How old were you when this war started???

Question

I was eleven when i watched the twin towers fall.

11, dont you think thats kinda young?
My family members were telling their children to prepare because the world was ending, or that the terrorists were going to blow us up.

How old were you? how did it effect you?

[i think i got horrible screwed up]

Answer 1

If you are a speaking of the war in Iraq, please get your information straight. The tragedy on 9-11 and the war in Iraq are not connected. The way that Bush reported things to the media made it seem connected, but they aren't.

I know exactly where I was on 9-11 and I remember it very well. I was in college in my English Comp class. I don't think the world is ending at all and I don't think that we need to prepare for the end. You don't need to be scared of things like that. If you really think that you got messed up by seeing that happen, then you should talk to someone about it--like a professional. People get affected by national events in different ways, and some people need some help dealing with the events.

I was in the dorm when it happened, and I wanted to be home more than anything in the world at that moment. I sat there watching the events over and over in disbelief, but in the same moment, I sat and thought that I wasn't too terribly surprised. We are not immuned to evil just because we are the United States.

If you are speaking soley of the war in Iraq, I am highly, highly against it. The day we get out of there I will be having a party. Everyone on here is invited!

Answer 2

I was 12, so just a year older than you. I remember watching the television all morning in school, some of the students thought that school should have been canceled, that we should have gone home, but our principal decided that it would be safer to not make our parents leave work to take us home.

The twin towers falling was a major disaster but I was not directly effected by the occurrence and none of my close friends then or since had a profound connection, like a family member who died or almost died in that catastrophe.

I have to admit that to my childish mind I was more distraught over the fact that my Friday night shows' season premiers were pushed back by three weeks because of the continuous repetitive new than because of the human lives that were lost because there was nothing I could do or could have done to help and/or prevent it.

Answer 3

I was 50 when 9-11 happend. I was on AOL chatroom that morning and the people where talking about it and someone said that it was being shown on TV. Before she said that I thought that they were just messing around and then I turned on the TV and it was on all the channels and I still couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was shocked. I just stayed with the coverage all day and it still felt like a bad dream or rather nightmare. I was going thru some bad personal stuff with my own dad at the time and I just got more depressed and found it hard to cope with everything for a long time after.

Answer 4

I was in my late 30's, at home cleaning my living room. I turned the TV on just after the first tower fell, and for a moment I wasn't sure what it was that I was watching. I could see water in the background, and my first thought was this was in Chicago and something had happened at the Sears Tower. Then I noticed the bridge, and I immediately knew what it was that I was looking at, and that part of the World Trade Center was missing. It was right about this point that the second tower fell.

My niece and her family lived in Pittsburgh at the time, and her husband was with the Pittsburgh police department. He was one of the officers involved in evacuating the US Steel Building, and it took him hours to make it home. She heard of this, and the plane crash in Shanksville, and immediately went to collect her kids from school. She said that just about every child's mother showed up that day--being in a city, and having no real idea what was happening.

I'm fortunate to live in a small town. Although my kids were 5, 8,and 15, none of us were affected on a personal level. The youngest knew very little about what had happened, and in a show of patriotism, my then-15-year-old joined the Army the day he turned 18.

One of the teachers at my kids' school has a daughter who taught at the school right next to the World Trade Center. Knowing that her daughter was in the midst of this was very traumatic for her, and my children's teacher had to take a sabbatical to recover from the stress she endured.

At first, we united as a country, but after awhile, the same old apathy set in. Now it seems that very few of us stand together as Americans anymore.

Answer 5

I was 12 years old in the sixth grade. I was sitting in my math class doing our work when our teacher developed a grim look on his face. I asked him what was wrong and he wouldn't tell me. For some reason I asked if we were bombed and he just nodded. I immediately freaked out and asked if we were going to go to war. He said, "I don't know". Then I said to my friends that if the war was still going on when I graduated high school I would join the marines. Yeah, now I'm at a crossroad in my life where I'm trying to decide whether to be a marine or an English teacher.

Answer 6

I was twenty five and that day was as surreal as it gets. I got drunk the night before and slept to 3:30 in the afternoon. My room mate woke up ten minutes before I did and it took that long for him to process the information. I probably watched the same clips about 20 times in disbelief. Hundreds of cars were lined up at the gas stations in our town paying $5 per gallon for gas. Luckily, I gassed up the night before. It opened our eyes to the possibilities. Oklahoma city in 1996 was pretty messed up, the bombing of the USS Cole and the first trade center bombing in the early 90's should have been a wakeup call. 9/11 was this generation's Pearl Harbor.

Answer 7

I was 14 and in 8th grade. I was in Math class when I first learned about the twin towers destroyed. Alhamdullilah I am Muslim now. I thought all Muslims were out to kill anyone who didn't covert to Islam. I didn't bother studying it until last September. I took Shadah October 2nd, 2006. I remember a lot of kids in my class were laughing about the twin towers disaster.

Answer 8

How old were you when they dropped the bomb on Hiroshima? When you`ve seen as much as I have you don't jump to conclusions too quickly. Things happen and then pass on and then are forgotten or someone rewrites the history so that it agrees with what people believe that the present time.

Answer 9

Our war with Islamic terrorist has been going on for 200 years.

Answer 10

I was pretty old.

I remember being a child and watching Vietnam on TV news and then I got drafted into that war. THAT screwed me up a bit!