5 years ago today !

[AGonzalez]

Five years ago today I was sitting in my office probably doing nothing, possibly doing the books but I doubt it. I was probably planning a trip to Tucson to go shopping or do something.

9/11 - I got up that morning, fed the horses, got dressed and went to drive to school. I lived in Arizona so it had already happened by the time I was dressed that morning, I heard the news on the radio on the way to school.

 

[crazy_paws]

9/11 I heard about in my high school French class. The teacher turned on the television, and we all watched as it unfolded.

 

[Sweet72947]

5 years ago today, well that would be a Sunday, 2005, so I was probably resting from a day at FOHA, I guess.

9/11 - I was sleeping when it all happened. my mom came home around 10am, and I woke up, and she told me what happened. After that, I can't quite remember what happened, exactly. I do remember going to my friend's house and watching the news with her. But I also remember something about going to work. Its all a bit fuzzy.

 

[darkchild16]

thats tight Katrina was a Sunday for some reason I was thinking it was Monday but I must have stayed home from hockey. I know I stayed home from something important I remember that much.

 

[smkie]

Being a whole lot sicker than I am now. It took a barn full of antibiotics to get where I am now. Not out of the woods yet, but back to thinking there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Victor was a year old, Mary was with me, and Pepper hadn't come yet. Living in my tiny hobbit hole house with Hyia is where we were 5 years ago. I had just started working with clay at the guild.

9 11 I was coming to braid up Hyia's hair and get her off to school. I walked in the door and Mom asked me if I had heard what had happened.

 

[Miakoda]

I worked that Sunday. Then early Monday morning a tree came crashing down on my home killing 5 of my dogs (4 were in crates...1 was on the bed). Life changed that day.

But I've moved one. I've had to move on. Life moved on.

And honestly? I'm tired of hearing about Hurricane Katrina. People need to realize that people are tired of them mooching for the past 5 years. Put your big boy/big girl undies on and get on with it. Don't go on CNN crying and bitching and moaning about how you're living in a FEMA trailer 5 years later. At this point, it is no one's fault but your own.

 

[skittledoo]

I remember 9/11 like it was just yesterday. I was in the 10th grade and sitting in my math class which was my first class of the day. I just remember getting this dreaded feeling when I heard about it. By the time I got to my next class which was humanities the teacher turned on the TV and we watched the second plane hit live on television. Shortly after we heard word that a plane had crashed into the pentagon. My Grandpa worked in the pentagon so naturally that's when I really started to freak out. My mom ended up calling me out of school and I went home for the day. My cousin who was living with us at the time (I hate his guts, but for a really good reasons) was fast asleep in his bed by the time I got home because he had stayed home at the time. I tried waking him up to tell him what had happened and he just responded with, "so what, doesn't affect me any" and then rolled back to bed.


I have another moment that really sticks with me, but it was less than 5 years ago. We had a bad storm in Northern VA and I was out taking photos at one of the battlefields with my friend Shanna when a tornado touched down. We were out on one of the walking paths on the battlefield and we had heard this loud siren followed by words that we had a difficult time making out. We came out of the walkway into the clearing and finally made it out... it was a tornado siren. We started running to Shanna's car and right before we got to the car we saw a tornado touch down in the battlefield. It wasn't a super large one or anything, but it was a tornado nonetheless.

Shanna drove as fast as she could to get out of the parking lot and onto the street... It was so windy that we couldn't hardly see out of her windshield so we had to turn off the road into a parking lot/strip mall area... almost got plowed into by a semi while we were sitting in her car in the parking lot because the driver of the semi lost control when he pulled into the parking lot to try and escape the storm. When it calmed for a moment we ran to this restaurant called five guys. Everyone in the restaurant was huddled up in a corner trying to stay safe and we banged on the door for them to let us in. One of the workers came and unlocked the door and said Shanna and I could come in, but that we had to leave Bamm outside... of course there was no way in hell I was going to leave my dog outside so I stayed outside in the bad weather with the tornado siren still going off. Meanwhile Shanna was inside yelling at the workers to try and get them to let Bamm in. They finally gave in and let him inside and we waited it out in the restaurant. I've never been so freaked out in my entire life.

