5 years ago today....where were you. - Page 3

Jotun · 09-11-2006, 05:35 PM

I was in 8th grade and I remember being in my english/writing class and the teacher coming in and saying there was a terrorist attack in NYC. at that time when i heard the word terrorist, i thought of people with masks and guns holding hostages...i thought the swat team or police would fuck them up....but then she said a little bit after that that a plane has hit one of the world trade center buildings...we werent allowed to watch the tv or get any updates, only that a second plane had hit.

im so close to NYC that the smoke from the towers drifted over my town. a few of my parents friends had seen them hit. A lot of my friends who had parents who worked in the city were called down to the office, but luckily they were all safe. I remember vividly my best friend Jenni walking down the ailse in the lunch room crying her eyes out thinking her dad was hurt. I was very fortunate that no one close to me was affected, but RIP to those who lost their lives that day. I will never forget that day.

SoLiDUS · 09-11-2006, 05:37 PM

I was working at Bell Nexxia... then, a bunch of people started to tell the rest of us to check the news. When I saw the first hit, I thought "hmm... strange... that doesn't look too accidental" and the moment I saw the second plane coming, I just said "yup, terrorists" and tried to think about what kind of insanity and hatred could possibly push people to commit acts like this. I wasn't shaken by the event itself, but moreso by how incredibly primitive humans really are.

Machette · 09-11-2006, 05:45 PM

Math class, measuring ourselves..first year I was at private school..

good ol ridley college..

http://www.ridley.on.ca

CoMaToSe · 09-11-2006, 07:22 PM

I remember exactly what I was doing and where I was. I was in my 8th grade biology class, and we were doing a sort of Jeopardy-esque class game to review for our first test. We were discussing the metric system versus imperical measurements and why the USA was the only country not to have switched over. The teacher says "Because Americans don't like change". At almost that exact moment, his wife, another teacher comes in, and whispers something to him, and we spned the last 5 minutes of class watching Bush's address from the elementary school. That's all we saw, we didn't really understand what was going on. As we were leaving class, I overheard one girl "That was pointless. I thought someone DIED or something" annoy:

In my third period Woodshop class was the first time I saw the twin towers had been hit. Both collapsed during that class.

Today I was walking around campus and I notice the flags were at half mast. I couldn't figure out who died, and then I realized what day it is.

Merlin122 · 09-11-2006, 09:49 PM

i was playing super smash brothers on my old N64 when my mother called me into her room. She had CNN on and the first plane had just hit. I thought they were just demolishing a skyscraper, but then the second plane hit and i knew something was terribly wrong. My friend steve came over and we watched the news for the whole day and that night everyone in our neighborhood went to the emergency church service to pray for the victims.

gtboys34 · 09-11-2006, 10:04 PM

my bro woke me up and told me what had happened. i missed just about everything but i saw the replays though

Simo Häyhä · 09-11-2006, 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CoMaToSe

IThe teacher says "Because Americans don't like change".

rolleyes: you're teacher is a genius

Sniper101 · 09-11-2006, 10:33 PM

in my third period Physical science class Freshman year of high school. the bio teacher came in from next door and said to some into her room to watch the news

Miscguy · 09-11-2006, 11:08 PM

I was in basic training and my company was in the company area cleaning our m16's for qualifications the next day while they did a gear invintory up stairs.

I went up to get more q-tips and a buddy said the radio the drill sergents had on said a plane had hit the trade center. I dismissed it, remember that a b24 had hit the empire state building before, and it didnt say what size the plane was. I was down cleaning my weapon when the company commander came out of his office and annouced that two planes had hit the trade center towers, and that our DS's would give us more information later.

Later that day our lead DS took us out into a feild and told us that we had been attacked and that all of us would likly see combat, though he didnt know where. He then reassured us that our training would not change, it would be just as intense as it was before, and that we should perhaps take it more seriously. Since we did have a few fucking clowns in the plattoon.

The next day we trained. Then a few weeks later our company cycled into the base defense rotation. All those check points on roads into bases, yeah, i did that, i was the one who counted cars for random inspection, or pulled suspicious cars. It wasnt bad until i had to do it from 2am, till 6am, that was my first of many cases of frostbite.

edit: first video footage i saw of it was after my discharge 5 or 6 months later.

Zap. USMC · 09-12-2006, 06:03 AM

was in 10th grade... in programming class... teacher annouced two planes hit the world trade center.. said if you had any family in that worked there to get up and see him cause they would be allowed to leave and call home... half my class stood up.. including me .. RIP SEMPER FI

Tripper · 09-12-2006, 02:39 PM

[quote="Zap. USMC":df7bd]was in 10th grade... in programming class... teacher annouced two planes hit the world trade center.. said if you had any family in that worked there to get up and see him cause they would be allowed to leave and call home... half my class stood up.. including me .. RIP SEMPER FI[/quote:df7bd]

Why semper fi?