I was in 5th grade when this happened. Nobody in school that day told us what happened. It wasn't until I got home that I found out. At first I thought it was kinda messed up everyone at the school kept it from us but now that I'm older I definitely understand why they handled it the way they did. They probably believed at that age it was better we heard the news from our parents.

This is largely how I remember 9/11 - in a classroom. I was a senior in HS. I was actually on my second or third full day of school, where school had started on 8/27. I got into a car accident 3 days before school started and missed a lot of the first couple weeks of school due to my injuries. We were cleaning out the library to make room for a general use computer lab, got done about 20 minutes before the period ended, so it was about 8:45 once we filed back into the classroom. The teacher was flipping through channels and that was right about when it broke into programming. We were watching, blew it off as an accident, and switched to 2nd period at the exact time the second plane hit. I remember someone coming into 2nd period hysterical (a lot of that class was made up of freshmen) and the principal coming over the loudspeaker telling us what happened, and that if we needed to go home it would be excused. I had a block of chemistry 3rd and 4th periods, we had a sub for that and she didn't even make an attempt at teaching us. I just remember watching it for those two hours, just in shock finding out that another tower, the Pentagon and another plane were involved, and then watching the towers collapse. The teacher just sitting there below the TV with her head hung and tears rolling down her face and the shocked expressions on my classmates' faces. I don't even remember what we did the rest of the day... I am pretty sure they ended up just dismissing us all after 4th period because United 93 wasn't far from where we were.

I was a sophomore in HS, and at that time I had no idea how this day would change the world I lived in forever.

Pretty crazy seeing this, I was a freshman in high school on 9/11 and remember walking into French class and seeing the teacher watching the news on a tv setup exactly like this. We all just sat down and watched it silently, really errie feeling. My memory of 9/11 is almost identical to this footage

I was in the 3rd grade. Our homeroom teacher, Mrs. Greenspan was reading a chapter off of Harry Potter’s Chamber of Secrets when she was interrupted by the other teachers on our floor. She asked us to “stay calm” as they huddled at the doorway and were in obvious shock/terror over something we didn’t know. It was Curriculum day, so around 8:55/9 am our classroom headed over to our Arts/Music teacher in a different part of the school. As we walked into our Music teachers class, we noticed he had one of those box tv sets+ VHS carts setup. I remember laughing at him because he was sitting really up close to the tv screen in one of those miniature chairs for elementary students, staring at the screen with what had the image of a gaping hole in Tower 1. “Take a seat, take a seat, this is really happening”. I wasn’t sure what I was looking at, I remember thinking it must’ve been a movie. Ill never forget the the sound of everyone in that room gasping and my music teacher yelling “HOLY SHIT” as we all saw the second plane go in. I remember the confusion of reaction towards the explosion and my teacher cursing out loud. We were all 7/8 years old. To this day, I can feel what I felt in that exact moment. All the trauma that came afterwards…

As everyone else here, I remember that terrible day and exactly what I did when I heard about the attacks. I was 18 back then a kid from Germany who loved America (and still does). The friend I was in New York with just a couple of weeks prior (my first trip to New York) called me and told me to turn on the TV... He said a helicopter had crashed into the WTC. I'm sure he just didn't want me to freak out... I was glued to the screen watching CNN and later my dad and I drove to the US consulate in Düsseldorf to lay down flowers... I still have the ticket for the observation platform, dated 08/13/01, 15:23. I will never throw it away. Thanks for this - sad but priceless - video. Love your channel!

I was a kindergartener when it happened, I just remember the principal coming over the loud speaker and telling everyone what had happened and that we were being sent home earlier for the day, being a bunch of 4-6 year olds none of us truly knew what had happened, my mother being a police officer(and the one who was usually home when I came home from school) was stuck at work just incase they called her department in to help(thankfully that call never came), I just remember watching the TV with my dad who was never phased by anything was clearly shaken up by it and then the 2nd tower falling. It was the first time in my life that I can remember the real world kicking in

I was in Middle school. My teacher turned on the tv and was in tears trying to keep it together. I was 12 and this very moment gave me a whole different outake on life. I remember my friends and classmates getting pulled out of class like this every few minutes.

