I had no idea what happened until I came home from school. It is so scary to think that people could do that and it affected so many lives, directly and indirectly. I don't think anyone alive that day will every forget what happened.
When one door of happiness closes another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
I was in 7th grade when it happened. I was on my way to lunch when my best friend told me that a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. I remember thinking, "Where's that?" and "No way! This can't happen!" I remember the lunch room being worked up that day because there were rumors that a plane was coming toward us. I thought it was all made up because I figured, "Why would they attack a little junior high in Pennsylvania?" Needless to say it terrified me when I found out about the crash in Somerset County, which is right beside us. Then the principal came in with a megaphone and told us what was going on and had a list of names of students who parents were picking them up early. None of the teachers could really teach that day because it seemed as though every minute there was an announcement telling which students that they were being dismissed early. So we either watched the news or just did a worksheet. When I got home I was glued to the TV. I just couldn't believe it, and then it really hit me when I went to bed that night.
I remember getting home and switching on the tv to watch kids programmes, and I was like where the ****s the kids programmes, oh, oh ****. It was kinda surreal.
Though in 2003 I did go to ground zero, that was weird, by then they'd cleared most of the debris away and it was this huge huge hole in the ground. But the thing that was the most, I dunno, it was the buildings around it which were in a complete state of ruin and you never really heard about that on the news at all.
Never forget what you are for the rest of the world will not.
Wear it like armor and it can never be used to hurt you
9/11 had a really big impact on me because i live about a half hour from the city give or take a few minutes
and my grandpa worked in the world trade center, he didnt end up going to work that day though because he had something special planned for my grandmas aniversary that day
although no one in my family died that day, i know alot of people who did
it really upsets me sometimes, one time i actually heard someone who lived IN AMERICA (not new york though) say that they didnt really think it was that big of a deal
i started to cry then
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"if it werent for electricity we would all be watching tv by candel light"
"drop the magic wand and step away from the unicorn"
I remember coming home from school and my parents were sat there with the TV on and on the screen there were the towers on fire and I just assumed they were watching a film and went upto my room to get changed. Then I turned my own TV on and was flicking through the channels and I just thought 'wait...what the...?'. Took a while for me to realise what had actually happened but it was obviously a big shock....
It's weird, at the time I didn't seem too affected by it 'cause all I was exposed to was all the political racial stuff so I couldn't really feel for the people. But now, looking at it properly it touches me so stupidly deeply and my heart goes out to anyone and everyone that was affected by it, in any way possible.
That video's awesome by the way... Although....that guy did mention that they weren't 'judging people by the colour of their skin'. Same it's not so true.... [Sorry if I'm not allowed to post that]
The only time you will find real light is when you're searching in the dark..
9/11 2001 still stands as the worst day of my life and every year after september the 11th seems to go terrible for me..bad luck day now.
I'm not strong enough to go into where I was that day/how i felt etc as it just makes me feel sick and angry and I don't want to feel like that right now..but I would like to add that March 2007 I finally visited NY and laid down flowers at Ground zero.. I wondered what the 'site' looks like today.. when I saw it they were building 'the freedom tower' and i'm sure they're still building but i'm wondering if they built today and how many flowers are there etc.
RIP everyone who died in the twin towers attack, to the firemen, the policemen and the workers.
Life can be beautiful if you let it.
Step back, breathe and take it in
i was in hospital haveing damaged my shoulder in school (i was in year 6)
and the hospital tv was on. thats the quietest i have ever seen a waiting room. i just sat there stareing at the tv, i completely forgot why i was htere, it seemed so insignificant now. i was shocked, i didnt think people could do that.
i wanted to cry but i couldnt, i just sat and watched. mum was crying, one of her freinds from school who moved out to america worked in the towers (he was alright thank god). but i just didnt understand.
i remember school the next day, we couldnt play, we couldnt laugh or talk, we couldnt do anything. the younger kids didnt understand and were scared.
thinking back, something else makes me feel a bit sick. when 7/7 came, i remember goign into school and people almost 'competing' for the most sympathy, that they were somehow more affected than others. it made me ashamed of my peers.
9/11 was a trajedy, so many lives lost. i prayed then and i pray now for the families who lost people and the peopel themselves, and hope they are at peace wherever they are now.
"I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell." -Picasso
"No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war." - Picasso
'I have scars becuase I have a past; but they, like my past, do not define my future'
I was in the 6th grade sitting in French class. Nobody had a clue to what happened, I just remember hearing "a plane crashed into a building in New York". I didn't know until I got home and watched the news that it was a terrorist attack. I didn't really understand it for a while, I just remember that my father immediately went to the store and bought an American flag to put up on our house.
I wanna stay inside all day
I want the world to go away
R.I.P. To all those who died at the hands of others.
I have just finished watching a program on channel 4 about the rescuers who climbed down into the voids in the rubble to bring people out, months after the attacks. The climbed down into the shopping centre underneath, the cars parks and the subway station, then they carried the bodies up. Truely amazing people who could do that.
Think of 7/7. Think how little London suffered when compared to America
I remember the day well, I was working in America at the time, about 20 mins from the Pentagon. I was a home school tutor and had just started working with a young girl when the nanny came in and told me I had to go and pick up my bosses other daughter from school. I didn't know what was going until I jumped into the car and put the radio on - I couldn't comprehend what had happened. I must have been on auto piolt because I have no idea how I got to the school and back again, I clearly remember seeing the Pentagon and the smoke but i don't remember driving the car or the route I took or anything.
I got home and then had to head into Washington DC to look for my boss, they worked for the state department and rumors were flying in that the state department had been blown up. It was horrid racing over there and trying to find them, but they had closed the roads off and it was hopeless I couldn't get in to find them. Luckily the building hadn't been blown up, I don't know how I would have told their children had it been a different story. They were safe and well, unfortunately a couple of my friends weren't so lucky, they lost their lives in the twin towers....
I live in a town with a major military base... Mostly I remember all of the kids who live on the base leaving school early. then I remember all of my friends and their families that had to go fight in the wars that followed and are still going on.
This still seems unreal to me, even 6 years later, I still get goosebumps. I remember I went to ground zero last year and in the middle of all the noise and chaos you go down to ground zero and its suddenly silent and chilling. Strangest thing ever.
As for me, on the day I was in 4th grade (well for me it was actually year 5 as I still wasn't living in the states) we came up from lunch and my teacher asked us if we had heard anything about what happened, all of us shook our heads and she said some planes had crashed, that is all she would say. We got to leave early that day, still none of us knew why. I got home turned on the TV saw what had happened. It all seemed so unreal to me, that day still seems like it happened in slow motion. My thoughts go out to everyone killed that day, their families and everyone killed as a result.
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