9/11, Nine years later.

[TheStreetDream]

Originally Posted by The_AK

we have 15 year olds on RS? :S

I was in grade 7, was locking up my bike with a friend and some kid ran up to us. "Hey, did you guys hear? Some guys flew a plane into a building"
we laughed it off until we got to class

When you are in grade 3, you are 8, 8+9= 17

[CP.AR]

I remember this day extremely clearly...

I was in grade 7...
I was sleeping over at my grandparents' place. I woke up like any other day, went downstairs for breakfast and my grandma had the channel set to CNN (mind you, we're a Chinese family so watching CNN early in the morning is weird as it is)...

I was half awake, glanced at the TV and thought it was a movie, looked at it again and saw "LIVE" on top and then the shot of the guy jumping... I screamed in horror and basically stood there for a good 5 minutes in shock.

Went to school, and the teacher hauled a TV into the classroom and sat our entire class in front of it. She said the words "Children, in 5,10,15,20 years... you will NEVER forget this very day." Although quietly, everyone was dead silent, some of the girls cried, and most were just in plain shock from the whole thing.

She was right, I never forgot that day, when I woke up and saw planes flying into buildings

[JSALES]

i remember i was in grade 5, my brother walked into my room and told me that a plane flew into the world trade center. once i got to school, i was surprised that none of my classmates were talking about it until my teacher had brought up what happened

[urrh]

man, i didn't realize how many of you guys were so young.
it was my first week of post secondary school at cap.
heard about it on the radio when i was waking up for school, then i turned on the tv to double check.
my prof cancelled classes that day

[The7even]

3rd grade.. 6th..

anyway, I was finishing highschool, remember sitting in class watching it on TV because my teacher interupted the class with that.

[winson604]

Will never forget that day. I was in college at the time and my mom ran into my room saying American got attacked. Still the most surreal thing I have ever seen. Can`t believe it has been so long now.

[seakrait]

i was in 4th year. g/f at the time called me in the morning to turn the TV on. watched the 2nd plane fly into the towers live. horrible. didn't go to classes for a few days. stayed glued to CNN.

[Not really racist!]

Watching the documentary on HDNet right now.

[tiger_handheld]

grade 9. lots of talk at school , no one knew of Al Queda or Bin Laden back then.

[monkeywrench]

Wow time sure does fly. I remember getting ready for school, seeing this on TV and my family thought it was a movie or something

[RRxtar]

wow do i feel old too!

I remember my mom calling me while I was still in bed and telling me to turn on the TV. I remember the first thing I thought was "HOLY FUCK. WW3 just started! thats it! the world is over!!!!"


how has it affected me? well. the whole world has changed. directly: security has tightend up everywhere. and indirectly: i think the economy colapse and oil prices are largely due to the US going to war in Iraq (which wouldnt have happened without 911).

[rawr]

Just came back from NY couple days ago. Here's some pictures from the WTC site.

First picture: See that hole in the sky? That's where the towers used to stand.

The other ones are pictures of the museum currently being built as a memorial.

[mikemhg]

I'll never forget the day but honestly, I don't want to sound insensitive here, but do we have to go through this every single year?

It's been nine years already, and I've been hearing 9/11 on the news every year in September, enough already.

3000 people died that day, how many people died in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti Earth Quake, Tsunami, etc. Heck at least 2000 people died in Hurricane Katrina alone, but do we see a yearly Anniversary?

Can we move on already? Thousands die everyday in this world, I'm so tired of seeing this event being played on over and over again for Political gain.

[MarkyMark]

I still get an eerie feeling whenever I see the towers on an old TV show or movie

[ToyotaPowah]

Originally Posted by mikemhg

I'll never forget the day but honestly, I don't want to sound insensitive here, but do we have to go through this every single year?

It's been nine years already, and I've been hearing 9/11 on the news every year in September, enough already.

3000 people died that day, how many people died in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti Earth Quake, Tsunami, etc. Heck at least 2000 people died in Hurricane Katrina alone, but do we see a yearly Anniversary?

Can we move on already? Thousands die everyday in this world, I'm so tired of seeing this event being played on over and over again for Political gain.

