R.I.P. to all who died in 9/11...

I remember seeing all my teachers cry when they were watching it in school, and I had no idea what they were crying about, until our parents picked us up.

I was in the 1st grade, I remember they didn't let us out of school unless our parents came to pick us up. When It was recess time the older kids kept telling us that terrorists were going to come to our school. I was so scared I started to cry. I got home and I just wanted to watch my shows, but all they kept showing was the towers falling down and I began to complain because I didn't understand what the big deal was. When I got older I felt bad because all I cared about was tv.

I was 4 years old when this happened. I don't remember what I was doing, but I feel sorry for all the people that lost their lives and their families.

I was walking home from school just and some neighbours came out and told us that the Twin Towers had been attacked and the South Tower had just fallen. I was 8 at the time. I got home and watched the news and saw the North Tower collapse. I was truly horrified. I may have been young, but they are images that will remain with me for the rest of my life.

I was 1o, i was @ my grand mothers house...and my bro was sick...
that's all i can remember when i saw that on TV @

But it is truly a horrific tragedy... Thousands of innocent lives were lost for no reason whatsoever. How can that be excused? If you don't want anything to do with it, that is fine, but there is no reason to bring such disrespect to this thread. And I'm not even American...

I was 4 years old when that happened. So no memories

Far, far more were lost in other incidents that aren't honored like this one is, which is prolly why he's upset(?). But agreed, lost life is lost life.

I didn't say there haven't been worse incidents, but the comment posted was completely uncalled-for.

And I agree with you, but eh, there'll always be people who feel that way. It's best to just ignore it and not let it affect you/how you pay respect.

I was 16 at the time. I remember coming home from school and the first tower was burning. It made me think of the movie Towering Inferno. Even after the second plane hit I didn't think it was that huge of a deal. I mean we are used to seeing all kinds of destruction from around the world.

But then when the towers actually collapsed, that was just insane. And so unexpected too. The next day at school it was all we talked about. I think we got out early too because no one could focus on the actual school work.

I don't find anything disrespectful in his comment.

I guess it just stays with me; one of those images that remains in my head. But thanks I guess you're right

I was 13 when it happened. My birthday is actually September 10 so I remember I was sitting at home playing a new computer game and listening to my new Destiny's Child CD that were my birthday presents. Then my dad came home from work and ran to the TV and yelled something about terrorists and the World Trade Center. I had never heard about the World Trade Center before but I was really affected by the whole thing. It was so scary seeing the planes hit the towers and all the people jumping out from windows. Still I see those people jumping when I listen to some of Destiny's Child's songs, just because I was always listening to that CD the following weeks while reading news papers and watching the TV news shows.

I can't believe it's been 10 years already. There's been a lot of terrorist attacks after this, and yes, many innocent lives has been lost because of 9/11 in the US and other countries. But just because you feel sad and remember the innocent ones of 9/11 doesn't mean that you don't care about the other ones.

Well I did, but I'm not going to get involved in an argument, so I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

I'll post my own thoughts on 9/11 in a couple of days, but I'm going to make this clear to everyone reading this thread: There will be no political talk in this thread. Zero. Zilch. That includes talking about Bush's actions after 9/11 and the war that followed the attacks. This is a thread for remembering the actual events of 9/11/01, not a thread for bashing Bush or the war. I am making this a rule for this thread this because any talk about this subject will just lead to arguing, as it almost did already earlier in this thread, and arguing would just be unnecessary and not wanted in a thread that is supposed to be about remembering 9/11 and where we were/what we were doing when the attacks occurred.

I was in 7th grade when it happened. I was home sick from school and I remember when I walked into the living room my parents were glued to the TV and CNN was on. They explained it to me, but I didn't really get it. Then I started watching CNN and I was one of those zombies that was attached to the news for days.

I remember reading that casual sex in NYC rose quite significantly post 9/11....because what happened made people less uptight and spontaneous because life is so short. I remember reading an article on it. A lot of the fireman had a lot of sex too apparently.

I don't think 'remembering' is the right word. It implies that people have forgotten. No one can forget this. I never will anyway.