[KillingYourCareer]

No, I was 5 and I live in Italy anyway

[Outlaws]

Originally posted by dnav87

Oh nothing I just always thought everybody here was like 15. I'm 28 and I always felt like there weren't members close to my age here.Then I found you!

You're 28????????????????????

jk.

[daydreams]

Bits and pieces, I was 4. I was supposed to fly home from Cali that day, and I remember sitting on the floor of the hotel room when a video of the first tower burning suddenly coming on this little TV as we were about to leave. My mom told me not to watch. My dad was really worried as all of his side of the family is from NY, and his brother worked at the WTC (but by some miracle had called in sick that day). We had to leave so we still went to the airport and it was complete madness; shouting, massive lines, and I've since been told that anybody who even looked to be of Arab descent were being profiled and not allowed to board any planes. We were able to get on the last flight out, to Chicago around where my aunt lives. My memory kind of goes blank during the ride, but then I have the most vivid image of the absolute silence and the dead looks in people's faces while getting off of the plane, and then walking into the O'Hare airport to find it completely deserted.

[Vato]

Originally posted by its_britney_bitch

Why is everybody saying "No I'm not American" I thought it would've been big news all around the world?

Same reason most Americans don't remember March 11 2004. Terrorism is always a big deal of course, but it's hard to vividly remember something that happened 80000 miles away when you were a kid and had no direct impact on you.

Anyway yes, I was in high school and I remember both teachers and students gathered in the teacher's lounge being horrified watching the coverage and worried that this would ignite world war 3.

[Cannon]

Yes, I was 10 years old and I specifically remember our teacher breaking the news to us. I also remember watching what happened on TV.

[Scotty]

Yeah, I was in second grade. My old first grade teacher walked into the room and broke the news to us. She thought it was important we watch, so she wheeled in a TV, brought the first grade class in to sit with us and put on the news. My 2nd grade teacher was at her desk on the phone constantly with her sister about it (I think)/waiting for news from the principal about if the students were going home or not. They did send us home not long after that. I remember watching a lot about it when I went home and the picture on the newspaper the next day. Even though I do remember the day, unfortunately I was too young to really grasp the reality of the situation.

[Kool_Aid_King]

A little bit.

[Vagabond]

no I was only 2

[Nait Phoenix]

I was eleven. I just remembered my mom having the news on with her hand over her mouth in shock, then going to school and having like a two-minute moment of silence after morning announcements. Afterwards, I didn't understand what had happened or why it was important until like a year later…

[Dust Clears]

No. I was 2. I've been told I was watching Nickelodeon with my mom and she got a call from a friend telling her to put the news on immediately and then we ended up going to get my older brother from school.

[@michael]

Yes, but I didn't get to watch much on TV. The first two teachers of the day wouldn't let us watch, so by the time I got to my third class, the towers had already fallen. I just knew that something had happened in New York but I didn't get to watch the news about it.

[AccioMiley]

Yep I was 11 and it was really early, and my mom was gonna wake me up for school but instead she had my tv on and I saw the burning buildings. It was scary

[Skywalker]

Yeah. I was five or six when it happened and I remember the teacher was trying her hardest to not bring in any discussion about what was going on. Before I went to school, my mom dropped me off at my grandma's and we just watched the TV in horror. I was glued to the news station for weeks and I think that disturbed my parents that I was so interested/confused over something so serious when I was so young.

I remember we got all of the kids from our elementary school to the big playground and we all assigned different colored large construction paper to wear over our heads and recreated the flag. What a week. A nightmare.

[~Start The Music]

Yes I was in 3rd grade and my teacher was on the phone and she was silent and the kids were making fart jokes about how she popped her pants and I was so annoyed because this one kid kept calling her "Fart Face Sally" but then she started yelling at us about how something terrible happened and then my grandpa picked me up from school because he was scared a World War III was happening. When I got home my brother was dancing to 50 Cent and then I was confused because he said "I'm $50 little boy!! CHA CHA CHA!" then my grandpa told him to stop. We all sat around the TV and he was talking about how he had a dream the night before about the towers and people jumping and I was terrified and to this day I'm so scared of it because the fact that people did jump from it and he had a dream about it the night before is terrifying. They showed this man with blood on his face and I started screaming because it scared me and then my grandpa made Spaghetti so we would calm down.

[Artemisia]

Originally posted by Meowster

Yeah. I was five or six when it happened and I remember the teacher was trying her hardest to not bring in any discussion about what was going on. Before I went to school, my mom dropped me off at my grandma's and we just watched the TV in horror. I was glued to the news station for weeks and I think that disturbed my parents that I was so interested/confused over something so serious when I was so young.

I remember we got all of the kids from our elementary school to the big playground and we all assigned different colored large construction paper to wear over our heads and recreated the flag. What a week. A nightmare.

What kinda indoctrination

[BadMonster]

Yes, vividly. I remember everything, weather, time, location, day, people who were with me,

[its_britney_bitch]

Originally posted by Vato

Same reason most Americans don't remember March 11 2004. Terrorism is always a big deal of course, but it's hard to vividly remember something that happened 80000 miles away when you were a kid and had no direct impact on you.

Anyway yes, I was in high school and I remember both teachers and students gathered in the teacher's lounge being horrified watching the coverage and worried that this would ignite world war 3.

Not to compare tragedies () but 9/11 was a much bigger deal. Much higher death toll and it was a more shocking sight. I mean to see such a disaster in New York, one of the most loved and important cities in the world, it's shocking. Not to mention America is a much more relevant country than Spain

And I mean, you don't still see documentaries and stuff on TV about the train bombings like you do 9/11

[M A R C]

Not really, i was 4.

All i remember is me coming from school and seeing my mom watching the news.

[Guernica]

Yeah, I was in 5th grade and I live ~3 hours away from NYC. We were in school and it was homeroom. Teachers came into our room and told us to turn on the TV and there was live footage of the twin towers going down. The principal called us into the auditorium and told us we were under attack. I was only like 10 so I didn't know how to properly take in and deal with what I was being told so I don't think I realized how big of an event it was at the time. The weeks afterward it was constantly on the news and the footage of the towers falling was replayed again and again.

[Vato]

Originally posted by its_britney_bitch

Not to compare tragedies () but 9/11 was a much bigger deal. Much higher death toll and it was a more shocking sight. I mean to see such a disaster in New York, one of the most loved and important cities in the world, it's shocking. Not to mention America is a much more relevant country than Spain

And I mean, you don't still see documentaries and stuff on TV about the train bombings like you do 9/11

Of course mija, 9/11 was obviously a huge deal that changed the world as we knew it, that's not up for debate. I only brought up the train bombings for reference. Someone from Spain is far more likely to remember the day of the bombings in detail because it happened home and affected them in a more direct way. Same goes for 9/11, it's not that hard to see why someone in another country would have trouble remembering every detail.