Remember the biggest things going on in the news were that Chandra Levy mystery and sharks in FL?

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9/5/2011 10:59:20 PM

the series of videos are kind of crazy.

even though i can't understand the foreigners (well minus the canadians, but they're not that foreign) you can tell with most of them they're just as freaked as the rest of the world.

it's weird. the WUSA9 people that they show are my local news casters... i don't remember watching them, but they're wicked frazzled.

9/6/2011 12:05:01 AM

surreal... i started watching after the first plane hit... was at work before class...


watching these videos...

the reporter was all like "does it look like the plane is still inside of the tower?"... i guess it's a valid question until you see the impact and realize the whole thing was obliterated when it hit.

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9/6/2011 8:57:08 AM

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"See also: Challenger disaster."

No, not old. I distinctly remember it and was actually going to post it but wanted to try to stay on topic. I was home sick from school, staying with my grandfather and watching the shuttle take off live. I watched it explode and remember running into the kitchen to tell my grandfather what happened.

9/11 - Challenger - Columbia - Katrina

Probably the most memorable US disasters that I can recall in my lifetime.

9/6/2011 2:08:44 PM

9/6/2011 4:17:00 PM

I was in high school AFJROTC class. We turned the TV on right after it happened... I don't know why, but my Sgt got a call about the first plane within minutes (though as I remember it, it really seems like seconds) of it happening. So we watched pretty much everything right after the first plane hit. my next class was social studies... another class (like AFJROTC) you'd figure would allow us to watch it... nope (keep in mind, this was after the planes had crashed, and it was pretty much known to be an attack). this teacher was a real POS anyways and his excuse was something like... "this won't matter much in the end/it's not really that important". in my remaining 2 classes all we did was watch the news (math and weightlifting).

And I don't mind hearing about it. We need to hear about it. You're a fool if you think international terrorism and terrorists groups are done. You're a fool if you think the families directly hurt by these attacks aren't still causing pain. These attacks taught us many lessons and hopefully have awakened us to the facts that terrorism is real, oceans don't protect us, and that we will be hit.

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9/6/2011 4:27:50 PM

I was a sophomore. I stayed the night in my gf's room in UT and when I got back to my room in Bragaw, I got on the computer.

Someone either told me via IM or I saw it on tdub and I turned the TV on just in time to see the second tower fall.

9/6/2011 4:33:58 PM

Senior year of high school. There might have been some sort of announcement at the end of first period calculus, I can't remember. Second period was 'media aide', where me and this girl sat in the library for an hour and a half and read the newspaper. It was probably 9:00 or so when I walked in to the library. There were already a few people watching the Today Show, after the first plane hit. I watched the second plane and both towers go down. Was definitely the most surreal moment of my life. Personally, it canceled our senior trip to Europe, and that was the first time I heard the term 'sand nigger'. Never Forget.

9/6/2011 6:51:14 PM

It was a Tuesday. I was in my NROTC uniform walking back from class. I was in my dorm hallway (BOWEN HALL FTW) walking into my room when I glanced at the dorm-mate's TV (they usually had their room open). I saw the burning of the towers, went into my room and dropped of my bag, went back into their room, and saw the towers collapse.

I went back into my room and took my uniform off.

[Edited on September 6, 2011 at 7:08 PM. Reason : -d]

9/6/2011 7:07:35 PM

"Good lord. There are no words."

9/6/2011 9:36:17 PM

Sophomore year, living in UT. I was checking tdub before heading to class and read about the first crash. I didn't have a TV in my room, so I went to the lounge and skipped CH201 to watch the news. Sorry GreatGazoo!

9/6/2011 9:59:31 PM

i was still drunk from the night before. my dad kept calling me and i finally answered. all he said was turn on the news now. i said ok sure. went back to sleep and he called back a few minutes later. i told him i was still sleeping off being hammered and he told me get up and turn on the tv or no more beer money. i got up and sat on the couch all day wondering wtf just happened and why.

9/6/2011 10:04:03 PM

I was in 10th grade, Mr Allen's History class room 201. My desk was nearest to the hall and I sat between my buddies Alex and Vishal. I remember all that vividly and probably always will. My school was small and pretty poor so we only had a couple tv's in the library. Mr. Allen had a big radio though and he set it on the desk in the front of the class and turned it on. He told us this would be the biggest event of our lives and we needed to know what was happening. We all sat their in silence just listening. The second plane hit during that time period and the towers collapsed sometimes afterwards. Across the hall was the French teacher, her son was in the army and I remember her running down the hall crying hysterically. Between classes a buddy of mine came up saying how he didn't give a shit about New York and it didn't affect us here in NC. I wanted to punch him in the face. At lunch my and my friends all sat around talking about what branches we were going to join and what jobs we wanted to do. We also wondered if we would all be drafted.

