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Admins, Please merge with thread I started today
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America will always come together when attacked. W had the whole country behind him. It's a shame he squandered that good will when he invaded the wrong country. Can you imagine if FDR had invaded Peru after Pearl Harbor?
I apologize for hijacking this thread, so many levels of poor taste on my part. Back on topic.
I was at work, my wife was with our kid at the dentist and saw it on TV. She called me, I told my co-workers, we were getting updates online, then they turned on a tv in a meeting room and it filled up. When the first building came down people were crying.
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Sophomore in high school and in study hall. The principal announced that a plane hit the world trade center and they were locking the doors to the high school. I thought it was a prop plane at the time and he was totally overreacting.
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I knew I was older than many of you but wow. My wife had the day off and we had cnn on as we talked about what we were going to do with our day. Watched the news and only left the house to get the kids from school. 2 nights later we were sitting on the deck when 2 fighters flew over at high speed with afterburners on. About 15 min later they came back over going the other way at a slower speed.
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I think I was in 4th grade at the time. Got announced over the intercom and we had a moment of silence. Had no idea what the gravity of the situation was at the moment. Saw the replays later that day at home I think...just one of those "woah..." moments. Pretty somber.
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I think a month or so after 9/11 a plane headed to O'Hare had a disturbance on board and they scrambled two fighters. I was at home alone at the time, and heard the sonic boom. I thought it was the noise of a building in Chicago being hit. I immediately turned on the TV and waited about a half hour for some sort of breaking news.. never came.. that night though they then reported what the deal was.
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I was in Junior High.... at home eating breakfast.... my ma was like "COME LOOK AT THIS" and I ran upstairs and saw the coverage of the first plane hitting the building and we both watched at the 2nd one hit.
Chilling stuff...
Chilling stuff...
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For those of you who were in High School or lower, did the entire faculty keep quiet about it the entire day?
So far, I have found my school district was the only school in the entire country to make this decision.
So far, I have found my school district was the only school in the entire country to make this decision.
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We watched the towers come down live.
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As did my sister, who was in high school then (different school district). The catholic school that is less than a block from the street I grew up from, they watched it all live too.
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Was at Cannon AFB watching the first building at the golf course getting coffee.... then saw the second plane hit... knew it was an attack at that point.
Then we all went on alert...
Then we all went on alert...
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My aunt was a Flight Attendant at the time so my entire day was spent trying to get a hold of my uncle to see where she was and if she was ok.
She ended up being grounded in Seattle.
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Freshman year of college. I was in the dormitory cafeteria eating when I looked up and saw it on the news. The next day I had a history teacher lose her shit, calling people towelheads and she was promptly canned. She yelled at some poor girl and made her cry in class.
Crazy times, dumbass teacher.
Crazy times, dumbass teacher.
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Too bad it didn't last, everyone was nice to each other for almost a month. Drivers weren't cussing at one another, neighbors talked more, churches were packed etc.
That sense of unity has long since been shattered, not to be seen again until the next major crises.
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Same as first timer. We watched the coverage the rest of the day
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Junior High.... but yeah the faculty didn't really talk about it.
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Well I said high school or lower, meaning Middle School (Junior High) and even elementary school.
Did your faculty have a gag order to not say a word though?
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Wasn't mentioned to us, but we were elementary school kids...unless we had a relative in NY at the time I don't think there was really a reason to talk about it since we were generally clueless.
No gag order though.
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Thought you guys had acknowledgement of it at least though.. a moment of silence?
Nothing was said to us the entire day by anyone except one teacher who didn't receive the gag order notification 1st hour and told us a bit of it 2nd hour, but after that not a peep.
And the administrators said it was just in case any student had a family member in the WTC that day.
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Beyond the moment of silence nothing else was mentioned. Though that was implied, but rereading, clearly it is not. Mah bad yo
So to revise, we had our moment of silence after the intercom announcement then went about the day as usual.