Back in the mid-90's my family and I resided in France where many terrorist attacks occured in the subway over a short period of time and it really scared me as a child. One of the key upsides of moving back to America was that the "terror" was over because it didn't really happen here. Until 9/11 happened and then the only thing I could think of was: "IT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER AGAIN!!"
I was about 4 when 9/11 happened.And I actually remember it.I live in Bulgaria witch is pretty far from the U.S. but it was still a very big event that was documented a lot.I remember seeing parts of the news reports about it that day.It was on a new TV station at the time called BTV (witch is now huge in Bulgaria) and the event was very well documented.I vividly remember the infamous second plane crash.It was pretty horrifying to me although I was only 4.I just felt kind of scared.
The school was put on lockdown and the only way to leave was to have parent or guardian come pick you up. I didn't have school for another week as all of NYC was on lockdown. I lost an uncle on that day, 3 of my friends lost their fathers, 3 others lost older brothers, and 5 lost close relatives. That day will stick with me forever.
I was 11 years old starting my second day of 6th grade in NYC. I was in first period dance class when we heard what sounded like thunder above our school. I actually remember one of my friends saying I hope it doesn't rain because i have to walk home form school today. The phone started ringing in the classroom and after the teacher hung up she rushed to the window to quickly close the shades. Before she was able to close all of them the class saw smoke rising into the air.
I was four years old I think, all I remember was getting home from school and turning on the TV to hear "The World Trade Center has been hit." at four years old I barely understod, I just thought, "How can anyone believe that this is right?" I don't believe they had warped morals, I believe that anyone who believes that killing that many people is a good thing to do without a damn good reason... they cease to be human.
I was in first grade... I saw it on the news, my grandma was emotional, my cousin Stacey was actually near there at the time so everyone was worried. I stared at it all with wide-eyed wonder, but I wasn't surprised. I accepted it and tucked it away in my heart. Somehow, only in the first grade, I knew that this was gonna cause so much. I knew this, but I somehow expected this and accepted it.
i didnt know about this till i was ten i was in 5th grade and it would be the skool year of 2006-2007 and i had no idea cuz my parents never told me about it and it was never brought up so when i told my friends in school about my situation of ignorance twords the subject they made fun of me and thought i was stupid. but i honestly never new
i was 2, and my dad said that when he heard about it on the radio, he thought the world was ending. he rushed home and then i said i had a bad dream and my earliest memory is my mom telling my dad my uncle had been killed, and the hugging and crying.
I was 3, in preschool. I didn't know what was going on, which is really the only thing I really remember. Part of my family lived up in New York, and 2 people we knew died. My parents were in tears and I had no idea why...I really didn't know anything about the attack until 2 years ago in my ELO (gifted group) class and we were talking about terrorism.
I was 2. My and my mother had just been visiting my aunt and while we were walking back to our house, my grandfather pulled up in his car next to us and shouted 'The towers in New York have gone down!' He himself had been at my Uncle's house when the story came on the news and he thought he was watching a disaster film. My mum says she is shocked because a few years previously she had stayed in the North tower.
I was 15 and in my american history class. But most of my friends are a year or so younger and they don't really. Its strange how just one year can change the way you see the world. Because I remember. I remember that day and the fear even being halfway across the country. I remember the silence when the planes stopped flying. I remember the day they started again. I remember the towers falling. I remember how scared everyone was. It was terrifying.
I was 3. It all was a slow and painful journy. I was in a daycare. I remember looking up at the TV that announced this horrific news. As the live footage shot, all of the other babies' smiles from playing went to tears from sadness and scarce. I remember all of the parents coming to pick the babies up one by one... then i noticed i was last to be picked up. Even the daycare center handlers left. I cried and cried until someone in the distance came out of the car door lifted me up and took me to
@123patriotsfan to the car...... i still cried. i was in new york.... 7 blocks from the world trade center..... i lost conscience and woke up in a hospital... i had tape covering my body and a mask that flew oxygen in and out of my body... all i saw were the lights on the ceiling of the hospital...
I lost 7 family members
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I was 12 years old and I live in north easy England and we didn't get told about it at school, I remember getting to my nannas house as her just staring at the tv and I didn't understand what had happened, like you explained, I couldn't emotionally connect because it seemed so far away and not in my world. Now watching the documentaries back as an adult, it's terrifying.
I was in Second grade. At the time, the main thing I knew was that we had indoor recess and it was sunny, so I was POed. When I found out what happened, that planes had hit the Pentagon and the Twin Towers, I remember being terrified because I have an uncle who used to work in the Pentagon. I was convinced he was dead until he called the next day. Those hours were horrible. I remember not understanding why anyone would want to kill people like my uncle, who had never done anything wrong.
I was five and in the first grade and I remember lunch and being taken into class instead of going to recess and I remember my teacher telling us that something really bad happened. I remember playing in class instead of working for the rest of the day. That's all I can remember from that day.
I was in my 5th grade English class. My teachers and principle decided to keep the students in the dark throughout the day, so when I witnessed certain peers being taken out of school in tears I was clueless. At home, my parents made a choice similar to my elementary school; they told me the bare minimun and that was the end. Although it was a horrible event, I feel that many members of our generation do not respect 9/11 for reasons similar to mine and Dan's.
I live in Canada, and I was in grade 2. I remember that the principal made an announcement. Rumours started flying around that the president was in the accident, and I remember my teacher being very serious and telling us that wasn't true, and we should calm down. Then for most of my life I hear people talk about a "post-9/11 world" and it meant nothing to me. This year, I thought about it, and I can empathise with the impact this had on people's lives, but I know I can't fully understand, beca
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well dan i was 2 my mom was waching gma then they said what is that smoke over their then the breaking news came out and ext then the tower fell my mom started panicing ofcours i did not know what was going on so yea thats my story
There was a phone message one woman left her husband on 9/11. She was on the plane and he was asleep still in bed. He didn't get the phone call in time so she left a message for him. How horrible must it have been to have a message left for you telling you that your wife is going to be gone forever from you before you even get that message and there's nothing you could do or say or feel that would ever change that? That was heartbreaking just to think of myself in that position.
I was only 4. My dad worked there everyday, had his own office. That one particular day he decided to go on vacation with my brother. Only for that one day. That's hard to think about. Also, now he is the director of NCR. The company that owns World Trade Center 7 :)
I am 14 years old right now. I was 4 years old when 9/11 occurred. I will be the last age group to probably have any sort of scarce memory of 9/11. Thats remarkable to me, personally.
I had a similar feeling about 9/11 but mine was more delayed. I was 16 when the attack happened and like you I remember what I was doing. I was a foster child going through my own problems and recently moved from 17th street to the Bronx. I was on the roof of my building at 9 that morning staring at the big smoke puff thinking HOLY SHIT! What's that? I thought it was a bomb. Then people starting yelling about a terrorist attack and that they were going to the candy store ( middle easterne
i was 5 years old...i don't remember the day, the actual event. but i remember the photographs in the newspapers. i will never forget the photographs, that appeared day after day, attaching a name to a body.
i cant say it had a huge affect on me. a lot of the most horrifying elements of it were protected from me. but i knew that people had died terribly because of one man's whims. and i knew what those photographs meant
I was 21 sitting at home with my 7 month old son, on the phone with my mother, when I received a call from my ex-husband, whom I was married to at the time &who was a Marine, telling me to turn on the news & that the world trade center had just been hit. I clicked back over to my mom and we both sat in silence on the phone just watching as the second plane hit. I felt sorrow for those that lost loved ones and fear that my ex & my brother, also a marine, would go fight a war & might not come back
I was sitting on my parents bed. I was 6, and it was the day of my birthday party. The attack had happened two days before. I was watching re-run of the footage on the news on TV. People were asking my mom if I was still going to have my birthday party, and she said "hell yes." And while 9/11 is scary and horrible, I think my mom's perspective is right. Life should go on. We are lucky to live in a country when this is the most horrifying thing in our world.
