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NoSnowATL said:
10th grade science class. The baseball coach ran into the class and turned the tv on and said a plane just hit the tower. We sat watching the tv the whole day. It was a crazy day.
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They never told us at school I was in 8th grade but my dad picked me up around 11am I remember thinking why(at the time we lived near the weapons depot in Anniston Alabama and he was concerned it might be targeted I guess) and I saw a teacher with a grim look in the hallway but still didn't know what to think when he saw me he was being really secretive about it(though I do remember asking where Bush was because I had followed the 2000 election) anyway he wanted to wait til we got my younger sister so as we were waiting in line there was this old couple in front of us and I remember them saying it was like Pearl Harbor and I immediately got this grim feeling but I still didn't realize the scope til we went home and I just remember being in awe at how brutal and shocking it was for days after. The towers had already collapsed by then I can't really imagine what it was like to watch it live looking back.
 
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mydoortotheworld said:
I was like, 7 years old on September 11th? Lol. Still remember the day pretty vividly. It was a weird day in school, to put it mildly.
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I was getting laid off from a job that day. We had a meeting and if you got a folder. They went in alphabetical order, so I was near the end, we started watching tv after we had heard, and I was there until about 11am and got a folder!??
 
Brent said:
They never told us at school I was in 8th grade but my dad picked me up around 11am I remember thinking why(at the time we lived near the weapons depot in Anniston Alabama and he was concerned it might be targeted I guess) and I saw a teacher with a grim look in the hallway but still didn't know what to think when he saw me he was being really secretive about it(though I do remember asking where Bush was because I had followed the 2000 election) anyway he wanted to wait til we got my younger sister so as we were waiting in line there was this old couple in front of us and I remember them saying it was like Pearl Harbor and I immediately got this grim feeling but I still didn't realize the scope til we went home and I just remember being in awe at how brutal and shocking it was for days after. The towers had already collapsed by then I can't really imagine what it was like to watch it live looking back.
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I was 8 in the 3rd grade. Our school was on lockdown so we couldn't leave our classrooms the whole day except to be escorted to the restroom as a class with our teacher. Speaking of my teacher I could tell she was visibly upset (crying). She stepped out of our classroom probably around the time the first tower was hit to answer a call on her phone. She was very brief and vague with us, she told us the World Trade Center in NYC was "on fire" and she was trying to get in contact with her ex husband who either worked there or in the vicinity. We weren't allowed to watch live news coverage of it, but during one of our scheduled restroom breaks, I could see the 5th graders were watching the news in their classrooms. It wasn't until I got home from school and saw my grandparents watching ABC news coverage that I found out exactly what happened. That's truly one of those rare never forget moments in life/history. I wonder how many people remember when we had that terror alert color meter for a few years post 9/11.
 
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