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How did you FEEL when you heard about the September 11th attacks?
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mynamesrick
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I remember i was in fifth grade.. i honestly didn't understand how big of a deal it was at the time..
But i remember it was picture day, and on the way back to class from getting our pictures taken we saw a few teachers in the hall crying.. thought it was really weird, and then we found out what happened. Our class was like the only class that didn't get to watch the news!! i remember being really mad about that.. and i also remember a lot of students being picked up by their parents..
But i remember it was picture day, and on the way back to class from getting our pictures taken we saw a few teachers in the hall crying.. thought it was really weird, and then we found out what happened. Our class was like the only class that didn't get to watch the news!! i remember being really mad about that.. and i also remember a lot of students being picked up by their parents..
The_Thunderer
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I put angry... SAD for all the folks who were suffering and lost. BUT, as an American, I was seething inside.
I am STILL angry about what happened.
I am STILL angry about what happened.
Ricky87
New member
I personally was scared. I was young, and to me it took what I thought was the safest country in the world, turned it into what I felt was the country with the biggest target on it's back. It will forever change how I view airplanes, and it showed me just how heartless some people are. I think it opened all our eyes to the religious war still being fought, and I think because of that it created an unnecessary divide between people of different backgrounds. In some ways it made us think, and in other ways it made us react. Who's to say where America would be if that never happened, and we probably would not have gone to war without it. It's still affecting us 8 years later, and I can only hope it won't define us in another 8 years from now. Time will tell, but it will always be something I remember for the rest of my life.
v_various
secretly normal
As a Canadian college student with no TV at the time, I was confused and indifferent. I mean, not totally indifferent, but it didn't affect me any differently than any other disaster in any other country. I guess it was a big deal because things like that don't happen in America often (your home soil is relativity war-free, compared to most countries).
Mostly I remember all the journalist students being very excited, taking over the student lounge (it had a tv).
Mostly I remember all the journalist students being very excited, taking over the student lounge (it had a tv).
vetusvates
Gamaliel's Principle
I'm surprised "Angry" is not number one. It is for me and always will be.
Ricky touched upon a good point in post #24. I resent that kids, my nephews, my friends' children, etc.,...cannot experience the carefree life as a child and teen growing up in the US that I did.
September 11, 2001 essentially was the crowning moment of disillusionment, for me, that had begun with the taking of the 53 hostages in 1979 with the fall of Iran, where I lost a certain feeling of security and naivete, that I will never have again.
Ricky touched upon a good point in post #24. I resent that kids, my nephews, my friends' children, etc.,...cannot experience the carefree life as a child and teen growing up in the US that I did.
September 11, 2001 essentially was the crowning moment of disillusionment, for me, that had begun with the taking of the 53 hostages in 1979 with the fall of Iran, where I lost a certain feeling of security and naivete, that I will never have again.
Michael823
New member
I answered that I was confused when I first found out. I wasn't angry at the time, as in the moment I saw the live action, because my mind hadn't even wrapped around the what caused it. My feelings now are mostly anger, but at the time it was mostly confusion. Partially due to being young, and also the fact that this was my first experience internalizing the the horrific images on TV, and placing them in my own environment.