you on September 11, 2001? Attachment Deleted
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Post by Mox on Sept 10, 2014 18:33:40 GMT -5
Driving to college math class with my brother. When we heard on the radio that a second plane hit, we turned around and went home. Such an awful day.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 18:34:54 GMT -5
I was just back from the shop(my turn to go for lunch in work) all the lads were watching the TV report on the plane hitting the Tower and nobody had a clue what was happening.....when the 2nd plane came into view and hit.
We had the unfortunate occasion to see the 2nd plane hitting live as it happened. We were all speechless in the kitchen.....we could not process what was happening at all.
we all finished up and went to the pub to see what was going down.
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Post by Adam on Sept 10, 2014 19:06:38 GMT -5
In my sophomore year of high school, I had walked into my second period class where my teacher would always have the news on tv before class started. All I could see on the screen was smoke billowing out of one of the towers so it just looked like a horrible fire or something. But he had turned the tv off and started teaching. They actually tried to not play any coverage until the end of the day and all after school activities were cancelled. Unfortunately my dad was in Colorado on business and was supposed to be flying home that day, but instead had to drive back to the east coast in a van with a bunch of other people.
Hopefully in the near future my fiancee and I can go see the Ground Zero memorial, she loves NYC so it won't take much convincing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 19:12:33 GMT -5
Enjoying my 6th birthday party. Don't even remember being told about it besides my brother making a comment. Didn't realize the significance of the event until a year later.
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Post by Ryan81398 on Sept 10, 2014 19:16:13 GMT -5
I was in preschool at the time (yes, I'm that young ) and I saw my mom (who was volunteering that day) and the teacher watching the TV, and I remember seeing a red/orange burst (which I assume to be the second hit), and having absolutely no idea what was going on.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 19:18:23 GMT -5
Doing my vocabulary homework in my 3rd grade class. Teacher hauled ass into the room and turned it on TV and we sat and watched it until the school came over the intercom and told everyone to turn it off.
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Post by Prophet of Ash on Sept 10, 2014 19:24:02 GMT -5
I was in middle school. The class I was in didn't have a functioning TV, it was being fixed at the time. I remember the principal came into the class and told us we should go to the library and watch this. I assumed it was nonsense. When the second plane hit, I seen it and was trying to tell people it was a second plane. The teacher threatened me with a Saturday school if I wasn't quiet. Then the replays started and she had to eat crow.
2001 was s**tty as a whole for me. Only in hindsight I am realizing how poor of an education I was provided.
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Post by marino13 on Sept 10, 2014 19:27:21 GMT -5
Sitting in (back then it was my grandmother's) my living-room with my friend Clyde. We started right watching right after the first plane hit. And watched it for hours after the second one did. I'll never forget it.
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Post by dakis on Sept 10, 2014 19:30:25 GMT -5
I was actually fishing in the Long Island sound with my dad. When my cellphone rang we took the boat all the way down to lower manhattan and it was covered in smoke. You could smell the fire and ash all the way in the ocean. Later it took us 3 hours to get home. All bridges and tunnels into New Jersey were closed. When I got into my town we had a slight fog of smoke the whole time. It's hard to believe it was already 13 years. Feels like yesterday.
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Post by Mr. PerpetuaLynch Motion on Sept 10, 2014 19:33:42 GMT -5
On my way to a hospital with an asthma attack. It was surreal hearing the radio dj's here that usually act like morons on their morning show with a serious tone and when they announced a plane hit the World Trade Center it didn't really register with me but my mother was shocked and then waiting in the waiting room watching CNN and seeing the towers burning is when it really set in just how big the whole thing was.
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Post by HHH316 on Sept 10, 2014 19:35:45 GMT -5
Spanish class of my freshman year of high school. I often try to remember what life was like in society before that day but never seem to have much luck. So much has changed dramatically.
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Post by Last Trent Barreta Fan on Sept 10, 2014 19:37:10 GMT -5
I was in English cass in 5th grade. Our principal decided it was best to NOT tell us what had happened. We had school, didn't go home early. Nobody's parents took them out of class. We just went on with a normal day. I didn't hear about it until I got home when my dad had on CNN and I asked "What's going on, dad?" he's like "Uh ya know two planes hit the twin towers, right?" I was like "...no...." and I did my homework.
