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Where were you on 9/11?

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Virgofall:
I'm honestly detached from the event myself; it didn't affect me nor my family in any way as far as I can tell, and at the time I had a lot of other psychological matters to deal with. I was in fifth grade or so when the incident occurred, and didn't remember hearing about it until I came home from school that day (I live in New York, but nowhere near the city). What happened slowly sunk in as the days went by, but not really on a personal level. I did see the impact it made on both Muslim-Americans and airport security, though, and seeing these aspects affected me more than the actual event (probably because the event itself just happened, but the fallout remained for a long while).

seibo:
I was in 1st grade at the time and like many of the other youngins I didn't know what was going on. I don't remember if there was an announcement or not, but early morning my teacher had the news on for everyone to watch. In hindsight maaaybe not the best decision to be showing a full class 6 year olds a terrorist attack, but that's just me. I was mostly confused as to what was going on and why my teacher was so upset. A lot of people were being called out of class and I think my mom picked me up (and my older sister) around noon.

I didn't actually understand what happened until two years later, and even then it still didn't quite hit me that people died. In 3rd grade everyone was assigned a US state to do a report on and I got New York. Part of my assignment was to talk about all the important landmarks/ places and I briefly mentioned the World Trade Center. As I was presenting my research (either to my parents at home or to my teacher for the actual grade) an adult interrupted me about how they weren't there anymore. Which I thought was weird because the book in the library didn't mention that it was gone. But then it was vaguely explained to me that was what happened 9/11.

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