Sept. 11

[riocarmine]

Twitter's #WhereWereYou hashtag made me think about where I was when the first plane hit. For me, it was 10th-grade sculpture class with Ms. Keenan, a nice old lady with a penchant for getting real high before class and trying to maintain the rest of the day.

Anyway, when a kid (I wish I could remember who) came in and told us a plane had flown

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[not_jason]

I was 18 and in college on September 11, 2001. I was woken up by my roommate who had just gotten back from an early class. He said, "they bombed the world trade center!" and my immediate reaction was, "again?" I didn't really infer anything about the scope or success of the the "bombing," I just remembered hearing about previous attempts, and assumed this was of the same nature. It wasn't until a few minutes later, walking down the hall of my dorm (Gannett Hall) that I saw the news footage of the plane hitting the tower. Having a life-long fear of flying, this was just about the most horrifying image I could imagine

[quailliebe]

I was 16 and therefore... in 11th grade. I don't really remember it. I didn't know what the World Trade Center was and by the time someone had more or less explained it to me, I think the public already knew what was going on in terms of terrorists from the Middle East. I wasn't tuned into the world or news in general so I was pretty clueless. Again, though, I don't remember.

[fey_seraph]

I was rather confused although I immediately grasped the gravity of the situation, because I learned about it in an impromptu assembly of the whole school. However, they did not tell us where the "twin towers" were, and sadly, I did not know. Therefore I assumed they were not in the United States. I had grown up hearing of terrorism at US embassies and thought this was something similar. A girl was crying inconsolably because her father worked at the WTC.