I'm amazed that a teacher would talk about the terrorist attacks in a room filled with kids. That seems so irresponsible.
I was in seventh grade at the time. I was home from school since I didn't feel well. And my mom calls me, asking if I was watching television. When I said "yes," she told me not to watch the news because she didn't want me getting scared. That was when she told me about the attacks. I couldn't believe it. The whole thing seemed so surreal.
Most kids are like that. We're all morons at that age. With any luck, we grow out of it. I'm older than you, and I had classmates who still couldn't grasp the severity of the situation.
She didn't really call it a terrorist attack, though. She just said plane crash. I know a lot of people whose teachers stopped what they were doing and watched the news reports, like they were so stunned they forgot they were with children. I don't know, someone that hurts, to show how badly it affected people that they completely forgot what they were supposed to be doing and who they were with.
Oh god. If I was home sick I would have thought the thing was just a fever dream. That seems so crazy. :/
We are! But my idiocy and complete lack of feeling has always dogged after me. Ten years down the road I still feel guilty over how I thought about the attacks. It's one of those things you can never really forget, you know? It's like I still can't completely wrap my head around it, so I just focus on the one thing that affected me the most: how uncaring I was.
Admittedly, it still doesn't sit well with me that a teacher would put on the news in front of young children. I understand she was probably in shock and wanted to know what happened. But, if kids are going to see those images, then they should do so with family (and this is coming from a person who doesn't even want kids).
I don't remember much after my mom told me about the WTC. I was very shocked and confused. People actually flew planes into the WTC? Who does that? (Oh, I was so innocent.) I saw the towers from Liberty Island during a recent visit to New York. I couldn't believe they were gone. Then I found out about the Pentagon and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. :/
I can relate. I still feel guilty about some of the stupid things I did as a kid. Even when I try to rationalize my behavior (my brain isn't fully developed yet, etc.), I don't feel any better.
Sorry for the incredibly late response! I haven't been on the internet much lately. :(
It is kind of weird, no doubt. I remember still seeing the images a couple of months ago and wishing I had a family member beside me to tell me it was all right. I can't imagine how confused and scared I could have been if she got the TV to work.
Haha, so very innocent. I think we were all innocent, really. We were lucky to not remember what happened in Somalia and the genocide in Rwanda and such things. I think in American I grew up not realizing that something so horrible could happen to us, and the terrorists hitting the WTC was eyeopening. I was meant to see the WTC with my dad when we were in the City recently but we never got around to it, something I definitely regret.
Yeah. Rationalizing for my younger brain still doesn't make me feel any better.
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I was in seventh grade at the time. I was home from school since I didn't feel well. And my mom calls me, asking if I was watching television. When I said "yes," she told me not to watch the news because she didn't want me getting scared. That was when she told me about the attacks. I couldn't believe it. The whole thing seemed so surreal.
Most kids are like that. We're all morons at that age. With any luck, we grow out of it. I'm older than you, and I had classmates who still couldn't grasp the severity of the situation.
I'm glad no one you loved was lost that day.
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Oh god. If I was home sick I would have thought the thing was just a fever dream. That seems so crazy. :/
We are! But my idiocy and complete lack of feeling has always dogged after me. Ten years down the road I still feel guilty over how I thought about the attacks. It's one of those things you can never really forget, you know? It's like I still can't completely wrap my head around it, so I just focus on the one thing that affected me the most: how uncaring I was.
I am, too. Did you lose anyone?
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I don't remember much after my mom told me about the WTC. I was very shocked and confused. People actually flew planes into the WTC? Who does that? (Oh, I was so innocent.) I saw the towers from Liberty Island during a recent visit to New York. I couldn't believe they were gone. Then I found out about the Pentagon and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. :/
I can relate. I still feel guilty about some of the stupid things I did as a kid. Even when I try to rationalize my behavior (my brain isn't fully developed yet, etc.), I don't feel any better.
No, thank goodness!
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It is kind of weird, no doubt. I remember still seeing the images a couple of months ago and wishing I had a family member beside me to tell me it was all right. I can't imagine how confused and scared I could have been if she got the TV to work.
Haha, so very innocent. I think we were all innocent, really. We were lucky to not remember what happened in Somalia and the genocide in Rwanda and such things. I think in American I grew up not realizing that something so horrible could happen to us, and the terrorists hitting the WTC was eyeopening. I was meant to see the WTC with my dad when we were in the City recently but we never got around to it, something I definitely regret.
Yeah. Rationalizing for my younger brain still doesn't make me feel any better.
Good! I am glad to hear that. :)
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