Where were you on that day? What was going through your head?

I was working for a radio show in New York (WNEW) doing interviews for fashion week. I was downtown at the time when the attacks first happened. I never experienced fear like I did on that day. It was like something out of a movie. Sadly, my cousin Laura passed away on that day in the towers. I apologize if I bring back awful memories, butI feel I need to talk about it as a way of dealing with my personal grief.

I'm sorry about your cousin. It must have been doubly hard on you and your family than it was on some of us who didnt lose any family members.

I was at school, and in choir, and my best friend comes running in, saying that someone flew planes into the WTC buildings. I was thinking, "What are they?" I didnt know. Then I went to History, and saw that it said "Breaking News" on the TV and I, being the smart mouth I am, say, "OOOH, what's the 'breaking news' today?" and they told me. I felt sooo awful.

That was a while ago but I'm glad you brought it back because its almost the anniversary, and I really hope those damn terrorists don't plan another attack. It was just my usual morning I was getting ready for school and my mom told me that a plane crashed into one of the twin towers and then right when I was about to go we heard another plane crashed into the second one, we knew it was an attack so my mom didn't make me go to school that day because we had no idea what they were doing and next we heard about the pentagon! That's pure evil, each and everyone of them will burn in hell for eternity to what they did to our country and our people. I'm really sorry about your cousin. :(

I'm very sorry about your cousin-

I was just in social studies working on questions when we heard it on the radio :(

i was in school we had the tv on and there was breaking news and it showed the footage of it and the classroom was just so silent it was really awful. i didnt personally know anyone in the building but for everyone that did, im sorry for your loss.

I was in my computer class, just finishing some work, when my professor's cell phone rang. I overheard her say that the WTC was destroyed and the Pentagon had been hit. I quickly went to cnn.com and couldn't believe what I was seeing. I went home not long after that...

I'm sorry to hear about your cousin. One of my old high school classmates was also killed. She was on one of the planes.

I was getting ready for class when I heard on the radio that a plane had hit the WTC. I turned on the TV when the 2nd plane hit. I will never forget that image.

I was in PE class and I didn't hear about the attacks until my 2nd hour, when I was in English class. It was like 9:30 my time when I found out. We were out on teh track during PE when it happened.

I'm sorry about your cousin. This is a good topic to bring up btw. We can share our pain and memories through here instead of seeing the news on the anniversary. I get a bad feeling they will show the towers collapsing every second. I don't want to relive it again that way, but it doesn't seem as bad sharing memories on the board.

I was in Senior English when I first found out. I can't really remember what we were doing at the time. I want to say the teacher had just finished taking roll. I sat right by the door and the tv set. This other teacher comes into the room, and at first I wasn't too worried. You know how teachers go into other rooms to talk for a bit. The other teacher leaves the room, but my teacher turns the tv set on. We see whats going on and it just scared the hell out of me. I think I was in a daze for the rest of the class period.

I go to my next class and we did basically the same thing we did in first period. My Writer's Workshop teacher had a tv in the room, but it didn't pick up CNN. We went to a class next door so we could watch the news. I think 2nd period was when the Pentagon was struck. The room was so quiet during that time. If someone had dropped a sewing pin on the floor, we could've heard it.

Third period was a little bit different. I had Snr. Home Ec. We had to do some work in the textbook, but the teacher allowed us to watch the tv with the sound off. Needless to say, I don't think anybody had their mind on doing the work in the text book. My next class we didn't even watch the news. I think we just did work the whole period.

The next day I stayed home from school. It just didn't seem right to go through the motions when you have something like the attacks happening. It didn't seem right to go talk to friends and goof around when something this tragic happened.

I still can't forget the feeling I had the weekend before the attacks. I was sitting in the living room and this feeling of dread came into the room. It just felt so odd. I started praying that nobody in my family would die, because I must say I hardly ever get those dread feelings. It felt odd the day of the attacks when I'm sitting in class listening to the news reports, and still remembering that dread feeling from the weekend. It was just so odd. It was an unforgettable experience.