I was 17, watching the same news in a similar classroom in Clearwater, FL. This plays like a movie of my actual experience. This channel is incredible!

I might be the only New Yorker in this chatroom who witnessed it that day here in NYC. I was fourteen years old when the Twin Towers were destroyed here in NYC. I heard both explosions, and witnessed the North Tower collapse. Me and my grandma had stepped outside to talk to a neighbor a few minutes before the South Tower collapse, and then a neighbor ran outside saying the South Tower collapsed. I was a child back in 1994 when I went on the roof of the South Tower. The Twin Towers was my favorite spot here in NYC, and I miss them everyday. #NeverForget911

I was in 10th grade and homeschooled. My mom walked in the room and said we were under attack. We tuned into the TV just before the second plane hit. It was definitely a horrible, life-changing memory. It was so eerily quiet for weeks and weeks after. We lived near an airport, and when planes started flying again, we all would pause and listen with some fear that maybe it was another attack.

I was a sophomore in HS in Brooklyn, NY. I remember sitting in the library before classes started and the librarian bursting in and shouting “they’ve hit the twin towers.” I was so confused and only when I went to my next class is when I learned more about what had transpired. One of my classmates was comforting me. I was freaking out because my dad might’ve been taking the train passing through the WTC. Then it was a mad rush to get home via buses because the trains were all shut down. People were begging to get onto the already packed buses. Luckily I got home safely, and so did the rest of my family. It was also much later on in my life that I realized how a week right before 9/11, I was went to the airport to see a love one off. The security process was nothing compared to today. We were able to walk them to their gate, see them board the plane and watch their plane take off. Never forget, never take anything for granted.

I was in the cafeteria in elementary school when 9/11 happened. I was in the 4th grade. The principal came on the intercom saying that kids will be leaving early. All the kids were asking, “what’s going on?” “Are they bombing us??” And there were military planes flying fast in the air. I remember getting home, and my mother was sitting up in bed and my sister standing at the side. We were all watching on TV. I remember asking my mom, “what happened..?” The next day was bad as well. Verrrryy sad day. Everyone was crying because they lost loved ones. I really felt like I was in a movie.

I was in 4th grade when this happened. The principal came on the loudspeaker and told all teachers to turn on their TVs to the news immediately. She turned it on right as the second plane hit and we saw the explosion. They zoomed in on people jumping out of windows. They replayed both planes hitting the towers many times. After a short phone call to the office, our teacher turned the TV off and stood in front of us with an expression I'd never seen on her before. She went into full mom mode. She told us "I know what you just saw was horrible. I wish you didn't see it, but it's going to be everywhere you go for a while. I only know what we all just saw, and I may not have the answers for you, but you can ask me or your parents when you go home today." When a kid had asked her why people were jumping out of the windows instead of going down the stairs, she waited a moment before saying "Because that was their only way out." Though I didn't understand it at the time, I'll never forget her sad face when she said it.

I was 22 when 9/11 happened. I still remember every detail of that whole day so well, that I could write a book about it. When I was at the 9/11 memorial in New York, I tried going into their recording booths, where you can record your memories of that day. But I was so choked up thinking about it, that I sat in the booth for about 10 minutes trying to steady myself, but I never could and just had to leave.

This takes me back, I was a senior in hs when this happened and we all thought we were watching a movie. Nothing has been the same since 9/11 happened.

