9/11 Fifth Anniversary

[dharmachili]

It is the 9/11'th fifth anniversary. I heard that they are building a huge memorial on the direct location of the used-to-be-twin-towers and that they get 30,000 visitors a year to just see the site. The memorial will be finished by late 2009.

[大杂烩]

gosh cant beleive that was 5 years ago. i remember it so vividly. it was a tuesday i was in fourth grade...

[Steve]

I was in fifth....but we had a year-round school so I was on vacation.....i woke up and everyone was watching the tv.

[Yavanna]

The whole world is thinking about US today... 5 years yet, it seems so close...

[Scott]

i got kinda annoyed that the teachers at my school didnt tell us what had happened even though they knew.the same thing happened with 7/7 last year.we didnt find out till we got home

[Yavanna]

Me I'm really irritated that at school we didn't even talk about that just 5 ou 10 min! It looks like everybody in France had forgotten

[Uncle Igmar]

In was off from work that day for a Doctor's appointment and I was sitting there watching something I had taped the night before - I didn't even have the news on - until my ex-fiance's sister called up to see if we saw what happened.

Needless to say - I saw what happened after that - and many more times during the day.

I called my office to se if anyone had heard - and I got no answer. I found out later that they basically evacuated every highrise building in downtown Philadelphia and told everyone to go home.


We went to the appointment and it was very strange - passing downtown Philadelphia - I remember the sky being incredibly clear that day - no clouds at all. My doctor's office was in my old neighborhood which is very close to the Philadelphia International Airport - so you were always hearing planes. The 1st thing I noticed was that it was too quiet. Nothing was flying. Even the little commuter planes I used to like watch as they came in at night - just about right over my front porch.

I woke up during the night - and as I wwas heading back to bed - I heard a jet fly by low overhead and thought they had decided to save Philadelphia for night time for some reason - you have the weirdest thoughts in times like that. I had totally forgotten that I live about 10 miles from a military air base and they were more than likely on patrol.

Well enough babbling from me on the subject. JUst keep those who died and those who survived them in your thoughts.

[Stephanie]

I remember these young girls at work just boo-hooing. I thought, "How silly." For some reason I left work early that day and cried all the way home.

[Yavanna]

I think that I'll never forget what happens, this pictures on TV, they were so awful, I remember I was sitting on my sofa and I was so confused, no words to describe what I was seeing... I was young and I couldn't figure out what really happens, I never could imagine I'm gonna see this some day.
I think it will be imprint in my head forever...

[servo3k]

i was in 6th grade, homeschooled at the time. I rememberlooking up and sssing smoke and wondering why we could only see one building. We thought that it was just the the second building was behind the first but it was really that the second one had fell.

[Tucker]

man, 5 years, half a decade ago, i was only 12 when it happened and i remember it as clear as day, i came home from our annual school sponsored walk and like any kid would do, i turned to the kid tv channels like cartoon network, then my cousin phoned me and all he said was "put the news on". I turned over to the news channel and all i saw was a building with loads of smoke from it, my cousin then told me wot had happened...

[Zoso the Rock God]

I was in fourth grade, i didn't quite understand what was going on tilll like a few days later.

[dharmachili]

I was in fourth grade too.

I remember I had just woken up and I had school that day and my parents never watch the news in the morning, so obviously I didnt find out until a little later.

Then my aunt called our house and told us that something terrible had happened and to turn on the news. We turned it on and sat stunned until five minutes later, a close friend of my parents called and told us the same. I remember being two hours late for school that day and we had a special last-minute ceremony there.

Today at school only two of my seven teachers mentioned it.

[大杂烩]

there was a special on the tv program that some kids at school put together.

[muppetmama]

I was teaching at the time it happened. The teacher next door had a free period and came to tell the rest of the teachers in the hall what had happened. I didn't believe him at first. It was a pretty horrible day. Actually it was the day I decided to quit teaching. My students (I taught 9th grade science) wanted to watch the coverage for entertainment value and were laughing when the coverage showed someone jumping out of the building. I finished up my contract and got the heck outta that school.

My parents were up on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, they weren't allowed back for like 4 days. My dad said that they thought it was some radio show like War of the Worlds from the 1930's when they first heard something on the radio in one of the stores. It was just too insane to be actually happening.