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Post by SRW on Sept 12, 2010 20:09:24 GMT -5
Yea was having a lunch hour plus i sometimes work from home!
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Post by RiderLeangle on Sept 12, 2010 20:36:27 GMT -5
At home.. Woke up 10ish I think, there was nothing on TV besides the news the whole day. I remember my parents (Well, Dad was at work but still) trying to get in contact with my uncle since he worked somewhere in the WTC, Luckily his train was late and he's still alive now so guess it's a good thing the subway sucks.
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Post by thatoneuser on Sept 12, 2010 20:41:10 GMT -5
(Note: I copy-pasted this from another forum, yes it was by me)
I was in 2nd grade when it happened. It was only our 2nd day of school. They didn't want to tell us what happened so that our parents could explain it to us. So when I was told, I was all bummed about what happened. The next day they explained it to us a little better, but I really didn't understand it until one, all the football games got cancelled for the week, and two, when the Super Bowl halftime show had all the names of the people who died. I insisted that it was looping, but alas, all individual names. It kinda hit me then.
Anyway, RIP all victims, God bless their families.
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Post by chackpop on Sept 12, 2010 22:23:40 GMT -5
I was in kindergarden and the teacher took us away from our activites right before lunch anbd told us what happened.
I didn't really understand what was going on. I was too young to remember anything else.
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Post by YoDaUO on Sept 12, 2010 23:08:57 GMT -5
I was in kindergarden also. I lived in Michigan ATT and dont really recall what happened. Im pretty sure we were doing posters about 9/11.
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Post by Zorn on Sept 13, 2010 10:33:29 GMT -5
I was in my fifth grade classroom and my teacher gave out the news. Then she started giving out this speech and started crying. The principal over the intercom also gave this speech and it followed with the entire school having this moment of silence. I have no recollection of what happened after that.
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Post by artyfowljr on Sept 13, 2010 13:41:46 GMT -5
I was 6 years old. I remember clearly the moment. Only me and my mother were at home. I was in my bedroom playing, and I heard her screaming and calling me. I ran in the kitchen,...and there's the picture burnt in my memory forever. My mother sitting on a chair, shocked, scared, and the second plane hitting the tower in the exact moment I looked at the TV. A part of me must have realized what was going on was something terrible, otherwise I wouldn't have rembered this so clearly, however I was too young to fully understand, so I left the kitchen and went back to my bedroom. I think I couldn't really realize it wasn't some action film, and people were dying.That happened a few months later, when I still heard people talking about it, I thought something like "Geez...months have passed and still people are talking about that...what the hell is going on?". The more years pass, the more I understand, and the more my sorrow for those all the Americans and all those who lost someone they loved. I don't know if I could have "survived" the shock if it was me. One more thing. Some might wonder why my mother (and later the rest of my family) was so shocked and scared despite us being foreigners. Only two years before we had lived in Washington D.C. for about six months (my father was asked to move there for a while for work). It was an incredible experience, everything was so different, and since then we sort of consider America our second country, and we would move back there if we could. I think that's why we were (and are) so emotionally involved.
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Post by Gavo on Sept 13, 2010 14:21:11 GMT -5
I can remember getting home from school, going straight up to my room, turning on the tv expecting to see either pokemon or yugioh, but instead seeing these 2 towers on fire. So I asked my mam what was happening and I can remember he saying that people had taken control of planes and crashed them into buildings in America and then she started crying.
I didn't understand why she was crying at the time, but a few years later (around 03/04) I found out that my auntie was on a flight to new York and my mam was worried that the terrorists would take over that plane as well.
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Post by Badalight on Sept 13, 2010 15:24:32 GMT -5
I can remember getting home from school, going straight up to my room, turning on the tv expecting to see either pokemon or yugioh, yugioh wasn't showing on t.v. that far back. Just an FYI.
