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  1. x0xnaminex0x Destiny Islands Resident

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    from what my mom said i was in kindergarden at that time. i dont really remember much at that time since i was around three are four. are teachers also turned on the tv to see what was happening. i do remember everyone was evacuated and there was total chaos. anyway my sister at that time was in fifth grade and me and her we watching what was all going on at home on the tv. a ton of planes were flying past us heading towards new york. from what my mom said i was so terrified that after that happened for a year straight i would always fall on the ground with fear whenever a plane would past over. all in all it pretty much scared me for life.
     
  2. Tyrant Valvatorez Gummi Ship Junkie

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    I was 6 years old, I was at home watching Toy Story after school, my mom bursts into the room and tells me sorry that she has to turn it off and change it, I argued a little bit, but then I saw the news, I never really understood what was going on and asked my mom what was going on, she explained everything to me. That's all I remember
     
  3. Bushy "Don't think. Imagine!"

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    Over here in the UK, I was in junior school. Just nine years old.

    The teachers wanted to keep it quiet so as not to upset us. But our head teacher Mr Sutton (a great Head) thought it best we were treated with honesty.
    We were called into the great hall and told what had happened. They also bought in a TV so we could see the news and understand the severity of the situation.

    My memory of it is still clear even today. I remember running out of school when we finished to the car park where my Mum would pick me up and I just remember her listening to the radio about the events and me telling her what we were told in school. It was very shocking, even to us over here.
    Even as children we could tell how bad everything was and what this meant.

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    Anyway...

    ‎9/11
    It is now ten years since that day.

    I just want to say; RIP to all of those lost.. and loving warm wishes to all those affected; family, friends...
    Continue fighting for love and continue fighting for hope.
     
  4. Maka Albarn It's called love

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    I was in the third grade in the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. I don't remember much, because there were so many things happening to me that year, but I remembered everyone being afraid and all of my classmates were suddenly pulled out of school. I was still there, and I stayed in school all day as everyone else in the school were trying to stay calm and collective and keep the rest of us at ease. I saw a lot of policeman driving down the street while I was on the playground, and tons of helicopters kept flying over us.

    I think we were scared that we were next.

    Then my mom took me to the grocery store, and I think that's how I knew what was happening. It was on TV a lot of people were upset and freaking out, I remember vaguely there was a lot of people just stalking up on food and whatnot. And then there was a rumor floating around that the terrorist spent time in Vegas before the attack, so there was a huge scare for a couple of days.

    School was hectic, no one was really there for the rest of the week except me and a few brave others.

    It wasn't till the fifth grade (two years later) that I really understood it all. My classmates and I were asked to do a special event on Friday in September on the 11th day of the month. We lined up in front of everyone and signed this song in sign language:




    Even though I was eleven, it hit me how devastating it was. I just began to cry in the middle of the song, and after we were all done, all of us were silent. Our principle was crying, but trying to keep a straight face, and she thanked us for doing it.
     
  5. The Graceful Assassin It's Just Like Christmas Morning

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    Not to sure if I qualify for posting in this thread, but I was about 2 or 3 when it happened. Only thing I could remember was seeing my mom cry.

    Also, where were you*
     
  6. Excasr The Forgotten XIII

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    Oh my God...
    Now I'm viewing a special of the 9/11... Today is the 10th year... They did a Memorial there, one of the most sadness moment was when a kid, of 10 years thanked his father, who he never even know, but he thanked him and told him how he loved him, and the best present he ever earn was the Life.
    The memorial has the name of every victims. People from all over the world came to pay homage to family... friends... those who they love...
     
  7. Kayate King's Apprentice

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    Wow, ten years ago...I don't really recall where I was.
    I was most likely with my mother, whom had seen it on the news at home.
    She told me what had happened, but I was too young and naive I suppose to really understand, but I knew that something terrible had happened, and I hoped no one was hurt.

    And, y'know, as a child, death wasn't really a concept for me. The closest thing was a dead goldfish, so I didn't really know what the whole thing was about.
     
  8. Heart ❤ Enjoy every moment with all ya got

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    I was three years old that day and I was home from pre-school because they had a field trip and I never liked going on those. My uncle worked in the city and my family was going crazy looking for him. We couldn't get anywhere near the city and the phones weren't working. All day we sent trying to get into the city and trying to get a hold of him. He had to take a taxi from New York City to my house and it cost $300. Some fireman from my town died and my uncle and grandfather who are volenteer firemen lost some of their friends. My uncle has "Remember 9-11" on the back of his car.
     
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    Im pretty sure for some reason I was off school that day.
    And I was at home with my then 1 and a half year old brother.
    Sitting in front of the TV and singing to him to try and get him to sleep.

    I am also pretty sure I said something very stupid when I saw what happened.
    As thats like my trademark,to say something stupid in very serious situations.
    But yeah.

    And I just would like to say that my thoughts are with all the familys of the people who passed away.
     
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    I was at home i think. But what was horrible was the fact that my mom had a job interview in that building the exact same day, and she was on the train on her way over there. It was so freaking sad...
     
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    All I remember of that day was that I was in school and my mother came to pick me up early due to there being a government facility that apparently may have been a target being near my school and that my mother just took me home and ate a chicken pot pie for her lunch while I ate whatever was in my lunch from school. I found out what happened a few hours later and, while I understood how bad it was, I feel bad because deep down I was actually kind of excited about it. Not because I thought a good thing had happened, but because I was really experiencing something that was genuinely interesting. It didn't hit me that thousands of humans had died from it until years later. I was, I believe, eight years old as of that last May.

    My dad also has an interesting story, which I'll paste below.

     
  12. Sanya Orussia’s 586th Fighter Regiment

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    Probably one of the most detailed days I remember in my childhood.

    I was in church actually when it happened. I attended a catholic elementary school (I believe it was my last year there, thank god cause I hated it). We were in the middle of a mass and the head priest came out asking to pray for what was going on in New York. No one really knew what he meant, not like there were tvs in the church or anything. As school went on I remember kids one by one, having their parents come in and taking them home. I pretty much went the whole day at school not knowing what was going on, being 10 years old didn't really help either. Some of the parents were crying when they were picking their kids up, and so many kids had left by the afternoon that the teachers didn't even bother teaching the few kids (me being one of them) that were left. It wasn't until I got home that my mom explain what had happened.

    The scariest thing to me, was that I had flew out of Newark airport less than 2 weeks before 9/11 and I remember my flight being delayed. While waiting in the airport we had a good view of the twin towers (world trade centers) and I remember my mom talking about her visit there and how she would like to have taken us to see them some day soon. Plus seeing the empire state building and the world trade centers when we used to go from my Grandma's house in Connecticut to her beach house in south Jersey was always an exciting thing for me. I guess actually having seen those towers many times in my childhood and then hearing they were destroyed shocked me a lot. I'm sure if I didn't know what they were at the time I wouldn't have cared at all. But anyways that whole day was just shock and fear for everyone, and it's something I'll never forget.
     
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    I was 8 years old, in third grade. It was just as the school day was beginning. The teachers didn't tell the kids what had happened, but I'm pretty sure the principal/office staff informed the teachers what happened. Being from Canada and being quite young children, we'd probably be like "the World Trade Center? What's that?" if they told us at school anyway. My mum explained what happened to my sis and I after school. Much later I remember her saying that she phoned my dad at work and told him when she saw it (she was a stay-at-home mom at that point and watched the news as it happened).


    It was over half of my life ago. It's kind of weird to think about.