Having very strange dreams. I fell asleep with the tv on the night before. Never really did that before or since. Woke up between the two impacts.
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I was up all night studying in college. I went bed at like 4am to get maybe 5 hours of sleep before a big exam. Woke up at at like 7 am to my roommate and his friends being loud as fuck. I was pissed because I really needed sleep. Walked out to living room to tell them to stfu. They looked at me with wide eyes, and pointed at the tv.
A few minutes later the second plane hit. Jfc. What a moment.
I knew then that exam wasn’t happening, and that the world had changed. I was angry about the attack. That this people were robbed of their lives, and their families were suffering.
And I was angry because I knew it meant more endless wars. More bush. More government spy programs. And more flag waving by a mob of riled up idiots. I hated myself for being cynical. Hoping I was wrong.
Sitting at home, other side of the planet, chatting to friends on IRC - somewhere around midnight local time.
Someone suddenly said “A PLANE JUST HIT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER THE PICTURES ARE HORRIBLE” - turned on the TV, a few minutes later the news started filtering in.
I had work in the morning, so I had to go to bed within a couple of hours. My overall thoughts on the night:
- Fuck.
- Gotta admit, that was clever.
- Hoooo boy there’s going to be trouble over this
- Fuck.
Eighteen and a senior in HS. I had just turned in my draft card a few days earlier so I was shitting my pants that I was going to be shipped off to the desert and ordered to kill brown people.
Was holidaying in Queenstown, NZ and walked into the restaurant of the hotel to eat breakfast, hungover as.all get out, not believing what I was seeing
My production studio in plano, tx mixing a live jazz project - interrupted…
I was in school when the first plane hit, came home, turned on the TV and they say second plane hit, called a friend (via landline off course) and said it’s beginning of III WW
I was in like 3rd grade, the word was passed on to us in real time but I didn’t really understand what had happened until later.
Also this is a clever way to get a feel for the distribution of ages of Lemmy users… I like it.
I think it’s a bit flawed because I was I dunno 3? I don’t remember anything about 9/11.
I figure if you don’t remember anything about 9/11 or you weren’t alive yet you’re not gonna just make 1 of 300 identical comments about how you were at home shitting your diaper or swimming around in your daddy’s balls ¯_(ツ)_/¯ but maybe I’m wrong.
On about the 48th floor of 101 California in San Francisco a Deutsche Bank floor and the scene of a notorious mass murder previously. We got right the fuck out of there.
I was 9 years old performing violin at the United Nations when it happened. I’ve never seen the streets and subways that crowded before or since.
At home watching on live TV
I was at the Conversation Corps in the Day room with my then GF as soon as the second plane hit I thought I was watching a show. I went and got other people and we just watched. Saw people jumping to there deaths
I saw it live on the news before school.
I was in the fourth grade. I never did enjoy the art class so I was able to go to the library and help with instead. Anyways, I was walking in and the librarian had the TV on (which was odd) but I got there just in time to see the second plane hit.
I didn’t understand it at the time but I had just witnessed history that a child shouldn’t ever have to see.
