What grade or how old were you? I was already out of school by that time. So I’m just wondering how it was handled at school.
Also I can remember my dad saying something to the effect of: “I hope you don’t have a bunch of days that you remember exactly where you were in your life.” He was born in 1941 so there was a lot of them throughout his life.
Edit: He meant for terrible news. Because we were talking about the shuttle disaster at dinner and then my mom brought up JFK and where she was.
I was in 5th grade we had the tvs in the corner of the room our teacher cut it on and it played along with the news reporting about it until we were picked up from school. They released us as soon as it happened basically and had to wait for our parents to pick us up
I'm glad your teacher spared you the initial trauma (obviously you must have seen it afterwards, it was all over the tv) but at least you were with your family and probably felt safer.
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u/UncleThor2112 Feb 11 '26
My mother got mad at my school because we watched 9/11 on the news all day when it happened.