I was like these kids. I was in 11th grade, and ironically I was sitting in American History class and our teacher was from NY. He had stepped out to get coffee and ran back in shouting that a plane had just hit one of the twin towers. He turned on the tv mounted in the corner of the room and we just watched silently in shock until the bell rang for us to go to our next class. Among being shocked, scared, and worried, I was in tears, at the time, because I thought my uncle was in one of the buildings. But he hadn’t told the family that his company had moved out a couple of months before. He told me a few companies had moved out that summer which I always found interesting…

I was only 9 when it happened. Such a bizarre day when you're a kid too young to grasp the enormity of the situation. I remember my parents just being uncomfortably silent, not really sure how to explain a terrorist attack to a child. Went to school that day (west coast) and the teacher was clearly checked out and too distracted to teach. She had us write a letter to our future selves about that day to read when we grew up. Besides that she just let us play board games and stuff all day. Went home, and I remember my parents being glued to the downstairs TV. I went to watch TV upstairs and flipped through the channels and I remember many of them went off the air for the day, just displaying static images saying they had ended their broadcast day early out of respect for the victims. I just turned on the PlayStation and played Crash Bandicoot instead. Incredible how things don't phase you when you're a kid who's too young to fully comprehend them.

I was sitting in my 10th grade English class, in the middle of writing an essay about whether or not money buys happiness. This was in central NJ, about 50 miles from NYC. A boy who always got in trouble all the time just came from the office where he had gone to find out why he got detention again. He asked the teacher why the Pentagon was on fire because he said he saw them watching that on TV in the office. The teacher said she had no idea what he was talking about and nothing was happening. She kept denying that anything was happening. Then a few minutes later the principal came on the intercom and told us. It turns out a boy in our class had a sister that worked at WTC and the teacher didn't want to say anything to upset him, until she knew for sure what was happening. That guy's sister ended up being ok. I heard the plane hit right as she was about to walk into the building, so she didn't go in and was able to get away. We didn't watch any coverage on TV, so we just spent the rest of the day listening to radio coverage in some classes, and being updated by the principal over the intercom. When I left school, I still didn't know that the fourth plane had crashed in PA, so I wasn't sure if it was still flying around somewhere. So I knew if I saw a plane in the sky on the way home, it absolutely wasn't supposed to be there. When I was walking home, I heard the military jets in the distance and I didn't know what they were, so it was kind of scary. The full reality of the situation didn't really hit until I got home and put on the TV and all the New York TV stations that I normally watched were completely knocked out because their antenna was obviously destroyed in the attack.

It sounds cliché but this was truly a day I will never forget. I was in 3rd grade in a Broward County school at the time and the principal relayed to all teachers via the intercom to put on their TVs (similar to the one in this footage). Not sure if I remember correctly but a man in a dark background was saying what was happening without going into too much detail. In hindsight I think they made the right decision not to show us live news footage. Just like in this video the principal announced our names and my mom picked me up. When we arrived home she put on the TV and then let out scream that will forever be etched into my memory. Thank you for sharing this and RIP to all those who lost their lives on that day.

I was in elementary. And I was so pissed off because they literally shut off Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel for a whole two days discussing this topic I tried to go to HBO and I still couldn’t watch regular TV. I’m all the way in Georgia how does New York concern me , I know it sounds bad but that’s how I was thinking as a third grader

I remember being the only kid in my class who’s parent didn’t pick them up. My mother was like tough shit

I was 24 years old at the time of 9/11. I remember sleeping in that day, and the phone ringing woke me at 9 am. My Mother was on the line when I picked up. She started with, "I don't want you to be upset, but..." I hung up with her after about a 5 minute conversation, and turned on the television. I watched footage of the towers falling, and I looked on in horror as I cried "All those people!" 😢 It was such a sad day for our Country. 😮😢😢💖💖💖💯💯

These kids are about my age, 13 or 14 in 2001. Now 36, like me with families, jobs, and homes. Really doesn't feel that long ago but the years seem to have gone by faster in recent years. Eventually, our generation will be the last alive to tell our stories to the ever growing post 9/11 babies.