I was at work. My friend got a call from her mom who told her about it and then when my friend got off the phone she told me about it. There were some crazy rumors going around work that day about how many people had died. As soon as I got home from work I turned on the television and people were talking about it on almost every channel.

I was in homeroom when it happened. I remember Mr. Strong (ast. principal) saying the morn. announcements and he saying to turn on the T.V. My mom lost a friend on that day too. She was on the second plane.

I was asleep thru everything cuz it was like 6am my time but i was getting ready for school when the north tower collapsed. my mama told me what happened on the way to school and i got scared and when i got to school they were all listening to the radio about what happened and we listened to this lady panicking and breathing real hard and crying and [she was sayin this live] she was all "OH MY GOD MY HUSBAND WORKS ON THE 62ND FLOOR BUT NOT NEMORE CUZ THE 62ND FLOOR DOESNT EXIST!!!!!!!" and her husband came out and she was like "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!" we were all crackin up cuz she sounded like she was havin a baby. Then we spent math period discussing what happened and stuff and when i got home i watched the news for like the rest of the night.

I'm so sorry about Laura. :( I remember that day...I didn't know about what happened till I went to school and I saw my friend Cami and she goes, "Did you hear there might be a World War III?" and I was like What... I just figured she was joking but then I went to science and my teacher had the radio on..That's when I found out about the towers. I didn't know anyone who got killed so I don't exactly know the pain others of you went through, but gosh it was terrible.

Originally posted by ~°~RockAngel89~°~
when i got to school they were all listening to the radio about what happened and we listened to this lady panicking and breathing real hard and crying and [she was sayin this live] she was all "OH MY GOD MY HUSBAND WORKS ON THE 62ND FLOOR BUT NOT NEMORE CUZ THE 62ND FLOOR DOESNT EXIST!!!!!!!" and her husband came out and she was like "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!" we were all crackin up cuz she sounded like she was havin a baby.

Well dewd, if that was your husband, I'd think you'd sound like that too....

I'm sorry about all your guys' friends and family that passed away on that dreadful day.

I was in California when it happened...I was woken up by my mom and a friend of hers going, "Omigod!".. I went into the living room just in time to see the second tower get hit. I remember thinking it wasn't real... Then they just continued to play the footage over and over again. Finally it sank in and then the word 'terrorists' came up and that's when it really got freaky. I mean, I should have figured- two planes don't go into buildings for the hell out it one after another, but I must have not been thinking along those lines...

So we got dressed and went over to my mom's other friend's place to watch her dogs, but come to find out they were both home. They work for the government and all the government employees had been sent home if they were already at work or told not to come in because they were taking extra precautions. That's also when we heard about other planes that weren't answering requests to land- and they were coming toward California... People figured if they were terrorists they were heading either for Los Angeles or San Francisco, but thankfully.... It was all a false alarm. The freaky thing is... I live about three blocks from a "Starbucks" that the FBI swormed after the fact because... come to find out... This specific "Starbucks" had been a meeting place for the suicide pilots, that flew the planes, the last three or four months before the attack.... Comforting- huh? ...... Everything effects people in ways, and this is definitely something I won't forget. On the 12th of September I wrote a page about my feelings... It helped.

Exactly 3003 ppl died in all the attacks. yep

Maybe for the anniversary we should all make god bless america type-avatars or put something in rememberance (sp?) in our signatures. anyone want to do this?

Originally posted by Dr. Frasier Crane
Maybe for the anniversary we should all make god bless america type-avatars or put something in rememberance (sp?) in our signatures. anyone want to do this?

Sure, I'll do it.

