Current Events > Where were you on 9/11?

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I frankly didn't give a damn.
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I actually remember this quite clearly. I was at work. I worked in a call center at the time and I remember I was speaking to a customer who was in New York. They told me they saw a trail of smoke in the sky off in the distance, but at the time, neither of us knew what was happening. Who would have ever thought it would turn out to be a terrorist attack?

In my dorm room in Iowa City
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I was in 6th grade. We had just switched with the other 6th grade classroom to do our math and spelling. Not long after that, the secretary(or counselor?) of the school walked in and told us to turn on the TV. I had bad eyesight and was furthest away from TV. So I really couldn't tell what was going on. I thought there was some sort of temple on fire. I had never heard of the World Trade Center at that point. One female student was crying because she apparently had a relative that worked there. They ended being fine though.

We did pretty much nothing the rest of the day except watch ABC news and have a long recess. Then me and the family watched the coverage all day and Bush's Oval Office address in the evening. My parents didn't let me go to school the next day and that was that.
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Tupacrulez posted...

I frankly didn't give a damn.

Found the kid who got bullied.
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Why are there so few people who say they were asleep? It was like 6 in the damn morning on the west coast when it happened, yet I never see anyone saying they were asleep. What gives?
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Timohtep posted...

Why are there so few people who say they were asleep? It was like 6 in the damn morning on the west coast when it happened, yet I never see anyone saying they were asleep. What gives?

Theres a few people here who said they were asleep
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Freshman year of high school. I didn't even know about the attack since I never watched TV in the morning back in those days. It wasn't until later when they gathered us all in the gym and brought in these motivational speakers that were here out of sheer coincidence, or brought in at the last moment. I was never any clear about that.
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My family was vacationing on the outer banks. Checking out lighthouses.
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At college, reading the Virigin Suicides (movies just came out) while waiting for a class to let out so I could go into the room. TV was on in the lobby where a crowd was standing around watching it happen live.
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School or not born yet.

Grade 5 or 6 I believe (had the same teacher and room for both). I live in Canada and even here it was a big deal

Getting ready for school when all of a sudden my mom called for me to come look at the TV. Very vivid memory for me.
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I think I was in 3rd grade. Maybe 4th grade. Woke up and the TV was still on even though my mom had left for work, which never happened. We talked about it in class for a little bit so everyone could understand exactly what happened.
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Mom kept me home from school. When I walked into the living room coverage for the ongoing crisis was on the TV, and she told me "we're under attack." Those were her exact words.
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In speech class freshmen year. We watched the 2nd plane hit live.
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I was in 5th grade. Many students were getting picked up from school early with many whose parents were crying. I later found out 8 students from my class had family members who died that day and the parents or people picking them up were crying because they knew something was wrong. By the end of the school day my home room class only had 3 students including myself out of 30 left.

I'm surprised so many other people here had TV's in classrooms that could just be turned on at any time. Only way we could view TV in my class is with one getting wheeled in.
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In Highschool in class, never saw a teacher running down the hall at full speed like that before.
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Wherever my mom was because she was pregnant with me.
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Middle school watching it on TV

RoboLaserGandhi posted...

Kim Kusanagi posted...

Orthopox12 posted...

I was in 3rd grade

I was in fucking 1st year of university.

What's wrong with all these UAUs.

That would make them 24-25 you old fart

I'm 35.
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Kim Kusanagi posted...

RoboLaserGandhi posted...

Kim Kusanagi posted...

Orthopox12 posted...

I was in 3rd grade

I was in fucking 1st year of university.

What's wrong with all these UAUs.

That would make them 24-25 you old fart

I'm 35.

I'm 30, and I was in 8th grade at the time.
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Were a couple years away from having entire high school graduation classes that werent born before 9/11.
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Walking my dogs.
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At home trying to watch a simpsons marathon on tv which got interrupted

Pretty sure I went and played FF9 after I resigned myself that the simpsons wasn't coming back on
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Wasnt even in school yet but I remember flipping through the channels and thatd be all I saw, my babysitter and her family were worrying about the Sears Tower being next. Everyone at the elementary school a street away was evacuated and sent back home. My mom got off of work and picked us up a lot sooner than usual, said she just clocked in, was huddled up in an office for an hour, then everyone went home.

I just wanted to watch cartoons and play video games.
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8 years old, just got home from school. I'm pretty sure my mom and I were preparing to go somewhere when she heard about it on the radio, so she turned the TV on and we didn't go anywhere.

I was 27 and in college. I didn't have classes that day, so I slept in. My friend woke me with a phone call after the reports on everything that got hit. I said to him, "is it as bad as it sounds?" Because to me, in my sleepy state, it sounded impossible, like something out of a comic book. He said go turn on the TV. And there it was. Watched the news for weeks after that. I did go to class the next day. My Astronomy prof. gave a brief statement about don't be scared because that's what they way, the terrorists. My Philosophy prof. asked us to take a moment of silence before class began, then we went on with the lesson. And my English prof. put up the number to red cross on the board and we had an open, honest, and frank discussion about what happened and how we felt.

8th Grade. We were told what happened after lunch.
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sktgamer_13dude posted...

Were a couple years away from having entire high school graduation classes that werent born before 9/11.

HS freshmen where born in like 2004.
Flockaveli posted...

Wasnt even in school yet but I remember flipping through the channels and thatd be all I saw, my babysitter and her family were worrying about the Sears Tower being next. Everyone at the elementary school a street away was evacuated and sent back home. My mom got off of work and picked us up a lot sooner than usual, said she just clocked in, was huddled up in an office for an hour, then everyone went home.
I just wanted to watch cartoons and play video games.