And I remember the dramatic changes that happened since then, at least in most airports. I also didn't differentiate this from any other disaster around the world. It was, for me, equally as bad as some of the wars happening in african countries. I did cry a lot this day, and that doesn't happen a lot.
Sorry for that. I was a 9 years old and I am from Portugal. I remember siting at home watching the news and thinking how horrible it was and what I would do if I had been inside those towers. I didn't know much about the world, but I've been flying since I was two
My grandmother's house, and heard the live coverage on the radio. I was in a red, knit dress, and I really didn't understand what was going on. But I still remember.
I was 5. I remember certain details vividly, like when the teacher next door brought the tv into the class so that we could watch the news, even though no one else who was in my class remembers. I remember sitting close to the tv at home for hours with my parents while we watched the news. We were so distracted by the panic that we didn't even notice that our dog ran away until much later.
I was six on 9/11. I only remember this generally...tense and panicked sense that i felt in my house, from my siblings who were in highschool, and my parents. We live on the west coast of Canada..yet it was such a huge event that it impacted everyone around the world.. I only started learning about the actual details of 9/11 in middle school, 6 years later. They never once mentioned it in my elementary school.
I´m from Denmark and I remember 9/11 - I was 19 at the time, just home from highschool with my boyfriend, we turned on the TV and see the picture of the smoking tower just seconds before the second plane hits. I remember a new kind of fear, a feeling of incredible vulnerability and powerlessness. It was a terrible day for so many people i New York, but as Drsaaty writes, it´s easy to forget that in other places of the world that kind of fear is part of everyday-life.
It reflects the human condition in brutal truth that when a terrible thing happens, one of the first things people say on the subject is where they were at the time.
@raggamuffins13 In my opponion it dosen´t reflect the human condition in a bad way. I actually think that it shows the sensitive human nature and how this day affected people deeply. Most memoryes are connected to an emotion, anger, fear, happiness and so on, and with a day like 9/11, there is a lot of emotion, and many people remember every little detail. So when telling other people about this day that affected you deeply, telling where you were is just a natural way to start.
I was 25 that day. Maybe if you saw people jumping out of their office window, to escape the living hell they were in, you might have a better understanding. That day will be forever seared into the minds of those that remember the day of hell that day was.
I was 8 years old. Nobody from the school told us what was going on. Almost everyone from my grade was picked up from school by their parents (I wasn't). The only thing we knew was rumors, all horrible. I forgot my lunch. I came home and no one was there yet and I thought my parents were like dead or something. We lived in Pittsburgh, so there really was no chance that they had been affected, but I didn't know that. But then they came home.
i was in third grade when the towers fell. We were on a feild trip and one of the kids in my class cut his foot open on a rusty nail, so we took him the hospital and went back to school. When we arrived the school was abnormally quit, so our teacher asked the office, whats going on, and she said that we are under attack. She told us all to run to the classroom, to turn off the light and to lock the door. None of us knew what was going on and thought it was some sort of new drill.
the most important thing for me about 9/11 is the anger, and im surprised at how few ppl actually look into the cause. i dont wanna sound all conspiracy like, but they were passenger jets, and two passenger jets could never have brought down those buildings in that fashion. 10 min of google searching can conferm this. something else happened there and the part that bothers me is how any person could demolish a building full of normal ppl and of firefighter serving there community.
Yes, a passenger plane could do that to a building with the right infrastructure, and any engineer will confirm that as many already have. Each building started to crumble at its point of impact, no higher or lower.
@LieselDraper i dont wana argue. one source i liked was a documentery called "loose chance" on youtube. there are also many other videos and otherwise, that show some pretty big flaws in the official story. the most basic facts i could gain from my research was, one: video of the plane does not look like a passenger plane. and two: jet fuel doesn't burn at i high enough temp to melt structural steal. from the way the building collapsed very "neatly" in on themselves, something else was at play
US thinks they are really unfortunate that they had a massive terrorist attack attacking the US. But what did US payback to them, they invaded people's country, killed them much more than people who passed away in 9/11, homes were lost and their countries collapsed.
i was 10, though i understood perfectly what went on as well. the evidence for the attack doesn't add up considerin the size of the plan and where it hit didnt even add up to the area where the so called "collision" happened. bombs were planted in the building to make it bigger than it should never have been. it saddens me that the government and the president fully knew about the "attack" and yet they did nothing, every year on that day all i ask is why? and why so many innocent people?
I was 12, going on 13 that month, and I was horribly depressed with many self-destructive behaviors. Seeing the second tower get hit as we watched the news from home room...I sat in awe, wondering how I could be so selfish to think that my life was so bad THEN, when everything was about to get worse for the entire nation. I lived next to an air force base, and most of my friends' parents came to take them out of school that day. They had to plan what their family would do in a time of war...
my uncle all most died in 9/11 :( he had sever burns and wounds but survived ... sorry for anyone who lost their loved ones, i wish everyone ever lasting peace.
I was 12 when the attacks happened. September 11th is my birthday and it's really hard to celebrate and feel happy when my day of birth was a tragic event for the nation. I would never trivialize the pain and suffering of those who perished or were affected by that day but in this small way...the attacks affected me for a lifetime, outside of the general consensus of how it should affect a person. My thoughts are always with those people on that day, It will was be bittersweet for me.
i was 7 years old when it happened and i live on long island. my neighbor worked in the building right across the street. i remember waiting to hear from them and making sure that everything was ok. my friend that i met in highschools dad died in the attack. i knew two heros that went in to save people and try to help and find people at the site and then died from cancer. i know that all people in new york are greatly affected by 9/11
@padlocksncocoapuffs to add to my comment i was picked up from school and brought home. me and my dad watched the tv in his bedroom and witnessed both towers fall on live tv. let me tell you that is not something you can ever unsee or feel. i cant explain but it is something very different watching it live than watching it over again now, especially at 10 years old.
i was in 5th grade and i have a memory of being sent back to my homeroom and staring at the loudspeaker reading name after name and waiting for mine to be called to be sent home because i live a little over an hour outside of new york city and parents were scared. some of our firefighters went in. i didnt understand it as i watched it on tv but now every time i see the city skyline as i arrive i see how empty it looks now as compared to how it looked when i was young.
i was four years old and have a strikingly vivid memory of that day. i was in preschool and we were on the floor, watching some kids channel. then all of a sudden the kids channel switched over to the news talking about the attack. by the time the second tower was hit they were evacuating the school, being close to oriley raceway park in indiana(home of one of the largest gasoline holding facilities in the us. my dad got there in a matter of minutes. we were going at least 70 in a 45 to get home
@hecht0520 cause i was jackin off when it fell xD get it cuz every1 else was so sad and i was havin the time of my life xD who cares anyway the ppl who died prolly deservd 2 die neways if u kno wat im sayin xD
thanks so much for making this video. I was 8 years old at the time and it was the day after my birthday. My only true memory of the day was listening to my dad talk about it with my neighbor while he was raking the leaves. Like you I don't remember very well a world before sept 11th and sometimes I feel a bit guilty about not having any real personal emotional reaction to the day. Thanks for making me feel a bit better about it. :)
I was 9 living in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and initally, when I was told what had happened. I didn't understand. Our teachers wouldn't tell us, and it was only when my dad came to get me and take me home did I start to understand. There was pure pandemonium around the school's main office that baffled me, and as I walked in the door of my apartment I saw my mom crying on the couch. A few seconds later, she went into a ballistic waterfall of tears and terror as the second tower was collapsing
@Taima before her eyes. I ran out to the fire escape (we lived on the 4th floor of our building) and I had a clear view of lower Manhattan as well as the rest of the tower's destructive descent. I spent that day terrified, and it's effected me very much so ever since. I could make this longer, but this is YouTube, not Dr.Phil. That's my story.
