> WHAT HAPPENED ON 9/11? Please answer?

WHAT HAPPENED ON 9/11? Please answer?

Posted at: 2015-04-20 
Well there have been volumes written about 9/11 and 1,000's of hours of TV programing devoted to the subject but I guess your most comprehensive coverage will be Yahoo Answers.......I actually believe people ask these questions (13 years old) as somewhat of a practical joke to see how many people waste enormous amount of time explaining something that..well, see first sentence I wrote. Here is one, Who is President Obama, what does he do and what is he President of? People will respond with paragraphs to some teenagers who instead of ringing your door bell and running away find this easier.

There's a 9/11 every year. You've post this nonsense several times, and it has been reported.

the history always know mad mans,3 millions killed because he never find massive destruction weapons.

1) Sorry but I can't tell you your name.

2) I was walking to school that day. It was in the Bay Area in California. I was in nine years old and in third grade and it was cold as hell and my dad was walking with me towards the school bus.

3) I found out about the attacks when the bus driver told my dad to go back to the house and turn on the TV that a terrorist attack occurred in New York City and the Pentagon. That said, I went to the bus and go to school as usual.

4) I was so shocked that something event like occurred in our country and on a large magnitude. I mean, I felt that at the time with the Cold War ending, we were the most powerful nation in the world and no nation, especially a group, can touch us. But 9/11 basically broke that illusion that there were always people who were out to attack us.

5) I remember watching the news in my third-grade teacher's room and they turned on TV to see what's going on. Everyone in my classroom was so shocked and despaired as they glued to the TV to see the WTC being burned up in flames. I remember the clips of the airliners struck two of our towers in the heart of New York City and it was on CNN vividly.

6) Terrorists attacks ARE disgusting and should be for a long time aka murdering innocent people just because of our government's policies or that based on irrational beliefs and total misunderstanding or they are just outright sadistic. Moms, dads, kids, women, elderly, handicapped, etc, had all of their lives lost in the terrorist attack just because the terrorists hated our way of life and as Americans. It's no different than murdering unarmed people for no reason in the streets you are living in or breaking into someone's store to kill people and steal their stuff. Terrorism is not tolerated, period.

7) You can knock out our financial buildings, kill our soldiers, bomb our command and control centers, bomb our warships, blow up civilian populated areas, but you cannot break the foundation of the American heart. That's what made us Americans unique and feel great because we were going to get those who were responsible for the murder of 3,000 American citizens on September 11, 2001. Any true American citizen would gladly resist an enemy invasion as possible as necessary to preserve our homeland.

8) Never underestimate a major threat against your interests and always be on your guard. We should have learned that from Pearl Harbor but we didn't learn from it when 9/11 occurred just because the Cold War was over a decade earlier. As a result, we revived the proactive policy that prevented the Cold War from breaking into World War III and is still applicable in our war of terror today.

Woke up about 8:30 that Tuesday morning. Made some coffee. Turned on the TV. Wondered why this seemingly localized story kept going on and on. (At first, it was assumed a private plane had accidentally struck the Twin Towers.). Then wondered: New York & Washington - is WW3 starting?

I found out from the radio while driving my 13-year-old to school. It did not make sense to me, because nobody had declared war, and the attacks were not even carried out by any nation. I had heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; they gave no warning, but the bombers did represent a real country, and they bombed a military installation, not the general public. So pretty soon the 9/11 attackers were being compared unfavorably with the vicious government that ruled Japan during WWII. Wow!

The next day the local Mall was closed, and there were no planes in the sky. In some cities, though, there were military planes flying. People who had flown to other cities before the attacks, could not fly home for some time, and had to find other ways to get home, like renting cars.

I remember that morning hearing that the President was not in the White house, nor was the VP, but they did not say where he was! That seemed logical to me under the circumstances.

I made my daughter watch the President's speech in the evening, because, I said, it was History. She complied, but she was so distressed by the thought of planes crashing into buildings, that she took out MY pet cockroach, which she had never touched before, and played with it during the speech. I guess she thought a cockroach could distract her from the horror. The President's speech was pretty good, but not great; I suppose speech-writing was not his first priority that day.

A kindergarten kid I knew learned the name of our country at school: "It's the United States!" and they had gatherings around the flag at the elementary school.

I bought pagers [not cell phones] for my daughter and me so that we could always communicate. But we lost interest in them in a few weeks.

Come October 31, some parents were afraid there could be terror attacks on kids trick-or-treating; but I said that was nuts. They would want to attack where people were gathered in large numbers, not scattered all over the city going house-to-house. lol.

Everybody went out to buy US flags, but of course they soon sold out. The local Dollar Store run by Pakistani immigrants managed to obtain a lot of cheap flags somewhere, and were selling them like crazy. They were so glad to be in the US instead of Pakistan, where terrorism was much more common.

A few days later the President announced a project for children, who were asked to send 1 dollar each to be used to help children in Afghanistan. Kids were very enthusiastic about this, but it got held up for some weeks or months when there were doses of weaponized anthrax were sent through the mail, infecting some people, and killing some. So some government buildings, post offices, and other buildings where anthrax had been found, and it took a long time to inspect and thoroughly decontaminate these buildings. It turned out that the anthrax had nothing to do with Al Qaeda.

The Hulk tried to kill Spider-Man ?

Stop spamming. And go somewhere else to do your homework.

1. N/A

2. I was in school, in class (Washington DC, USA)

3. Our school Principal decided to not inform the student body about what was happening, a few teachers disregarded her request and turned their TVs on for students to see saying "this is history." I found out from friends that teachers let them watch the news.

4. I thought we would stop the other planes and could not understand what was going on as I was in shock. I was devastated when the towers collapsed.

5. I remember the most the images on TV and how I was sitting in the school cafeteria at lunch as a bunch of student's names were called from the intercom because their parents were there to take them home. I remember like yesterday sitting there trying to eat as tons of names were called, wondering when mine would be (it eventually was). It was really eerie and scary because a lot of kids had parents that worked in the Pentagon etc. I also remember being scared at night in my bedroom, that terrorists would get me at night like the Boogie Man ( I was really young).

6. Terrorist attacks make me sad for those hurt and lost and for those that live their lives with such closed mindedness to kill themselves and other people they do not understand or even know.

7. I remember we were going to take actions, whatever it took to stop further threats. Americans were sad, confused, and distrusting.

8. Americans should learn to take the media with a grain of salt and they should investigate 9/11 and our foreign policy as well as the news on their own and decide for themselves what they believe is right, wrong, true, or false.

I was born a month after 9/11 so I wasn't even alive.

1. Name?

2.What were you doing on September 11 2001?

3.How did you find out about the attacks?

4.What was your immediate reaction to the attacks?

5.What memories are most vivid?

6.What do you think of terrorist attacks?

7.What do you remember about the response of people in the United States and the U.S government?

8. Do you think September 11 offers any lessons for people in the united states?

Man I was at university, in bed with some chick I had picked up at an Irish pub, she was a lot taller than me. My flatmate came rolling in and was like "bro! World War Three has started!"