9/11?

Question

I’ve fallen into the 9/11 hole on YouTube and I can’t stop watching all the documentaries and videos of the news that day. I had only just turned 5 a few days before so I didn’t fully grasp what was happening. I remember my whole family crying infront of the TV and seeing what was on the TV and that’s it and that memory is very faint. I am just now realizing that it was the first time in US history that America felt like it was under a full attack. Watching the news coverage I’m pretty much just now taking all that information in and first the towers are hit and then the pentagon and then the towers are falling. . I wouldn’t know what place was next I would have been worrying the entire day if something was about to happen to anyone I loved. 
That day was traumatic for the entire country and I was too young to know anything so I don’t have those memories of being scared.  I would have been scared from weeks on after 9/11 probably longer if I had been old enough to grasp.  All my life I knew it was an attack and that it was horrible but I’m now understanding it on a different level and feeling the gravity of it. 
What were you doing on 9/11? I would love to hear other people’s perception of it even if you were my age and remember it better

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I was a junior in high school in my second period history class in central NJ. We convinced our teacher to turn on the tv once the news of the first plane spread through school. After the second plane hit, it was shock and panic realizing it wasn’t some horrible accident, but a deliberate attack. Despite the efforts of the school, a lot of students, myself included, left and walked home. My father worked right near the towers so I was terrified. 
Cell phones wouldn’t work so I couldn’t get in touch with him. My aunts and uncles kept calling the apartment to make sure I was okay and see if I had heard from my dad. They offered to come to our apartment or come and get me and bring to their houses. I didnt want to leave in case he came home despite the fact you could no longer leave or enter the city.
The minutes felt like hours and I paced and chain smoked around the apartment until about 1 am when my body started crashing. I was truly terrified. Every hour that went by had me more convinced I may never see my dad again. I was suddenly faced with the realization that I might be an orphan now. My thoughts were all over the place and my emotions were all over the spectrum. My brain was a riot that could not be tamed.
At about 2:30 in the morning on September 12, 2001, my father entered the apartment looking like the ghost of Christmas past. He was covered in gray powder and his eyes were like silver dollars. I almost knocked him over when I ran and hugged him. I dont know how long I held him for but I still don’t think it was long enough. He told me he loved me and that he was tired and needed a shower. He was clearly rattled and it looked like he got hit with a wall of tired after a few minutes. He was obviously running on adrenaline for a long time and now that he was home he practically passed out from exhaustion. 
Later he would tell me about some of the things he saw that day. I won’t go into detail here but suffice it to say it stuck with him for a while. But I’m grateful that my father lived and came home to me. And my heart breaks for all those who lost their loved ones. Never Forget.

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It was my first day of college.  I live on Long Island, only about 50 miles away from Manhattan so we were all really scared.  I remember watching it on tv and it feeling so surreal.  I went to the gas station later to fill up my tank and and remember feeling like everyone was just in a fog.  Like we all knew that things were going to be really different now, and it’s so true; this is a vastly different country than it was on September 10th, 2001.  I felt like that after the Columbine shooting too.

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I was 8 years old and my memories are pretty vague too, but I remember watching the news with my brother instead of getting ready for school (I’m in mountain time zone so it was earlier here) and worrying for all my loved ones who lived in NY at the time. My family and I had plane tickets to New York in October for a family members wedding and I was terrified to fly there. But we went and I visited ground zero about a month and a few days after 9/11 and it was still smoldering, it was very sad to see. Everyone cried and they were still searching for bodies and traces of missing loved ones in the mess.

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I remember I was 5 as well at home on the couch watching the news with my mom. I didn’t fully understand it either.

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In 10th grade English class. School went on lock down because the one plane flew overhead. Watched it on the tv. After lock down we went home early

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I was 14 and we were at Sea World in Orlando, FL.  We heard people in the park talking about something happening in New York but we really didn't think much of it until an announcement came over the system that the park was being evacuated.  (Sea World was the last park to be evacuated.) I remember buying a plush polar bear keychain while everyone was getting their refunds because something told me I wanted something to remember that moment. Still have it actually. 
That was actually the first time I ever took an anxiety pill because I pretty much had a meltdown once the gravity of the situation hit me and the reason why we had been evacuated from the park.  
The next day we left on a Disney Cruise and the ship was only half full because all flights had been shut down.  The mood was very somber with news coverage on every television so the cruise staff worked extra hard to take care of the passengers, especially us kids.  Actually ended up being one of the best cruises I've ever been on despite it all.

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i was only about a year old and don’t remember but i just asked my fiancé and he says he remembered watching the towers collapse, they were watching it in class in 1st grade

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I was in my history class in high school. Some of the kids had to go to the counselors office because they came from the city or had relatives there. I didn’t fully grasp the gravity of the situation at the time, I just knew it was awful. I remember my history teacher saying something how this is a huge event that will go down in history.

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I was getting ready for work and my roommate yelled to me that a plane had hit the world trade center. I remember thinking it must have been a small plane. I couldn't imagine how anyone could fly into tall buildings like that. That day is seared into my memory.

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8th grade reading class. Our teacher wheeled in a tv and we watched it with another class.

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