How old were you on 9/11? What do you remember about it?

It is interesting to hear about 9-11 from a child's perspective.

I am glad you dad is OK. I am sad that kids had to learn about the nature of evil so early.

Don't ever forget.

I was 16 and in 11th grade. I was sitting in my World Civilization class when I could hear someone shouting in the hallway. The door flung open and it was the biology teacher. She was shouting "They've bombed Washington! They've bombed Washington!" We all just looked at her because we had no clue what she was talking about. Then she said "They've bombed Washington and there's something burning on the whitehouse lawn!" I don't know where she got her information about a "bombing" but the World Civ teacher turned on the news. We sat and watched for the rest of the time... Although honestly, a lot of students were not paying attention. They were just glad to be getting out of work. Parents were picking up their kids left and right. The rest of the day, all we did in each of our classes was to sit and watch the news. Some of our teachers were in shock. My English teacher just didn't give a crap what we did. We could have told her we were gonna do anything and she just held her hand up to her heart all day and had this worried look on her face. The price of gasoline went way up and gas stations were limiting people to only $20 worth of gas at a time. The lines at the pumps were really long. That's all anyone was talking about, was the terrorist attacks and Osama bin Laden. We had an assembly at our school the next day. I was in JROTC and was the color guard commander so we had a very big part in it. I remember the vice principal being VERY angry and shouting that we are Americans and that we are NOT going to stand for this kind of thing. Shew... it was crazy. That was one of the weirdest times in my life.

I was about 11 and yeah, my teachers were also acting really weird. When they actually told me what was going on, it didn't really hit me yet that this was a big national tragedy...I'm not sure why. Maybe because I was only 11 at the time and I wasn't aware of things like these were bad, or I probably wasn't aware of terrorism. I was wondering why people were making a huge deal out of a plan crash...since it happens occasionally. But then I realized once I got home how serious it was, and how many people lost their loved ones. I couldn't ever imagine losing one of my parents in an horrible accident like that, and I'm thankful for it. God bless!

I was like in second or third grade.

I was homeschooled at the time, and my grandfather was installing a ceiling fan in our living room, watching the news when the media started going wild and we were watching as they were showing us footage of the planes crashing into the towers and helicopters flying overhead.

I was too young to really understand how much of a disaster it was. I remember the person in the helicopter kept coughing and saying it was so hard to breath because of all the smoke.

I also remember that the woman on the news said that people were jumping out of windows and that scared me because I knew those were huge buildings and people were going to die when they hit the ground..

I was eight years old at the time. I was sharing the master bedroom with my older brother because my parents moved to a bigger room downstairs. It was morning and I came in and my brother and sisters were listening to the radio, saying that a plane crashed into the world trade centre. I was young at the time and didn't really understand what was going on. I didn't know anything about terrorism at the time. Now I'm fully aware of what happened that day.

I was in the 4th grade as well remember watching a bit of it on news before school and when i got there we watched some of it in class until someone thought it would be funny to make plane crash sounds when they hit the buildings. so teacher shut it off and it was like a normal day from there didnt even realize the towers fell tell i got home

First, let's skip the age part....tee, hee! I was on the other end of your version....I was dealing with elementary school students arriving for the day, I was told to turn on the TV, where I saw the first plane sticking out of the building. I thought how horrible that was....then I watched the second plane hit, and I KNEW something was terribly wrong. I looked, wide eyed at other adults. The bell rang. We had to turn off the TV and go out and greet the students with smiles on our faces. I heard one student come through the hall saying something about hearing that something bad had happened. Another student said that it was Hillary Clinton being arrested for drunk driving....that made me smile about how rumors get started. We were not allowed to speak to the students about what happened...we could not have TV's or radios on around students. The phone lines were jammed, so we couldn't call our families. We had to smile through the day while students were removed one by one from the classes....the other students knowing that something was going on. I was very concerned about what my own children were experiencing.

I was about nine, I remember exactly where I was when it happened. I was early in the morning , and i was sitting in the car outside my school with my mom( she was subbing that day at my school), we were eating breakfast and listening to the radio, when the announcers where joking around and taking calls when all of a sudden one of the them yells "OMG an airplane just hit the towers" ( we lived in NJ so all the radio stations where broadcasting from NY) we thought they were playing because of his tone of voice and their previous jokes they said on air.My mom said that was inappropiate, and that they shouldn't joke around that way, and turned off the radio. Then we went in to my school, i'd say it was about 30 minutes into class when all the kids I knew were being sent home early because their parents came to get them. As the day wore on more and more children were being picked up, meanwhile we still had no idea what was going on, so I met up with my mom who was substituting for one of my classes that day during one the class switches, tons of parents and teachers and kids where running up and down the halls, getting their belongings , meeting up with their loved ones, my mom and I where confused, so we stopped one of the people who was bolting down the hallway to wherever he was going, to ask what was going on, he verifyed exactly what the announcer had said that morning in the car. We were shocked, and extremely scared, since we lived in the tri-state area alot of the kids who attended my school had parents or loved one's who worked in NY.

I was 8th grade and they locked down the school and told us to stay in the class we was in or stay in our team area. In one class we was looking at the news online to see what was going on, and the other class had the tv on looking at what happened. And that day just broke my heart that some many people lost their lives and families lost their loved ones.

I think I was 11. It was so scary and sad. I couldn't stop watching the planes go into the towers, I cried a lot because I felt so bad for of course all the people in the towers but mostly for the poor firefighters who risked their lives saving people:( ........so sad.