I had been in french class and we were having a big off topic discussion about something or other and I didnt find out until after most everyone else at school had.
There was kind of a weird silence in the hall but no one said anything that let me know what had happened. I walked into my european history class and our teacher had the tv on and was on the phone trying to get ahold of his father who worked in that side of the pentagon. We just sat and watched the news that period. I remember I kept bothering my friend Dave who sat in front of me because I kept talking and talking and talking and you get the idea...(i have to talk whenever Im stressed or upset over something)
So after that class I had orchestra and we watched more of the news. I let a bunch of people use my cell phone to try to call people. I kept trying to get my cousins on the phone who had flown out of Logan that morning (they were on an earlier flight and were fine) A lot of people from my school have relatives and friends in NY and DC and many went home. I stayed and just was kind of in a state of numbness the rest of the day. Took several walks around the garden at school talking with people who couldnt get in touch with relatives in NY. No classes really happened we were just all sitting around the caf, library, and lounge.
Personally I thought the world was coming to an end, seriously, if you read Revelations there are a lot of references that are comaprable. Who knows though. Then I thought maybe it would be a nice time to move to a little town in europe. It was just scary because every city around us seemed to be under attack and we kept waiting for the next newsflash to be the one.

I was sitting in history class as usual staring out the window. It was weird because I was looking at the mountain across from my school and it has a lot of houses, but the house sitting at the very top had an American flag draped over the porch railing and that's what I was looking at when the guidance counselor got on the intercom & told my history teacher to turn on the TV. He turned the channel to some news channel & they were showing the plane hitting one of the towers, & I didn't know what to think. Then, the principal announced over the intercom for everyone to turn on their TV's, & asked for a moment of silence. I think they should have canceled school that day. I just wanted to go home.

Hi everyone when 9-11-01 happend last year I was at work that morning b4, the plane hit the building's in NYC, I heard that they flew over our building's that we work in up in Albany NY, I didn't know anything about that morning,till everyone came into work ..we were listening to it on the radio's and stuff it was sad..they let us home early that day like 11am which is good...that they did that b/c you wont know what they will do next! I,hope that they don't do anything next week that's what i'm worried about...

Originally posted by Dr. Frasier Crane
Maybe for the anniversary we should all make god bless america type-avatars or put something in rememberance (sp?) in our signatures. anyone want to do this?
I put a lil 1 by my guardian cow cuz i didnt know here else to put it

When the first plane hit, I was taking my religion quiz writing the prayer "The lord is my shepard..." and when the second one hit, I was outside for a firedrill lined up on the sidewalk...It was really freaky....

Thank you for bringing this topic here because I agree with Jenny that I cannot see it anymore on the TV. I'd rather come here and read what others have to say about this. As for me I had just bought my daughter to Pre-school and I jumped in my car and turned on the radio. I was going to the Mall when I heard about the 1st plane. (I thought that it was strange because I've lived here in NY and this never happened but, then I remembered that in the 1930's a plane had hit the Empire State building). So I went along my merry way then I went to Sears and went to the TV section and watched it unfold. I saw the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower and then I knew something was fishy. :(

I was at home when the first plane hit. I was getting ready for school when I first heard about it. I remember thinking that there must be something wrong with the automatic navigation or something. I can remember watching live as the 2nd plane hit the other tower. I was in complete shock at the time. To say the least, all of my classes were canceled that day. I sat at home by myself for most of the day watching the newsin shock. I was at the point of waiting for the other shoes to drop when I heard about the attack in Washington D.C.

At that time, my brother was living there and I got scared when I couldn't find him anywhere. I was SO relieved when I finally got in touch with him. Come to find out, he was still sleeping through it all, and the reason I couldn't get ahold of him was because my father had called him up to see if he was okay. My brother was fine, just a little shook up seeing the military swarming all over the place there is D.C. We talked, for I don't know how long. We finally hung up but agreed to keep each other posted on anything we found out about friends of ours that were missing in New York. After I hung up from him, I called all of my family to let them know that my brothe was fine.

I was lucky, I didn't lose any family or friends on that day, my brother was another story. Before he moved back home to Texas last January, he went to 32 funerals and memorial services. I don't know how he did it. It would have killed me. He went to them in both New York and D.C. It still bothers him to this dayy and we don't talk about it much.

