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Post by FUNK_US/BRODUS on Sept 11, 2011 9:34:07 GMT -5
I had just come home from high school (England, 5 hour time difference) and my stepdad was on the couch watching CNN. It was mindblowing.
I have the utmost respect for everyone who volunteered in that effort, and Rest In Peace to all those lost. A truly indescribable tragedy.
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Post by agent817 on Sept 11, 2011 9:39:08 GMT -5
I was 15 and in 10th grade when this happened. I got ready for school like any other day, didn't have the TV on or anything, so I knew nothing about this until I got to school, when one of my best friends approached me and asked me if I had heard about the attacks. I was surprised about that. The topic became major as the day progressed. My PE teacher mentioned the whole thing and believe it or not, that was the only class I actually did anything in. The other classes, we didn't do anything. In two of them, the TV was on and had the news on. Also, I came home and noticed that the news was on almost every channel. My mom rented some movies that day so that we can take our mind off the whole thing, as well as since the news was on almost every channel.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 11, 2011 10:12:10 GMT -5
I was 16 and sitting in junior year history class when the teacher came running in after talking to the principal to tell us what happened. When the realization hit that it was terrorism and not just some horrible accident I was scared out of my mind and worried that my dad was in the city that day (he mainly worked in North Jersey, but would go into New York every so often. Granted he'd go to Midtown, but still). The principal called me down to the office and my heart sunk to the bottom of my stomach. But it was just to tell me my dad would pick me up from school that day. Looking back, I think I would've cursed him out for being an asshole and scaring me shitless, but I was just relieved to know my dad was alive and well.
The events of that day will be forever engraved in my mind. I can't forget them even if I wanted to. I remember crossing the Verezzano Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn to visit my grandmothers on 9/12 or 9/13 and just seeing the giant smoking hole where the WTC was and everyone in the car just teared up.
My photography professor in college, Thomas Franklin, was the guy who took that now famous photo of the firemen holding up the American flag at Ground Zero. He had some real fascinating and unreal stories about that day.
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Post by BR329 on Sept 11, 2011 10:25:45 GMT -5
I was in 4th grade at my old Catholic school. We weren't told about it in school but I knew something was wrong because our teacher asked us to say an extra prayer before we went to lunch and my teachers looked as if they had been crying. After school I just watched the coverage on TV but even then I didn't really understand all of it back then.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Sept 11, 2011 10:32:25 GMT -5
I was out buying books & supplies for University when I noticed people huddled around one of those kitchen store TVs that usually advertise the latest potato peeler. On way back in the car the Radio was oddly just playing music, then at home just watched it all as the tragedy unfolded.
Such a terrible thing to happen, especially one of my old class mates lost his sister in it.
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Post by jobber2thestars on Sept 11, 2011 10:38:04 GMT -5
I live in East Boston, which is where Boston's Logan Airport is located, and I have planes flying over my house all day. Sometimes I wonder if I may have heard the planes flying over head that morning, and never having a thought about what was about to happen.
I was 13 years old and in the 8th grade when I heard a girl sitting in front of me ask anoher what the World Trade Center was. The other girl told her she thought it was a building in New York, but that she wasn't sure, then asked why she wanted to know. The first girl said that she had heard a bomb had gone off or something inside there. I remember thinking to myself that they were stupid for not know the World Trade Center building were the largest buildings in the world.
A few seconds later, or what seemed like it, my teacher came running into the classroom and turned on the television. The first picture shown on the screen was of a plane flying into one of the buildings. The class soon filled with teacher and students from other grades, and parents began showing up to take their children out of school early, fearing another attack.
People born after September 11th will never understand the thought process we had before this day ten years ago. Even at 13 years old and hearing someone say that a bomb had gone off in New York City didn't even make me think anything was wrong. As far as I knew, nothing like September 11th could happen in the real world, and things like that were only in movies.
