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9/11 10 years memorial thread

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-emile-
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this is the real thread , the other one was full of theorist bull shit , and i didnt like seeing that

R.I.P to every one who lost their lives in there !
Vibes to every pme who lost a loved one in there !

10 years , we will never forget
god bless america !
Sep 5 2011 2:31PM
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broto
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i remember sitting in my parents room with my mom, she was watching the tv and i wanted to feel bad because she did andi could tell she was upset but i was 5 years old and didn't really know why or the extent of the situation.
Sep 5 2011 3:23PM
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Alpine3
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i remember being in 6th grade and finding out at school then coming home to turn on the tv and finally saw what was going on. just sat there in silence for a couple hours.

RIP to all those who were lost and god bless to all those to lost one
Sep 5 2011 3:27PM
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.AR6rider.
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Shit was crazy. I was in 8th grade math class and another teacher came in crying, so we turned on the tv just in time to see the second plane hit the towers. They locked down the school and we weren't allowed to leave until our parents came, showed ID, and got us. I was scared shitless for like 2 weeks because they made it seem like the terrorists were going to attack our school. We were in lockdown for like a month. Everyone was super paranoid. Luckily I didn't lose anyone. I do have family in NYC though and they said it was unreal. Like living in some fucked up bad dream.
Sep 5 2011 3:31PM
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-emile-
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same i was 6 i think , i was watching tv with my parents,
i remember my dad calling his friend from ny , he lives down in greenwich village,
he was supposed to fly down to d.c that day ..
Sep 5 2011 3:33PM
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-emile-
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i heard that security is going to be insane the memorial weekend ..
Sep 5 2011 3:34PM
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Rodigan
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i was 27 sat in my house in Manchester UK watching in absolute horror. I hope none of us ever see anything like that again.

Big love to all from a UK brother.




Sep 5 2011 3:45PM
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i was in like 1st grade or second grade, remember it like yesterday, my mom was crying when i left for school, and then on the walk home form school my friends told me that planes crashed into a building, i didn't really think it too significant until i matured more and realized
Sep 5 2011 3:46PM
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BMB
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I wonder how many of the younger NSers(born after 1991) remember 9/11. I was only in 5th grade, but I'll never forget when my Mom was driving home from school, and she said that the terrorists took down the towers. I had no idea what a terrorist was. The Airline industry will never be what it was before 9/11.
Sep 5 2011 4:17PM
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broto
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born in mid 96', and all age jokes aside, i do vaguely remember the day. may the souls of the departed from 9/11 rest in peace, as well as everyone affected by it personally.
Sep 5 2011 4:20PM
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AWALLRUS.
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88 and Sunny - Short Film - from Cole Sax on Vimeo.

A short film following a young man Garrett Schlag
and his struggle with the loss of his dad Steven Schlag.
May he rest in peace.

*Awards:
Best Film -Miner Film Festival-

Directed/Edited/Filmed: Cole Sax

Written: Anya Aste, Cole Sax

Shot on:
Canon 7D

Edited with:
FCP 7

Color graded with:
Magic Bullet Looks 1.2

Music:
Big Red Machine / Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner
Drops of Jupiter




www.colesax.com

Sep 5 2011 4:25PM
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TOAST.
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Very touching.
RIP to all those lost.
Sep 5 2011 4:51PM
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585.
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its crazy to think that i was in 4th grade when 9/11 happened. im 18 and in college now...rip to all of those who lost their lives that day
Sep 5 2011 5:40PM
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AWALLRUS.
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I WAS IN FIRST GRADE, THE DAY AFTER WE HAD TO DRAW PICTURES OF OUR SCHOOL WITH AN AMERICAN FLAG ON IT (IM CANADIAN) AND THEN THEY SENT THE PICTURES TO THE U.S. OR SOMETHING.
IT WAS A CONFUSING DAY FOR ME.
R.I.P.
Sep 5 2011 6:02PM
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TOAST.
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I was in 3rd grade at the time and they didnt tell any of us about it (the teachers knew) because they thought it would be better for our parents to explain it. Anyways I remember seeing the librarian walking through the hall crying because her son worked in the WTC and she couldnt get a hold of him. Thankfully he was one of the ones that made it out.
Sep 5 2011 6:37PM
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Inline.
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I was probably four or 5 years old, I very vaguely remember a shot of a plane crashing into a skyscraper. That's all. Rest In Peace to all who died that terrible morning.
Sep 5 2011 6:40PM
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-emile-
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that was really good
Sep 6 2011 5:24PM
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hoodratz47
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i was a sophmore in high school. and i remember my dad waking me up and telling what had happend. and that my mom who is a flight attendent was flying To LAX(los angeles) was in the air. and i was so fucking scared and my dad was pale as fuck. and i saw the second plane hit and i went to school and we learned that one of my buddies grandma and aunt was on the first plane that hit.  and then i got a call from my mom and we were both crying cause at that point we all thought shit was hitting the fan every where like. red dawn or some shit.  and i was so glad to hear her voice. and she was safe but rattled. 

