I was working as a builder on a construction sid, when we heard this on the radio. I got the reaction: "Oh like a few years ago that little airplaine again??" Later i visit my parents and my brother told me about it, i said i know another little airplane crushed in, and he was "No,no,no it was a big one,there is something big going on", so we all start watching tv. I am from Germany, nearly all germans know where they were at that moment.(those who are old enough of course)
I keep forgetting I'm actually older than you. Probably because you're successful and I assume everyone successful is older than me to keep me from drinking myself to death.
After Flight 93 malfunctioned and crashed in Pennsylvania, it took you until 5PM to rewire the charges in Building 7 to detonate from the ground up. Tsk tsk. Sloppy job.
Hmm, well it would take more than 9 months to wire up a building that size for controlled demolition, meaning you couldn't have been working for Bush when you started... Damn, I knew the Clintons were involved.
On 9/11 2001 I remember I was trying to watch cartoons but the broadcast networks wouldn't let me and I was mad. This Sept. 11th I was also trying to watch cartoons but hurricane Irma wouldn't let me but I was too hot from no A/C to care. I have grown up so much in 15+ years.
I was 21 when 9/11 happened and I thought it was the end of the world. I cried when we went into Afghanistan and into Iraq because I somehow knew it was the wrong decision to make.
Oddly enough, when I was a little kid, I remember us talking about some stupid puff piece on Osama Bin Laden, calling him a "freedom fighter," in whatever grade I was in then. It must have been around the fifth grade. It was just weird to remember that fluff piece and talking about it in class and then grow up to have everyone hate the same guy and the same fighters later.
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I was 13 too, not from USA though, heard it on the news after school and I remember thinking that it was an accident, then I heard a second plane hit and I was like "wtf? how did another plane crash in the buildings by accident on the same day?!" :D Damn kids are naive.
The really frightening thing was a day or two later our English instructor was the first person I heard say "Well, I'd give up some of MY rights to keep us safe!" And it was like that ! alarm in Metal Gear Solid. Like, ALERT!!!! You just heard something shortsighted, stupid, and fucking terrifying.
I remember being in my house when I was about 12 and I was getting ready for school. I saw the first plane hit and thinking it was an accident. I went to school a few minutes later and heard about the 2nd plane hours later while we were in school. (I'm in the midwest.) Can't remember if we were let out early or not. Surreal. At 6:30 I so agree. To Kyle or anyone else. I have a serious question. How come companies have never even attempted a shorter work week combined with automation? Instead of laying people off and completely replacing them with robots. Why not just incorporate robots in a way that allows each employee less overall working hours but very slightly higher pay rates? It doesn't make sense that with all this modern tech, companies still demand 8 hour a day five days a week work schedules. :-/
Thanx Orion Stanley. That's exactly what I was going to respond with. It seems these big businesses have not thought technological employment and its ramifications all the way through yet. Smh.
You're probably not going to see this, but how well was your understanding of politics when you were young, and when did you start getting into politics?
I was doing a project with a friend in government class about Martin Luther's 95 Thesis. And our teacher wouldn't let us watch 9/11 because she was like "well the world does crazy stuff all the time and it'll still be there later". SHE WAS WRONG THE TOWERS WERE BOTH GONE by the time I reached my second class. *reenacts beach scene from Planet of the Apes going into next class*
I woke up and watched the second plane hit. Had to be at school about an hour later where I found out the towers fell. My teacher was from NY and was bawling her eyes out the entire class. We kinda just sat there tapping our pencils. She ended up putting on a movie and walking out of the class while we sat there, silent. It was the strangest day I had experienced up until that point.
Aww, you're younger than me! I was a senior in high school when 911 happened. Was on the West Coast at the time, and we watched the news in every class all day.
I was working in a little shop 'Bargain Booze' in a village called Rainhill in England. Everyone who walked in stopped and joined us watching the pictures on the little tv we had there at the time. A horrific crime and a terrible day.
