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The_Lord_of_Love
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I was in 3rd grade in my class and I can't remember how my teacher got the news but she locked our door and we all had to sit in a circle being really quiet till our parents picked us up, We were all scared because we didn't know what was going on and our teacher wasn't allowed to tell us anything. When my mom told me I didn't really understand the graveness of the situation until I saw the footage of the plane crashing into the second tower. After that I got really quiet and went up to my room and thought about what would happen if it were us because we flew into JFK on the 10th from florida and I remember my dad pointing out the towers to me.
Sep 11 2011 8:35PM
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Deezy
Posts: 4580 - Karma: 1,004
Wait, what happened 10 years ago?
Sep 11 2011 8:35PM
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LS.
Posts: 1841 - Karma: 858

look at the date

Sep 11 2011 8:37PM
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.Apex.
Posts: 2097 - Karma: 1,556
I live in Canada so I heard nothing of it until I tried to watch Saved By The Bell and the News was on so Yea it was a rough day
Sep 11 2011 8:37PM
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rockyhockey11187
Posts: 1041 - Karma: 15
you were in 3rd grade? fuck me, where does the time go
Sep 11 2011 8:37PM
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Stickity
Posts: 7750 - Karma: 769
2nd grade
got taken out of school and played paper mario with my friends
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Sep 11 2011 8:38PM
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POW-WOW
Posts: 1464 - Karma: 40
Shut up thats not funny. I dont even remember. Threads for stories.
Sep 11 2011 8:39PM
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The_Lord_of_Love
Posts: 251 - Karma: 11
I know right
Sep 11 2011 8:39PM
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-Mugatu
Posts: 2579 - Karma: 84
I was in 5th grade, I remember my friend telling me the Empire State building got blown up. obviously he was wrong, found out for real when I got home and shat bricks. I live in Canada btw. (not that it really matters)
Sep 11 2011 8:39PM
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No_Dub
Posts: 3357 - Karma: 294
question, i got into a discussion today with one of my respected buddys about this whole topic. i was arguing that i talked to this kid who was born in'98 who said that he remembered the whole thing in great detail, when, where, how he was told, his reaction, everything. but i was puzzled about how a kid that was 3 can remember that? i was 7 and from the people i talked to, i remember more than most, and its way less than what this kid says. what do you think
Sep 11 2011 8:40PM
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DrZoidberg
Posts: 5675 - Karma: 4,269
4th grade, they didn't let us out for recess. They said they were painting the wall of the school that was in the playground/parking lot.
Sep 11 2011 8:40PM
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Panda_with_Guns
Posts: 3040 - Karma: 1,620
i woke up and walked down stairs and on the tv was the live feed of the plane going into the tower. i had no idea wtf was going on, i was 5
Sep 11 2011 8:42PM
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SkiThe603
Posts: 5376 - Karma: 498
1st grade, we sat and did nothing for the entire day its been a long time
Sep 11 2011 8:42PM
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J.M
Posts: 2854 - Karma: 254
first grade, got outta school early
Sep 11 2011 8:42PM
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crab_pretzel
Posts: 3919 - Karma: 622
i was in second grade. the teacher gathered us all together and said we were all going home. surprisingly we werent all like "all right!!!", its like we kind of knew something was wrong. when someone asked what the matter was, my teacher said its better if your parents tell you. i remember watching the footage on the tv in my parents bedroom sitting on their bed. it was like a nightmare
Sep 11 2011 8:43PM
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BILL.COSBY
Posts: 292 - Karma: 5
1st grade. gym class at the end of the day our teacher came in with notes for our parents letting us know we were safe.

i had no idea this whole thing happened until farenheight 9/11 came out and i watched it
Sep 11 2011 8:43PM
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ironic
Posts: 735 - Karma: 104
I was in second grade and lived on the west coast so we hadn't even gone to school yet. I remember spending the entire day sitting with my family infront of the t.v. I don't really remember being afraid, mainly because I was seven, but all of the adults were really nervous, and you can understand that as a kid.
Sep 11 2011 8:43PM
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Deezy
Posts: 4580 - Karma: 1,004
i remember going to a backstreet boys concert just a few days after and there was a whole ceremony for a band members friend.
Sep 11 2011 8:44PM
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Spic-N-SpaN
Posts: 2002 - Karma: 1,465
3rd grade, I remember we were about to leave for school but our neighbor called and told us to turn on the news, and my parents let us watch the news before school. I cant remember if I saw the second plane hit or if they were just replaying the clip.

