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Spider the bounty hunter Crew
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 Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 12:07 pm
wow 9 years already since that day huh...the day were peoples lives were taken and for some were changed forever
I remeber it like it was yesterday...I was in the 6th grade in gym class...just playing a game of dodgeball and when the intercome came on and told the school about the attack we all stopped...like we all just couldn't continue playing the game at all and for the rest of the school day we were at a lost for words..
so I ask...where were you that day 9 years ago?
also I know some of us might have moved on from this but you have to remeber that those people on those planes didn't lose there lives...there lives were taken away from them
so just maybe sometime today pay your respects to those who had there loved ones taken from them with a moment of silence and what not
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Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 12:16 pm
Since I'm in the Pacific time zone ... I think I was just getting ready for school that day. College that is. All the way up to the campus I was listening to my walkman and a tape of random songs.
I didn't know anything about the attacks until I overheard people in my first class of the morning talking about it. Them my curiosity got the better of me. After finding out what happened the rest of the day was spent listening to various radio stations (mostly CBC radio) ... and trying to come to grips with what had happened. At home that afternoon the tv was stuck on CNN for the entire time.
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Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 1:18 pm
I was half asleep. The radio was on and while I was hearing it I
didn't really know what was going on. D woke me up as he was
heading to college and told me what was going on. I went to
the TV just a few minutes before the 2nd plane hit. Much of
that morning was spent with my mother as we tried to contact
family we still have in NY. We both cried and screamed as the
buildings fell. As much as I wanted to stay home I couldn't. I
had to go to work. Everyone was on edge, waiting for more
news, wondering what would happen next. The nicest thing our
job ever did was let us go home early so that we would feel
better. That night my mother told me she got a hold of our
family and they were okay. But my aunt's best friend for over 20 years died.
Every night on this day I light a candle and set it outside for
at least a few hours. Just as a reminder to the world that I won't forget.
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Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 2:09 pm
I was in the fifth grade. During recess we started hearing from the teachers about the attack. I wasn't sure what to really think, being a ten year old, after all. But I come home and see my dad watching the TV and seeing what happened. It didn't really sink in all at once... I delivered papers for a good week with images of the attack to my route around the neighbourhood...
I went to Florida a few weeks later because we had planned to visit family. There was literally nobody in the airport. It was absolutely insane.
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Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 4:13 pm
It was my little brothers birthday and instead of waking up and finding my mom making birthday pancakes, I found her sitting on the couch watching tv with a look of horror on her face. She was on the phone with my grandmother asking if she should send her kids to school or not. After the first tower fell, my mom took my young siblings to the bus stop while I stayed and watched after my baby brother and ate cereal, getting ready to go to school.
The second tower fell while my mom was gone and when she got back I told her what had happened. She looked so pale, but she got me off to school as well. On the bus ride at school the kids were silent and the bus driver was cussing up a storm while listening to the radio loudly. The teachers at school all had on their televisions and that's all we did, all day, was watch the news.
When I got home my Dad was there, which was a surprise because normally he was working or was staying at the fire station like always. He said he was on call. So we watched the news some more.
That week I sold arm bands for the fire house at my school. They were 5 or 10 dollars I can't remember, but whatever money it made went to the families of the firemen who died that day. I figured it was the least I could do for the other kids who didn't have their dads anymore. sad
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Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 7:41 pm
I was in computer class working on a program and someone from the principal's office walked in and had us turn on the class TV. They set it to CNN and suddenly everyone just stopped. So many people started crying. And then they started pulling people out of class...those people had family that worked in the WTC. Being in New Jersey there were so many people affected...it was such a horrible, horrible day.
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Second_Crimson Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:08 am
In my 4th grade class. I overheard someone say something about planes crashing, and honestly I didn't really give it much thought until I got home and turned on the tv.
Yeah... I can't believe it's already been 9 years.
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 12:30 pm
I probably have one of the more unusual "where were you" stories.
I was in the hospital. I had accidently been poisoned a few days earlier. One of the nurses charged into my room around 9:00 and yelled, "Why are you still sleeping? The world's going to hell out here!" She turned on the tv over my bed the second tower had just been hit and I watched for an hour or so before I passed out again. Most of the coverage I wound up seeing was replays a few days later after I went home.
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:13 pm
Umm..lets see....I was....12 so...I was probably in school? I dont remember what day it was but every channel I clicked on, it kept talking about it.
I remember at the time I had no idea what was going on and I didnt like watching the news so I didnt really paid much attention and was more disappointed that I couldnt watch cartoons.... sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:07 pm
" I was going to school then getting out earlier. I asked if my uncle was okay then walked off and played videogames xP I was in the 5th grade soooo lol Now that I am older, me and my best friend watched 102 Minutes that changed the world and had to make quirky comments or we both would have cried. It was so scary to watch..."
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:31 pm
Reading through threads like these makes me feel old again with all of the people saying they were in elementary or junior high school...
That morning I got up around ten or eleven I think like usual because my Women's Study class was at one. I went out to get something to eat and mom had the news on though I don't think she was watching it. I stopped to look and saw the coverage of the attacks and got her attention from her typing (She's a transcriptionist for the hospital and some of the doctors' offices around town.). We watched for a bit, but then I had to go to class. We just watched the news the whole time though. I didn't know anyone involved, and I live in Ohio too, so it just seemed too far away to really sink in. I'll admit I'm a bit desensitized when it comes to stuff like this though, so the numb-like feeling wasn't a majority of shock.
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