Where were you on 9/11?

[Iosa the Invincible]

I was in 6th grade on the bus to school when I first heard about it. It wasn't until I got the my classroom that I actually saw footage of it, since my teacher had the classroom TV on. I heard later that the principal actually told teachers not to have the TVs on (which is understandable for the lower grades), but I guess since we were 6th graders (making us the oldest students in the building), our teacher felt different.

I also remember that the principal made an announcement about it the next day.

[Napoleon the Clown]

I got to school and found out about it. We did, of course, spend the rest of the day watching the news and stuff throughout all the different class periods.

[Amaranth]

Sept 11, 2011 11:48:57 GMT -5 erictheblue said:

I'm older than you.

I think we both count as senior citizens compared to this lot.

[DeadpanDoubter]

Come off it, you geezers.

[Amaranth]

This isn't completely related to the attacks that did happen, but by the end of the day, my town was pretty panicked. We live @ 20 miles from a nuclear plant that had been making the news lately for failing safety inspections. Some of the projections said that a disaster could send out a cloud that would cover a lot of area including...You guessed it. New York City.

Again, I'm not entirely sure these estimates are truw, because there are a lot of shitheads down here that break down into one of two idiotic groups. Idiots who are pro-nuclear power all the way and will deny the safety reports that VY failed, and idiots who are anti-nuclear all the way and don't mind LYING for scare value.

I wouldn't put it past the latter to make this up to scare people, but it did come out pre 9-11, so it wasn't like they were deliberately cashing in. Yet. Still, by the end of the day, the communit had kinda taken it as fact. Bad security+possible large population centers affected=ZOMG the terrorists are coming!

They even had the post office's front parking spaces blocked for a week or two. Because I'm sure bombing a mail room that can't even service 5 people in ten minutes is key to their takeover plans. And while I mock, some of the paranoia came from somewhere. There are a lot of people who live here, vacation here, etc., that used to or still live in NYC or Boston. We have a lot of ties, a lot of friends and family, a lot of stress when something big happens. It's not surprising we went a little crazy on the local level.

[Amaranth]

Sept 11, 2011 15:35:21 GMT -5 DeadpanDoubter said:

Come off it, you geezers.

Why you little whippersnapper...I have half a mind to take you over my knee....

[verasthebrujah]

You'd probably break your hip trying.

[maanantai]

So it been 10 years already... wow. Time really does go fast when one get older. I remember being at home and doing my homework and just checking what was on tv, when live broadcast caught my eye. I had just texted a friend about it, when the first tower collapsed. I remember being upset, and fearing that all hell was going to break loose around the world.

Next day, on the other hand, when our class was visiting near by militarybase, I was readily joking with the guys about hijacking the plane during the small tour that we were about to have above the nearest few cities (right next teachers who were discussing with our pilots and guide, who surely heard us...) We had that flight. We laughed when we went past "good places to hit with plane" pointing at them. *sigh* I still don't know what to think about it.

[brandonl337]

I was ten, my school had told the teacers not to tell us it had happened, and for the most part they didn't. I only found out when my music teacher sat us down and told us that he/she isn't allowed to tell us but the they thought we deserved to know, and told us about it. I believe this was after the towers had fallen, or at least after both had been hit.

I'd seen video of the towers collapsing/post hits, but i'd never seen the hit itself, and i didn't see it until some time this year, when i got linked to some truther vid on youtube, which had it several times from different angles and repeated. I immediately closed the video, then when to the bathroom and tried very hard to not throw up, I succeeded, but was pretty shaken up for the rest of the day.

[DeadpanDoubter]

Sept 11, 2011 17:17:40 GMT -5 verasthebrujah said:

You'd probably break your hip trying.

That's not the only thing in that situation that'd break her hip.

@brandon: *hugs tight* I've never had that sort of visceral reaction to anything, but I feel for you...

[Amaranth]

Sept 11, 2011 18:50:02 GMT -5 brandonl337 said:

I'd seen video of the towers collapsing/post hits, but i'd never seen the hit itself, and i didn't see it until some time this year, when i got linked to some truther vid on youtube, which had it several times from different angles and repeated. I immediately closed the video, then when to the bathroom and tried very hard to not throw up, I succeeded, but was pretty shaken up for the rest of the day.

Truthers in general piss me off because of what I saw. And it only gets worse when they show it over and over, in slow mo.

Sept 11, 2011 18:52:20 GMT -5 DeadpanDoubter said:

That's not the only thing in that situation that'd break her hip.

If I'm to die, it might as well be from a fractured pelvis.

[Mlle Antéchrist]

Sept 11, 2011 13:18:26 GMT -5 MaybeNever said:

Happily - I guess - it was actually slightly fewer than 3,000 people who died, including the hijackers. And you're right that we aren't equipped to handle millions, which frankly makes 3,000 a far worse number to think about. Because we can handle 3,000. We've seen 3,000 people together at the same place before.

For some reason, I thought it was closer to 5000. I want to say I'm relieved, but 3000 is still a lot of people. Of course, even one person being killed by terrorism is too much.

[anti-nonsense]

I thought it was slightly *over* 3,000 people.

[Mlle Antéchrist]

Wiki says 2,996.

[MaybeNever]

Early estimates were 5-6000, which I think is the number that stuck in the general consciousness.