12th grade, US History. Walked in, the teacher had it on, and we watched the coverage for the whole class period. The principal even walked in at one time and sat down to watch.

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i was a senior in high school. 2nd period was about to end and they were doing the morning announcements like normal and suddenly made a small mention about a plane being hijacked but i really didnt hear much else since we were all talking and didnt really think much of it. then i get to 3rd period which was English and the teacher had the tv on and we watched the news for the entire period and the towers fell a little bit before class ended. It was truly the most unbelievable thing I had ever seen.

I was in class talking like always and then i say to my friends whoooa i've never seen the commercials to this movie it looks awesome..but then i found out it happened in real life sadly a couple minutes after :confused

If I remember correctly I was a freshmen in High School,I was going to my second hour class and I saw a t.v but all I saw was smoke and wasn't sure what it was. Untill I got in my second hour class then I heard what happended,I was totally shocked at what happeded.

School....

I was just getting ready to go into my class for homeroom when my friend came running towards me and told me a plane hit the WTC.......I figured it was just some crazy drunk in a small plane that accidentally ran into it, little did I know what it would turn into.

I was like in my 7th grade Language Arts class and the Vice Principal came in and whispered something to my teacher, she was all shocked but didn't say anything to us. Once we got out of the class, all hell was breaking loose in the hallways and billions of rumors were spread until my math teacher finally told us what really happened.

Senior Year of High School... found out in homeroom that, "They bombed the Pentagon!" ... I nearly crapped my pants, obviously... One of the many things racing through my mind: the US was just attacked and tomorrow I turn 18 and am eligible to serve in the military.

I think half of you are lying if you weren't excited to be getting out of school early. When this happened, I was originally more curious than sad--the effects didn't really register until the towers fell (about an hour after they hit).

 

I remember everyone---EVERYONE--in my high school just being mellow and normal, as if it were early release or something. My friend offered me a ride home, and we stopped by his mother's office at the UF building in David (College Ave, near Nova). After seeing her, I finally felt the gravity of the situation. Mind you, this was nearly 2 hours after the news spread across school.

 

My friend dropped me off at my house afterward, and I was watching tv for a few hours until my parents got home.

 

A lot of you don't really remember your first reaction because you know now what you didn't before. I guarantee you that many of your first reactions (those in middle and high school)were that of curiosity and joy to leave school.

 

I'm not saying that everyone was being disrespectful or naive, but judging from a sample size of nearly 2 thousand people (school), the general attitude wasn't sorrowful or mournful until much later in the day, when the details and specifics were released.

 

So what I'm trying to say is that while many of your sob stories would make unique and tear-jerking documentaries, I don't think I believe most of the accounts stated in this thread.

 

However, I know that all of you (myself included) look back on this day with sadness and despair, knowing what we know now. Truly, FDR's Pearl Harbor sentiments would fit exactly with 9-11.

I was in 6th grade, taking the easiest class ever for me, Hebrew. We were doing a test on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet when someone ran and got our teacher and told her to turn on the tv. And then we saw it. We were the first class in the entire school to hear about it. I broke the news to my math teacher the next period as well...

 

 

I have some connections to it as quite a few of my mom's friends were in the Twin Towers that morning. As well as my mom's coworker's wife's friend from her childhood, was the copilot on the United Airlines flight that hit the Twin Towers.

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I was watching '9 Innings From Ground Zero' and I believe the daughter of the pilot was in it (same plane, I don't know?).

 

Even though your connection seems thin, I can't begin to understand what it's like to 'know' someone who may have been involved. It probably puts things in perspective, big time. I wonder how many others in this forum have such connections...

well lets see....

 

 

i got up and saw that a plane hit the first tower.

 

 

i was like wtf and went to class. i was rolling through the university center and saw people huddled around the tv in there which was odd cause there isnt really one there but was like...so what and went to class.

 

 

well it turns out that class was cancelled because of this, went back to the university center and then learned that it was a second plane that hit it and all hell was breaking loose. so we watched it for a few hours, learned that all classes were cancelled and then had a mass at noonish.

 

i think i actually left campus later than i usually leave campus and only because if we didnt live on campus we were being thrown out.

 

 

the part that sucked is that i have a couple of good friends from israel who endured a ton of s*** as a result of that event and it was truly unfortunate for them.

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Wow, got a story?

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Wow, got a story?

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I made a post in my blog about my "memoirs" of the day here.

Matt, I am printing out your story so I can read it in the train on my way home. I'll comment on it later.

I was at working listening to Toast on Zeta (Drowning Pool's "Let the bodies hit the floor" just finished) and he came on to announce that some kind of a plane had struck one of the towers of the World Trade Center. So I really didn't think much of it at first because I remember that a plane had once hit the Empire State Building. About 20 minutes later I heard that a second plane had crashed into the South tower and immediately ran into the break room to turn on the tv.

 

 

I spent half the day watching that tv and listening to my radio in the back and remember saying that there was no way that those buildings would come down. I watched as the South Tower collapsed and remember not being able to watch any more for the rest of the day.

I was in college and in the middle of a road trip ... we had turned a truck into a shark and were driving around hitting Jimmy Buffett shows ... went to a show on tuesday in pittsburgh, thursday in camden and then made out way to toronto on friday ... drove to cleveland sunday morning to watch my seahawks open the season at the browns

 

went out monday night and stayed out kind of late ... i woke up in the morning and hoped into the shower ... i heard my roomate cursing about something, so as I get out of the shower I ask what is going on

 

he states that the trade center seems to be on fire .... he then hops in the shower and I watch the news to see what is going on and hear one of the guys talking about how the towers were designed to take a plane, but apparently this wasn't the case

 

didn't take long after that to see the magnitude of what was going on

 

cleveland was evacuating it's downtown businesses and our hotel was offering emergency accomodations to people there who wouldn't be able to fly out

 

we hoped in the truck and watched coverage on a big screen in downtown cleveland ..... then we started to drive to Indy for the tuesday show ... just south of canton we realized there would be no show and it would be best to go home

 

so we hauled back up and through PA to Philly .... was eerie there ... the city was silent, helicopters flew over it .... something I'll never forget

 

my company at the time had offices in NY and I worked for a trading firm, so we definitely had a huge impact from this

 

i'll never forget that day and how calm people were in cleveland ... our valet even stopped on his way to show us our car (traffic was gridlocked so we just got it from the garage) and he stopped to carry a wounded bird

 

craziness