I was a few blocks away from the towers on 9/11. I was 29 years old and worked in advertising in midtown Manhattan at the time. Took the 6 train downtown for a business meeting sked for 930am. When I got out of the subway I saw the horror. Worst day of my life, aside from family passing away. I lost 4 friends that day. 3 were FDNY. 1 was an electrician. Where I live in still in Queens, NY, street signs are littered with the names of local area people who died in the buildings that day. So for me, I am reminded every day just leaving my house. Sadly most of the country and the younger generation have oved on.

I was a little kid in elementary school and our gym teachers rolled in the box tv 📺 and we all watched and I'll never forget the teachers gasps when the second plane hit. God bless all the families and the brave fire fighters and cops and first responders. God bless the nameless faceless hero's, we will never forget 🇺🇸

Great video. I was in 4th grade and they wouldn't tell us anything but we knew something was wrong because people were being picked up early. Sometimes 2 or more at a time. My mom picked me up around noon and showed me a newspaper in the car then I saw the footage when we got home. I always wished the teachers would've let us watch the news while it was happening.

I was a senior in HS when this happened I was taking me senior pictures and we had been instructed to return to our classes. This was in falls church VA some of the students parents worked at the pentagon so there was a lot of emotions going on at our school. I was just at the twin towers the month before with my parents and sibling as a quick summer trip to NY before school started. :/

This definitely takes me back. I was a senior in high school when 911 happened. This is what every classroom was like every day in my school for about a week after it happened.

9-11 happened when I was just short of my 23rd birthday. I crashed overnight at my mom's place and missed the initial incident because she knew I'd been up late and wanted to let me sleep in. By 10 or 11 am however I was awake and glued to the screen. I'll always remember how I went to get gas, because I had to, and saw hundreds of people who were getting it because they apparently thought it would be their only chance. The lines were a block long and the price had immediately been gouged to five bucks a gallon.

I was a freshman in high school. I was just leaving my 1st period class and walking over to 2nd period. I saw up on the TV what was happening. We spent the rest of the day in every class just watching it on TV. I lived just a couple hours east of Shanksville PA so a lot of people were terrified and thought WWIII was about to happen. Remember it like it was yesterday.

I'll never forget being in high school on 9/11. I'm in NJ but a 15 min drive to NYC. You were able to see the Twin Towers from the roof of my school. I remember the panic, being held in the gym, my teacher in tears watching the news in the classroom. Very surreal.

I remember being in the 7th grade and being in the nurses office getting ready to go home my mom just got to school to take me home and the nurses carted the tv in the room. We all watched as the nurses watched in horror and broke down crying. I couldn’t comprehend what was going on around me, I thought it was a movie I was watching it in real time it was insane. We raised money for the fire department and walked around my neighborhood with candles.

I was on a Destroyer in the middle of the Atlantic in the Caribbean doing a counter narcotics deployment, watching the morning news (we were lucky and had satellite TV underway) and saw the news reports of the first plane hitting, in my division's officer's office, we both saw the second plane hit, I was 22 and hadn't put 2 and 2 together yet. He looked at me and gave me the most serious look I have ever seen in my life and said "we are under attack" I will never ever forget that. I will never forget that day, and the preparations we made to defend ourselves. I will never forget watching people leap to their death on live television. Everything changed after that day.

You never forget things like that. I was in my Senior year in HS, a lot of my friends in class started crying. I was just thankful that none of my family members lived in NYC. I was living with my dad, at the time in Georgia. But most of my family members lived in NY, but not the city thank God.

This was basically my experience. Just sitting in 9th grade home room and the teacher abruptly gets called out, then a minute later he came back wheeling in one of those TVs and he turned on the news. It was a real stressful time to be a teenager. We kept anticipating "anniversary" attacks that never came, there were anthrax scares, all sorts of crazy stuff that basically traumatized the entire country.