I remember we had a class trip to the field museum cancelled following 9/11.
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In Alaska, which means I was asleep when it all went down (4 hour difference). I remember when all flights were finally cleared, I went to watch the huge array of aircraft take off.
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Conflict posted...

Cocytus posted...

I was 27 and in college. I didn't have classes that day, so I slept it. My friend woke me with a phone call after the reports on everything that got hit. I said to him, "is it as bad as it sounds?" Because to me, in my sleepy state, it sounded impossible, like something out of a comic book. He said go turn on the TV. And there it was. Watched the news for weeks after that. I did go to class the next day. My Astronomy prof. gave a brief statement about don't be scared because that's what they way, the terrorists. My Philosophy prof. asked us to take a moment of silence before class began, then we went on with the lesson. And my English prof. Put up the number to red cross on the board and we had an open, honest, and frank discussion about what happened and how we felt.

You were born in 1974? God damn

Yep, good deduction!

i was in middle school. first period was PE and we got called in early and moved into classrooms where they were showing everything on the big crts they wheeled around on tall carts. i think my mom came to pick me up halfway through the day
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I was a sophomore in high school and was just getting ready to go to school when I saw the footage.
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Cocytus posted...

Conflict posted...

Cocytus posted...

I was 27 and in college. I didn't have classes that day, so I slept it. My friend woke me with a phone call after the reports on everything that got hit. I said to him, "is it as bad as it sounds?" Because to me, in my sleepy state, it sounded impossible, like something out of a comic book. He said go turn on the TV. And there it was. Watched the news for weeks after that. I did go to class the next day. My Astronomy prof. gave a brief statement about don't be scared because that's what they way, the terrorists. My Philosophy prof. asked us to take a moment of silence before class began, then we went on with the lesson. And my English prof. Put up the number to red cross on the board and we had an open, honest, and frank discussion about what happened and how we felt.

You were born in 1974? God damn

Yep, good deduction!

I wonder if you are the oldest CEman.
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Orthopox12 posted...

Cocytus posted...

Conflict posted...

Cocytus posted...

I was 27 and in college. I didn't have classes that day, so I slept it. My friend woke me with a phone call after the reports on everything that got hit. I said to him, "is it as bad as it sounds?" Because to me, in my sleepy state, it sounded impossible, like something out of a comic book. He said go turn on the TV. And there it was. Watched the news for weeks after that. I did go to class the next day. My Astronomy prof. gave a brief statement about don't be scared because that's what they way, the terrorists. My Philosophy prof. asked us to take a moment of silence before class began, then we went on with the lesson. And my English prof. Put up the number to red cross on the board and we had an open, honest, and frank discussion about what happened and how we felt.

You were born in 1974? God damn

Yep, good deduction!

I wonder if you are the oldest CEman.

No

...no
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Orthopox12 posted...

Cocytus posted...

Conflict posted...

Cocytus posted...

I was 27 and in college. I didn't have classes that day, so I slept it. My friend woke me with a phone call after the reports on everything that got hit. I said to him, "is it as bad as it sounds?" Because to me, in my sleepy state, it sounded impossible, like something out of a comic book. He said go turn on the TV. And there it was. Watched the news for weeks after that. I did go to class the next day. My Astronomy prof. gave a brief statement about don't be scared because that's what they way, the terrorists. My Philosophy prof. asked us to take a moment of silence before class began, then we went on with the lesson. And my English prof. Put up the number to red cross on the board and we had an open, honest, and frank discussion about what happened and how we felt.

You were born in 1974? God damn

Yep, good deduction!

I wonder if you are the oldest CEman.

I wonder that too sometimes, but I don't think so. I think there are at least a few people older than me that come here.

I think when I made a topic about when everyone graduated someone said 1982 so if they were being serious they would have been born in 1964.
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I was in 6th grade, teacher turned on tv, they dismissed school shortly after

Orthopox12 posted...

I think when I made a topic about when everyone graduated someone said 1982 so if they were being serious they would have been born in 1964.

Probably is true. When I first started coming here in 2002 there were a couple of people over 50. This one guy, I don't remember his handle exactly, pink something, he was definitely in his 50s and was dying of a terminal disease.

Sophomore in high school walking into tv production class. All our classrooms had TVs so we got to watch it go down.
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School. It was a Tuesday.

At college.
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Woke up and on my way to class heard my roommates talking about a plane crash. Didn't take it too seriously and went to class. A classmate heard about the crash and wanted to know what happened. Me not knowing how bad the situation was mentioned that a plane crashed into the WTC(I was thinking it was one of those 2/3 passenger planes). Another classmate mentioned that someone intentionally flew a plane into the WTC and one tower fell, another let us know that both fell.

At this point I start freaking out, I knew my mom should be alright but was worried about two of my aunts that worked in the area. Wasn't until 630-7pm that I found out that everyone was ok.

Still thankful friends/family weren't hurt, and for friends that helped me remember the lives lost that night.
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Getting ready for school. Went to school and wanted to see if we would discuss it in any class or even amongst the students but no one did.
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4 years old, not old enough to be in school

As for what I was actually doing, no idea
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I was resting comfortably in my mother's womb, but she panicked and ran home from her work when she saw the news, (She and my father lived in an apartment right next door), and while she was running, I tossed and turned in the womb and almost died.
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I had just woken up and heard my sister watching something on her TV. It sounded important, so I got up to watch it.

What an origin story, huh?
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