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Post by Wolfaga on Sept 11, 2011 10:38:24 GMT -5
I was 10 back then, yet I still remember all the peak details. I remember missing a day off school because I felt ill so I had to stay round my nan's, then all the channels had it locked on the first tower being hit, and the breaking news of the second being hit Left my jaw dropped and always lead me saying 'why did they do it' R.I.P to everyone who died that fateful day
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Post by BRAINFADE on Sept 11, 2011 10:41:22 GMT -5
I was on holiday in Majorca with my family, and was due to fly back home two days later. We saw lots of people huddled around a TV in a bar, so we went in and saw the second plane hit. We stayed and watched the towers fall, which was one of the scariest moments of my entire life. What I saw on the telly that day will haunt me for the rest of my life.
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Post by Orange on Sept 11, 2011 11:15:58 GMT -5
For those that have MSNBC, they are broadcasting breaking news coverage from 9/11 as it happened.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 11, 2011 11:43:17 GMT -5
I'm just glad YES is showing Fox NFL Sunday now. I don't think I can take much more of this.
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Post by Baixo Astral on Sept 11, 2011 12:53:36 GMT -5
I was on holiday in Manhattan on 9/11/2001.
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Post by s l i k on Sept 11, 2011 14:06:57 GMT -5
Has it really been 10 years?
I was in the theatre department at my college.
They wheeled in a barely working tv on a barely movable stand to get a barely receivable reception.
40 students, quiet and glued to the broadcast.
Sad day.
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Post by giffyjames on Sept 11, 2011 16:36:27 GMT -5
being so young when it happened, it shook the hell out of me.
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Post by Mayonnaise on Sept 11, 2011 20:13:38 GMT -5
I still remember the day quite well.
I woke up with my head at the foot of my bed and the TV on NBC and the Today show. I heard something about a plane hitting one of the Towers and stirred enough to see the second plane hit. I knew right then that we were at war. I started calling my parents and letting them know what was going on. I actually broke the news to the local school where my mom worked and she called during the day for updates. Any thought of doing schoolwork was forgotten. I watched as the Towers fell and was just shocked. Later that day, I picked up my mom and we decided to go into town as planned as we didn't know what else to do and, seemed most others fell in the same boat as everywhere we went was packed. From getting my hair cut and listening to the coverage, talking about how things would never be the same to going to Target and getting the two CDs I had been saving for, P.O.D.'s Satellite and Slipknot's Iowa, everyone was just going threw the motions.
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Post by RI Richmark on Sept 11, 2011 21:35:32 GMT -5
I was working in the copyroom at my job when someone came in and told me that a plane just hit the tower. I thought he meant a small passenger plane and thought little about it. Then the second plane hit and someone rolled a tv into the office and turned on the news. Obviously, there wasn't much work getting done as everybody was watching the coverage.
Ironically the next day was the day my family was going to start our vacation to Gettysburg and Valley Forge. My family debated whether to cancel or not. Ultimately we decided to go and I'm glad we did. I know it may sound corny, but reliving other times America faced adversary helped me realized that we'll get through this too.
May God bless the heroes on 9/11 and our brave troops.
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Post by moneyman20 on Sept 11, 2011 21:40:00 GMT -5
I was 9. I watched it on the TV in my elementary school's library mesmerized and shocked that anyone could ever do something like this. I was pretty naive at the time and never could have imagined something like that could happen. My whole outlook on the world and life changed on that day.
God bless the men and women of the fire department and the police department in New York City who risked their lives to save others that day, and God bless the men and women of our armed forces for fighting the bastards who did that.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Sept 11, 2011 22:06:05 GMT -5
Like it was yesterday.
I was a freshman at Robert Morris University (then College), which is literally down the street from the airport in Pittsburgh. I only had two classes that day, and the first wasn't until 2 p.m. I had two roommates, who both had class at 10 a.m., so they usually got up to shower and stuff. I woke up to use the bathroom, when my one roommate came in and said that a plane crashed in New York. I was like, "So? Planes crash all the time." I was tired and that's all he had said.
I went back to sleep, and my other roommate didn't go to class, so we both just stayed asleep. My roommate then got up to go to his 11:00 a.m. class. He just threw on his shoes and walked out the door. He came back five minutes later saying all classes are cancelled, and sounding confused as to why. So we finally are turning on the tv, and obviously, every channel is covering the towers. Our faces were frozen in shock. It really was like a scene in Independence Day.