I was in 6th grade, wow. I remember the clothing styles, this video is like a time machine 😭

Just seeing how everyone is reacting is really putting me in tears

Wow…..I was in economics class in my senior year of high school and my teacher was new, he had just moved from NY a few months prior. He was super brash and sarcastic but he was cool and we loved him. He cried that day while we watched the 2nd plane hit in class and said he lost many friends in those towers. Hope he’s still around and doing alright…..♥️

I was 24 when this happened, living in Minneapolis (Fridley). I remember how eerie it was not seeing a single passenger jet in the sky over the city for days after. I’ve always loved jumbo jets and would go to the MSP airport and watch them land and take off. But after 9/11 I just couldn’t look at them the same way. How could I? They were used as weapons against us in the worst way, a way that was completely unimaginable and incomprehensible before that day. I had to fly out of state for a wedding in September of 2002. I purposely chose to fly on the one year anniversary as a middle finger to the terrorists. I’m so glad i did. It helped get rid of the fear and some of the pain I was carrying from that awful day. It was a late evening flight, so the plane lights were dimmed and people were settling into the flight. Out of nowhere mid-flight, a woman with the voice of an angel began singing Amazing Grace over the loud speaker. It was a flight attendant. You could feel the magnitude of the situation in every fiber of your being. By the time she finished, there wasn’t a dry eye on that plane. I’ll never forget that feeling.

I was a senior in high school and will never forget when my friend who was supposed to be headed to NYC 🗽 for a wedding that weekend told me a plane ✈️ had hit the World Trade Center in the hallway. Neither of us knew the horror of what was to come. Our world changed that day. Prayers to the victims.

Look at how they are all dressed compared to today. What a different lifetime and world that was.

I remember that day I was 20/21 and I was leaving my boyfriend’s place we had no idea what happened, I turned on my radio on & when I heard I went over to my grandmother’s house who had the tv news on and I couldn’t believe it. It just felt so surreal like you knew it was happening & you knew it was real but. it didn't feel real at the same time. It was a mix of shock & disbelief & awe & fear all at once.

I was in 1st grade & so frightened to go to school that morning, I’ll never forget it….

i remember this whole day. the ride to school . the teachers frantic the students clueless but quiet and listening. it was like being in a movie. that day their wasnt any fighting their wasnt anything on anyones mind besides"is this real?"

I was 11 at the time in the 5th grade and I remember our science teacher rolling into our classroom this same kind of television to show us what has happened. Being so young at the time I couldn't grasp the reality of what has happened that day until my father picked me up from that classroom just moments later. I remember me and him going back to my grandmothers house to continue watching it on tv. Ill never forget seeing that second plane hitting the second tower in real time and as a 11 year old seeing those poor people jump from those buildings, it also was the first time I seen my military father cry. I will never forget that day as long as I live :(

Wow thank you for this footage.

Outside of my father passing years prior and a couple of other family members passing 911 would be ranked one of my top most darkest days of my life. I was 20 years old and fully aware of what I was watching. Everybody was paused and glued to the TV for days unless you were at work or sleep.

The one day every kid in the country got to leave school early...... and not a single kid was happy about it.

My mom was a freshman in HS at the time. I believe she said her class played the news all day as well. Having been born just a couple years afterwards, I can't imagine what that day was like. I think people who remember this day, and those who don't have very different ideas of what 9/11 represents. Watching these videos and reading these comments at least gives me a sense of how terrifying it must have been. I can't imagine.

I was 6 and in first grade at the time. The only thing I remember was the teacher turning on the tv for probably a couple of minutes and then turning it off. It's weird because there are memories I still have of kindergarten, but the day of 9/11 I don't recall at all. I think the adults around me at the time did a good job of staying composed so for me the day just seemed like any other.

I was a Sophmore in high school in my "college writing" class. My school had thousands of students and I'll never forget the principal calling groups of names every 30 minutes for parents who had come to pick them up

One thing I remember so vividly that day was how quiet it was, anywhere you went in public. I had to go out to Burlington Coat Factory in Dayton, Ohio that evening and pick up a suit for our son, who was going to be the ring bearer in a wedding later that week. Everyone was walking around in a quiet daze. I believe we were all in shock! The lines at the gas stations were so long too.

