I was in 5th grade when this happened. Nobody in school that day told us what happened. It wasn't until I got home that I found out. At first I thought it was kinda messed up everyone at the school kept it from us but now that I'm older I definitely understand why they handled it the way they did. They probably believed at that age it was better we heard the news from our parents.
Same. They had us all on the floor together with the lights off and told us to be quite. I remember the sad faces that the teachers had. One by one the parents came and took their children. When I got home I saw the news on the TV about the towers. I think at that time both were still up but on fire.
My school did the same I was in 7th grade I saw the first tower on fire at home on our morning news, no one knew what had happened or was about to. No music was playing in the car the news, we heard when the second one hit over the air on the car ride to school. Screaming and panic. “A plane? we just saw footage!” My school tried to go on like a normal day and kept the tvs off… One teacher turned on the news when the towers collapsed in another room. we found out more when our parents came to pick us up early. Same, I was confused why they weren’t letting us see what was happening. I lived in another state and buildings were being evacuated. Our school, My grandmother picked me up and was crying telling me there were more planes Air Force One flew over our school as we were leaving flying the president to safety. We got home and watched the footage and updates the rest of the night in shock
I was 12 in 7th grade & I didn't know what happened til I came home and remember my mom sitting at the kitchen table while on the phone telling me "something bad happend". 😞
This is largely how I remember 9/11 - in a classroom. I was a senior in HS. I was actually on my second or third full day of school, where school had started on 8/27. I got into a car accident 3 days before school started and missed a lot of the first couple weeks of school due to my injuries. We were cleaning out the library to make room for a general use computer lab, got done about 20 minutes before the period ended, so it was about 8:45 once we filed back into the classroom. The teacher was flipping through channels and that was right about when it broke into programming. We were watching, blew it off as an accident, and switched to 2nd period at the exact time the second plane hit. I remember someone coming into 2nd period hysterical (a lot of that class was made up of freshmen) and the principal coming over the loudspeaker telling us what happened, and that if we needed to go home it would be excused. I had a block of chemistry 3rd and 4th periods, we had a sub for that and she didn't even make an attempt at teaching us. I just remember watching it for those two hours, just in shock finding out that another tower, the Pentagon and another plane were involved, and then watching the towers collapse. The teacher just sitting there below the TV with her head hung and tears rolling down her face and the shocked expressions on my classmates' faces. I don't even remember what we did the rest of the day... I am pretty sure they ended up just dismissing us all after 4th period because United 93 wasn't far from where we were.
Yeah that day was the 4th day of school for me, but l didn't go. I had stayed up till 5am the night before (Sep 10th), so there was no way l would be up by 7 to go to school that day. My mom woke me up frantic around 830. I honestly thought she was mad that l had overslept, but of course that wasn't it. She said a plane hit the WTC, so l got up and went to the window to see for myself, and sure enough there was smoke coming out of one of the towers. Did l mention l was born and raised in NY, and saw those Towers pretty much every day of my life? 😔
This guy has to be a time traveler i mean, for real How is he getting all this footage of time events he a time traveler to me but still cool to see this i was only 3 years old when this happen.
I can't imagine my High School just letting anyone leave freely no matter what was going on. You still needed a parent/guardian to get released, even at 18. By Senior year, I left school sometimes knowing the tricks to not being caught.
I was in the 3rd grade. Our homeroom teacher, Mrs. Greenspan was reading a chapter off of Harry Potter’s Chamber of Secrets when she was interrupted by the other teachers on our floor. She asked us to “stay calm” as they huddled at the doorway and were in obvious shock/terror over something we didn’t know. It was Curriculum day, so around 8:55/9 am our classroom headed over to our Arts/Music teacher in a different part of the school. As we walked into our Music teachers class, we noticed he had one of those box tv sets+ VHS carts setup. I remember laughing at him because he was sitting really up close to the tv screen in one of those miniature chairs for elementary students, staring at the screen with what had the image of a gaping hole in Tower 1. “Take a seat, take a seat, this is really happening”. I wasn’t sure what I was looking at, I remember thinking it must’ve been a movie. Ill never forget the the sound of everyone in that room gasping and my music teacher yelling “HOLY SHIT” as we all saw the second plane go in. I remember the confusion of reaction towards the explosion and my teacher cursing out loud. We were all 7/8 years old. To this day, I can feel what I felt in that exact moment. All the trauma that came afterwards…
As everyone else here, I remember that terrible day and exactly what I did when I heard about the attacks. I was 18 back then a kid from Germany who loved America (and still does). The friend I was in New York with just a couple of weeks prior (my first trip to New York) called me and told me to turn on the TV... He said a helicopter had crashed into the WTC. I'm sure he just didn't want me to freak out... I was glued to the screen watching CNN and later my dad and I drove to the US consulate in Düsseldorf to lay down flowers... I still have the ticket for the observation platform, dated 08/13/01, 15:23. I will never throw it away. Thanks for this - sad but priceless - video. Love your channel!
Awsome to here about other people who love America. Most Americans today don't even apriciate the country they live in and the opertuintitys they have.
Pretty crazy seeing this, I was a freshman in high school on 9/11 and remember walking into French class and seeing the teacher watching the news on a tv setup exactly like this. We all just sat down and watched it silently, really errie feeling. My memory of 9/11 is almost identical to this footage
I was 17, watching the same news in a similar classroom in Clearwater, FL. This plays like a movie of my actual experience. This channel is incredible!
I was 16 a Junior in HS, in Tampa, FL, also in a classroom similar to this one with the TV stand and everyone stunned and quiet. Then the announcements started, calling people out. I'll never forget that moment.
Same except in Buffalo, NY. I was taking a quiz in a different room and my teacher came in and got me and he put on the classroom tv. We were watching when the second plane hit and it’s just burned into my brain. It’s weird to think there are adults alive today who weren’t born or don’t remember it.
I was in Middle school. My teacher turned on the tv and was in tears trying to keep it together. I was 12 and this very moment gave me a whole different outake on life. I remember my friends and classmates getting pulled out of class like this every few minutes.
I was a kindergartener when it happened, I just remember the principal coming over the loud speaker and telling everyone what had happened and that we were being sent home earlier for the day, being a bunch of 4-6 year olds none of us truly knew what had happened, my mother being a police officer(and the one who was usually home when I came home from school) was stuck at work just incase they called her department in to help(thankfully that call never came), I just remember watching the TV with my dad who was never phased by anything was clearly shaken up by it and then the 2nd tower falling. It was the first time in my life that I can remember the real world kicking in
I can relate to your story. I was not quite 6 years old when the 1972 Munich Olympic games had the Israeli athletes held hostage and seeing some of it play out on TV. Granted, that was far more tame in comparison to what went down on 9/11. Sometimes young people in this life get very early wake up calls. It's not nice, it's not fair, but as my Mom would so often tell me "We have to learn to take the bad with the good." The bad helps us appreciate the good so much more.
I might be the only New Yorker in this chatroom who witnessed it that day here in NYC. I was fourteen years old when the Twin Towers were destroyed here in NYC. I heard both explosions, and witnessed the North Tower collapse. Me and my grandma had stepped outside to talk to a neighbor a few minutes before the South Tower collapse, and then a neighbor ran outside saying the South Tower collapsed. I was a child back in 1994 when I went on the roof of the South Tower. The Twin Towers was my favorite spot here in NYC, and I miss them everyday. #NeverForget911
I was in 10th grade and homeschooled. My mom walked in the room and said we were under attack. We tuned into the TV just before the second plane hit. It was definitely a horrible, life-changing memory. It was so eerily quiet for weeks and weeks after. We lived near an airport, and when planes started flying again, we all would pause and listen with some fear that maybe it was another attack.
I lived in Visalia CA on 9/11. LeMoore Naval Air Station was straight west of us about 30 miles. The naval bombing and training range was almost straight east of us about 100 miles. Before 9/11 we's see or hear maybe 6-10 Navy fighters a week going back and forth from LeMoore to the bombing range for training exercises. In the weeks after 9/11 we'd see or hear 6-10 fighters going back forth every couple hours, everyday all day into the night. The Navy was in overdrive getting their pilots and crews tuned up for combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. Everytime we'd see or hear those jets we knew those pilots were getting ready to fly into the s..t. We felt pride in what they were doing but at the same time we were fearful for them knowing some of them wouldn't be coming back. That leaves a big hole in your gut.
I was 22 when 9/11 happened. I still remember every detail of that whole day so well, that I could write a book about it. When I was at the 9/11 memorial in New York, I tried going into their recording booths, where you can record your memories of that day. But I was so choked up thinking about it, that I sat in the booth for about 10 minutes trying to steady myself, but I never could and just had to leave.
I was 20 and in college. With my schedule, I already had that Tuesday off. Mom woke me up and told me a guy flew his plane into the twin tower. I thought it would be some small private plane that went off course. Could not fathom what would eventually unfold that day.
I was 14 in my first week of high school, and I remember, after a full day of watching all the death and destruction on the classroom TVs, getting picked up by my mother looking like an emotionally depleted zombie, saying no one could reach my sister. She was supposed to be at WTC (luckily we heard back late that night her group never made it to WTC and were still in NJ when it happened) Years later (2019) I wanted to go to the memorial, and I was totally fine inside until I saw the full list of victims in one side room... I saw a few victims with our last name. My brain put my sister's name right there with them, and I completely lost it. I realized I was crying, and didn't want anyone to see me so I ran to the closest bathroom and sobbed at the sink (I still remember a guy walking in, looking at me like I was crazy, and leaving). It took me a while to regain my composure, I grabbed the people I was with and said I needed to leave immediately. I can only imagine what it's like down there for those who lost loved ones. TLDR: Yeah... I totally get it, it's very emotional down there and it can catch you by surprise.
