underjohngrohs
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Post by underjohngrohs on Sept 10, 2017 18:38:38 GMT -5
September 11, 2001 will forever be a day in the life that changed the United States forever. It was somewhere between 8:50 and 8:55, I was in Fifth Grade, I remember it like yesterday. At 10 years old, I was in Elementary School, it was my last year of Elementary School. We were getting ready to do some school work, then my speech teacher rushes in the classroom and says something's going on in the World Trade Center. Then the TV is on, and there it was right before our eyes, it was something like a movie, At first I thought there could've been something wrong, electrical wiring or one of the chefs caught something on fire, but it turned out to be a plane, then around 9:00, another plane hit, and It was chaos right then and there, that's when I realized that it was a Terrorist Attack all along. My mind traces back to what happened, 30 minutes later, The Pentagon close to an hour of where I live got hit by another plane. But sadly both World Trade Centers collapsed, And it seemed like they were going to plan another attack on Los Angeles, but luckily the passengers who were hijacked by the plane stoped them from doing so and sacrificed their lives in doing so. I also remember Kids getting picked up at school that day by their parents, they were scrambling to take their kids home from all of this chaos. I don't understand also why they would call our school off as well, despite that, we still had a full-day. This was probably the worst day I've ever encountered. Thankfully, Everyone in my family was alive. They weren't in New York, They were at Work while I was still in School. And watching footage on YouTube of those towers colliding and the other plane hitting the Second World Trade Center, and the phone calls of people calling for help on the planes and also the World Trade Center. It's really haunting, because you had firefighters, police officers and others trying to save these people's life, and they sacrificed to save everyone in New York too. They fought and died for trying to find these people in the Rubble, Alive or Dead. Chilling when you hear people try to make it out alive for trying to call for help. And I thank god that I wasn't in New York and Washington that day. But where was everyone on that Late Summer September Day when it happened?.
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Post by drifter on Sept 10, 2017 18:52:12 GMT -5
Was in web page design class, senior in high school. Our gym teacher came in and told our teacher about the first plane hitting. Since his computer was hooked up to the big screen our teacher looked up on the news, and not long after the second one happened. The rest of the day it was just going to class, not doing anything, and if a TV was in a room, watching the news.
And I think you're thinking of Flight 93, that went down in Pennsylvania, which the high-jackers were planning to fly to Washington and crash into the Capital Building. That was the day, I finally got it, when you'd hear past generations talk about events, like JFK's assassination or the Moon landing, and they said they remember where they were when they heard it. Here it is, 16 years later, and I still remember clear as day where I was.
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Post by Nivro™ on Sept 10, 2017 19:13:07 GMT -5
diversified tech, senior year in HS. 2nd Period was Geometry where I ate Oreos & watched the news with the head cheerleader, 3rd period was Current Events (Ironic) where we sat and watched the news. 4th period was Sr English where she tried to give us a quiz and most of us walked out on her.
Football practice was as normal except for game night which was more elaborate because of the events that week. I still have my helmet sitting on a shelf by my door. Its turned as such where the American flag sticker on the back is always showing.
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Post by Mongo Bears on Sept 10, 2017 20:07:06 GMT -5
I had just moved to Tampa Florida in February '01 after graduating college in Massachusetts. I was sleeping when my roommate woke me to tell me that a plane had hit a World Trade Center building. I got up with no urgency because I thought it was just an accident and after a while I sat down on the couch to see the commotion and just after I did the other plane hit....it was shocking. I watched the news until my work shift in the afternoon. I debated not going to work but I went and it was a very strange feeling being around people that day. It seemed like everybody was in shock.
