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Damn, man.

I remember going to school and all of the teachers just wheeled in TVs into every classroom, hooked them up, and let us watch them instead of teaching us. They just had us shuffle from class to class as appropriate. Even during lunch, most of the students stayed in classrooms with the teachers and kept watching the news.

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All of the classrooms in my school had their own TVs mounted to the walls. Ha! Enjoy reminiscing about your poverty school.

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Ten years ago today... I woke up to hear some bad **** happened not knowing how bad the repercussions would be (far worse than the event itself, which was really bad to begin with). Then I went and interviewed for a new job that I (later) got.

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Ten years ago, I'm pretty sure I had cereal.

baron von toast posted...
All of the classrooms in my school had their own TVs mounted to the walls. Ha! Enjoy reminiscing about your poverty school.

Also a fair point. I went to a school with limited resources (rural Arizona, Jesus), and every classroom had a TV in them.

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BT with the victory!

I honestly can't remember a single thing about that day.

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Ten years ago today one of my cats was hit by a car and so I faked illness to stay home from school, which my parents probably easily saw through.

But yeah, that's why I was home at the time and heard the first report on the news while I was cooking breakfast.

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I honestly can't remember a single thing about that day.

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Being on the west coast, I think I woke up just after the first tower was hit. I remember watching everything unfold on the news before school. As we pulled out of the driveway for school, we turned on the radio in time to hear live reporting of the first tower collapsing. Very somber and surreal. I walked into my high school cafeteria and to my buddies' regular table, knowing that the day may sting because everyone knew I was Arab. A good friend got the ball rolling immediately.

"Your friends have been busy today." *snicker*

"Shut up."

We had a schoolwide moment of silence and discussed it in most of my classes, spending the entire class period of my AP European History class discussing it. Of course, it was the talk of the next several days, and people were stunned, but no one seemed overcome with grief. I don't recall seeing any tears at school. Maybe it was our proximity to the attack, or maybe it was because everything seemed so unreal.

For the next several days and weeks, I made sure to remind any classmates that I was so definitely NOT a Muslim whenever I could sneak it into conversation.

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From: Anagram | Posted: 9/11/2011 3:39:07 AM | #001
Damn, man.

I remember going to school and all of the teachers just wheeled in TVs into every classroom, hooked them up, and let us watch them instead of teaching us. They just had us shuffle from class to class as appropriate. Even during lunch, most of the students stayed in classrooms with the teachers and kept watching the news.

same here

aka, even in Canada

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Only thing I remember clearly from that day was Big Boy on the radio saying the twin towers were just destroyed on the radio and that it wasnt a joke.

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From: baron von toast | #002
All of the classrooms in my school had their own TVs mounted to the walls. Ha! Enjoy reminiscing about your poverty school.

XFD

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All of the classrooms in my school had their own TVs mounted to the walls

same here.

west coast here though, so I started seeing everything at home. Probably could have not gone to school, all we did was watch TV.

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Ten years ago I remember being annoyed my parents hogging the tv to watch some stupid news again. I mean, nothing important ever happens on the news!


Except it did.


Other than that, I don't remember much about that day.

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I'll never forget this day because my school coincidentally had a half-day. On the way home from school, some random adult asked me if we were being sent home because of what happened in New York, and I gave him a puzzled look and told him that today was just a normal half day. Then, as I walked onto the porch to visit a friend of mine at his house, he ran out the door and yelled "We're at war!" and I figured out what was going on shortly after.

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I was in my homeroom period when I heard the news. I lived in NY at the time. If I remember right I was actually pulled out of school early to go to my uncles house where we watched the news. My uncle frequented the towers, as did a friend of mine (who worked there on weekends).

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All I remember is being bummed out because I wasn't able to play outside.

The following months were more eventful. In October I saw Really Wild Animals for the first time and I bought the episode we saw on VHS about a month or so afterward (this is significant because re-watching it for the first time in eight years in April 2010 re-kindled my interest in animals, and out of a "sense of duty" I actually bought three more episodes of the series in September 2010...WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT WAS A YEAR AGO???). In December I got my first exposure to the GameCube and SSBM, and my was it awesome.

