Where were you?

[HawkyTalky]

For the first time in my life, this thread is making me feel REALLY old. People in here are posting that they were in grade school and high school at the time.

I was 24 in 2001.

 

[Scoot26]

7th grade Religion class, working on a project. Spent the rest of the day watching on TV in every class and mostly in silence. Everyone was so shocked and at a loss for words. Only day I ever remember not wanting to go to baseball practice, which was cancelled as well.

At least your school let you watch it on TV in every class. I remember being soo pissed at my school for leaving us in the dark. Most of the student population already knew something happened (Attacks started at 7:45 CDT, news was on about it by 8:00 am and my school didnt start until 8:35) Their reasoning for not showing us was just in case someone a student knew or family member was at the World Trade Centers.

 

[Scoot26]

For the first time in my life, this thread is making me feel REALLY old. People in here are posting that they were in grade school and high school at the time.

I was 24 in 2001.

Most on this forum still are in school.

 

[HawkyTalky]

Most on this forum still are in school.

Wow.

Reality check.

 

[Shawon0Meter]

I was a sophomore in high school...I noticed a few people in the school library gathered around the TV so I went to go see what was happening and it was because the first plane had hit the towers. Despite the talk of terrorism, I assumed it was just an accident. Then the 2nd plane hit and there was word of other planes going down but nobody was sure exactly what was going on. It was scary and it seemed like the chaos was never gonna end. Most teachers just let us watch CNN during class for the rest of the day and the few that didn't were assholes.

 

[thedude33]

On my way to work, I switched on the TV while wolfing down breakfast. The tower burning was from the first plane. I thought, well maybe it was just an accident. Then the second plane hit and I knew it was no accident.

 

[Sunbiz1]

For the first time in my life, this thread is making me feel REALLY old. People in here are posting that they were in grade school and high school at the time.

I was 24 in 2001.

I was old enough to run for President...

 

[The Bandit]

3rd grade. We sat and watched it on the TV all day, completely unaware of what any of it meant at the time

 

[KittiesKorner]

For the first time in my life, this thread is making me feel REALLY old. People in here are posting that they were in grade school and high school at the time.

I was 24 in 2001.

I was 26. I was living in Brooklyn and had the day off so slept in after partying the night before. I woke up to like 5 messages and then my friend knocked on my door and said the second tower had just fallen. I could see the black smoke over Manhattan from my front window (I lived about 4 blocks East of the East River).

We drove down to the Brooklyn Bridge and talked to the people streaming over from Manhattan, some of them from the buildings themselves.

People like to talk about the unifying effect on America but that day in Brooklyn was anything but. I almost got into a fight with some ****** who was going on about how maybe we deserved this.

They wouldn't let just any civilian help with recovery at Ground Zero so I put time in at the Red Cross and elsewhere as a translator for the next 5 months, at which point I moved out of the city

 

[tbo41fan]

I was just geeting home from school, 5th grade I believe.

was your grade school also a night school? The attack happened in the morning

 

[The Bandit]

As the years passed, its bugged me more and more since I've grown up and understood it more. And the fact that I was here when it happened. Maybe not in NY but I was in this country I experienced this first hand. This is my generations moment to remember like Pearl Harbor was for those people

 

[brett05]

I was unemployed and awoke to my radio that a building had an explosion in New York. I was 28 at the time. Funny story

I got a job a few days later downtown. There was a tiny rain storm and I heard thunder for the first time downtown Chicago. I looked across the floor out a window and saw what I thought was debris entering the River

I yelled that another plane had hit a building. No one laughed but eventually someone pulled me aside to say that's what thunder sounds like because of the buildings

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

So, with the exception of a freshman game on Saturday, every game I reffed this weekend had a moment of silence. What struck me is that when 9-11 happened, I was 19. The oldest of these kids was probably 8 to 9 years old. I obviously knew what happened, and had a decent understanding of why it happened.

What I was wondering is how parents explain something like that to their kids. Not in a 'Won't somebody think of the children???' moment, but how they actually talked to their kids about it.

 

[The Bandit]

I honestly don't remember getting a talk about it... But then again I only remember what happened during the towers being on fire and falling after that I don't remember anything at all. I think I figured it out for the most part on my own not from my parents

 

[Popinski Soda]

Wow.

Reality check.

Don't worry, Hawky. I'm old too, kinda.


J

 

[derosabomb]

So, with the exception of a freshman game on Saturday, every game I reffed this weekend had a moment of silence. What struck me is that when 9-11 happened, I was 19. The oldest of these kids was probably 8 to 9 years old. I obviously knew what happened, and had a decent understanding of why it happened.

What I was wondering is how parents explain something like that to their kids. Not in a 'Won't somebody think of the children???' moment, but how they actually talked to their kids about it.

probably didn't say i word other then to ask if the KFC was ready

 

[AE23]

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[brett05]

Where Were You 14 Years Ago Today?

I was just waking up when the first plane hit the first Tower. I woke up super fast with the radio report and flipped the television on. I made a call to a job interview I was having the next day down town to say I was not coming down unless they called me later that day.

Like him or hate him, I was thankful when President Bush threw out that first pitch in Yankee Stadium. It somehow united our resolve as a nation. I miss those times of unity.

 

[Scoot26]

In 8th grade having teachers not tell us anything leaving us all to make large speculation and assumptions. I went home that day assuming every major city had had planes crashed into it.

For my full comments, look at this thread from 4 years ago: http://www.chicitysports.com/forum/...Where-were-you?p=349614&viewfull=1#post349614

 

[Schmidtaki]

I woke up to a phone call from my mother telling me to turn on the TV. I got to the TV just in time to see the second plane hit the tower.