Thank you for sharing. I worked in an elementary school and experienced the same.

I've got a sinking feeling that we're going to be seeing scenes like this again, and soon.

This was my senior year in High School. Everything changed that day in a span of an hour. Passing though first and second period, I heard that planes hit the Twin Towers. We had an assignment in second period to do look up information on travel and the moment we started, we were informed online that no flights would be taking place though whatever website it was. Every afterschool activity was shut down. We had football practice canceled. Our team was 3-7 that year but we never had one person give up. Every one of us wanted to still be out on that field, no matter what the record said. The main thing that stuck with me that day was one of our football coaches also taught my next class on government. Our head football coach at the time told us that the teacher/coach of the government class had a brother who worked near there. If anyone was scared to death that day it was that man. I never found out what happened, but seeing how they never were missing from school all year, everything was at least fine. But the horror of that day lives on for me forever. 22 years later, I won't forget what happened. It's impossible for me to forget what the class of 2002 saw that faithful September morning.

I was in a 9th grade computer class when a teacher walking the hallways passed a note to my computer teacher, told us to stop what we were doing and explained what occurred. It didn't really hit me until I got home from school because my school did not allow us to watch any TV coverage. I was pretty much glued to the TV when I came home.

I was in high school, sophomore year. The school year was still pretty new. It was a beautiful sunny day, and everyone was in a good mood. In fact, if my teacher had not been in a good mood and let us watch TV the last 20 minutes of class, we would have not known as soon as we did. People thought it was WWWIII, and parents were signing their kids out of school. It was crazy. The students and the teachers were just glued on the TV all day.

That's strange. When September 11th accorded, we were all sent home from school for safety.

I was 15 and just started by second year of high school in Central NJ. I was 50 minutes south of NYC and this reminded me of what the attendance office looked like. There were crowds of kids trying to get in touch with their parents- what a scene it was

I was 10 when 9/11 happened and i still remember watching the news at school. So sad what happened that and we will never forget. It was truly a sad day for America.

I was in high school when this happened. Everyone went home. It wasn’t an official dismissal until hours later when they realized 70% of the school emptied out regardless

Look how well behaved the students are. That was only 20 years ago.

1:34 80's, 90's, and 00's high school in a nutshell right there with the cart, projector, and VCR!

I had just started 7th grade, and news of the the first plane interrupted the music playing over the school bus radio. When I arrived at school I ran staight to the library because I knew the librarian always had the world news on the television. I'll always remember where I stood as I watched the 2nd plane come into view... Our classrooms were very much the same in rural MN that day.

I was in kindergarten when this happened. They ended bringing the entire school into the lunchroom right after the first tower was hit, and they put the news on all the tv’s in there and we just stared at it. They ended up canceling school altogether that day. Shortly after getting home my mom and I watched on the news as the second tower was hit, and then eventually the collapse of both towers, and my mom was on the phone pacing around frantic (I believe she was on the phone with my dad). Half my family is from NYC, and my great grandma lived only a block or 2 away from ground zero, so it was a very stressful day for my family. I can legitimately still remember the EXACT feelings I felt as I watched that utter destruction unfold, ESPECIALLY when the towers came down and the news reporters were yelling. Absolutely unforgettable and awful feelings.

Great footage. I enjoyed it. Never forget. God bless the victims. And their families. I like that these videos show how 9/11 unfolded in different ways. Seeing how people reacted. Everyone just staring at the tv. Figuring out what is going on. Keep up the good work 😎😎

I vividly remember 9/11. I was in 3rd grade. My principal came over the intercom and said "okay its time to turn the....." and trailed off as the first tower fell...there are many moments I'll remember for the rest of my life, and his announcement will be one of them.

I remember watching the news live the same in classroom. Only I was in 5th grade. We saw the second plane hit the tower live. It was crazy

I didn't have a tv or listen to morning radio back then. I didn't know what happened until I walked into my local bank around 11a.m. and saw that they had a tv on tuned to CNN. I thought that was odd and how quiet it was. No one was talking. I asked the bank manager why was it so quiet. She lead me over to the tv and said, "just watch." In one minute I knew that the world had changed, and not for the better.

