Thursday, 11 September 2008
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September 11th - We Must Never Forget
I'm not going to write about where I was or how I felt on this day 7 years ago. (10th grade English class, scared.) I will say that I will never forget. That we must all never forget.
by Mama Fox
They wanted to beat us down but instead they united us. We rose up as a nation, together, and told them that we would never give up, never give in. We are strong, we are brave, we are the United States of America.
Where were you when the attacks happened on September 11, 2001?
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Getting ready for work with my husband.
6th grade science class.
In Hokkaido, Asahikawa City, and it was just my first day there (it was Sept. 12th in Japan). I was walking up to the church where I was to begin serving as Resident Missionary, when the pastor's daughter came across the street to where I was and told me there had been a terrorist attack at the Twin Towers. I thought, "Oh, no, again? Has some knucklehead blown up another underground parking lot beneath the towers?" (like what happened in 1993) When I turned on the computer, though, at the church, and saw what had actually happened, I was sick to my stomach for the rest of the day. The pastor came out of his office and all but demanded that I call home to make sure everyone was okay (they were, though one of my uncles was stranded in Amsterdam, Holland, for a few days). As with the Challenger Explosion, I will never forget where I was and what I was doing when I heard about the terrorist attacks.
I remember sitting in Spanish class in 8th grade and my principal made an announcement over the loudspeaker about what happened. I knew something funky happened because I saw people crying in the hallways, but teachers weren't allowed to talk about the catastrophe until the last class of the day.
When I heard about what happened, I was confused. Even though I'm a New Yorker, I never knew what the Twin Towers were. I'd only been to NYC once or twice at that time so I had no idea how bad the situation was until I got home and saw the footage. As a Long Island girl, I didn't truly understand, but I couldn't help but bawl my eyes out, feeling bad for families who lost loved ones in the attack. One of my friends lost her father, too. Even though it's been seven years, I feel like it happened just yesterday.
I was in my 8th grade Spanish class, sitting next to my fiance(we weren't dating then). I was frightened, but I don't think I really absorbed what was going on. I think I pulled a shield around me that day, to avoid what was happening.
i was on a geology class trip in college on a joint trip with a group from england and we didn't know what happened until we had hiked to the top of mount lassen, where we got cell phone reception... it was quite shocking and one of my classmate's mother worked in the pentagon... luckily she was okay...we all hiked back down to get to the nearest bar with a tv and watched the footage over and over... it was quite shocking...we had to decide if we should continue with our trip...and we did... it was eerie seeing no planes flying... just the occasional jet...and driving through ca, or, and wa...seeing the flags at half mast
I was in tenth grade as well, but I was in auto class.
Fall quarter (senior year college) hadn't started yet, so a bunch of girlfriends were going to go out to the city to shop. My friend always go 1-2 hours before we meet up so she can do only solo shopping. She called me and I was still sleeping. I was a little groggy and had no idea what she was talking about so I went downstairs to turn on the news. There wasn't full coverage yet because it had just happened. I went online, and it was all there. Needless to say we postponed our shopping trip to another date. When we eventually went, the streets were pretty quiet and there were silence city pronounced "moments of silence". I hope nothing like this happens every again.
praying for all the people who lots there family 7 years ago.. much love to them all..
Kyla
I was taking a bubble bath, when my husband called from work to tell me about it.
I was a sophomore in college. I woke up that morning to get ready for class and noticed that there was more commotion on the hall than usual - I heard TVs on everywhere. So I turned ours on to see what was up and saw the footage. It was insane all day.....
@NurseJenna - Gah, don't make this political. Our country IS safer because of 9/11. Our eyes were opened to the reality of terrorism, which is why we went after Bin Ladin and one of the reasons why we eventually went after Sadaam Hussein. Threats to our sovereignty CANNOT be tolerated or we WILL lose our freedom.
I was a freshman at college, buying books in the campus bookstore when I saw the second plane hit on the bookstore TVs. I went on to class, not really knowing what to think, and we watched news footage until the professor told us classes were cancelled for the rest of the day.
@MlleBaroque@xanga - News Flash: We have not yet ***7 years later**** with the biggest, most powerful government on the planet, caught Bin Laden. A problem to say the least. This is VERY political. As it SHOULD BE for ALL Americans. My point exactly. The government would like people to gloss this over....which is exactly what you are doing. And yes, I did know people in this tragedy. One on the flight from Boston and a New York fire fighter. I do not say this as a person unaffected.
I was in my apartment in college chatting online with someone in NYC. Crazy.
2751 less middle-aged mothers.
You're only a year older than I? How odd.
And to answer the question, I was in detention.
walking. not believing, I thought it was a movie.
that aside. I still think that 911 was something planned by the Us administration. atrocious? yes Effed up? yes. why? who knows?
a diversion may be?
Ten years old, trying to comfort a very frantic mother, mature enough to understand what had just happened...
i was sitting in my first period 8th grade english class before class started. the teacher had the tv on the news channel before class. it was a good 45 minutes before the administrators told us to turn off the tvs and told us that the teachers were not allowed to talk about the issue anymore...
even though i wasnt from the city i had just moved down to florida from NY. i still felt as if NY was my state and actually i still do now too. it was devistating to watch everything and to continue to hear about it.
god bless all the families that were more effected then mine,
praying
I was in first period, 11th grade. My homeroom teacher was a huge history/government buff and turned the TV on after the first plane hit. He immediately went to the chalk board and wrote "Osama bin Laden" on the board and didn't say anything else. When we asked him what that meant, he just said "mark my words, you'll be hearing a lot more about this person in the years to come". Smart teacher.
I was in NYC. When the first plane hit, i was brushing my teeth and heard it from my window. Walking to the subway station, I could see the 2 towers. All I saw was one big hole and didnt even realize what was happening. Everyone was just staring. No one realized it was a terrorist attack until a lil while later -- when the 2nd plane hit. My husband was serving jury duty downtown and heard and saw it all. It took me 3 hours to get in touch with him.
I was in 11th grade in my Current Events class. We were the first people in my school building to find out about the attack... We would turn on the news during the first part of class and then talk about what we had watched after... Well, on that day, I remember my teacher turning on the tv, realizing what was going on, and running out of the room to the office. My whole school was glued to the TV all the rest of the day.
I was in my 9th grade keystone class, wearing my new green outfit because it was my 15th birthday. =/
We were taking a tour of some of the junior/senior tech classes, and a lot of students were watching the TV, and I had no clue why. I just went about my business looking at the huge printers and stuff.
I didn't find out 'til later. I guess I was a little slow on picking up what had happened.