I remember being upset that all of the other classes got to watch it. We heard from friends in other classes that an attack had happened and they were all watching TV now. My teacher refused to put it on, and kept teaching as usual until parents started showing up to pull their kids out of school early.

Thinking back, it’s probably good that we didn’t watch it; We were only 8 years old, after all. All my friends in the other classes watched the second plane hit and saw towers fall live, while I only got the recap.

We wanted to watch our daily dose of Pokémon at a friend's house but there was only a stupid movie of planes flying in skyscrapers on TV. When we wanted to complain about this to his grandfather he was watching the same movie and told us to go. So we decided the TV must be broken and played on his N64 instead. It wasn't until next day in school I learned that the "movie" was real

I'm trying to remember something big before 9/11. I was 9 years old and I feel like I should remember at least one news story before then, but I guess that's basically the first thing that got enough attention to really leave an impression. Not to mention literally everything changing after that