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Post by davie™ on Sept 10, 2017 20:13:52 GMT -5
I was in 1st grade. I actually was living in lower Manhattan at the time. I used to see the twin towers from my apartment building as I lived on the 10th floor. I remember my teacher stopped class and said our parents are coming to get us. I remember my mom came and got me and we went outside and it just smelled like a big bonfire all of NYC. I remember she tried explaining to me what happened and I remember saying "is this what happened to Aaliyah?" As she died around that time in a plane crash I remember just being kinda confused and that being in my head. Would never forget going home and seeing smoke rise from where the towers would be seen from my room. Recently I just got the NYC skyline tattooed on my shoulder and it was the skyline I used to see as a child.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2017 20:21:56 GMT -5
Getting my 9th grade picture taken just as the airplane went into the building the second time. I remember the dumbass yellow shirt I was wearing too.
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Post by Seoul Survivor on Sept 10, 2017 20:32:52 GMT -5
I was in Kindergarden. It was the day of my grandpas funeral, so my parents were already going to check me out of school early. I remember we were gluing macaroni noodles onto some corny cards, and then the teachers turnin te TV's on. Being so young, I had no idea what was going on, but even then, I still knew something was wrong. Anywho, my parents came to pick me up for my grandpas funeral, and so did a lot of others kids' parents. I was curious as to why so many kids were getting checked out, but didn't think much of it at that age.
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Post by Valbroski on Sept 10, 2017 21:03:23 GMT -5
I was 8, I honestly don't remember. I don't think I got out of school early.
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Post by TheLastDude on Sept 10, 2017 21:18:19 GMT -5
That was the day, I finally got it, when you'd hear past generations talk about events, like JFK's assassination or the Moon landing, and they said they remember where they were when they heard it. Here it is, 16 years later, and I still remember clear as day where I was. Agreed. I remember everything that happened. I had worked the night before and got off at 0600. I was in bed and asleep when I was woken up and told to turn on the news because someone had flown a plane into the WTC. I, too, thought it was just an accident...and then the more I watched the news...yeah...that was a day I'll never forget.
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Post by China Claus on Sept 10, 2017 21:35:50 GMT -5
I was a freshman in highschool. In-between my first period class, which was a computer/typing class and my second period class, which was Biology, a friend of mine told me how a plane had flown into one of the twin towers. During Biology, we watched the news, and witnessed the second plane hitting the second tower. I remember, that whole school day was me and my classmates in front of a television. History, indeed.
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Post by Escape The Rules on Sept 10, 2017 22:17:36 GMT -5
I remember it so vividly.
I was 9 years old. I remember that it was a Tuesday because every Tuesday was the day my dad would take me into town after school and get a new figure. Being from Scotland, when everything went down in New York it was the afternoon over here, I don't really remember much of what happened in school that day. I know that the weather was nice over here that afternoon, I was in Primary 4, I know who my teacher etc and have a vague memory of the last hour before we finished at 3pm.
I went with my dad into the town straight after school and we headed to my favourite figure shop Scotsmann Models. It was a small little store run by a lovely couple who knew me as a valued customer and was centred around wrestling figures and memorabilia, so much so that their sub name was the 'WWF Shop'(WWE Shop a year later) but they also had various other action figures and collectables, but I was strictly there for the wrestling stuff.
That day I got the TTL series 8 Rock figure(Black trunks and red logos) which came with a sledgehammer accessory. After that we headed to McDonald's for some food and then got the bus back to my dad's house. We could've easily walked but I used to resent the long, seemingly daunting walk home from the town as a kid(Now I probably get home from the town quicker by foot than I would if I took the bus).
This was now about 4:30pm GMT and we still had no clue about what was going on in America. Word got around that there was an apparent bomb scare in the town so I think that was the main reason we took the bus as it goes on a slight detour route rather than a straight line due to how the roads are set up. I remember that bus being absolutely packed but not having a care in the world. I sat on a seat near the front playing with my new figure and tapping entrance themes with the sledgehammer that came with it.
We got back to my dad's house(Which is just up the street from my mum's house where I stayed) and I got settled down in the living room. My dad switched the TV, initially as background noise as he went about doing other stuff but after a few moments he stopped in his tracks and was glued to the screen in disbelief. Me being 9 years old, I obviously had zero idea of the magnitude of the attacks. I footage of the towers up in smoke and the plane crashing into them. I figured it was just an accident and that these things happen all the time and wasn't phased by it.