We were glued to the tv all day, and a report started coming out that a plane was hijacked out of Pittsburgh, which again, the airport is right down the street from the college. We started getting sick feelings, when my dad called me and said he was coming to get me. I threw some stuff in a bag, asked my roommate if he wanted to come, since I lived 45 minutes away, but he was from Philly. He said he would stay back and see what happens and watch the room.
My dad and I went to my uncle's office, where there was only 6 or 7 people eating pizza around a tv. We ate and talked about what was going on, all of us realizing it was terrorism, and then my dad took me back to my mom's house. I talked to my girlfriend, who was very upset, and we just wondered what was going to happen next. The next day, classes resumed, but obviously, all we talked about was what happened the day before.
It turned out the hijacked plane out of Pittsburgh was false, and that it was the plane that crashed outside of Somerset County. I was still in shock and disbelief for the next 2 to 3 days, but that Friday, I was in my car and they were playing songs and music that had comments from Bush and Blair and victims. I just broke down crying as it all finally hit me. Just as sad tragic event that I know I will never forget. I also had friends in my dorm from Queens, New York, who were also very shaken and sad. Seeing people from New York so devastated, and being a part of it with Pennsylvania being a crash site, I really am saddened by that day.
I am glad that we finally got Bin Laden, that feels like a great accomplishment. But even watching the replays today, I just can't believe it still happened. Just so surreal. And even ten years later, I still have to cry when I see the destruction and the witnesses and rescue workers talk about what happened. Believe me, 9/11/01 will never be forgotten.
Also, I think the waterfall memorial is beautiful.
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Sept 11, 2011 22:14:40 GMT -5
Wow, I'm one of the older people on these boards...
I was working at a community college, helping videotape a conference discussing statehood for Puerto Rico. During an AM break, one of the producers told me a plane had hit the World Trade center. Only thing my brain pictured was a little Cessna crashing into the side of the tower from being stupid and getting tossed around in the crosswinds over a city.
I heard about the second plane later in the event, but couldn't get to a tv until the conference was over. I didn't return to my apartment til after 2p.
Driving home, I took one of the toll roads to get across town. All the booths were abandoned and there were no planes in the skies. It was so quiet it was almost terrifying.
I watched the "Replays" of the towers falling and cruel as it sounds, it looked like a special effect- I was surely watching a movie! but it was very real, made more so when I spent time on the phone trying to calm my mother down. who was convinced that there would be foreign troops flying over her house within the day.
I had my regular job that night, but was ordered home by security (who almost didn't let me into the building to get my stuff done). Spent that night and a lot of the following days with the news on - something I don't regularly do.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2011 0:07:42 GMT -5
I remember early in my morning "wake-up" ritual, I turned on the radio (CJ92) and heard the morning deejay say with all seriousness that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I remember vividly thinking for a moment that this was just another one of his stupid pranks (let's just say it's not beyond Mr. Forbes' wheelhouse to do such a thing) until I explicitly heard the other deejays say that it was not a joke, etc. etc. I got to the office and went straight to the boardroom, where our only screen was that could get TV. The whole floor was there. The morning change control meeting had ground to a halt, if it ever got off the ground at all. We watched and stared in a numb shock. There was speculation that this event would trigger World War III. I was convinced then, I'm not convinced now that it won't yet. Then, I went back to my office, and as soon as my ass hit the chair, I immediately thought of one of my rivals in the Magic: the Gathering circles. He's what would eventually be called a "frenemy". I was screwed by some hometown refereeing in his favor years and years ago, which was retribution for perceived hometown refereeing on my part in an unofficial event I had run in the past, blah blah blah. All I could think of at that very moment was "holy shit, Mike was in New York last weekend for a Pro Tour event". I frantically looked up his workplace from his emails he sent to me, and apparently (according to the secretary) I was "the thousandth person to call about him" that morning. Slight exaggeration, perhaps. He was okay. Shaken, but okay. Needless to say, a moment of perspective like that put a lot more 'friend' and a lot less 'enemy' into our discourse, but I still whine like Christian every time we talk about PTQ Mainz
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Post by hassanchop on Sept 12, 2011 0:33:13 GMT -5
I was still in high school that time, and in the Philippines. There was a rosary in the mass for the victims, and people at the school believed WWIII was gonna happen. I got a call from my mother who was in Guam that time telling us what happened.
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