Official: What was Sept. 11th like for you? - Page 3 - Eternal Allegiance

ManSlippers · 09-08-2002, 11:30 AM

All I know is that I'm addicted to the FOXNews Channel. It stays on in my room 24/7.

midnightman · 09-08-2002, 11:34 AM

Heh, I remember that topic too Sting.

I remember this like it was yesterday as well. I got up around 9 AM EST, and as usual went to the shower. Then my mom opens the door to tell me something, which always pisses me off, because I need a moment's peace in the shower. And it is always something that I don't care about.

So she breaks in and says "AARON. I have some bad news." I rolled my eyes. "Two planes hit the twin towers and one hit the Pentagon." "Ok".

Some reaction, eh? I didn't make much of it. The news is always sensationalized..making big deals over nothing. And my mom usually just adds to it, so I thought little of it. I came out and got dressed and watched the Today show. They were showing the helicopter view of the two buildings smoking like Hell. Then Matt Lauer said something, and I can remember it exactly:

"Now, it seems as though a part of one of the towers has fallen...?"

You couldn't really see it because the south tower was behind the north one. I think they eventually figured out that it fell. I still didn't really think much of it. I don't know why. I started to though.

As I got to school and met my friend he came up to me and said "The second one is gone." And...I thought a little more of this. I didn't think "war" because the Oklahoma Federal Building bombing was thought to be the work of bin Laden but it was not, so I wasn't just about to jump to conclusions.

In Chemistry class outside of the room people were spreading the word. I never heard the phrase "World Trade Center" used so many times at once before. Then when we went inside the teacher talked to us about it, and said that he probably wouldn't be surprised if we went to war over this.

In my other classes it was much of the same: radio and TV and talk were what dominated the day. I remember talking to my mom on the way home and calling her full of shit when she said that they had actually caught the plane ON FUCKING LIVE TV hitting it. I came home and turned on the TV and watched in utter shock and disbelief as I saw it slice right into the building, and then it didn't explode right then, but it went it and just stayed there for a fraction of a second. It was the eeriest thing I had ever seen.

THAT image is what conclusively propelled me into the state of shock.

I asked my dad how we can go to war if the next war was supposed to be "push-button, world ends" nuclear style. He didn't know.

The incident and the images that have been etched into my brain only compounded the beginning of when I really started questioning nearly everything and realized that nobody is right. I have had three 9/11 related dreams since, none of which made sense.

I know my country is not perfect by any stretch of the meaning, but I wish my government to do everything it can to kill all those who did it and plan on doing it again.

BeBritney · 09-08-2002, 11:50 AM

I remember it so well. I was in study hall last year doing homework from the night before

when one of the monitors in the room turned on the TVs. I was like, "Why are they turning on the TVs? Uhhh" cause they never do that. We all looked and saw the first plane hit and honestly, nobody knew it was the WTC. Then once we did realize what it was, everyone was just like, "Oh...My...God." The principal came on the PA and was all, "As you've probably heard or seen, the WTC has been hit" blah blah blah. During the rest of the day we all watched CNN and stuff. At the time, I was really pissed. But to be perfectly honest, I didn't realize how serious it was. I mean, we've all been raised without seeing anything like that ever. It finally sunk in a little later, but I still am in shock that the WTC isn't there anymore. I always wanted to visit and now I never can.

phatkat · 09-08-2002, 12:02 PM

afterthought:

sobering.

that's the one word that sums up 9/11 for me.

PastyHusty · 09-08-2002, 02:16 PM

Before 9/11/01 if you had asked me what the World Trade Center was then I would have been confused. I honestly didn't know what it was at all.

I was in the kitchen washing up dishes when I first heard what had happened. I had the radio on Radio 1 and was listening to Mark and Lard (comedy duo) and they announced the news at 2:53PM. My first though was 'What is the WTC?'. I didn't know what it was but I could tell by the sudden somber mood on the radio that this was a bad thing. Until I heard the news that a second plane had hit I thought it was just a rare accident. After that I knew it must have been done deliberately.

After I had finished the dishes I went immediately into the lounge to turn on the TV. The images I saw on there were like something out of a movie. It didn't really hit me that what was happening was real until later on. Watching those towers fall was the worst thing I had ever seen on TV.

Midnightman - I too hope your country can kill all the people behind this. They don't deserve to live.

BritGrl · 09-08-2002, 02:49 PM

I knew what the WTC was but I didn't refer it to WTC I usually just said, Twin Towers,

I didn't really know what was going on at first either, All i heard was my principal on the annoucements, and the class was liek huh? wut? The teacher, almost started crying she sliek everyone stay calm. Just stay calm. So I left school, turned on the Tv, and was like Oh My God.

My mom got home from work, my lil sister who was 10 at the time, was liek did you see what happene dmom? My mom was liek yes this is serious. She was liek you realized you just witnessed something, which will be in history forever? You can say to your great-grandchildren, you lived to see it happen. This means war you know? The world is going to change for you. She was dramatized, i was like, oh god, I watched the news, everytime I did, I started crying, I cried my self to sleep.

My city, took in 2500 ppl flying around in the US that were in the air that day. Every hotel was booked, Dveryroom. Filled with Americans, flying into Canada.

That was the rest of my day.

PastyHusty · 09-08-2002, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lil' Britney
I knew what the WTC was but I didn't refer it to WTC I usually just said, Twin Towers.

I didn't even know it by that name. I never knew what those buildings were until they fell down.

midnightman · 09-08-2002, 05:03 PM

I sorta knew they were there, but never paid too much attention to them. And when I recently went through my 8th grade DC/NY trip photos and I saw them in four or five of them, it was like "yowww". That entire region, which I had seen over and over again, was right there, untouched...those pictures still seem like a fairy tale, like you went to the Wizard of Oz's place and took pictures and brought them back.

BritGrl · 09-09-2002, 02:18 AM

I know how ya feel.

I went to Minneapolis that August and I bought a New York shirt, which had the two buildings on it.

I was like. Good thing I got this.

Meighan · 09-09-2002, 12:13 PM

Uhh, I got up as usual. Went to school and in music class my teacher came out of his office and said that there was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Everyone sorta stopped playing and we were like "are you serious?" So then the next class I was telling people and they were like "oh shit" So at lunch I called my mom at work to see if she was OK and tell her what happened. My sister had already called her, but oh well.

After school on my way home I met up with my friend, Tyler, and we were talking. We couldn't get Osama bin Laden's name right. We were trying to say it right.

Then when I got home my mom was sitting in the living room watching TV and was just sorta in a daze looking at it. I sat down and was watching too.

My eyes sorta got teary and my mum was crying quietly.

For weeks afterward the same footage was on TV. I gave up TV for a few weeks because I didn't want to see the buildings falling or the people running or jumping out of them.
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And now almost a year later I find it impossible to say Bin Laden's name incorrectly. I'm still sick of watching TV and hearing about it. Especially now with all the memorium and stuff.