[Demo]

I was 7 years old and in my second grade class. All I knew was that I was getting picked up for some reason and that the World Trade Centers had been hit by planes. What the world trade centers were I had no clue at that age. I honestly did not get the scale of time and effect that it had on me personally till now. I can't even explain how I feel after knowing what I know now in more detail.

[Poggio]

I remember. I was in 7th grade in social studies, and it was lunch period when I found out. I always went to the library because I hated going to the cafeteria. I remember the librarian watching something on tv and thinking 'man I wonder which class gets to watch that cool movie with the plane crashing into the building.' When I got back to class my teacher tried to explain to us about terrorism and the war in the gulf. A few of my friends were taken out of school because they thought that the terrorist would attack my home town next since it is apparently a banking capital. My attention span didn't last that long. Danielle told me she had gotten London something special for his birthday. Which was/is today.

I think I remember it the most since it was my first year at my new school. The sad part is that I now know people that live in NY and one of them, whose father is a fire chief.

[Demo]

Everyone in delaware and especially my family were scared to death because they thought They were gonna attack Dover Air Force base here in Delaware. This was so intense because during that time I lived only miles from the base. XP

[Fallen]

I don't think you're a horrible American. You were just a kid. :\

I was in 2nd grade. During school my teacher started panicking, saying something horrible had happened and for us not to turn on our tvs when we got home. Of course, I got home and turned on the tv to try to watch my favorite tv show, only to see painted versions of what had happened in New York. (Yeah, that's right. They'd already made art about it in the few hours after it had happened.) Obviously, being only 7 years old, I didn't care and pouted for the rest of the afternoon that my tv show hadn't come on.

[Rosekitten]

pretty sure I was in my first or second period class at the time.. I never knew about it really till a bunch of students were being called out of the school by their parents and then the classes were turning the tv's on after the word got around. By the time the 2nd plane hit I was at my grandparents watching the tv there.

I don't really recall much because I was a bit younger and it was almost in a instant that everything happened. I don't think at the time I really knew what was going on and no one from my family was near the towers so I really got lucky.

[Sora]

Originally Posted by Azrael

I was scared more for the pentagon (which everyone seems to always forget about) cause my dad drove past it daily.

I don't think it's because they forget about it. I think it's because the World Trade Centers were covered more by the media. It's what everyone remembers seeing on the TV most of the time, so it's the first thing most people think of.

[Ashy]

I was 11 and asleep ><

It was like 1am my time, i woke up in the morning and my dad explained it to me before going to school.

[Echo-chan713]

I lived in Long Island New York 60 miles from Ground Zero. I was in school (5th grade), we never had those parents running in and grabbing their kids, we just didn't have outdoor recess. Parents wanted to take their kids but the school wouldn't let them, thinking that the school is more safe than home.

Then when I came back from school, my grandma yelled at me for not being to get home earlier because of that incident. Then my grandma was super furious when I asked her "what is the Twin towers/World Trade center?". My school never taught us on our own buildings.

[Glass Heart]

was in 6th grade taking a spelling test
a teacher ran in from the hall hyper and screaming turn on the tv and what was going on, our teacher turned on the TV for a bit we sat there and watched, then she turned it off saying something enough of that or something and tried starting the spelling test when the same teacher burst in the room saying the second tower was hit... teacher gave up on spelling test till after lunch
-_-;;

[Taiki]

I was in the 8th grade and I remember coming to school and my teacher had it on tv and was playing the news in the classroom but didn't say what was happening. I guess at that time no one knew exactly what was happening and the entire class period we all just watched the news. I don't really remember what they were saying on the news because I ended up talking with my friends that whole time because I didn't really understand the importance of it at the time. Later that day I realized it and went out and bought the special newspaper they released for it and I still have it as a matter of fact. O:

[Yuki]

Watching Disney...like most people who were kids back then...didn't really give a damn...Now that I'm older I wish I didn't know the truth behind it. It makes me wanna puke...I wish people would stop using their religion as an excuse to be a dickhead. Or murdered if you prefer...But it's hardly news is it?...We've had far worst things happening...the US sometimes being behind it themselves...but that's another debate. Let's just hope nobody will have to die like this again. Doesn't matter who they are. If we can all learn how to live in peace, that's better.

[Yokuutsu]

But I've never heard the US say it's because we're christians! That's what we must do!

Now...I have heard the US doing it for this reason: Democracy is good! Let's give these people "democracy"!

It's because of the attacks that many Americans have a stigma against Muslims now. We will remember any bad anyone does over the good they do...so says if Muslims were paying for everything-the funds and everything....we'd still remember the attacks more.

And humans can never live in peace. Until we can all be happy....which is where the idea of socialism/communism comes in. If everyone in the world has an equal amount of resources...with no one having different resources...then we could possibly have no war.