ahhh Ive got the chills now
Sep 11 2011 8:44PM
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Elmo.
Posts: 4317 - Karma: 662
2nd grade.... been a fast 10 years. and when the 9/11 specials are on the sorrow doesnt go away for the victims. RIP
Sep 11 2011 8:44PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
Posts: 11989 - Karma: 12,264
i just got for my first day of kindergarten when i walked into my parents room. my mom was doing her hair while my dad was in the bathroom. when they switched their tv to the news my mom stopped doing her hair and sat on her bed, and almost started crying. i remember seeing the smoking tower on the news and my 5 year old brain didn't think much of it.
Sep 11 2011 8:48PM
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Avifarer
Posts: 5926 - Karma: 598
i was in grade 5. remember walking into the living room and my mom was watching tv and i remember seeing a building on fire. but i was a 5th grader living in canada and had never even heard of the world trade centers.
Sep 11 2011 9:04PM
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Olde_English
Posts: 445 - Karma: 117
i was in 1st grade and since i lived on the west coast it had happened about the same time i went to school. my parents kept me home and i didn't really know what happened but my parents were crying. i found out the next day that my mom had a cousin who was on one of the planes.
shits wack to think about
Sep 11 2011 9:14PM
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HARVERSACE
Posts: 763 - Karma: 372
i was 3 and I remember sitting on a table while my mom was watching the news.
Sep 11 2011 9:22PM
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KevinK.
Posts: 564 - Karma: 209
I was 8, i remember waking up and walking into the living room and the plane hit the second tower on tv as soon as i walked in i couldn't believe it i will never forget that moment of my life or that whole day it was the first time in my life that i didnt feel 100 percent safe in my town.
Sep 11 2011 9:27PM
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Funkadelic
Posts: 1967 - Karma: 391
I was in 6th grade. We just watched the coverage on the news in school all day.
Sep 11 2011 9:29PM
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iSmokeweed
Posts: 4793 - Karma: 1,370
this kid knows how to sag his goggles
Sep 11 2011 9:40PM
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TheRightCoast
Posts: 314 - Karma: 4
I was in my kindergarten speech class
Sep 11 2011 9:44PM
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iLLbiLLy
Posts: 2865 - Karma: 2,631
7th grade. I remember watching tv when the second plane hit. then the teacher turned off the tv and we went home.
Sep 11 2011 9:48PM
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POWDER.RANGER
Posts: 1698 - Karma: -24
i was in grade 2, i remember watching it on the news before school, once i got to school the teacher explained what happened then after that it was a normal day.
Sep 11 2011 9:48PM
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k-rob
Posts: 14217 - Karma: 2,891
i was in 4th grade and we had a lockdown. all i remember is my hot teacher bent over under a desk directly in front of me and me staring at her thong. got home and saw everything on the news, eventually, but Ms. Abrahamowicz's thong is definitely more ingrained in my memory than the news footage.
Sep 11 2011 9:51PM
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7-11_Slurpee
Posts: 1142 - Karma: 1,552
I was at Heid Music getting my music books for my piano lessons. Everybody seemed relatively oblivious. When we got home my mom realized what had happened. I was too young to understand. I thought the towers were from another country, because "nothing ever bad happens in the US."
Sep 11 2011 9:51PM
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oil.
Posts: 2255 - Karma: 1,254
kindergarten... i remember sitting down on the little carpet in the corner of the room and being totally silent til we got picked up. dont remember much but ill bet it was crazy since im 30 minutes from downtown manhattan
Sep 11 2011 9:52PM
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pimpcat
Posts: 858 - Karma: 321
I don't like you
Sep 11 2011 9:57PM
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Heinzler
Posts: 1931 - Karma: 125
i was in second grade, and i was super pissed because we couldn't go out for recess that day
Sep 11 2011 9:58PM
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k-rob
Posts: 14217 - Karma: 2,891
great, now i don't like you either, douchebag
Sep 11 2011 10:02PM
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snowdon
Posts: 2480 - Karma: 391
You guys are all so young.

9/11 was my second day of high school. I lived in New Jersey and went to a private high school near the Hudson river, and thus, I was very very close to Manhattan. My school was also on a hill, and had an amazing view of the city. That day I had health class first. We sat and waited in the classroom for the teacher to show up. When she finally did, I remember her being kind of breathless as she told us that something big was going on in the city. We looked outside and could see the smoke coming from the first tower. Soon after, people start talking about a plane flying into the building, which nobody could understand. Was the pilot just not paying attention? Had something broken on the plane itself?

A while later, I was sitting in class and I remember hearing a girl walking down the hallway saying that the first tower had fallen. Another girl rolled her eyes and said oh please, it did not. I started hearing that a few more times, and then everyone in the classroom just started getting up and walked outside to see. By then, the second tower had been hit and we knew vaguely that it was a terrorist attack. Kids started crying and freaking out - a lot of us had family, neighbors, and friends working in the towers.

I remember sitting there on that grassy mound with maybe 25 other people when the second tower went. Everyone had been silent until that moment. Some of the girls screamed and I even remember the teacher standing behind me go, "Oh fuck! Oh FUCK!" It looked so weird, it was like one second the tower was there and then it just imploded. It fell in on itself and morphed into this giant column of smoke, which spread out and covered the city. It literally looked like someone had taken a big gray blanket and draped the city with it.

