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i cant handle this 911 stuff
i cant make it on my mac but it's the crying face. for reals.
i'm watching dateline and bawling.
i think it's different now... i was 14 when it happened... didn't really understand but now... 
so sad.
Re: i cant handle this 911 stuff
wait- not that it didnt matter to me a few years ago as i was older- i just feel like at the 10 year it hits harder.
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I was 10 when it happened and I didn't really understand it at first. I did bawl. Now, I can't even read anything about it without sobbing. I'm not a crier either. If I read family survivor stories, I cry.
Glamour has a section dedicated to family of lost ones who wrote letters and I cried from beginning to end.
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I was in college, my senior year - so I was about 20, almost 21.
I remember me and my girlfriends gathered in our living room suite (dorm room) watcihng TV and calling family members since we were all fairly local (none from NYC itself, but all within an hour or so who had faimly/friends working around there). We all felt a sense of "OMG what can we/should we do"
I was addicted to the specials and documentaries that came out after - I still am. It too bothers me more now that I have a family of my own but I do remember feeling devastated then.
Its very hard to watch this year. Infact, I'm avoiding a lot of the specials on TV. It came on one channel when my 3 yr old was in the room and he pointed at the TV and said "what's that?" I just said, it was a terrible fire and shut the TV off.
I'm from NJ and I knew some people who died at the WTC (a guy 2 yrs ahead of me in HS, my dad's cousin, and my mom's cousin)
I was 22 and at work at my first job- my mom called me and said that my Dad (who was a salesman) wasn't in Manhattan that day and he's fine, I didn't even know what she was talking about. Then I went down the hall to a TV in the breakroom and saw what was going on. Then myself and some co-workers went to the top floor of the building I worked at and watched from there. (It was a very clear day and the skyline was visible, which usually doesn't happen so well during the day with haze, etc.- At night you can see the lights but this day you saw the skyline.)
I didn't see the planes hit the building, we started watching afterwards and saw the fires, but I did see them fall down. It was terrible. I'll never forget the smoke that came straight up and then billowed south. You saw it for a few days because the sky was so clear. I also remember not having cell phone service for a good week.
But anyway, I think the absolute worst was going to church the Saturday night after it happens and a few pews head of me was the family of the guy who was 2 yrs ahead of me in HS. He was at work at the WTC. The family just cried and cried at church, it was so awful- his sobs coming from his mother and father- I'll never forget it. Truly awful.
You are absolutely correct though, it hits you differently when you have a family and when you are older. Even though I was an "adult" I was 22- not married, no kids. Now as a mom I just think of the whole thing and it is different.
Sorry if I turned this into a "where were you post"
it's okay. i think everyone remembers what they were doing at that time. i was in algebra 1B as a freshman in hs. crazy to think about it now as i have a 14 year old sister and i know she wouldnt be able to understand either. she updated her fb when bin laden was killed but i knew she had no idea what she was talking about.
Don't be sorry. There's a 'where were you post' on PCE here. Feel free to post if it's helpful.
Yup, I was bawling too. I don't have any personal ties to anyone who died, but the whole thing is still overwhelming to think about at times. I was 25, so I "got" it, but it was still just so unbelievable.
I was 19 and in college.
I think the 10 year anniversary was hard because people thought we would "move on" and things would be "better" by now. Wrong. I also think that A LOT of people (I beleive it is how our country operates) want to make a negative into a positive. Stop. There is NO WAY 911 can be made into a positive. People are allowed to be sad. I never tried to justify my feelings about the day.