2006-07-31 09:34:51 · 24 answers · asked by Pete Allison 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Hit the buildings
2006-07-31 09:35:18 · update #1
I'm a teacher in NYC and my classroom windows faced the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001 I was teaching a lesson on climate and turned to the windows to make a point about the weather. I saw the smoke pouring out of the north tower and without thinking about it, said to my students, "The World Trade Center is on fire." There was no announcements so I went on with the lesson.
The bell rang, and the next class came into my room. I went to the classroom next door and asked the teacher there what she thought. She said one of the kids said a helicopter had crashed into the World Trade Center.
I returned to my classroom and started to teach. After a few minutes I looked out the window again, just as the second plane hit the south tower. All the kids ran to the window.
Shortly afterwards the principal made an annoucement about the safest place to be was in school, but he gave no detail. When the period ended I went into the hallway. Panic everywhere and no ones cell phones worked, in fact, almost every call someone could make got a busy single. After the entire school witnesses the fall of the towers from ALL those windows the situation got worse. By noon hundreds of parents were in the lobby trying to get to there kids. And it was hot, so hot.
2006-07-31 11:51:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
When I tuned in it was after they had hit and it just looked like a fire and maybe everything would be okay. I still wasn't sure someone had did this deliberately or used anything bigger than a small plane. When I watched the towers crumble to the ground I was just in disbelief, it was almost as if none of it was real. I think everyone was in a state of shock and depression for at least a couple weeks afterwards until it finally started to sink in.
2006-07-31 16:39:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was away at college and tunred on the TV and saw the word "Los Angeles" (as in: flight headed to Los Angeles) and saw colapsed buildings and "earthquake" was the first thought in my head (LA is home). It took a few minutes to digest what really was going on.
The weirdest part was not being able to grasp right away what was live and what had happened a few hours earlier. I had slept in that morning and all the news reports said "LIVE" but really it was just live reporting with replays of the towers collapsing over and over again.
No one was around and I felt like I needed to be around people so I went to class, where a very unsympathetic professor went right on teaching statistics (which I hope she now regrets). It wasn't an easy class to sit though.
2006-07-31 16:50:43 · answer #3 · answered by raquel122203 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I was just coming back from taking my Daughter to school when I heard the first one hit and I thought "My GOD, I pray that those on that plane were all "saved"!!
Then, I went home and watched everything and when the second one hit, I knew we were at War then... Whom ever it was, we would soon retalliate, because an attack on America wasnt going to be tolerated like this!
What REALLY amazed me, was when the Towers FELL!!! THAT WAS A MOMENT I WILL NEVER FORGET!!!
It still plays in my mind and the wonderment that some one would kill innocents like that...
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-07-31 16:39:08 · answer #4 · answered by x 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure any of us had a truly rational thought when the images of those planes hitting our twin towers filled our eyes. I think we felt more than thought. Suddenly we were afraid, the realization that we were not safe, no one was. I worried about my son, only five months old at the time, and what this development meant for him and for his father (my ex husband who was at the time in the ARMY). Mostly I think family started to be even more important than we ever thought.
2006-07-31 17:17:26 · answer #5 · answered by Jessica H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought the first one was just a plane going down but knew when the second hit that we were under attack. I wanted to go home.
2006-07-31 16:36:18 · answer #6 · answered by Mama R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first thought.. OH crap..we've been hit.. after i saw the towers fall (including the unstruck building 7)..i knew... it wasn't terrorists... the building were imploded...they fell faster than gravity..only way that can be accomplished is a controled demolition, where it sucks the building down in a nice neat little pile. the sooner people realize our own government was responsible..the more chance we have of trying to undo..what is being done to this country...wake up people...
2006-07-31 16:42:49 · answer #7 · answered by thc_orion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolute Disbelief
2006-07-31 16:36:51 · answer #8 · answered by scrambledmolecues 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was so shocked and I felt so bad for the people who lost so many loved ones. I mean how sad. I was like going to class in 2nd grade and at home I saw it on the news right before we left so I told everybody and most of them didn't even know so. Yeah. Now you know!
2006-07-31 16:40:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought that the first one was an accident. When the second one hit I knew that something was going on but didn't know what.
I heard about it later on TV news.
2006-07-31 16:41:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