Board 8 > So what was your primary emotion on 9/11?

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Mine's was mostly shock. Can you believe it it's the 16th anniversary of 9/11 today
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can't remember too well due to not having been born yet
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"Holy shit."
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I was young, I didn't know what the WTC was and thought there were power plants on the TV (due to all the smoke). I was generally confused on what it meant to be attacked to this degree.

I'm sure I was shocked and in awe, though I was probably happy that school was cancelled for the foreseeable future.
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Confusion. I was in 6th grade and was wondering why such a big deal was being made about a building (and then two buildings).

Keep in mind I grew up in a town with 900 people in it and the biggest building was the school, that probably had 250 people in it on its busiest day.
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Maybe confusion, but I don't think I really knew what I was supposed to feel. Like I knew my mom was shaken up about it and there was a weird atmosphere in school, but to me it seemed like it was just another bad thing that happened on the news. Dunno when it was that I actually understood the gravity of it.
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Confusion, curiosity
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Our school was one of those ones that just made a brief announcement and then went on the rest of the school day as if everything was normal. So I didn't really find out the whole story until I got home from school.

So confusion, curiosity, and a little anger.
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Disbelief
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i rationalized it

was a bit of a misanthrope at the time. my attitude was frustration with what i thought was the myopia of the average person

that terrible stuff happened all over the world, but we only cared when it happens to someone close to us

it took getting a little older and seeing the energy and hope that people pour into their communities to understand
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confusion/sadness
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Confusion.
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Confusion. I saw the attack happen, but I didn't understand why it happened or the full weight of it happening until our school had its first break and we all started talking about it by our lockers about how big a deal this was.
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I didn't really care. I was in high school in california and NYC was so far away that some planes crashing into buildings seemed like just another accident. Took me a few days to get that it was a big deal
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SeabassDebeste posted...

can't remember too well due to not having been born yet

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bryans7 posted...

"Holy shit."

Came in to post exactly this.

The first plane was more of an "oh wow this doesn't happen everyday".

The second and on was basically holy shit.

mnkboy907 posted...

Maybe confusion, but I don't think I really knew what I was supposed to feel. Like I knew my mom was shaken up about it and there was a weird atmosphere in school, but to me it seemed like it was just another bad thing that happened on the news. Dunno when it was that I actually understood the gravity of it.

This. Also my mom seemed scared so I was a bit too.
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Also my 10 year old cousin knows nothing of 9/11. That really just makes me feel old. Like, is it something they teach at some point in history classes now?

I was in like 1st grade at the time so I didn't really understand what had happened.
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I was in Seminar in 10th grade. They wheeled in a TV so we could watch the news instead of do our homework

I don't remember if I felt anything, but it was certainly interesting
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Surprise and a desire to know more. I remember the teachers were just as interested as the students were, so they wheeled in TVs to each class and we just watched the news and shuffled between classes when the bell rang. No one even pretended to do their job that day.
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Confusion mostly.

I was....13 when it happened I believe. My worries were pretty mild up until something like that happened.

I mainly remember everyone getting scared when a plane flew over by a few years after.
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We wheeled in TVs too at our school. That day for sure, and some of the next day as well.
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at first I thought it was just an accident or something, then the second hit occurred and I started thinking this was seriously bad news, and I was really happy to be a kid and not eligible for a draft or anything.

Horny
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Calm down, Louis C.K.
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"Doesnt this kind of stuff happen everyday?"
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Shock, Got the txt from a friend then turned to BBC1 and saw the smoking towers.

Later, anger when I saw some people in Afghanistan dancing in the streets.
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Peridiam posted...

I was young, I didn't know what the WTC was and thought there were power plants on the TV (due to all the smoke). I was generally confused on what it meant to be attacked to this degree.

I'm sure I was shocked and in awe, though I was probably happy that school was cancelled for the foreseeable future.

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I was pretty confused. I was in fifth grade in NoVA, and our teacher turned on the TV after the first tower was hit so I saw the second plane crash into the second tower. Then our teacher told us not to talk to the other classes about it (I guess that was the policy the administration decided on). Peoples' parents were picking them up early all day, especially after the Pentagon was hit since that was local.

I definitely didn't fully understand the gravity of what had happened at the time, so seeing all of the adults react was pretty surreal.
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Confusion, mostly. I was a dumbshit seventh grader who didn't really get the enormity of what was happening (despite pretty much all my teachers abandoning their lesson plans for that day in favor of watching the news on TV in class).
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HaRRicH posted...

We wheeled in TVs too at our school. That day for sure, and some of the next day as well.

Do kids even have wheeled around TV's at school nowadays?

Elementary and middle school that was all we had. My high school had small like 12 inch tube TVs mounted in every classroom(Some of the science classrooms had bigger tube TVs).
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SeabassDebeste posted...

can't remember too well due to not having been born yet

I would still post a "never forget" image on Facebook if I were you. (*_*)
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I was in 8th grade when it happen, first it was confusion because I didn't get the magnitude of the situation but then sadness because of not only the people that died, but the innocent muslims that were being assaulted and killed afterwards that had nothing to do with the terrorists
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Disbelief. You used to be able to see the Twin Towers from several miles away when you drove in toward the city... they were the first things you saw on the horizon. Didn't really hit me until my family and I drove in one day and there was nothing there.
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Punnyz posted...

but the innocent muslims that were being assaulted and killed afterwards that had nothing to do with the terrorists

This didn't happen nearly as much as I think most people expected. George W. Bush really did a phenomenal job at preventing anger and hate in the immediate aftermath.
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I wasn't really sapient yet
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I was 7, so I didn't understand when we were told, but we got out of school early so I was happy about that.

Kinda morbid, really.
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Yesterday? I was pretty bored.

In 2001? I was scared out of my mind.
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Yesterday felt like the first 9/11 post 9/11 where there wasnt much reflecting. Probably due to the two recent hurricanes.
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Confusion. My high school sort of kept us in the dark and I wasn't familiar with Bin Laden. I remember a kid mentioning him on the bus home that day and having no idea who it was.

I was also nervous because I was positive it was leading to a war, I just didn't know with who.
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Leafeon13N posted...

bryans7 posted...

"Holy shit."

Came in to post exactly this.

The first plane was more of an "oh wow this doesn't happen everyday".

The second and on was basically holy shit.

Thirded.
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I didn't feel anything but this is pretty typical for me
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Confusion, but otherwise my day went on like normal. Granted I was only 9 at the time.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Punnyz posted...

but the innocent muslims that were being assaulted and killed afterwards that had nothing to do with the terrorists

This didn't happen nearly as much as I think most people expected. George W. Bush really did a phenomenal job at preventing anger and hate in the immediate aftermath.

but it still happened. lets not try undermining it.

And not only that, the general discrimination was way worse. Even if they weren't assaulted all of the time
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Scared Shocked Angry Worried about whether the draft would be reinstated I was 22 at the time
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JetJaguar posted...

I was also nervous because I was positive it was leading to a war, I just didn't know with who.

This exactly.
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I was 8 years old and formed almost no permanent memories of the day.

It's honestly a little surprising to me that I remember almost nothing; especially considering my proximity. I was living on Long Island at the time and from what I've heard listening to other people's stories, kids were being pulled out of school left and right throughout the day.

My parents and everyone else I encountered that day must've been acting incredibly calm for me to not remember nearly anything. I also certainly did not understand the gravity of the situation.
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I was afraid my mom was caught in the attacks given that she was in DC for work around that time and didn't know exactly when.

I was in boot camp at the time
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