I was 18. All I really remember is the whole country shut down fornlike 3 or 4 days. Other than that don't remember much. I'm in california and have no ties to NYC so I didn't feel affected by it other than the world stopping a few days which I thought was crazy. Then even crazier when the world shut down for weeks and months for covid
I was a sophomore in HS in Brooklyn, NY. I remember sitting in the library before classes started and the librarian bursting in and shouting “they’ve hit the twin towers.” I was so confused and only when I went to my next class is when I learned more about what had transpired. One of my classmates was comforting me. I was freaking out because my dad might’ve been taking the train passing through the WTC. Then it was a mad rush to get home via buses because the trains were all shut down. People were begging to get onto the already packed buses. Luckily I got home safely, and so did the rest of my family. It was also much later on in my life that I realized how a week right before 9/11, I was went to the airport to see a love one off. The security process was nothing compared to today. We were able to walk them to their gate, see them board the plane and watch their plane take off. Never forget, never take anything for granted.
I was in 8th grade, I went to P.S 234 independence middle school in Tribeca, I was in History class and then there is just this extremely huge bang sound, it was so loud that even our teacher got so scared, and out the window there's people screaming hysterically and running, then the security kicks our door open, he's very scared and yelled at us telling us to evacuate the building immediately, then when we get out I see a whole lot of smoke and smelled like fire, then we started running as fast as we could and that's when I see this huge building that's burning, it scared me so much, but me and a few of my classmates kept running until we reached around SOHO, Greenwich Village side of New York, and when we got there we saw the 2nd plane hit😢, ever since I'm scared just to look at a plane, i feel bad for the people who lost their lives that day😢
I was like these kids. I was in 11th grade, and ironically I was sitting in American History class and our teacher was from NY. He had stepped out to get coffee and ran back in shouting that a plane had just hit one of the twin towers. He turned on the tv mounted in the corner of the room and we just watched silently in shock until the bell rang for us to go to our next class. Among being shocked, scared, and worried, I was in tears, at the time, because I thought my uncle was in one of the buildings. But he hadn’t told the family that his company had moved out a couple of months before. He told me a few companies had moved out that summer which I always found interesting…
I was in the cafeteria in elementary school when 9/11 happened. I was in the 4th grade. The principal came on the intercom saying that kids will be leaving early. All the kids were asking, “what’s going on?” “Are they bombing us??” And there were military planes flying fast in the air. I remember getting home, and my mother was sitting up in bed and my sister standing at the side. We were all watching on TV. I remember asking my mom, “what happened..?” The next day was bad as well. Verrrryy sad day. Everyone was crying because they lost loved ones. I really felt like I was in a movie.
It sounds cliché but this was truly a day I will never forget. I was in 3rd grade in a Broward County school at the time and the principal relayed to all teachers via the intercom to put on their TVs (similar to the one in this footage). Not sure if I remember correctly but a man in a dark background was saying what was happening without going into too much detail. In hindsight I think they made the right decision not to show us live news footage. Just like in this video the principal announced our names and my mom picked me up. When we arrived home she put on the TV and then let out scream that will forever be etched into my memory. Thank you for sharing this and RIP to all those who lost their lives on that day.
This takes me back, I was a senior in hs when this happened and we all thought we were watching a movie. Nothing has been the same since 9/11 happened.
These kids are about my age, 13 or 14 in 2001. Now 36, like me with families, jobs, and homes. Really doesn't feel that long ago but the years seem to have gone by faster in recent years. Eventually, our generation will be the last alive to tell our stories to the ever growing post 9/11 babies.
I was a few blocks away from the towers on 9/11. I was 29 years old and worked in advertising in midtown Manhattan at the time. Took the 6 train downtown for a business meeting sked for 930am. When I got out of the subway I saw the horror. Worst day of my life, aside from family passing away. I lost 4 friends that day. 3 were FDNY. 1 was an electrician. Where I live in still in Queens, NY, street signs are littered with the names of local area people who died in the buildings that day. So for me, I am reminded every day just leaving my house. Sadly most of the country and the younger generation have oved on.
I was only 9 when it happened. Such a bizarre day when you're a kid too young to grasp the enormity of the situation. I remember my parents just being uncomfortably silent, not really sure how to explain a terrorist attack to a child. Went to school that day (west coast) and the teacher was clearly checked out and too distracted to teach. She had us write a letter to our future selves about that day to read when we grew up. Besides that she just let us play board games and stuff all day. Went home, and I remember my parents being glued to the downstairs TV. I went to watch TV upstairs and flipped through the channels and I remember many of them went off the air for the day, just displaying static images saying they had ended their broadcast day early out of respect for the victims. I just turned on the PlayStation and played Crash Bandicoot instead. Incredible how things don't phase you when you're a kid who's too young to fully comprehend them.
I was in 4th grade when this happened. The principal came on the loudspeaker and told all teachers to turn on their TVs to the news immediately. She turned it on right as the second plane hit and we saw the explosion. They zoomed in on people jumping out of windows. They replayed both planes hitting the towers many times. After a short phone call to the office, our teacher turned the TV off and stood in front of us with an expression I'd never seen on her before. She went into full mom mode. She told us "I know what you just saw was horrible. I wish you didn't see it, but it's going to be everywhere you go for a while. I only know what we all just saw, and I may not have the answers for you, but you can ask me or your parents when you go home today." When a kid had asked her why people were jumping out of the windows instead of going down the stairs, she waited a moment before saying "Because that was their only way out." Though I didn't understand it at the time, I'll never forget her sad face when she said it.
I was in elementary. And I was so pissed off because they literally shut off Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel for a whole two days discussing this topic I tried to go to HBO and I still couldn’t watch regular TV. I’m all the way in Georgia how does New York concern me , I know it sounds bad but that’s how I was thinking as a third grader
Great video. I was in 4th grade and they wouldn't tell us anything but we knew something was wrong because people were being picked up early. Sometimes 2 or more at a time. My mom picked me up around noon and showed me a newspaper in the car then I saw the footage when we got home. I always wished the teachers would've let us watch the news while it was happening.
I was a little kid in elementary school and our gym teachers rolled in the box tv 📺 and we all watched and I'll never forget the teachers gasps when the second plane hit. God bless all the families and the brave fire fighters and cops and first responders. God bless the nameless faceless hero's, we will never forget 🇺🇸
This definitely takes me back. I was a senior in high school when 911 happened. This is what every classroom was like every day in my school for about a week after it happened.
I was in 1st grade when this happened. My Brother was in 6th grade in the same school. I remember our teacher running in and out of the classroom, a lot. We heard her and several other teachers talking in the hallway and they had a TV set up in the hallway, but couldn't hear enough to know what happened since it was a good distance away from our classroom. Finally, we asked her what happened and she told us what had happened. It was also my Dad's 41st Birthday, and they were literally singing Happy Birthday to my Dad at work when the first plane hit and the TV was on behind him, unfortunately. Wasn't long after that, I heard an announcement over the school PA system calling my and my Brother's names that our Dad was there to pick us up. We were the first to leave before all of the other students because my Dad worked so close. A day I will never forget, like so many of us. To this day, my Dad refuses to celebrate his Birthday on September 11th.
I'll never forget being in high school on 9/11. I'm in NJ but a 15 min drive to NYC. You were able to see the Twin Towers from the roof of my school. I remember the panic, being held in the gym, my teacher in tears watching the news in the classroom. Very surreal.
I was working, and it never occured to me to stop and go home. I didn't realize the seriousness until I got home. Didn't realize both towers had collapsed. I was listening on the radio all day and realized history was unfolding. I finally got home about 6 and I was glued to the TV until early morning.
I was 24 years old at the time of 9/11. I remember sleeping in that day, and the phone ringing woke me at 9 am. My Mother was on the line when I picked up. She started with, "I don't want you to be upset, but..." I hung up with her after about a 5 minute conversation, and turned on the television. I watched footage of the towers falling, and I looked on in horror as I cried "All those people!" 😢 It was such a sad day for our Country. 😮😢😢💖💖💖💯💯
I was sitting in my 10th grade English class, in the middle of writing an essay about whether or not money buys happiness. This was in central NJ, about 50 miles from NYC. A boy who always got in trouble all the time just came from the office where he had gone to find out why he got detention again. He asked the teacher why the Pentagon was on fire because he said he saw them watching that on TV in the office. The teacher said she had no idea what he was talking about and nothing was happening. She kept denying that anything was happening. Then a few minutes later the principal came on the intercom and told us. It turns out a boy in our class had a sister that worked at WTC and the teacher didn't want to say anything to upset him, until she knew for sure what was happening. That guy's sister ended up being ok. I heard the plane hit right as she was about to walk into the building, so she didn't go in and was able to get away. We didn't watch any coverage on TV, so we just spent the rest of the day listening to radio coverage in some classes, and being updated by the principal over the intercom. When I left school, I still didn't know that the fourth plane had crashed in PA, so I wasn't sure if it was still flying around somewhere. So I knew if I saw a plane in the sky on the way home, it absolutely wasn't supposed to be there. When I was walking home, I heard the military jets in the distance and I didn't know what they were, so it was kind of scary. The full reality of the situation didn't really hit until I got home and put on the TV and all the New York TV stations that I normally watched were completely knocked out because their antenna was obviously destroyed in the attack.
