9/3/2011 c1 Sad
The attack made me an orphan

1/19/2011 c1 5Seven of Clubs
That was an amazing story. All I remember was a really weird day, because all of a sudden, everyone's parents were suddenly at the school and picking us up. I was in kindergarten I think...

But the saddest and creepiest part of that day I think was that because it was so sudden, everyone was using their phone, so it overloaded the towers and the satellites. They can't hold that many calls at once, so everything got put on backorder to say. So even after everyone who had tried to call died, the satellites had to finish the job and send all the messages hat were collected. Families were getting calls from their already deceased relatives. One of my relatives got one of those calls. She said it was the saddest, scariest, weirdest, and freaky thing to happen to her.

Now that I put the wet blanket on everything, that was an inspiring? story.

9/28/2010 c1 1Dana Archer
No one in America will ever forget that day. One of the teachers in my school in Mass lost her husband on one of those plains. I, myself, had been enjoying my break time in my Metal Fabrication class when the technical teacher called us into the class room and put on the news. That day is the reason I became a U.S. Marine.

9/19/2010 c1 cmwinner
I'm Canadian, but was living in Florida at the time. I had just finished college and was in my first year of teaching in Miami. I found out at lunch. I had 25 students that year. Normally at the end of the day I still had over half of my class to take to after care at 3:15. That day I had 1. All day my students kept asking me why all their friends were leaving ( I taught 1st grade ) I told them to never mind as their parents would tell them. I went into the teacher's lounge to watch the TV their for a while, as I had no TV at that time ( I went and bought one the next week ) When I finally went home, I sat glued to my radio all night. I love Alan Jackson's song "Where Were you ( When the world stopped turning )" as the second line of the second verse "teaching a class full of innocent kids" is exactly where I was. I am glad to hear your dad ended up not going on that trip, and that he will be there for many more years to come.

9/15/2010 c1 missperi
Very well written. It made me cry. I enjoyed reading it though.

9/15/2010 c1 11softxdxlllxball
I was too young to remember that day... all I can say is reading this made me sob. I remember watching Flight 93 and hearing "Let's Roll" the thought unbearable. Fantastic job as always.

9/15/2010 c1 4Melpomene Lee
If I remember nothing else from my first few years on Earth, I remember 9/11. I was almost six, and I came downstairs one morning to find my mom watching Fox News, and seeing a tower, and airplane and the biggest cloud of black smoke I've ever seen on the tv. I remember someone from Fox news interviewing the wife of someone who was killed in the attacks. I remember realizing that there were people in those towers when the planes hit, and that there were people in the planes, too, who didn't survive. It was my first real idea of the terrible things human beings can do to each other, and I have never forgotten it. I was five. There's things I don't remember from two days ago, but I have never forgotten the horror from nine years ago that shook this country to its core, and I know that as long as I live, I never will. Absolutely amazing, Thalia. You're one of the most brilliant and insightful writers I know of.

~Scout