I was also 11 years old and in 6th grade. My school was an elementary and middle school combined, which may have been why the teachers didn't tell us what happened. My dad told me what had happened when he picked me up from school. I didn't quite understand, I thought there had been bombings or something. Even when I saw the coverage on TV, I couldn't fathom that this was something human beings would do to each other.
@yayafenella I remember sitting at a stoplight and realizing that there were no planes in the sky. I had visited NYC in may of 2001. We had originally planned to visit the World Trade Center, but we ran out of time. We went by on the bus and the tour guide nonchalantly pointed the center out to us. I barely had time to look, and at the time id didn't really matter to me. I, like everyone else, had no idea what the next months would bring.
I was in 7th grade 2nd hour in social studies we had one of the few tvs in our class room I was shocked and knew it was terrible but I didn't realy have a full understanding of what hapened but at the time it didn't have a lot of affect on me. I look back and realize how ignorant I wad back then
I was three. I doubt I was doing much more than covering myself in mud at the bottom of the garden. I only found out more about it as I got older, and it was only in the last year that I began to really be emotionally effected by it, as I've seen videos of the day etc. At the time I had no idea it had happened, but now I just find the entire thing really disturbing and it hurts to think about it.
I think it has shaped how our generation has developed, we might have been too young to have a deep emotional connection but the way we view the world, knowing that there is good and evil.
i live in Australia and i was 9 years old. i remember waking up early wanting to watch cartoons on tv before having to get ready for school and every channel was showing the same footage over and over again and waking my mum up to ask her what it all meant. I was old enough to under stand that it was a bad thing and that people were hurt.
and to add to my last comment I've red recently that in the 10 year war since 911 150000 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan,only officialy... and there was no reason for that either. I am 21 now and I don't understand how the American people can walk with so much blood on their hands.
I was also 11, I was home (in a country far away from the US) and my dad called us (me, my sister and my mom) to watch in on the TV and watched it live... I don't remember what I felt but I know I stayed hours in front of the TV and my parents were explaining to me what was happening, and I still remember watching live the towers falling. But I do know that I did understand that thousands of people died, far away, but people.
I'm from Greece and I was 7 the day of the attack. I remember my parents rushing to the television and frantically calling people to spread the news and answer phone calls. They were shocked and scared - I was confused, thought it was just a Hollywood movie, until my father explained that this was actually real...! It was very shocking...
i was 7 and my experience is similar to dans- i didnt understand at the time why anyone would want to kill so many people-my parents explained it and it did make me feel sad- i watched some news footage and it really did scare me but at the same time i only new one person in, i probably still do who had a relative taken away from them-like many things in the news that upset me there all far away so im not effected personally, london however was different-tht did effect me.
9/11 is still a very popular discussion even in Australia. I barely remember anything... but i do remember seeing news from the attack on every channel. Like you I was very confused but i do have a much better understanding now. As I was very young during the occurrence, I am not terrified by it at all :\ Because I am assumed to be muslim though as I am from Iran, it has actually impacted on my life a lot and because of that I think 9/11 is terrible
I was living away from my hometown at 9/11. I remember that day so clearly and everything I did and said about the towers. I remember calling my mom and dad just telling them that I loved them. It was my first year in college and I am from Manitoba, Canada. It changed my way of thinking about myself and my family. I also remember the hate that people had against Muslims. I did not like seeing that because the actions of a few don't reflect on the whole race.
I was in kindergarten that day. We live very close to where flight 93 crashed. My dad came to school to pick me up early & take me home. I thought it was a special day cause I got to leave.. but no. I didn't go home & watch cartoons on TV. I wasn't allowed. My parents turned every TV to the news & then I was kind of scared. I didn't understand it well then, but now it sends chills down my spine everytime I visit the Flight 93 memorial.
i was 8,it was 530am and i heard my mother scream bloody murder,i woke up ran into her room and found her passed out and looked up at the tv and the trade centers were on fire and all i could think of was where is my daddy,my dad was in turkey at the time.it took us a week to get a hold of him,i didnt go to school for a week,cause even at 8 it struck me hard.
I was 8, in third grade. I remember it was just a regular school day until the principle came in, and he and the teacher went into the hall way for a minute, and then the teacher came back and turned on the tv and we watched all day.
When i got home that day i knew for the most part that something bad had happened, but it didn't really affect me so like any kid i didn't really care, I can remember my grandma explaining it to me, I'm only realizing now why she was there that day.
I was in 2nd grade, 10 years ago when it happened. I remember my teacher getting called to the hallway, and then she said something really bad had happened. I think I blocked the rest of the day out. Dan, if you want to find deep emotion for this day, listen to Heaven - I Miss you Daddy DJ Sammy.<3
I was 6 or 7...I was in school and no one told us what was happening. Suddenly, parents started picking the kids up early...it was me and about 4 other kids in class. When I got home my mom explained, in great detail, what had happened. I don't really remember much else except that I cried the rest of the day and when I went to bed I asked God why he would let such a horrible things happen...
i was 4 and i was at my day care and i remember that it was all over the tv and i asked the woman watching me 2 change the channel because it was scarring me and i can still here her say "its scarring me to sweet heart"
I was 5 years old, i went to kindergarten as a half day kid, and i remember hearing about it, and fighting with my parents about how somebody just couldnt purposely hurt all of thoes people like that .... ~BIff
I was only 8 years old and all I remember is that the teachers had heard that something had happened and were being quiet about it. Some rumors were spreading through students, but there were no details. Just something big had happened. I learned later what it was, but didn't fully understand the impact until a few years later when I saw a play that referenced 9/11 heavily and showed what an impact it had.
9/11 is when the government of the US, With Nixon in power. Told the CIA in 1970, to make a military uprising in Chile, murdering the most likely new president (Salvador Ayende) and installing a right wing dictatorship with Pinochet in power, provoking a large scale of genocide in the country an torturing the citizens against the current government. So that is our 9/11 for us: the Latin Americans. Thanks of curse qe share the sadness of this day...
I am kind of the same way as Dan. I didn't think about it much either. It didn't make sense to me, and I didn't really understand at all. I was 8 at the time it happened.
Dan, I am an Australian, and at the time I was in year 12, the same day my Grandfather died from a stroke. While I was shocked at what I saw, it didn't entirely sink in. A lot has happened since then, I have grown older, I know less, but I feel more. I have developed a greater empathy all-round, and seeing the same tragic images today, such as the Falling Man it actually brings me to tears. When at the age of 18 being the self-centred teen that I was, the images seemed surreal, like a movie.
I was only 5 and I live in Holland (so I was probably asleep when it happened, time difference and all), but I still remember it being all over the news and, like dan, didn't really understand much of the world yet and despite thinking it was horrible, it never felt horrible to me. I had never heard of the falling man picture, but still that really gets to me.
R.I.P. to the 2,976 American people that lost their lives on 9/11 and R.I.P. to the 48,644 Afghan and 1,690,903 Iraqi people that paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit. Oh and the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who experience this everyday. Your 9/11 is their 24/7.
I was 13 when 9/11 happened living in Florida. a lot of things that happened that day are a little hazey but i do remember one thing very clearly. i was in art class and our school went on lockdown and nobody could leave class. my teacher turner the tv on and we were watching what happened. i remember being nervous because my uncle was a police officer that worked in NYC
I don't understand why people are talking about it just because its the 10th year anniversary. Not that I don't think it was important I just don't see why we have to talk about it just because it has been 10 years:P
@Vacmachine The problem is that people have been talking about it every single year until now, and now they bring it up yet again, on television, on radio, on just about every single media they have. Not that I mind people talking about it, don't get me wrong, but think about the people who actually lost a father, mother, sister, brother, son, daughter, or any other kind of loved person in their life. They get reminded of this horrible act every single year, just because people can't let it go.
