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| Originally posted by Verona^My What did I think? ---> It was a just cause |
i was 14, in 9th grade french class. we were going over some stuff but my teacher, ms. bayless, turned on the tv instead so we could see what was going on. my mom called to see if i wanted to be pulled out of school, but i stuck it out.
I was a junior in college in Philly. I woke up exactly at 10 AM, walked to the living room to see the second tower collapse. I tried to call my family in NYC on my cell (NYC area code) but the lines were jammed the entire day. I had to use a LAN line just to reach my parents. Classes got cancelled that day.
When I got back to my room, one of my good HS friends IMed me since he was freaking out cuz his uncle worked for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 104th floor and has two young children. I start getting IM after IM from my old high school buddies finding out that one guy's sister is missing, another guy's father was a firefighter trying to save lives, my sophmore english teacher's son was also in the building, etc. Needless to say, it was a very long night trying to find out who was missing.
When I got the alumni magazine from our HS a month later, it listed that 10 alums from my HS died and 40-45 relatives of faculty, staff, students and alumni perished when the towers fell. 
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| Originally posted by LinX first semester at college although that day i was uptown skipping class chillen w. some friends when one of my friends got a phone call from his mom telling him what was going on we werent too far from where it all went down so like a bunch of dumbasses we actually went to check it out ... bad move ... saw some shit i dont even want to describe... after the first tower fell we all ran uptown actually we jumped in one of the only cabs left downtown and headed for times square.. we then watched the second tower fall on the mega tron (where the ball drops on NYE) most fukked up day ever.. i just remember it smelling real bad downtown like an electrical fire or something.. ill never get that smell out of my head... my brother who works in the world trade was late to work that day it was a fukkin miracle he didnt get killed. although we did lose a few friends, 2 firefighters who i know deep down saved some lives before their own were taken.. |
I was in 11th grade. We had some of those class assembly's in the GYM early that morning. On our way back, its always a little bit of playing around and chilling with the friends on the way back to class. I happened to enter to one of my friends class to drop him off, while at it I walked in to say hi to my social studies teacher ( she was hot ).. so as the morning announcements were about to go on the TV ( the school has school news through TV ).. one of the students in the class turns on the TV, and starts switching channels tours the one.. while at it, there's like this building burning and saying CNN on bottom. The teacher gets mad and says "stop watching movies!! turn on the announcements.. ".. then he's like, this is CNN!!!.. so we realized that its the twin towers, when my teacher puts a serious Face, I rushed to MY class, Engineering, and everyone is just sitting down watching the news with a WTF face.. 5 mins and the whole school switches classes. Not everyone knows about it yet, so I rush to my Math class, no teacher is there, so I go ahead and turn on the TV .. all the students coming in surprised, including me, with what was going on. The math teacher goes in sees the TV, and goes mad, but when she realices its real news.. we watched for like 30 mins, and we see the tower go down.. everyone is speechelss. Short after, we have lunch, in the cafeteria, everyone is watching silently, there's this very wierd vibe going on. So as we are watching second tower is down. Now what happens next is just parents going paranoid outside of the school.. like a mile long of cars picking students up. It was a bad day.
I was 19 when it happen and i was round a friends house and we turn the tv on and their was a burn tower on the tv which was first tower. then no warning a plane from behind was really low crash into 2nd tower, me and my mate was shocked.
I was sleeping and my mom came in my room and told me that planes were flying into New York. This was right after the second plane hit, so it was confusing as to what was happening or what else was going to happen. I went to school and all the tv's were on with coverage of the problem. Then in all my classes, the teachers went on with their lessons and turned of the tv's, so it I was discovering something new about it after every class.
i was on my way to my 2nd period class. when i got there everyone was talking about what just happened, a few minutes later one of the teachers said that another plane crashed and it was a boeing not a small cesena or something, that's what everyone thought originally.
about 20 minutes later, i was on my way to my next class and i stepped out side where we saw smoke rise from lower manhattan. me and my friend went to his house, went to the roof of 30 floor building and watched what was goin on while listening to the radio. then outa nowhere we heard the announcer scream and shout something and we saw more smoke and ash start to rise up, i smelled ash everything, couldn't even breathe.
i didn't know what to think but i knew this would change us for a long time to come.
