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I thought it would be interesting to hear from everyone their memories from 9/11/01/. Where were you, what were you thinking, etc..
I was only 2 or 3 weeks in to my first year at Kickapoo. I was in my first block gym class. We went across the streets to the Gilenwaters tennis complex when the announcement came over the PA. However, our hard of hearing gym prof thought the message had to do with students leaving their lunch trays in the courtyard. Only after we came inside did we discover the truth. We watched the events on tv until second block. That was when the principal decided that school would not be dismisssed early, and that we should all go back to schoolwork. I'm still not happy about that decision. I don't remember fully comprehending what was happening, I just knew it was big. The day went on about as usual, with the exception of wondering what was happening and why we were not getting to know. Life in Springfield never seemed to change much after 9/11. Security didn't really seem to tighten up, and life seemed to stay the same. Obviously in the broader sense things were changing and have changed.
Last night Makoto (my roommate) and I watched a first hand video account of 9/11 recorded by two brothers who were with the fire dept during the entire event. They were inside the towers as the events unfolded. You may remember it from tv a few years ago. It is still hard to comprehend.
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we were just talking about this today in history class.
i was home sick that day, big surprise. actually, it was i think the second day i was sick freshman year. it was the tip of the iceberg, those two days.
but i was in the first two or three weeks of frosh year at NCA. i watched TV all day and talked to mom and dad on the phone and such. it was strange, taking all of this in at fourteen, alone at home all day. it was hard to know exactly how to react, i was just sort of taking it all in. i remember feeling angry, sad, scared, and other emotions al throughout the day.
i was in computer keyboarding w/ schindeli. at first i thought they were playing old footage on the t.v. monitor - i couldn't really see what was happening and i couldn't hear the volume. eventually i figured it out. i didn't have a strong emotional reaction - i wasn't afraid, or sad, or really anything. i do remember getting upset when i listened to some interview on NPR a few days later w/ some woman who had...uh, i can't remember what. i think she must have lost friends/family, or something.
I was getting ready to go to the library to study at the Seminary.
I think nationally we felt like the Jews must have felt every time the Temple was destroyed.
Pax.
time for some more bloggage....
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