Do you remember 9/11?

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

I was 12 and in grade 7 back in 2001. I remember that day pretty well. For some weird reason, my school did not send the kids home, and didn't even tell the kids about the terror attacks. My friend who went home for lunch, mentioned that 2 planes had crashed into the twin towers, I thought he was lying or it was just two small cessna type planes. My friend did not elaborate any further, and I didn't ask any questions.

I didn't actually find about it until I got home from school, and turned on the TV and saw what had happened. Most other schools told the kids what had happened, and some even sent them home early as it would be such a shocking event for elementary school kids.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Yes. My sister watched it unfold in front of her eyes from her office in the Financial District, while an office mate and her tried pulling a sobbing puddle of their co-worker off the floor when the first tower, where her fiance worked, collapsed (he called soon afterwards to say he got out all right).

My long term girlfriend was working in the city government office in Alexandria.

My father regularly flew USAir flights out of Pittsburgh for business. It took some time before I learned the plane that crashed in Western PA wasn't coming in or out of Pittsburgh.

I was working in a government office skyscraper, albeit in Ohio.

The stress was.....quite bad. And then I heard 3000 dead.

Though I was alive and have vivid memories of 9/11 myself, it's hard to watch the footage and know that only (as awful as it was) 3,000 people died. In the hours after the attack I remember people thinking tens of thousands were dead.

Yea we were all very lucky that the first plane hit too early for most of the 9-5 crowd to be in the first tower that was hit.  The first tower was also hit relatively high up, which gave most people a chance to escape. I do remember initial sketchy tabloid reports that said up too 50,000 people could have died.