I remember it was a Monday. It was my last year of high school and the job placement program I was in had us in class on Mondays. The announcement was made over the PA system, but as a Canadian, it didn't really click what it was about. We went about our class as usual, then during lunch a buddy and I went to the school library, where they had the news on on a few TVs... After watching it happen, then the second tower being hit... I remember turning to my buddy and saying "things are going to change". It was a very prophetic moment in my life. I wish I had been wrong.
I was 10 years old and had just gotten home from school when i was told about it. I remember the entire day at school all the teachers had this disturbed look on their face, and i kept asking my teacher why she looked so upset, but she wouldn't tell us what had happened.
I live on the west coast. My mother told me I wasn’t going to school that day because, “I need to see what’s happening today”. I also sat and watched the toppling of saddam Hussein’s statue in Iraq on a day off from school. I feel fortunate that these events were made important to me, because it forced me to educate myself on why they happened. Which is why I like this show
I was on the 48th floor of the Marriott Marquis, and I thought the same thing as Kyle until I heard what sounded like all emergency vehicles in the state where coming down the West Side Highway. We then moved into a south looking room and I saw the 2nd Tower come down with my naked eyes. All my business group and myself too couldn't wait to get on the ground. Especially if you know the inside of the Marriott Marquis?
I was at work watching it on TV. Went downtown on a service call and people were bugging tf out. Remember thinking that the buildings looked like they were demolished on purpose. All. THREE of them.
I was 5 years old, in Kindergarten. I didn't know that anything had happened until I got home from school. For the rest of the day, my mom and I were glued to the TV, watching the endless replays of the disaster that unfolded, wondering what would happen next. My dad was in California on a business trip, and he was stuck there for a few days due to the FAA grounding all of the flights in the US.
I was in middle School as well. And just like you Kyle, we were let out early. We had a random man walk into the room, whisper something into our teacher's ear, and he nodded. They both walked out, brought in a TV, and turned it on. What we saw were two burning buildings. He then went around the room asking everyone where their parents worked. I was so scared because I didn't know
I was in 8th grade, also born in 1988, art class, the girl I sat next to was actually from New York so she was pretty affected. I got woken up to hear the news since I'm in Vancouver. I think it really shifted the education of Millenials.
I was working and going to college, I woke up for my job as an STL Lifeguard at Drury Hotels. The first tower had already been hit and speculation as to the reason was what the conversation was about. As I was getting dressed I saw the 2nd plane hit and knew it was deliberate, that low, that much of a center punch. At work on the televisions it was all that was on, and I watched it on/off all day.
I live in the center west part of Illinois and I was 7. We were let out early and all I really remember is being able to tell that something uniquely bad happened based on adults around me.
Freshman year of college for me... Visited WTC exactly one week before 9/11 for a college trip, was in Tower 1. On the day of the tragedy I remember trying to calm my roommate down as he had family members in Tower 2. One survived the other did not..
I was in 6th grade... The entire school emptied out from all the parents pulling their kids out because we were in such close proximity to the WTC, about 20 minutes away. I was the only kid left in the school that no one came to pick up. My teacher had to stay behind and wait with me until school was up, when I took the bus home alone.
I was at school in 2nd grade. We were on lockdown. My teacher tried to explain to us what was going on, but we could not comprehend the gravity of the situation nor understand our teacher through her tears. I could only think about how it was almost my birthday in a few days. That night I snuck into the living room after I was supposed to be asleep. My parents were watching the nightly news, and I felt a sinking feeling in my stomach when I saw one of the planes crash on television.
My earliest memory was 9/11 I was 3 years old. I was playing with my toys when my mother got a call and changed the channel to a news channel at that moment I saw the first of the two towers fall. I will always remember that day.
I was 5 and one of my earliest memories is watching the second plane go in. I'm British and because of time zones I was already home from school. We later moved house but I can easily remember the room I was in and the old black cathode ray tv it was on.
I was completely oblivious on the morning of 9/11 as I got up to go to work and didn't turn on the TV. It wasn't until I was driving to work, turned on the Howard Stern Show and Tom Leykis was on talking about the collapse of the WTC's and the Pentagon and I nearly drove off the side of the road I was so shocked.
