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I was in 3rd grade and I was late for school and my mom was going to drive me. She got a call in the kitchen from a girlfriend who said the World Trade Center got hit. Which my mom repeated in a questioning voice then she came in and turned on the news. Then I remember watching the second plane approach and hitting the south tower.
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I was 5 so I don't really remember

3rd grade? I feel so old.
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I was at home because I had recently gotten expelled from school.
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I was in 3rd grade; I would have been at the bus stop when it happened. My teacher never told us about it, but I remember having a fire drill and the gym teacher mentioning something about a tragedy. I thought some kid had fallen down the stairs or something.

I didn't find out about it until I went home and news was on WB instead of Pokemon
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Watching a movie in US History sophomore year. The vice principal was going around telling everyone in the classes. He knocked on the door, and the teacher just waved at him. He did it again, and he still waved and didn't get the door, and then he just walked away.

Didn't know about it until we got to the next class.
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Senior year of high school, in study hall. I was watching the guy in front of me play Tetris on his game boy when someone came in to turn on the tv then left. It was on the news of course, so we all just watched it from there.
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Was in 8th grade, first class of the day. Someone came in to talk to the teacher and he looked really freaked out and turned the TV on. We sat there watching what happened for the rest of the class. My mom checked me and my brothers out of school because there was a concern that all major cities may be in line to be attacked.
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In college in my dorm. 2nd tower was hit while I was in the shower.
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I was 7 and sound asleep because I live on the west coast
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Walking to school. Sure of it. Young enough to be scared of every plane in the sky that day.

Shared experience: teachers brought tvs into each classroom to keep up with coverage.
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7th grade, went to junior high school in Queens. Two of my classmates lost their fathers that day. Crazy to deal with that as a 12 year old.
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My brother got Front Mission 3 for his birthday the day before, so I played sick to stay home and play it all day because that game looked legit.

Needless to say very little of that game got played and I watched the whole thing live on TV.
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4th grade. Had no clue until I came home and my mom told me.
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All of you were so young :(
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7th grade. Football practice. Next class was homeroom and we watched the news
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I was using mirc and chatted with some friends when it happened.
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I was with my mom crying because my dad was in the air and we couldn't get ahold of him until later that afternoon.

I remember watching the news that morning which was weird because I was a kid and never watched the news. I went upstairs to tell my mom what happened thinking I was so mature and not realizing how big a deal it was (I actually think I assumed it was an accident). Then I found my mom bawling and she told me it was on purpose and then remembering my dad was on a business trip and we couldn't get a hold of him and then spending the majority of the day feeling helpless and terrified. I don't think I've ever felt so terrified.
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I remember after the second plane hit and it was painfully clear it wasnt an accident anymore I turned to my mom and asked if our country would ever be the same.
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Sitting in a hospital room, watching my grandmother die. The nurses flipped out and turned on the news in all the patient's rooms. Because that's what people who are either dying, fighting to survive, or in tremendous pain need to see, a terrorist attack. Stupid fucking whores.

My cousin worked in one of the towers, so my family kind of lost their tits for a while. Turns out she wasn't working that day, but we didn't find out until that night.

Not the best day.
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I think I was in 7th grade. They brought us into the auditorium and had an assembly and showed the footage on a big screen.
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I was in 4th grade, teacher turned on the TV once the first tower was hit. I saw the second tower get hit live, and we got sent home early afterward.
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I turned on the TV and thought New York was nuked, both towers were already down and to this day I can't get that image out of my head of the destruction. I wonder how many people were like me.

I was active duty, in the United States Army. I was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, awaiting orders to be transferred to an infantry unit. I had broken my leg the previous May, in a cast from my toes to my hip.

I was sitting outside the Company Commander's office, I had a meeting with him that morning. A sergeant, one of my instructors, came running towards me screaming gibberish about planes and war, handed me an M16 and two magazines and told me not to leave that spot, that I was to defend the company office, and to await further orders.

I waited in that spot as other soldiers began to congregate in this area, when that same instructor came back, divided us into shifts, armed us assigned us to our posts. I drew second shift, so I went back to the barracks area, I went into the common room, just as the first tower fell. I immediately turned back around, walked out of the room, located a hacksaw, and started removing my cast. Once it was removed, I threw my crutches away, along with the pieces of my cast. I then attempted to go running, because I wasn't about to let this go without a fight. I would have to be able to run in order to be fit to go into combat.

I was threatened with Article 15 or possible court-martial for destruction of government property because of this act. I gave in, allow them to put the cast back on, and was discharged the following March.
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DarthGravid posted...