My parents were flying at the time the towers were hit. Their plane was grounded in Canada and they were stuck there for days. Me and my siblings were staying with my grandparents at the time and when I got to there house after school my granddad had gotten out his old navy flight jacket and flight helmet and had them hanging on a shelf. I stayed glued to the TV for days. That shit was crazy and I'll never forget it. I ended up joining the military after college, but 9/11 was so far in the past it had little affect on me by then...

9/6/2011 11:13:06 PM

That was also the first time I heard the term "sand nigger"

9/6/2011 11:14:15 PM

heh, I heard the term a lot during the first gulf war, but I guess that's because I'm at least 5 years older than most of y'all

9/7/2011 8:56:41 AM

The Wolves' Den, glued to the big screen and shaking my head like everyone else.

9/7/2011 9:00:11 AM

I was in Psy 201 (or 200...whatever "intro" was) with Professor Nacoste. Somebody came in and announced what happened to the first building and he let everyone go. Went back to the dorm room and turned on the TV just in time to catch plane #2 hit. I honestly couldn't believe it...thought it was some kind of hoax. Sat in front of the TV for the next couple hours after the rest of my classes were canceled.

9/7/2011 9:38:58 AM

I was in high school in Australia so it was maybe around midnight or so for us. My aunt called my mom to let her know and then she woke us up to watch it on the news (this was after the 2nd plane hit). I was still half asleep..didn't really know what was going on and went back to bed. My parents stayed home from work the next day, glued to the TV. I went to school and we just talked about it all day. Then again, we didn't ever do much work in Australian schools anyway.

9/7/2011 10:18:39 AM

Sophomore year in my dorm room. I didn't have class until late and my roommate woke me up as he was walking out to class to tell me that a plane hit the World Trade Center. I stayed in the room all morning with the door open and people kept filtering in to watch the coverage with me. As the sophomore on a hall that was mainly freshman I found several of them looking up to me and asking what it meant - obviously I had no clue. After a while I went for a drive (listening to the coverage still because thats what all of the stations were playing) and picked up my last pay check from my summer job. When I got back I saw my roommate in our dorm room. He knew I had a temper and the first thing he said was "Did you enlist?"

I was in DC over this past weekend and went through their temporary 9/11 exhibit with some friends. After some thought I was actually relieved that it happened then versus now, simply because I would hate see the news reading off all of the twitter and facebook updates from people trapped in the WTC just before it collapsed.

9/7/2011 2:58:53 PM

Senior year of high school, I was taking a calculus test in first period. The principal got word of what happened and made an announcement for all teachers to turn on the class TVs. We watched the first building on fire, the second plane hit, and then the towers falling.
It was like time was standing still.

9/7/2011 3:44:48 PM

I was at work delivering a job to a customer. Got there right before the first plane hit. After I left the plane hit and I heard it on the news. Got back to work a few minutes later and turned on the TV we keep there to watch the ACC tourney and saw the second plane hit. After that we shut the presses off and sat around and watched for a while.

For Challenger we were watching the launch on the TV in the classroom, I think it was on PBS?, and I remember our teacher not saying anything after it blew up. She was just stunned into silence. I never understood that till I watched the events from 9/11.

9/7/2011 4:00:28 PM

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9/11/2011 1:16:22 PM

I was a Sophomore in high school, sitting in a Physics class, when another teacher popped her head in the door and told our teacher that someone had just crashed a plane into one of the WTC towers. Most of us didn't think much of it, just figured it was some idiot pilot that got lost or something.

When class let out, we went into the cafeteria where they had a cart set up and watched the news for a bit, and saw the second plane hit right before we were about to walk out to the next class. They made us go on to class where they had another TV setup, and continued watching the news. I think we ended up watching TV for the next two periods until lunch.

At this point the whole day becomes a blur, and I just remember a lot of people freaking out because they knew that we were about to go to war with someone. Every time I see the news clips again, I still get that haunting feeling, just like the first time in my entire life I couldn't believe the things I was seeing.

9/11/2011 2:25:39 PM

I went to Green Hope High School, where nobody gave a shit.

9/11/2011 2:55:23 PM