I was still very naive at that point in my life, and throughout this whole ordeal I had pretty much just assumed that they had gotten everyone out of those buildings and everything was going to be basically okay. After that second tower fell, I remember turning around watching this girl yanking out her cell phone as she screamed that her mom had worked in that tower, and I realized that I had just watched so many people die. That freaked me out for a good while.

After a bit more time, the school called us together and told us the busses were coming to pick us up. None of our cell phones worked - the lines were full from people trying to call in and out of Manhattan - and people were panicking. It was pretty chaotic.
Sep 11 2011 10:06PM
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Tyrone
Posts: 315 - Karma: 26
2nd grade.
Sep 11 2011 10:19PM
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jewFro
Posts: 562 - Karma: 24
I was in kindergarden. Considering I went to a catholic elementary school, we were made to go to the church and pray (not told why) until we were picked up by our parents.

I remember coming home, and shortly after my dad burst through the door and went straight for the phone, trying to get ahold of my aunt and uncle, one of which worked in the towers and the other being a firefighter for Ladder 25 on 77th. and broadway. Turns out they took the week off to go visit family in Massachusetts.

I went down with my dad a few months later when he was delivering a granite plaque he made to Squad 18, with all the men that died that day. Still hanging up in there now if I'm not mistaken. Depicted from their website: Click for larger image
Sep 11 2011 10:26PM
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Mr.Gaga
Posts: 2021 - Karma: 542
I was in 8th grade, remember my history teacher told us what happened. Was realy shocked and scared of a possible 3rd world war.
Sep 11 2011 10:29PM
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Ski_Alot
Posts: 5900 - Karma: 3,658
i was doin kindergarten shit, the got really scared whem i got home because i learned that my mom was in New Jersey
Sep 11 2011 10:56PM
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all-i-do-is=ski
Posts: 700 - Karma: 248
first grade, eating breakfast and watching the news.
Sep 11 2011 11:01PM
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Dyar
Posts: 622 - Karma: 35
I remember hearing about the 1993 WTC bombing on the radio on my way to school and my mom being all confused until it was reported about the current situation and I was scared out of my mind.  Also I remember sitting with my 2nd grade class in our music class in a circle, a lot of people were crying and everyone was scared.
Sep 11 2011 11:05PM
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GILLSKI
Posts: 1250 - Karma: 361
sitting in either 3rd or fourth grade celebrating a birthday in class. kept wondering why everyone was being pulled from class
Sep 11 2011 11:07PM
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notSOnifty
Posts: 164 - Karma: 13
I was in 6th grade and my school was just outside NYC on the Hudson river. I was in computer class and we heard a loud plane above. My teacher said it was just a plane from the West Point military base breaking the sound barrier. Then kids just starting being called out with their parents coming to pick them up. I didn't have school for the rest of the week.
Sep 11 2011 11:09PM
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hoarey14
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in a whom
Sep 11 2011 11:14PM
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egg.
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i lived in London at that time. must of been kindergarden
Sep 11 2011 11:14PM
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GreenStezz
Posts: 3570 - Karma: 717
I remember that day vary well...............................

Not gunna get into it but I was in Highschool........
Sep 11 2011 11:16PM
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Shark.
Posts: 3158 - Karma: 270
wow. that's amazing hearing it like that.

I was in 4th grade, Mrs. Boyd's class. I just remember her turning on the tv and saying something about how something really bad happened in New York. I lived in oregon so we were a couple hours behind so by the time we got to school it was everywhere
Sep 11 2011 11:21PM
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[evan]
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Here's my account.

It was my first day of pre-school. I woke up around 7 am. Took a bath and got dressed. I think I had sketchers on that day. I arrived a little bit late, but it wasn't a big deal. Maybe it seemed like it at the time. I was there at around 8 I think, we started off by playing a sort of ice breaker game just to get to know everybody. The teachers seemed nice, but not REALLY nice. It was that kind of first day synthetic nice. So after that we played with some blocks. I had two or three of my friends in my class which was fun. Now this is where it gets bad. A teacher busted the door open, and starts screaming "TURN ON THE TV, TURN ON THE TV." So my teacher hauls ass to plug in and turn on the TV. She goes straight to the news channel and in front of all of us is just a giant fire. We had no idea what it was, but the teachers did because they ushered us all outside the classroom and started calling our parents. My mom had been working in the daycare that day so she was already in the building. She took me home and we got home just in time to see the second tower get hit as well, we lived very close. Then after that all I remember is my mom ironing clothes while she watched. My dad came home a half hour later and they started frantically calling friends, family, and pretty much everybody in their phone books. My dad used to work in the towers in he 80s. He knew a couple people, not well, just as acquaintances, none the less I could kind of tell for the next month or so, certain people just weren't the same. The way people talked was different, everything was toned down, nobody yelled, nobody even raised their voice. People didn't converse as much, I tried my best to understand what was happening, but I just couldn't.
Sep 11 2011 11:26PM
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GavinW
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I was in the 2nd grade eating breakfast and my parents turned the news on. it wasnt a good day
Sep 11 2011 11:39PM
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