she said the captian of the plane knew what was going down. and was like. jane.  if shit starts going down..    im gonna do a loop de loop.. but thank god he did not have to. 

my brother in law who worked in the Sears Town in Chicago,  had to evcacuate. and it was a scary situation.

school was not a good day. people were messed up.   being in oregon. NY is a world away. but it felt right next door

it was one of those moments that you will never froget. 

regardless of your beleifes on who or what  on 9.11.      people died..   remember them.   respect the familys that all they got was a tooth.     a sad day that will never be frogot. 

Sep 6 2011 5:54PM
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Dwarftosser1
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I remember it like it was yesterday, My mom picked me up from school and told me buildings were falling down in NYC. I was scared because my grandparents lived in philly, (which I confused for new york). It's really weird to think there's kids at my school who have no memory of that day.
Sep 6 2011 6:04PM
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Elmo.
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i was in 3rd grade and i remember getting to school and literally being sent home straight after i got to my classroom.

my mom was freaking out and in the car she was listening the radio and telling me to look at the pretty trees outside so i wouldn't listen as closely.

to this day i watch the 9/11 shows on discovery and nat geo and all of that. not becuase i think its fun or anything but hearing of all the heroic acts that took place on 9/11 is just astounding. and they make you know that our country will survive and persevere through anything. i always have an amazing amount of respect for the first responders the search and rescue teams that dedicated sometimes 22 of their 24 hours every day for 2 weeks looking for the dead and the maybe alive.

after i see and think about the day and what happened. i always make sure that my family my girlfriend and my friends know that i care about em all so much.

RIP. to the deceased
vibes to the families
Sep 6 2011 6:04PM
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Keenan_Jones
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I was 15 getting ready for my 4th or 5th day as a lil punk H.S Freshman. Woke up and something didn't feel right. Walked downstairs and my dad was just standing staring at the tv, while my mom was cooking eggs or something quietly. Walked to my friends to grab a ride with him and we listened to the news the whole way. Got to school and every t.v was on and it was a creepy silence. Really creepy silence in the school!

RIP to everyone...
Sep 6 2011 6:44PM
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feihlination
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i have no problem with commemorating the victims of that day. but people in the western world also need to open their eyes towards disasters, wars and fights away from "our" countries.

it kinda makes me sick to raise some 3000 (as bas as that number is) lives way over millions and millions that die the same pointless and non-human death every year.

i am not an american, just for the record.



and i hate, yes i downright hate when someone calls "conspiracists" dumbfucks or disrespectful. i think its disrespectful to reject the victims their right to find out what has happened. i am not going deeper nor am i saying this or that or that i think it was an inside job (which i dont believe, just for the record), but people need to inform themselves on these matters, educate themselves on the corresponding topics, on the situation in the middle east before and after 9/11. why afghanistan was "freed", iraq and lybia and not syria or pakistan. people need to educate themselves and form an intelligent and OWN opinion. if that is disrespectful, i am disrespectful.


RIP to the victims, but also RIP to all people who died such an dishonorable death, people that are starving to death while i am sitting here everyday almost puking because i eat too much.
Sep 6 2011 7:00PM
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Broseph_Stalin
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i was in 3rd grade, my dad worked in the wtc, had no idea what was going on when i got taken home from school, all of family came over for support and thought my dad had died, i wanted to know what was going on but none of my relatives could talk to me without getting upset, i turned on the tv and everyone flipped out and made me turn it off, we waited (the cell towers were on wtc 1 so we couldnt call him) and eventually he showed up covered in dust, very intense day, i didnt really get a grasp on how lucky i was until i got older. it was definitely traumatizing, a few of my friends fathers didnt make it, a few of my dads friends died.

RIP everyone who died and prayers for the families of those who died.
Sep 6 2011 7:23PM
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J.M
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i didnt know anyone personally and i had no idea what was going on at the time. i just remember being in 1st grade and we actually left school early.
Sep 6 2011 7:25PM
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rareison
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I as well didn't know anyone personally, but RIP to all who died, and thoughts and prayers to their families. I was around 5 at the time I think.
Sep 6 2011 7:34PM
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I like to watch the 9/11 tv specials as well. The amount of courage some people have is amazing...truly inspiring.

I was in 3rd grade when it happened, living 18 miles west of city, and clearly remember seeing the cloud of smoke rising from NYC while parked at the top of skyline drive. I drove that road 5 days a week to get to ski practice & definitely never shook that picture from my mind.