I literally have the same exact memory. I was in 7th grade. Walking home after school that day it was eerily quiet. Reality didn’t hit til I walked into my house and seen the faces of my mom and sister in front of the TV, and the sound of my dad’s voice on the phone a few mins after arriving home. I’d never heard his voice like that before. That night, I remember laying on the couch and crying as I flicked through channels, majority of channels being black with a service message. That was when full reality hit me.
You never forget things like that. I was in my Senior year in HS, a lot of my friends in class started crying. I was just thankful that none of my family members lived in NYC. I was living with my dad, at the time in Georgia. But most of my family members lived in NY, but not the city thank God.
I was a freshman in high school. I was just leaving my 1st period class and walking over to 2nd period. I saw up on the TV what was happening. We spent the rest of the day in every class just watching it on TV. I lived just a couple hours east of Shanksville PA so a lot of people were terrified and thought WWIII was about to happen. Remember it like it was yesterday.
Same thing with me that 1st clip and then the one where the kid walked into the classroom from the door to the right of the TV (almost a identical copy of my classroom) we got called in the same way thru the devider door between 2 classrooms and I thought it was a old movie as a 9th grader myself and that the class was having a goof off fun day and we actually had to to a pop quiz instead (we didn't have audio for the first TV just a silent recording of the 1st building in smoke) I insisted that they were playing a prank on me until I realized that empty look across the room and by the next class everyone thought that everyone across the nation was on target but we were left in school all day long some of us had portable CD players and a built in radio and every class that denied us TV we tried the radio instead burning thru our stash of AA batteries seems like yesterday
Yeah I was also a 6th grader and it played out nearly identical to this video. Intercom came on and started calling out names of kids in my classroom, one by one, then they said my name so I went to the front entrance of the school and that's where my dad was, waiting to pick me up. We talked about it during our walk back home (school was close to where I used to live back then). I can't believe it's been so long but this video plays out almost like a memory for me.
This was basically my experience. Just sitting in 9th grade home room and the teacher abruptly gets called out, then a minute later he came back wheeling in one of those TVs and he turned on the news. It was a real stressful time to be a teenager. We kept anticipating "anniversary" attacks that never came, there were anthrax scares, all sorts of crazy stuff that basically traumatized the entire country.
9-11 happened when I was just short of my 23rd birthday. I crashed overnight at my mom's place and missed the initial incident because she knew I'd been up late and wanted to let me sleep in. By 10 or 11 am however I was awake and glued to the screen. I'll always remember how I went to get gas, because I had to, and saw hundreds of people who were getting it because they apparently thought it would be their only chance. The lines were a block long and the price had immediately been gouged to five bucks a gallon.
I remember being in the 7th grade and being in the nurses office getting ready to go home my mom just got to school to take me home and the nurses carted the tv in the room. We all watched as the nurses watched in horror and broke down crying. I couldn’t comprehend what was going on around me, I thought it was a movie I was watching it in real time it was insane. We raised money for the fire department and walked around my neighborhood with candles.
I was a senior in HS when this happened I was taking me senior pictures and we had been instructed to return to our classes. This was in falls church VA some of the students parents worked at the pentagon so there was a lot of emotions going on at our school. I was just at the twin towers the month before with my parents and sibling as a quick summer trip to NY before school started. :/
I also had to work an evening shift at footlocker (my job as a teenager at the time) I walked to work and realized that whole shopping strip was closed due to our city in mourning from the events that happened earlier that day so I decided to walk to my local grocery store where I left my disposal camera developing for the pictures I took the month before while at the twin towers, me and the lady at the register were both looking at the pictures in amazement knowing the towers were now gone.
I was 10 when 9/11 happened and i still remember watching the news at school. So sad what happened that and we will never forget. It was truly a sad day for America.
Wow…..I was in economics class in my senior year of high school and my teacher was new, he had just moved from NY a few months prior. He was super brash and sarcastic but he was cool and we loved him. He cried that day while we watched the 2nd plane hit in class and said he lost many friends in those towers. Hope he’s still around and doing alright…..♥️
One thing I remember so vividly that day was how quiet it was, anywhere you went in public. I had to go out to Burlington Coat Factory in Dayton, Ohio that evening and pick up a suit for our son, who was going to be the ring bearer in a wedding later that week. Everyone was walking around in a quiet daze. I believe we were all in shock! The lines at the gas stations were so long too.
I remember that day I was 20/21 and I was leaving my boyfriend’s place we had no idea what happened, I turned on my radio on & when I heard I went over to my grandmother’s house who had the tv news on and I couldn’t believe it. It just felt so surreal like you knew it was happening & you knew it was real but. it didn't feel real at the same time. It was a mix of shock & disbelief & awe & fear all at once.
I was 11 at the time in the 5th grade and I remember our science teacher rolling into our classroom this same kind of television to show us what has happened. Being so young at the time I couldn't grasp the reality of what has happened that day until my father picked me up from that classroom just moments later. I remember me and him going back to my grandmothers house to continue watching it on tv. Ill never forget seeing that second plane hitting the second tower in real time and as a 11 year old seeing those poor people jump from those buildings, it also was the first time I seen my military father cry. I will never forget that day as long as I live :(
I was a Sophmore in high school in my "college writing" class. My school had thousands of students and I'll never forget the principal calling groups of names every 30 minutes for parents who had come to pick them up
You're right , it's definitely coming. It's due to the fact the U.S are the world's bullies and stick their nose in other countries issues when not wanted.
Outside of my father passing years prior and a couple of other family members passing 911 would be ranked one of my top most darkest days of my life. I was 20 years old and fully aware of what I was watching. Everybody was paused and glued to the TV for days unless you were at work or sleep.
I was in a 9th grade computer class when a teacher walking the hallways passed a note to my computer teacher, told us to stop what we were doing and explained what occurred. It didn't really hit me until I got home from school because my school did not allow us to watch any TV coverage. I was pretty much glued to the TV when I came home.
i remember this whole day. the ride to school . the teachers frantic the students clueless but quiet and listening. it was like being in a movie. that day their wasnt any fighting their wasnt anything on anyones mind besides"is this real?"
It didn't totally sink in for me that it was real until I got home from school and put on the TV and all the New York TV stations that I normally watched were knocked out. Nothing on the TV but snow.
I was 15 and just started by second year of high school in Central NJ. I was 50 minutes south of NYC and this reminded me of what the attendance office looked like. There were crowds of kids trying to get in touch with their parents- what a scene it was
I was 6 and in first grade at the time. The only thing I remember was the teacher turning on the tv for probably a couple of minutes and then turning it off. It's weird because there are memories I still have of kindergarten, but the day of 9/11 I don't recall at all. I think the adults around me at the time did a good job of staying composed so for me the day just seemed like any other.
I was on a Destroyer in the middle of the Atlantic in the Caribbean doing a counter narcotics deployment, watching the morning news (we were lucky and had satellite TV underway) and saw the news reports of the first plane hitting, in my division's officer's office, we both saw the second plane hit, I was 22 and hadn't put 2 and 2 together yet. He looked at me and gave me the most serious look I have ever seen in my life and said "we are under attack" I will never ever forget that. I will never forget that day, and the preparations we made to defend ourselves. I will never forget watching people leap to their death on live television. Everything changed after that day.
I was a senior in high school and will never forget when my friend who was supposed to be headed to NYC 🗽 for a wedding that weekend told me a plane ✈️ had hit the World Trade Center in the hallway. Neither of us knew the horror of what was to come. Our world changed that day. Prayers to the victims.
I was in high school, sophomore year. The school year was still pretty new. It was a beautiful sunny day, and everyone was in a good mood. In fact, if my teacher had not been in a good mood and let us watch TV the last 20 minutes of class, we would have not known as soon as we did. People thought it was WWWIII, and parents were signing their kids out of school. It was crazy. The students and the teachers were just glued on the TV all day.
This was my senior year in High School. Everything changed that day in a span of an hour. Passing though first and second period, I heard that planes hit the Twin Towers. We had an assignment in second period to do look up information on travel and the moment we started, we were informed online that no flights would be taking place though whatever website it was. Every afterschool activity was shut down. We had football practice canceled. Our team was 3-7 that year but we never had one person give up. Every one of us wanted to still be out on that field, no matter what the record said. The main thing that stuck with me that day was one of our football coaches also taught my next class on government. Our head football coach at the time told us that the teacher/coach of the government class had a brother who worked near there. If anyone was scared to death that day it was that man. I never found out what happened, but seeing how they never were missing from school all year, everything was at least fine. But the horror of that day lives on for me forever. 22 years later, I won't forget what happened. It's impossible for me to forget what the class of 2002 saw that faithful September morning.
