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yes and it is the only thing i can vividly remember from around that age. i was at skl that day and then when i got home i turned on cbbc and it was the breaking news and i was rly confused so i called my mum in to put cbbc on and then she saw wat was happening on tv and was rly shocked and glued to tv rest of the evening
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I was 8, and because it was Tuesday, mum would take us to the post office after school and get some starburst. Anyway, my aunt sent her a text telling her to switch the news on ASAP, so we did, and I just remember watching replays of the planes going into the towers whilst eating my starburst.
Also, we were going to Florida on September 14th - that didn't happen. Spent many many hours waiting at Gatwick to see if flights to the US would resume.
Yeah, I was in the 6th grade and a bunch of parents started pulling their kids out of school. The principal came over the intercom and told the teachers to turn on the tv and it was just shocking.
I was in year five and just after lunch at about 1:30 the head cook came to my class as our teacher was the headteacher and said what was going on so our lessons got cancelled and we just started playing. Then a while later they sent us all home. I don't remember much else happening that day but I remember the days after and seeing the images and grasping what happened. I also remember talking with friends in the playground about what would happen if we went to war and how it would all be over in a few years... 12 years later.
i just remember being at my friends house and reading it on the newspaper
I remember getting home from school and it being on the TV, was shocked and didn't understand at that age. Was in primary school ahh.
Some people on here weren't even born :o
yeh i just got to my childminders n it was on the tv
there r peeps less than 12 on here?Quote:
Originally Posted by Police
Think there was a poll someone made and a few put under 12 or w.e yeah
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Originally Posted by subo
I remember being at school, and teachers talking to each other, then we were called into an assembly where the head teacher explained what had happened and a lot of people didn't seem to understand, idk why but I sort of got it and would tell the other kids who were messing around and talking to be quiet. We got sent home from school, my grandparents came to pick me up as my mum was on the phone with my Dad (who worked in Canary Wharf at the time), worried about if he was gonna be ok and stuff.
Then I just remember watching the news stories, but the rest of the day is a blur. The assembly really sticks in my brain for some reason though...
It was my dad's first day at his new job. I was asleep when it happened but my parents were in bed just listening to the news and were about to turn it off when the reports started coming in. I don't really remember what happened when I woke up though.
What I did do was I collected every picture and article about it from the newspaper and put all of the pages together to make a big huge special edition of the newspaper. I don't really know why I did that but I was really interested in it, I was 5 so probably didn't understand but I collected all the newspaper things about it and watched the news for days after it. If I remember correctly I was really interested in planes at that age so maybe that's why.
And then what I did with my big huge special edition newspaper I took it into school for show and tell. I don't think the teacher let me talk about it though my mum said she was pretty shocked that I was so interested in it haha and I don't think it would have been appropriate to have a 5 year old explaining it to other 5/6 year olds.
I can remember us all going to the library to watch it on tv in school and then going to my grannys (also her bday today) with my mum sis, aunts cousins. We were all sat in the living room and I remember seeing the towers fall and everyone going your always gonna remember this day.
I remember being in school and everyone whispering, even the teachers. I felt like everyone knew something that i didn't. and then my mum burst through the school doors and grabbed my arm and she was crying and she took me home and sat me down on the sofa and sat next to me and explained what had happened in america... I was shocked and i didn't talk for the rest of the night. For something being thousands of miles away. It feels so close to your heart!
literally nothing
but i was two
i was in school (good old grade primary) and i remember getting sent home and like idek why i'm canadian but whatever
I remember it briefly, I was almost 7 and believe I was at school having a normal day or it was the morning of the 12th and I was going to school.
But either way all I really remember was sitting in front of the tv and coverage of it was pretty much everywhere and I was wondering what was going on. I think I asked mum what had happened and she explained it to me briefly, but enough for me to understand what had happened.
That's pretty much all I remember from that day.
I was in school and remember all classes being called into a little assembly thing where they explained what happened. Couldn't understand much of it at first but remember being really shocked when seeing the pictures when I got home
yes i was 9 and we got sent home from school and i remember my parents just sitting watching the news and all the neighbours were out talking to each other and me and my friends were like 'it's just buildings?' then we went and played outside
the next day in school we had a memorial and a lot of people CRIED
I feel like my school was the only one in the UK that didn't tell the kids or pull them out of classes.
Omg bet you were one of them proper annoying kids lmao!! ANYWAYS I remember getting a lift home from school and my mum was talking about it to me saying something terrible had happened, then got home and saw it for myself and just remember watching it all night. Was pissed because all my fav TV shows were cancelled that night though...Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrawrrr
I remember a teacher telling me I will never forget this day. But other than that, I can't remember a thing.
mine either :/ :\ :/ :\ :/ :\Quote:
Originally Posted by Kardan
and this it was literally all evening :@Quote:
Was pissed because all my fav TV shows were cancelled that night though
no i was like 3
i remember the 7/7 london bombings though
not all the time, i tended to keep to myself, but i just got well annoyed they didnt understand the seriousness of what had happenedQuote:
Originally Posted by Catchy
Lmao well cut them some slack, they were what 8 9 10?Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrawrrr
Not just you, I didn't know about it til the next day and saw that iconic picture of the plane crashing into the tower!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kardan
hahahahah yeh thats trueQuote:
Originally Posted by Catchy
so long ago now it's actually a bit depressing
what the hell mike... were you living under a rock? :SQuote:
Originally Posted by Inseriousity.
no when I was that age, I actually went outside haha.
yes but surely you would have sensed a change in atmosphere or something?Quote:
Originally Posted by Inseriousity.
it was a really big deal for everyone all over the world!
a change in atmosphere with 8-9 year olds? The innocence of childhood when you didn't know everything about what an evil place the world could be, I miss those days.
ur making me sad we're all old :'(
i meant adults, obviously you're going to be around adults at age 8-9Quote:
Originally Posted by Inseriousity.
specifically your parents
I was blissfully ignorant until I saw the picture on the front page of the newspaper the next day (before school, I'd go to my granddads and read the paper til it was time to go). Even then, life continued same as usual really and the adults didn't give any indication that they'd changed either.
I was realllllyyyy young so I don't remember anything.
My mum says that we were driving back from my nannas and it was all over the radio on the way back.
I didn't get told in school, I remember coming home and all the family were watching it on TV and being annoyed that cartoons weren't on.
I was actually ill that day so was going around the town all day when we went into a shop with a big TV in suddenly the breaking news alert happened and everyone looked at the tv and we all saw the planes hitting live...horrible
i woke up and my mum was calling her brother who was apparently in new jersey at that time but she was still concerned
also clearly remember the time magazine's cover in the following week
no but i remember 11/9
i was 5. i just remember wanting to watch cartoons and stuff and my mum was watching the news i was so confused