Writer's Block: 9/11
Sep. 12th, 2011 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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*sigh* I promised myself I wouldn't do this. Yet here I am. I had just worked a 12 hour overnight shift as I normally did on Monday nights so I was asleep. My supervisor called and woke me up and told me the news.
I've been reading through the answers for this and what astounds me about the answers, (what few there are that aren't in cyrillic, anyway,) is that everyone responding is so young. "I was 8 years old... I was 10 years old... I was in 6th/7th/8th grade." It just... really astounds me. I haven't thought much about all the people for whom this happened just as they were really starting to get an idea of what the world was and what was around them. The closest experience I have like that is the Challenger explosion when I was in the 4th grade. But I can't pretend it was anywhere near the same. I thought I was "young" seeing it happen at 25 but I really had no idea.
*sigh* I promised myself I wouldn't do this. Yet here I am. I had just worked a 12 hour overnight shift as I normally did on Monday nights so I was asleep. My supervisor called and woke me up and told me the news.
I've been reading through the answers for this and what astounds me about the answers, (what few there are that aren't in cyrillic, anyway,) is that everyone responding is so young. "I was 8 years old... I was 10 years old... I was in 6th/7th/8th grade." It just... really astounds me. I haven't thought much about all the people for whom this happened just as they were really starting to get an idea of what the world was and what was around them. The closest experience I have like that is the Challenger explosion when I was in the 4th grade. But I can't pretend it was anywhere near the same. I thought I was "young" seeing it happen at 25 but I really had no idea.