I look back on that day, and I get goosebumps still to this day. I can't believe that it has almost been a year. It just doesn't seem that that long has passed already. I'm glad the Pentagon has been fixed and people are moving in already, and I wish for the same with the Twin Towers some day.

D

Originally posted by JennyLee22
Thank you for bringing this topic here because I agree with Jenny that I cannot see it anymore on the TV. I'd rather come here and read what others have to say about this. As for me I had just bought my daughter to Pre-school and I jumped in my car and turned on the radio. I was going to the Mall when I heard about the 1st plane. (I thought that it was strange because I've lived here in NY and this never happened but, then I remembered that in the 1930's a plane had hit the Empire State building). So I went along my merry way then I went to Sears and went to the TV section and watched it unfold. I saw the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower and then I knew something was fishy. :(

Welcome back to the boards JennyLee! I've been wondering where you went. I was about to post a "Where is JennyLee" post at the Batman board.

I was in school in 7th grade when I heard about it. In some classes all we did was watch it

i was with a class in the research lab, and they had the TVs on, and i remember the towers were still up when i saw it. and i didnt know how serious it was until i got home, i didnt know half the details. then an announcement came on about what happend at the end of the day. i didnt even know it was the twin towers till the announcment. i was shocked, i didnt know how serious it was. and i cant believe its been a year already.

I was sitting up in my room on my computer, my mom yelled up to me that a plane had crashed into the first WTC. i changed the channel to abc, and i witnessed the other plane. I was so sad that so many people lost their lives.

I hadn't actually heard anything about it during the day, it wasn't until I got home and turned on the TV that I saw it.

I was in my science class when Pat walked in and started talking about the attack on the towers. So my science teacher logged online and pulled up the New York paper or something and we all stood around the computer and read the articles/ updates and then our principal came over the loude speaker and confirmed it to the whole school... ugh, that was a horrible feeling.

We have some 1/2 day assembly on 9/11 this year... I wonder what they're gonna do for it?

First off thank you to everyone for their kind words of condolence for my cousin. For those of you who have never been to NYC, this place is always bustling with people, cars and noise. The day after 9/11, NYC was a ghost town. There were hardly any people walking around, the streets were so quiet and empty. You could actually hear things going on blocks and blocks away which you never could before. Very bizarre for such a huge city like this.

I was taking this stupid state wide test.... which counted for absolutely nothing so it was a real drag taking it. Anyways my uncle's funeral was that day so I left about an hour after the planes hit. My teacher was being a real ******* and was like "you aren't leaving! we're takign this test!" .. then i was like "im going to a funeral" and he's like ohh. and im like yeah ******* how do you feel now. ok im off topic. anyways back on the subject... I never saw the planes actually hit and Im glad I didn't. I didn't even understand how big it all was until I got home that afternoon.

Originally posted by tootieismyfav
I was taking this stupid state wide test.... which counted for absolutely nothing so it was a real drag taking it. Anyways my uncle's funeral was that day so I left about an hour after the planes hit. My teacher was being a real ******* and was like "you aren't leaving! we're takign this test!" .. then i was like "im going to a funeral" and he's like ohh. and im like yeah ******* how do you feel now. ok im off topic. anyways back on the subject... I never saw the planes actually hit and Im glad I didn't. I didn't even understand how big it all was until I got home that afternoon.

Yeah same here. I didnt watch the news, I couldn't look at the footage of the planes and the towers and the people. To this day I still havent seen anything on Tv showing the planes hitting the towers... I can't.

Originally posted by Jenny


Welcome back to the boards JennyLee! I've been wondering where you went. I was about to post a "Where is JennyLee" post at the Batman board. Jenny - Thank you for thinking about me.

You see my father died in the beginning of August and it just about broke my heart. I was in shocked because I had went on vacation and he died on my 2nd day of my trip. Also this was the first time an immediate member of my family has died so it hurt alot.

