9/11 rememberance thread

[ani]

Nine years ago today, at 8:46 A.M. a plane hit the World Trade Center. What had looked like a tragic accident turned out to be an elaborate attack on the United States.

I can still remember where I was. I was 16 and was preparing on going to school. I had turned on the TV I believe just 10 minutes after and thought as many did, that a plane had accidentally crashed into the tower. I vaguely remember it being a cool day as I was wearing a heavy coat. By the time I had gotten on the bus, the second plane had hit and we were sent home from school almost instantly. By the time I had gotten on the bus to go back, that's when the plane had hit the Pentagon and then Stonycreek Township, PA. The image of passing over the Tappan Zee Bridge and seeing smoke coming from the New York City side is something I'll never forget.

[Chardee MacDennis]

[Predator McBroski]

I was in school too, I didn't have a clue of what was going on, All i remember was hoping everyone was alright.

[stealthamo]

I didn't really understand the magnitude of what was happening at the time, as I was ten years old. I remember being in my Reading/English class (I was in 5th grade), and I remember some sort of announcement coming over the intercom, but that part is fuzzy in my mind. One of my (at the time) math teacher's sons worked at the World Trade Center, but fortunately, he was not working at the time. It wasn't until a few years later that I fully realized what had happened on 9/11.

[bob]

I was a freshman in college in some english class at 9 am when I learned what happened

[Hypnotix]

I was working at a PBS station at the time. We were one of the few channels in the nation that didn't air it. Mainly because we were airing children's programming (Barney or the Teletubbies) at the time, and we didn't want the kids to see it. Still we all watched on televisions at the station, completely in awe like the rest of the country.

[TheDieselTrain]

Was in my mass media law & ethics class when all of a sudden my instructor who also worked at a tv station got a page and ran out of the room. Class was cancelled shortly after that as well as for the rest of the day.

[Clarence "Showstealer" Mason]

I think I was watching at home, not realising the magnitude being pissed they cancelled Star Trek:TNG for this. It wasn't till the next morning (It was 11pm where I lived when it happened) that it hit home.

Although I always feel a little guilty when the date comes up, it was this huge event and this thing that changed all our lives, but honestly, and I know this sounds harsh, besides feeling sad for the people who lost their lives and their familys I stopped caring about September 11 on September 12.

Edit: I mean don't get me wrong, I know it was a tragedy and I know how badly it affected....well....everything in our lives but I just can never bring myself to care. I always feel guilty about it as I believe I should feel something, even if it's just anger at the terrorists who did it. But nope, never feel anything.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

I was heading to my second period class when I found out. The television was turned to CBS just as the 2nd tower was about to collapse.

[Munkie91087]

I was in line to get the copy of God Hates Us All. I had cut class that day. I was in the 8th grade. I found out after I got the cd and was on my way home. My mom had gone to school to pick me up and when I returned home, she was a mix of pissed and relieved. It was such a surreal day, I still can't believe it has been 9 years. So much time has passed, yet I still remember the day like it was yesterday. Easily the biggest and most and most infamous day in my lifetime.

[Nacho STAYS Hyped]

I was in 3rd grade, eating breakfast downstairs in the kitchen, and my grandma called my mom and said a plane had crashed into the WTC. Just as we were about to leave to head to school, the second plane crashed. I didn't even know what the World Trade Center was, but my mom was scared and crying all day. We asked the teachers at school about it and they simply ignored us. I can't really blame them.

[Phosphor Glow]

I seriously can't believe this was 9 years ago. I remember it clear as day.

I was in freshman year of high school, and I remember seeing a bit of it before I went to school while I was watching TV and thought it was just an accident as well. Then we were watching it all day at school, saw the second plane hit and everything else. It was completely insane.

My friend came back to my house and we were just talking about it all evening. It was just...insane.

[frankincleveland]

I had just started college and was heading to a math class when I got a glimpse of a headline on one of the mounted televisions in the building's lobby. I assumed it was a little Piper or something that crashed and didn't think much of it. Once I got to class I heard things were much worse from classmates. The class went on like normal, and the I saw how bad things really weer on that mounted TV.

It was a long drive back home and traffic was packed. On the radio I heard the events unfold some more. My route took me past a small county airport, which was sort of nerve-racking.

It's scary watching the world change in one day.

