Remember 9/11

[KSUViolet06]

I remember it pretty well myself. It was my senior year and I was at school. I was on my way to American Government, which was 3rd period. When I got to class, my teacher had it on TV and was staring at it and not saying anything.

When we started watching, I believe the first plane had hit. We were all sitting in class super confused thinking that this was an accident of some sort. Then I remember the anchor saying that this was believed to be a terrorist attack.

As we were watching in horror, the second plane hit. We were supposed to be taking a quiz that day, but once the plane hit, the teacher told us that what we were seeing was more important than a quiz and we watched the coverage for the rest of the period. In the rest of our classes, that's all we did, watch the coverage.

None of us could concentrate the rest of the day. We were all really worried. We knew it was all the way in NY, but we didn't know what else was going to happen. Because we were naive HS kids, we figured that if terrorists could fly planes into buildings, they could blow up something closer to us like Browns Stadium (slightly funny in retrospect).

Some kids insisted on going home and just left school, some parents were calling frantically trying to get their kids to be excused early. Everybody was just really worried, scared, and wanted to be at home with their families.