still remember the day like it was yesterday....so sad

 

yea it really was. i remember i got suspended a few days later for breaking a bunch of school rules that day. (the school district shut off the main cable to the school but me a few friends were able to bypass this and turned it back on.) so basically there was a hundred people in one classroom watching the news.

 

i do too.. i was sitting in class when it happened, but my teachers didn't have the ***** to tell the students so i found out when i got home

 

yeah they told us i was pulled out early same with a whole bunch of other people since most of the kids in my classes and grade their parents were either working at the wtc, some got killed, and some were firefighters in my local area that had to head down there, it sucks to know some personal people i know now have no mother or father, and it also sucked for me being 12 years old at the time to actually watch the towers fall in person

 

they should make it a national holiday, along with the attack on pearl harbor.. both were very devestating events in this country's time

 

yeah i think someone else here on the forums said that we dont get off for these kinda days but we get off for a bunch of dead presidents

 

I remember I was in college when it happened. No one told us anything, we had some dumb Asian lady that couldn't speak English for a stats class and she just let us out early and I walked to my next class not knowing anything had happened. At that point the 4th plane hadn't gone down yet, and everyone on our campus (except the people in my stats class) had been told they had to get back to their dorms or go home if they lived off campus. Most of Oakland and downtown Pittsburgh was being evacuated because that 4th plane was in the area. No one really knew what was gonig to happen, because Pitt has some anti-bioterror labs and the Department of Defense has some stuff somewhere in Oakland so no one really knew whether or not there'd be a plane headed here or what.

I just remember it was so hard to get home, the busses were so full of people that there were people hanging off the doors on the sides of them. I lived about 4 miles from campus and ended up just walking home.

 

i was in class too. cept just about the whole school was watching tv. every classroom had the news on, and even if u walked in the hallways it was pretty much quiet.

 

our whole high school had tvs and cable too. what i did was bypass all the securtiy **** on the school web server and we watched cnn live broadcast on the tv in one of my teachers rooms. it was bad, there was so many of us in this one little room.

 

When that happened i was home from school because we didnt start until the following week. it was sooo sad. but what sucks is that my brother is a marine and he just found out he is being shipped to iraq in january, my cousin who is also a marine has been on several tours in iraq is having a baby in the beginning of october with his wife and is being shipped back to iraq in november, and last my sister just joined the air force so god only knows where she will go after basic training. thats my little story

 

i remember, i was in the 8th grade, history class, word was spreading among the teachers that something had happend, and most all teachers had CNN going in their class rooms. all we for the rest of that day was go from class to class watching CNN, and an assembly.
and a lot of the next day watching the news as well...

 

I remember it like it was yesterday sitting in goverment class my senior year taling about the WTC bombings, when the Tv's came on annoucing the crashes...I was to join the marines(full ride to Noter Dame, my cousin recruited me) he called my dad and said he tore up my papers because he knew he couldn't give me what he had promised me(which was to finish college before i would ever leave the country)!

I would like to thank our troops!!!

 

R.I.P. The date will never be forgotten and the people who had their lives taken will never be ill-remembered.

I was a sophomore at Rossview High School and remember specifically checking my watch @ 8:23 (this was right around the time the planes hit). I wanted that class to be over so bad cause I hated Biology. When we got to our next class, The teacher was interrupted by the Principle who gave her a note. She said, "Wow, I can't talk about this but you should all check the news when you get home". So I asked to go to the bathroom and went to a teacher's class that I was really close with. I explained that there were a lot of rumors and it was killing me to know what was going on. When I mentioned my dad was military she told me. That was how I found out. And yea, I can remember that stuff like it was last week.

 

It sure doesnt feel like it was that long ago. I remember waking up to the TV and watching the news flip over. At first I thought it was overseas. Either way it was a sad day.

 

I think it's awful that there were some teachers who never told their students what happened. Even with some of my cousins who were in elementary school at the time, the guidance counselor and some members of the student assistance program came classroom to classroom and sat down and talked with the kids about what had happened and what was going on. Kids tend to be more nervous/scared when they know something's happened but no one tells them.

 

very heart warming and reminds us what happened that day..

 

It SHOULD be made a national day of mourning.

 

I agree - I am very surprised at the support given - thanks you guys I know it means alot to those directly effected.

 

RIP John.... miss ya buddy!

 

I remember getting up to go to a class in college and I turned on the TV to see a big hole in the side of the WTC... My older sister worked two blocks away from the towers and I called her over and over until I found out that she was OK.

Such a sad day...

 

I was just getting off work, and my buddy called and told me to turn on the TV... and that was the last time I got to talk to him!

 

I was in class - no work was done that day

 

Yeah I remember watching the news at school. I was a sophmore in english class. We werent supposed to be watching but my teacher knew someone that worked at the WTC. a few minutes later I got called to the office and my mom picked me up because of high security in the area and at the base (Nellis AFB Las Vegas). Everyone in town was soo worried because of the vegas strip and the hoover damn were thought to be in the terrorists crosshairs. Very sad day indeed.