I was in the 4th grade when it happened I was in minnesota and yeah...I understood it was bad...i went online and saw all the horror of it all and to this day I cant forget those images and videos.
I was 8 years old when it happened. My school was on lock down, and we were immediately sent home on the buses. There was one boy on my bus who was a big know-it-all and started talking about it the next day. I'll never forget what he said to me: "My parents said that people were jumping out of the towers. Gramma jumped too, but it's okay because she only broke a leg. She's in the hospital but, they said I can't see her right now." Unfortunately, he never WOULD see his grandmother again...
@GleefulKei It's good that you mentioned the jumpers. This is one factor that Dan left out. The horrible, unbearable choice that faced people trapped in the floors that were on fire—to burn or fall... the photos of people jumping, falling. And the accounts from people on the ground of the sights and sounds of bodies crashing to earth around them... all these gave 9-11 a level of horror that wasn't present in other attacks and bombings.
I had just started the 1st grade when it happened. Where I live, it was morning. I remember waking up and knowing that something was not right, because the TV was on, and we never ever watched TV in the morning. I saw the live images of the towers burning. My parents looked worried, and I asked them what was going on, but they just turned off the TV and made me go brush my teeth or something. It's as though they were trying to protect my innocent, ignorant, child's view of the world.
I was 23, my grandmother was pounding on my door and yelling, "We are under attack" those words and the images of the World Trade Center, I will never forget my thoughts. Who are we going to fight, is their more, are they going to Nuke us, are we going to die, am I going die? This is a declaration of war! But the truth is i never saw it coming, i never thought a group of people would take the service and worship of God and convert it to evil.
I was 12, and I distinctly remember that day being the day that my 'childhood oblivion bubble' was vaporized. I grew up on 9/11. Everything I thought I knew about the world was fairly incorrect, and that was a startling realization that changed me a lot. It's a day I can remember to extraordinary detail. Even today I have a hard time with the yearly anniversary, because it represents a lot of things for me, and it's just difficult to put into words.
My father was lucky to be on the other side of town and pick up two of my cousins that day. I live in a city just North of NYC and that day felt very weird, especially with many firemen and police going down to help with the cleanup.
On that day, I was 6 years old, in the 2nd grade. What made that day different from any other day tho was a lot of kids were leaving school early that day in the morning. I remember even the teacher saying and I thinking that "Oh, they must all have dentist/ doctor appointments today." It wasn't until my mom picked up from school that day and she told me that there was an attack on the world trade center and later showed me what happened on TV. It was a very weird day.
I was nearly five when 9/11 occurred, so my memories of the event are vague. I recall my mother picking me up from the Children's Care portion of the gym she attended at the time. I remember that she was afraid - trying to keep calm around me, but not entirely succeeding. My understanding of the world was too little for me to know what to think and, forever more, the events of that day did not involve anything about the incident much outside of the slight confusion of an uninformed child.
You remember it vividly because of the "Flashbulb Memory" phenomenon.
OhJenniferLyn 2 days ago
Back in the mid-90's my family and I resided in France where many terrorist attacks occured in the subway over a short period of time and it really scared me as a child. One of the key upsides of moving back to America was that the "terror" was over because it didn't really happen here. Until 9/11 happened and then the only thing I could think of was: "IT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER AGAIN!!"
francesseven 6 days ago
I was 1 year old and in Canada, so...
teakgheh31 1 week ago
I was about 4 when 9/11 happened.And I actually remember it.I live in Bulgaria witch is pretty far from the U.S. but it was still a very big event that was documented a lot.I remember seeing parts of the news reports about it that day.It was on a new TV station at the time called BTV (witch is now huge in Bulgaria) and the event was very well documented.I vividly remember the infamous second plane crash.It was pretty horrifying to me although I was only 4.I just felt kind of scared.
AmvFreakCH 2 weeks ago
He talks like Obama. *word, word, word, uhuuhu, word, word, word, word, eeuuhhhh*
theblueisyou 2 weeks ago
Continue:
The school was put on lockdown and the only way to leave was to have parent or guardian come pick you up. I didn't have school for another week as all of NYC was on lockdown. I lost an uncle on that day, 3 of my friends lost their fathers, 3 others lost older brothers, and 5 lost close relatives. That day will stick with me forever.
herione1 2 weeks ago
I was 11 years old starting my second day of 6th grade in NYC. I was in first period dance class when we heard what sounded like thunder above our school. I actually remember one of my friends saying I hope it doesn't rain because i have to walk home form school today. The phone started ringing in the classroom and after the teacher hung up she rushed to the window to quickly close the shades. Before she was able to close all of them the class saw smoke rising into the air.
herione1 2 weeks ago
It was my first day of preschool and my first day of school ever. Yeah
drummerchic03 1 month ago
I was four years old I think, all I remember was getting home from school and turning on the TV to hear "The World Trade Center has been hit." at four years old I barely understod, I just thought, "How can anyone believe that this is right?" I don't believe they had warped morals, I believe that anyone who believes that killing that many people is a good thing to do without a damn good reason... they cease to be human.
snippytheminer 1 month ago
I was in first grade... I saw it on the news, my grandma was emotional, my cousin Stacey was actually near there at the time so everyone was worried. I stared at it all with wide-eyed wonder, but I wasn't surprised. I accepted it and tucked it away in my heart. Somehow, only in the first grade, I knew that this was gonna cause so much. I knew this, but I somehow expected this and accepted it.
smileymonster27 1 month ago
i didnt know about this till i was ten i was in 5th grade and it would be the skool year of 2006-2007 and i had no idea cuz my parents never told me about it and it was never brought up so when i told my friends in school about my situation of ignorance twords the subject they made fun of me and thought i was stupid. but i honestly never new
mysticNTN 2 months ago
i was 2, and my dad said that when he heard about it on the radio, he thought the world was ending. he rushed home and then i said i had a bad dream and my earliest memory is my mom telling my dad my uncle had been killed, and the hugging and crying.
plushalligator 2 months ago
I was 3, in preschool. I didn't know what was going on, which is really the only thing I really remember. Part of my family lived up in New York, and 2 people we knew died. My parents were in tears and I had no idea why...I really didn't know anything about the attack until 2 years ago in my ELO (gifted group) class and we were talking about terrorism.
Goldlucky13 2 months ago
I was 2. My and my mother had just been visiting my aunt and while we were walking back to our house, my grandfather pulled up in his car next to us and shouted 'The towers in New York have gone down!' He himself had been at my Uncle's house when the story came on the news and he thought he was watching a disaster film. My mum says she is shocked because a few years previously she had stayed in the North tower.
HollyYerawizard 2 months ago
I was 15 and in my american history class. But most of my friends are a year or so younger and they don't really. Its strange how just one year can change the way you see the world. Because I remember. I remember that day and the fear even being halfway across the country. I remember the silence when the planes stopped flying. I remember the day they started again. I remember the towers falling. I remember how scared everyone was. It was terrifying.
MinnNice 2 months ago
I was 3. It all was a slow and painful journy. I was in a daycare. I remember looking up at the TV that announced this horrific news. As the live footage shot, all of the other babies' smiles from playing went to tears from sadness and scarce. I remember all of the parents coming to pick the babies up one by one... then i noticed i was last to be picked up. Even the daycare center handlers left. I cried and cried until someone in the distance came out of the car door lifted me up and took me to
123patriotsfan 3 months ago
@123patriotsfan to the car...... i still cried. i was in new york.... 7 blocks from the world trade center..... i lost conscience and woke up in a hospital... i had tape covering my body and a mask that flew oxygen in and out of my body... all i saw were the lights on the ceiling of the hospital...