The solace I have in keeping up with his death and this thread is that my father is buried near some of the firemen who perished in the WTC tragedy. When I visit him. I see their graves too. I've been to my father's gravesite 4 times since he passed. Again Thank you for asking.......... :wave:

Well, I remember like it was yesterday where I was when I found out about it. I was laying in bed, and I heard it on the radio I was in that you know half awake half asleep state. I didn't know what it was all about, but I had no idea what it actually was. So then I walked into my living room, where I saw my mom sitting on the couch with my 2 year old niece. I asked her what's going on, she said a plane just crashed into one of the two towers. I said Oh My God. Then the second one hit and my mother paused and said this is intentional. What's really ironic is prior to that happening, I was in depression for several months and I had this HUGE OVERWHELMING feeling that something major and sad and wrong was going to happen to the world. And I couldn't shake the feeling. My mother said it was because I hadn't had a job for awhile and I was depressed. I said no, this is different. Something is gonna happen. I guess it was kind of like a preminition in a way. And I had felt extremely bad because I knew something devistating was gonna be happening but since I didn't know what, I couldn't prevent it. But then when the two towers got hit, I knew that's what it was because my depression stopped and I was overwhelmed with a feeling of ANGER, and UNITY, and SADNESS and just everyone MERGING together. Going to the WTC site and helping out, and people who never got along and always fought with each other came together and helped each other. So Osama's plan to break us apart backfired and we united instead. And I rememeber saying "I'm tierd of hearing about this on every channel, this is always on and I'm sick of it." That's what I said but actually, I was just trying to cover up how I really felt which was fear. Fear of planes everytime I heard one fly over my house my heart would sink. People shouldn't have to fear like that. Fear of what would happen next? Would they attack Osama? Would they find him? Would they even try? WOuld the world come to an end? But now it seems like I was wrong on all accounts. They will never find him it looks like, and no kind of punishment will come his way. Oh except of course for what God does to him. :)

I was in 12th grade when it happened. I was in my health science class and we was on a break. My teacher had come out of the room in which I was getting ready to go back in. She looked at me and said a plane had crash in the Pentagon. It didn't really dawn on me what she said until we went and watch it on tv and I saw what was going on. It really scared me to death. I was overwhelmed with so much sadness. The rest of the day we watch tv.

I was at home getting ready for school and watching the news, when the weather was interupted. Then a few minutes later I saw the second plane crash.

my school didn't want us to know what happened. A teacher said at the end of the day what happened(he wasn't really supposed 2) I live on Long Island so if someone in someones family works in the WTC they didn't want them getting upset.

I heard some people whispering bout something being high-jacked when I was going to history, but then when we were in english we heard that the first plane hit...and then turned it onto the tv, I was practially crying and my teacher left the room and he was crying, everyone was so shocked, and in all my classes we were watching it, except for science, my teacher made us do work...we are lik what are you doin? but when we got home I called my parents to just talk to them and my brother and I sat together and watched the news...it was horrible...

Originally posted by thegamebsc
my school didn't want us to know what happened. A teacher said at the end of the day what happened(he wasn't really supposed 2) I live on Long Island so if someone in someones family works in the WTC they didn't want them getting upset.

thats horrible that someones parents could be dead and your school wouldnt let them know....

yah they didnt tell the people at the middle school

Originally posted by JennyLee22
Jenny - Thank you for thinking about me.

You see my father died in the beginning of August and it just about broke my heart. I was in shocked because I had went on vacation and he died on my 2nd day of my trip. Also this was the first time an immediate member of my family has died so it hurt alot.

