Board 8 > What were you doing when 9/11 happened?

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yep today is 9/11

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We were in our seminar class which was basically our designated homework class during high school

we rolled in a TV and watched the news after the 1st plane hit

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literally just woke up when it was on the news

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Standing in a school hallway talking with friends

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Also I'm trying to remember but I think they sent us home from school after lunch that day

So on one hand I was kind of worried what was happening but on the other hand I was like sweet I can go play more Mario kart super circuit

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PE Class out in the open air. Didn't find out about the disaster until both towers had already collapsed.
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On a bus to DC

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Sitting in Algebra II. We didn't get sent home. We would watch the news during the breaks between classes, but we finished the day.

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Sleeping in my dorm room. My roommate came back from his early class, eager to turn on our improvised TV set-up that rarely got used, saying his parents told him some people crashed planes into the World Trade Center. I didn't believe him.

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I was in homeroom. I remember I just started high school basically. I lived in Long Island at the time so the entire day was pretty much just news of what was happening.

Id gotten home from work that morning. I dont remember whether it was my mom or my sister who called to tell me that a plane had hit the first tower.

Math class

Social studies class. It was elementary school so they didn't tell us what happened but we knew something was up because they held us in that class all the way until lunch. I eventually found out during lunch when I asked a family friend who worked at the school.

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xp1337 posted...

Social studies class. It was elementary school so they didn't tell us what happened but we knew something was up because they held us in that class all the way until lunch. I eventually found out during lunch when I asked a family friend who worked at the school.

canada here, also in elementary school but my class even rolled in TVs to watch the news >__>

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GuessMyUserName posted...

canada here, also in elementary school but my class even rolled in TVs to watch the news >__>

It was a K-12 school and I hear that a lot of the high school classes did that.

idk maybe they ran out of tvs. Also it was NY maybe they didn't want to scare us?

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I was in my 5th grade classroom
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I was asleep

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I was in 4th grade. Our school had to evacuate.

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I was also in 4th grade I think. Homeroom. We watched the news for like an hour and I think we went home after a half day of classes.
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4th grade. We watched the news. We did the whole day of school, but did nothing during it.

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Our school told teachers to pretend it wasnt happening and continue the day as normal. Dont show news and dont talk about it.

Most listened to that but our history teacher who just turned on the news because this was clearly a historical event happening.

Jr high ftr.

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I was sleeping. I think it happened at like 6 A.M. Arizona time anyway, but my oldest brother overslept and didn't take me to school that day, so the school called my mom to find out where I was. She always left for work before we got up so she had no idea and took off from work to find us all asleep and was like "how did you sleep through planes crashing into buildings?" Obviously a joke because we were on the other side of the country, a joke she still occasionally makes to this day

I was also in 4th grade. There seem to be a lot of us!

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Freshman year, I was getting ready to walk to school. Watched a bit of the news and saw the second plane hit before I had to leave.

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I was in the 4th grade as well and we had a surprise recess at 9AM. We were all pretty confused because our teachers didn't tell us much but I remember one kid saying that some bad people stole some planes. That didn't seem like enough of a reason for surprise recess but then when we got back to class our teacher tried to tearfully explain the situation. I don't think most of us really understood or processed what was going on.

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chillin' with the boys in preschool

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1st grade class, left school early for a doctor's appointment and then went home.

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freshman year of high school. Graphic arts class. Was learning silkscreening.

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Since I live in the Pacific time zone, I was asleep. At some point, my mom woke me up frantically screamed "we've been attacked!" However, that was such a vague statement that when I finally got to see the news, I was actually relieved that it wasn't something that was happening to us directly. But then it quickly sunk in the real ramifications of a successful terrorist attack on the WTC and the Pentagon, and who knew what was next. Would they be flying planes into casinos here in Vegas? Does this mean World War III is on the horizon?

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Waking up and about to start getting ready for school.

Probably had been up for about 10 minutes when the second plane hit.

Still went to school. Was mostly a waste since we spent all day watching the news anyway.

Though i suppose the social aspect of being together during a national tragedy was interesting.

literally just woke up when it was on the news

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At a high school assembly, but I don't remember what we were there for... I just remember being told by a friend what happened to one of the WTC buildings.

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Watching it live on TV. Was off sick from school, went to get a glass of orange juice, flipped through channels. Saw a building on fire and stopped to see what was up. About a minute later the second plane hit.

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Canada as well. They sent us home from school not long after. I was in grade 1 and remember having no idea what was going on.

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it was picture day at my school. our first period teacher wheeled in the tv after the first plane was hit- we ended up seeing the second strike live

my second period teacher didn't believe me when i relayed the news, and apologized way too much later on- i was a bit of a joker.

i don't think i really understood the significance at the time. i was in full edge mode in my head- "disasters happen in other countries every day, how self-centered are we?"

as i got a little older it made more sense- a community has to mourn for itself. distance matters

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Was at school in 8th grade. In between classes friend came up to me and said the world trade center was on fire and me not having a clue what that was was just like.....ok. Global studies was my next class and the teacher had the news on the tv, just as class started the first tower fell. Watched the second tower fall there as well and the rest of the school day went on as normal with none of the teachers even acknowledging anything happened.

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I was in highschool. It was the final lesson of the day so we never found out until we got home.

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In class in 5th grade. My teacher turned on the TV after the first plane hit, and we watched the second one hit. Then I guess there was some discussion among the teachers and we were told not to discuss what we saw with the other classes who hadn't seen it. Peoples' parents were picking them up early all day, especially after the Pentagon was hit (this was in NoVA).

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6th grade. Happened while I was in class, found out at lunch.

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School, idk which class

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This topic is just a secret age/ location survey anyway!

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i was in 3rd grade and they didn't tell us the whole school day.

when I went home my mom was standing at the bus stop, which was weird because normally she'd be at work. then she filled me in.

i didn't get the enormity of the situation at the time. I was most upset that baseball games were being postponed.

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