I was 24 when this happened, living in Minneapolis (Fridley). I remember how eerie it was not seeing a single passenger jet in the sky over the city for days after. I’ve always loved jumbo jets and would go to the MSP airport and watch them land and take off. But after 9/11 I just couldn’t look at them the same way. How could I? They were used as weapons against us in the worst way, a way that was completely unimaginable and incomprehensible before that day. I had to fly out of state for a wedding in September of 2002. I purposely chose to fly on the one year anniversary as a middle finger to the terrorists. I’m so glad i did. It helped get rid of the fear and some of the pain I was carrying from that awful day. It was a late evening flight, so the plane lights were dimmed and people were settling into the flight. Out of nowhere mid-flight, a woman with the voice of an angel began singing Amazing Grace over the loud speaker. It was a flight attendant. You could feel the magnitude of the situation in every fiber of your being. By the time she finished, there wasn’t a dry eye on that plane. I’ll never forget that feeling.
My mom was a freshman in HS at the time. I believe she said her class played the news all day as well. Having been born just a couple years afterwards, I can't imagine what that day was like. I think people who remember this day, and those who don't have very different ideas of what 9/11 represents. Watching these videos and reading these comments at least gives me a sense of how terrifying it must have been. I can't imagine.
I was in high school when this happened. Everyone went home. It wasn’t an official dismissal until hours later when they realized 70% of the school emptied out regardless
I had just started 7th grade, and news of the the first plane interrupted the music playing over the school bus radio. When I arrived at school I ran staight to the library because I knew the librarian always had the world news on the television. I'll always remember where I stood as I watched the 2nd plane come into view... Our classrooms were very much the same in rural MN that day.
I was in kindergarten when this happened. They ended bringing the entire school into the lunchroom right after the first tower was hit, and they put the news on all the tv’s in there and we just stared at it. They ended up canceling school altogether that day. Shortly after getting home my mom and I watched on the news as the second tower was hit, and then eventually the collapse of both towers, and my mom was on the phone pacing around frantic (I believe she was on the phone with my dad). Half my family is from NYC, and my great grandma lived only a block or 2 away from ground zero, so it was a very stressful day for my family. I can legitimately still remember the EXACT feelings I felt as I watched that utter destruction unfold, ESPECIALLY when the towers came down and the news reporters were yelling. Absolutely unforgettable and awful feelings.
I was 12 years old and I was in math class. My teacher turned it on TV for us. All I remember is people jumping out of the building and committing suicide, and not knowing what it was. We were dismissed early, it really freaked everyone out for a long time. I remember this was the day that we realized that we were not as protected by our oceans as we previously believed.
I vividly remember 9/11. I was in 3rd grade. My principal came over the intercom and said "okay its time to turn the....." and trailed off as the first tower fell...there are many moments I'll remember for the rest of my life, and his announcement will be one of them.
I was 14 in freshman year in telecommunications class in NJ! A man walked in and whispered to the teacher and his jaw dropped. Once the TV came on we were all shocked. It was the most beautiful still day. Everyone says that and they are so right. It was absolutely beautiful that day. Very strange. By the end of the day they let us leave early because people had family working in Manhattan and there was so many rumors that they would hit the power plant in Waretown NJ.
I was 14 on 9/11. Our young lives had already changed with the Columbine High School shooting two years prior...but 9/11 changed EVERYTHING and hasn't been like the past since.
I too was in a classroom during 911, i was in middle school in the 7th grade, I still remember it like it was yesterday. We were reading Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone as a class of which we later went to the theater as a field trip to watch the Harry Potter first movie and i remember that 911 was cemented into my memory as one of the most important days of my life.
I was in 6th grade English class, I remember we all at first thought it was funny everyone kept getting called for early dismissal for no apparent reason. It was about 10 minutes later my mom was walking into the classroom to get me, by noon the whole school was closed. It was very surreal being 10 and watching this all unfold. I still remember everything I did that day, what I ate, saw, said everything.
Wow this is so crazy i was in 10th grade at the time and it looked exactly like this everyone glued to the TV in the room then I remember so many of us walked out & walked home being scared confused, also there was a girl that ran to the office crying hysterically because her father worked in the Pentagon & she wanted to use the phone to check on him. It was such a sad day and everything felt so slow
I was in 2nd grade when 9/11 happened. I still remember watching the news just like this at school. When I got home my mom gave me the biggest hug ever.
I was a junior in high school. For days all the teachers had tv's on all over the school. They kept their doors open so we could watch. I went to history class that day and remember my teacher just turing on the TV and said this is history. Everyone was quiet and I honestly don't even remember hearing birds. I was a Fire Explorer at the time and when the towers fall you can hear all the personal alarms going off. That sound to this day makes me feel sick.
My generation. I was a junior. Wanted to stay home so badly but my parents didn’t want me watching the news, wanted my mind on something else me. The campus was silent, we were walking zombies. Couldn’t believe what was happening. For months the Fresno Bee dropped off a literal pile of newspapers in front of the school office for us to read. That was incredible. I’ll never forget it.
I didn't have a tv or listen to morning radio back then. I didn't know what happened until I walked into my local bank around 11a.m. and saw that they had a tv on tuned to CNN. I thought that was odd and how quiet it was. No one was talking. I asked the bank manager why was it so quiet. She lead me over to the tv and said, "just watch." In one minute I knew that the world had changed, and not for the better.
Yep, I remember exactly everything, the look on everyone’s face around me, some kids cutting up and laughing, others serious. I though it was end times. We were all getting ready to go home. Unbelievable.
My heart beats watching this I was way too I have no memory or didn't I even exist yet when this happened, I could only rely on my parents for their experiences here in Raleigh. But my heart is beating watching this. Especially hearing the intercom that sorta jarred me, a part of me is glad I wasn't around when this happened and my friends were either too little or weren't born yet, I can only imagine what it felt like. But this video makes me feel like I was in that classroom I'm sure there was a lot of PTSD, from that day. Even people who didn't lose loved ones and were in other parts of the country I bet it was traumatic.
I was in 7th grade. My school had tried to keep the news from being played that day, but one of my teachers had turned the TV on as the second tower was being hit. I just remember being in a daze for months afterwards.
It's wild to me that they showed the footage at school. I grew up just outside of the city, and they never showed us anything. Just explained the situation, with as little detail as possible, and a lot of kids were pulled out of classes that day by their parents.
at the time i lived a few miles from barksdale air force base where bush gave that first big address. it was absolutely insane how much military all of a sudden crowded the streets. like a war....thank goodness i havent had to see that again...well..yet.
Feeling sorry long after the fact for these young people watch their world change forever. And I'm getting flashbacks to being in high school on the morning of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.... but that was just 7 people killed by negligence, not 3,000 murdered. Stay strong, Millennials. Generation X has your back.
I was in 7th grade at the time, and there were several of my classmates that had ties to ppl in nyc, and it was a very somber day for many. I always feel like it's the day we lost any type of innocence growing up. Ever since nothing has felt quite the same... idk, maybe just me, though
I was in 5th grade when this happened. Nobody in school that day told us what happened. It wasn't until I got home that I found out. At first I thought it was kinda messed up everyone at the school kept it from us but now that I'm older I definitely understand why they handled it the way they did. They probably believed at that age it was better we heard the news from our parents.
Same. They had us all on the floor together with the lights off and told us to be quite. I remember the sad faces that the teachers had. One by one the parents came and took their children. When I got home I saw the news on the TV about the towers. I think at that time both were still up but on fire.
My school did the same I was in 7th grade I saw the first tower on fire at home on our morning news, no one knew what had happened or was about to. No music was playing in the car the news, we heard when the second one hit over the air on the car ride to school. Screaming and panic. “A plane? we just saw footage!” My school tried to go on like a normal day and kept the tvs off… One teacher turned on the news when the towers collapsed in another room. we found out more when our parents came to pick us up early. Same, I was confused why they weren’t letting us see what was happening. I lived in another state and buildings were being evacuated. Our school, My grandmother picked me up and was crying telling me there were more planes Air Force One flew over our school as we were leaving flying the president to safety. We got home and watched the footage and updates the rest of the night in shock
Our teachers told us what happened. I was in 7th grade. We watched it on tv in a class or two.
I was in 5th grade too
I was 12 in 7th grade & I didn't know what happened til I came home and remember my mom sitting at the kitchen table while on the phone telling me "something bad happend". 😞
This is largely how I remember 9/11 - in a classroom. I was a senior in HS. I was actually on my second or third full day of school, where school had started on 8/27. I got into a car accident 3 days before school started and missed a lot of the first couple weeks of school due to my injuries. We were cleaning out the library to make room for a general use computer lab, got done about 20 minutes before the period ended, so it was about 8:45 once we filed back into the classroom. The teacher was flipping through channels and that was right about when it broke into programming. We were watching, blew it off as an accident, and switched to 2nd period at the exact time the second plane hit. I remember someone coming into 2nd period hysterical (a lot of that class was made up of freshmen) and the principal coming over the loudspeaker telling us what happened, and that if we needed to go home it would be excused. I had a block of chemistry 3rd and 4th periods, we had a sub for that and she didn't even make an attempt at teaching us. I just remember watching it for those two hours, just in shock finding out that another tower, the Pentagon and another plane were involved, and then watching the towers collapse. The teacher just sitting there below the TV with her head hung and tears rolling down her face and the shocked expressions on my classmates' faces. I don't even remember what we did the rest of the day... I am pretty sure they ended up just dismissing us all after 4th period because United 93 wasn't far from where we were.
