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I have to ask where you were at on 9/11/01. Me well I was in Florida my eyes glued to the T.V.,when I saw the second plane I was so :x :x :x :x. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv4s3fn8 ... re=related on this video watch from 2:50 to 3:20. If you watch the video plz comment on it.

Er, no mean to be rude and all, but... isn't this a bit random? Even for this forum?

I mean, if it was September, or some big rememberance thing was going on, I could understand. But in the middle of January?

Only possible tie to this I could come up with would be the... foiled bombing to happen in England today?

Anyways, on topic, I was in the 6th grade.

At school completely oblivious.

A well placed AIM-9 probably would have eliminated any one of the 747's, but let's leave it at that.

I was sitting in my 7th grade homeroom, getting an interim report for the semester. I was only worried about what my parents would say about my grades.

I was sitting in my history class when they told us what happened over the intercom. Moments of silence and prayer shortly followed.

I was in England, and therefore didn't get the news until like 6 pm.

6 pm because noone told me what had happened until my dad got home.

I was at home nursing a throwing star wound... or was that the day after I had my wisdom teeth removed? Yep- it was the wisdom teeth. 9/10 was a very hazy day- what with all the drugs and gas they used on me- only to wake up the next day to a world shocking disaster.

That must have sucked.
(realy bad recreation!!)zzzzzzzzzzzzzz{POP} ow my jaw,....*T.V. in back round* WTFH OMFG, WORLD WAR lll.

At home watching the news when I was sick, nothing else was good on, all the channels that I try to watch end up finding out that I didn’t pay for the channel. Completely oblivious to the words and just repeated the same thing over and over again. Then the next day after I realized that suicide bombers attacked on 9/11.

I was asleep when it happend didnt find out about it till i got to school and everyone want freaking out. I found out and tried to use it as an excuse to cut my 6th grade Homeroom. it didnt work. They told me I was being "insensitive."

*Yawn...* Yeah, I know, 9/11 sucked, but seriously, can we get over it? It's been over 6 years. It's not even September. People act like it's the worst thing ever to have happened to the U.S. Or maybe people have forgotten about the Oklahoma City bombing, or Pearl Harbor, or the previous terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, etc... Not to mention the countless people that die every day because of senseless street crimes.

This is the rant board, right? Okay, good.

I was in 8th grade. We were sitting in my Science class when the principal spoke about a tradgedy and told the teachers to NOT turn on the TVs.


.....As soon as I got into my History class [the next class] the teacher said "Screw that" and turned on the TV. Then we had discussion.

Did everyone forget about the USS Cole?

Sleeping at the time. Woke up, went to school, saw a crap-load of students with the morning paper, asked around and found out what happened.

In school. The library, watching it on the news on TV, as I recall. I don't know how long it was until what we were watching really sunk in. I'd looked away when the first tower fell.

We really didn't have classes that day so much as we moved room to room to watch the news in different places.

And Wynni's right. It's the defining shock of my generation. The first WTC bombing in 1993 didn't do much, the Cole was a military target. 9/11 brought terrorism home to most Americans of my generation (street crime, regardless of how bad it is, really isn't terrorism on a grand scale). And it was something completely unimaginable. People can generally get their heads around a bombing, but flying a passenger plane into a skyscraper? It's not something the average American was even able to comprehend. Some people still can't. Besides, IIRC, it was the biggest terrorist attack on American soil. Just like how Pearl Harbor demonstrated to the average American of that generation that there were people out there who hated them and wanted them dead (albeit Pearl Harbor was again, a military strike), 9/11 did it for my generation.

Admittedly, I agree that it's kind of odd to bring it up in the middle of January out of the blue.