September 11 - 5 years

**mattdaddy** · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 626 Location: Jonesboro, GA

so today is the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took place on september 11, 2001...does it really seem like that was 5 years (1/2 a decade!) ago? seems like just the other day i was in my freshman geography class in high school hearing about a "small plane" hitting some buildings in new york...can you all recall what you were doing at the time of the attacks?

**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

coming home from school i was in a taxi

its also Wullie's birthday today
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**EvilByte** · Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 127 Location: MA

I remember we were all in school (I was in 6th grade then) and they didn't tell us about it so I learned it when I got home. Of course, today is my birthday so that year wasn't very fun.

**Shadow** · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 329

I was going to a buddy's place when that happened. As soon as I got there, he told me the WTF-news and then almost all the time was wasted on keeping an eye on the TV.

**kaotic103** · Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 80

i remember i was in 5th grade and all these ppl started talkin about something with terrorists happened but i was lost and didnt know what happened until after school when i got home

**CrackerRiley** · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 3085

I was sitting in my freshman keyboarding class when the principal came over the loud speaker to talk about it... then we just watched the television the rest of the day. would piss everyone off when a teacher wouldnt let us watch the tv and TRY to make us do some work. but i think the work could go on hold for a bit, ya think?

**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

I actually remember this flashbulb memory. I was sitting in my mom's friend's house watching it live on UPN when it happened. When I went to my class a few minutes later, everybody was in an absolute shock. We actually got out at around noon because of the day of mourning.

When we got to school the next day, everybody was sad except for me. The only reason I wasn't was because it was my birthday...(I was in 6th grade, so I didn't really understand the gravity of the situation.)
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**Alakaiser** · Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 4154 Location: Cambridge, MA

Sophmore year of HS...in English AP. We had a fire drill, and as we were coming in from the fire drill we caught wind of the news.

Freaky, huh?

**ES942** · Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 3445 Location: Snalbans

i was in 5th grade when i heard about this. the weird thing is, i heard about it at 9:11. no joke. i was pretty pissed off though, we didn't even have a moment of silence at school.
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**DarkKnight720** · Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 1301 Location: Davison, MI

I thought my music teacher {5th grade too} was in on a secret after the school day {wasn't announced, in fact I remember saying "Whats bush talking about now?" when my mom came and picked me up and it was on the radio /end wall of text}

When we got done singing the national anthem, she said somethign along the lines of "sing louder, for a tragedy is going to hit america"

Since then I think she was part of taliban...but that was like 3 hrs after it happened...

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**COBW3BB** · Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:43 am Post subject:

I was watching the attacks happen on television in my 8th grade History teacher's class. It was 3rd period I believe. Everyone in school thought we were going to get bombed or something later on. A bunch of people went home. A sad day in history...
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**Galgo** · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 590 Location: Olney, Maryland

I was in 6th grade history when they hit. My teacher turned on the T.V. after the first one hit, so I watched the second one hit. Tehn I got sent home from school and my ignorent self said, "YAY, a free day off of school." I didn't care what was happening at all. So I went to a friend's house.
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**Squirrel** · Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:45 am Post subject:

I was a senior, in english class when it hit. I was playing gameboy, and when it happened, I couldn't stop playing it. I didn't want to look at the tv, I didn't want to see what was going on, hoping it all would become a dream. I signed up to the air force 3 months earlier to this happening, thinking, hey, easy 4 years, get some $$, start a new life.

Man how things change. Nothing like steady chemical exercises when I was stationed in Japan for two years. Once a month, we had a week to where we had charcoal chem suits, gas mask and all. On top of all this, we was inside of a secure communications building. They made us do it, so the rest wouldn't feel bad

In other news, check us out during one of the chem exercises.

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**JHetfield0816** · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2230 Location: New Jersey