I was a year old and can't fathom even now what the feeling was back then. Now I am a high school senior and if something similar to 911 happened, I would get that nervousness you mentioned Kyle
Grade 7, lining up to go to gym class. We were told by a teacher that walked into the room "America is under attack". But we were all Canadian 11 year olds, so literally none of us could've cared less. We went to gym, and enjoyed the rest of the day lol.
My oldest daughter was 9 and I was out of town on business. My husband kept the girls home that day because they were scared, and I drove home as fast as I could. My oldest is now in graduate school and she doesn't believe the 911 official story, either.
Man, I was up early that morning working in my Downtown Chicago studio when it popped off. I kept looking out of my apartment window, to see if a plane was going to fly into one of our towers.....That day was BUGGED OUT!..I had to go pick up my mom at work and take her home...she lived on the south side, in the sticks...away from the towers.....That was a FUCKED UP DAY.....
I love reading through the comments of everyone's experience on the day of 9/11, it's really interesting to read. Unfortunately, I don't recall much of that day. I know I was in grade school, can't recall if I got out early (I lived in Northern NJ at the time)
I vaguely remember what happened that day, just like a lot of others I remember I was in school, I was around 8 at the time and I kinda remember some teachers hearing about the attack and rushing to get answers. After I got home It was just a few minutes before the south tower collapsed (we were also let out early mainly because some teachers had families in New York) as soon as I got home I could remember seeing the tower fall to the ground along with clips of people crying and screaming. Looking back at it now as an adult I never really knew much about how bad the world was (keep in mind I was only a small kid at the time) and I could only imagine seeing that as a 22 year old while having a full concept of how shitty things could get, it also didn't help much after especially when the Anthrax Attacks happened in October of the same year, it really makes you think how scary this kind of stuff happens. At that time I just couldn't imagine that I would have been growing up in some of the worst years in history what with fear, intimidation, war, bigotry, etc. It's honestly a scary thing knowing about it now as an adult.
I was watching on television just after the first tower was hit and all the smoke coming out, my sister came through and commented sarcastically, "Well, that's gonna make the world a better place."
I was 5. I remember watching the attacks on the news with my mom at my home in New Jersey. Then later in the day when my dad and brother had come home, my dad brought us all outside into the street, to a spot where you could see the smoke. I had never even heard of New York City before that day, and I remember being surprised at that moment that the thing I had just watched on the news had happened so close to home. For the next few days when I would go outside to wait for the school bus, I remember looking at the smoke, to check if it was still there. I can't remember how many days went by before I couldn't see it anymore.
I was in Haverstraw NY, directly opposite the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant along the Hudson River. Scary realization that one of the planes flew along Hudson River.
I was in fifth grade. Classes got cancelled, some of the students were in the lunchroom, some were in the classrooms. All of the tv's in the school were on various news channels. My teacher started crying and a few of my classmates though that was funny. I didn't feel any kind of way about it, I just started drawing stuff (which is what I would be doing instead of class work anyway).
I was at home when the media televised the demolition of the worldtraid center with people still in them as well as building 7. Then they told us the pentagon lost the information pertaining to the 2trillion dollars they misplaced.
I was in 5th grade and living on the Oregon coast, so we were just waking up and getting ready for school around the time the 2nd plane hit the trade centre. I only remember it because my mom was driving my brother and I to school and she was so shocked by the news coming over the radio that she slammed the brakes and made me smack my head against the dashboard. Once I got to school, my class was almost completely empty because everyone's parents had pulled them out and taken them home out of concern for their safety. It was an exceedingly boring day for me, honestly, because the teacher just spent the whole day watching the news and at 11 years old, I didn't see what the big deal was. I had a vague memory of both the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Columbine shooting in 1999, and I just assumed that acts of terror happened fairly regularly.
I remember I was 6 at the time (nearly 7) I think I was on a school trip or something like that. All I can remember was all the adults looking at a TV and the footage of the towers burning and collapsing. I obviously didn't understand any off it, but I remember constant news coverage of the wars growing up,
I was cleaning the living room and watching CNN while my toddler was napping...about a fire at the World Trade Center. There was a caller on the phone saying it had been hit by a plane when the second plane hit. Such a strange day, and I live in Canada...
