9/11 6 years later Options

[THECHICKEN]

Anyone watching the rebroadcast of the 9/11 coverage on msnbc?

I never got to see any coverage of it because of school on the day it happened. Kind of chilling. Just the chaos is insane. The report of a car bomb at the state department kind of surprised me.

And yet osama gets to still live and release his stupid videos.

Feelings, memories, where you were... feel free to share.

[Mommy]

I believe I was a sophomore in high school when it happened. I was getting ready for school when the first plane hit the tower, and I remember thinking "wow, thats strange," but that was about the extent of it at that time.

The staircase in my house is to the right of the living room and overlooks it. The tv can be seen perfectly while walking down the stairs. As I walked down the stairs after brushing my teeth, the second plane hit the tower. I remember sitting down on the stairs afraid. My mom was talking to my grandma on the phone.

My mom rushed me and my brother into the car so we could pick up a radio broadcast on the 30 minute drive to the private school I attended. Even after arriving at school, I still sat in her van for a while listening. My brother must have been 7 or 8 years old so we had to listen quietly. He has autism and when he gets scared he gets really out of control. He started to ask questions like he was wondering what was going on and thats when I got out of the car.

When I got inside my small school of 150 high schoolers, the teachers pulled us into a big room to watch the news. We sat there all day. We saw the plane wreckage in Pennsylvania, the Pentagon damage, the towers fall. I was safe, but I think that is the most frightened I have ever been. Its hard to sit there in a safe, Christian environment and watch events unfold that kill thousands of people. The news stations were reporting that day that as many as ten thousand could be dead. It was a very heavy feeling. Its very strange how an occurrence 2,000 miles away can affect someone so much. All the high schoolers sat there quietly. None of us laughed. None of us made fun of each other. None of us gossiped. We just sat there until our parents came to get us at 3:30.