[Zandabyte]

i home school so my mom watched the news for like a week or 2i played a video game called darkstone

[Res]

But now I think about it 5 years on I realise how serious, important etc it was.

Exactly.

For the past four years, it's never really stuck me on how sad it was. I was always just in a "Oh well." state of mind. I mean, yeah, whenever it came up, I felt bad. For a second or two. But then I went on.

Today, however, I realized how much I've been altered as a person. I was told I'm the most sensitive person in my class today.

See, first hour, (Which was like.. 8:05) my teacher put on a video. He said it was just a recollection of all of the stuff that happened, so I figured yeah, this'll just be a movie to watch.

I cried. And I don't cry. Ever. It has to be a monumentous event to make me even think about crying, and I snapped like a twig. I cried well past first hour and a good bit into the next class, it hit me so hard. I'm still feeling the effects of that movie right now. And I imagine it'll take me a good bit to get over this.

[Aaron]

Same. People are like "WTF" when I say 9/11 didn't really affect me. Should it have? I didn't know any of the people that died. I'd never met them; I'd never even heard of them. That that many people — innocents, even — were killed is incredibly sad, yes, but it wasn't personal to me.

A few months later, our school principal (who was awesome, btw) passed away after a long battle with cancer. Classes were cancelled for the day and everyone just kind of walked around quiety. That? That upset me. That was personal.

I understand what you're saying, Phi. I feel similarly. I am not saying that the attacks weren't horrible--they were. It just did not move me as it did others.

At the time of the attacks, I was in 6th grade English class working on our state's annual standardized tests. My math teacher knocked on the door at about 9:45 AM and called our teacher out into the hall to talk. We all assumed that someone was in big trouble or something like that. After a few minutes, our teacher returned with a grave expression on her face. She told us that the World Trade Center buildings were under attack. I immediately felt my stomach drop and a picture came into my mind. I pictured the United Nations building in New York City (at the time, I had thought the UN Building was the World Trade Center). The teacher turned on our classroom TV and we watched CNN coverage of the story. I believe at that time at least one of the towers had fallen, and they were playing repeat footage. Not a whole lot about the Pentagon was talked about at the time, but when I heard about it, I really was shocked.

The whole day ensued as nothing but talk in our school, especially at lunch. My friends and I discussed what had happened, and wondered about other potential targets. We really had assumed that we would be sent home from school, but they kept us at school to be safe from any attacks on us (No one had any idea what could happen next). When I arrived home, I met my somber-expressed parents in the living room. I flipped through all the channels, and found nearly nothing but the same newsreel repeated. I then heard about the crash of Flight 93. That was the making of a day to be remembered.

[Grae_Face]

I woke up at 6:30 and turned on the tv to watch dragontales (I was a 5th grader at the time and my brother wanted to watch it with me) and saw something about airplanes so stopped to watch it cause I have always been a fan of airplanes. I watched the event happen then immediatly went and woke my mom up and we watched it... I then spent all day at school talkin' about what this event meant to the world...

It affected me deeply because it kinda slowed my life down and changed what I wanted to do in the future... It was a dramatic day... I have a question to present for everyone, Do you believe that it should be a national holiday? I do because it's an important day that needs to be rembered and not exaggerated like a myth, which is what I believe would happen if we just "rembered" it.

[Troll]

I was at school, got home just in time to see the second plane crash into the towers. I didnt really know what to think of it at the time, i was just like, woah.

[top-gun221]

i was in school at the time in the bronx. when they said that the twin towers had been hit that morning, i didnt know what the heck they where talking about, everyone went about there normal business as i wondered, what did they mean the twin towers where hit? when i got outta school, i walked 7 miles home becuase all of the transportation was shut down. i started crying after i got home, i watched tv, as my mom sat near the phone dialing my dads work number over and over. he worked 2 blocks away from the twin towers. we stayed up really late, waiting to see if my dad would come home. at like 12 at night, he came home, covered in dust, and ash. and we all ran to him and hugged him and he was dazed, just like physically and emotionally exhausted. only a few months later did he tell us what happend to him when he was there. he told us, that when the first plane hit, he was smoking a cigarette outside his job office. he described what he heard as a loud pitched screeching and crunching of metal. everyone started to scream and he ran upstairs of his office building and looked out the window just in time to see plane 2 crash into the other tower. at that point, everyone was told to stay inside the buildings and not to leave. but since they decided it was not safe, my dad and his coworkers decided to leave. when they went outside, they saw people holding hands, and jumping from the tower windows. then one of the towers went down. he says him and his coworkers ducked for cover behind some buildings because they could not escape the debris. after it collapes, my dad and his coworkers, held hands, and tried to get outta manhattan. they couldnt see, so they felt there way. while they where trying to get out, they saw many people tring to get away, crying and screaming. 1 person had her face actually peeling off her screaming and crying. they tried to make there way outta manahattan and as they walked, they felt the noise and the rumble of the other tower coming down and spreading dust and ash everywhere. he walked outta manhattan and went to a friends house for a while because it was the closest place he could go to. from that day foward, my dad hasnt been the same. and when i think about that day, i get upset, and i wish that it hadnt happend.

[Slay Mantus]

i was in elementary and we saw it on tv at school. they wouldnt let us have recess and said ther was a bee problem, lol like any1 believed that...
my dads in the national guard actually and was scrambled with 2 other guys. he was ordered to ground all non military planes in the air and came very close to flight 93 but didnt quite get ther. today he was interviewed on tv on nbc and some other station and my uncle works in the pentagon
pretty sad thing happened that day. personally id like to find osama and blow his guts out of his gosh darn hiding place, the loser, what the heck did he think he was doing messing with the most powerful country on earth? o well...
so who else knos someone who was closely involved or knos someone well who was involved?

