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Posted on 09-12-10 02:55:59 AM (last edited by Terra at 09-18-10 05:55 PM) Link | Quote
When the planes struck the World Trade Center and Pentagon, where were you and what were you doing?

I was on the school bus from 1 school to another at the time, still living in rural Michigan. I heard about the attacks in science, my 1st class of the day.

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Posted on 09-12-10 02:56:49 AM Link | Quote
I was in a class in elementary school, 5th grade.

I was utterly puzzled as to what was going on at the time.

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Posted on 09-12-10 02:57:16 AM Link | Quote
I was in study hall in 10th grade. I remember watching some of the footage when someone mentioned it right in the class room.

It was an early study hall, I believe. I don't recall much else other than the room I was in.

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Posted on 09-12-10 02:58:31 AM Link | Quote
I was at my in-laws when they lived on the West Coast of Florida. I was there for my husband's grandfather's funeral. Once the planes were grounded, my cousin and brother-in-law got stuck up north and car pooled with strangers to get to Florida for the funeral. That funeral was for his grandfather but words were spoken for the victims.

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Posted on 09-12-10 02:59:42 AM Link | Quote
It was my senior year of high school, and I had just barely gotten to school when I heard about the terrorist attacks. I had no clue what was going on, and thought it might have been China or North Korea at first =/

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Posted on 09-12-10 03:01:05 AM (last edited by Anya at 09-12-10 12:02 AM) Link | Quote
Friend and an old classmate from high school told me that one of her relatives was 15 minutes late to work that day. That person worked at the WTC.

A year earlier, around the same time, I was in DC.

Brother-in-law works in DC, wasn't there that day due to the funeral.

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Posted on 09-12-10 03:22:25 AM Link | Quote
I was out at P.E. in 7th grade (located in the middle of the empty parking lot) when the principle suddenly came out with a walkie talkie looking very concerned. We were not told what was going on right away, and we were all sent to our homerooms because school was being let out early. I remember feeling very calm about it.

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Posted on 09-12-10 03:25:35 AM Link | Quote
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Would have been one of the first days of high school... was wandering to a nearby convenience store for whatever reason when a student ran by yelling that WWIII had just begun.

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Posted on 09-12-10 05:06:18 AM Link | Quote
I was coming back from morning PE class in 6th grade. When we re-entered our trailer classroom, the tv was on with the news. We didn't really know what was going on. My mom later came and picked up my brother and I and brought us home early.

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Posted on 09-12-10 06:05:26 AM Link | Quote
I was back living with my mom in middle grade, and I was in... well, my past situations. I decided to call in sick, so I overslept.

It hits hard when you have done something immoral on such a day. x.x
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Posted on 09-12-10 06:16:07 AM Link | Quote
I believe I would've been in Year 3 or 4 at that time. I didn't hear about it until I came home and my mum was watching the news.

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Posted on 09-12-10 07:49:54 AM Link | Quote
I was in sixth form at the time, 17 years old. There were rumors going around school at about 14:45 that the teachers were watching something terrible happening on the news in their staff rooms, and the rest of the day pretty much fell apart. People were saying that the Twin Towers had been attacked, one had fell, and the Pentagon had been attacked. Those sorts of rumors in school are often exaggerated, so I didn't believe them entirely - but I got on my bike and raced home.

I reckon that was the fastest I'd gotten home from school ever. I got home just in time to watch the North Tower fall live on TV. It was something so big and unbelievable that it left me numb for a few days. I spent quite a few nights watching the news all the way until midnight.

September 12th was interesting. I had lots of free periods in school that day, so I bought every newspaper and brought them to the common room to read. I sat there almost all day absorbing information and talking with friends. That week was probably one of the most surreal in my life.


I also remember where I was on the day of the July London bombings. I was working in WHSmith Windsor, which is not far outside of London. I was working in the stock room that week, so we were listening to the news reports on the radio, like we had been listening to the radio reports that we'd won the 2012 Olympics just the day before. We were hearing that trains to London were stopping at Maidenhead, so I wasn't sure if I could get home to Reading at the end of the day. I remember there being enough police on the street to be on every single street corner in Windsor and Reading. It was amazing how many officers were around - there must have been a fair number recalled from offices, leave, etc.
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Posted on 09-12-10 08:06:26 AM Link | Quote
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I was in middle school. I didn't find out until I got home. The staff didn't want to tell the students about it, I guess.

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Posted on 09-12-10 09:02:05 AM Link | Quote
I was in Elementary School, Kindergarden. I don't really remember much, giving that I was 5. God bless those who had been in the attack. Bless them and their families.
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Posted on 09-12-10 12:23:24 PM Link | Quote
4th or 5th grade.
It's time to start the second (or first) class hour for the day, so everyone walks across the hall into the next class (Math).
Teacher is there watching the television in the corner. I don't have a clue what's going on.
The rest of the class hour is basically this. Once the hour (roughly) is over, everything proceeds as normal from what I remember.

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Posted on 09-12-10 12:38:18 PM Link | Quote
I think I was in fourth grade, I saw it on my way to school but I really had no idea what was going on until somebody explained it to us in school.
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Posted on 09-12-10 05:09:47 PM Link | Quote
I was actually on the IRC channel of Acmlm's board, when someone said that a plain flew into the WTC and I thought he was kidding. Until I switched the TV on.

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Posted on 09-12-10 05:44:52 PM Link | Quote

I was getting ready for school when our neighbors called and said a plane had flown into the WTC.

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Posted on 09-12-10 05:53:19 PM Link | Quote
My first 2 classes ended up just being us watching the news that day. Then, someone led the class in Christian prayer I was 1 of the only atheists living in a heavily religious area, and I was rather upset.

We didn't get out early. There was no way that the terrorists would have targeted a couple of tiny villages surrounded by cold-climate farmland, I guess.

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Posted on 09-12-10 07:59:02 PM Link | Quote
 
Uh, let's see... I went into Grade 12 during September 2006 (grad. 2007), so I started Grade 6 that year, my last year of Elementary before I went on to Junior High.

More than likely I was in class at the time. They mentioned it over the PA system, but I think that was it, maybe...

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