Do you remember where you were when the towers fell? - General

Discussion Thread for I was at home, woke up late and my parents brought me to school even though the TV told us not to (We thought we were safe in New Mexico). We got to school and the police officers yelled at us and told us to go home. Everybody had to go home immediately. I remember sitting there. Innocent 8 year old looking at replays of the towers falling and people jumping out the windows. That WAS the day my innocence left me. So where were you, Facepunch?

On the other side of the world during a power outage.

[QUOTE=J4censolo;24747843]Dad was all like " come in here and look at the news, wow " and I was like :downs: then went back to playing NeoPets.[/QUOTE]

I was in your mother's bedroom.

I wasn't born yet.

I should have known posting this in FT would only get troll posts. except the first one which was kind of decent.

I was in school, in a geography class IIRC

If I remember right I was sleeping :(. Different time zones suck...

''Ooh Mum what happened?'' ''Uh, someone bombed the twin towers honey, remember the ones in New York?'' ''Oooh yeah they were really tall, are they alright'?'' '':'(''

I was round 6 I guess? I was still living in Taipei and my dad was using the PC. He told us about what was happening and we checked out the local news. It was all in Chinese but we got the gist of it. It was a really sad sad day.

I was seven at the time. I was asleep. I remember seeing it on tv. But I didn't really understand what was going on.

Was in school. All the teachers were quiet and we didn't do anything. They wouldn't tell us why because the principal had a family member that worked in one of the towers. I didn't find out what happened until after school going to an after school program and a friend of mine told me. I didn't think anything of it until I got home and saw what happened on the news.

[QUOTE=Xylem;24749966]I wasn't born yet.[/QUOTE] You are not even 9?

I remember, and it was sad, I watched it on TV.

I was coming home from a class-camp at 6th grade, not knowing anything about it. We stopped the bus to the side of the road and were quiet for a minute.

The world almost stopped, it was in any channel on the TV.

where were you when they built the ladder to heaven? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ_E7Vce8vU[/media]

grabbing a bag of chips

I only just came home from swimming lessons, and vaguely remember seeing it on the news. I was 7 at the time, so don't remember most details.

I was heading out the door to go to school. [QUOTE=Xylem;24749966]I wasn't born yet.[/QUOTE] Oh christ. [QUOTE=Star Son;24749912](We thought we were safe in New Mexico). We got to school and the police officers yelled at us and told us to go home. Everybody had to go home immediately.[/quote] I don't really understand. The intentions of the terrorists were to destroy the WTC, not schools across the country.

I was probaply at home watching TV or something. I was six years old at the time.

Got picked up by my dad from school.. I wasn't especially old when it happened, but I remember that day pretty clearly..

fast asleep. It was like 4:00 AM for me at the time.

I'm not american but I was about 10 or 11, and everyone was making a fuss and I went in to see what the crack was, saw the video on the news of plane hitting one of the towers, and was like, what was that? I didn't take it seriously until a couple of minutes later because I was used to seeing that kind of stuff in video games, but then I think my parents must have explained what was happening. Then the next thing I remember is watching the news when they said such-and-such had taken responsibility and what have you, and my dad was looking angry on the sofa talking about how he thinks they're going to start a war, and my mum was taking cups of tea in the kitchen. Also on a related note the london 7/7 bombings I was in school and I sort of was like 'What, Why?' for a bit but wasn't too surprised. It shows you how much the social attitude had changed in those years.

5 years old then. Was probably when I first learnt of the term "terrorism". I understood the news, and the only other terrorist act I knew of was the attempt to destroy some train station in our country.

Sitting in Elementary School, and only a few minutes away from going home early.

yeah, i was in the living room with my family when we saw the news i was laughing so hard i remember peeing my pants, good days...

I was at school, then the next day we heard about it from our teacher because none of us watched the news at that age. :downs:

I was sick at home - I saw it live on CNN... it was about 2pm my time.

i remember. i was a child back then and when it was on the news so i reconstructed it using building blocks and a toy plane. i am very disapointed and ashamed with myself