Remembering 9/11... 10 years later

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Like when older generations say they remember exactly what they were doing when Pearl Harbor was bombed or when they heard JFK was shot, I will definitely never forget that day for as long as I live.

I was a sophomore in college and when the professor walked into my criminology class a few minutes late he apologized saying he had been glued to the computer reading the initial reports of a plane hitting the WTC. Like a lot of people I just assumed it was a small aircraft and an unfortunate case of pilot error. I didn't really think much of it for the rest of class.
Since I had about 15 minutes between my Tuesday morning classes I decided to go back to my dorm room and I flipped on CNN just to see if there was any more news on what happened in New York. By that time the 2nd plane had hit and I believe the Pentagon had also been attacked and we all knew something major and horrific was happening.
Still in a bit of shock I went to my next class, appropriately enough the class was called "Social Movements" and it was about how events and groups can cause societies to shift. I was only there for a few minutes before someone came around and said the school was canceling classes for the day. I got back to my dorm just in time to see the towers collapse.

I just remember feeling so confused the rest of the day. Obviously I was old enough to know that our country has its fair share of enemies but what I was seeing on TV just seemed so surreal. Like many of you I spent the rest of the day glued to the TV and the internet, watching Aaron Brown describe the events from a few miles away, being freaked out by prophecies from Nostradamus that turned out to be fake, and worrying my friends in family in the military and abroad.