A decade after 9/11/01

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battle_scarz13

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I just wanted to take a moment to remember those who lost their lives on this day 10 years ago. And to express my condolences for those who lost loved ones in the senseless attacks on the world trade centers, september, 11th, 2001. My heartfelt thanks to all of the men and women of the armed forces who have fought and died, and those that still fight to protect our homeland.
Take a moment today to remember the fallen and be grateful for all that we have. If you know someone in the armed forces or even if its a stranger you see in uniform while you are out and about. Take the time to tell them thank you for everything that they've done and the sacrifice they have made to protect our country and our freedom.
Never Forget.
 
I will never forget how that happened. The twin towers and those peoples lives will live in our hearts, and spirits forever thatway, we would feel that tragedy. Those people will get whats coming for them. But now we will wait for them in the after life soon enough. :(
 
I remember I was a wee lad when it happened.


My grandma was freaking out and I had no idea why.
I looked to the tv and saw the buildings in smoke and didn't think it was a big deal (I thought it was just a fire).

Wasn't till later I understood what really happened.
 
I was in 5th grade and my idiot teacher forced us to watch the whole thing. I was traumatized and had nightmares for weeks. At first, I didn't even think it was actually happening; I thought it was just a movie or something until I realized that it was in fact a live newscast.

The part of 9/11 that will always stick out to me is that as we were watching in school, some of my classmates LAUGHED at the people who jumped out of the windows of the WTC. They laughed at people who were going to die. We were all only ten or so but isn't that sick minded of them?

I still cry over this every single year. :(
 
Yeah, I was a lil yungster when it happened. They said at school that some building got blown up and I was like, "so what" until I got home and everyone was freaking. It was a very sad day, but I feel that it definitely made America stronger and gave us much more unity, even to this day.
 
I was in 6th grade when it happened and I do remember kids coming in making fun of the people jumping the next day, still pisses me off unbelievably how anyone could even remotely find that funny. Just a sad thing to happen.
 
pgd42 said:
I was in 6th grade when it happened and I do remember kids coming in making fun of the people jumping the next day, still pisses me off unbelievably how anyone could even remotely find that funny. Just a sad thing to happen.
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I like to think that they were too young to understand the severity of what was happening but now that I'm grown up I see that they were just idiots.

Of those kids who laughed, I think half of them are in jail now.
 
I was in my 9th grade honors English class sleeping and my brother woke me up cause my teacher was freaking out when she saw it on tv. I didn't know what was going on at first, I seen people running jumping crying. My brother was laughing at the situation until I had to slap him and make him realize that this was a serious matter. I made him feel so bad to where he apologized to me
 
I actually wrote a term paper for my developmental psychology class last year about the negative effects of forcing children to watch the events of 9/11.
 
Alisa said:
I was in 5th grade and my idiot teacher forced us to watch the whole thing.
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I was in 10th grade. I was taking a German test. The teacher was cool, she was like my friend, I had her as a home room teacher back in 8th grade then came to the high school. We could ******** together. Either way, it was about 9 o'clock, we were all taking out tests, and some kid who was older then I was walks into the class, saying the WTC got hit. At this point no one knew if it was an accident or on purpose.

We had our TVs on because all classrooms had a TV (Thanks Channel 1 news...and Degrasssi!). As the second plane hits, the whole class was in awe. And I especially felt for my teacher, as she went through WWII, I could see he pale skin go paler. She asks, "Tyler, do you want to finish this in the hall?". I said "No, I am ok". What a ****ed up day that was. I eventually turn my paper in last, randomly making up words in German. Was machst du in deiner freizeit?

The second period of class we just watched, because we had TVs in all our rooms.. We all just watched. I wish I could remember the teachers name, or what class it was... 10 years is a long time.

The 3rd period, we all tried carrying along, as a normal school day. With the dripping of anxiety at the back of our necks, we all though it was over. Then boom, the Pentagon. It was a computer programming class, we all just sat, in that dimly lit room, watching, waiting, anticipating. 9/11 threw everything off. We all watched it unfold.

As I talk to a good friend of mine in the Marines, as she enlists.
I tell her, "****, we were just kids then"
She tells me, "Yeah, I know."