6th grade, I was 11. We were given coloring sheets and the teacher turned on the radio and that was our day. It was very surreal…and a start of some serious trauma for a lot of our generation.

My heart beats watching this I was way too I have no memory or didn't I even exist yet when this happened, I could only rely on my parents for their experiences here in Raleigh. But my heart is beating watching this. Especially hearing the intercom that sorta jarred me, a part of me is glad I wasn't around when this happened and my friends were either too little or weren't born yet, I can only imagine what it felt like. But this video makes me feel like I was in that classroom I'm sure there was a lot of PTSD, from that day. Even people who didn't lose loved ones and were in other parts of the country I bet it was traumatic.

I was in 6th grade English class, I remember we all at first thought it was funny everyone kept getting called for early dismissal for no apparent reason. It was about 10 minutes later my mom was walking into the classroom to get me, by noon the whole school was closed. It was very surreal being 10 and watching this all unfold. I still remember everything I did that day, what I ate, saw, said everything.

My generation. I was a junior. Wanted to stay home so badly but my parents didn’t want me watching the news, wanted my mind on something else me. The campus was silent, we were walking zombies. Couldn’t believe what was happening. For months the Fresno Bee dropped off a literal pile of newspapers in front of the school office for us to read. That was incredible. I’ll never forget it.

I was in 7th grade at the time, and there were several of my classmates that had ties to ppl in nyc, and it was a very somber day for many. I always feel like it's the day we lost any type of innocence growing up. Ever since nothing has felt quite the same... idk, maybe just me, though

I was 12 years old and I was in math class. My teacher turned it on TV for us. All I remember is people jumping out of the building and committing suicide, and not knowing what it was. We were dismissed early, it really freaked everyone out for a long time. I remember this was the day that we realized that we were not as protected by our oceans as we previously believed.

I was in 2nd grade when 9/11 happened. I still remember watching the news just like this at school. When I got home my mom gave me the biggest hug ever.

I too was in a classroom during 911, i was in middle school in the 7th grade, I still remember it like it was yesterday. We were reading Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone as a class of which we later went to the theater as a field trip to watch the Harry Potter first movie and i remember that 911 was cemented into my memory as one of the most important days of my life.

My mom was in high school when this happened so I can see what her experience was like when it happened

Wow this is so crazy i was in 10th grade at the time and it looked exactly like this everyone glued to the TV in the room then I remember so many of us walked out & walked home being scared confused, also there was a girl that ran to the office crying hysterically because her father worked in the Pentagon & she wanted to use the phone to check on him. It was such a sad day and everything felt so slow

I was 14 on 9/11. Our young lives had already changed with the Columbine High School shooting two years prior...but 9/11 changed EVERYTHING and hasn't been like the past since.

My mom was a teacher, and she remembers what happened. A lot of kids left because their parents would come and pick them up. She still did business as usual though, because she didn’t want the kids to be completely stressed

I was 15 years old, i just walked into my of all classes, my American history class. When i walked in it was on the tv, one of my classmates ran up to me and said two plans hit the world trade center. I remember my teachers running back and forth between classrooms, all us glued to the tv, and watched the first tower fall. Something i will never forget

I was in 1st grade when this happened. My Brother was in 6th grade in the same school. I remember our teacher running in and out of the classroom, a lot. We heard her and several other teachers talking in the hallway and they had a TV set up in the hallway, but couldn't hear enough to know what happened since it was a good distance away from our classroom. Finally, we asked her what happened and she told us what had happened. It was also my Dad's 41st Birthday, and they were literally singing Happy Birthday to my Dad at work when the first plane hit and the TV was on behind him, unfortunately. Wasn't long after that, I heard an announcement over the school PA system calling my and my Brother's names that our Dad was there to pick us up. We were the first to leave before all of the other students because my Dad worked so close. A day I will never forget, like so many of us. To this day, my Dad refuses to celebrate his Birthday on September 11th.

