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9 11 Where were you?
Topic Started: Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:38 pm (1,300 Views)
CHILL


Today is 6 years to the day American history was changed forever with the tragic terrorist attacks. Today also marked the first Tuesday, September 11 since.

So what I'm asking is where were you when this happened?

I was in class when the instructor was handed a note and read it to us. Mrs. Leo had a TV in her room, so we watched news coverage about it for a few minutes. Everyone was later sent home.

All the workers were sent home as well and every highrise in Chicago was evacuated. It was a complete mess for everyone trying to get home. The rumor at the time was terrorists had planned to attack six cities: New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle.

I remember by late evening no one being outside or on the streets or anything. It was like it was deserted except almost everyone was inside.
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CinciFan985
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i was home with my dad and gf and i made a crack that michael jordan did it at first.
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Mariners in 2009
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I was a sophomore in high school.

I remember it was like 6:30 AM and I was in the cafe with some friends before class BS'ing, then one of my other buddies came over and told us someone flew a plane into a skyscraper in NY on accident.

We spent the entire day watching TV. I remember one person in my class had a dad that was at tower two for business, I felt horrible for her, she was crying like crazy. :(

My dad was laid off at that time, and we spent the entire night glued to the TV. Then, the next day at school it was the same way.

Sad stuff... :(

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Xx Yankee xX


Well i still lived in New York. I was in School and teachers were crying etc... It was a said day but i didnt really realize what happened till like a few days after.
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NGO
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Manhattan.
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Prime Time
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Rock God, God of Rock, Tom Petty

Fifth grade. Probably the only event I can remember crystal clear from that year. I remember getting up looking at the TV then bam.

I was too young at the time to realize the effects on the economy and the whole concept of terrorism at the time, but that event changed everything. Still feeling the effects of the stock market drop off.
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Infallable
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It was like 4:30 AM here, so I was asleep.
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EViL2uCe
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Did I wake you, motha fucka!?

Waking up, and turned on NBC's Today Show. Saw two buildings on fire (thought it was a movie of some sort), dead air. Went to the kitchen, got cereal, came back, and they were showing what happened. I stopped eating breakfast.

That day my then DJ and I were going to go to Center City Philly to cop some vinyl and of course the Jay-Z Blueprint album. Shortly after the first tower fell, I tried calling him, he didn't pick up. I just sat in awe for a good 2 hours eventually watching the second building fall and hearing about the other plane incidents. When the buildings fell, seeing all the firemen running for safety, and the smoke covering the screen. I knew that there were innocent men, women, even children that couldn't make it out of the way. Words to this day can't express what I felt, or what I was thinking. They cut away to the studio, and do in-room coverage. I walk across the street to my DJ's house and he's glued to the TV just as I was. We hop in his car and turn on the radio, Power 99 (Hip-Hop) but they didn't play any music, they just took phone calls all day, I don't even think they went to commercial. They said that Philadelphia had shut down, roads blocked off, and it literally became a ghost town, so we hit up the Tower Records, that was still open and talk to the employees there, who had actually missed everything, but heard on the radio. We rapped with them for about an hour before they got the call to close early. I go back to my neighborhood, and we really didn't even feel like recording anything. We just went back upstairs (from basement) and watched the TV.

Everyday for about 3 weeks straight I was glued to the TV. I never watched more news in my life. A lot of things go through your mind, the what if scenarios, the what nows, they whys ... Pfft. I couldn't come up with the answer, don't think anyone to this day can supply a true answer. It was a heavy day, week, month, year.

That's why I can't forget.
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Infamous


I think I was in 7th grade. I heard about it on the radio on the way to school. Then in my first class the teacher turned on the TV and everyone was in shock. In P.E we ran two miles. :mellow: That's all I remember school-wise, when I came home my dad was there and we watched the news for hours.
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MetsFan4Ever


I was in 9th grade and in English class when I found out. My teacher said that the Trade Centers were attacked and so was the pentagon. Half the class was like "whoa, that's so coooo" and the other half was like "omg thats horrible"

anyways, the school didn't let us out early, so we learned the whole day. got home and watched the replays over and over. it was awesome to see the fire, explosions and collapse. it rocked. i could watch that video forever.
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