September 11, 2011

**TacoTaru** · 2011-09-05 21:11

Originally Posted by Odon

Yeah I'm the one who's generalizing.

lol

Was a freshman in high school making up a math test. Watched news the rest of the day except (ironically) in history class. Don't care about it anymore, and all this horseshit cropping of "what you should and shouldn't tell your children about 9/11" makes me rage face.

***Shinzon*** · 2011-09-05 21:14

I'm also surprised that a lot of people didn't get sent home. Everyone in NYC got sent home unless they couldn't get home, I thought it was the same way for DC area. I mean in the US anyway I realize there's a lot of canadians on the board.

**Correction** · 2011-09-05 21:16

What I'm having the hardest time with is hearing how many BGers were in 7th-12th grade when this happened. God I feel old.

**Melena** · 2011-09-05 21:16

I was getting up in the morning for work when I turned on the news when it happened. The two things that really stuck out for me was my friend who lived in new york calling me in tears cause she was taking her daughter to the towers for the first time, and the asshole in NY who was pissed off his cd key for Shogun was not working yet if he looked out his window he'd realize the skyline would look different. Was a very surreal day at work as everyone was watching the news and making sure friends and family were safe.

**Bregor** · 2011-09-05 21:21

Originally Posted by Melena

the asshole in NY who was pissed off his cd key for Shogun was not working

http://kookyquestions.files.wordpres...orget-9-11.jpg

**Correction** · 2011-09-05 21:22

^ More or less parallels my morning that day. First place I learned about the attacks was Slashdot. Woke up all my housemates and turned on the news. We all worked at the same office so we went there and pretty much everyone who showed up was watching the TV in the employee lounge the whole day. Our CEO was in NYC the day of but was a safe enough distance away that all he could see was the towers burning, and not the carnage at ground level.

Would be interesting if a lot of sites dug up the archive.org version of their page they had up when the news of the attacks broke. Was a pretty surreal day to be on the Internet.

aduidarnenye · 2011-09-05 21:26

I was 25 years old in 2001.

I was watching Patlabor when the planes hit. I went back to watching it after the first one but stopped when the second hit and watched news for the rest of the week.

I remember thinking at the time of that R.E.M song "It's the End of the World as We Know It".

It's really strange to think that people here were still in elementary-high school during 9/11. The younger ones probably don't remember what life was like before at all. I remember be waved through border check-points and having to beg the guards to stamp my passport before 9/11. And looking through the pilot's door while on an airplane. That stuff doesn't happen anymore.

**Corrderio** · 2011-09-05 21:27

I remember hearing about it in the morning during the middle of my math class. One of the teachers was going around telling the others to turn on the TVs in the rooms. At first I thought maybe an explosion or something, but then they began talking about how planes were crashing into the towers, then later the pentagon.

Can't believe I was 13 and in the 7th grade back then. Feels like that wasn't too long ago.

**Kurokikaze** · 2011-09-05 21:28

Was in 10th grade when it happened. Not sure what the hell was going on but our first period class was extended for like two hours. We were just sitting there wondering wtf happened.

Crazy part for me was I was supposed to start an internship at a lawfirm across the street from WTC but I filled the paperwork late and had to wait a year. I started that internship 9/10 the following year. ;x

**XalienLevi** · 2011-09-05 21:31

Second year at Purchase College about 30 minutes out of Manhattan. My mom called me frantically that there was an accident at the twin towers and she was going to go check to see if she could help out, she was a FDNY Paramedic at the time. After the towers collapsed I started bugging out. Couldn't reach her on her phone and we weren't allowed to leave campus. All of my dorm mates were from NYC and the Bronx. I drank till I puked my guts out thinking my mom had died. I didn't find out she was ok until 1am. I won't ever forget that day.

**brisk** · 2011-09-05 21:35

Was in 4th grade waiting for the bus to come, so I had a good 2 hours at home before going off to school. Turning on the TV, I thought the footage of the first tower burning was just a random burning building or a movie going off. It was 5 minutes later that I realize it was one of the twin towers, then I saw the second plane hit. It was the hottest topic on the entire bus ride and school day.

But yea, 4th grade bitches!

**mallister** · 2011-09-05 21:42

was in the 2nd brigade headquarters, 3rd ID, ft. stewart, GA. watched 2nd one hit on CNN in the colonel's office. the S3 NCOIC's father was in the pentagon, did not make it out.

**Draggy** · 2011-09-05 21:43

I guess it was different for me, not being an American. I was in my last year of school back in the UK. School had already finished by that time and i had stayed behind a couple hours because my two maths teachers were awesome and taught me and this guy beatles songs on the guitar inbetween math problems after school. One of them heard the news on a radio and turned on a TV they had in their little staff room and then instead of working we just ended up watching the news for an hour with other teachers who turned up.

And then went home and ended up watching the news all night with my parents. Although it didnt affect us directly it was a very surreal feeling.

edit: also lol at my husbands post above mine. You were in the army already and i was still in school

**hey** · 2011-09-05 21:47

Lets, see...2001? I was 9 then, so i guess i was in school. Other than being asked if my parents worked in NY (actually my dad works for the port authority of ny/nj so if he hadn't taken off that day, he could potentially have been in the towers~), then coming home to see my parents silently watching the news, i can't say i remember much. Probably because nothing eventful happened.

I still don't see why people who were unaffected by it still care so much 10 fucking years later, yet not give a shit as 150k+ people die every day, a good portion of which are preventable. Oh right, when one person dies, it's just life being life, but when two or more people die together, it's a tragedy.

Spoiler: show

**Cream Soda** · 2011-09-05 21:48

Was in 8th grade. Not a single fuck was given.

**Slapper** · 2011-09-05 21:49

**jmc** · 2011-09-05 21:53

I was a freshman in high school, out on a school week long retreat on a island in the boston harbor.

The staff did not tell us til around noon the day it happened, and they only told us when we brought up the fact no planes were taking off from logan airport and only 4 F-15's were in the air around us. They would not let us watch any news, or make any phone calls.... and I had a cousin who was assigned to the pentagon at the time. Our 1 week stay on a island, lasted 2 weeks total as the coast guard would not allow us to leave the island due to the ferry service being shut down.

**barber2006** · 2011-09-05 22:01

Was checking up on my fantasy baseball team that morning to check the west coast games I didn't stay up to watch. All of a sudden the internet there at the campus library slowed down to a crawl. I was getting all frustrated and playing the 'woe is me' card for having to be majorly inconvenienced by a slow internet connection. About an hour later I found out it was because everyone was jumping online to get news updates. Felt like a complete jackass for complaining.

**Minnich** · 2011-09-05 22:02

I was in 10th grade, taking a history test when another teacher came in and said that the WTC had a plane crash into it. I honestly don't remember if we finished the test or not, but I remember watching the news in every class that day. We didn't accomplish anything in school for the next three days. The thing that pissed me off the most was the news showing some third world country celebrating and burning the American flag.

**aurik** · 2011-09-05 22:05

Was working when it happened. We didn't have a TV at work, but someone had a radio so we turned on the radio and sat around shuffling papers and listening to the radio for hours. I remember hearing the newscaster making the call when the 2nd tower was hit, when the pentagon was hit, announcing the plane down in PA, announcing the fall of the towers...

BTW fuck this thread makes me feel very old.

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