RIP/ +vibes to all the people who lost someone that day. I know my community did.
Sep 6 2011 10:25PM
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JayDope
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i live about 10-15 miles away from NYC, one kid i knew of lost his father in the towers, one of my good friends at the time, his uncle went for a job interview in the towers ended up dying, and this girl i knew her dad was actually on one of the planes that crashed into the towers. Alot of families in my town/area were affected by it, many husbands/wives commuted into the city, my uncle actually works fairly close to the towers, and for some reason on that day he decided to take off of work and just work from home thank god. It was so crazy, i was in 6th grade at the time, and a bomb threat was called on my school, and they evacuated the entire school and we waited for our parents to come pick us up. I'll never forget that day.
Sep 7 2011 12:54AM
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Snowgoner
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shut the fuck up this thread is not about your dumb shit. put it in the other thread.



rip to all those that died. i was too young to remember, but rip to all those that passed away. a truly awful day it was.
Sep 7 2011 1:00AM
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theabortionator
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Shuttup with your mindless "shuttup about anything" banter.

Sep 7 2011 1:23AM
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Davy.Crockett
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i was 6-7. i didn't go to school. remember watching it on tv. trying to have my mom explain it to me. my uncle works in one of the buildings a couple blocks away. scary.
Sep 7 2011 1:26AM
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zakaroo
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I remember I was in 1st grade I think, and the teacher left for like 20 mins, and came back in and told us all what happened. We went home and watched the tv all night. We lived 30 mins from the city in NJ, and my dad had gone into the city late that day because he had a dentist appointment. My mom and I were very worried that he had been hurt. He was driving into the city, and he saw the first tower being hit on the freeway. He made a U-turn at the next exit and saw the second plane being hit from his rear view mirror. If he had gone into work that morning as usual, he would have been 2 blocks from the Trade Center working. He had lost contact from a friend that worked in the Trade Center and that he rode the train with, and we drove around Manhattan for the next 3 or 4 weekends looking for her. He then found out much later that she had died that morning. He also knew many other people that worked next to the tower that died. He retired very soon after that. We saw the smoke on our skyline for weeks and weeks. The image still haunts my mind.

RIP

A note
The 10 year anniversary is not a time to bring up stupid conspiracy theories and say our government did it, it's about remembering the people that died. Don't be a dick please.
Sep 7 2011 1:31AM
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jblaski
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I was a junior in HS at the time. I remember EXACTLY where I was when I first heard about it. It was right before school started, I was in the hallway in front of our HS office, talking to my HS baseball coach about the game that night. A kid came up to him as was like "Hey Fulls, a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center". My first thought was a Cesna or something, and it wasn't a big deal.

My first class of the day was Trig, and our teacher at the time was in his last year before retirement, so he turned on the TV, and said that he wasn't going to teach that day.

Right before the first tower collapsed, our HS principal got on the overhead system, and told all the teachers to turn off the TV's and to continue teaching, because "the event is in New York, and not Wisconsin". I'm still a little bit bitter to this day because of that.

So our teacher turned off the TV and started teaching. Then he stopped 2 minutes later and said "screw that, this is important" and turned on the TV again. That was right after the first tower collapsed.

Between classes, is when the 2nd tower collapsed. So I never actually saw them go down live.

9/11 is still a part of why I became a firefighter, and is why I am SO passionate about it. My captain when I first started, personally knew many of the firefighters that died on 9/11, and instilled how important of a day that was.

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Sep 7 2011 1:32AM
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Jahrassicpark
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I remember waking up that morning to see it on tv. I was only in grade 1 at the time so I didn't really understand, watching shows about it years later it's one of the most horrible things to ever happen, they destroyed so many peoples lives. Heart goes out to all the families that lost their loved ones.
Sep 7 2011 2:03AM
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snowbombz
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i saw the video on a tv in a pizza place during my bday party, i thought it was just an action film at first though, took me a day to realize what happened.

anyway, i think the ground zero subway station is one of the coolest buildings ever. the sun lines up perfectly with the thin window on the roof at exactly the time when the second tower fell on 9/11 each year. Its an amazing building.
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Sep 7 2011 2:27AM
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PacificRimJob
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Damn, I was in 8th grade. My mom wakes me up at like fucking 6am to tell me a plane just hit a building. She had just dropped my dad off at the Oakland Airport that morning, because he was flying to Vancouver for a meeting. His flight had taken off at about 540am or something... only a few minutes after the first plane hit in New York City.

My mom pulled me out of bed, and I watched the TV for about maybe 5-10 minutes and then BLAM!! 2nd plane hits and we all immediately freak the fuck out... My dad had been in the air for about an hour by now.

My father's flight at the time that they closed the US airspace was somewhere over Oregon, and his plane was forced to turn and land at PDX in Portland. He didn't get through to us until about 730 that he had booked an Amtrak train home, so it was slightly unnerving.

