<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Carter:</div><div class="quote_post">It wasn't Afghanistan it was Iraq..</div>Wow.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Wll maybe some of the people were Afghan but Afghans are not terrorists.</div> But some of the terrorists (actually I think all on the 9/11 thing) were Afghan...
I was in Grade 7 at the time, and my teacher came in with a paper and read it to us. I was one of the few people in my class that knew what the WTC's were, because of The Simpsons and Tim Duncan-David Robinson. Anyways, we had time to ask questions about the incident after she read the paper, and being the kid I was, and I really had no clue about the severity of the attack until I came home.
i was in school, (you could of seen the towers from my school) so there was like a fire nd smoke we didnt know what it was and the teachers werent allowed to tell us, parents would come threw the day and pick there kids up, i remeber that day so clearly i think its cause one of my friends dad worked in the building close to it
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Carter:</div><div class="quote_post">Wll maybe some of the people were Afghan but Afghans are not terrorists.</div>Nobody said all Afghans are terrorists, but the country was harboring the terrorist group Al-queda, led by Osama Bin Laden, which was responsible for the attacks.
I was a Senior in High School and I was staying at home since I was ill at the time. Then I woke up at 10AM and was getting some breakfast ready to watch some early morning shows and turned on the TV it was everywhere. I was stunned at first, I thought the Network has switched the channels around again. Then when I flipped the first channel I was pretty shocked to see something like that could happen.
Afghans are not terrorists? Like 44 said, all Afghani's are not terrorists, but there are plenty that are. Do you think that when the Taliban had its stay in Afghanistan, that nobody from that country joined them. To make a statement like that is pure ignorance.
I was in the 7th grade. It was a regular day, but by lunch time everyone's parents came to pick them up. I had no idea what happened until I was like the only person left in the class. As soon as I got home my mother explained to me exactly what happened. At the time she worked around that area and she saw when the towers collapsed. She said she couldn't believe it; it was like a surreal moment. I'm really fortunate because she could have definitely been one of the victims on 9/11. I still couldn't believe it until a couple of weeks later it kind of settled in on me. Terrible day.
It was 5th grade and I cleary remember our principal calling our grade into the hallway to tell us what had happen. At the time, I didn`t even know what and where the WTC`s was. The next thing I knew my mom was picking me up from school with tears. I remember just watching all the coverage at home tonight. It`s just so sad that there is actually this kind of cruelty and sadness in our world...
I was watching CNN and at first I thought it was just a horrible accident (there was no video footage of the first plane crash that day), but then I saw the second plane crash live on tv and I knew that it was planned. I couldn't believe my eyes.
I was in a 6th grade and I had just woken up and my mom was on the phone with my grandma walking around, talking and everything. I asked what happened and my mom said we were attacked by terrorists, I had no idea what the hell that meant but I turned on the TV and saw what had happened (this was probably around 7-8 AM PST so 10-11 EST). Struck me immediately because the previous summer my dad took me to New York/New Jersey where he grew up and we went to the top of one of the towers but it wasn't until a few weeks later that I comprehended the tragedy that so many lives were lost, not just a couple of huge buildings. I've still got some pictures of me and my sister on top of the building dated 08/00. I went to school and they tried to treat the day like a normal school day. I assume the teachers were told not to mention it but it was just so akward trying to learn after it just happened. One of my teachers had the TV on during breaks and recess and alot of kids went home. Always kind of pissed me off and disgusted me that they didn't even make an announcement about it or anything and played it off like it didn't happen.
Something really scary for me was, my dad works for the government. At the time, we were living right outside of DC. His office was across the street from the Pentagon. At the time though, my dad was in NYC for work. My uncle's office had a window that looked exactly at the Pentagon, he saw the plane and the explosion. Obviously with my dad working across from the Pentagon, we had a lot of family friends in that general area. It was kind of scary not knowing how they were. It ended up that my uncle went over to the Pentagon and helped them over there. As for my dad, He left for NYC Sunday Sept. 9th. He was supposed to stay at the hotel in the WTC or around it, I'm not sure, I believe it was in the trade center. At the last minute, their plans changed, and they got transferred to a hotel closer to the NYC DEA office. They ended up being about 5 minutes from the TC instead of right underneath it. I had so much family in that city too, just scary. It's still hard to believe that they haven't even started the memorial. I'm all for the Freedom Tower. I love it, I love the idea, but in a way, I think it's giving terrorist another opportunity.
