Sophomore in High School 2nd period I believe.  Only one or two people in a class had a cell phone at the time so info didn't come in too rapidly.  Principle informed all teachers to keep quiet on the matter and try and ride out the day.  Instead of embracing the opportunity to teach a very important current event as it happened they chose to hide it from us.  By third period enough teachers had disobeyed and changed their lesson plans to us all watching the news.


About six days after 9/11 I pretty much gave up watching mainstream news.  The fear mongering and ratings whoring that was going on started to be too much for me.  There is a south park episode that kind of pokes fun at that a bit.


I look back and wonder if we should have just licked our wounds and rebuilt instead of spending trillions sending millions of soldiers to two separate wars while passing a panic act (patriot act) that allowed the government to spy on its own people.  The damage that caused is far greater than the couple thousand lives lost that day.  We moved too fast after the attack.


I ended up in the army in 2005 because 911 made my patriotism sore (actually I couldn't find a job since construction had dried up at the time).


I think back to the years just after 911 and see a united country behind a goofy president who managed to throw a strike right down the middle at yankee stadium.  I think back to the Chappeles show and don't remember a lot of racial tension.


I remember how surprised I was America had gotten attacked and I think how much that has changed now.  Pulse happened and it was a tragedy but I can't say it surprised me like 911 ever did.

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