if I remember correctly, I was outside my school at the crosswalk. I was going into school that day and only found out later in class what had happened.

May those poor victims souls rest in piece

I was in high school in class when the first tower was hit. The teacher turned on the TV and we watched what was happening.

At school, half asleep doing nothing due to teachers "wanting to see the news and could not leave the kids alone."

I was in a geology lab at school, contemplating licking a rock sample. We had no tv in the building, so I did not see anything about it until a few hours later.

Home, just got out of shower when heard of it.

I was working at a Help Desk.. We had a radio on to hear what was happening..

Saw it in school too, couldn't believe it.

I was in class when it happened.
The principal made the announcement over the intercom and all of my teachers in every class had the news on.

Hmmm... I think I was about the 4th/5th grade. When my teacher said that the "World trade towers fell down and people got really hurt", I was rather unsympathetic because it was my first class of the morning, and I really had no connections that were truly effected. What do you know, when the London car bombings started up, my uncle's hotel was hit, and I was freaking out with everyone else (He was out having coffee at the time, so he was safe).

I had just walked into my collage classes and I saw it one the big screen TV, walked in just as the first tower fell.

I got up late that morning, since my college classes that day were in the early afternoon (1 and 3 p.m. respectively) and I signed onto my computer and was immediately greeted by my friend Mike who said "Pandemonium broke out today. Turn on your TV." Naturally, just about every channel had the footage of the towers collapsing, then covered the partiers on the Gaza Strip thanking Osama Bin Laden while cheering and partying harder than they'd probably ever partied in their lives, and my rage burned brightly every time I thought of them for weeks. I went to school regardless only to find they'd cancelled all classes, so I came right back home.

Where I was isn't all that relevant. I do remember, but...

The death toll of the September 11, 2001 kamikazee attacks was just under 3,000. That's terrible. The coalition military death toll in Afghanistan is a little over 2,600, with over 2,700 in Iraq. The estimated death toll of Afghani civilians in the initial invasion is over 3,000, and the running estimate of Iraqi non-combatant deaths is just under 1.5 million.

Over 20,300 died in this year's earthquake in Japan. Since September 11, 2001, there have been 11 earthquakes globally which have resulted in death tolls of over 1,000, totaling approximately 780,000 casualties. Do you remember the tsunami of 2004, which killed nearly a quarter of a million people?

I mean no disrespect to anyone, but it has been ten years. It is time to stop whipping ourselves into a paranoid frenzy and bury our dead.

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But it happen to the US and thats why the rest of the world must care and feel sorry for them......all the other people who have died because of their wars well.....sucks to be them......Winners write the history.

I try to remember how television changed America into what it is today, and to forgive its people as best I can. I don't always succeed at that. I've had some pretty bitter experiences. It's hard to swallow the resentment sometimes, but 'Us versus Them' divisions dehumanize and breed hate, paving the way for more violence on both sides of that artificial line. In my opinion it's the duty of inoffensive socialist states to coax America back into an amicable role in the global democratic community, one American at a time if need be. I think that maybe we're starting to move in that direction. Today I find myself surprised by the near absence of art or journals commemorating this anniversary, so maybe that old wound is finally closing.

Wow. You're seriously comparing a terrorist attack to natural disasters?

There's a world of difference. In natural disasters, there's no one to blame (except maybe climate change). No major outcry or media spin to point a finger at something. No "big evil enemy" to take out, no wars to start.

Your mentioning Iraq and Afghanistan however was valid enough. I for one was against the war in Iraq from day one, knowing it was a pure revenge war for Bush and oil-grab attempt for Halliburton, a total resource war that benefited all the wrong people (after all Bush didn't say much about Iraq until Saddam Hussein left OPEC, and his Saudi oil partners didn't like that one bit!).

