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where were u 9/11/01
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11 Sep 2009, 12:50
Mami 2 ♥ 1
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i was in my sophomore yr of high school. I was leaving my creative writing class going to my american history class. I had kinda heard a buzz and thought something was going on. Mr. Shells my american history teacher had the news on but muted and the first plane had already hit. We thought what a horrible accident. Then class started a few minutes later and we were getting ready to take a quiz. He was reading the questions and as I was not paying attention to him and only to the news and then we pointed out another plane hit. Needless to say no quiz was given after that, we watched the rest of what happened in every class. I didnt cry. I was scared. A lot of ppl went home early from school. That night my family had no choice but to sit and watch what was going on on TV. Time in the US literally seemed to stop. My uncle who lived in manhattan we couldnt get ahold of. Actually we couldnt get ahold of anyone by phone the phone lines were jammed for days it seemed. We later found out my uncle was fine he had actually walked by the towers 30 mins before the first plane hit.

I knew our nation would never be the same since then. It hasnt been.
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11 Sep 2009, 20:06
*~Loving You~*
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i was going to my 1st period and i saw it on the news... int he class room it was played all day
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14 Sep 2009, 00:52
Jessica [Private]
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I was in 7th grade, and was at school for the whole day.

The teachers never told us, and I found out about it, at like 5pm when I got home. :(
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11 Sep 2009, 13:13
& skull.
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i watched it live with my brother. we were channel flicking through the cable channels at around 11pm i think and we landed on cnn or something. the first plane had already hit. we weren't actually paying attention to what was being said, so we just assumed it was a fire and started talking about how they'd be evacuating the place. then we saw the second plane hit. was pretty messed up. we were like: "was that a fucking plane?!"
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11 Sep 2009, 13:47
Music God CJ Plain
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I was in the middle of painting a house and they interrupted a song by Kansas to announce the news. We packed up and left immediately and spent the rest of the day watching it on TV.
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11 Sep 2009, 14:05
Acid Fairy
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I realise I'm going to be hated for this, but why do people do this every year? I know in terms of scale it can't compare, but the Brits don't mourn every year for the July 7th bombings.

It was a terrible tragedy but I think everyone goes a leeeettle bit over the top with it now. I guess this is just my British stoicism coming out to play ;)

But to answer your question, I was on the bus coming home from school in year 8 and Chris Moyles announced it on Radio 1. I didn't even know what the World Trade Centers were.
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11 Sep 2009, 21:26
Miss
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we aren't mourning it, we are remembering it.
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13 Sep 2009, 07:52
& skull.
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yeah i tend to agree. you don't see aussies and indonesians going to such a scale to remember the bali bombings either.
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14 Sep 2009, 00:54
Jessica [Private]
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I completely agree with you. I think people go a bit overboard with the whole remembrance thing =/
It was sad that this happened, yes. But it didn't really upset me, I didn't know what the WTC was either, and at the time it had absolutely no effect on me, or my life. -shrug-
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11 Sep 2009, 14:08
Doc
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Home... getting dressed for work. Lets just say I didn't go to work that day. They closed the office.
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11 Sep 2009, 14:50
Makayla
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I was in the 7th grade. Wow that was a long time ago. But it was during my MS studies class. Our teacher was talking, and got interrupted by the art teacher from across the hall, they stepped outside to talk, and of course everyone started acting up, then when he walked back in, he had the strangest look on his face. He didn't say a word, but turned the t.v. on the news, and we watched the 2nd plane hit in real time. Everyone was at a lose for words. Nobody cried, but we were all dumbfounded.

One of my friends in grade 8 had an aunt that was in NYC then, and she was the only one crying because she couldn't get her on the phone and was afraid she might be in the chaos. But she eventually got her on the phone and she was fine. It was a scary event.
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11 Sep 2009, 15:14
i`m his lil bearrr.
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I tend to agree with Lady Acid Fairy. It was a tragic event, but the more we drag on about it, the more we let the "enemy" see that they can get to us. If we could just move on (not saying forget, but move on. It's been 8 years now), we could show them that we're a strong country, and their actions can't shake us.

But since you asked: I was in 8th grade, I was getting ready for school and I was listening to the radio. A week or so before, the radio show I listen to had played this elaborate prank about the Sacramento Kings (basketball team) moving to LA. (Turns out it was actually a family from Sacramento named the Kings) So they kept repeating how it was not a joke, kind of a boy who cried wolf moment at that point. But when I started to hear what they were talking about, I went to my mom and asked if I could put on the news (we weren't allowed to have the TV on in the mornings before school, too distracting). We did, and we watched as the second plane hit. It's definitely a day that I will never forget, but it's one that I hope someday we can all put behind us.
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11 Sep 2009, 15:32
Fenway_faithful
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Seeing I'm from the Suburbs of New York I find it hard to ignore it like you guys would like, my town the towns around mine and NYC the City we all love is never the same and never will be again.