I lost 7 family members
Thumbs up these comments if you know a loved one that dies in this horrific accident
123patriotsfan 3 months ago
I was 12 years old and I live in north easy England and we didn't get told about it at school, I remember getting to my nannas house as her just staring at the tv and I didn't understand what had happened, like you explained, I couldn't emotionally connect because it seemed so far away and not in my world. Now watching the documentaries back as an adult, it's terrifying.
fernandoskid 3 months ago
I was in Second grade. At the time, the main thing I knew was that we had indoor recess and it was sunny, so I was POed. When I found out what happened, that planes had hit the Pentagon and the Twin Towers, I remember being terrified because I have an uncle who used to work in the Pentagon. I was convinced he was dead until he called the next day. Those hours were horrible. I remember not understanding why anyone would want to kill people like my uncle, who had never done anything wrong.
heyitsrissa 3 months ago
I was five and in the first grade and I remember lunch and being taken into class instead of going to recess and I remember my teacher telling us that something really bad happened. I remember playing in class instead of working for the rest of the day. That's all I can remember from that day.
05ALMA20 3 months ago
So dan is 21 or 22 years old
Bananaluver3 4 months ago
@Bananaluver3 21
tm4629 4 months ago
Me being the age of 9 and living in new York city and seeing everything in person. Words couldn't describe what it was like.
92NycGirl 4 months ago
i was sitting on my couch when i heard it on the news i broke down i said aloud NOOOOO THE STOCKS!!!!
JohnnyMarsBar 4 months ago
I was in my 5th grade English class. My teachers and principle decided to keep the students in the dark throughout the day, so when I witnessed certain peers being taken out of school in tears I was clueless. At home, my parents made a choice similar to my elementary school; they told me the bare minimun and that was the end. Although it was a horrible event, I feel that many members of our generation do not respect 9/11 for reasons similar to mine and Dan's.
Mockriot4338 4 months ago
i was only 2 when it happend and i had just been moved to england a month before 9/11..my uncle and auntie didn't make it :(
jon2000athan 4 months ago
lol.
HolyFlyingJesus 4 months ago
I was five years old and was in school. I was taken home and told that my grandfather became a hero on that die. I love him
5423Chicagofan 4 months ago
HE DIDNT SAY HELLO WORLD!!!! HOW DO WE KNOW WHO HE IS TALKING TO!
MickJOakley 4 months ago
the falling man is an amazing documentary, its must see.
OMFGZmissy 4 months ago
I live in Canada, and I was in grade 2. I remember that the principal made an announcement. Rumours started flying around that the president was in the accident, and I remember my teacher being very serious and telling us that wasn't true, and we should calm down. Then for most of my life I hear people talk about a "post-9/11 world" and it meant nothing to me. This year, I thought about it, and I can empathise with the impact this had on people's lives, but I know I can't fully understand, beca
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TripleAEntertainment 5 months ago
well dan i was 2 my mom was waching gma then they said what is that smoke over their then the breaking news came out and ext then the tower fell my mom started panicing ofcours i did not know what was going on so yea thats my story
noe555567 5 months ago
There was a phone message one woman left her husband on 9/11. She was on the plane and he was asleep still in bed. He didn't get the phone call in time so she left a message for him. How horrible must it have been to have a message left for you telling you that your wife is going to be gone forever from you before you even get that message and there's nothing you could do or say or feel that would ever change that? That was heartbreaking just to think of myself in that position.
AsherSax 5 months ago 8
I was only 4. My dad worked there everyday, had his own office. That one particular day he decided to go on vacation with my brother. Only for that one day. That's hard to think about. Also, now he is the director of NCR. The company that owns World Trade Center 7 :)
WePrankTheUSA 5 months ago
I was 9 and remember everything.
megustavertereir 5 months ago
I was 7 and had just immigrated to US. It was horrifying.
BuyMEaDriNk43 5 months ago
I was 6 when it happened
shazukal 5 months ago
I am 14 years old right now. I was 4 years old when 9/11 occurred. I will be the last age group to probably have any sort of scarce memory of 9/11. Thats remarkable to me, personally.
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toucthing very toucthing thx for sharing
julioizawsm 5 months ago
I had a similar feeling about 9/11 but mine was more delayed. I was 16 when the attack happened and like you I remember what I was doing. I was a foster child going through my own problems and recently moved from 17th street to the Bronx. I was on the roof of my building at 9 that morning staring at the big smoke puff thinking HOLY SHIT! What's that? I thought it was a bomb. Then people starting yelling about a terrorist attack and that they were going to the candy store ( middle easterne
MayJulPer 5 months ago
I was nine. I didn't realize you were only two years older than me.
MrCDSmiles 5 months ago in playlist More videos from pogobat
about 2 weeks ago on 2011 9/11 i saw people getting married :O !!!!
gmangames1 5 months ago
i was 5 years old...i don't remember the day, the actual event. but i remember the photographs in the newspapers. i will never forget the photographs, that appeared day after day, attaching a name to a body.
i cant say it had a huge affect on me. a lot of the most horrifying elements of it were protected from me. but i knew that people had died terribly because of one man's whims. and i knew what those photographs meant
oniondust 5 months ago
I grew up in the post 9/11 world, even in britain things changed. Its hard being a rebellious teenager in a Cctv world..............
TheDubPiper 5 months ago in playlist More videos from pogobat
On 9/11 I was asleep. I woke up to it. and i knew thats when the world was going to shit.
only one good thing came out of 9/11. the band that saved my life. my chemical romance
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WHOOOO TOP COMMENT YES!!!
julioizawsm 5 months ago
I was 21 sitting at home with my 7 month old son, on the phone with my mother, when I received a call from my ex-husband, whom I was married to at the time &who was a Marine, telling me to turn on the news & that the world trade center had just been hit. I clicked back over to my mom and we both sat in silence on the phone just watching as the second plane hit. I felt sorrow for those that lost loved ones and fear that my ex & my brother, also a marine, would go fight a war & might not come back
jedimaster1179 5 months ago
i was in 3rd grade i don't remember too much
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I was sitting on my parents bed. I was 6, and it was the day of my birthday party. The attack had happened two days before. I was watching re-run of the footage on the news on TV. People were asking my mom if I was still going to have my birthday party, and she said "hell yes." And while 9/11 is scary and horrible, I think my mom's perspective is right. Life should go on. We are lucky to live in a country when this is the most horrifying thing in our world.
CrayonInMyMouth 5 months ago
And I remember the dramatic changes that happened since then, at least in most airports. I also didn't differentiate this from any other disaster around the world. It was, for me, equally as bad as some of the wars happening in african countries. I did cry a lot this day, and that doesn't happen a lot.
24MandyC 5 months ago
Sorry for that. I was a 9 years old and I am from Portugal. I remember siting at home watching the news and thinking how horrible it was and what I would do if I had been inside those towers. I didn't know much about the world, but I've been flying since I was two
24MandyC 5 months ago
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24MandyC 5 months ago
isn't it 10 years ago not 11 because it happened in 2001 and its 2011 now
SubWalkthrough 5 months ago
My grandmother's house, and heard the live coverage on the radio. I was in a red, knit dress, and I really didn't understand what was going on. But I still remember.
TheWrongLefty 5 months ago
I was five years old. My mother was pregnant with my youngest sister. We were on a road trip to mu
TheWrongLefty 5 months ago
I was 5. I remember certain details vividly, like when the teacher next door brought the tv into the class so that we could watch the news, even though no one else who was in my class remembers. I remember sitting close to the tv at home for hours with my parents while we watched the news. We were so distracted by the panic that we didn't even notice that our dog ran away until much later.
insertnamehere84 5 months ago
I was six on 9/11. I only remember this generally...tense and panicked sense that i felt in my house, from my siblings who were in highschool, and my parents. We live on the west coast of Canada..yet it was such a huge event that it impacted everyone around the world.. I only started learning about the actual details of 9/11 in middle school, 6 years later. They never once mentioned it in my elementary school.
