Where were you? 9/11
 

I know everyone isn't from the United States here (but even if you aren't...feel free to join in anyway).

Where were you when you heard about the attack on the World Trade Center towers? Or when they collapsed?

For me, I was in my 7th grade language class in my hick middle/high school. I...don't think my brain really comprehended what was going on really. They never said anything about the number of people in there...I had no clue what the Towers were really except for building. I had no idea what went on in them or how many people were in there or anything. Maybe if I had...I would've cared more back then .-. -is a horrible American-

I think, in my time zone....the first attack happened like 10 minutes after school started. The second one...a half hour after school started.

I was in junior high school, I think 7th grade. We were sitting in English class and the principal came over the intercom and said there had been an attack on New York's Twin Towers. Our teacher went over and turned the TV on and put it on a news channel.

I was five at the time and not in school. My parents had the live footage on the computer and I was supposed to be asleep. I accidently saw the footage and being my age(Memory is best at 3-5 years old) it has kind of stuck with me. At that time I didn't really understand much of what was going on except it was bad and lots of people were dying. When I was older it kind of freaked me out knowing I had seen the towers attacked and destroyed, knowing that I had watched over 4,000 people die.

I was in Math Class.. My math teacher *also the history teacher* always has the news on during math and then we all watched it. the whole class.

I was in middle school that day, we did nothing but watch the tv about it.

I think the most disturbing thing about seeing this happen when you're a child (and old enough to know what is bad and what is good), is that it was the day you realized that there is something out there worse than bullies on the school grounds. That was the day most children at around the grade levels of 6th - 8th grade would come to terms that there are people out there that are willing to kill anybody; women, men, and children.

mine was literally the same as yours, the only reason i even remember it is because that was the day i found a buck-eye

Third grade. My mom woke me up in kinda a panic and made me watch. She kind of explained. I was scared more for the pentagon (which everyone seems to always forget about) cause my dad drove past it daily. I just remember that and I think we watched it on tv during class.

Edit: must've been fourth nvm. Lol cause I'm 19. I forgot. ><

I was on my way to work and curious as to why the radio station I usually listened to (based out of NY) was all static-y. When I got to work the store, and surrounding stores, were all closed, and I didn't even find out until the next day what had happened because I couldn't listen to my usual radio station.

I was sitting in my math class during my second week of 6th grade.

Making breakfast, I wasn't even done cooking but I shut off the stove and just sat in front of the TV. It didn't even feel real.

But then some friends of mine got a lot of death threats on their answering machine just because they were muslims. These people prayed with me for those fallen, they didn't deserve that hatred.

I was in either 5th or 6th grade. I didnt' know what was going on either. Except that the buildings look cool falling down I knew it couldn't really been good with people screaming and all. I had just come to terms that kids my age were capable of swearing so what happened that day was way to deep for me to comprehend. When I heard it...not sure if I saw it in school since tvs actually had to rolled in from the library. I actually remember walking home trying to say hi (in a my cheerful naivete) which only got me a loud "sssh!" from my mom focused on the tv.

@Belial: I hope they are still doing fine, your friends, Americans like to lash out like that. After Pearl Harbor they lashed out at Japanese-Americans. Even those actually born here, it didn't really matter. It's always a minority. If it had been done my Christian fanatics I wonder if it would've been the same? Probably would been considered them insane for a "a good God fearing christian" to attack a "Christian Nation". pfft

I'm probably one of the oldest amongst you guys. o.o;

I was 15 years old and in High school so I did know what was going on. I was sitting in my Chemistry class....and my teacher turned on the tv. We basically watched television all day at school. Many of the students went home though....

It was a big wake up call in my life...and I realize that this was going to change everybody's life and America for the next decade or so..and I guess I was right.

I was 7 years old and in my second grade class. All I knew was that I was getting picked up for some reason and that the World Trade Centers had been hit by planes. What the world trade centers were I had no clue at that age. I honestly did not get the scale of time and effect that it had on me personally till now. I can't even explain how I feel after knowing what I know now in more detail.

