Tell me about your 9/11.

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40. My experience

I'm basically copy and pasting this I posted yesterday.

I was 11 at the time. I was in the 5th grade. It was early morning so myself and every student went to school. Went about our day. They were having their annual book fair which I loved. I would buy so many books. Anyways they had the TV on in the library and it was just showing NYC but it looked stormy. Originally I thought they were getting hammered with a hurricane or tornadoes. Obviously that wasn't the case.

So come end day and our teacher was away so we had a sub who was really short with the class most the day. When it hit 3 PM. She didn't let us out right away, she told all of us what happened in NYC. We all were just silent as we were children and had to take it all in that we got attacked. Then we got let out to go home. I got home and immediately went to my room to watch the news. I couldn't believe it. I change the channels and saw so many have suspended their broadcast and playing sad music. I called it the sad flower song Because It had a picture of a flower in the background. I do believe 9/11 traumatized me as a child because I became so desensitized to anything after that

I'm 30 years old now and I fully believe 9/11 ushered in a new world. So much hate and fear was born from that day and it shows still to this day. Bin Laden might be dead, but he succeeded in making America be scared of its own shadow.