Remembering 9/11

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Posted September 11 2009 11:25 AM by Mike McGlothlin
Filed under: Opinions, Editorials

A lot has happened to me in the last eight years. But I still remember EXACTLY what I was doing on 9/11/01…

I was a junior in high school. I was also in the midst of a 15-mile drive through the Illinois countryside to get to school, where I would be scolded for once again arriving tardy.

Speeding along, the DJ on the local country radio station announced that a plane had struck the World Trade Center in New York. When I got to school, I mentioned what I’d heard, and my History teacher clicked on the classroom television. We watched all the events unfold there in that silent little room—jaws on the floor.

Having never been to New York City, and knowing full well it was 1,000 miles away from where I grew up, I couldn’t help but feel like someone had just harmed my next door neighbor.

I wasn’t alone. And many of the kids (17 and 18 year old kids), some of them my friends, became men right after that, finishing school and entering the military to do what they knew was right: Stand up for the greatest country on earth.

*Hopefully no one will ever forget that day. What were you doing the morning of 9/11? I’d love to hear your story.

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1. I was in elementary school. That day I had a bad feeling, the teachers were all acting weird and running around like their heads were cut off. A few teachers flip on the tv and we watch it unfold. All the kids were silent. Then in the middle of the day around in between 11:00a.m. and noon I think, the principle gave an announcement none of us really understood it and we were all sent home. My parents picked me up and we watched the news in disbelieve for the rest of the day. I was too young to understand the gravity of the situtation fully, but I new something terrible had happened.

Lost but NOT forgotten, God save their souls.

SmokenGun - Posted September 11 2009 02:38 PM

2. I was in eighth grade, sittin in history class. Another teacher had told us a plane hit one of the world trade centers, but that was all we knew, we were thinking a little plane until the second one hit, then we turned on the tv and watched for most of the day. I go home from school and a neighbor stopped by on their way home, she has a cousin that was a flight attendant and was supposed to be on the flight that crashed in PA, and had called in sick and a friend of hers covered her shift, i didnt know the neighbors cousin but that had to be the worst feeling, i just couldnt imagine.

backwoodsboy916 - Posted September 12 2009 06:18 PM

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