Iararawr 5 months ago 20
I´m from Denmark and I remember 9/11 - I was 19 at the time, just home from highschool with my boyfriend, we turned on the TV and see the picture of the smoking tower just seconds before the second plane hits. I remember a new kind of fear, a feeling of incredible vulnerability and powerlessness. It was a terrible day for so many people i New York, but as Drsaaty writes, it´s easy to forget that in other places of the world that kind of fear is part of everyday-life.
buneojne 5 months ago
It reflects the human condition in brutal truth that when a terrible thing happens, one of the first things people say on the subject is where they were at the time.
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@raggamuffins13 In my opponion it dosen´t reflect the human condition in a bad way. I actually think that it shows the sensitive human nature and how this day affected people deeply. Most memoryes are connected to an emotion, anger, fear, happiness and so on, and with a day like 9/11, there is a lot of emotion, and many people remember every little detail. So when telling other people about this day that affected you deeply, telling where you were is just a natural way to start.
buneojne 5 months ago
i was 2.
czechboy3 5 months ago
I was 25 that day. Maybe if you saw people jumping out of their office window, to escape the living hell they were in, you might have a better understanding. That day will be forever seared into the minds of those that remember the day of hell that day was.
MJavert13 5 months ago
I was 11 as well.
Robolawrence23 5 months ago
I do not wanna get into a youtube fight here guys , but i do wanna say that what the U.S did in return for 9/11 was much ... much worse
But i do still feel bad for the innocent americans that died that day , R.I.P
AwesomeTeeVee 5 months ago
I was 8 years old. Nobody from the school told us what was going on. Almost everyone from my grade was picked up from school by their parents (I wasn't). The only thing we knew was rumors, all horrible. I forgot my lunch. I came home and no one was there yet and I thought my parents were like dead or something. We lived in Pittsburgh, so there really was no chance that they had been affected, but I didn't know that. But then they came home.
MaryChaseStrong 5 months ago
i was in third grade when the towers fell. We were on a feild trip and one of the kids in my class cut his foot open on a rusty nail, so we took him the hospital and went back to school. When we arrived the school was abnormally quit, so our teacher asked the office, whats going on, and she said that we are under attack. She told us all to run to the classroom, to turn off the light and to lock the door. None of us knew what was going on and thought it was some sort of new drill.
supermarikfan 5 months ago
the most important thing for me about 9/11 is the anger, and im surprised at how few ppl actually look into the cause. i dont wanna sound all conspiracy like, but they were passenger jets, and two passenger jets could never have brought down those buildings in that fashion. 10 min of google searching can conferm this. something else happened there and the part that bothers me is how any person could demolish a building full of normal ppl and of firefighter serving there community.
thenatehuffman 5 months ago
@thenatehuffman
Yes, a passenger plane could do that to a building with the right infrastructure, and any engineer will confirm that as many already have. Each building started to crumble at its point of impact, no higher or lower.
LieselDraper 5 months ago
@LieselDraper i dont wana argue. one source i liked was a documentery called "loose chance" on youtube. there are also many other videos and otherwise, that show some pretty big flaws in the official story. the most basic facts i could gain from my research was, one: video of the plane does not look like a passenger plane. and two: jet fuel doesn't burn at i high enough temp to melt structural steal. from the way the building collapsed very "neatly" in on themselves, something else was at play
thenatehuffman 5 months ago
i was 9 years old when it happened, i was in the 4th grade. today my friends are serving in iraq and afghanistan. its crazy to think about it really.
jwalker1791 5 months ago
You spoke to a camera for an hour :O
phorathorn 5 months ago
What suburb of Detroit? I'm from Trenton. :)
closet0home 5 months ago
US thinks they are really unfortunate that they had a massive terrorist attack attacking the US. But what did US payback to them, they invaded people's country, killed them much more than people who passed away in 9/11, homes were lost and their countries collapsed.
100jokes 5 months ago
i was 10, though i understood perfectly what went on as well. the evidence for the attack doesn't add up considerin the size of the plan and where it hit didnt even add up to the area where the so called "collision" happened. bombs were planted in the building to make it bigger than it should never have been. it saddens me that the government and the president fully knew about the "attack" and yet they did nothing, every year on that day all i ask is why? and why so many innocent people?
howlingserenity 5 months ago
I was 12, going on 13 that month, and I was horribly depressed with many self-destructive behaviors. Seeing the second tower get hit as we watched the news from home room...I sat in awe, wondering how I could be so selfish to think that my life was so bad THEN, when everything was about to get worse for the entire nation. I lived next to an air force base, and most of my friends' parents came to take them out of school that day. They had to plan what their family would do in a time of war...
OrionsChild 5 months ago
i remember the day and i was 5 xD
JarakLivings 5 months ago
@JarakLivings Congratgulations want a fucking cookie?
FlyFFGamingStudios 5 months ago
@FlyFFGamingStudios Sure, you got any choc chip? ^^
JarakLivings 5 months ago
yeah - the bad guys are still out there in Pentagon and The White House
Jokker120 5 months ago
my uncle all most died in 9/11 :( he had sever burns and wounds but survived ... sorry for anyone who lost their loved ones, i wish everyone ever lasting peace.
MrKickboxingLad 5 months ago
I was 12 when the attacks happened. September 11th is my birthday and it's really hard to celebrate and feel happy when my day of birth was a tragic event for the nation. I would never trivialize the pain and suffering of those who perished or were affected by that day but in this small way...the attacks affected me for a lifetime, outside of the general consensus of how it should affect a person. My thoughts are always with those people on that day, It will was be bittersweet for me.
poprocksugar 5 months ago
i was 5. dont remember anything except that i moved to a new house that day
. f-ck bin laden and his whole team for doing this.
splah454 5 months ago
I was 6. End of story.
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i was 7 years old when it happened and i live on long island. my neighbor worked in the building right across the street. i remember waiting to hear from them and making sure that everything was ok. my friend that i met in highschools dad died in the attack. i knew two heros that went in to save people and try to help and find people at the site and then died from cancer. i know that all people in new york are greatly affected by 9/11
omgitsxxbri 5 months ago
@padlocksncocoapuffs to add to my comment i was picked up from school and brought home. me and my dad watched the tv in his bedroom and witnessed both towers fall on live tv. let me tell you that is not something you can ever unsee or feel. i cant explain but it is something very different watching it live than watching it over again now, especially at 10 years old.
padlocksncocoapuffs 5 months ago
i was in 5th grade and i have a memory of being sent back to my homeroom and staring at the loudspeaker reading name after name and waiting for mine to be called to be sent home because i live a little over an hour outside of new york city and parents were scared. some of our firefighters went in. i didnt understand it as i watched it on tv but now every time i see the city skyline as i arrive i see how empty it looks now as compared to how it looked when i was young.
padlocksncocoapuffs 5 months ago
I WAS 2
julioizawsm 5 months ago 17
@julioizawsm I'm older than you, somebody younger than me watched dan. YOUR COOL.
RainbowRacoon 5 months ago
@julioizawsm So was I...
bbellac 5 months ago
@bbellac whoa.
julioizawsm 5 months ago
@julioizawsm i was a few months old!
Twighlight21fan 5 months ago
i was four years old and have a strikingly vivid memory of that day. i was in preschool and we were on the floor, watching some kids channel. then all of a sudden the kids channel switched over to the news talking about the attack. by the time the second tower was hit they were evacuating the school, being close to oriley raceway park in indiana(home of one of the largest gasoline holding facilities in the us. my dad got there in a matter of minutes. we were going at least 70 in a 45 to get home
mrspaztoid 5 months ago
I was 1 :P
ProductionsFaceless 5 months ago
opera?
Luisape24 5 months ago
I was 4 when this happened.. so I have no real story.
