Where were you when you found out about the 9/11 attacks?

I was in Year 3 and my class was having a story read to us. The tearful teaching assistant came in and told my teacher that the "world trade centre had been knocked down by a plane" - I remember going home and wondering what the world trade centre was and why it was so important; the majority of channels cut off to give the announcement, etc. I remember watching the news with the headlines scrolling across the bottom. One specific channel showed footage of the reporter running into a take-away to escape the smoke that was billowing towards them.

Quite odd how we can remember such things. So can you remember it.. and if so.. where were you? :)

I was at school and I came home put the tele on thinking the cartoons or somethin good would be on but it was the news about the towers and i was like OMG whats happened.

I was in primary school and I remember coming out to meet my mum to find everyone talking about it. I remember then putting two and two together because earlier in the day the teachers had all gathered together and they were flitting between classrooms looking concerned and confused.

I remember on the walk home from school my mum explained to me that there had been an attack from people who wanted to cause trouble for the USA and they had flown a plane into two very important buildings and lots of people were killed.

before this she had been talking about dinner though so I was kinda distracted haha

I don't remember ;D

In the car on the way home from school. I remember my mum telling me that two planes had crashed into a building or something. I remember that there wasn't any kids programs on and this annoyed me. Makes me feel a bit guilty now but I was only 9 at the time :D

walking to my dads i think

In the school playground at home time, I remember hearing parents talking about it. I didn't really know what it meant until I got home and saw the news.

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Originally Posted by Jordesh

I don't remember ;D

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same tbh. I always hate these sorta questions "where were you when princess diana died" etc and it makes me feel like crap for not remembering :P

I was at school then when i came home i turned on tv and CBBC had been taken over by wall-to-wall news.

I was 12. Parents told me in the car on the way home from school as it had just happened.

I was probably in school being a year 3 so I was like 8 years old so I don't think my mum and dad told me to be honest.

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Originally Posted by Mathew

I was in Year 3 and my class was having a story read to us. The tearful teaching assistant came in and told my teacher that the "world trade centre had been knocked down by a plane" - I remember going home and wondering what the world trade centre was and why it was so important; the majority of channels cut off to give the announcement, etc. I remember watching the news with the headlines scrolling across the bottom. One specific channel showed footage of the reporter running into a take-away to escape the smoke that was billowing towards them.

Quite odd how we can remember such things. So can you remember it.. and if so.. where were you? :)

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its called flashbulb memory :)

i just got home from school - first thing i did was watch it and try to get in touch with my uncle who i thought lived near there, but he lives in las vegas.

weren't taught geography in lower school...........

I was at home watching TV, my sister phoned my house telling me to put the news on. My mum and dad were out at work xD

I was 7 so I would have been in year 2 or 3 at the time, I remember being babysat at by old babysitters house and then seeing it on the tv with the announcments. It's weird how i remember that and not other stuff.

I was at school, everyone was speaking about it.

i was 12 in 6th grade, our math teacher told us while we were in class a couple hours after it happened. he said he wasnt sure if anyone died or who did it or anything like that (however, looking back on it, he must have OBVIOUSLY known at least hundreds of people died, since he told us at least an hour or two after the towers fell, he probably didnt want to scare us) and i had to really find out what happened when i saw my parents at home (they were let out of work early because of the attacks) and watched tv.

i was old enough to understand that it was a major catastrophe and that an incredible amount of people died, but i didnt understand the politics or implications of it. it was the first time i'd ever heard anything about muslims/islam.

i was 9... and in school and our teachers were all told about it, and then all the classrooms had tvs and everybody above grade 3 was allowed watch the live news broadcast

most of us were like it's only buildings whats the big deal...

am i the only person who has no idea

i think there has been a thread before and i made something up

I was 6 so must have been in year 2. I remember seeing it on the news the time it happened!
Tragic. :(

I didn't even know about this stuff until like March so erm yeah probably another day. LOL FHDJXISJHX

I was in school when it happened but there was a bad atmoshpere with the teachers

I was in bed actually! I woke up to get ready for school and I saw it on the news.

I remember the day exact when we found out, walking out of school and everything. The first tower went down before my mum had come to pick me up and when we got home the second tower has collapsed. If you re-watch the news coverage on Youtube its so bizzare that that actually happened live.

I think I was in year 5 or 6 in primary school

I was packing, getting ready to go on a plane for the first time the next day lol.

in school, nobbin' me girl

It was in 2001 so I didn't really understand much. I remember I wanted to watch tv but on every channel it was the same thing.

I came home form school and turned the tv on trying to watch some cartoons, but it had been cut and was showing live feeds of the twin towers, pretty mutch evry channel I switched two was the same.

walking through town with my mum after school and it was on tv in all the shop windows

I'm not too sure. I don't even think I found out for a bit later. Parents were going through a divorce, so I guess I had a lot going on at the time.

The teachers had decided not to tell us, or let us know anything was wrong and let us wait until we could get home so our parents could tell us. Nobody ended up telling me anything (of course) until I saw my father standing in the door hallway crying sometime at night. I've only ever seen my dad crying once before that when my granddad passed away so I was frightened about that!

Aww your father sounds like a really nice man :P

I was in 5th period in year 5 and Christine our cook came into our class room because my teacher was the Deputy Head and the Head was not in school and because he had a daughter in NYC he sent the school home at like 1:20pm or something. I didn't even know what New York or what the Twin Towers was at the time and I didn't even realise the extent of what had happened.

Year 6.

Someone in my year came in the following day covered in swastikas.

I was in daycare xD I remember my teachers were watching it on the TV.

I was at school when an emergency assembly got called, headteacher said "terrorists masterfully piloted a boeing 767 into each of the towers and detonated explosives around 3 floors below which caused debri to fly out