September 11, 2001.......... Remember?

Today is September 11, 2009. Eight years ago today I was a junior in high school, bored out of my mind, sitting in a class that I don’t remember learning anything from. As I recollect, I can still feel the cold hard seat against my bum and can very much so taste the Flaming Hot Cheeto’s that I was sneaking and eating. (Students had set up black market candy stores, that’s another post about entrepreneurship :) As I drifted in and out of a good nod, my assistant principal announced on the loud speaker that “an airplane had been flown into one of the World Trade Center s’ Towers, keep their families in your prayers.” WTF? As if sataan himself was teaching the class, my professor looked up and said, “Who cares, back to the lesson.”
For those of us who experienced 9/11 outside of New York, at first it seemed as if this was really JUST a STORY on television. As if watching something so horrible, yet being able to turn it off whenever I’d had enough.

It was not until a second airplane flew into the second tower that my professor realized that SHE cared. Mass panic assumed in the following hours. Parents were being called, and students were rapidly evacuating the school. Some schools were put on ‘lock down’ for hours until there was some sort of resolve. There are a couple of moments in MY history that I will never forget where/what I was doing when: 1) Michael Jackson’s death. 2) September 11, 2001. 3) Michael Jackson’s verdict was read. 4) Barak Obama elected was elected the first African-American President of the United States. You know what time it is, shout it out! Share with us moments in YOUR history that you will never forget the place and time!