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Post by The Gangsta on Sept 10, 2014 19:39:20 GMT -5
I was young, didn't start pre-school yet (about to though). Jumping around watching Blue's Clues and hearing my mom and dad upstairs in my living room say "Oh my god" over and over again. What I didn't know was that since my mother was pregnant with my brother at the time, my dad (who worked as an electrician at the North Tower, on the top too) had to stay home because she had morning sickness. Realizing it now today, my life would've been completely changed forever if it wasn't for my mom being sick that very day.
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Post by Nivro™ on Sept 10, 2014 19:40:09 GMT -5
Diversified Tech class my Senior year...I dont remember what I was doing...honestly probably playing Techmo Bowl on the computer but our teacher got a phone call and then told us to shut off all computers, robots etc and turned the TV on. My first thought was "we cant afford to run all the electronics and TV at the same time" but then I saw where the first plane had hit. Then we watched the 2nd one hit & Rest of the school day was more or less canceled. 2nd Period was Geometry and we just watched the TV the whole time. I remember getting mad cause I had a bag of Oreos and one of the cheerleaders wanted one and then I went to do something and came back and she had eaten the whole damn bag lol. 3rd period was English and the old bitch tried to make us do work but we just werent having it so after about 20mins she just said it and turned the TV on and left us alone. Last class was World History and obviously what better history to learn about then what was going on in the present as it would change our future for ever. That Friday we were one of only a handful of area teams to play our game. I remember my gf's parents were real upset because they felt out of respect we should have canceled and then wanted me to not play (which wasnt gonna happen). We did the whole lighting of candles, waving of flags etc etc stuff. Also had the American Flag sticker on the back of our helmets...which I still have displayed in my room. (FYI, Derrick was our Coach's son who died a couple months later of Leukemia)
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Sept 10, 2014 20:11:23 GMT -5
In middle school in the Bronx. People were getting taken out of school left and right but my dad worked at my school and left me there. I got home and watched the events on TV and it was surreal. You could also see smoke clearly from my roof.
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Post by Colter on Sept 10, 2014 20:12:48 GMT -5
Pre-school. 2 years old.
Hits really hard. In my town, my grandfather was fire chief for 60 years and my dad is still a fireman.
Sad day, man.
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Post by BrIaNMeRcY on Sept 10, 2014 20:27:04 GMT -5
Where was I? Well, I heard both American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crashing into the north and south towers respectively. Usually on nice days, the windows in my classroom were usually kept open. September 11th, 2001 happened to be one of those nice days to chill out and have a fun day outside. When the both towers got hit, I felt the impact from where my classroom is. As it was happening, one of my classmates said "what the **** was that?" Then my communication arts teacher received a phone call on his cell and in a low voice utter "oh ****." A couple of minutes after the collapse of One World Trade Center, my mom came to pick me up as was many parents were doing. I had an expressionless face watching the coverage on TV. In the evening, my family and I decided to take a walk and I saw a couple of vehicles being towed that was at the WTC at the time of collapse. Even after 13 years, I can remember every single thing I did. Fast forward to now, the new WTC is looking better and better. I visited the memorial plaza last night and seeing people just soaking in what happened was something words can't describe. I do plan on going back there tomorrow night to photograph the Tribute in Lights and observing the lives who were lost. Just to show how resilient NYC has become, we are just mere months away from seeing people work in the new One WTC and the new 4WTC. I apologize for such a long post but I frequent the World Trade Center. Being a live-long resident of NYC, I remember a while lot. In middle school in the Bronx. People were getting taken out of school left and right but my dad worked at my school and left me there. I got home and watched the events on TV and it was surreal. You could also see smoke clearly from my roof. It is worse living in a two mile radius of the World Trade Center. I remember smelling the rubble that smoldered for 99 days.
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Post by HendryHausen on Sept 10, 2014 20:34:51 GMT -5
High School, 10th grade Spanish.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 20:35:09 GMT -5
I was a bebe. But my teacher told me a story that it was his first week of 6th grade and that when the first plane hit they had an assembly and sent everyone home he said since they didnt know what was going on they were happy and excited but then he found out the news and was devastated.
I couldn't imagine how it was on that they especially in Manhattan were it happened I would have honestly have crapmy pants.
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