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My school also had mounted TVs. When the second plane hit there was an announcement to turn the TVs onto the news. But the idiot principal, no joke, said the reason was because she thought that the events would "be beneficial to your students' furthering education". But yeah, we sat and watched the news for like four hours in relative silence until they closed schools.

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I remember hearing it on the radio as my mom was driving me to school, then watching the news in all my classes.

Though looking back, I don't think I entirely understood what was happening, and I absolutely did not grasp the gravity of the whole situation.

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True, true. I don't remember watching news at school or anything else weird at all. There may have been days off or halved or something, but I just don't remember.

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I woke up and was watching my local Fox morning show as I usually did, and saw the whole beginning go down. They were talking about the first tower, then the second tower got hit live.

Pentagon must've been hit while I was on my way to school, because I didn't know about that until I got into class.

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I was in graduate school, living on East 98th St. between Madison and Lex. I had three other roommates at the time, all classmates from the program. I had gotten up kind of late that day since I had worked crazy hours the day before. I was in the bathroom and had just gotten out of the shower when one of my roommates knocked on the bathroom door, something they never do. I yelled "What?" across the door, probably more annoyed than I should have been.

"Uh. Jay, you might want to come see this. One of the World Trade Center towers just collapsed..."

For the next 2-3 hours, we sat at the TV watching everything. After finally spurring ourselves to activity, we went to see what could be done - we did work at a hospital after all, even if we just conducted research - but at that point they were already turning away volunteers for gathering supplies and blood. We were too far up the island away from the tragedy to get many victims - the lower hospitals filled up first.

The day after was the weirdest day of my life. I woke up early and went out to try and find a paper - I still have the Daily News and Post from that day - and Manhattan was dead silent. No traffic, very few people. It was like something out of "I am Legend" or Vanilla Sky" - completely surreal. And even all the way up on the Upper East Side, everything was covered with a fine, gray dust - I was cleaning it off my windowsill for weeks afterward.

I can't believe it's been ten years already. The Manhattan skyline still doesn't look right to me, and probably never will.

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I got up early to watch Garfield. They didn't show Garfield that day, but I ended up watching TV anyway.

I was filled with rage. I had never heard of these "twin towers" before, but I knew they were part of my country. That day, I also learned that this wasn't the first time this same group of people had attacked us, and I was confused why people had simply ignored them.

I will never forget the many countries that played our national anthem as an expression to show that they shared our grief. It was very touching.

That day, I began to understand that there were people that would be my enemy because of my birthplace.

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Got me.

I had school. That's about all I remember. I don't even think they covered it there.

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I was on the road with my mom (whoo homeschooling?) coming back from somewhere. We watched for a while in the hotel room and then had it going on the radio the rest of the way.

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Our Principal ordered all the TV's in our school to be turned off, and anyone who used their cell phone was to be suspended. She was a horrible woman. We still spent every class talking about it.

Was in school in New York. They told us when the first tower was hit, and I thought it must have been an accident and that the damage was probably reparable. Then when the second tower was hit, they told us and ended class for the day, having parents come to pick everyone up. The emotional impact didn't really hit me at the time for some reason, but exactly one year later I got really sad remembering it.

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Like I said in another topic, I was really close to the attack. I was visiting friends up in New York -- that's where I grew up, y'know. It was frightening as hell, of course, but I felt a strange serenity amidst the chaos. I think some of us thought there were going to be follow-up strikes even after the towers fell. Some of the people around me seemed almost resigned toward that end for the first couple of hours.

We walked, thousands of us in an eerie march, across bridges... mile after mile after mile after mile.

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Let's see.. I was in my second week of my freshmen year. I had just woken up and i went into my dad's room to talk to him. He was staring at the TV. I asked what was going on and he told me. He said they thought it was a terrorist attack, but he thought it had simply crashed into the tower.

Then later on the second plane hit and we knew for sure

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