I was active duty, in the United States Army. I was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, awaiting orders to be transferred to an infantry unit. I had broken my leg the previous May, in a cast from my toes to my hip.

I was sitting outside the Company Commander's office, I had a meeting with him that morning. A sergeant, one of my instructors, came running towards me screaming gibberish about planes and war, handed me an M16 and two magazines and told me not to leave that spot, that I was to defend the company office, and to await further orders.

I waited in that spot as other soldiers began to congregate in this area, when that same instructor came back, divided us into shifts, armed us assigned us to our posts. I drew second shift, so I went back to the barracks area, I went into the common room, just as the first tower fell. I immediately turned back around, walked out of the room, located a hacksaw, and started removing my cast. Once it was removed, I threw my crutches away, along with the pieces of my cast. I then attempted to go running, because I wasn't about to let this go without a fight. I would have to be able to run in order to be fit to go into combat.

I was threatened with Article 15 or possible court-martial for destruction of government property because of this act. I gave in, allow them to put the cast back on, and was discharged the following March.

Damn. 9/11 is what set in motion my thought process that eventually lead to me joining the Marines.
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GregShmedley posted...

I told her that she did just fine and that we were all grateful. We all saw the evils of the world that day. We saw history, together.

Yeah, I would have preferred this over being kept in the dark.
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Its crazy my little sister was born in 2006 and learned about it in school. I remember she had to do an interview with someone who was alive back then (jeez) and she wanted to interview me but her dickhead teacher wouldnt let her cuz I was a kid when it occured.
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I fell asleep in my room. I remember because a friend told me to watch the news, saying World War 3 was about to start, just as soon as I woke up and checked MSN.

Note that I live in Europe
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Third grade.

I remember being told class was getting let out early for some vague reason. Didn't care, I was excited. I got home, my mom was there watching the news and told me about what happened and I was like "some building in New York fell down? That's it?"

Ilishe posted...

I fell asleep in my room. I remember because a friend told me to watch the news, saying World War 3 was about to start, just as soon as I woke up and checked MSN.

Note that I live in Europe

You were sleeping in the middle of the day?
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JustAndrew88 posted...

Was in 8th grade, first class of the day. Someone came in to talk to the teacher and he looked really freaked out and turned the TV on. We sat there watching what happened for the rest of the class. My mom checked me and my brothers out of school because there was a concern that all major cities may be in line to be attacked.

Are you me? You just typed everything I was going to type, wtf
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Orthopox12 posted...

I was in 3rd grade

I was in fucking 1st year of university.

What's wrong with all these UAUs.
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I was in 8th grade and I was in 2nd period. We heard the news and we actually watched it, it was so fucking crazy.
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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.

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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

Mourning the death of my grandaddy

He died on the same day :/
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I was asleep when it started. I had graduated highschool that summer. and didn't have anything going on. so slept in. my mom woke me up to show me the news. and I remember seeing the 2nd tower fall live. spent the rest of the day on my computer posting on a forum (but not here) while CNN was on. I remember arguing with people who were eager for war

I was in 4th grade, and my classroom had a perfect view of the Manhattan skyline. So I watched most of it.
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I was in my 3rd grade class. They just announced it on the intercom, but I lost focus part-way during the announcement and was completely unaware of what they said, so I asked someone else what they said. When I did get home, I told my mom someone crashed into the twin towers on purpose.
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7th grade, it was picture day.
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What year.
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Everyone was going back to school, but it was my first year post-graduation. I was just laying in bed at home until my mom called me down stairs and told me. Then one of my buddies called and told me to come over, so I did

Latter in the day, when I wasn't with him, he threw a rock at a car that had something anti-American on it, but I don't think it was really anti-American. I wasn't there, though
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I was probably in my crib
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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

I was in 4th grade, and my classroom had a perfect view of the Manhattan skyline. So I watched most of it.

@GeneralKenobi85 Jersey?
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It was 8th grade, I remember standing at the bus stop and this kid told me what he saw on the news and he was pointing at the date on his watch and I was like "it's just a dumb coincidence". And we watched the news in the morning and I was like "that has to be a terrorist attack there's no way so many planes could crash accidentally into buildings like that".

I just remember that that's basically all we did in art class. I don't remember what else we did.

My mom was freaked out crying because my brother was in the Army and she was saying he would have to deploy, which he wound up doing, twice.
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Orthopox12 posted...

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

I was in 4th grade, and my classroom had a perfect view of the Manhattan skyline. So I watched most of it.

@GeneralKenobi85 Jersey?

Yes
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