<p>Story time. Sort of like how all my grandparents talk about where they were when the heard about Pearl Harbor.</p>
<p>So I was chilling in my 4th grade classroom. Teacher comes up out of the blue and says a plane accidentally flew into the World Trade Center in NYC. I'm thinking to myself, "How the **** does a commercial jet fly into a building. Was the pilot blind?" Then like 45 minutes later the teacher says another plane crashed into a building and she seemed upset. A few minutes later the whole school gets called into the chapel (obviously not a public school) and there was a little spiritual thing or whatever. A bunch of girls were crying and stuff. After that we got out of school probably around 12. I went home and watched like 10 straight hours of CNN with my family.</p>
<p>The weirdest thing about it all was it didn't upset me at all. Don't call me a terrorist or anything but to me I actually found it sort of fascinating. Seeing the buildings fall and other videos non-stop. I wasn't like happy but I had no connection to anyone that was killed or injured so I didn't feel pain. And I'm not the crying type. Like I never cry. I just stared at the TV all night. Very weird. Probably didn't sink in. I think I was at the perfect age for it. Not old enough to truly understand the magnitude of it but not young enough to not remember. I will always remember it and never had to deal with the pain and fear older people felt. And I looked at it in an optimistic fashion. Think about it, the terrorists just pulled out their A game and that is what they did. That is the best they can do. Kill a bunch of people and take down some buildings. But that's it. It's not happening again and we are much safer now.</p>
<p>4th grade. Kids were being taken out of the class room. no one had an idea why. Principal/administration informed the teachers first. Brought us into the gym/auditorium and told us what happened.</p>
<p>My mom worked about two blocks away from ground zero, saw everything, she had to take the ferry back home. I thought it was pretty cool that she actually saw it, lol. I really didn’t know what was happening, but my mom knew a few people who died.</p>
<p>Yeah it was obviously a lot harder for New Yorkers to take. But I think you were probably just young enough to not really feel much emotional pain. </p>
<p>I remember watching the videos and thinking it would have been awesome to run from the smoke clouds. </p>
<p>Did anyone here from NYC actually see the buildings fall?</p>
<p>The funniest was everyone looking outside when our school told us. All the kids were like “OMG I see smoke!!!” What a bunch of bull, sure we’re 15 or so miles away but you can’t see ****.</p>
<p>4th grade. Teacher seemed all shaken when she got a call from another classroom. She closed the door, locked it, and tried to continue teaching. My parents keep me very sheltered, so when I got home all I saw were a few glimpses of the television of people in Afghanistan cheering, that is all I saw until a few years ago when the Discovery Channel did the reenactment, and I actually saw the videos of the planes flying into the building.</p>
<p>People in Afghanistan cheering? ■■■■■. I need to see that video. (Not to be insensitive.)</p>
<p>And watching those reenactment things are pretty neat. Especially the ones that give you the minute-by-minute updates of events. Show the plane tracks and other such stuff. </p>
<p>I sort of have to question the terrorists’ strategy. Why didn’t they go after the White House first? That clearly would have been the worst possible thing. Sure more civilian deaths in the WTC but Americans would’ve freaked much more to see a shredded White House with the possibility of the Pres dying and other high ranking officials. We are lucky they went after NY first. Even if the plane destined for the WH wasn’t overrun, jets would’ve shot it down and the White House was cleared.</p>
<p>I think I was in 3rd grade. Nobody really told us what was going on. (My brother was in middle school, and I think they told them what happened.) I don’t remember if anybody left early, but I didn’t. I just remember getting off the schoolbus and my brother came to my bus stop and told me. I didn’t even know what the twin towers was then. I just remember watching many, many hours of television afterwards.</p>
<p>I remember President W. was incognito for hours.</p>
<p>I remember that 17 of the 19 terrorists were Saudi.</p>
<p>I remember the only non-military plane flying later that day was the one evacuating bin Laden’s friends and relatives.</p>
<p>I remember tradegy becoming a rationalization for a twisted personal revenge war against Iraq.</p>
<p>I remember the pursuit of bin Laden being neglected as our resources were squandered in other areas. </p>
<p>I remember the terrorists making us the thing they claimed we were with the complicity of the worst President in the history of the United States.</p>
<p>I remember America. I remember who killed it and it wasn’t the terrorists, it was the neocons and the far righteous.</p>
<p>Do you deny the factual truth of anything I said?</p>
<p>I am tired of even trying to be polite. I get in peoples faces in person and berate their conservative stupidity.</p>
<p>Ann Coulter is at best a pseudo-intellectual and Rush is a barely educated demigogue.</p>
<p>I am not some touchy, feelly bleeding heart liberal. I am a middle aged man with an active engineering practice and an impressive gun collection. I am sick of seeing the people of the US betrayed by their leaders, Democratic and Republican.</p>
<p>At the time, I lived in NJ (literally a 10-15 minute commute from New York), so I guess I felt more of an impact. All I remember were students being gradually pulled out one by one, and we thought it was some sort of coincidence. We just saw a bunch of teachers panicking, but no told us what exactly happened.Then the class spent half an hour speculating on what happened from conversations between teachers. It didn’t make much sense at the time, but there were outrageous stories. Eventually, I got yanked out and we had the next day from school. Perhaps, the biggest impact came from the fact that A LOT of students parents worked either in the Towers or around that area. I know my both my neighbor’s parents worked in the towers, but thankfully, they were okay.</p>
<p>Turns out that several students in one of the neighborhood high schools literally saw the planes flying through the building through the class windows. A pretty vivid memory if you ask me.</p>