You see, the difference with all those countries and events you mentioned are that they didn't happen in the U.S.A. or Canada. People still talk about those events and mourn on their anniversaries in the countries where they took place. That's exactly what we're doing. Sure, 9/11 was an attack on the U.S.A. but it felt like just as much as an attack on Canada and our way of life. It has dramatically changed how we live and it terrified our entire society.

Regarding Hurricane Katrina, as terrible as it was, especially the aftermath, people just don't worry as much about natural disasters as they do about terrorist attacks. I'm sure more people in New Orleans would be mourning for the lives lost in Hurricane Katrina if they weren't busy dealing with another hurricane at that time of year every single year! Hurricanes are a common occurence in the Southeast of the U.S.A.

Back on topic... I was doing what many of you were doing on that day. I was in Grade 10 and heading to school with the radio on in my dad's car. The car ride was very silent as no one really knew what to make of it. The school day wasn't very productive as every teacher had the TV tuned into the local news station listening for updates. It was a tragic event and I'll remember that day vividly for the rest of my life.

[The_AK]

Originally Posted by TheStreetDream

When you are in grade 3, you are 8, 8+9= 17

i'm 20 (21 this Monday), 9 years ago = 11
grade 7 - 11 years old
grade 3 - 11-4 = 7 years old
7+9 = 16 ~ 17

yea i guess i fucked up my maths by 1,
kid is somewhere between 16~17

edit*
Thing is, I envisioned a plane flying into a building before this even happened. When I saw it happen on tv, i thought to myself "finally..."

Weird, I know

[ShyGuy]

I was in Gr.10 at the time...my morning ritual at the time was to wake up around 6ish...get changed and go online to surf RS for awhile before I bussed to school.
I remember reading a thread on RS saying that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I immediately ran into my parents room and told them to turn on the TV and watch CNN.

I think shortly after I watched live, the 2nd plane crash into the WTC. Class was pretty much nonexistant that day. All the teachers had pulled TV's into the classrooms and we were watching the news all day.

[Phil@rise]

You know how its changed our lifes
You can burn any religious book from any religious sect in the world but not the quran.
Thats how scared people are now and that proves how the extremist terrorist muslims have won.

[Vansterdam]

i remember being in gr7, had no idea wtf was going on until my teacher told all of us, listened to radio and saw part tv in the morning and then found out later it collapsed

[1exotic]

Originally Posted by The_AK

we have 15 year olds on RS? :S

I was in grade 7, was locking up my bike with a friend and some kid ran up to us. "Hey, did you guys hear? Some guys flew a plane into a building"
we laughed it off until we got to class

grade 3 = 2010 graduate now. 18 years old (1992 birth).

[cdizzle_996]

I was in the 7th grade as well. I was listening to the radio when it happend.

[Delerious]

was getting ready for school, saw it on the tv, then went to school like any other normal day. Don't really remember much from that day, was just starting gr.10.

[Senna4ever]

Originally Posted by mikemhg

I'll never forget the day but honestly, I don't want to sound insensitive here, but do we have to go through this every single year?

It's been nine years already, and I've been hearing 9/11 on the news every year in September, enough already.

3000 people died that day, how many people died in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti Earth Quake, Tsunami, etc. Heck at least 2000 people died in Hurricane Katrina alone, but do we see a yearly Anniversary?

Can we move on already? Thousands die everyday in this world, I'm so tired of seeing this event being played on over and over again for Political gain.

I understand what you're saying, but this day changed all of our lives in some way. We have to produce a passport now when driving into the USA, before 9/11 all you had to do was tell the customs person, "I'm Canadian" and you were through. The endlessly time consuming increased security at the airports when flying somewhere is all due to 9/11. 19 Islamic extremists changed our way of life that day in innumerable ways.

I was sleeping when it all happened, but I used to wake up to Rock 101 playing on my alarm radio. I woke up to Brother Jake mentioning "this is the worst terrorist attack on American soil..." "That is," "It is a tragedy," blah, blah.....I was thinking where the fuck is the music? Then I turned on the TV and saw what happened.

It affected my friend's wedding as they got married the Saturday after 9/11, and all of the out of town guests could not make it in.

[Qmx323]

i was gr6 in socal,

i dont think we acted the same to the arab kid we had in our class ever since

[twitchyzero]

the hit tv series 24 would've probably sucked hard if 9/11 never happened.