September 11th 2001 Tribute

[Meghan Corbett]

I just wanted to make a thread to see what people were doing that day. This is obviously for us American's, but if you remember what happened feel free to share your story and please watch this very touching tribute. Although I know some people think it's a government conspiracy, please keep your opinion to yourself, this is a tribute thread, if you want to argue the fine points, make your own thread.

http://www.frugalsites.net/911/sept11.html

I was in 5th grade that year and another teacher came in to tell us a plane crashed into the twin towers. I didn't really know what those were but our teacher tried to turn on the news, but our TV was broken. The rest of the school watched it, but my class didn't, I saw it when I got home thought, it was really sad.

Please share, and be respectful of other people please.

[Green Space Ranger]

i was at school, but was home watch it on tv when the second plane hit

[Legendary.]

I was in the 6th grade and we were in lunch. The principal came and took 2nd to 6th grade into the auditorium and told us that a lot of parents had called and were coming to get us. She then told us that the World Trade Center had been hit by a plane. I know a lot of us didn't know what the buildings were but then our teacher took us up to the class and told us that his brother was around that area. He was trying to get through to him. I remember not knowing what was going on until my mom had come to get me and my younger sister. She told me she got my older sister first and when we got home we watched it. We saw the people jumping out of the building...we saw the people running...we saw the buildings collapse. That's probably when I realized that the world wasn't going to be a smiley place all the time...

It makes me sad to hear the word anniversary used when it comes to Sept. 11th. I mean like I hear anniversary and usually think happy things. Like the anniversary of when my mom and dad got together or when a team wins something important. It's just me though.

My heart goes out to everyone that was effected by this horrible tragedy. And all I have to say is never forget but don't be afraid to move on.

Support the troops!

[Question]

It's my grandmother's birthday.

Kind of bittersweet now.

[Gold Ranger]

I was in the third grade, sitting in class and chewing my pencil. I tended to (and still do) get feelings when something was wrong. I was getting them then. Then they called the whole school out of their classes and into the autotorium. I didn't understand what they were saying, but when I went home and saw the footage...then I understood...

It still hurts to think about that. All the people who died because of hatred, fear...inability to understand... *shudder*

[Anahí]

I still find it hard to believe that there's people on Earth that think like that...all I can say, just like several times on that video is just "Why?.."

I was around 9 years old when this happened I believe, and from that point on my life changed forever, I had realized like 2 years before that life wasn't all just fun and games, but after seeing what happened, I mean, I can't even descrive it, you just notice how cruel some people can be, and what can really happen in the outter world.

From that day..I remember I didn't go to school, I think I was sick or something, anyways, I remember getting a call from my aunt from Costa Rica telling me to go out and look up..I guess she kinda believed that I lived right next to the twin towers or something..Anyways, I turned the tv on and was pretty much glued to it all day. I remembered, not wanting to go out because I believed that buildings were just going to fall on top of me, and most of what I remember is seeing pictures and videos of people jumping out and thinking that it's probably the one of the worst cituations anyone can live, chosing either jumping out of the window, or staying in there and getting die because of the fire or when the building falls, either way, you're dead.

It's just really sad to see what some people can do.

[RPM Green]

I was at home, i did saw second plane hit on the one of the twin towers.. it was sad. it happens when i was 19 years old because i dropped out from school two years before the world has changed on this day..

[Pinkranger]

It was like afternoon over here, finished school early that day half day so I was like oh my god, when I came in and my mum had the news on and just was glued to what was happening.

What those people did was so sick and cruel and evil, to do that you have to be so heartless inside to kill of those and cause that much damage to people, those people who did that, they weren't human at all they where monsters - thats my feelings on it.

R.I.P for the 3000 + right who died, that day changed the world for real.

[Butterfly...]

my brother´s teacher said it was the begining of World War III.... I got scared... I was like 10.... yeah.. 10.. and as I live in the border with USA, well it kinda affected me... cuz the security in the border really increased since then, and going to shopping now it takes me like an hour waiting in the line to cross... and they check you like EVERYTHING.... kinda stressing... well, very stressing... besides, when I heard teh World Wra thing... I got really worried, because of the border thing, I thpught the war was coming here too!! XD...

[Ernde38]

I just wanted to make a thread to see what people were doing that day. This is obviously for us American's, but if you remember what happened feel free to share your story and please watch this very touching tribute. Although I know some people think it's a government conspiracy, please keep your opinion to yourself, this is a tribute thread, if you want to argue the fine points, make your own thread.

http://www.frugalsites.net/911/sept11.html

I was in 5th grade that year and another teacher came in to tell us a plane crashed into the twin towers. I didn't really know what those were but our teacher tried to turn on the news, but our TV was broken. The rest of the school watched it, but my class didn't, I saw it when I got home thought, it was really sad.

Please share, and be respectful of other people please.