I remember being in my second grade class and my shitty teacher at the time got a phone call (back when class rooms still had cord phones in class) and she started crying. eventually adults were saying a bunch of random things that I didn't catch and my mom eventually picked me up in a panic and went home. Me my mom, my baby sister and my mom's boyfriend at the time watched the repeated news reports of the towers being hit and collapsing, people fucking jumping off of them and shit. I was a couple of weeks before turning 8 years old when this happened and that shit was part of my brain at that point, it was also the first time I learned about terrorism and shit.
Was at home still sleeping when 911 happened. I do agree with you when it comes to work, btw. If you're gonna have a crappy job, might as well get paid better, have paid vacation days, etc.
Playing with Hot Wheels. Didn't know 9/11 was even a thing until 2008. Realized how I played with toy planes during recess was in extremely poor taste.
I was 6 at the time and working on a science project on magnets when I first saw the news on tv and mom was freakin out. By second grade when we had gotten into the war, I suspected 9/11 might have been an inside job based on my knowledge of pearl harbor, and the U.S. response to it. When I asked my teacher about it, she went livid and called me disrespectful.
I was 4, I remember my dad picking me up early from Pre-K, and I was confused as to why he was panicking and why my older sister was crying her eyes out. My dad had to explain to me in 4 year old terms what happened, and I couldn't believe people could do such a bad thing.
I feel like people who were born 94 to 97, something like that, have a strange connection to this. We don't truely have an emotional connection to the day itself but we are very aware of the fallout. That the old normal was going away.
I was in my second grade class room cheating on a spelling test while the teachers were gone watching the news.
Talon9390 Smart second grader
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I was working as a builder on a construction sid, when we heard this on the radio.
I got the reaction: "Oh like a few years ago that little airplaine again??"
Later i visit my parents and my brother told me about it, i said i know another little airplane crushed in, and he was "No,no,no it was a big one,there is something big going on", so we all start watching tv.
I am from Germany, nearly all germans know where they were at that moment.(those who are old enough of course)
Damn, the title is like an interrogation question
Show us lil' Kyle
why do you have the schrodinger's equation for a name? Jerry Seinfeld should make a bit about you.
I was drinking Vintage Seltzer
Drew Myself lol!!!! 🤣😂
I keep forgetting I'm actually older than you. Probably because you're successful and I assume everyone successful is older than me to keep me from drinking myself to death.
I know that feel. Although I'm slightly younger than kyle.
It's super competitive, though. I've had a video series for over three years and I would kill for even a fraction of Kyle's views.
I had just finished planting thermite charges in the World Trade Center. I was calling George W Bush to tell him I finished, then the planes hit.
After Flight 93 malfunctioned and crashed in Pennsylvania, it took you until 5PM to rewire the charges in Building 7 to detonate from the ground up. Tsk tsk. Sloppy job.
What the hell!
Hmm, well it would take more than 9 months to wire up a building that size for controlled demolition, meaning you couldn't have been working for Bush when you started... Damn, I knew the Clintons were involved.
Of course. Do you expect participants in a conspiracy theory to ever make mistakes?
Lol this made me laugh 😂 thanks
On 9/11 2001 I remember I was trying to watch cartoons but the broadcast networks wouldn't let me and I was mad.
This Sept. 11th I was also trying to watch cartoons but hurricane Irma wouldn't let me but I was too hot from no A/C to care.
I have grown up so much in 15+ years.
I was 21 when 9/11 happened and I thought it was the end of the world. I cried when we went into Afghanistan and into Iraq because I somehow knew it was the wrong decision to make.
Oddly enough, when I was a little kid, I remember us talking about some stupid puff piece on Osama Bin Laden, calling him a "freedom fighter," in whatever grade I was in then. It must have been around the fifth grade. It was just weird to remember that fluff piece and talking about it in class and then grow up to have everyone hate the same guy and the same fighters later.
Your teacher should've said, "Mama Mia!"
Papa Pio!
Favorite music genres?Favorite music artists? Are you into sports? Thoughts on the media company Barstool Sports? Can you make a video exposing Prager U?
