9/11  − 11 September, 2001

It was 7th grade and I wasn't much of a news follower, so I didn't hear about it until 2nd period. 9am-ish. Home Ec. The room was dark. The teacher wheeled in a tv and turned it to a news station. There was a unanimous "oh my god." The Trade Center towers have been hit by planes and collapsed. There was no class today. The phone lines were packed with kids calling home and making sure their relatives were ok. TVs were on in every classroom. The news just kept showing the same video over and over again. People with no ties to New York (myself included) began to lose interest. I was still curious at lunch, but this was mostly because there was something to watch while eating. It's hard for a middle schooler to care about something a thousand miles away. I know i should be shocked and appalled, but I'm just tired of this. Sorry.

Comments:

kga245 (January 7, 2007. 03:40am)

I don't think it's anything to be ashamed of. Apathy is a perfectly normal reaction to having no control over the outcome of things. When I was in 2nd grade, the Challenger accident happened. Every one of my classmates didn't think it was a big deal during school. But when we got home to our parents, we saw it differently.