Yeah that day was the 4th day of school for me, but l didn't go. I had stayed up till 5am the night before (Sep 10th), so there was no way l would be up by 7 to go to school that day. My mom woke me up frantic around 830. I honestly thought she was mad that l had overslept, but of course that wasn't it. She said a plane hit the WTC, so l got up and went to the window to see for myself, and sure enough there was smoke coming out of one of the towers. Did l mention l was born and raised in NY, and saw those Towers pretty much every day of my life? 😔
Woah, intense.
This guy has to be a time traveler i mean, for real How is he getting all this footage of time events he a time traveler to me but still cool to see this i was only 3 years old when this happen.
I can't imagine my High School just letting anyone leave freely no matter what was going on. You still needed a parent/guardian to get released, even at 18. By Senior year, I left school sometimes knowing the tricks to not being caught.
I honestly only remembered them b/c of Trading Places and various TV shots.
I was a sophomore in HS, and at that time I had no idea how this day would change the world I lived in forever.
Why were the kids getting called?
@@xnibbybooksavage people thought we were being invaded and wanted to be with their loved ones
None of us did.
I didn't even know what the Twin Towers were.
Same here
I was in the 3rd grade. Our homeroom teacher, Mrs. Greenspan was reading a chapter off of Harry Potter’s Chamber of Secrets when she was interrupted by the other teachers on our floor. She asked us to “stay calm” as they huddled at the doorway and were in obvious shock/terror over something we didn’t know. It was Curriculum day, so around 8:55/9 am our classroom headed over to our Arts/Music teacher in a different part of the school. As we walked into our Music teachers class, we noticed he had one of those box tv sets+ VHS carts setup. I remember laughing at him because he was sitting really up close to the tv screen in one of those miniature chairs for elementary students, staring at the screen with what had the image of a gaping hole in Tower 1. “Take a seat, take a seat, this is really happening”. I wasn’t sure what I was looking at, I remember thinking it must’ve been a movie. Ill never forget the the sound of everyone in that room gasping and my music teacher yelling “HOLY SHIT” as we all saw the second plane go in. I remember the confusion of reaction towards the explosion and my teacher cursing out loud. We were all 7/8 years old. To this day, I can feel what I felt in that exact moment. All the trauma that came afterwards…
As everyone else here, I remember that terrible day and exactly what I did when I heard about the attacks. I was 18 back then a kid from Germany who loved America (and still does). The friend I was in New York with just a couple of weeks prior (my first trip to New York) called me and told me to turn on the TV... He said a helicopter had crashed into the WTC. I'm sure he just didn't want me to freak out... I was glued to the screen watching CNN and later my dad and I drove to the US consulate in Düsseldorf to lay down flowers... I still have the ticket for the observation platform, dated 08/13/01, 15:23. I will never throw it away. Thanks for this - sad but priceless - video. Love your channel!
That was very nice of you Rasmus. We need more people like you... great comment 😊
Awsome to here about other people who love America. Most Americans today don't even apriciate the country they live in and the opertuintitys they have.
I don’t remember because I was 6 and I was living in Mexico but even there my mom said it was huge news on tv .
A German loving America is a concept self hating Americans can’t comprehend 😂
Pretty crazy seeing this, I was a freshman in high school on 9/11 and remember walking into French class and seeing the teacher watching the news on a tv setup exactly like this. We all just sat down and watched it silently, really errie feeling. My memory of 9/11 is almost identical to this footage
Nailed it Joe! Great comment 👍
Yup I was in 10th grade
I was in 7th grade it was a sad day in America
My brother was also a freshman in high school in Kentucky, and almost 15 when 9/11 happened, with exact same tv setup and memory of 9/11
I was a freshman in college at the time and yes it was a very sad day
I was 17, watching the same news in a similar classroom in Clearwater, FL. This plays like a movie of my actual experience. This channel is incredible!
Thanks 😀
I was 17 too
I was in a classroom in Venice, FL when we watched the 9/11 news.
I was 16 a Junior in HS, in Tampa, FL, also in a classroom similar to this one with the TV stand and everyone stunned and quiet. Then the announcements started, calling people out. I'll never forget that moment.
Same except in Buffalo, NY. I was taking a quiz in a different room and my teacher came in and got me and he put on the classroom tv. We were watching when the second plane hit and it’s just burned into my brain. It’s weird to think there are adults alive today who weren’t born or don’t remember it.
I was in Middle school. My teacher turned on the tv and was in tears trying to keep it together. I was 12 and this very moment gave me a whole different outake on life. I remember my friends and classmates getting pulled out of class like this every few minutes.
Get a grip
@@carlaconnor8347 in what way should this person "get a grip"?
I was a kindergartener when it happened, I just remember the principal coming over the loud speaker and telling everyone what had happened and that we were being sent home earlier for the day, being a bunch of 4-6 year olds none of us truly knew what had happened, my mother being a police officer(and the one who was usually home when I came home from school) was stuck at work just incase they called her department in to help(thankfully that call never came), I just remember watching the TV with my dad who was never phased by anything was clearly shaken up by it and then the 2nd tower falling. It was the first time in my life that I can remember the real world kicking in
I can relate to your story. I was not quite 6 years old when the 1972 Munich Olympic games had the Israeli athletes held hostage and seeing some of it play out on TV. Granted, that was far more tame in comparison to what went down on 9/11. Sometimes young people in this life get very early wake up calls. It's not nice, it's not fair, but as my Mom would so often tell me "We have to learn to take the bad with the good." The bad helps us appreciate the good so much more.
I might be the only New Yorker in this chatroom who witnessed it that day here in NYC. I was fourteen years old when the Twin Towers were destroyed here in NYC. I heard both explosions, and witnessed the North Tower collapse. Me and my grandma had stepped outside to talk to a neighbor a few minutes before the South Tower collapse, and then a neighbor ran outside saying the South Tower collapsed. I was a child back in 1994 when I went on the roof of the South Tower. The Twin Towers was my favorite spot here in NYC, and I miss them everyday. #NeverForget911
I was in 10th grade and homeschooled. My mom walked in the room and said we were under attack. We tuned into the TV just before the second plane hit. It was definitely a horrible, life-changing memory. It was so eerily quiet for weeks and weeks after. We lived near an airport, and when planes started flying again, we all would pause and listen with some fear that maybe it was another attack.
I lived in Visalia CA on 9/11. LeMoore Naval Air Station was straight west of us about 30 miles. The naval bombing and training range was almost straight east of us about 100 miles. Before 9/11 we's see or hear maybe 6-10 Navy fighters a week going back and forth from LeMoore to the bombing range for training exercises. In the weeks after 9/11 we'd see or hear 6-10 fighters going back forth every couple hours, everyday all day into the night. The Navy was in overdrive getting their pilots and crews tuned up for combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. Everytime we'd see or hear those jets we knew those pilots were getting ready to fly into the s..t. We felt pride in what they were doing but at the same time we were fearful for them knowing some of them wouldn't be coming back. That leaves a big hole in your gut.
I remember my Mom telling me that this was the day she miscarried an unnamed baby
You're one year older than me because I was in 9th grade.
The beginning of the biggest lie in human history which resulted in the invasion of Iraq
Yes inside job to reclaim insurance from buildings that were full of Asbestos and too expensive to demolish the legal and safe way
I was 22 when 9/11 happened. I still remember every detail of that whole day so well, that I could write a book about it. When I was at the 9/11 memorial in New York, I tried going into their recording booths, where you can record your memories of that day. But I was so choked up thinking about it, that I sat in the booth for about 10 minutes trying to steady myself, but I never could and just had to leave.
What is the cost 💲 to visit the 9/11 memorial in NYC and is there parking there?
I'd suggest looking at bus tours from outside the city. I'm sure there is alot of info on-line to help plan a day at the memorial. @@PraveenSrJ01
I was 20 and in college. With my schedule, I already had that Tuesday off. Mom woke me up and told me a guy flew his plane into the twin tower. I thought it would be some small private plane that went off course. Could not fathom what would eventually unfold that day.
I was 14 in my first week of high school, and I remember, after a full day of watching all the death and destruction on the classroom TVs, getting picked up by my mother looking like an emotionally depleted zombie, saying no one could reach my sister. She was supposed to be at WTC (luckily we heard back late that night her group never made it to WTC and were still in NJ when it happened)
Years later (2019) I wanted to go to the memorial, and I was totally fine inside until I saw the full list of victims in one side room... I saw a few victims with our last name. My brain put my sister's name right there with them, and I completely lost it. I realized I was crying, and didn't want anyone to see me so I ran to the closest bathroom and sobbed at the sink (I still remember a guy walking in, looking at me like I was crazy, and leaving). It took me a while to regain my composure, I grabbed the people I was with and said I needed to leave immediately. I can only imagine what it's like down there for those who lost loved ones.
TLDR: Yeah... I totally get it, it's very emotional down there and it can catch you by surprise.
I was 18. All I really remember is the whole country shut down fornlike 3 or 4 days. Other than that don't remember much. I'm in california and have no ties to NYC so I didn't feel affected by it other than the world stopping a few days which I thought was crazy. Then even crazier when the world shut down for weeks and months for covid
I was a sophomore in HS in Brooklyn, NY. I remember sitting in the library before classes started and the librarian bursting in and shouting “they’ve hit the twin towers.” I was so confused and only when I went to my next class is when I learned more about what had transpired. One of my classmates was comforting me. I was freaking out because my dad might’ve been taking the train passing through the WTC. Then it was a mad rush to get home via buses because the trains were all shut down. People were begging to get onto the already packed buses.