He listens to rap/hip hop.
Yeah fuck Prager
Congrats on 500K! You deserve it!
Good question, fascinating to hear from Kyle!
These Q&A clips are really entertaining.
People that are our age have never really known an America that isn’t at war. How disgusting.
I was 13 too, not from USA though, heard it on the news after school and I remember thinking that it was an accident, then I heard a second plane hit and I was like "wtf? how did another plane crash in the buildings by accident on the same day?!" :D Damn kids are naive.
And also how did 2 planes knock down 3 buildings? Damn adults are naive.
It was explained countless times.
Where were you, when they built the ladder to heaven?
Well I for one believe in the Ladder to heaven...9/11, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11
Hahahah
Wait... Harrison Ford crashed into the World Trade Center? You heard it here first, folks!
A New Hope would have ended a little differently if he just Allahu Akbar'ed the Death Star
"Many many jobs" - Kyle 2017
I was in my high-chair eating Apple Jacks... yeah I know no one cares
The really frightening thing was a day or two later our English instructor was the first person I heard say "Well, I'd give up some of MY rights to keep us safe!" And it was like that ! alarm in Metal Gear Solid. Like, ALERT!!!! You just heard something shortsighted, stupid, and fucking terrifying.
I was 3 years old. So I don't remember
I remember being in my house when I was about 12 and I was getting ready for school. I saw the first plane hit and thinking it was an accident. I went to school a few minutes later and heard about the 2nd plane hours later while we were in school. (I'm in the midwest.)
Can't remember if we were let out early or not. Surreal.
At 6:30 I so agree. To Kyle or anyone else. I have a serious question. How come companies have never even attempted a shorter work week combined with automation? Instead of laying people off and completely replacing them with robots. Why not just incorporate robots in a way that allows each employee less overall working hours but very slightly higher pay rates? It doesn't make sense that with all this modern tech, companies still demand 8 hour a day five days a week work schedules. :-/
Urhoboman5 why paying for workers when you can robots work for free?
You can have robots*
Thanx Orion Stanley. That's exactly what I was going to respond with.
It seems these big businesses have not thought technological employment and its ramifications all the way through yet. Smh.
Yeah look at car prices now, and they don't seem to have such a problem selling them at all.
Urhoboman5 profit
Had almost the exact same exact experience. How strange is little kid I celebrated George Bush. Just for a moment in time
Look at a chart of Bush's approval rating, and note 9/11/01.
I was a high school junior in my ROTC classroom. We were all shocked as fuck; including my Army Colonel teacher.
You're probably not going to see this, but how well was your understanding of politics when you were young, and when did you start getting into politics?
I was doing a project with a friend in government class about Martin Luther's 95 Thesis. And our teacher wouldn't let us watch 9/11 because she was like "well the world does crazy stuff all the time and it'll still be there later". SHE WAS WRONG THE TOWERS WERE BOTH GONE by the time I reached my second class.
*reenacts beach scene from Planet of the Apes going into next class*
I was on 52nd St and 3rd Avenue in NYC....one of the most depressing and insane days of my life.
I woke up and watched the second plane hit. Had to be at school about an hour later where I found out the towers fell. My teacher was from NY and was bawling her eyes out the entire class. We kinda just sat there tapping our pencils. She ended up putting on a movie and walking out of the class while we sat there, silent. It was the strangest day I had experienced up until that point.
XD Bush did 420 haha smash that like button.
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DAB KUSH.... 420 is an inside job!
Jeb Kush Free joints on this Commander and Chiefer. 💨💨💨
You're never getting a vacation again lol. We all need you for real news commentary every friggin' day!
I was in Kindergarten, not fully understanding what was going on. It's crazy that I'm 21 now.
Aww, you're younger than me! I was a senior in high school when 911 happened. Was on the West Coast at the time, and we watched the news in every class all day.
Chorus class, eighth grade. About 25 miles east of ground zero. Both parents working in the city .will never forget that day
I was working in a little shop 'Bargain Booze' in a village called Rainhill in England. Everyone who walked in stopped and joined us watching the pictures on the little tv we had there at the time. A horrific crime and a terrible day.