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Post by arsenette on Sept 13, 2010 16:40:50 GMT -5
Bada.. both pokemon or yugioh anime were made in the late 1990's.. and he is in Ireland.. their rotation was different than us here in the USA. Feel free to argue about that if your memory is different in another thread
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Post by RiderLeangle on Sept 13, 2010 16:50:46 GMT -5
YGO didn't air dubbed in America until LATE September 2001.. So maybe he saw YGO commercials during Pokemon? And he's irish anyways like you said..
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2010 18:56:56 GMT -5
Yu-Gi-Oh suxs. Knowing about 9/11 iz more important then knowing about s2pid Yu-Gi-Oh!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2010 19:02:36 GMT -5
Wow. A meaningful thread turned into a discussion about the most pointless show on television.
Way to go *Thumbs Up*
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Post by Oti on Sept 13, 2010 20:22:13 GMT -5
Are you implying that children who control the fate of the world by playing a trading card game is pointless, sir?
I don't like your attitude...
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Post by supersheep on Sept 13, 2010 21:35:44 GMT -5
OK Back on topic, no more Yugioh in here.
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Post by richie137 on Sept 16, 2010 8:51:29 GMT -5
First of all, so sorry to bring this bumped up...I had a lot of homework, and regular work to get done, but this one brought a lot of emotion on myself on this, I remember 9-11-01, very vividly I was in the Bronx in NYC, when this happened, this is what I wrote off my facebook...
Today is the nine-year anniversary of the September 11th attacks, it does not matter if you are friends or rivals, spend time together and be around your loved ones, as for me I am working right now in Hofstra University, but at 2001, when these attacks happened I was a kid in the Bronx in Harry S. Truman High School in Co-Op City in the Northeastern section of the Bronx. When those towers hit I wanted to just be with family when I first heard this attack, at the time...At that moment I was a junior in high school, I was 16 years old at the time ... I just got my high school schedule that morning...And the planes hit and I finally saw the images, this world was never ever going to be the same that day and night, it was so powerful that I could not play with my PlayStation One at all, it was that sad and that powerful...So be with loved ones you grew with the family you love, and the friends you love now and the past and be there for everyone and your country as well and God loves you and I love all, every single one of you it does not matter if you hate me or love me at all. God will be with you all if you do not believe it or not, or even in a different religions... I will leave you with this, "I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me." John 17:23...May God bless you and God bless America..
RIP-9-11 victims.
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Post by intelligentinfer on Sept 16, 2010 9:04:20 GMT -5
I was 5 and my father went with his friends for a trip in Europe(I think he was in Germany when this happened) and my uncle keep teasing my mum that this also happened in Europe R.I.P 20010911
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Post by jfeathe on Sept 16, 2010 21:29:19 GMT -5
Richie, I absolutely love that verse; so powerful and encouraging. Thank you for sharing.
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Post by HarlequinKnight on Sept 17, 2010 6:37:16 GMT -5
I was eight i think? And I honestly didn't take anything seriously back then, so I saw my teacher reading a newspaper which had a big spread showing the before and after pictures and laughed "haha the building was demolished" I was yelled at by my teacher and really didn't know why. Looking back I know that was just a plain dumb reaction, and I'm fairly ashamed of it actually.
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Post by Lennon on Sept 17, 2010 14:39:41 GMT -5
I was in eighth grade and getting close to turning 14. It was a normal day of class when our teacher was called out of the classroom for a quick meeting with all the other teachers in the "Pod." Yeah, we had pods back then... Don't ask. She came back and she looked kinda upset, but I don't think they didn't mention what happened in class yet. Or she might have, and I wasn't paying close attention. Lunch came around and everybody was sad, and crying, etc. with me having no clue what was going on, and everytime I tried asking someone they'd give a strange look. By the end of the school day, I was freaking out because I still had no clue what was going on, and it seemed just about everyone else knew.
Finally getting home, my parents had the television on, and I finally saw what happened. I didn't cry, but I didn't feel good for the next couple days.
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