[Bodom]

I was gonna post my true opinions on this all with everyone going on about how theyre older now they understand etc but ill seem like a heartless {expletive run over by Cspace} cos itll get misinterpretated so i wont bother..

Tbh i believe the short change conspiracies thing with this ;\

[Res]

I was gonna post my true opinions on this all with everyone going on about how theyre older now they understand etc but ill seem like a heartless {expletive run over by Cspace} cos itll get misinterpretated so i wont bother..

Tbh i believe the short loose change conspiracies thing with this ;\

Aww, Ech is too cute to be heartless.

Honestly, though. I could see how the loose change video changes perspective. It changed mine. However, I'm not at a place where I can believe something like that would be a deliberate act of our own government. Thought the evidence piled up, I would just really hate it if I had to accept that reality.

"It's not denial, I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept."

Call it denial if you wish, but it's too gut-wrenching to even think about what loose change pointed out, as solid as it was.

But remember, friend, if you're to post what you wish to say, I'll take it in the most positive way and not misread things. YOu have to remember, that with people (like myself) getting hit with the bracing reality of this isn't an odd thing. It's normal, I believe for us as kids to not accept the fact that "Oh hey! this is a tragic event." and blow it off, but as we get older, it comes into focus as "Woah, some serious stuff hit the fan here."

You still have to say though, regardless of it being a terror attack, or if Loose Change was correct, it's still a horrible event in any light you choose to view it from.

[©allum]

My view on the loose change is pretty much the same as Maddox's.

[Nuu™™]

I came home from school and turned on the TV to watch cartoons. Same thing on every channel, some building on fire. I was pretty pissed off, because I liked my cartoons, and they weren't on. My mum came in and started to watch. I watched for a little while longer and saw the second plane hit.

Didn't really care or understand at the time.

Someone's taking the piss.

[Bodom]

na mike its not that my perspective changed its just i dont care about it anymore tbh.

People die daily and thousands die weekly but noone really does care, America helped wipe out alot of people as everyone has but its never really mentioned or took note of, but the minute it happens to America, {expletive hax0rd by Cspace} we've gotta never forget it..

Im not heartless or saying who cares, i just think we should move on and remember it happens all the time, maybe not as big a scale..

Same with like Steve Irwin dies everyoen notices and doesnt drop it and becomes huge irwin fans, many great people die but noone realy seems to care eihter ;\\

[Res]

na mike its not that my perspective changed its just i dont care about it anymore tbh.

People die daily and thousands die weekly but noone really does care, America helped wipe out alot of people as everyone has but its never really mentioned or took note of, but the minute it happens to America, {expletive hax0rd by Cspace} we've gotta never forget it..

Im not heartless or saying who cares, i just think we should move on and remember it happens all the time, maybe not as big a scale..

Same with like Steve Irwin dies everyoen notices and doesnt drop it and becomes huge irwin fans, many great people die but noone realy seems to care eihter ;\\

Yar bud, you're exactly right. We -should- move on, because people do die every day. However, the fashion of how this happened was of such extent, that it'll be very difficult to forget completely.

Steve Irwin? I can imagine people will forget about this in a week or so, honestly.

9/11? I can't see anybody totally forgetting about it anywhere in the near future. Probably another 5 years and it'll turn into a December 7th.

The reason it's so memorable, is the way of how it happened. Which put security to risk. You have planes flying into buildings. Four of them. You have two of the attacked buildings collapse, and two or three others go down. With people inside. The scale of how it happened makes it so hard to forget.

I agree, though, that people shouldn't keep focused on the past constantly, but look ahead and hope for better futures. However, when the anniversary comes around, it's never a bad thing to stop and give a thought out to the people that died.

[Bodom]

na mike its not that my perspective changed its just i dont care about it anymore tbh.

People die daily and thousands die weekly but noone really does care, America helped wipe out alot of people as everyone has but its never really mentioned or took note of, but the minute it happens to America, {expletive hax0rd by Cspace} we've gotta never forget it..

Im not heartless or saying who cares, i just think we should move on and remember it happens all the time, maybe not as big a scale..

Same with like Steve Irwin dies everyoen notices and doesnt drop it and becomes huge irwin fans, many great people die but noone realy seems to care eihter ;\\

Yar bud, you're exactly right. We -should- move on, because people do die every day. However, the fashion of how this happened was of such extent, that it'll be very difficult to forget completely.

Steve Irwin? I can imagine people will forget about this in a week or so, honestly.

9/11? I can't see anybody totally forgetting about it anywhere in the near future. Probably another 5 years and it'll turn into a December 7th.

The reason it's so memorable, is the way of how it happened. Which put security to risk. You have planes flying into buildings. Four of them. You have two of the attacked buildings collapse, and two or three others go down. With people inside. The scale of how it happened makes it so hard to forget.

I agree, though, that people shouldn't keep focused on the past constantly, but look ahead and hope for better futures. However, when the anniversary comes around, it's never a bad thing to stop and give a thought out to the people that died.

Yup, im all for giving a thought but when its stuff like this and all the stuff schools go on about it, i jsut think it sucks it happened its in the past now ;\ Harsh i guess but i dont care tbh :$

[whitefire909]

i was in school when i got told by my teacher. i went home for lunch when the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower.

on a side note, watch loose change!
http://video.google....920724339766288