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i was jackin off when da towers fell lol
freakforfish 5 months ago
@freakforfish ur an asshole
hecht0520 5 months ago
@hecht0520 cause i was jackin off when it fell xD get it cuz every1 else was so sad and i was havin the time of my life xD who cares anyway the ppl who died prolly deservd 2 die neways if u kno wat im sayin xD
freakforfish 5 months ago
@freakforfish how the fuck is that funny. FUCK YOU
mrspaztoid 5 months ago
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freakforfish 5 months ago
thanks so much for making this video. I was 8 years old at the time and it was the day after my birthday. My only true memory of the day was listening to my dad talk about it with my neighbor while he was raking the leaves. Like you I don't remember very well a world before sept 11th and sometimes I feel a bit guilty about not having any real personal emotional reaction to the day. Thanks for making me feel a bit better about it. :)
SarahBatya 5 months ago
I was 9 living in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and initally, when I was told what had happened. I didn't understand. Our teachers wouldn't tell us, and it was only when my dad came to get me and take me home did I start to understand. There was pure pandemonium around the school's main office that baffled me, and as I walked in the door of my apartment I saw my mom crying on the couch. A few seconds later, she went into a ballistic waterfall of tears and terror as the second tower was collapsing
Taima 5 months ago
@Taima before her eyes. I ran out to the fire escape (we lived on the 4th floor of our building) and I had a clear view of lower Manhattan as well as the rest of the tower's destructive descent. I spent that day terrified, and it's effected me very much so ever since. I could make this longer, but this is YouTube, not Dr.Phil. That's my story.
Taima 5 months ago
I was also 11 years old and in 6th grade. My school was an elementary and middle school combined, which may have been why the teachers didn't tell us what happened. My dad told me what had happened when he picked me up from school. I didn't quite understand, I thought there had been bombings or something. Even when I saw the coverage on TV, I couldn't fathom that this was something human beings would do to each other.
yayafenella 5 months ago
@yayafenella I remember sitting at a stoplight and realizing that there were no planes in the sky. I had visited NYC in may of 2001. We had originally planned to visit the World Trade Center, but we ran out of time. We went by on the bus and the tour guide nonchalantly pointed the center out to us. I barely had time to look, and at the time id didn't really matter to me. I, like everyone else, had no idea what the next months would bring.
yayafenella 5 months ago
I was in 7th grade 2nd hour in social studies we had one of the few tvs in our class room I was shocked and knew it was terrible but I didn't realy have a full understanding of what hapened but at the time it didn't have a lot of affect on me. I look back and realize how ignorant I wad back then
balesshippolova 5 months ago
I was three. I doubt I was doing much more than covering myself in mud at the bottom of the garden. I only found out more about it as I got older, and it was only in the last year that I began to really be emotionally effected by it, as I've seen videos of the day etc. At the time I had no idea it had happened, but now I just find the entire thing really disturbing and it hurts to think about it.
QueenOfTheAubergines 5 months ago
I think it has shaped how our generation has developed, we might have been too young to have a deep emotional connection but the way we view the world, knowing that there is good and evil.
missEL92 5 months ago
i live in Australia and i was 9 years old. i remember waking up early wanting to watch cartoons on tv before having to get ready for school and every channel was showing the same footage over and over again and waking my mum up to ask her what it all meant. I was old enough to under stand that it was a bad thing and that people were hurt.
missEL92 5 months ago
and to add to my last comment I've red recently that in the 10 year war since 911 150000 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan,only officialy... and there was no reason for that either. I am 21 now and I don't understand how the American people can walk with so much blood on their hands.
bv90andy 5 months ago
I was also 11, I was home (in a country far away from the US) and my dad called us (me, my sister and my mom) to watch in on the TV and watched it live... I don't remember what I felt but I know I stayed hours in front of the TV and my parents were explaining to me what was happening, and I still remember watching live the towers falling. But I do know that I did understand that thousands of people died, far away, but people.
bv90andy 5 months ago
I'm from Greece and I was 7 the day of the attack. I remember my parents rushing to the television and frantically calling people to spread the news and answer phone calls. They were shocked and scared - I was confused, thought it was just a Hollywood movie, until my father explained that this was actually real...! It was very shocking...
Ailatan444 5 months ago
i was 7 and my experience is similar to dans- i didnt understand at the time why anyone would want to kill so many people-my parents explained it and it did make me feel sad- i watched some news footage and it really did scare me but at the same time i only new one person in, i probably still do who had a relative taken away from them-like many things in the news that upset me there all far away so im not effected personally, london however was different-tht did effect me.
booshbabeamy 5 months ago
its sad cuz i was i .__. i was maby playing with blocks but i still rember seeing a building on fire on the t.v...
ThayCallMeTaco 5 months ago
i was only 5 at the time haha. yep i'm 15...
9/11 is still a very popular discussion even in Australia. I barely remember anything... but i do remember seeing news from the attack on every channel. Like you I was very confused but i do have a much better understanding now. As I was very young during the occurrence, I am not terrified by it at all :\ Because I am assumed to be muslim though as I am from Iran, it has actually impacted on my life a lot and because of that I think 9/11 is terrible
funnyguy1012 5 months ago
I was living away from my hometown at 9/11. I remember that day so clearly and everything I did and said about the towers. I remember calling my mom and dad just telling them that I loved them. It was my first year in college and I am from Manitoba, Canada. It changed my way of thinking about myself and my family. I also remember the hate that people had against Muslims. I did not like seeing that because the actions of a few don't reflect on the whole race.
wpgrogue 5 months ago
no matter how you put it it'll always be tregic I hope everyone heals from that tregic and awefull day and hopefully it'll never happen again
spycozelot 5 months ago
I was in kindergarten that day. We live very close to where flight 93 crashed. My dad came to school to pick me up early & take me home. I thought it was a special day cause I got to leave.. but no. I didn't go home & watch cartoons on TV. I wasn't allowed. My parents turned every TV to the news & then I was kind of scared. I didn't understand it well then, but now it sends chills down my spine everytime I visit the Flight 93 memorial.
katiecow3 5 months ago
I'm like crying.
katiecow3 5 months ago
i was 8,it was 530am and i heard my mother scream bloody murder,i woke up ran into her room and found her passed out and looked up at the tv and the trade centers were on fire and all i could think of was where is my daddy,my dad was in turkey at the time.it took us a week to get a hold of him,i didnt go to school for a week,cause even at 8 it struck me hard.
danigirrl256 5 months ago
I was 8, in third grade. I remember it was just a regular school day until the principle came in, and he and the teacher went into the hall way for a minute, and then the teacher came back and turned on the tv and we watched all day.
When i got home that day i knew for the most part that something bad had happened, but it didn't really affect me so like any kid i didn't really care, I can remember my grandma explaining it to me, I'm only realizing now why she was there that day.
superchris247 5 months ago
@cheese0134 what do you mean you were 6 or 7?!?! do you not know your birth date?
an00115 5 months ago
I was in 2nd grade, 10 years ago when it happened. I remember my teacher getting called to the hallway, and then she said something really bad had happened. I think I blocked the rest of the day out. Dan, if you want to find deep emotion for this day, listen to Heaven - I Miss you Daddy DJ Sammy.<3
AloisNightmare19 5 months ago
I was 6 or 7...I was in school and no one told us what was happening. Suddenly, parents started picking the kids up early...it was me and about 4 other kids in class. When I got home my mom explained, in great detail, what had happened. I don't really remember much else except that I cried the rest of the day and when I went to bed I asked God why he would let such a horrible things happen...
cheese0134 5 months ago
i was 4 and i was at my day care and i remember that it was all over the tv and i asked the woman watching me 2 change the channel because it was scarring me and i can still here her say "its scarring me to sweet heart"
cicirox919 5 months ago
what the... opera? you've never mentioned this before.
marilea236 5 months ago
I was 5 years old, i went to kindergarten as a half day kid, and i remember hearing about it, and fighting with my parents about how somebody just couldnt purposely hurt all of thoes people like that .... ~BIff
monicabiff 5 months ago
i was in the 2nd grade and i remember absolutely every detail about it, never forget <3
DukeLacrosse13 5 months ago
I was 5 years old but i remember exactly where i was and what happened
vosebroy2 5 months ago
@vosebroy2 me too
monicabiff 5 months ago
when the planes hit, i was 3 and there was sadness, when osama bin laden was killed, i was 13 and there was happyness, RIP WTC
colmustardfulable 5 months ago
hello i wasnt alive for 9/11 but i know about it this really scares me i am nine years old now RIP 2,000+ people
ElectricHamSteak 5 months ago
I was only 8 years old and all I remember is that the teachers had heard that something had happened and were being quiet about it. Some rumors were spreading through students, but there were no details. Just something big had happened. I learned later what it was, but didn't fully understand the impact until a few years later when I saw a play that referenced 9/11 heavily and showed what an impact it had.