I didn't buy into the media spin or get terrified or flipped out. Alas, the fact people did is human nature and basic psychology. When someone's safety is put in jeopardy, EVERY OTHER THING on their mind is completely disregarded until their need for basic security is met. Fox News, the Bush administration, and world governments knew this was the public reaction and used the fear of the masses to pass some seriously fascist laws (like the PATRIOT Act) under the banner of "added security". As Ben Franklin said "Those who would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty, nor safety."

I for one don't consider the death of my compatriots to be any more or less important than those of any other human being. Unfortunately, that's not how the media works. We're intended to not give a shit about "other people's wars" and just give them a salutatory "Oh well, wish we could help" and meager donations. The current spin is "Charity starts at home" though so we're more inclined to donate to Hurricane Katrina relief than the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.

I'm in agreement with pretty much everything you say here, but in regards to my comparison between terrorism and natural disaster I think perhaps we're making the same point in different ways.

Please keep politics out of this please!

Oh sorry, I'll get right back to the original topic of sugar cookies and toy trains tout suite.

I was that day working.
I heard it on the radio.
and that same day meanie artwork where post on the site VLC
There are 82 artwork mead.
one artwork stuck to my memory.
It was a girl bunny whit a remote control and said :"Hey, Daddy. Cartoons aren't on today" on the tv see you the twin towers smoking.

we didn't quite hear a lot until almost 10 or 11... I was a senior in high school, and had been big in my school's JROTC program... my mate freaked out thinking I was going to end up being drafted because i was prime stock at the time for the armed forces... I spent almost every moment in all my classes, our curriculum ended up being mostly affected, we studied or listened to the radio...

I remember explicitly three things... me and everyone close to me huddled in the library during lunch, listening to the news... my uncle had just taken the only sick day he had taken in years on that day... and lastly, my first class after lunch was a social studies class, and we were in the middle of a block involving the United States but when we walked in that day he stopped us all when the bell rang and had this really somber tone with what he said... to paraphrase "I know we were in the middle of something else, but I think this is very important...in the next few weeks you're going to be hearing a lot of things, and i think you should all get the facts as soon as possible, so we're going to jump into middle eastern studies...starting today..."

wow, looks like im younger than most of the others here, my mom woke me up earlier than normal for school just after the first plane hit, i remember watching the news and being late for school so we could keep watching.

When the attacks occurred, I was in high school. I didn't actually hear about them until after the school day when I was trying to catch a nap.

I'm not sure if the school officials knew what happened and decided to just not inform us.. I dunno. Of course, at the time, I just rolled over and went back to sleep.

Sophomore Math Class. End of 1st block in my Highs School. I normally one of the first to bolt out of my class due to I hated math. But today I was running slow, or something. But another teacher runs in tears, and tells my math teacher to turn on her tv, and flip to the news. In my school we had all tvs in our rooms. So I said, and watched a live view of the second plane slamming into the tower.... We just stood there. 3 students, 2 teachers, and myself.... All of us with our mouths open. I think I was the first to says something... I think it was: Something bad just happened.....

To make it worse I was working at the time, and at a Burger King. We had no business, and so when I got home. My dad happened to look over at me: Your aunt is ok... I asked why: She worked in the Pentagon.

She was one of the few unsung hero's of the day. She was actually incharge of the nursing station of the Pentagon. It has about 10 beds, and she could, and the rest of her dr's could handle a Heart Attack, and a quick bypass, or something intense... But she was on the far side of the building, and never felt a thing... They didn't even know they were under crisis till the first wounded started coming in. They said they had no idea, and still didn't get the scope of it till all qualified medical personal were called to the wing of the building for emergency triage. She didn't sleep or go home for 2 days.

I can remember... Senior year of HS. The entire school stopped dead. The only thing on the TV was the burning towers. I wanted to call home but the phones were jammed. All i could do was stare, half numb.

6th grade, home-schooled, was doing one of the math books while my mother was emailing her friends. I took a break and flipped through the channels, thought it was a movie at first and so did my mother, Then a few seconds later we realized it was real. That's when the 2nd one hit.. My mother had a few friends in one of those buildings..

