9/11 Never Forget (2012)

Shirayuki Mizore

Shirayuki Mizore

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Just got back from a 9/11 candle walk at Rutgers University.

I just made this thread to honor the fallen NYPD police officers, firefighters, and others who were inside or around the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

This thread is NOT for conspiracy theories and all that stuff. The fact is many lost their lives that dreadful day.

I give my condolences to anyone on TRMK or anyone viewing this thread if you know someone who's life was lost during the attack.
 
It was a few days after the first day of 6th grade for me when this happened and I was new to Northern California too.
 
I was in grade 12, geography class.

When word got around to what was happening, we went to another class and watched it on TV with them.
 
I was a sophomore. German class was just starting and this really popular, class clown, jock came into class, said that a tower was hit, was not sure if it was an accident at the time. We were taking a test that day and as news of a second tower, the TV came on as we were taking our tests. Frau Merrill asked, "Tyler, do you want to go into the hall to finish?" I said no, as I knew this was history and things were changing. It was the longest test of my life, watching this unfold as the towers collapsed.

It was 3rd period in a computer programming class. News of the Pentagon under attack. The whole day we did nothing but shuffle from class to class watching America under attack. It was one of the most memorable school days, and moments of my life. The hysteria from the teachers told me this was something bigger. I was astounded.

I am actually in the middle of George Bush's Decision Points, and reading it from his point of view is an entirely different take. The protocol of the president unbelievable.
 
As I said in Facebook, during my class time, my teacher in 6th grade asked her middle eastern students how ppl took the idea in their country that day and the kids said that the bombers are heroes and that ppl celebrated in the middle east. In addition to that, years later, my pharmacology teacher who is Persian told us (in nursing school) the same thing the kids said in 2001 but added that the mid Easterns mostly became millionaires for America's demise in 9/11. Made me cringe and still makes me cringe.
 
I was in 3rd grade. Everyone, one by one, kept getting called to the office because their parents were picking them up. I was one of the last of 6 kids in my class, and my teacher was trying to keep it together and said "Not everyone in the world likes this country" and by that time, I was called to the office. My parents were scared, which scared the hell out of me. I will never forget that day and how sad the whole country was as one.
 
I was a junior in high school at the time. Classes either came to a halt or had minimal work, especially after lunch, where a good portion of the class were absent. To be frank, I don't think most of them were truly traumatized or fearing for their safety....they just wanted a damn excuse to leave class early. My condolences for the victims and their families though.
 
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Just started 6th grade at the time and my school hid what was happening from us until we got home so I didn't know what was going on until it was all said and done. Still pisses me off to this day that they did that. Its still haunting looking at those videos though :/ I know other countries don't like us too much and sometimes I can understand why, but I always wander how people who aren't from here view the incident.
 
I remember the day very clearly.

I was in my Sophomore year of high school, which I attended in the metrowest area of Massachusetts. When we first heard there was some sort of incident transpiring, it was from another teacher who poked into our English class. We were at the time reading Maya Aneglou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, a book I kind of loathed. Before we got our TV cart on, we were speculating that anything colliding with the WTC must be some sort of Cessna or other small plane that got mixed up in the NYC air-traffic sphere. When we turned on the TV and saw the sheer damage, and the 2nd plane hit the other tower, we knew that was not so. Another surreal moment was when they revealed that one of the flights had departed from Boston; one of my classmates' parents was supposed to be on that flight (He turned out to have missed the flight due to traffic, would you believe that? In any case, she was screaming inconsolably until her father called her). The day went on in a pretty weird fashion from then on. On a personal level, it didn't really affect me other than a general sense of unease and sadness for the victims.

We really didn't do anything for the rest of the day in class. As I was part of my school's student congress and L-D debate/policy speech team, my teammates and I mostly spent the rest of school that day speculating the ramifications. We pretty much knew a war was coming from right then, and who to point the finger at (Al-Qaeda, though we also figured on an outside chance that it was Hammas/Islamic Jihad). I really wish we'd been wrong in our predictions about where the country was headed over the course of the next three years.
 
My mom woke me up in the morning
I live in cali so it was early at this point only one
Plane had crashed so we thought it was a acident
I went to my new job at blockbuster by the time i arived the second plane hit i just remember siting there trying to check in movies from the box but me and all the outher workers were just watching the 20 tvs all showing the same thing. It was a very sad thing to watch god bless all those brave firefighters , cops, emts and the men and women on those planes .we will never forget
 
Nasty_Freak said:
As I said in Facebook, during my class time, my teacher in 6th grade asked her middle eastern students how ppl took the idea in their country that day and the kids said that the bombers are heroes and that ppl celebrated in the middle east. In addition to that, years later, my pharmacology teacher who is Persian told us (in nursing school) the same thing the kids said in 2001 but added that the mid Easterns mostly became millionaires for America's demise in 9/11. Made me cringe and still makes me cringe.
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Wow, highly unlikely since taking a innocent life is a dreadful sin punished greatly :/
 
Jade said:
I was in grade 12, geography class.

When word got around to what was happening, we went to another class and watched it on TV with them.
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I was in the 4th grade Mr. Weldons class. He had stopped the class and told us what had happened. Being kids we had no idea how bad it really was. He explained to us as best he could while being PC. I would talk with him about it before he passed away years later and he said "I had never felt so helpless in my own home."
 
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