This is a space to add your thoughts and feelings about 9/11, given that we have just seen a powerful video account of this day. You are not required to post here or say anything, but you may if you would like.
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I think that 9/11 was an awful event for all of america and now that it is the 10th anniversary we are looking back upon it, 10 years ago we were only in...1st grade and i know that i don't remember it very well probably because our parents wanted to shelter us from it since we were only 5 6 years old at the time, i have a question- What did the high school do on 9-11-01??
ReplyDeleteA tragedy that showed who the true heroes are in the world.
ReplyDeleteSince we were too young to remember a lot about that day, what do you, Dr. G, remember that day being like and where were you when it happened?
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ReplyDeleteI remember being in kindagarten when 9/11 occured. We were too little to really know what happened, so all we knew was that there was a plane crash somewhere. It wasn't until years later that I really understood the magnitude of the attack. Seeing the video today really opened my eyes to what happened that day and showed me what happened from the fire fighters perspective.
ReplyDeleteThe movie we watched today was the saddest thing I have ever seen. I had never really gotten to see real video footage of 9/11. It was hard watching the towers fall, and especially seeing the plane actually crash into the side of the tower. The devistation was almost unreal. When the man videotaping got caught up in the dust I was shocked. There was so much deestruction. i had to look away when they said that there were people who were falling from the building, because there was nothing else they could do. It disturbs me to think that people actually planned the terriorist attack, knowing that so many people would be killed. From seeing all that, I was horrified. I didn't know much about 9/11 until today, because i was only in first grade.
ReplyDeleteI think it was sad to see a first hand account of the tragity of 9/11. Seeing this first hand account really made me realize how bad the attack was. One thing that shocked me was that the attack was bad enough to have people thinking that jumping out of the building would be a better idea than waiting for help. What was scary to me was the noise of the people hitting the ground that had jumped from several stories above. I feel sorry for all of the lives that were lost and involved in the tragity of 9/11.
ReplyDeleteIt's just awful, how anyone would want to destroy places and just kill people. There aren't enough words to describe how tragic it was and still is. Although I was only in kindergarten its still personal to me because it did happen in our country and it did effect people I know and my family.
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ReplyDeleteI have mixed emotions about the 9/11 tragedy. I don't necessarily know what to think, i believe that it was a horrific and devastating event and took few thousands of lives, but since then we have buckled down. How so you ask? well for starters security and authorities at airlines have increased a ridiculous amount, and searches of carry-ons, on person cavity searches, and screenings. As well as not being able to go beyond certain points on the loading lines if your not actually leaving, you had to stay behind and watch from the airport windows. So in a sense, i think it has strengthened us as a whole as well.
ReplyDeleteI feel really bad for all the people who witnessed the attacks and all the families who lost their family memebers. I knew about 9/11 but I've never seen it in action. Watching the video really made me realize how horrifying it must have been for everyone.
ReplyDeleteI have seen other footages of 9/11 on the history channel previous to today but i don't think any footage compares to the video i saw this morning.
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ReplyDeleteRest in peace to all those lost in 9/11 and thank you to all the heroes who served this day.
ReplyDeleteFor those who asked, I was down the hall in Room 114 with a small class of seniors on 9/11.
ReplyDeleteA custodian cam by and told us about a plane that went into a building in NYC. So, I turned on the radio part of my boom box and turned to a news station (I often listen to news radio in my car). Together as a group, we heard about the 2nd and 3rd planes, and we were worried that we hadn't heard anything from the office. Since I had seniors, I left to go tell them and as I got there, the news was coming out to teachers on little slips of paper.
We were asked to keep the day as normal as we could and not to discuss the news we heard. No TV had access to networks--they were just monitors for VCRs. People didn't have cell phones (or smart phones for that matter) as they do now, nor did we have the bandwidth to stream video that we do now.
The drive home was weird and we wondered what would happen, and would we have school. And we didn't miss one day of school. Airline travel stopped for a few days. And on those beautiful, clear skies, like the one out there today--not a single plane.
At school, we were instructed not to discuss the attack in class. So I didn't. The thought was that school should be a normal, business as usual place, and obsessing about it in every class would be upsetting, especially because Mr. Coombs, an Abington resident, died in the plane crash in NYC. So we went on.
I do regret not discussing it with my seniors after the fact. If I had it to do over again, I think I would have talked more with students then. A sort of trust was broken between us that was never restored. We went on with our studies, not ignoring that something had happened, but taking a break from it.
In a different way, the loss of the space shuttle challenger was like that, too. Although I don't remember it, I was alive when Kennedy was assassinated and lived in Washington DC at the time; my dad took me to the Capitol where the president's body lay in state. My dad left his job in Washington shortly afterward. People were so depressed, he said, it was like everyone took a shot of Novocaine to their brains.
9/11 was a lot like that, and in some ways, still very hard to think about.
We had a memorial service the year after,in the gym, with some music, and the reading of the Gettysburg address. People wore flag lapel pins and hung flags at their homes, but that fades away after a few years. That's when I noticed more young men and women joining the service, though.