I was in 10th grade in history/english block class. My teacher told us what happend and then turned on the TV and we watched it and talked about it. I was on the fucking table going ape shit! My school was like 40% arabs when i was there. Probably more now but there were alot of fights after that happend and alot of bad noise.
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| Originally posted by Verona^My Where was I? --> I was asleep What did I think? ---> It was a just cause |
i was studying for year 11 exams the next day
i thought the loss of life was terrible, and I was glued to the TV for a week, visually it was morbidly spectacular.
but to me it was just another terrorist attack; there have been hundreds of acts of terrorism in the last century and 9/11 was no more or less important than many other attacks on this scale
I was watching startrek or someshit at the time, then on comes sandra sully with a special news presentation. Called up my mate and we were talking on the phone while it all happened. We were pretty much in shock and taking the piss out of it all. He actually suggested I bring over a case and we have a inpromptu terrorist party. Come as your favourite terrorist sort of deal. Pretty fucked in retrospect, but was just our way of dealing with it I guess 
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| Originally posted by Jackson Wow! Could you describe a couple of the things you saw? Its fine if you cant, i'd understand...But much of the truth gets sugarcoated when things like 9/11 happen. |
Was in Science class.. about 12 years old I think? Teacher came running in telling us to turn on the TV so we did and we basically watched all day!
I was pretty fucking scared that night, couldn't get to sleep. But now that I look back at it I find it pathetic how everyone was fingerpointing right away without knowing anything.
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| Originally posted by LinX people jumping that was probably the most scariest, and just watching people hanging out of the windows trying get rescued even though there was no chance in hell they were ever going to make it ... you just felt so helpless because you know they were gonna die.. the worst was the few days after that followed like that first weekend after it all happened bc i got to see it up close .. the fdny along with other firefighters wear special beacons, or alarms rather, that go off when triggered by high amounts of heat + smoke . its an alarm that goes off so when a firefighter goes unconscious or is in need of help another firefighter can hear it and find his partner if he is unable to speak (its extremely loud) the next morning after it happened at the site (ground zero) you could hear hundreds of those personal alarms going off under all the rubble it was heartbreaking... you couldnt really tell where they all were it was just all around you as you were searching for survivors and after few hours of continuoulsy hearing it, i broke down... |
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| Originally posted by LinX the fdny along with other firefighters wear special beacons, or alarms rather, that go off when triggered by high amounts of heat + smoke . its an alarm that goes off so when a firefighter goes unconscious or is in need of help another firefighter can hear it and find his partner if he is unable to speak (its extremely loud) the next morning after it happened at the site (ground zero) you could hear hundreds of those personal alarms going off under all the rubble it was heartbreaking... you couldnt really tell where they all were it was just all around you as you were searching for survivors and after few hours of continuoulsy hearing it, i broke down... |
I was asleep actually since it was still rather early here on the west coast. My wife woke me up and told me the trade towers fell over and I just laid right back down and closed my eyes not really computing what I was just told. I started to process what she had just told me as I laid there and the gravity of what happened set in as I shot out of bed and turned on the TV to CNN. I couldn't believe it.
I was 18 and a freshman in a university in the ATL....straight off the island of Puerto Rico
it was early in the morning and one of my gal pals called (waking me up) to inform me that some plane crashed into a building in NYC.
I was like, "ok".... hung up and went back to sleep.
i totally didn't believe her.
In college, in the lunchroom, sitting about 5 ft from the windows, eating a burger and a soda (there are a bunch of TV's in the lunch room which normally are on MTV or some music channel).
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