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Where were you on September 11, 2001?

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I was in 11th grade. Didn't really comprehend it until my teacher started yelling at us telling us to shut up and watch, she was crying while yelling. I felt horrible after I realized what was going on. Hard to believe it's been 10+ years.



RIP to every one involved.
 
New kid as a freshman at a small high school (class size 11). Was doing a "science project" (baking cookies) in earth science and a couple teachers came in and talked about it.

RIP to the victims.
 
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I was in Grade 12 sitting in physics class. We watched in the classroom before We were sent home at noon.

This was in Canada.
 
Also, side note, I think a few AT'ers were actually in the towers when this occured. Or were at least in close proximity.
 
i recently met someone who was nearly on the flight that hit the pentagon. the only reason he wasn't was because he didn't feel like driving from baltimore to dulles airport tuesday morning for the direct flight, and instead took a red eye from BWI that wasn't direct.
 
I was waking up to go to school when the 1st plane hit. 2nd one hit in my 1st class of the day. I was a Junior in high school
 
At work in a somewhat noisy shop environment; the noise level suddenly dropped to almost zero and we hadn't had a blackout, I figured something had happened.
 
I was in college. Had two classes that day. (I actually heard about it first through a professor's email.)

One professor said that, naturally, class was cancelled. The other said that, naturally, class was not cancelled!
 
Driving myself and my wife to work that morning. Had the radio on and they were talking about the first crash and trying to figure out what heppend when the 2nd plane hit.
 
Woke up from bed and turned the tv on to watch whatever movie was on (local station always played a movie around noon). I hate to admit this, but it is true, at first when I saw the whole plane crashed into the building, I thought it was the movie and was like, bah don't care and got up and got something to eat. I didn't know it till I went back to the tv like 15 mins later and it was still on the same scene, I changed the channel and it hit me that it was real.
 
Rakewell said:
So by being vague, you're implying that you thought it was a good thing, or a bad thing?
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My intention was not to imply position on any kind of good-bad continuum. However, if you wish to know my feelings on the subject:

Obviously the attack itself was a very bad thing, especially (again, obviously) for the people directly involved or who had family or friends directly involved. However, I feel that in the long run, it could have been a net benefit, in the way that the Carthaginian Wars were good for the Roman Republic - they were hugely destructive to Rome at the time, but the Wars caused Rome, by the end, to be the preeminent power in the Mediterranean and gave them the military and economic ability to just steamroll through most of the rest of the Mediterranean. But I don't think that's the way it turned out this time, so yeah, net bad in the long run as well as the short.
 
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