Here's how the story of my day went that tragic day. I was at school, in 2nd Period, 8th Grade English. A buddy of mine asked our teacher for the bathroom pass. When he was walking back, the classrooms right up the hall from us had their TV's turned on, and was watching it. When he got back, he said, "Dude, a plane just hit the World Trade Center!"

We didn't believe him, but he was able to convince Miss Rowles to turn the TV on, and just as we turned it on, the 2nd plane hit. We couldn't believe it! We watched it the rest of the class. Some of my classes had it on, except Gym class. Alot of parents came to get their kids. My mom didn't though, but I wanter her too. Just so I could go home and watch the coverage on TV.

[Ao Ultimate]

I was in the 7th grade and in math class when this happened. My teacher immediately turned the TV on and we watched and no sooner then after the buildings fell, I got called out of class. My heart already beating because not only was the US being attack but I got called out of class and I thought I was in trouble for something I did earlier in hte day. To make a long story short it was my mom who told me as soon as I got home to go get my sister out of primetime at the elementary school, close and lock doors and only answer the phone when her number came up. What scared me the most was that my stepdad was in the army at the time and was in Kosovo and we hadn't heard from him in a week. I remember crying because I thought he may've been...well you know but when he called, I felt relieved and for the first time was really glad to hear from him. I guess you really don't know how you feel about someone until its put to the test.

[SteelSpaceRanger]

I was 9 at that time, and I was off of school as I had broken my ankle. I was watching satelite tv, while I was flicking through the news channels, I happened to come across CNN. I watched in horror as I saw a plane hit a tower. Not till 5 minutes later did realise what it was. I was upset and wondered who could do something as evil as this. Now don't get me wrong, I may dislike Bush and how he reacted to the situation. But 3000+ innocent lives did not deserve what happened to them on that fateful day. And every year I hope and pray that those people have gone to a better place and that their families stay strong.

[2580]

I was 17 and in the 10th grade at the time of September 11th, 2001. I think I still had my learner's permit and I had driven my mom's Camry to school with her riding in the passenger seat. Whichever way I got to school that day, I distinctly remember not even getting to the west end of my high school building, which was right by the parking lot, when my best friend, Mitchell, told me that two planes had been flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. For a while, I was stunned and in denial until we started watching the news reports on the classroom TVs. We watched the news reports all that day, but classes continued more or less as they normally did.

Initially, I was filled with anger at the terrorists and asked questions like, "What the hell do they have against us anyway?" I wasn't ignorant of past terrorist attacks to airliners, but I hadn't yet formed the distinction between radical Islamic terrorists and Muslims from the Middle East. Hell, I don't think I even had a clear distinction between Muslim and Arab. Anyway, it wasn't until our government decided to launch an unwarranted attack against Iraq that I started waking up from my ignorant stupor. Since then, I've learned that there's a distinction between terrorist organizations and countries. If our government could've made that distinction, then maybe Osama Bin Laden could've been brought to justice a long time ago and the needless war in Iraq never would've happened, nor would plans for attacking Iran be simmering on the back burner as we speak.

Strangely, it wasn't until a little over five years later (in the early part of last year) that I officially became an Atheist and began to feel the full outrage that the hijackers had used religion as justification for murdering thousands of people. My real outrage, however, is reserved for law-abiding Muslims that choose not to speak out against terrorist acts perpetrated by radical Muslims. My bewilderment is reserved for Theists in the United States that can still believe in a god that, for whatever reason, decided not to prevent the carnage of 9/11.

[Ranger Yellow]

I had just woke up to get ready for work. I turned on the TV and almost all of the channels had the news about the planes crashing into the twin towers. After I got to work, the supervisor called us into the conference room where we had a moment of silence and discussed some about what had happened. This was truely a sad day, one that I would never forget.

[Rebelde]

I don't remember much of the day... I was in either 3rd grade or 4th grade.. but I remember that I woke up and my sister told me to look at the TV..and..yeah..I saw the news about it. It was really sad :( People talked about it at school and we had one minute's silence. :(

A very sad tribute u got there :( R.I.P all who died that day :(
Oh, and...I found a sad video as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1TVWvsiteQ

Trust me...I cried so freakin much.. it's so sad :(

Rest in peace :(

[Titanium Ranger]

I'm not an American, but I was ten at the time. Me and my family were having dinner in the lounge of our old house when it happened on the news and I have to say, it was the first news item I really watched with shock. I didn't really comprehend the magnitude of the situation at the time, but it was big news.

Touching video though. It's kind of similar to other post-disaster videos but it gets the message across.

[pandaranger]

I was in eight grade and in chorus and some one told me about what happend and I did not believe them. Later some one told me it was true and then I started to worry about my dad who was an officer in the FDNY but luckly he did not get called. The hardest part was learning that 12 men from the first firehosue that my dad worked at had died. This was hard because I had known several of them very well. NEVER FORGET THE 343.