Luckily I got home safely, and so did the rest of my family. It was also much later on in my life that I realized how a week right before 9/11, I was went to the airport to see a love one off. The security process was nothing compared to today. We were able to walk them to their gate, see them board the plane and watch their plane take off. Never forget, never take anything for granted.
I was in 8th grade, I went to P.S 234 independence middle school in Tribeca, I was in History class and then there is just this extremely huge bang sound, it was so loud that even our teacher got so scared, and out the window there's people screaming hysterically and running, then the security kicks our door open, he's very scared and yelled at us telling us to evacuate the building immediately, then when we get out I see a whole lot of smoke and smelled like fire, then we started running as fast as we could and that's when I see this huge building that's burning, it scared me so much, but me and a few of my classmates kept running until we reached around SOHO, Greenwich Village side of New York, and when we got there we saw the 2nd plane hit😢, ever since I'm scared just to look at a plane, i feel bad for the people who lost their lives that day😢
I was like these kids. I was in 11th grade, and ironically I was sitting in American History class and our teacher was from NY. He had stepped out to get coffee and ran back in shouting that a plane had just hit one of the twin towers. He turned on the tv mounted in the corner of the room and we just watched silently in shock until the bell rang for us to go to our next class. Among being shocked, scared, and worried, I was in tears, at the time, because I thought my uncle was in one of the buildings. But he hadn’t told the family that his company had moved out a couple of months before. He told me a few companies had moved out that summer which I always found interesting…
I was in the cafeteria in elementary school when 9/11 happened. I was in the 4th grade.
The principal came on the intercom saying that kids will be leaving early. All the kids were asking, “what’s going on?”
“Are they bombing us??”
And there were military planes flying fast in the air. I remember getting home, and my mother was sitting up in bed and my sister standing at the side. We were all watching on TV. I remember asking my mom, “what happened..?”
The next day was bad as well. Verrrryy sad day. Everyone was crying because they lost loved ones. I really felt like I was in a movie.
It sounds cliché but this was truly a day I will never forget. I was in 3rd grade in a Broward County school at the time and the principal relayed to all teachers via the intercom to put on their TVs (similar to the one in this footage). Not sure if I remember correctly but a man in a dark background was saying what was happening without going into too much detail. In hindsight I think they made the right decision not to show us live news footage. Just like in this video the principal announced our names and my mom picked me up. When we arrived home she put on the TV and then let out scream that will forever be etched into my memory. Thank you for sharing this and RIP to all those who lost their lives on that day.
Your mom turned on the TV and then let out a scream? Why?
Small world, I was in the 4th grade in a Broward County School (Ramblewood Elementary) at the time of 911
To this day, I'm glad I didn't see it til later on that day. They had fallen by then, as I recall.
This takes me back, I was a senior in hs when this happened and we all thought we were watching a movie. Nothing has been the same since 9/11 happened.
What happened later in the school week? Did everyone just continue as usual or did they cancel school for a few days?
@@jonathanburger7777 we still had school, but we all felt as if our school could be bombed at any moment. It was complete confusion.
@@itsjustaride12I’m really sorry to hear 👂 that. Hope you are doing well 22 years later
I was a senior and well. Things went back to normal except ALL of our senior trips for the year were cancelled :/
I was a senior as well.
These kids are about my age, 13 or 14 in 2001. Now 36, like me with families, jobs, and homes. Really doesn't feel that long ago but the years seem to have gone by faster in recent years. Eventually, our generation will be the last alive to tell our stories to the ever growing post 9/11 babies.
I was a few blocks away from the towers on 9/11. I was 29 years old and worked in advertising in midtown Manhattan at the time. Took the 6 train downtown for a business meeting sked for 930am. When I got out of the subway I saw the horror. Worst day of my life, aside from family passing away. I lost 4 friends that day. 3 were FDNY. 1 was an electrician. Where I live in still in Queens, NY, street signs are littered with the names of local area people who died in the buildings that day. So for me, I am reminded every day just leaving my house. Sadly most of the country and the younger generation have oved on.
No one has moved on. I remember it like it was yesterday. Never forget!
@@markberman8958 same. i ‘ll never truly get over it
So sorry you went through that really hits close to me too
Millenials remember.... every detail... sorry it happened to you
Being 29 that day is CRAZYYYY 😭😭
I was only 9 when it happened. Such a bizarre day when you're a kid too young to grasp the enormity of the situation. I remember my parents just being uncomfortably silent, not really sure how to explain a terrorist attack to a child. Went to school that day (west coast) and the teacher was clearly checked out and too distracted to teach. She had us write a letter to our future selves about that day to read when we grew up. Besides that she just let us play board games and stuff all day. Went home, and I remember my parents being glued to the downstairs TV. I went to watch TV upstairs and flipped through the channels and I remember many of them went off the air for the day, just displaying static images saying they had ended their broadcast day early out of respect for the victims.
I just turned on the PlayStation and played Crash Bandicoot instead. Incredible how things don't phase you when you're a kid who's too young to fully comprehend them.
I was in 4th grade when this happened. The principal came on the loudspeaker and told all teachers to turn on their TVs to the news immediately. She turned it on right as the second plane hit and we saw the explosion. They zoomed in on people jumping out of windows. They replayed both planes hitting the towers many times. After a short phone call to the office, our teacher turned the TV off and stood in front of us with an expression I'd never seen on her before. She went into full mom mode. She told us "I know what you just saw was horrible. I wish you didn't see it, but it's going to be everywhere you go for a while. I only know what we all just saw, and I may not have the answers for you, but you can ask me or your parents when you go home today." When a kid had asked her why people were jumping out of the windows instead of going down the stairs, she waited a moment before saying "Because that was their only way out." Though I didn't understand it at the time, I'll never forget her sad face when she said it.
I was in elementary. And I was so pissed off because they literally shut off Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel for a whole two days discussing this topic I tried to go to HBO and I still couldn’t watch regular TV. I’m all the way in Georgia how does New York concern me , I know it sounds bad but that’s how I was thinking as a third grader
Same thing, I was in the fourth grade when it happened, me being a 9-year-old boy didn't understand what was going on.
Great video. I was in 4th grade and they wouldn't tell us anything but we knew something was wrong because people were being picked up early. Sometimes 2 or more at a time. My mom picked me up around noon and showed me a newspaper in the car then I saw the footage when we got home. I always wished the teachers would've let us watch the news while it was happening.
@AmirahB91 That's crazy. Was his dad okay?
I was in 5th grade on 9/11, and my grade just made the cutoff in my K to 8 school for which grades they told what happened.
wow that's history right there for you always keeping you on your toes
Are you 32 years old today in September 2023?
No, you really don't. I missed it and I've been glad to this day. I was older than you are. Trust me, some things you can't unsee.
I was a little kid in elementary school and our gym teachers rolled in the box tv 📺 and we all watched and I'll never forget the teachers gasps when the second plane hit. God bless all the families and the brave fire fighters and cops and first responders. God bless the nameless faceless hero's, we will never forget 🇺🇸
This definitely takes me back. I was a senior in high school when 911 happened. This is what every classroom was like every day in my school for about a week after it happened.
I was in 1st grade when this happened. My Brother was in 6th grade in the same school. I remember our teacher running in and out of the classroom, a lot. We heard her and several other teachers talking in the hallway and they had a TV set up in the hallway, but couldn't hear enough to know what happened since it was a good distance away from our classroom. Finally, we asked her what happened and she told us what had happened. It was also my Dad's 41st Birthday, and they were literally singing Happy Birthday to my Dad at work when the first plane hit and the TV was on behind him, unfortunately. Wasn't long after that, I heard an announcement over the school PA system calling my and my Brother's names that our Dad was there to pick us up. We were the first to leave before all of the other students because my Dad worked so close. A day I will never forget, like so many of us. To this day, my Dad refuses to celebrate his Birthday on September 11th.
I'll never forget being in high school on 9/11. I'm in NJ but a 15 min drive to NYC. You were able to see the Twin Towers from the roof of my school. I remember the panic, being held in the gym, my teacher in tears watching the news in the classroom. Very surreal.
Just seeing how everyone is reacting is really putting me in tears
Bro what reaction? These kids are stone faced. They just want to go home.
I remember being the only kid in my class who’s parent didn’t pick them up. My mother was like tough shit
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I was working, and it never occured to me to stop and go home. I didn't realize the seriousness until I got home. Didn't realize both towers had collapsed. I was listening on the radio all day and realized history was unfolding. I finally got home about 6 and I was glued to the TV until early morning.
I was 24 years old at the time of 9/11. I remember sleeping in that day, and the phone ringing woke me at 9 am.
My Mother was on the line when I picked up. She started with, "I don't want you to be upset, but..."
I hung up with her after about a 5 minute conversation, and turned on the television.
I watched footage of the towers falling, and I looked on in horror as I cried "All those people!" 😢
It was such a sad day for our Country.
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My goodness you're old 😭😭
@@darkmidnight818was that seriously all you got from this comment?