The solace I have in keeping up with his death and this thread is that my father is buried near some of the firemen who perished in the WTC tragedy. When I visit him. I see their graves too. I've been to my father's gravesite 4 times since he passed. Again Thank you for asking.......... :wave:

I'm so sorry JennyLee. I was too begining to wonder where you went off too. By the way, this is Chris (Ricky Ricardo) I just changed my name, but thanks for dropping us a note! :wave:

Originally posted by Original Prankster


I'm so sorry JennyLee. I was too begining to wonder where you went off too. By the way, this is Chris (Ricky Ricardo) I just changed my name, but thanks for dropping us a note! :wave: Hey Buddy!!!.............. You changed your name again.... It's a perfect name. :lol: I'll be coming soon to those Chit Chat games........ :lol: Thanks Prankster............ :wave:

Well I was getting ready for class and I went in the kitchen and my mom had the tv on and she was sitting there with a blank look on her face and I said what's wrong then I heard the guy on tv say there is another plane and that was the 2nd plane that hit and then I stood there with a blank look on my face. I got to watch the news all day during school each teacher had a tv on and were flipping from each news channel to see what other people had to say. And I remember there was like 3 highschool gun scares in my state (I go to college) that day that was kind of freaky even though they were just rumors.

i was gonna post a topic like this...anyway. i remember i got up like at 6:30 and like at 6:40 i went into the kitchen to eat something. my parents were like watching tv and i was like "wow. that's a cool movie. i didn't know cbs showed movies this early." and then my dad was like "it's not a movie. this is happening." and i was like "what?" i was so confused and then another plane hit and the reporters summarized everything again. it was so scary and unbelievable. it didn't sink in till like the middle of the day. then, in first period our principal came on the pa and said that we should all talk about this is per. 1, so we did. and then in per. 3 (my journalism class) my teacher let us watch the news the whole period, she thought that it would also be a learning experience and everything. i can't believe it's been one year.

I've been hearing a lot of people say that people that don't live near New York and Washington D.C., really aren't as emotional or affected by the tragedy as people who do live in those areas. Apparently, distance and time have made certain people sort of forget. Has that happened to anyone here?

Well tomorrow is the one year anniversary for 9-11-01 Im praying that nothing will happen....Yeah i agree that all of us should pray tonite, for tomorrow...be careful everyone and god bless

I didn't hear about it till I got to work. I couldn't believe it. They evacuated most of the state offices up here in Albany and the capitol, this was around 11am. I'm praying that we never go through that again.

Originally posted by Belle Black
Well tomorrow is the one year anniversary for 9-11-01 Im praying that nothing will happen....Yeah i agree that all of us should pray tonite, for tomorrow...be careful everyone and god bless


I really don't think they will do anything tomorrow to the US because of the hightened level of security that there is. I think if they do anything, they will wait for a week or two until we have started feeling safe again then try to do something. That's just my opinion though.

What are y'all going to be doing tomorrow, like do your cities have anything planned that you will be going to?

D

I remember i was in art class last year and our art teacher had a radio and she was listening to it with these two other kids in my class.....and i was drawing something and someone came to me and said "a plane crashed" and i said "ohhhhh.............thats sad!" and i just kept working. Then a few minutes later somebody else told me "the twin towers are on fire!" and i was like "a plane crashed....and the twin towers are on fire on the same exact day?????????" i didnt know what was happening.....until later in the day, i found out two planes crashed INTO the twin towers! then i knew it was serious...i was so scared, so confused, so...lots of things. So when i got home i turned on the tv and they were talking about it and everything. And i learned more and more about it. So i watched the 9/11 stuff on TV for like 2 hours and then i started to get really, really depressed and i wanted to watch something else for a little bit and then turn back to the WTC stuff later....but it was on every single channel....even MTV. thats when i knew it was really, really serious. And then later i learned about the terrorists, and all that. I just remember being so sad and wondering WHY someone would do such a bad thing like this. Tomorrow is the anniversery, and i will be praying for everybody who worked in the WTC and Pentagon who died, and i will also be praying for the firefighters and all the police officers who risked their lives to save others.

patriot: patriot: patriot:

Originally posted by Dr. Frasier Crane
Maybe for the anniversary we should all make god bless america type-avatars or put something in rememberance (sp?) in our signatures. anyone want to do this?

I'll do that! I just changed my avatar to the American flag.