KidCoda 5 months ago
9/11 is when the government of the US, With Nixon in power. Told the CIA in 1970, to make a military uprising in Chile, murdering the most likely new president (Salvador Ayende) and installing a right wing dictatorship with Pinochet in power, provoking a large scale of genocide in the country an torturing the citizens against the current government. So that is our 9/11 for us: the Latin Americans. Thanks of curse qe share the sadness of this day...
GeorgSimmel88 5 months ago
i was 5, so i don't remember anything at all o_o
PockyStarPokemon 5 months ago
Also, Dan, you have great friends.
AgentKuo 5 months ago
I am kind of the same way as Dan. I didn't think about it much either. It didn't make sense to me, and I didn't really understand at all. I was 8 at the time it happened.
AgentKuo 5 months ago
unfortunately..they are still out there... & ruling ur country : \ !!!
NOT0RED0 5 months ago
Dan, I am an Australian, and at the time I was in year 12, the same day my Grandfather died from a stroke. While I was shocked at what I saw, it didn't entirely sink in. A lot has happened since then, I have grown older, I know less, but I feel more. I have developed a greater empathy all-round, and seeing the same tragic images today, such as the Falling Man it actually brings me to tears. When at the age of 18 being the self-centred teen that I was, the images seemed surreal, like a movie.
Darvaus 5 months ago
The world changed? I do believe the US might have changed a lot, but for most of us it has just been a change of flight security routines.
The changes in the middle east has of course been huge. Much larger than whatever's been going on in the states.
keerak 5 months ago
I was only 5 and I live in Holland (so I was probably asleep when it happened, time difference and all), but I still remember it being all over the news and, like dan, didn't really understand much of the world yet and despite thinking it was horrible, it never felt horrible to me. I had never heard of the falling man picture, but still that really gets to me.
TheEftelingFan 5 months ago
R.I.P. to the 2,976 American people that lost their lives on 9/11 and R.I.P. to the 48,644 Afghan and 1,690,903 Iraqi people that paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit. Oh and the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who experience this everyday. Your 9/11 is their 24/7.
Drsaaty 5 months ago 47
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j187killa 5 months ago
Zeitgeist.
Sudenmieli 5 months ago
i was 7 idk where i was
gabuks1 5 months ago
lol i was 4.
Inferno5127 5 months ago
I was 13 when 9/11 happened living in Florida. a lot of things that happened that day are a little hazey but i do remember one thing very clearly. i was in art class and our school went on lockdown and nobody could leave class. my teacher turner the tv on and we were watching what happened. i remember being nervous because my uncle was a police officer that worked in NYC
viper43blade 5 months ago
i was 2. the only thing i remember was my mum crying.
ghoulia21 5 months ago
Oh man... 10 years ago... I'm old ._.
SayaFight 5 months ago 44
@SayaFight i was napping ! (4months)
rahrmelon209 5 months ago
I don't understand why people are talking about it just because its the 10th year anniversary. Not that I don't think it was important I just don't see why we have to talk about it just because it has been 10 years:P
Vacmachine 5 months ago
@Vacmachine Humans put a lot of meaning in numbers. It's why we have birthdays.
RJLupin6 5 months ago
@Vacmachine The problem is that people have been talking about it every single year until now, and now they bring it up yet again, on television, on radio, on just about every single media they have. Not that I mind people talking about it, don't get me wrong, but think about the people who actually lost a father, mother, sister, brother, son, daughter, or any other kind of loved person in their life. They get reminded of this horrible act every single year, just because people can't let it go.
muleman666 5 months ago
I was in the 4th grade when it happened I was in minnesota and yeah...I understood it was bad...i went online and saw all the horror of it all and to this day I cant forget those images and videos.
Jokerlund646 5 months ago
I was 8 years old when it happened. My school was on lock down, and we were immediately sent home on the buses. There was one boy on my bus who was a big know-it-all and started talking about it the next day. I'll never forget what he said to me: "My parents said that people were jumping out of the towers. Gramma jumped too, but it's okay because she only broke a leg. She's in the hospital but, they said I can't see her right now." Unfortunately, he never WOULD see his grandmother again...
GleefulKei 5 months ago 4
@GleefulKei It's good that you mentioned the jumpers. This is one factor that Dan left out. The horrible, unbearable choice that faced people trapped in the floors that were on fire—to burn or fall... the photos of people jumping, falling. And the accounts from people on the ground of the sights and sounds of bodies crashing to earth around them... all these gave 9-11 a level of horror that wasn't present in other attacks and bombings.
mickeleh 5 months ago
I had just started the 1st grade when it happened. Where I live, it was morning. I remember waking up and knowing that something was not right, because the TV was on, and we never ever watched TV in the morning. I saw the live images of the towers burning. My parents looked worried, and I asked them what was going on, but they just turned off the TV and made me go brush my teeth or something. It's as though they were trying to protect my innocent, ignorant, child's view of the world.
PlanetTegan 5 months ago
I was 23, my grandmother was pounding on my door and yelling, "We are under attack" those words and the images of the World Trade Center, I will never forget my thoughts. Who are we going to fight, is their more, are they going to Nuke us, are we going to die, am I going die? This is a declaration of war! But the truth is i never saw it coming, i never thought a group of people would take the service and worship of God and convert it to evil.
yovani29 5 months ago
I was 12, and I distinctly remember that day being the day that my 'childhood oblivion bubble' was vaporized. I grew up on 9/11. Everything I thought I knew about the world was fairly incorrect, and that was a startling realization that changed me a lot. It's a day I can remember to extraordinary detail. Even today I have a hard time with the yearly anniversary, because it represents a lot of things for me, and it's just difficult to put into words.
MidnightArticuno 5 months ago
i was 1 when it happened
TheYodadoy 5 months ago
My father was lucky to be on the other side of town and pick up two of my cousins that day. I live in a city just North of NYC and that day felt very weird, especially with many firemen and police going down to help with the cleanup.
ant3 5 months ago
On that day, I was 6 years old, in the 2nd grade. What made that day different from any other day tho was a lot of kids were leaving school early that day in the morning. I remember even the teacher saying and I thinking that "Oh, they must all have dentist/ doctor appointments today." It wasn't until my mom picked up from school that day and she told me that there was an attack on the world trade center and later showed me what happened on TV. It was a very weird day.
ant3 5 months ago
I was nearly five when 9/11 occurred, so my memories of the event are vague. I recall my mother picking me up from the Children's Care portion of the gym she attended at the time. I remember that she was afraid - trying to keep calm around me, but not entirely succeeding. My understanding of the world was too little for me to know what to think and, forever more, the events of that day did not involve anything about the incident much outside of the slight confusion of an uninformed child.
Pippland 5 months ago
I had just started 2nd grade but i do not remember being at school for some reason
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