I remember it was a Monday. It was my last year of high school and the job placement program I was in had us in class on Mondays. The announcement was made over the PA system, but as a Canadian, it didn't really click what it was about. We went about our class as usual, then during lunch a buddy and I went to the school library, where they had the news on on a few TVs...
After watching it happen, then the second tower being hit... I remember turning to my buddy and saying "things are going to change".
It was a very prophetic moment in my life. I wish I had been wrong.
I was 10 years old and had just gotten home from school when i was told about it. I remember the entire day at school all the teachers had this disturbed look on their face, and i kept asking my teacher why she looked so upset, but she wouldn't tell us what had happened.
I live on the west coast. My mother told me I wasn’t going to school that day because, “I need to see what’s happening today”. I also sat and watched the toppling of saddam Hussein’s statue in Iraq on a day off from school. I feel fortunate that these events were made important to me, because it forced me to educate myself on why they happened. Which is why I like this show
I was on the 48th floor of the Marriott Marquis, and I thought the same thing as Kyle until I heard what sounded like all emergency vehicles in the state where coming down the West Side Highway. We then moved into a south looking room and I saw the 2nd Tower come down with my naked eyes. All my business group and myself too couldn't wait to get on the ground. Especially if you know the inside of the Marriott Marquis?
I was at work watching it on TV. Went downtown on a service call and people were bugging tf out. Remember thinking that the buildings looked like they were demolished on purpose. All. THREE of them.
I was at work, at a newspaper, oddly enough; I remember the scramble to put out a Special Edition. Crazy. :(
I was 5 years old, in Kindergarten. I didn't know that anything had happened until I got home from school. For the rest of the day, my mom and I were glued to the TV, watching the endless replays of the disaster that unfolded, wondering what would happen next. My dad was in California on a business trip, and he was stuck there for a few days due to the FAA grounding all of the flights in the US.
I was working in a Kentucky hardware store and seen it on the TV by the exit door I'll never forget
I was in middle School as well. And just like you Kyle, we were let out early. We had a random man walk into the room, whisper something into our teacher's ear, and he nodded. They both walked out, brought in a TV, and turned it on. What we saw were two burning buildings. He then went around the room asking everyone where their parents worked. I was so scared because I didn't know
I was a toddler.
I was in 8th grade, also born in 1988, art class, the girl I sat next to was actually from New York so she was pretty affected. I got woken up to hear the news since I'm in Vancouver. I think it really shifted the education of Millenials.
I was working and going to college, I woke up for my job as an STL Lifeguard at Drury Hotels. The first tower had already been hit and speculation as to the reason was what the conversation was about. As I was getting dressed I saw the 2nd plane hit and knew it was deliberate, that low, that much of a center punch. At work on the televisions it was all that was on, and I watched it on/off all day.
I was 4 days from turning 8 and hadn't started my second-grade year that year yet so I was at home and watched in on the news. Crazy day
Sick leave and 30 day paid vacation. :-D I love it here.
I live in the center west part of Illinois and I was 7. We were let out early and all I really remember is being able to tell that something uniquely bad happened based on adults around me.
Freshman year of college for me... Visited WTC exactly one week before 9/11 for a college trip, was in Tower 1. On the day of the tragedy I remember trying to calm my roommate down as he had family members in Tower 2. One survived the other did not..
3:52 Kyle sold baskets of deploraBALLS!
I was in 6th grade... The entire school emptied out from all the parents pulling their kids out because we were in such close proximity to the WTC, about 20 minutes away. I was the only kid left in the school that no one came to pick up. My teacher had to stay behind and wait with me until school was up, when I took the bus home alone.
I was at school in 2nd grade. We were on lockdown. My teacher tried to explain to us what was going on, but we could not comprehend the gravity of the situation nor understand our teacher through her tears. I could only think about how it was almost my birthday in a few days. That night I snuck into the living room after I was supposed to be asleep. My parents were watching the nightly news, and I felt a sinking feeling in my stomach when I saw one of the planes crash on television.
I was also 13 years old and I was in my home room classroom bored. Almost all the parents pick up their kids, except me. I grew up with a step mom.
