9/11 6 years later Options

[Mommy]

you're preaching to the choir.

I'm sorry to hear about your guy...all I can say is that if he really is special to you, let him be, and try to keep in contact with him. even if you don't hear back (like in email), keep writing...hopefully he'll someday come around.

sometimes guys just need space from people because they don't feel they can relate.

we kind of have a friendship again. I knew the guy since I was 6 years old so its hard for us not to talk. About a year after it our relationship was over, he started randomly emailing me short messages to say hey. We still do that, but thats about the extent of it.

[cupcake]

Then I watched the news for like the next several months straight.

I think that many non-newsy people had a drastic change in TV watching habits that day.

my coworker blondie chick never watched a day of news prior to that nor cared anything about any of my stories. after that day she's a different person altogether.

[Seeker]

So I was at Tech and most of you were in high school. I feel old now.

[cupcake]

A friend of mine in sixth period tried frantically to get in touch with her uncle who was in the WTC on business. We later learned he died in the south tower.

that is hardcore. talk about hitting home...while I lived by there, not many people know someone directly affected by it.

a profound impact I'm betting...

[Inferia]

hmm, I feel like I say this yearly, but I guess here it goes again. I was coming out of physics discussion waiting for the bus at the bursley-baits bus stop. Someone walks past me saying the Empire State building had just collapsed. I turned to the person next to me and said, what does he mean collapsed, and the person next to me said (rather nonchalantly) that it's true. So I got back to my dorm a little past 10. We didn't have a TV in my room, so I was going to check out the coverage in the commons room. Before I left, I left an extensive note on one of those white boards that was on my door for my roommate saying that something important is happening, I'm in the commons room watching TV. While I was writing this, someone who's friends with the people who lived across from us came to tell her to turn on the TV. She hasn't left her room that morning or watched the TV so she had no idea what was going on. So we sat there in her room kinda in shock watching it. My roommate shows up sometimes around noon, somehow had no idea what was going on when I asked her if she seen the news. And then we just sat there and watched some more. I don't remember if we ate lunch that day. I just remembered that class was canceled for the rest of the afternoon, I was on my way to history when several people told me. I think I went up to some of my guy friends room to watch. I remember one of them was from NYC, and his parents owned a restaurant not too far from the world trade center, he had hellva time getting a hold of them. The phone was jammed for hours. I think he finally got through sometimes around 4.

The girl across the hall later enlisted. I'm not sure what happened to her. Though, I do remember weeks, perhaps months after 9/11, everyone cheered when they saw a bunch of ROTC guys walking around.

[Jim]

I was in my Sophomore History class doing a thing about World Affecting Events and then we heard that this happened so we went and watched it (go figure, 'eh?). Then, in my second period class, I was called down to the office 'cuz my Grandpa died that die (totally different thing, Lung Cancer, not the attacks) so I spent the rest of the day packing to go down to Killeen, TX for the funeral. Other than that, yah?

[Epic]

i was turning in my application to run for freshmen council. saw it on the tv in the office where i was completing my paperwork, then quickly removed my application because there were bigger things to work on than my resume.

i began my work with students for social justice and we started putting together "no war" rallies. I quit all that when we actually declared war. I was comfortable saying no to war, but when it actually started I didn't want to confuse my hatred for the war with my need to support my friends in the military.

I went to the dining hall and made a waffle and just looked at it.

[blaarg]

I was watching the Today Show getting ready to leave for school when literally right when I walked out the door the announced that an aircraft hit the WTC. I just thought it was some sort of crazy problem with the guidance system and I left for school (I was a sophomore in high school). By the time I got to my class all the TVs were on in the school and it was after the second tower was hit and everyone was like "oh shit." So we watched TV the entire day. It was surreal seeing the breaking news that "the pentagon's been hit" or "another aircraft down in Pennsylvania" or "all aircraft has been grounded."

So we pretty much watched the news all day. The thing I remembered most distinctly was when I went to Physics class that day or teacher said "Some things are way more important than learning physics. This happens to be one of them," and we all just sat there and watched.

So the people at Tech: did they cancel classes for the day or just let them run and no one showed up?

[Jim]

I was watching the Today Show getting ready to leave for school when literally right when I walked out the door the announced that an aircraft hit the WTC. I just thought it was some sort of crazy problem with the guidance system and I left for school (I was a sophomore in high school). By the time I got to my class all the TVs were on in the school and it was after the second tower was hit and everyone was like "oh shit." So we watched TV the entire day. It was surreal seeing the breaking news that "the pentagon's been hit" or "another aircraft down in Pennsylvania" or "all aircraft has been grounded."

So we pretty much watched the news all day. The thing I remembered most distinctly was when I went to Physics class that day or teacher said "Some things are way more important than learning physics. This happens to be one of them," and we all just sat there and watched.

So the people at Tech: did they cancel classes for the day or just let them run and no one showed up?

While I wasn't at school for the most of the day, at my High School (Lockney) they "ran" classes but people were welcome to go to the Library and watch or watch in the classrooms or go home. From what I heard, no teaching/learning was actually done other than band and that's because the band director decided to do a 9/11 memorial at the football game.

[Seeker]

So the people at Tech: did they cancel classes for the day or just let them run and no one showed up?

Nope, I was forced to do work in my Chemistry lab.

[Jim]

Nope, I was forced to do work in my Chemistry lab.

I imagine that some of the more... American TA's and prof's were a bit less strict

[blaarg]

Nope, I was forced to do work in my Chemistry lab.

but that was early in the morning right?
did the cancel classes in the afternoon?

[impala454]

agreed, and I was out of line with my 'Bush's war' comment.

impala can still suck it though!

haha bitch

So I was at Tech and most of you were in high school. I feel old now.

no crap... i was in my 4th year and others here were sohphomorons in HS

[Hartmann]

that is hardcore. talk about hitting home...while I lived by there, not many people know someone directly affected by it.

a profound impact I'm betting...

She still is not the same person I knew 6 years and 1 day ago.

My experience with her that day was again, strange and surreal. She was frantically calling everyone she knew to try and get a hold of her uncle, then, all of the sudden, she gave up. She didn't freak out. She didn't scream. She sat there, put her hands over her face and sobbed.

[impala454]

So the people at Tech: did they cancel classes for the day or just let them run and no one showed up?

we all just skipped. if i recall correctly, they cancelled classes the next day or something.