I was sitting in my 10th grade English class, in the middle of writing an essay about whether or not money buys happiness. This was in central NJ, about 50 miles from NYC. A boy who always got in trouble all the time just came from the office where he had gone to find out why he got detention again. He asked the teacher why the Pentagon was on fire because he said he saw them watching that on TV in the office. The teacher said she had no idea what he was talking about and nothing was happening. She kept denying that anything was happening. Then a few minutes later the principal came on the intercom and told us. It turns out a boy in our class had a sister that worked at WTC and the teacher didn't want to say anything to upset him, until she knew for sure what was happening. That guy's sister ended up being ok. I heard the plane hit right as she was about to walk into the building, so she didn't go in and was able to get away. We didn't watch any coverage on TV, so we just spent the rest of the day listening to radio coverage in some classes, and being updated by the principal over the intercom. When I left school, I still didn't know that the fourth plane had crashed in PA, so I wasn't sure if it was still flying around somewhere. So I knew if I saw a plane in the sky on the way home, it absolutely wasn't supposed to be there. When I was walking home, I heard the military jets in the distance and I didn't know what they were, so it was kind of scary. The full reality of the situation didn't really hit until I got home and put on the TV and all the New York TV stations that I normally watched were completely knocked out because their antenna was obviously destroyed in the attack.
Glad that person's sister was ok.
I literally have the same exact memory. I was in 7th grade. Walking home after school that day it was eerily quiet. Reality didn’t hit til I walked into my house and seen the faces of my mom and sister in front of the TV, and the sound of my dad’s voice on the phone a few mins after arriving home. I’d never heard his voice like that before. That night, I remember laying on the couch and crying as I flicked through channels, majority of channels being black with a service message. That was when full reality hit me.
You never forget things like that. I was in my Senior year in HS, a lot of my friends in class started crying. I was just thankful that none of my family members lived in NYC. I was living with my dad, at the time in Georgia. But most of my family members lived in NY, but not the city thank God.
I was a freshman in high school. I was just leaving my 1st period class and walking over to 2nd period. I saw up on the TV what was happening. We spent the rest of the day in every class just watching it on TV. I lived just a couple hours east of Shanksville PA so a lot of people were terrified and thought WWIII was about to happen. Remember it like it was yesterday.
Same thing with me that 1st clip and then the one where the kid walked into the classroom from the door to the right of the TV (almost a identical copy of my classroom) we got called in the same way thru the devider door between 2 classrooms and I thought it was a old movie as a 9th grader myself and that the class was having a goof off fun day and we actually had to to a pop quiz instead (we didn't have audio for the first TV just a silent recording of the 1st building in smoke) I insisted that they were playing a prank on me until I realized that empty look across the room and by the next class everyone thought that everyone across the nation was on target but we were left in school all day long some of us had portable CD players and a built in radio and every class that denied us TV we tried the radio instead burning thru our stash of AA batteries seems like yesterday
I was in 6th grade, wow. I remember the clothing styles, this video is like a time machine 😭
Me too I was in sixth grade at JFK Middle School it was really surreal and scary
I was also a 6th grader. Gap & Old Navy baggy clothing were some of the trends.
Yeah I was also a 6th grader and it played out nearly identical to this video. Intercom came on and started calling out names of kids in my classroom, one by one, then they said my name so I went to the front entrance of the school and that's where my dad was, waiting to pick me up. We talked about it during our walk back home (school was close to where I used to live back then). I can't believe it's been so long but this video plays out almost like a memory for me.
This was basically my experience. Just sitting in 9th grade home room and the teacher abruptly gets called out, then a minute later he came back wheeling in one of those TVs and he turned on the news. It was a real stressful time to be a teenager. We kept anticipating "anniversary" attacks that never came, there were anthrax scares, all sorts of crazy stuff that basically traumatized the entire country.
9-11 happened when I was just short of my 23rd birthday. I crashed overnight at my mom's place and missed the initial incident because she knew I'd been up late and wanted to let me sleep in. By 10 or 11 am however I was awake and glued to the screen. I'll always remember how I went to get gas, because I had to, and saw hundreds of people who were getting it because they apparently thought it would be their only chance. The lines were a block long and the price had immediately been gouged to five bucks a gallon.
I remember being in the 7th grade and being in the nurses office getting ready to go home my mom just got to school to take me home and the nurses carted the tv in the room. We all watched as the nurses watched in horror and broke down crying. I couldn’t comprehend what was going on around me, I thought it was a movie I was watching it in real time it was insane. We raised money for the fire department and walked around my neighborhood with candles.
I was a senior in HS when this happened I was taking me senior pictures and we had been instructed to return to our classes. This was in falls church VA some of the students parents worked at the pentagon so there was a lot of emotions going on at our school. I was just at the twin towers the month before with my parents and sibling as a quick summer trip to NY before school started. :/
I also had to work an evening shift at footlocker (my job as a teenager at the time) I walked to work and realized that whole shopping strip was closed due to our city in mourning from the events that happened earlier that day so I decided to walk to my local grocery store where I left my disposal camera developing for the pictures I took the month before while at the twin towers, me and the lady at the register were both looking at the pictures in amazement knowing the towers were now gone.
@@anabanana1539 Wow! How eerie that must have been. Great comment btw.
I was 10 when 9/11 happened and i still remember watching the news at school. So sad what happened that and we will never forget. It was truly a sad day for America.
The one day every kid in the country got to leave school early...... and not a single kid was happy about it.
Umm not really. They never let us out early... and we were in Pennsylvania basically right in the middle of everything geographically.
Wow…..I was in economics class in my senior year of high school and my teacher was new, he had just moved from NY a few months prior. He was super brash and sarcastic but he was cool and we loved him. He cried that day while we watched the 2nd plane hit in class and said he lost many friends in those towers. Hope he’s still around and doing alright…..♥️
One thing I remember so vividly that day was how quiet it was, anywhere you went in public. I had to go out to Burlington Coat Factory in Dayton, Ohio that evening and pick up a suit for our son, who was going to be the ring bearer in a wedding later that week. Everyone was walking around in a quiet daze. I believe we were all in shock! The lines at the gas stations were so long too.
I remember that day I was 20/21 and I was leaving my boyfriend’s place we had no idea what happened, I turned on my radio on & when I heard I went over to my grandmother’s house who had the tv news on and I couldn’t believe it. It just felt so surreal like you knew it was happening & you knew it was real but. it didn't feel real at the same time. It was a mix of shock & disbelief & awe & fear all at once.
I was 11 at the time in the 5th grade and I remember our science teacher rolling into our classroom this same kind of television to show us what has happened. Being so young at the time I couldn't grasp the reality of what has happened that day until my father picked me up from that classroom just moments later. I remember me and him going back to my grandmothers house to continue watching it on tv. Ill never forget seeing that second plane hitting the second tower in real time and as a 11 year old seeing those poor people jump from those buildings, it also was the first time I seen my military father cry. I will never forget that day as long as I live :(
I was a Sophmore in high school in my "college writing" class. My school had thousands of students and I'll never forget the principal calling groups of names every 30 minutes for parents who had come to pick them up
I've got a sinking feeling that we're going to be seeing scenes like this again, and soon.
You're right , it's definitely coming. It's due to the fact the U.S are the world's bullies and stick their nose in other countries issues when not wanted.
Outside of my father passing years prior and a couple of other family members passing 911 would be ranked one of my top most darkest days of my life. I was 20 years old and fully aware of what I was watching. Everybody was paused and glued to the TV for days unless you were at work or sleep.
I was in a 9th grade computer class when a teacher walking the hallways passed a note to my computer teacher, told us to stop what we were doing and explained what occurred. It didn't really hit me until I got home from school because my school did not allow us to watch any TV coverage. I was pretty much glued to the TV when I came home.
i remember this whole day. the ride to school . the teachers frantic the students clueless but quiet and listening. it was like being in a movie. that day their wasnt any fighting their wasnt anything on anyones mind besides"is this real?"
What a great comment Tito...
@@vampirerobot thank you again for another time capsule moment
It didn't totally sink in for me that it was real until I got home from school and put on the TV and all the New York TV stations that I normally watched were knocked out. Nothing on the TV but snow.
I was 15 and just started by second year of high school in Central NJ. I was 50 minutes south of NYC and this reminded me of what the attendance office looked like. There were crowds of kids trying to get in touch with their parents- what a scene it was
DAMN 🤖
I was 6 and in first grade at the time. The only thing I remember was the teacher turning on the tv for probably a couple of minutes and then turning it off. It's weird because there are memories I still have of kindergarten, but the day of 9/11 I don't recall at all. I think the adults around me at the time did a good job of staying composed so for me the day just seemed like any other.
Before people had smart phones
I was on a Destroyer in the middle of the Atlantic in the Caribbean doing a counter narcotics deployment, watching the morning news (we were lucky and had satellite TV underway) and saw the news reports of the first plane hitting, in my division's officer's office, we both saw the second plane hit, I was 22 and hadn't put 2 and 2 together yet. He looked at me and gave me the most serious look I have ever seen in my life and said "we are under attack" I will never ever forget that. I will never forget that day, and the preparations we made to defend ourselves.
I will never forget watching people leap to their death on live television. Everything changed after that day.
I was a senior in high school and will never forget when my friend who was supposed to be headed to NYC 🗽 for a wedding that weekend told me a plane ✈️ had hit the World Trade Center in the hallway. Neither of us knew the horror of what was to come. Our world changed that day. Prayers to the victims.
I was in high school, sophomore year. The school year was still pretty new. It was a beautiful sunny day, and everyone was in a good mood. In fact, if my teacher had not been in a good mood and let us watch TV the last 20 minutes of class, we would have not known as soon as we did. People thought it was WWWIII, and parents were signing their kids out of school. It was crazy. The students and the teachers were just glued on the TV all day.