[MiLo Duck]

I woke up after the planes hit but before the towers fell. It was perhaps even more confusing since the story was in progress. I just flipped from channel to channel looking for why the WTC was on fire, then how the planes hit, then a million other questions. It was surreal. I woke later in the day cause I had a second shift job so before a lot of those questions were fully answered I had to head off to the grind. Then at work the barking chain was in full effect as people listened to radios, talked to friends on their cells, and then spreading out the news/speculations. Somehow the focus came to gas prices, and everyone was obsessed with loading up and getting their wives/husbands to go fill up the cars and gas cans. I thought it was kind silly but it really hit me when I got off of work and say the cars lined up around the block at the gas stations and then looked up and saw what they were charging. What a messed up day.

[mattyc]

I’m UK based so it happened in the afternoon our time. I was in my room channel surfing on the TV when I came across one of the news channels, pretty sure it was Sky News. They had a shot of the New York skyline and I kept on the channel simply because I was due to go on Holiday to New York shortly after (October), I called my Mother into the room because it was clear something was going on in New York. This was after the 1ST plane had hit but before the second, I was watching when the second plane hit.

It was not long before the magnitude of the event that was unfolding sunk in and I was glued to the TV for the rest of the day pretty much, and in the days following.

We still did go on Holiday to New York in October, we got moved to another hotel, the hotel we were due to stay at was switched as it was apparently near the WTC and damaged during the attacks.

I remember doing the New York boat tour and passing the sight of the WTC, still smouldering smoke to be seen and the horrible smell, plenty of police and retrieval boats and vehicles, The dead still being pulled from the wreckage.

It was an unforgettable experience being in New York and seeing the damage just under a month on, I can only imagine the fear and horror of the people in the NYC area when the events were actually occurring.

Easily the most memorable day in my lifetime as far as a World Wide event goes, it’s not an overstatement to say that the World did change that day. I sure hope none of us see anything like it again.

R.I.P to all of those who lost their lives in 9/11 along with the events that stemmed from it, thoughts go out to all those who lost family and friends as well as those still deeply affected by what happened on that day.

[Deleted]

I was 16 years old when 9/11 happened. It shook me because it was so unexpected. At school the day before, a friend was talking about how we will be at war with each other and he mentioned Afghanistan. 9/11 changed the way we as Americans see ourselves. IMO, we are still feeling the effects of the 9/11 attacks both economically and in beliefs/values.

[Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan]

Like a lot of people, I learned about this while in class. I was in an art appreciation class when the principal announced what had happened, but the intercom was busted and we didn't have a tv, so all we heard was a Peanuts-like garble. It wasn't until my next class that I learned that two planes had hit the WTC, and the rest of the class day was spent thinking about it even when teachers tried to continue to teach.

And then I went home, turned on the tv, and saw an image that fills me with anger even to this day. I won't go into what it was since it'd open a can of worms, but wow; I haven't been able to look at the rest of the world the same since.

[Perd]

I was 17 and a senior in high school. I went home after the second plane hit and watched it on TV with my family.

That night I went to Wal-Mart, just to take a break from the horror, but they were playing CNN over the PA.. Everyone in the store, myself included, were sort of just walking around in a daze.

[KStrick]

I had a later class (a science lecture at University of Akron), so I was sleeping in. I woke up and got on AIM, when my buddy Keith IMed me about a plane hitting the "WTC". I had no clue what he was talking about, so I turned on the news, and it all unfolded. At first, like everyone, it just seemed like an accident. After going to my science class, we were all talking about it on the elevator ride up to the floor of our classroom, and went on as if it were an isolated accident.

The TA taught our class, while the professor was in his office watching everything unfold. We weren't told of anything until we left class an hour and a half later. We all went to the lobby of my dorm to see what was going on. We were watching the television for hours. I think they canceled classes for the remainder of the day around 2 or 3 in the afternoon, so I had one more class I had to attend.

I was getting bored of college anyway, so I dropped out soon after to enlist in the Air Force. However, with all the people enlisting, I wasn't let in until 2003.

Very sad day. Even sadder when you have to think of how many lives were ruined, only for misinformed (or outright stupid) assholes who still talk about some sort of "inside job".

[Stu]

I was in my fourth and final year of college. I had just woken up and was getting ready for a 10:30 a.m. Mass Media class. I was trying not to trip over my roommate who was sleeping on the living room floor, when his phone rang. He answered and began mumbling something about the Pentagon and World Trade Center blowing up. I turned on the TV and saw all the news.

I walked to class, where everyone was watching the coverage on a huge screen. At one point, the professor stood up and asked if there was anyone on the school paper in the room. I was the only one to raise a hand, and I was asked to leave in order to do some local coverage. I ended up interviewing all the International students and doing a story about how they all reacted.

I may not have been working for a real newspaper yet, but it was a newspaper nonetheless, and I was glad that I was able to play some role that day, no matter how big or small.