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Post by Deep Figure Value on Sept 10, 2014 20:37:57 GMT -5
English class, my junior year of high school. I'll be the first to tell you that I was something of a pud in high school. My English teacher was the school basketball coach and pretty high energy, and I walked into class that morning to find him pretty subdued, at his desk listening to the radio. I asked him what was going on , and he told me that the south tower had collapsed, which didn't exactly register with me. Once he clarified the south tower of the World Trade Center, the magnitude of just what that could mean to NYC, before I knew about the planes or any of that, just the idea of a tower that large collapsing, kinda settled in.
You know the rest. Rest of the day didn't accomplish much. A lot of bouncing from period to period to either listen to the radio or crowd around a tv if one was available. I'd later learn that my cousin was in NYC on business that day, but his lodgings were across the river and he'd wound up held up there.
I started drivers ed that night. I wasn't supposed to start until late October, but some cancellations opened up the spot and I got the call to start early.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 21:15:00 GMT -5
First semester of college...got out of my 7:30am class & heard on the radio they were discussing it on my way back home. Then my mom & I watched coverage on tv - seeing the collapse of the buildings.
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 10, 2014 21:55:49 GMT -5
First Period Math class in 6th grade when a student came back from the dentist and told us that the World Trade Center was blown up. The school wouldn't allow the classrooms to put on the TV
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 22:09:41 GMT -5
Fifth grade gym class, we were outside playing flag football. 13 years, the same amount of time between 1988 (WrestleMania IV) and 09/11 has passed as between 09/11 and now, pretty unbelievable. I'm now past half-way done with college (and if I had done a four-year plan, I would have finished by 2013), and substitute teach kids up to seven years older than I was then.
I love history and tend to look at the world as a bunch of gray chaos rather than anything clear cut, black and white. America is the most industrial military force in human history (and that's a long time - 150,000 years), and has certainly inflicted a lot of devastation on the world (South America, the Middle East, Vietnam, Korea, parts of Africa, etc., etc.), but at the same time I feel its opponents are just as brutal and violent. Sometimes our opponents (whether direct or indirect) are just as imposing as us (Soviet Russia during the Cold War), other times they're small potatoes who are ticked off at the world (Al-Qaeda). Obviously that region of the world is bitter at the West for a plethora of reasons, one of the most obvious being our support of Israel and its belief that that area was stolen from ethnic Arabs (even though it was a Jewish nation for centuries up until 70 CE). But, not every nation, region, and individual in that area displays horrible, authoritarian actions or lives lives that are living hells, full of torture. Yes, a Saudi Arabian may have to live in a theocratic nation based upon a text written in the 7th century CE, but he/she is still living in an incredibly wealthy nation while doing so. To me, this "grayness" results in most of America's enemies displaying just as must brutal aggression (or at least a desire for it) as America itself. Essentially every conflict in world history is, to me, evil vs. evil.
In this case, one rebel, militant group that (at least at the time, not including ISIS' power today) displayed radicalism and pro-violence views that were not the actual government of any specific country. But, they pulled together the resources, played the game they felt they had to play, waited, planned, and pulled off one of the most unbelievable and disturbing displays in world history. It wasn't an inside job, it wasn't a conspiracy (though a lot of people have made a lot of money with books and videos claiming so), it was one evil group of individuals doing an evil thing to the most powerful nation of a very evil world, a world created by an incredibly evil human race. Everyone involved is bad, and it's a reality that has been true since our ancestors first emerged on the planet.
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Post by Mr. Old School™ on Sept 10, 2014 22:57:48 GMT -5
I was at home sleeping and my brother called the house and told us to turn on CNN and that America was under attack. As soon as I woke up, I put in a VHS tape and just hit the record button and let it record and once that tape ran out and I put in another and let it record. I did that with a few tapes all day and just sat back and watched in disbelief.
I still have those tapes to this day and probably have some rare footage on there.
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Post by Self-Savior on Sept 10, 2014 23:13:16 GMT -5
I was in 9th grade and home sick from school. I was bored so I was watching/listening to Good Morning America since I couldn't really sleep and the next thing I know is they're announcing that an airplane has stuck the WTC and then showed footage of the second one hitting it as well (IIRC).
It was pretty goddamn shocking/terrifying...all I remember was putting on CNN and watching it for the rest of the day.
I certainly hope that nothing of that magnitude happens to the US anytime soon...but you never know.
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Post by underjohngrohs on Sept 10, 2014 23:17:42 GMT -5
I was in fifth grade. My Last Year of Elementary School. We were having our normal class day until somebody told my teacher that a plane crashed down at the World Trade Center.