 

[Whisper]

I remember 9/11 pretty clearly. I was up early in the morning getting ready to go to school in my fourth grade class.
I was shocked and saddened at the footage and the deaths, but being 9 at that time, I didn't fully understand the magnitude of the tragedy.
The news was on and my mom was staring at the TV just horrified. That day I was one of only half of the the class that showed up for school. We didn't do much that day in class.

It's hard to believe it's been almost a decade.

 

[iwantmypup]

Five years ago today...
we had JUST moved to San Francisco a few months ago and I think I started school a few days back. ugh, that year was probably the worst school year ever.

9/11.. I was in the 1st grade I think and getting ready for school. My mom always has the news on in the morning so I remember walking by the TV and seeing the first plane go down. They didn't show it to us in school, but everyone knew what had happened. It was a weird day because everyone was just so confused and sad.

I'm not sure if I remember any other major event.
I do remember a long time ago how we had a bunch of fires though. There is a 'fire season' here, but I remember this year being really bad. My uncle and aunt who lived more inland were RIGHT next to the fires, so everyone was worrying and hoping that they would be okay. I remember driving home from their house one day and it starting to get bad, and just a day later it being horrible where we live, which is right by the water. I had to be pulled out of the school for the week and I couldn't be outside at all. I remember my mom and I going EVERYWHERE looking for some masks and they were all sold out. When there are fires here, it's horrible, but I don't know why, but I remember this time being the worst, because I was inside for DAYS and it seemed like the air outside was never getting better.

 

[~Jessie~]

On 9/11 I had stayed home from school sick. I was laying in my bed, watching TV, and all of a sudden some announcement and footage came on. I ended up calling my mom while she was at work to ask if she had heard what happened. It was so strange.

Five years ago today? Not sure of exactly what I was doing on this exact day, but I had just moved back up to college after summer vacation... I was a junior. It was the first year that Ian and I had our own two bedroom apartment to ourselves.

The year before that we had to go up to TN to get away from the hurricanes... our apartment was evacuated, as well as all of the dorms on campus... so Ian and I decided to try to make it as much of a vacation as we could (our parents lived down South and were waiting it out in the hurricanes which we didn't want a part of).

With Katrina coming, we were happy that it wasn't hitting us... the results were devastating to New Orleans, though. I just remember being terrified of hurricanes, since it seemed they wouldn't let up anywhere.

 

[Jules]

5 years ago from today? I had just been married for a month and were packing to move to North Carolina where my husband got stationed. Then getting to know the NC beaches and getting to like it. Him preparing for a deployment and never being home. It was a tough year that surely changed my life forever.

 

[darkchild16]

thats tight Katrina was a Sunday for some reason I was thinking it was Monday but I must have stayed home from hockey. I know I stayed home from something important I remember that much.

Ok i KNEW it was Monday I went back and checked and sure enough. I remember what I was doing but I cant remember the day of the week

 

[CaliTerp07]

5 years ago I was starting my sophomore year of college. I had moved back to campus a little early and set up my dorm room with my roommate. I was getting to know all the new girls on the floor and relishing knowing my way around campus and feeling at home.

 

[Lilavati]

I would have been starting my second year of law school . . . from the date, probably doing on campus interviews before classes started, looking for a job for my 2L summer.

 

[Dakotah]

I don't remember where I was when Katrina hit, but when 9/11 hit I was in 5th grade in Mrs. Duke's class. I cried so much. Not to much longer after 9/11 happened, just about every school in the county wanted everyone in 4-5th grade to write "What America Means To Me" essay, I won out of my school and every school in the county that did it. I think writing that essay made kids, even that young, realize what America was (in a sense) & how we felt about what happened.

 

[GipsyQueen]

I don't remember where I was when Katrina hit, but when 9/11 hit I was in 5th grade in Mrs. Duke's class. I cried so much. Not to much longer after 9/11 happened, just about every school in the county wanted everyone in 4-5th grade to write "What America Means To Me" essay, I won out of my school and every school in the county that did it. I think writing that essay made kids, even that young, realize what America was (in a sense) & how we felt about what happened.

We had to write that same essay. I remember crying because I didn't know what to write, because back then America didn't really mean much for me. We had been living there for 5 years but back then, I didn't really know how much I liked living there.