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Why not have a 911 thread, I suppose
Drew-B
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I was in high school, sitting in the far left row, second seat from the front when I was told of the attacks.
There's this speech that I've always appreciated:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2001/september-11--2001
Here is Letterman his first night on the air after the attacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xut56q77GK0
I'll spare you the iconic photos or coverage of the tragedy, but I figured a thread should be made. I sort of came to this conclusion tonight after realizing that 9/11 and the election of a black president are the two events in my life thus far that have that sort of "Where when and what you were doing at the time" effect to such a significant degree.
There's this speech that I've always appreciated:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2001/september-11--2001
Here is Letterman his first night on the air after the attacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xut56q77GK0
I'll spare you the iconic photos or coverage of the tragedy, but I figured a thread should be made. I sort of came to this conclusion tonight after realizing that 9/11 and the election of a black president are the two events in my life thus far that have that sort of "Where when and what you were doing at the time" effect to such a significant degree.
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Whatever my dad's show was at the time was on hiatus and he was sleeping in
I was ready for school and turned on the tv, saw it happening
I didn't really get it
My mom walked by and her eyes got big and she gasped
And she ran in to tell my dad
And I went to school, and no one really talked about it
my school didn't even let out
and my photography class said we didn't need to show up if we didn't want to for like a week
she nevers watches TV, especially in the living room, unless it's something bad
I don't think I was old enough to really understand
I was in high school when this happened
you freaking kids
I had fucking football practice afterward, even.
I didn't get home until 5:30 to finally watch some coverage of what had happened. They had TV's on sporadically in my school, but most of them were half static as there was no cable and no antennas.
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I was in some sort of computer class, I can't remember the specifics of the class, but we were the first to know in our school because 90 percent of all class time was wasted on the internet.
Also because I live outside D.C. the pentagon attack was more prominent at the moment, as we could see the smoke from school. Also I knew people who worked there.
haha I was in 6th grade
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wook aren't you like
2 years younger than me
same here
except at school we watched on tv and our teacher explained what was happening
Seeing that thing about teaching 9/11 to kids that was posted in the other thread has made me realize I'm going to want to slap the shit out of a whole lot of youngsters in the near future.
Our TV reception at school was shit. I can't even remember what we did that day, but I do remember making fun of the kids from the high school down the block because they got let out early.
I bet Bush is doing this, that trickster
I was in my sophomore year of college
so maybe if you're really slow, yes
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i still remember being on the phone with a co-worker who was sick at home watching the news, as the second plane hit.
dang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPTsC5oeF2M&feature=related
I don't care if you're a republican or democrat...man that was a pretty powerful moment.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmQ-ecGGcjQ&feature=related
You can poke fun...but I don't even tend to shed tears at funerals, and this moment definitely brought a tear to my eye. People everywhere here were just going nuts outside.
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But it didn't really process how many people worked there, how terrified they must be, why and how the planes crashed, how the families must feel, or its significance.
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The teacher tried to keep teaching. I don't think anyone paid attention. In the rest of my classes (we had block schedules, so we had 3 long class periods) we just watched TV.
Edit: I'm not gonna lie, some of you all are making me feel old. I'm only 24, dangit!
nobody had any fucking idea what was going on and we had announcements at the school about possible bombs at such as the white house and capitol building
probably the most surreal day I'll ever experience
I didn't even find the forums until I was 22
i was like That's not good!
then i went to see if pokemon was on and it was not, then i switched the channel back to show my mom
Funny, she was watching TV on a whim that morning. If it hadn't have been for that, I likely wouldn't have known until I had returned to Seattle a couple of days later.
Quite frankly, I hope so. The only things I can imagine that are worse would be, suffice it to say, very bad. For everyone.
Besides you are three hours behind me it's not like you were watching it live.
He came back and said, "They didn't have any weed so I had to buy a rock of crack."
Then we were like aw for fuck sake.
Then he was smoking crack all night. He woke me up at 5 am and said, "A plane just hit the world trade center."
Fucker always came back with crack.
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
and our coach was all "fuck that. you keep on doing what you were going to do anyways because the fuckers that did this want you to freak out over this crap, that's why it's called terrorism" and then he was like "go run some miles or something"