My earliest memory was 9/11 I was 3 years old. I was playing with my toys when my mother got a call and changed the channel to a news channel at that moment I saw the first of the two towers fall. I will always remember that day.
I was 5 and one of my earliest memories is watching the second plane go in. I'm British and because of time zones I was already home from school. We later moved house but I can easily remember the room I was in and the old black cathode ray tv it was on.
I was completely oblivious on the morning of 9/11 as I got up to go to work and didn't turn on the TV. It wasn't until I was driving to work, turned on the Howard Stern Show and Tom Leykis was on talking about the collapse of the WTC's and the Pentagon and I nearly drove off the side of the road I was so shocked.
I was a year old and can't fathom even now what the feeling was back then. Now I am a high school senior and if something similar to 911 happened, I would get that nervousness you mentioned Kyle
6th grade computer class. Watched all of it transpired and studying and researched it for years. End results don’t end well for the patriotic.
I was 5 and living in (still living now in) Canada so, no memory of being told about it at that age.
Grade 7, lining up to go to gym class. We were told by a teacher that walked into the room "America is under attack". But we were all Canadian 11 year olds, so literally none of us could've cared less. We went to gym, and enjoyed the rest of the day lol.
My oldest daughter was 9 and I was out of town on business. My husband kept the girls home that day because they were scared, and I drove home as fast as I could. My oldest is now in graduate school and she doesn't believe the 911 official story, either.
I was five years old, before heading out for school. My mom and I saw it happen on the news
Man, I was up early that morning working in my Downtown Chicago studio when it popped off. I kept looking out of my apartment window, to see if a plane was going to fly into one of our towers.....That day was BUGGED OUT!..I had to go pick up my mom at work and take her home...she lived on the south side, in the sticks...away from the towers.....That was a FUCKED UP DAY.....
I love reading through the comments of everyone's experience on the day of 9/11, it's really interesting to read. Unfortunately, I don't recall much of that day. I know I was in grade school, can't recall if I got out early (I lived in Northern NJ at the time)
I vaguely remember what happened that day, just like a lot of others I remember I was in school, I was around 8 at the time and I kinda remember some teachers hearing about the attack and rushing to get answers. After I got home It was just a few minutes before the south tower collapsed (we were also let out early mainly because some teachers had families in New York) as soon as I got home I could remember seeing the tower fall to the ground along with clips of people crying and screaming.
Looking back at it now as an adult I never really knew much about how bad the world was (keep in mind I was only a small kid at the time) and I could only imagine seeing that as a 22 year old while having a full concept of how shitty things could get, it also didn't help much after especially when the Anthrax Attacks happened in October of the same year, it really makes you think how scary this kind of stuff happens.
At that time I just couldn't imagine that I would have been growing up in some of the worst years in history what with fear, intimidation, war, bigotry, etc. It's honestly a scary thing knowing about it now as an adult.
I was 8 years old, all I remember is there was a moment of silence at school, and after school I saw what happened on the news.
At home watching it unfold in real time on the news.
I was watching on television just after the first tower was hit and all the smoke coming out, my sister came through and commented sarcastically, "Well, that's gonna make the world a better place."
LI native: was getting out of shower getting ready to go bus stop (1st grade)
I was 5. I remember watching the attacks on the news with my mom at my home in New Jersey. Then later in the day when my dad and brother had come home, my dad brought us all outside into the street, to a spot where you could see the smoke. I had never even heard of New York City before that day, and I remember being surprised at that moment that the thing I had just watched on the news had happened so close to home. For the next few days when I would go outside to wait for the school bus, I remember looking at the smoke, to check if it was still there. I can't remember how many days went by before I couldn't see it anymore.
I was in Haverstraw NY, directly opposite the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant along the Hudson River.
Scary realization that one of the planes flew along Hudson River.
I was in elementary school a couple of blocks from the south tower. I saw everything from my classroom window.
I was in fifth grade.
Classes got cancelled, some of the students were in the lunchroom, some were in the classrooms. All of the tv's in the school were on various news channels.
My teacher started crying and a few of my classmates though that was funny.
