Writer's Block: 9/11
Sep. 11th, 2011 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwaterspark[Error: unknown template qotd]I remember 9/11 mostly for how important it was in hindsight, rather than at the time, to me.
I was in fifth grade. My sister and I were both in afterschool, and we noticed that a lot of the other kids were leaving early. I wondered why; had there been an early release day and no one told us? We were the last to be picked up by my mom. In the car, she told us that a few airplanes had crashed.
I was nine years old at the time; I didn't quite get the significance. I just thought, "Oh, okay, I guess that's sad," and didn't really think about it afterwards, until the next day everyone was talking about it.
I remember that my dad was actually in Philadelphia during 9/11, and that he was stranded there for a few days since the airlines had been paralyzed; eventually he had to take the train home.
That's pretty much all I remember. At some point (I don't remember whether this was during 2001 or some later year) I remember thinking it kind of sucked that my birthday was a week and a half after 9/11, but then later I thought it would have been worse if my birthday was actually on 9/11.
I was in fifth grade. My sister and I were both in afterschool, and we noticed that a lot of the other kids were leaving early. I wondered why; had there been an early release day and no one told us? We were the last to be picked up by my mom. In the car, she told us that a few airplanes had crashed.
I was nine years old at the time; I didn't quite get the significance. I just thought, "Oh, okay, I guess that's sad," and didn't really think about it afterwards, until the next day everyone was talking about it.
I remember that my dad was actually in Philadelphia during 9/11, and that he was stranded there for a few days since the airlines had been paralyzed; eventually he had to take the train home.
That's pretty much all I remember. At some point (I don't remember whether this was during 2001 or some later year) I remember thinking it kind of sucked that my birthday was a week and a half after 9/11, but then later I thought it would have been worse if my birthday was actually on 9/11.