I Changed My Whole Siggy And My Avatar From A Happy Days Shrine To An All American Siggy And Avitar

i just hope they dont plan to do it on september 18th, thats my birthday...

Ironically we had a planned fire drill like right when it happeed. I came back into band and my band teacher said something about the twin towers crashing. I didn't listen to what he siad because I was talking anfd thne I heard a little more bout it in french but wasn't concerened becasue I had no idea what they were. I remember after that I walked into my next class and I saw the tv on and figured my teacher jus forgot to turn it off after her break. I stood thre for a second watching it and saw this plane crash trogh a building. i was like"what thye heck"a nd then I haerd what happened on the tv. WE were realy scared and stuff, btu our teacher told us not to worry an she explaine dhow important those buildings really were. One of the kids in my class his dad worked at the pentagon but they called to say he was ok.

In a sense I think God let this happen to show us how pompous pur contry had been throigh the 90s, and it brought Maerica closer. i do feel bad for all the victms and stuff though. It was awful.
But isn't it weird that someday we can tell our kids we lived through this?

I Hope That There Is Never Another September 11th Again.

I first heard about it in my first hour class and thought it was some sort of joke or something. Then the teacher put the news on and we watched it there in class. Even then I was having a hard time believing it.

Originally posted by Rudy and Kenny4eva
Ironically we had a planned fire drill like right when it happeed. I came back into band and my band teacher said something about the twin towers crashing. I didn't listen to what he siad because I was talking anfd thne I heard a little more bout it in french but wasn't concerened becasue I had no idea what they were. I remember after that I walked into my next class and I saw the tv on and figured my teacher jus forgot to turn it off after her break. I stood thre for a second watching it and saw this plane crash trogh a building. i was like"what thye heck"a nd then I haerd what happened on the tv. WE were realy scared and stuff, btu our teacher told us not to worry an she explaine dhow important those buildings really were. One of the kids in my class his dad worked at the pentagon but they called to say he was ok.

In a sense I think God let this happen to show us how pompous pur contry had been throigh the 90s, and it brought Maerica closer. i do feel bad for all the victms and stuff though. It was awful.
But isn't it weird that someday we can tell our kids we lived through this?

Yes It Is Very Weird.

I redesigned my avatar and found some cool graphics for my sig.

That's A Cool Avatar!

Originally posted by briandamage
I've been hearing a lot of people say that people that don't live near New York and Washington D.C., really aren't as emotional or affected by the tragedy as people who do live in those areas. Apparently, distance and time have made certain people sort of forget. Has that happened to anyone here?

Yeah, that's how it was here. I mean, everyone knew about it and probably felt bad, but hardly anyone here has relatives in New York or anything. I'll never forget though, and I believe God did it as a wake up call, even though I wish he had done something really good to get everyone's attention. I had never been more glad that I lived in the sticks then on 9/11 because I bet Bin Laden doesn't even know my state exists. There was even a woman w/ the same last name as me who died in one of the towers. My last name is pretty rare where I live, so I wondered if we were related. I actually can't believe 9/11 happened. I know that we aren't safe, but a thought we were a little safer than that!

Today at our university, a ceremony was held in front of the library by the flagpole. At 7:46 AM(Central Time), we had a moment of silence to remember and honor those who died on 9-11. America the Beautiful was sung and as I joined in, I couldn't help it, but I choked up inside with emotion and became teary-eyed.

May the people who died on 9-11 rest in peace and may God bless them, their families, and us, Americans.

Here in New York it was pretty solemn. Alot of stores opened at 10:00 AM. But, what scared me today is when I went to pick up my daughter from Kindergarten & there was this Air Force Jet in the sky hovering back and forth, back and forth. I got so frightened. It reminded me of last year when the Air Force jets were hovering above the sky. They are really LOUD................

I was in school. The teachers wouldn't tell us anything. We had no idea what was going on. If they would have told us what happened , i wouldn't have been thinking of other things , only that. If i would've known .... I could ' ve been sad like everyone else. But i didn't find out till after school.