Were you old enough to remember 9/11???

Question

i do, even though i was only in first grade. i remember watching the news with my parents. and how they announced it at school and we were like praying (i go to a cathoic school) lol!

how do you remember septemper 1th?

Answer 1

I was in bed and a friend called to tell me to turn on the telly...

Answer 2

I was in year 6 and it was huge news even in England

Answer 3

I was sitting on my grandfather's lap at the time. I was sick and I stayed home from school that day. My grandfather was a decorated veteran of the korean war and I never saw him cry, but I remember that one day we were sitting down and one lone tear trickled down his face. I will never forget the look on his face. That same day he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, and the doctors said he only had five months to live. He said that he would live to see the 1 year aniversarry of the attack and he did. He died on the 22 the next year.

Answer 4

i was about 6 or 7 and i watched the i think a recording of it on fox news or somethin and was like wtf

Answer 5

I was in first grade too! I went to a public school . We cam in from reccess and our teacher was watching it on the news. She told us but I didn't understand what was really happening until my parents told me.

Answer 6

Yes I remember it. I was 13 and on the way to school my dad turned up the radio just in time to hear them reporting the first crash, closely followed by the second. It was a very strange day -- we all still had to attend our classes and take exams (which I failed for lack of concentration).

There were scares that went on into the night of possible further attacks in other big cities across the US. Because I lived in the Atlanta area I felt very paranoid for the following days.  

I know that there have been horrible disasters in other parts of the world (and many with more casualties), but September 11th was a very shocking and heartbreaking event that won`t soon be forgotten.

Answer 7

I was working for an oil company in Chicago on the 57th floor.

The evacuated the building but my group had to stay to allocate fuel for the whole country.

I didn't leave until after midnight.  The city was eerily quiet, like I was in a movie and didn't know it.

I will never forget the fear we all had in trying to reach each other.  People we cared about were traveling and trying to find them, were they on a fateful flight?  did they get rerouted to Canada?  

Phone lines were jammed and it took days to place a single call.

If you didn't live it, you can not fathom the fear we all had.  Minute to minute we all lived in absolute terror that our buildings would be like the ones on the East coast.  That they would do something else, more horrific.

For months we truly lived in fear.

Answer 8

i was in year 4, i was 10, i wioke up and walkd up to the kitchen 4 breakfast and my mum told me that there was an accident in new york nd i was like :O

Answer 9

I was 22.  I sat at home all day and watched the news.  I will never, ever forget that day as long as I live.

Answer 10

i was at work like four blocks away from the towers. it was absolutely petrifying.

Answer 11

Yeah I was in 6th grade, I remember me and my mom went to the supermarket a few nights after it happened and we looked in the sky and we saw all the smoke and im still in awe by that, ( i live in queens)

Answer 12

yeah i was in first grade as well,

i remember that we were in like finger painting,hahah

and i remember that little by little everyone in my class was being picked up from school and my friend monica and i were praying that everybody would get called to go home....and we did,my mom was all scared and didnt know what was going on then we paniced and went to watch the news and it was all crazy, since i live in houston, we tought they were going to hit the port and the refineries all around us, but they didnt..........

so....yeah, thats wat i remember.........

Answer 13

Wow...1st grade? Seriously...!?.

Well.. I was in 6th grade...I remember being in 'Language Arts' class..we were silent reading. They announced it over the loud speaker..but they didnt explain it well at all..No one knew what happened. We (all the kids) thought a plane accidentally crashed into them..

But then I found out at the end of the day in Spanish class what really happened.

Answer 14

I had just finished checking the airfield lights at my base in Alabama. I heard someone flew a plane into one of the towers so I went back to the shop. By the time I got there I saw the second plane hit the other tower and everyones jaw dropped in shock. After that we went on lock down and secured the base.