AKP users who remember 9/11, what was that day like?

They weren't born at that time.

More seriously I didn't remember this event, I was in primary school and didn't watch news at this time.

I remember it from the perspective of someone who was a child from Europe at the time. I was so shocked after it happened. We just survived a war and to hear about so many people perishing in such a horrible way was surreal. Everyone talked about it for months. It was so horrible.

I'm on HS back then
after finish watching local basketball on our TV
then few minutes on news channel
their is a plane crash on world trade center
it just like a movie w a high budget special effects watching it in real time
then we realized it a real life event happening

then the next few days war on terror start then
USA invasion in Iraq

happening
world security will never be the same
more strict transportation , oil price hike also happen

I was 10 in 6th grade and we didn't have tv or computers, so all I remember is the principal and vice principal coming in and telling us there was an attack and not to worry, they wouldn't aim for our school. At the time, I also didn't watch news, so I don't remember anything else.

My friend who was in 4th grade said the teacher turned on the news...which sounds incredibly stupid to do to 8 year olds.

I was driving to work and heard it on the radio. At work we turned on the tv and saw the 2nd plane hit the other tower. It was shocking. The building security decided to put blockades around the building since I worked at an oil/gas facility. They were afraid that an attack could happen there.

I was in primary school and came home just before the second plane flew into the towers. (time difference)

I remember my grandmother opening the door. She was crying, while my grandpa was in the living room, staring at the TV as if in a trance. They had both seen war and my grandpa kept saying something along the lines of they've done it, they've done it, now there's going to be war again. I didn't understand but then I saw what was on TV and I knew it was bad. I sat down on the sofa with my grandparents, my siblings came home from school one by one as well and we watched the second plane hit the towers and eventually saw the towers collapse. I was stunned. I couldn't comprehend what I was seeing, but I was terrified. I never watched footage of the attack ever again, but I still remember the pictures of the people trapped on the upper floors. What those terrorists did was pure evil.

I was 6 I belive

I am not from America so the only thing I remember was when my mom and dad watched TV with me and they talked about it on the news

the scene where ppl were hanging on window ledges still haunts me till today.

I was 8 or 9, I didn't really care.

Now as adult I still don't care

Well I was 2 months and 2 days old so I definitely don't remember it! But from what I heard from my relatives, was pretty shocking. One of my friends irl was supposedly born while it was happening and she said her mom saw it on TV while giving birth... must've been so weird

I remember it very well. In fact, it was a couple of months before I got pregnant with my daughter. I wasn't watching TV that Tuesday night (as it was night time here in Australia). Something told me to turn it on and when I did they had the live CNN coverage from New York after the first plane hit. The caption read "a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center." I had to say it aloud to myself as I couldn't believe it. The smoke was billowing from the tower with a gaping hole in it, people were running for their lives and it was total chaos. Then a little while later, the second plane hit. I realized then that it was no plane accident, this was a terrorist attack. The footage was horrific, burning buildings, thick smoke turning day into night and the most shocking sight was seeing people jumping to their deaths. I will never be able to get that image out of my head. I stayed transfixed to the screen for hours watching the horror unfold. Then the towers collapsed first the North Tower, I thought "oh those poor people trapped inside that couldn't get out," Then the second Tower - they just fell like dominoes. It was awful. The loss of life for nothing. Then the news filtered through that another plane had hit The Pentagon. Then the plane that crashed into the field in Pennsylvania.

I stayed up until the wee hours just watching the horror. It was surreal. I thought I was just watching a movie, but of course it was real. My partner who was doing a drive to Sydney that night rang me and we were talking about it. The most shocking thing was that they just kept replaying the same footage over and over which was distressing. Even today 22 years on, it is still hard to watch.

I was 6 at that time and according to my mom, that day we went shopping for my school outfits as I was getting ready enter school for the very first, my mom spotted some commotion, their was this store with a tv airing the news and people we rushing to it, even for us nun Us citizens it was a shocking.

I came home from school and the cartoons were cancelled so I was a bit annoyed lol. The wish news story seemed like l like a cool action movie to me because it was a plane crashing into a building twice. It was only went I went into school the next day that teachers explained what happened with deaths, what terrorism is and all that I actually got a proper grasp of the situation.

Aussie here.

I was in Uni at the time and living at home. My family had gone to bed early the night it happened, but my dad would usually wake up around 3am for work. He had already left and was listening to the radio and heard the new and woke us up with a semi panicked call that America was being attacked and war had started.

Mum and I got up and spent the morning watching the news about it and I skipped uni that day and just watched tv with mum and then dad when he got home.

It was one of the first times I really recall being "news obsessed" and really dove into the internet and print media reading everything I could about what had happened, especially eye witness, on the ground stuff. Much harder back then, as internet was not really much faster and disseminating news than TV. Pre-social media and pre-user generated content. It was the second time I really remember getting emotional about a new story and finding the scale of it all really, really hard to process. I cried a few times reading eye witness accounts and survivors stories and I ended up attending a vigil for the victims that was held in my city.

A person from one of my units at uni got into a brawl in the campus cafe/bar. He was an uber lefty, hippy knobhead and part of a group that was at the bar having day drinks and CHEERED when they played footage of the towers collapsing and others took obvious offence and a fight broke out.

I also basically lost a good friend because a day or two later I went over to said friends house for a drink up and her and her bf wanted me to take my car with them to go "bash muslims" and vandalise a mosque. I just went home and we never spoke much again.

Also, a few weeks later a bunch of dickheads from my old high school got arrested for... trying to burn down a Buddhist temple... for "revenge".

The months and years that followed were wild as well. Invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Patriot act, Gitmo, paranoia about Islamic people, the huge growth of "us vs them mentality".

The repercussions of what happened that day, in politics (US and world), society, culture, the left/liberal/rightwing/conservative divide, its all still felt these days.

I was in HS and I remember being in the library and we then saw some of the footage on tv

I remember it very well. I just graduated from university and I was working in Japan at the time. It was evening and I was just relaxing at my house after a long day at work. I thought I’d turn on the TV to catch the J-drama or TV programs and not thinking anything much. Then it was on all the channels that a plan crashed into the NY WTC building and I was like, what?! This is the news?!?? I doubted my own Jpn comprehension because I didn’t want to believe it. So I called my family in the US and we were all crying on the phone over it. It was terrible to witness in real time and I had to turn the TV off around 2 am and didn’t get much sleep that night. Next day at work, everyone was asking me about it too.