I was driving on my way to work, which was at a textiles factory at the time. I spent the day thinking "Well, dunno who did that, but they're about to get Nuked."

I was beginning my work shift, when the owner's wife called by phone and told us the news. I immediately connected a news portal on the web.

In math class when someone yelled about it.

Always remember. Never forget.

I was in college, it was around lat in the afternoon UK time when we got the news. I heard two leactures talking about a plane crash, then in class we where told what had happend in New York, others didnt seem to understand or care I remember asked "Was it a big plane?" I didnt get an answer but I knew by his reaction it was. Beliving it was just a tragic accident we tried to get on with the rest of the day, only to be told of another plane crash seeing this on the BBC the continous coverage....and typical of the BBC/Sky news showing the same imgaes of the second plane crash over and over. I got home in time to see the buildings collaps.
The next day I was going in for a driving test....reading the papers with coultnless pages on what happend, even some tabliod papers showed some compation by not printing their normal pin-ups, they had reported nearly 80 Brtitish citizans had been killed both in the WTC and on one of the planes.

I remember a cartoon after 7/7 (2005) it had Lady Liberity and Britanna comfeting each other after the terroist attacks.

10 years later, still a sobering thought, I dont know but to me long after the events the UK and US have become closer.

To this day i can picture exactly where i was when news first reached me. All is told in my recent journal.

It happened when my school day started and oddly enough I didn't find out about it until I got home. European and all.

I was at work in an old building, with no TV and only one slow internet connection. A co-worker called every 5 minutes updating myself and another co-worker as best as she could. I vividly remember the confusion, not knowing what was REALLY happening until much later in the day.......

Just outside the administration office of Keyano College, Ft. McMurray, Alberta. I thought it was odd that they were showing a movie--only to realize later that it was, in fact, the news.

I was in middle school, they started talking about it but didn't see it, I was thinking wtf, didn't really 'get it' until that night, was at a pizza place with family, making jokes (yeah, I'm that naive), they all glared at me, I still didn't get it, then saw on the TV, that shut me up real quick.

Working at the local Burger King. I remember running out into the dining area to watch the news on the TV when I could. I remember looking at the first hit burning, thinking of when that bomber flew into the Empire State Building in the 1940 and thinking "that was a foggy day and it was an accident, but this is a clear day." After the second hit, I remember thinking that it had to be intentional and we would be going to war with someone. I was watching live when the 2nd tower fell.

I was living about 10 miles away in New Brunswick NJ. Working nights I was asleep till my mother called at 10am to see if I was all right since I worked at Liberty International airport. once I turned on the TV I didn't get up again other than to go out and watch the growing dust cloud at they collapsed

10 miles straight line that is

Just got back from school and saw it on TV, took me a few minutes to convince myself it wasn't a hoax. Was somewhat unexpected :X

I was attending Camden County College at the time. I first heard about it around 9 AM when one of the female students in my Media class told everyone that she heard on the radio about the events in New York. When I came home that morning, that's when I first saw the news footage of the towers collapsing.

It's hard to imagine something like that happening in real life.

I was in school that day, seen it on a tv in the classroom we were all asked to move into.

Asleep in Pearl Harbor...got a phone call about 0215 and got told about it and that I had to report to the boat ready to get underway.

I was working at the Gateway Computer factory in my home town when it happened. I was aware that something terribly messed up was going on in New York, because I heard coworkers saying something about the first plane hitting and suggesting that maybe it was some sort of really freak accident. Of course, as we would later learn, that was not the case. But at the time, I was just as concerned with what my job was going to be that day, and if I would have a job the next because of the way I was getting shuffled around the plant, as temps often were.

The big activity when I got home was emailing my cousins who worked in New York at the time. Fortunately, they're both OK, and are even married with children now.

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