When I saw the TV. I thought it was very much nonsense to me. But when the second plane hit. It was very sick, and then when the Pentagon happened. I was doomed. I thought are they going to attack Virginia Next. Are they going to attack MD or Los Angeles. 13 years later. This still strikes me to this day to what happened., cause when I saw that tv. I had this strange look on my face saying it's terrorism. Terrorism is doing this to us. And it did do this to us.
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Post by specterkev on Sept 10, 2014 23:20:14 GMT -5
in bed asleep when my friend woke me up in a frantic yelling that we are under attack.. needless to say I was wide awake.. then i felt like it was in a nightmare for like a week,..feeling stunned,
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 23:33:41 GMT -5
Home with my mom, I was 2. My dad was in New York. He called from work and told my mom turn on the tv. It was awful. My dad's boss was right in front of it when it happened (he's fine).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 4:47:18 GMT -5
I was a child so my father was filling my ears with all kinds of garbage...
No, but seriously, I have absolutely no recollection of that terrible day.
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Post by ¡Twist Of Lime Green Jello! on Sept 11, 2014 5:12:33 GMT -5
At home. I had the day off from school, can't remember why though.
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Post by 0,Y on Sept 11, 2014 5:40:50 GMT -5
I remember it like it was yesterday. My dad came home from work early and told us to turn on the TV. He got an important call and went outside and my mom and I were just sitting there not believing what we saw. We were watching TV for like 12 hours straight after and we all got to see the second plane hitting live as well as both towers collapsing. Sad day.
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Post by King Silva on Sept 11, 2014 6:17:09 GMT -5
I was getting ready for school (6th grade iirc). When I got out of the shower I saw the horrible news on tv. It certainly was a ed up day and time in general.. RIP to all who died. I can't imagine losing a loved one that day but so many people did.
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Post by Jonathan Karate on Sept 11, 2014 7:46:20 GMT -5
First day of kindergarten.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 8:43:01 GMT -5
I was little man, but even I remember. Mom was playing with me in the floor in front of the TV, and the next thing I remember was mom saying "This isn't good. At all."
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Post by TX on Sept 11, 2014 9:19:24 GMT -5
I had just gotten back in from recess at school. The teacher told us that both the towers of the World Trade Center had been hit by planes and that they both had collapsed.
It must have been a hell of a task for all those teachers on that day, trying to explain to kids what was happening.
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Post by T R W on Sept 11, 2014 9:30:16 GMT -5
I was getting ready to go to work to start a new job. My wife was watching the morning news and called me in when the first plane hit. From there I was pretty much watching all day. I was supposed to start a new job and go to orientation, but they sent everyone home once they realized it was a terrorist attack, as the offices were in a high rise. From there like most people I was glued to the TV trying to figure out what the hell was happening. Honestly the entire day is still pretty much etched in my brain. Watching live as the second plane hit, and as the towers collapsed was just terrifying.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 9:33:39 GMT -5
In English at school. We didn't find out until about an hour after the first tower went down. the Headteacher rung the fire bell, and we all went outside. She told us to all go and sit in the Hall immediately. She switched on the TV and Myself along with about 500 other kids watched in disbelief. The day was cancelled and we stayed there until the end of school.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 9:50:32 GMT -5
I was probably on the floor crawling around as an infant or on the couch watching TV with an elder family member. I don't remember much of what happened at all, but I do remember seeing the explosions on TV and wondering what was going on. I know of a couple of members here who have joked about it today and I must say I'm disappointed.
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Post by J12 on Sept 11, 2014 9:58:04 GMT -5
I was in my first week of junior high, getting acclimated with things. We had this several-day long project that we had to complete during our study halls to get acclimated with the school, its teachers, rules, etc. It was basically a big packet full of questions to familiarize ourselves.
My friend and I were in study hall, and got a pass to go to the library to complete the library portion of the packet. We had an early study hall, 2nd period or something. Only a few other kids had it, so no one else was in there at the time, it was just us.
Shortly after the first plane hit, they wheeled a TV into the library and the principal, office staff, and several teachers piled in to watch. They told my friend and I we could stay and watch, but asked us not to tell our classmates when we went back because they were afraid kids would panic. I watched the second plan hit live.
They announced it to the school a short while later, and I remember hearing rumblings of them canceling school for two weeks, because, at the time, we had no idea what had happened and if something bigger was coming. I remember getting home and watching the coverage with my parents right up until I went to bed that night.
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