I was in 1st grade & so frightened to go to school that morning, I’ll never forget it….
This was my senior year in High School. Everything changed that day in a span of an hour. Passing though first and second period, I heard that planes hit the Twin Towers. We had an assignment in second period to do look up information on travel and the moment we started, we were informed online that no flights would be taking place though whatever website it was.
Every afterschool activity was shut down. We had football practice canceled. Our team was 3-7 that year but we never had one person give up. Every one of us wanted to still be out on that field, no matter what the record said. The main thing that stuck with me that day was one of our football coaches also taught my next class on government. Our head football coach at the time told us that the teacher/coach of the government class had a brother who worked near there. If anyone was scared to death that day it was that man. I never found out what happened, but seeing how they never were missing from school all year, everything was at least fine.
But the horror of that day lives on for me forever. 22 years later, I won't forget what happened. It's impossible for me to forget what the class of 2002 saw that faithful September morning.
I was 24 when this happened, living in Minneapolis (Fridley). I remember how eerie it was not seeing a single passenger jet in the sky over the city for days after. I’ve always loved jumbo jets and would go to the MSP airport and watch them land and take off. But after 9/11 I just couldn’t look at them the same way. How could I? They were used as weapons against us in the worst way, a way that was completely unimaginable and incomprehensible before that day. I had to fly out of state for a wedding in September of 2002. I purposely chose to fly on the one year anniversary as a middle finger to the terrorists. I’m so glad i did. It helped get rid of the fear and some of the pain I was carrying from that awful day. It was a late evening flight, so the plane lights were dimmed and people were settling into the flight. Out of nowhere mid-flight, a woman with the voice of an angel began singing Amazing Grace over the loud speaker. It was a flight attendant. You could feel the magnitude of the situation in every fiber of your being. By the time she finished, there wasn’t a dry eye on that plane. I’ll never forget that feeling.
Beginning of the modern era
My mom was a freshman in HS at the time. I believe she said her class played the news all day as well. Having been born just a couple years afterwards, I can't imagine what that day was like. I think people who remember this day, and those who don't have very different ideas of what 9/11 represents. Watching these videos and reading these comments at least gives me a sense of how terrifying it must have been. I can't imagine.
They all look emotionless
I was in high school when this happened. Everyone went home. It wasn’t an official dismissal until hours later when they realized 70% of the school emptied out regardless
I was a senior in high school and every period we were watching TV.
My mom was in high school when this happened so I can see what her experience was like when it happened
I had just started 7th grade, and news of the the first plane interrupted the music playing over the school bus radio. When I arrived at school I ran staight to the library because I knew the librarian always had the world news on the television. I'll always remember where I stood as I watched the 2nd plane come into view...
Our classrooms were very much the same in rural MN that day.
I remember watching the news live the same in classroom. Only I was in 5th grade. We saw the second plane hit the tower live. It was crazy
I was in kindergarten when this happened. They ended bringing the entire school into the lunchroom right after the first tower was hit, and they put the news on all the tv’s in there and we just stared at it. They ended up canceling school altogether that day. Shortly after getting home my mom and I watched on the news as the second tower was hit, and then eventually the collapse of both towers, and my mom was on the phone pacing around frantic (I believe she was on the phone with my dad). Half my family is from NYC, and my great grandma lived only a block or 2 away from ground zero, so it was a very stressful day for my family. I can legitimately still remember the EXACT feelings I felt as I watched that utter destruction unfold, ESPECIALLY when the towers came down and the news reporters were yelling. Absolutely unforgettable and awful feelings.
I was 12 years old and I was in math class. My teacher turned it on TV for us. All I remember is people jumping out of the building and committing suicide, and not knowing what it was. We were dismissed early, it really freaked everyone out for a long time. I remember this was the day that we realized that we were not as protected by our oceans as we previously believed.
I vividly remember 9/11. I was in 3rd grade. My principal came over the intercom and said "okay its time to turn the....." and trailed off as the first tower fell...there are many moments I'll remember for the rest of my life, and his announcement will be one of them.
It was my first year in college. I remember waking up. My parents were already awake watching the news. Then the second plane hit. Sad.
Damn, when I realize that was me in high school. Can't believe it was 22 years ago
Look how well behaved the students are. That was only 20 years ago.
Surreal isn’t it??? Such little time but huge difference. Thanks to the rise of social media.
Yeah, because this was just a normal day...
They are in SHOCK
It's weird that someone was filming them
I was 14 in freshman year in telecommunications class in NJ! A man walked in and whispered to the teacher and his jaw dropped. Once the TV came on we were all shocked. It was the most beautiful still day. Everyone says that and they are so right. It was absolutely beautiful that day. Very strange. By the end of the day they let us leave early because people had family working in Manhattan and there was so many rumors that they would hit the power plant in Waretown NJ.
I was 14 on 9/11. Our young lives had already changed with the Columbine High School shooting two years prior...but 9/11 changed EVERYTHING and hasn't been like the past since.
Wow. I was 14 years old and was in my gym locker room. We did nothing but watch the TVs in all of our classes that day.
Wow thank you for this footage.
I too was in a classroom during 911, i was in middle school in the 7th grade, I still remember it like it was yesterday. We were reading Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone as a class of which we later went to the theater as a field trip to watch the Harry Potter first movie and i remember that 911 was cemented into my memory as one of the most important days of my life.
The modern world is pretty much looked at before and after this attack.
I was in 6th grade English class, I remember we all at first thought it was funny everyone kept getting called for early dismissal for no apparent reason. It was about 10 minutes later my mom was walking into the classroom to get me, by noon the whole school was closed. It was very surreal being 10 and watching this all unfold. I still remember everything I did that day, what I ate, saw, said everything.
This was my first day of college. It’s seared into my head until the day I die.
Wow this is so crazy i was in 10th grade at the time and it looked exactly like this everyone glued to the TV in the room then I remember so many of us walked out & walked home being scared confused, also there was a girl that ran to the office crying hysterically because her father worked in the Pentagon & she wanted to use the phone to check on him. It was such a sad day and everything felt so slow
life was so simple... then we lost it....
I was in 2nd grade when 9/11 happened. I still remember watching the news just like this at school. When I got home my mom gave me the biggest hug ever.
Thank you for sharing. I worked in an elementary school and experienced the same.
Me during 9/11: 👶🏼
I was a junior in high school. For days all the teachers had tv's on all over the school. They kept their doors open so we could watch. I went to history class that day and remember my teacher just turing on the TV and said this is history. Everyone was quiet and I honestly don't even remember hearing birds. I was a Fire Explorer at the time and when the towers fall you can hear all the personal alarms going off. That sound to this day makes me feel sick.
I saw this in the 3rd grade still remember it like it was yesterday
It is sad to say that some of these students lost loved ones that day
My generation. I was a junior. Wanted to stay home so badly but my parents didn’t want me watching the news, wanted my mind on something else me. The campus was silent, we were walking zombies. Couldn’t believe what was happening. For months the Fresno Bee dropped off a literal pile of newspapers in front of the school office for us to read. That was incredible. I’ll never forget it.
I was in preschool, I was born in 1996. My mom rushed to pick up me and my brothers since Seattle at the time may have been hit.
I didn't have a tv or listen to morning radio back then. I didn't know what happened until I walked into my local bank around 11a.m. and saw that they had a tv on tuned to CNN. I thought that was odd and how quiet it was. No one was talking. I asked the bank manager why was it so quiet. She lead me over to the tv and said, "just watch."
In one minute I knew that the world had changed, and not for the better.
The 21st century truly began this day
Yep, I remember exactly everything, the look on everyone’s face around me, some kids cutting up and laughing, others serious. I though it was end times. We were all getting ready to go home. Unbelievable.
My heart beats watching this I was way too I have no memory or didn't I even exist yet when this happened, I could only rely on my parents for their experiences here in Raleigh. But my heart is beating watching this. Especially hearing the intercom that sorta jarred me, a part of me is glad I wasn't around when this happened and my friends were either too little or weren't born yet, I can only imagine what it felt like. But this video makes me feel like I was in that classroom I'm sure there was a lot of PTSD, from that day. Even people who didn't lose loved ones and were in other parts of the country I bet it was traumatic.
1:34 80's, 90's, and 00's high school in a nutshell right there with the cart, projector, and VCR!
I was in 7th grade. My school had tried to keep the news from being played that day, but one of my teachers had turned the TV on as the second tower was being hit. I just remember being in a daze for months afterwards.
It's wild to me that they showed the footage at school. I grew up just outside of the city, and they never showed us anything. Just explained the situation, with as little detail as possible, and a lot of kids were pulled out of classes that day by their parents.
at the time i lived a few miles from barksdale air force base where bush gave that first big address. it was absolutely insane how much military all of a sudden crowded the streets. like a war....thank goodness i havent had to see that again...well..yet.
Feeling sorry long after the fact for these young people watch their world change forever. And I'm getting flashbacks to being in high school on the morning of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.... but that was just 7 people killed by negligence, not 3,000 murdered.
Stay strong, Millennials. Generation X has your back.
I was in 7th grade at the time, and there were several of my classmates that had ties to ppl in nyc, and it was a very somber day for many. I always feel like it's the day we lost any type of innocence growing up. Ever since nothing has felt quite the same... idk, maybe just me, though