There is so much to the story but I got distracted.
 
Alisa said:
I was in 5th grade and my idiot teacher forced us to watch the whole thing. I was traumatized and had nightmares for weeks. At first, I didn't even think it was actually happening; I thought it was just a movie or something until I realized that it was in fact a live newscast.

The part of 9/11 that will always stick out to me is that as we were watching in school, some of my classmates LAUGHED at the people who jumped out of the windows of the WTC. They laughed at people who were going to die. We were all only ten or so but isn't that sick minded of them?

I still cry over this every single year. :(
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That's just sad. I was 1 when this thing happened, I'm glad I wasn't old enough to comprehend it.
 
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There wasn't much in the way of school during that day, just watching the video clips over and over in hopes for new developments. Honestly, many of the student's didn't seem legitimately concerned or afraid. They just used it as an excuse to go home early. One guy even asked to borrow my phone, which I refused. Needless to day, I was pretty much disgusted.

On another note, nothing wrong with being patriotic, but we shouldn't have to wait for tragedy to strike. Might as well be patriotic every day of the year.
 
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Well im from Portugal, but i can feel your pain, i was in the 3rd grade when it happened, i remember i had a flu that day and my teacher send me home, when i was going home i saw a lot of people running to the cafe's, i followed them and when i saw it on TV i was so scared i think i started to cry.
10 years later im 18 years old and today a got a flu again
 
I was young then.Sick that day and didnt go to school

mom leaves on news for my dad when she goes to work. And I watched it live. Not when it actually got hit the first time, but I did stumble in and watch alot of it. Pretty messed up. For the first time I relized "Hey,someone doesnt really like us and they are out to kill us" kinda warps your mind.

Some people hate every year when it gets to 9/11. They always complain how it's stupid how everyone gets all patriotic. But I say suck it up and deal with it for one day. I'm not a patriotic person at all, but it doesnt bother me when people at least stop and remember something tragic. Those people are just angsty and probably looking for more pointless conspiracy theories.
 
I was 17 when it happened. Me and some friends were done for the day at school because as a senior I only had one period of class per day. And right before we were gonna go home my teacher wheeled a TV in and told us all to shut up and sit down! We were watching this slack jawed. Trying to figure out the situation from the reports coming in. The newscaster was in the middle of explaining the hijacking of the plane and peoples terror at the first impact when, out of the corner of the screen the 2nd plane hit. I was terrified because I thought that war was going to be breaking out in the US. That this attack was just the first of many. As I left school that day with my friends and got in my buddy Jasons car we were completely silent. I knew that we were going to war and my first thought was for my brother. Who is 4 years older and in the Army: Reserves. I was afraid that if we did go to war that he would be sent over seas to fight. A veil of darkness fell that day and Ill always remember where I was and who I was with and how I felt. I'm 27 now my brother is 31 and thankfully didn't have to go to fight in the war on iraq. But its heartbreaking to see interviews on youtube taken a few days ago with men and women who are 19 and 20 fighting to protect our country. Kids straight out of high school. My heartfelt thanks go out to them for protecting our country.
 
When I got to school (I was in 4th grade), I was a little late and there was an announcement that said "Don't turn the TVs on". I didn't know what was happening, I was pretty happy myself because my birthday was the day before and I had spent the whole day playing games and having fun. My teacher, Mrs. Jenkins, tried to explain as best she could to a group of 8 year olds what had happened but only said a few things before going to teach. The only thing that I gathered was that airplanes hit some buildings in Washington D.C. (I now know what the situation entailed). And it was sad. When I got home, my mom explained everything clearly (about those who jumped out, the planes hitting the WTC, what the WTC was all about, what happened to the Pentagon, and what happened in Shanksville), while she did so calmly and clearly I could tell she was tense.

I didn't really care to be quite honest on that day (I was 9, I didn't know the weight of the situation) so I simply when to play with my birthday gifts. The rest of the day though, my mom was quiet, my dad was quiet and my older brother was quiet as my twin and I played with our Transformers and then our Pokemon games. It was a fun day for me, but I was ignorant of the prices that had been paid. Now as I look back at the pain, the anger, the confusion, and the sacrifice I wonder why no one kept my brother and I from having fun.
 
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