I remember. I was in 7th grade in social studies, and it was lunch period when I found out. I always went to the library because I hated going to the cafeteria. I remember the librarian watching something on tv and thinking 'man I wonder which class gets to watch that cool movie with the plane crashing into the building.' When I got back to class my teacher tried to explain to us about terrorism and the war in the gulf. A few of my friends were taken out of school because they thought that the terrorist would attack my home town next since it is apparently a banking capital. My attention span didn't last that long. Danielle told me she had gotten London something special for his birthday. Which was/is today.

I think I remember it the most since it was my first year at my new school. The sad part is that I now know people that live in NY and one of them, whose father is a fire chief.

Everyone in delaware and especially my family were scared to death because they thought They were gonna attack Dover Air Force base here in Delaware. This was so intense because during that time I lived only miles from the base. XP

I don't think you're a horrible American. You were just a kid. :\

I was in 2nd grade. During school my teacher started panicking, saying something horrible had happened and for us not to turn on our tvs when we got home. Of course, I got home and turned on the tv to try to watch my favorite tv show, only to see painted versions of what had happened in New York. (Yeah, that's right. They'd already made art about it in the few hours after it had happened.) Obviously, being only 7 years old, I didn't care and pouted for the rest of the afternoon that my tv show hadn't come on.

I don't think it's because they forget about it. I think it's because the World Trade Centers were covered more by the media. It's what everyone remembers seeing on the TV most of the time, so it's the first thing most people think of.

I was 11 and asleep ><

It was like 1am my time, i woke up in the morning and my dad explained it to me before going to school.

I lived in Long Island New York 60 miles from Ground Zero. I was in school (5th grade), we never had those parents running in and grabbing their kids, we just didn't have outdoor recess. Parents wanted to take their kids but the school wouldn't let them, thinking that the school is more safe than home.

Then when I came back from school, my grandma yelled at me for not being to get home earlier because of that incident. Then my grandma was super furious when I asked her "what is the Twin towers/World Trade center?". My school never taught us on our own buildings.

was in 6th grade taking a spelling test
a teacher ran in from the hall hyper and screaming turn on the tv and what was going on, our teacher turned on the TV for a bit we sat there and watched, then she turned it off saying something enough of that or something and tried starting the spelling test when the same teacher burst in the room saying the second tower was hit... teacher gave up on spelling test till after lunch
-_-;;

I was in the 8th grade and I remember coming to school and my teacher had it on tv and was playing the news in the classroom but didn't say what was happening. I guess at that time no one knew exactly what was happening and the entire class period we all just watched the news. I don't really remember what they were saying on the news because I ended up talking with my friends that whole time because I didn't really understand the importance of it at the time. Later that day I realized it and went out and bought the special newspaper they released for it and I still have it as a matter of fact. O:

Watching Disney...like most people who were kids back then...didn't really give a damn...Now that I'm older I wish I didn't know the truth behind it. It makes me wanna puke...I wish people would stop using their religion as an excuse to be a dickhead. Or murdered if you prefer...But it's hardly news is it?...We've had far worst things happening...the US sometimes being behind it themselves...but that's another debate. Let's just hope nobody will have to die like this again. Doesn't matter who they are. If we can all learn how to live in peace, that's better.

But I've never heard the US say it's because we're christians! That's what we must do!

Now...I have heard the US doing it for this reason: Democracy is good! Let's give these people "democracy"!

It's because of the attacks that many Americans have a stigma against Muslims now. We will remember any bad anyone does over the good they do...so says if Muslims were paying for everything-the funds and everything....we'd still remember the attacks more.

And humans can never live in peace. Until we can all be happy....which is where the idea of socialism/communism comes in. If everyone in the world has an equal amount of resources...with no one having different resources...then we could possibly have no war.