My mother forced us to go to school that day at 9am, and as soon as I got there, everyone was already crying, and they decided to hold an impromptu prayer mass (I went to Catholic school at this point) which ended up lasting about 2 hours...

We pretty much ended up spending the day watching the news on the TV and had our teachers explaining what was going on to us. It became a real eye opening event for many people, and just about everyone kept talking about how they felt as if Kennedy had been shot again...



Definitely one of the top 10 weirdest days of my life.
Sep 7 2011 10:11AM
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eldridge
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amazing. The memorial is going to be equally amazing.
Sep 7 2011 10:25AM
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TechnoPotamus
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i live about an hour from NYC. i was in 6th grade math class i think. i remember an announcement coming over the intercom system telling the teachers to turn on the tv's and this was just after the first plane hit.

everybody was pretty confused, we were really young and didn't quite understand what was happening, we just knew it was really bad. shortly after the second plane hit and everybody was sent home early. I remember getting home and turning the tv on and watching the news and just being like omg what the hell is happening...called my mom and she kinda explained. absolutely crazy.



Sep 7 2011 10:40AM
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eldridge
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<3 you
Sep 7 2011 11:08AM
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*SNO*
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I think i was like 4 or 5 when  this happened. i was at my grandparents and i was watching it on the news but i didnt know what was going on, my parents came and picked me up soon after that and we went to check on some of my american family who were pretty shaken up. i remember so many of my cousins being upset but i never found out why.

R.I.P to all who lost lives
Sep 7 2011 11:13AM
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Toasty.
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im related to one of the first engineers in after the towers went down.

also, my dad joined because of this
Sep 7 2011 11:18AM
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openmindportrait
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I was like 6 and woke up and my mom was crying watching TV and i was like whats up and then the second plane hit it was really a sketchy day especially because my dad was in DC at the time doing some networking stuff for the pentagon and was on his way to work when the plane hit it
Sep 7 2011 11:22AM
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snwbrdmilf
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I was a senior in high school. I remember the school putting the news on. I watched the second plane hit live. I called my mom and she was freaking out, since her good friend and daughter had gone to the city for a day trip and couldn't get a hold of her. We stayed in school, and watched the destruction happen on TV throughout the morning. An awful day for sure.
Sep 7 2011 11:28AM
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1337
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fourth grade, didn't find out until I got home. A lot of the local schools didn't put it on tv because a lot of the families had members who would work in Boston or NYC. I knew someone who's dad had a plane ticket for the flight that flew from Boston into one of the towers, but didn't get on the flight due to illness.
Sep 7 2011 11:43AM
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Jamestown
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I was in 3rd grade...we had a 5 minute moment of silent and the whole school gathered to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

My friend's mom was supposed to be on one of the flights, but she was late and missed it.
Sep 7 2011 11:55AM
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-emile-
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imagine how weird of a feeling that must be ..

Sep 7 2011 4:02PM
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Lax_Bro40
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I was playing kickball in gym class in 6th grade. Saw my dad walking across the field I was pissed he was pulling me out of gym class. Then he said we are under attack. Never been more freaked out in my life.
Sep 7 2011 4:21PM
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gotti
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I think i was in second grade at the time,

all I remember is the streets being silent while everyone was watching television for about a week

i actually hadn't seen any footage of it because I couldn't grasp the true meaning and significance of the event until a few weeks ago on national geographic.

I never realized how horrific the footage was of those people jumping out of the buildings to get away from the hellhole they were in and how the two landmarks of america came crumbling down so fast after all the years.
Sep 7 2011 5:39PM
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BrewskiJr
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EVERYONE ON FACEBOOK:

"Due to "lack of room", NYC Police Officers, Port Authority Police Officers and FDNY Firefighters are not "invited" to the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at Ground Zero. Funny -they weren't invited on that day in 2001, either -they just "showed up" and became our heroes. Please re-post if you think they belong MORE than the politicians who are invited"
Sep 7 2011 5:40PM
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AWALLRUS.
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I WOULD HAVE FREAKED OUT IF SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT WHEN I WAS 12.
I PROBABLY STILL WOULD TODAY.
Sep 7 2011 5:41PM
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sherwood4099
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I was in 7th grade in Boston (origin of many of the flights) and my school took  6-8th graders into the auditorium and explain that we had been attacked. Then we amassed around the flag pole and lowered it to half-mast. When i got home i watched TV with my mom (rip) who calmly explained to me that nothing they could ever do to us would ever hurt as bad as what we would do to them in time...  Absolutely horrifying day. I'm thankful everyday that my family was not directly hurt.... 

To all those directly effected or killed that day you are in my thoughts, hopes, and prayers
Sep 7 2011 5:48PM
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sherwood4099
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Although an honorable cause (even worthy of its own thread) lets keep this purely memorial. This thread is a product of derailment in another.
Sep 7 2011 5:50PM
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