After about an hour or so my dad dropped me off home, where my mum, older cousin and his girlfriend were also watching the news in shock and disgust. I joined in on the conversation for a bit, but the big story for 9 year old me was my brand new Rock figure and I sat at the back wall of the living room playing with my TTL figures and SmackDown Real Sounds Arena, enjoying the sun that was still shining and catching up with my cousin.
What can I say, I was just an innocent 9 year old child. Little did I know just how big of tragedy happened on that day and how monumental that date would become.
16 years later and I can safely say that I'll remember September 11, 2001 for the rest of my life.
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Post by Chicago on Sept 10, 2017 22:46:11 GMT -5
I was in eighth grade on September 11th. The day had just started and I think we were in science class when our teacher left the room. She was all distraught and sometime after that we learned that it would be a half day due to the uncertainty surrounding the multiple plane crashes. Naturally, there was concern of schools being targeted so they began contacting all of our parents to come get us and take us back home.
I was pretty naive for being 13 at the time, so I really didn't know what to make of it. I couldn't even tell you where the twin towers were located in New York and I had just visited the city for the first time in late July '01. Most of us guys in class were joking off as we sat waiting in the cafeteria for our parents to arrive. It became a game to see who would be the last one left, which sounds awfully morbid considering all that was going on.
A neighbor friend/classmate was locked out of his house for a few hours so he stayed with us and I remember watching the national news coverage for the better part of that day. It was completely surreal, but it didn't take long to realize the severity of the situation. I'll never forget where I was, nor will I ever forget how it felt to be an American in the few short weeks after 9/11. Everybody was proud and united for the cause, and I don't think I've ever been as patriotic since.
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Post by Kollector_Kombat on Sept 10, 2017 23:14:54 GMT -5
Probably 2nd grade. I remember watching it get put on the news and the second plane hitting. We stayed in class for about an hour until we were released. I remember my mom really freaking out about it. That whole week was pretty crazy I feel like. Not like things going crazy but there was a definite uneasy-ness in the air and a lot of the adults I knew were stressed and waiting for something else to happen.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Sept 11, 2017 1:45:37 GMT -5
5th grade in the library. They turned on the news and we ended up watching it until the end of the day. They closed the schools the next day and that just consisted of watching the news more.
I've seen those planes crash into those building dozens of times on video. They just kept replaying it.
That said, that was a government orchestrated catastrophe.
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Post by Mark Martin on Sept 11, 2017 2:50:23 GMT -5
7th Grade, walking into Social Studies.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 3:09:31 GMT -5
It was my 7th Birthday. I'd been to school, and when I got home, my Mum put BBC news on. I was obviously very young and thought it was a film - to this day, it still doesn't feel real. My thoughts are always with my American friends on this day.
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Post by Angel Beast on Sept 11, 2017 6:37:47 GMT -5
I was 12 on my way to my math class. I was early cause I needed help and my teacher had the news on watching it happen and I thought he was watching a movie or something and asked him what he was watching. He turned the tv off and said that there was going to be an announcement. A couple of minutes later they announced the towers had been attacked. I remember being worried about my dad coming home cause he sometimes worked in New York. Thankfully he came home that night.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 6:52:43 GMT -5
I just remember sitting in my room reading the monthly gaming magazine and I can't remember why I turned on the TV, but I did and just as I did the second plane hit.
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Post by snatch on Sept 11, 2017 17:04:00 GMT -5
Middle school during gym class. After the 2nd plane hit there was a announcement over the speaker telling everyone to go back to home room. Pretty much did nothing the rest of the day besides listening to the radio. After I got dropped off by the bus, my mom drove us to our grandparents house and we watched the 911 coverage.
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Post by HHH316 on Sept 13, 2017 12:29:33 GMT -5
Freshman year of high school, sitting in Spanish class. I understood it was a big deal, but not really how severe until my parents got home. I asked them what this all meant and they had no clue. I guess I always assumed my parents had all the answers, but that was really when the realization of this sunk in for me.
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