I didn't feel any kind of way about it, I just started drawing stuff (which is what I would be doing instead of class work anyway).
I was in second grade, coloring something. I remember the tv being on and our teacher was crying.
May God Bless those affected by 9/11
I was 13 too. I was in math class when 9/11 happened. My poor math teacher was pale white with shock when he told us.
I was wondering why people were mad at Hillary. Then I found out.
I was at home when the media televised the demolition of the worldtraid center with people still in them as well as building 7. Then they told us the pentagon lost the information pertaining to the 2trillion dollars they misplaced.
I was in 5th grade and living on the Oregon coast, so we were just waking up and getting ready for school around the time the 2nd plane hit the trade centre. I only remember it because my mom was driving my brother and I to school and she was so shocked by the news coming over the radio that she slammed the brakes and made me smack my head against the dashboard. Once I got to school, my class was almost completely empty because everyone's parents had pulled them out and taken them home out of concern for their safety. It was an exceedingly boring day for me, honestly, because the teacher just spent the whole day watching the news and at 11 years old, I didn't see what the big deal was. I had a vague memory of both the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Columbine shooting in 1999, and I just assumed that acts of terror happened fairly regularly.
I remember I was 6 at the time (nearly 7) I think I was on a school trip or something like that. All I can remember was all the adults looking at a TV and the footage of the towers burning and collapsing. I obviously didn't understand any off it, but I remember constant news coverage of the wars growing up,
I was cleaning the living room and watching CNN while my toddler was napping...about a fire at the World Trade Center. There was a caller on the phone saying it had been hit by a plane when the second plane hit.
Such a strange day, and I live in Canada...
I was school at the time, I was in 6th grade... even doh i was in queens at the time I could still see the smoke from the city
I remember when all three buildings came down ridiculously fast. Never saw a fire do such a thing to three buildings consecutively before or since.
I remember being in my second grade class and my shitty teacher at the time got a phone call (back when class rooms still had cord phones in class) and she started crying. eventually adults were saying a bunch of random things that I didn't catch and my mom eventually picked me up in a panic and went home.
Me my mom, my baby sister and my mom's boyfriend at the time watched the repeated news reports of the towers being hit and collapsing, people fucking jumping off of them and shit.
I was a couple of weeks before turning 8 years old when this happened and that shit was part of my brain at that point, it was also the first time I learned about terrorism and shit.
I was in kindergarden. Don't remember what I did during the day but I remember my parents and my older siblings watching the footage.
Was at home still sleeping when 911 happened.
I do agree with you when it comes to work, btw. If you're gonna have a crappy job, might as well get paid better, have paid vacation days, etc.
Playing with Hot Wheels. Didn't know 9/11 was even a thing until 2008. Realized how I played with toy planes during recess was in extremely poor taste.
I was 6 at the time and working on a science project on magnets when I first saw the news on tv and mom was freakin out. By second grade when we had gotten into the war, I suspected 9/11 might have been an inside job based on my knowledge of pearl harbor, and the U.S. response to it. When I asked my teacher about it, she went livid and called me disrespectful.
I was 4, I remember my dad picking me up early from Pre-K, and I was confused as to why he was panicking and why my older sister was crying her eyes out. My dad had to explain to me in 4 year old terms what happened, and I couldn't believe people could do such a bad thing.
I did nothing once... and it was everything that I ever imagined it was.
I was a baby
I was in 3rd grade pissed that I couldn't watch cartoons.
I was in third grade. I remember my cousins watching it on the news and them looking shocked and they looked at me and said where going to war.
Was living in Alabama, a small kid, 3 years old. I was confused as to why someone would do that.
Ahh I remember that. I also remember idiots comparing Iraq and Afghanistan as if they were the same country. 2003 was pretty dumb.
Where was I on 911? On the phone...calling 911.
Werd ... that was my life growing up, now I’m a truck driver working 7 days to make ends meet
I was at LSU, we had class, and then I had work...people got their cars washed...
I feel like people who were born 94 to 97, something like that, have a strange connection to this. We don't truely have an emotional connection to the day itself but we are very aware of the fallout. That the old normal was going away.