It's 9/11 today

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Very Young, i was.

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Grandmother woke me up that morning with the news after the first strike. We sat glued to the news for days during the aftermath.

I was a teen, budding schizoaffective, homeschooled, and helping to take care of my grandmother with cancer.

It changed how secure I feel in my own country. Scared me.

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In Nitro West Virginia is a nuclear power plant. We started talking about ā€œWhat if they strike there next?ā€

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Yes you seem really matureā€¦how old are you??

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Iā€™m 35 now, was 16 when it happened.

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Okay I seeā€¦I know lots of people dont know excactly what happens around themā€¦nuclear meltdown or whateverā€¦but some things makes us more alikeā€¦yes??

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I was attending military reform high school in california. I remember they made all the students change into our pe uniforms out of our military uniforms. we watched it unfold on tv

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I was just getting to school when a classmate told my dad what happened to the Pentagon.

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I was 10 y.o. and didnā€™t speak english or french back then.

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Ten years old? It mustā€™ve scared the crap out of you.

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Fun story. Nuclear plants have been build to withstand a plane crash since the 50s

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what you dont know it broadcasted on egyptian tv too
it cut off what it broadcasting
for me i was watching tv at this time

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I was numb and donā€™t remember doing anything special about it. I was living in semi independent housing and was glad I wasnā€™t alone.

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I donā€™t remember this at all. The day it happened. Well I remember feeling excited in a weird way like adrenaline

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Didnā€™t NYC get sympathy cards from all over the world? I think they did

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Lol. OK Yoda!,ā€¦

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I was on the bus going to the pdoc when i heard. I was having apocolyptic delusions at the time so it was all pretty strange.

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I was in year 6 I believe. So I would be around 10. I remember not believing my Mum when I got into the car on the way home. I thought she was trying to play a trick on me. I just didnā€™t think that kind of thing could happen.

And without going into detail, the more Iā€™ve learned about it the more sceptical I am about the truth.

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@anon1517417 I am so sorry to hear you lost a loved one in the 9/11 attacksā€¦

I was living with my sister and watching a morning show and then they went to narration over the footage of the towers being hitā€¦I was live when they turned on the first tower burning and then the second plane hit and I knew it was terrorismā€¦their stupid jihadā€¦

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Itā€™s weird how much time can go but most seem to remember vividly that day even though it was nearly two decades ago.

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