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I will never forget.

I had just come into work that morning at the Anaheim Convention Center where Winter NAMM is held each year... people (staff & convention attendees) were all just shell-shocked! We were expecting a bunch of people from NYC on a connecting flight that day.. which was supposed to contain people from one of the planes that had been turned into a missile that very morning. It turned the convention into an absolute wash out... Yes.. I'll always remember Sept 11, 2001 as long as I live.
 
it was my first day of high school
i was only 12, and it was right after recess
all our teachers were late coming back to class and we didnt understand why
then my english teacher came and explained what happened and i didnt get it

i didnt know what the towers were or anything like that

i only understood when i got home and watched tv
it was messed up, i litterally spent hours just watching the news all day long for the next weeks trying to understand what was happening
i have to say, i grew up quickly on that day...
 
I was in grade 11 back then. I had just gotten out of the shower, and my mom had breakfast for my dad and I ready on the table. My dad turns on the TV, flips it to CNN (he always watches the news in the morning), and almost immediately after that its like "breaking news", right after the first plane hit. They had some ridiculous theories as to why the first plane crashed into the tower...until the second one hit. We were all sitting there staring at the TV like "Oh ****".

All day at school was kind of a blur, we spent a couple of periods just listening to the radio. First period english was weird, as we had just finished reading Death of a Salesman. I'll never forget the discussion we had, where we talked about Willy symbolizing the American Dream and Biff telling him to "take that phony dream and burn it", then relating it to the attacks. It was a really somber discussion and awkward for everyone involved.

R.I.P.