I was a freshman in college. I was on the phone with my friend Autumn right as she got to her first day of work at the Towers. She got off the phone I ran to class my Professor knew what happened decided not to tell us took a quiz and then someone got a text message saying what happened. She yelled it out I handed my quiz and ran out of class my professor told me that I better turn in my paper by tomorrow morning I told her to go screw herself my bestfriend was in that building I remember walking in a daze trying to call my parents my stepfather's a dr in the City and trying to get in touch with Autumn I remember getting a call that one of my friends father was in the towers (he didn't make it). While all my classmates parents were bringing them home. There was a small crew of us from the DC area and the NYC area who couldn't go home. I remember just wanting to be with my friends and wanting to know they were ok. Just so you know 10% of my hometown died in those towers so you really want us to just leave it how do you do that??
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11 Sep 2009, 15:40
Mary Magdelene
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What about your friend Autumn? Did she make it out alive?
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11 Sep 2009, 15:41
Fenway_faithful
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Yes she did sorry I thought I put that in she did make it out alive thank god she was just getting in the elevator when the plane hit
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11 Sep 2009, 15:45
Mary Magdelene
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I am glad to hear that. I have a few friends who lost friends that day. Some were emergency personnel who were trying to help rescue people, others were family members who worked in one of the towers. If I remember correctly, one of my friends even had a friend or knew someone in the Pentagon who was killed. Every year I say a prayer for my friends who lost loved ones that day.
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11 Sep 2009, 15:37
Mary Magdelene
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I don't see how remembering the day or those who died that day is showing the "enemy" they can get to us. We honor our living veterans on Veteran's Day, we honor our deceased veterans on Memorial Day. I think dwelling on where WE were that day does deter from what we SHOULD be doing today, which is remembering those who died on 9/11/01, and the friends and family of those who died. Unless you were there or unless someone you love died that day, it really doesn't matter what YOU were doing that day.

So how about instead of focusing on where *you* were, or what you were doing, you take the time to commemorate the lives lost that day. The people on the third plane who took it down before it could hit it's intended target. The thousands and thousands of people in the Twin Towers who didn't make it out before they fell. The men and women in the wing of the Pentagon. Today should be about THEM, not about you or me.
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11 Sep 2009, 16:06
i`m his lil bearrr.
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I'm not discounting the lives that were lost, or the heroism that took place.

I just see it kind of like a school bully, if you whine and cry about it, they're going to keep targeting you. If you act like it doesn't bother you, they usually lose interest.

And I'm not saying that it shouldn't bother us or anything like that. I just feel like the more we dwell on the event, the more satisfaction the "enemy" gets from the act. Because every time we bring it up, it's like another victory for them. It's eight years later and they can still get us all up in arms about it.

*shrugs* I just get kind of tired of hearing about it. It happened eight years ago, and nothing can change that. I definitely agree that it should be about remembering the people who lost their lives, not what the rest of us were doing thousands of miles away. But why dwell, when we can try to put the past behind us to move forward towards healing the country and becoming stronger than before?
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12 Sep 2009, 00:31
Lauren.
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While I think you might have some valid point in what you're saying, I honestly don't think people discussing it in a forum on a website of less than 2,000 people is really going to let them know that we're "weak".
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11 Sep 2009, 16:53
Mami 2 ♥ 1
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The significance of 9/11 impacted everyone in this country. More so the victims/heros of that day. I think today is harder for those who physically lost someone killed that day. But i dont think there is anything wrong with remembering where u were when a tragic day occured in our countries history. I still talk to people who remember exactly what they were doing when JFK or MLK jr were assisinated. Its something I like hearing, everyone's story is different. I dont think just cuz we tell where we were on that day takes away from the signicance of what really happened. 9/11 is a now a piece of our history and we have a right to discuss where we were on that day, how we reacted, and what we learned from that day.
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11 Sep 2009, 17:02
Mary Magdelene
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I didn't say you didn't have the right. You have the right to do anything you want to within legal limitations. I just think that it's more important to commemorate the dead than it is to care what someone who wasn't there or didn't lose someone they loved was doing. I think a better way to memorialize this day would be to contribute to stories of people we know who were lost that day. Isn't it time to start commemorating the deaths by contributing to happy stories of those people, rather than continuing to focus solely on the fact that they died?
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11 Sep 2009, 17:09
Mary Magdelene
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That last part didn't sound quite right.

I understand there will always be a measure of pain at their loss. I've lost loved ones, I know the intense pain of it. But I also know that at some point in time we need to honor their memory with something better than what we are now honoring their memory with after 8 years.

Yes, 9/11 was a tragic day. But it is so much more than what you or I were doing when it happened or when we heard what happened. We can't keep focusing on this part of it.
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11 Sep 2009, 21:13
Minda Hey Hey™
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Even in something like this, always has to be some type of drama. That's not shocking.
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11 Sep 2009, 21:59
Mary Magdelene
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This isn't drama. This is people stating their opinion on the topic. No one is calling anyone names. No one is yelling or accusing or being an all-around bitch. What IS happening, however, is a decent discussion on what is important and what shouldn't be important (ie, what someone was doing that day). That is not drama.
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11 Sep 2009, 21:59
Minda Hey Hey™
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Okay then, sorry about that.
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