On 9/11 what were your emotions toward it? How did you feel?

Question

I know that it is uncoferable to tell your feelings, but its important to.

When it happened, I was awestruct. I was scared and felt insecure. I was wondering, has our deffence finaly fallen? Is this the end? But I knew it wasn't. And know I'm sure that we will make sure that these type of things will be prefented now.

That's my story. What's yours?

Answer 1

I remember that day so clearly.....I had gotten up for work and wasnt feeling to well so i called in sick.....i turned on the tv because i always watch the news in the morning and started watching right when the plane struck the first tower....I couldnt believe what happend....I couldnt understand how a plane could hit a building like that......then as i was watching the second plane hit the other tower and at that moment i knew it was no accident .....I knew something was going on.....I watched in horror knowing there were people on these planes and in these buildings......being so far away from New York It still hit me as if i were there.....Then all the other stories came in about the pentegon.....I cant describe it in any other way other than horrifying.....than later in the day it turned to anger.....as i saw the people from the country that did this to us dancing in the street and celebrating......I was depressed for a long time after 9/11 happend.....I know people who were there and had friends and family there were affected in ways i could never imagine, but for the first time in my life I felt hated as an american....i felt that there were people out there that hated americans so much that they wanted to see our country go through all this pain and suffering....but to see how everyone came together in our country and were so patriotic.....it truly made me proud to be an american......9/11 is something that will live in all of us.....it will never be forgotten.

Answer 2

It was absolutely the worst day of my life. I commute everyday from New York to central New Jersey early in the morning. When I left that morning, the World Trade Center was glistening from the sunrise. It was absolutely beautiful like it was every sunshining morning. I never really thought about it until it all happened. How majestic and beautiful the towers really were. I'll never forget that day as I was stuck in New Jersey and seeing all of the horror unfold later on television. I will never again see the same beautiful moments of sun shining on the gorgeous towers. It will always be burned into my mind. Such a senseless tragedy.

Answer 3

My husband was out of town and called me and told me to turn on the T.v. that something big was happening and like New York was on fire.He had heard all this on the radio and at the time wasn't sure of what was going on.I turned on the T.V.and sat there in shock.I then went to work and no one there even knew anything had happened.I brought a T.V. out and put it on my desk.It probably was against the rules but everyone wanted to know what was going on.I felt very insecure and thought we had just been attacked,how dare anyone attack us.It was surreal.

Answer 4

I felt attacked. I felt vonuarable and I felt heartbroken as I watched tv when it was all happening and saw the second tower collapse with the firemen, rescuers, and innocent Americans die.

I knew that day in highschool that my life had changed forever and I fear what my children will see because each generation has a tragic story, our grandparents/greatgrandparents witnessed WWII, our parents witnessed Vietnam, and now we witnessed 9-11 as well as the War on Iraq. I just hope my children will not see the day that nuclear weapons are used against Americans on American soil.

Answer 5

I was in class the day it happened and I was stunned. I was in shock for the first 15 minutes just watching the tv. It took awhile to even register what had happened. At first I was confused because when the first plane struck everybody thought it was an accident until the second one hit. I was scared and upset and also angry.

Answer 6

i came out of school i was 15 i went in the pub to meet my dad and we watched it on the tv, i couldnt believe what was happening, i didnt know of the twin towers at the time, but it was almost as if it wasnt true, when my dad told me that planes with people in had hit the towers, i thought it was an accident then i watched the 2nd plough into it, and was gob-smacked it was a really shocking experience, im from the uk and knew at that point we were in for it, but we will have our revenge 1 day

Answer 7

I had adream the night before a plane crashed on the ground and woke up right away and i drove to school and heard it on kqrs radio and thought they were joking and when i dropped my son off at daycare it was on TV and i cried and cried and felt terrible for those people and preyed for all the people that were hurt and that died. To this day I'm emotional about it and have pain inside me for all that was lost that day and god still bless their souls.

Answer 8

I was scared cuz at the time my dad was in the military and I was afraid they might send him somewhere...I was also scared cuz my uncle is a NAVY pilot and a guy in my class(being Oh so helpful!) tells me that my uncle will be one of the first one's over there....Then afterschool, I was on my way to my art lessons and my parents drove up, it was really freaky cuz they knew I had lessons and I thought something bad was going to happen to my dad or some1 I was close to...

But after the fear went away I was shocked and mad...

Answer 9

Angry and sad like everyone else.

Being from India, I have witnessed Islamic terrorism all my life. he first thing I thought as soon as I heard the news -Islam, this has GOT TO BE ISLAM!. Whenever wyou see vile barbaric terrorism, that is the first thing you should think of. Except for Oklahoma city, I have not been wrong.

Answer 10

I thought the world was going to end. I just wanted to be near my family. I needed to know where everyone was. I was devastated by the loss of life. I wanted to know about the people who lost their lives.