It is sad to say that some of these students lost loved ones that day

life was so simple... then we lost it....

Must’ve been extra scary for the guys because they thought they were about to be drafted. I mean, I would’ve joined anyway if I was of age then

I was in elementary school at the time and they put us into tornado shelter spots and basically said a bunch of planes were captured and flown into the world trade center and turned on the radio about it. I didn't know what the WTC was at all. I didn't understand any of it and, in retrospect, the school ended up issuing apologies to the parents for basically laying all this on a bunch of little kids. I was from a rural town and barely knew anything about NYC. I just remember screaming and begging my teacher to know where the plane was taken from because my dad was supposed to be flying back from Germany that day. I was a complete mess because he had taken off earlier that morning and he had no cell phone service for his work phone. If I remember right, they actually had taken off around the time it had happened, so they turned around and he landed back in Germany pretty soon after. Watching anything about 9/11 makes me think about that. I just remember screaming and having them call my mom and me begging to know if dad was dead and her having to reassure me she had called him and he was fine.

I had already graduated earlier that year, but was glued to the TV at home

The 21st century truly began this day

I was in my first year in college 19 years old... I will never forget that day

This was my first day of college. It’s seared into my head until the day I die.

I was 14 in freshman year in telecommunications class in NJ! A man walked in and whispered to the teacher and his jaw dropped. Once the TV came on we were all shocked. It was the most beautiful still day. Everyone says that and they are so right. It was absolutely beautiful that day. Very strange. By the end of the day they let us leave early because people had family working in Manhattan and there was so many rumors that they would hit the power plant in Waretown NJ.

at the time i lived a few miles from barksdale air force base where bush gave that first big address. it was absolutely insane how much military all of a sudden crowded the streets. like a war....thank goodness i havent had to see that again...well..yet.

I am British, I was in Primary School (ages 6-11) at the time. I remember us being in class, and another teacher came into our classroom saying there was an assembly being held immediately. Our teachers face was a picture, she looked shocked and we were all asking her what was going on - she didn't know (emails in classrooms weren't a thing, mobile phones weren't as they are now so wouldn't have been 'mass-texted' as a warning, etc). We lined up in the hallways, excited that we were out of Geography, all the classes came out and everyone was buzzing with excitement. Another teacher ran up to ours (they were best friends outside of school) and they were whispering to each other. Our teachers face DROPPED and she covered her mouth. Everyone asked again ''What's happened?'' and she said ''Something really really bad, it's not with us (as in the school)'' We walked into the assembly hall, we had a massive TV (similar to what you will find at sports pubs etc) playing BBC news. Live coverage of the Towers was being shown. We thought it was a film at first, but then we quickly realised it wasn't. Everyone was dead silent. Our deputy headteacher muted the TV for a minute and said ''I'm sure you're all wondering why I have brought you all here. This right now, is happening LIVE in New York City. Those towers were full of people, either at work or browsing the shops inside. A passenger plane has flown into the building. Those people are not going home to their families tonight. The world is a cruel place, this is a historical moment and with how things are in the world right now - this may have not been an accident.'' I remember that speech, as deep as it were, it was everyone's first 'real awakening' of the 'real world' and how cruel it is. All of us, aged between 6-11, saw the second plane hit the tower.

They all look emotionless

holy fuck. this is amazing footage. i had graduated hs that year, and was about to start college. i remember that horrible day like it was yesterday. it never fades from my memory

Wow. I was 14 years old and was in my gym locker room. We did nothing but watch the TVs in all of our classes that day.

There are a lot of young kids now who need to see this in order to understand the mindset of those who were alive to witness the events first hand.

this is basically a mirror image of my 8th grade class experience that day. I remember our history teacher explaining what al queda was etc...crazy and an experience ill never forget