Where were you 10 years ago?

You know what I mean.

I was in the 4th grade, and had barely gotten to school when all the teachers were talking about something away from us. Next thing we knew we were being rushed back to home and I asked my grandma what had happened. I didn't understand what it meant at the time, i didn't know what the towers were or the significance of it all. I just know that alot of people were sad.

Despite my political and personal beliefs about the nation (and any wars we might have been involved since then)... I won't forget how sad it made the people near me.

...I forget.

Be careful with jokes. Just saying.

Yeah, I know.

I just can't remember exactly where I was back then. My memory isn't any good.

I was in my room...Illinois, maybe? That's all I got.

I was in 4th grade too, maybe 5th, but I'm pretty sure 4th. About an hour and a half in class I noticed kids were going home early, I wondered why. Then I was sent home. Then I did homework the rest of the day.
I think I remember seeing stuff on the news about it, but I was too young to know exactly what was going on... D:

EDIT: Wait I remember, In 5th grade we had like a half hour moment if silence, then our school had a fundraiser. I don't think it was on the day it happend though. It coulda been a year anniversary of it though or something, I really don't remember...my memory fails...D:

I was in 7th grade I think? I feel kinda gyped now, seeing as you guys were all a few states away at the time and got out of school. We had to stay the whole day where we lived. And we're about an hour away from the city.

They did lock us in our second period class for a while. I remember wondering why they did that. It's not like terrorists would specifically attack our middle school, and it's not like there was a killer out on the loose in the school. I assume now that they locked us in to give them some time to discuss what they should do about it? But who really knows? The school was run very poorly at the time.

When I found out what happened, from another student, most of the teachers didn't tell us what exactly had happened, ((did I mention the school was run poorly?)) I didn't think it was a big deal. Someone crashed a small plane into one of the twin towers. I thought of it as one of those old personal planes and someone stupid screwed up.

When I finally DID get home, and things were explained to me properly by the news, and family and etc, that's when things seemed to get more real for me. I effectively consider 9/11 the day that my childhood innocence died, or at least started to die, and I realized that there are people out there that seriously want to hurt others.

Luckily, no one in my family was injured, though my mother's uncle was near the location. I was told that he was unharmed, but covered in dust and dirt when he got back home. He used to work in the World Trade Center, but had retired by that point.

Looking back on it now, I feel most angry about the way my school handled it. I understand that they kept us in school. They couldn't exaclty know which parents were home, etc etc. But I am upset that they didn't let us know what had happened. It was pretty disrespectful and showed me that they didn't consider us 'worthy' of the information. They treated us like children, we were 11-13, old enough to know better. I understand trying to keep us from being scared, but after the lockdown thing, and not telling us WHY, rumors spread, people make shit up, it just turns into utter chaos.

I was on the other side of the world so it was night time for me. I came out and the rents were watching the news with a couple of burning buildings on screen. I didn't really get the gravity of the situation, and the only thing I could make out that was significant was that "someone blew up the place where Auntie used to work, we're lucky she moved away not too long ago". I went back to bed.

I can't lie, even today I feel way to detached from the situation. I know how I'm supposed to feel, but it's kinda like reading about wars past for me. I even ignore a lot of the news that's relevant to today. It's not a responsible mindset, but I think I'd just be freaking myself out if I didn't ignore it.

I was in 6th grade i think, ask eric since we're in the same generation and he has better memory about this stuff i believe. My principal just randomly stopped everything and had us turn on the news to see it and we took like 2hr pause of silence.....sooooo boring.