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Post by ~*Young $ Money*~ on Sept 11, 2019 10:08:57 GMT -5
18 years ago America suffered one of the worst attacks in history. Let’s take a time to remember that day and all that were lost. Feel free to post where you were, what you remember and anything else from that day.
I was in 7th grade and remember everyone being taken out of school and I didn’t know why. After school I went out with my friends and just remember how quiet the skies were, the fighter planes over head and just everyone coming together.
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Post by CM Poor on Sept 11, 2019 10:33:35 GMT -5
I was sixteen years old, and a junior in high school. I didn't find out until 4th period, by which point both towers had fallen. We didn't close down, and I can't specifically recall anyone being pulled, but the remainder of the day was something of a wash. I remember my Spanish teacher trying in vain to carry on as if it were any other day and just completely failing to maintain order (or composure, for that matter), but the only class wherein anything was "accomplished" for, really, the rest of the week, was 7th period band - likely on the sheer account of it being something of an effective distraction from the rest of the world.
In retrospect, I think we weren't dismissed on account of proximity. I'm nowhere near NYC or Washington, but the two planes that hit NYC that day departed from Boston, which is under the purview of an FAA center that I now know to be less than 2.5 miles from my high school. The overall potential for further catastrophe, coupled with the logistics of dismissing some 2,400 students (my graduating class walked 800+ students), was probably too great a risk to consider at the time, however unlikely a target an underground air-traffic bunker would be. In the weeks that followed, the more hysterical members of the student body would use this proximity to assume and loudly proclaim that we were in imminent danger, but the greatest and only real immediate residual to the youth in my city came when it was discovered that the captain of one of the two New York bound planes' daughters went to the school across town.
I started driver's ed that night. I wasn't scheduled to get in until November, but the class starting that night saw a handful of cancellations, so my name got bumped up. I think I wound up playing in something like 6 vigil type events over the course of the next week or so as part of the marching band.
It's strange to think that I've now lived in a post 9/11 world longer than I had a pre-9/11 world.
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 11, 2019 10:39:53 GMT -5
I was in 6th grade first period math class when a fellow student just came back from a dentist appointment and broke the news. The school wouldn't let us watch the TV for some reason
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Post by Mongo Bears on Sept 11, 2019 15:30:34 GMT -5
I was 22 and living in an apartment in Tampa Florida and I was asleep when the first plane hit. My roommate got a phone call to turn on the news and he woke me up just in time for us to witness the second plane hit. It was a shocking way to wake up. We soon learned of other planes hijacked and things became very real very fast that a plot of terror was unfolding and at that point no one knew where it would end. I spent the whole day watching the news before a 6-10pm shift at my job which I thought I might not go to but I did. I’ll never be able to describe the vibe from people that day. It was shock.
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Post by rKoNomad316 on Sept 11, 2019 19:29:23 GMT -5
I was in 7th grade & for a class or 2 we watched the news.
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Post by kennyw86v2 on Sept 12, 2019 19:48:49 GMT -5
I was in 10th grade. My 2nd week at a new school. Went into history class and the teacher was huddled next to a radio, the 1st tower had been hit but not yet the 2nd.
We kinda listened on, not really getting anything done. Other teachers tried to have class as usual, but that doesnt ever work.
I'll admit, at 15, I thought the world had just changed. 2 weeks later people were no longer pretending to get along and life was back to normal, at least for those of us not directly hurt. Crazy it's been 18 years.
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Post by LK3 on Sept 13, 2019 1:35:52 GMT -5
I was in 6th grade. Didn't really understand what was going on at first, it was just like "oh a place crashed into this building that's crazy." Of course it wasn't just a crazy accident. We had the TV on for a period or two. There were kids who were leaving with their parents coming to get them, probably because of the crash in PA and we were in PA. I think the rest of the day was largely normal once it got into the afternoon.
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Post by CM Poor on Sept 13, 2019 10:50:26 GMT -5
I was in 10th grade. My 2nd week at a new school. Went into history class and the teacher was huddled next to a radio, the 1st tower had been hit but not yet the 2nd. We kinda listened on, not really getting anything done. Other teachers tried to have class as usual, but that doesnt ever work. I'll admit, at 15, I thought the world had just changed. 2 weeks later people were no longer pretending to get along and life was back to normal, at least for those of us not directly hurt. Crazy it's been 18 years. You weren't wrong. I think that, because there's an entire generation grown now who either have no memory of the world pre-9/11 or have more years now living post-9/11 than they did pre, the world as it is has become normalized. That's not necessarily a unanimously bad thing - I mean, short of a radical reactionary, what more can the layman really do in times like these than adapt to the world around him? The more prevalent changes were the sort of large scale, macro-based things that aren't necessarily aspects of life we see day to day, but when you really sit and think on it, American life has shifted considerably in the eighteen years since the attacks, in many ways because of the attacks.
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Post by Newsted on Sept 13, 2019 11:19:34 GMT -5
I just remember thinking it was really cool explosions. I was like, 4.
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Post by JC Motors on Sept 14, 2019 18:33:47 GMT -5
9/11 is one of those events that you remember the exact place you were when it happened. It's like JFK's assassination. I have several family members who remember what they were doing that day that JFK was shot. It's surreal.
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Post by ET had AIDS on Oct 30, 2019 18:26:37 GMT -5
I just remember thinking it was really cool explosions. I was like, 4. Were you ever dropped? --- I was coming back from a dr. apt..... I saw the second plane hit live though if thinking serves correctly. So surreal.
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