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Hiccup wrote on 2011-09-11 10:17
[S]And no... not phunkie...[/S]
9/11 is in an hour. How old were you then? And how much do remember of what you experienced and/or what you saw on tv.
I was about 10 at the time, I was in school all day as well. They didn't announce anything or send us home early although we live 2 hours from where the plane crashed in Pennsylvania. I remember coming home and my mom calling me into the family room. She was watching the news. First thing I remember is thinking "oh...wow whats going on?" then seeing a person jump from the towers. Will never forget seeing that. Was a very sad day because I knew something terrible happened but I didn't fully understand exactly what was going on. I tried to keep up with it as best I could. The biggest emotion I had that day was feeling sorry for everyone in the towers, the planes, and the people in NYC at the time.
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Kazuni wrote on 2011-09-11 10:21
I was in China, probably spending my last two months there visiting family before coming to Canada.
...yeah nobody cared there until later..
I only heard about it like.. in grade 4.. or something like that.
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Skye wrote on 2011-09-11 10:24
I was 8, almost 9, and in 3rd grade (if my math's right >_>). All I remember was they played it on TV, but we were all too young to know what the hell was going on.
We were all stuck in whatever room we were in at the time, and I think they turned all the lights off. The teacher wouldn't let someone go to the bathroom.
That's all I remember.
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Loopster wrote on 2011-09-11 10:27
Quote from Skye;584571:
I was 8, almost 9, and in 3rd grade (if my math's right >_>). All I remember was they played it on TV, but we were all too young to know what the hell was going on.
We were all stuck in whatever room we were in at the time, and I think they turned all the lights off. The teacher wouldn't let someone go to the bathroom.
That's all I remember.
I giggled at that, sorry.
I was l three at the time so I didn't know anything.
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TA wrote on 2011-09-11 10:30
I remember, I was in a history class when it happened, back when I was going for my PhD. He told us that history was happening right now, and he let us watch it live as everything was unfolding.
I'll never forget that... He was right too.
But jeeeez.... it totally doesn't feel like 10 years. This makes me feel old... >_>
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Phunkie wrote on 2011-09-11 10:31
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My parents had moved over to the Dominican Republic the summer of 2001. My Dad had gotten a pretty good job working for the Dominican government, so we decided to move over there for a few years.
On 9/11, I remember I was at my lunch time. I was a 6th grader at the time and I remember my Mom came to school that morning to tell us what was happening. I was a bit oblivious at the time, since I was so young and didn't know the magnitude of the disasters, but when I got home, I sat in front of my grandma's couch and watched the news.
Seeing people jump off from the towers made me so sad. I just didn't understand how anyone could commit such an atrocity; crashing planes into buildings, that is. Before 9/11, I didn't know what a terrorist was.
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TA wrote on 2011-09-11 10:33
Phunkie, that image will haunt me for the rest of my natural life.
P.S. I think you mean summer of 2001, not 2011 lol.
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Xemnas wrote on 2011-09-11 10:33
It's only 5:23PM here, not going to be 9/11 here for a while.
But I can't believe it's only been 10 years, feels like much longer.
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Ithiliel wrote on 2011-09-11 10:34
I was in the 6th grade at the time, and I was on neopets before I was going to go to school. I saw a bunch of these posts about 9/11 and at first I thought people were playing a sick joke, so I turned on the news and it was all over the place. I then ran to wake up my mother and told her about it, which she didn't believe me until I showed her the news.
I remember being so pissed at my school because they refused to let us even talk about it. They wanted us to pretend like everything was fine when it wasn't. My father was suppose to be in the South Tower on 9/11, but he had decided to visit the towers a day earlier, right at the time the towers were struck. It's amazing to think I could have lost him if he had stayed.
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MareneCorp wrote on 2011-09-11 10:50
I think I was in about 1st grade or so, we were learning really 1337 stuff like our numbers. My school that time was relatively close to 9/11 too, and just so happened several years later in my last year of middle school, my MS is literally 2 blocks or so away from 9/11 and when Osama was killed+Obama's car drove right past our school to go to the site, all the teachers let us go outside to watch.
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Zid wrote on 2011-09-11 10:53
Found out that morning on TV at 5th grade.
The seriousness of it didn't really hit me as much as everybody else, since I was used to news and histories of people dying in awful ways. The one thing that did stood out to me on 9/11 was the fact that some victims were still buried (barely) alive under the ruins of the towers, and the looks on people's faces trying to save them.
Those expressions... I couldn't imagine the pain behind those expressions of absolute dread and sorrow.
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Phunkie wrote on 2011-09-11 10:54
Quote from MareneCorp;584610:
I think I was in about 1st grade or so, we were learning really 1337 stuff like our numbers. My school that time was relatively close to 9/11 too, and just so happened several years later in my last year of middle school, my MS is literally 2 blocks or so away from 9/11 and when Osama was killed+Obama's car drove right past our school to go to the site, all the teachers let us go outside to watch.
Where in New York do you live again? I keep forgetting.
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MareneCorp wrote on 2011-09-11 10:56
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Where in New York do you live again? I keep forgetting.
Down in Manhattan, the city. I live in lower east, MS was lower west-ish.
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Phunkie wrote on 2011-09-11 10:59
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Down in Manhattan, the city. I live in lower east, MS was lower west-ish.
Awesome! I live all the way up in uptown Manhattan, near the George Washington Bridge.
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Navy wrote on 2011-09-11 11:01
I was like 7. o.o