The day had started as usual, but staff and teachers started going in and out of classrooms whispering to each other. There was an anouncement by the principle over the PA saying that teachers were not to turn on the TVs under any circumstance. Our teacher looked up at the PA speaker, looked at us, and said, "If they want the TVs off this bad, it's history in the making, and this is something you need to see." He then turned on the news, and that was what we did for the rest of the class. I saw the second plane hit live, and watched the towers collapse live. Never forget.
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I am glad there are a few actual Teachers left in the world. It truly was history in the making.
Kudos to your teacher.
I was in junior high, walked into Science class and was the first kid to arrive. The teacher had the wall-mounted TV on and it showed the twin towers with one of them smoldering. I watched in real time as the second one hit. I was 13.
First semester of college. Ill never forget.
I, too, was sitting in class . . . military instruction, in uniform. We watched the second plane hit, and then got to work. I don't think I had a break between then and a few months into the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Similar to my experience. Was late to class. Had computer lab that day. Everyone was huddled around the teacher who were watching something on the monitor. Walked up to see what it was. Wasnt sure what I was watching but it was a replay of the second plane crash. A moment later, it showed we were watching the collapse of the tower and I distinctly remember my teacher commenting as it was going down, "And there it goes." Shit was crazy.
I was in physics class playing with a toy dart gun for a force project we were doing. I looked up as my teacher turned on the TV and I saw the first tower burning while I reporter was on scene about a mile away. They were talking about if they were unsure whether this was an accident or an attack, and literally as the words were coming out of his mouth you could see the second plane plow into the towers. He stopped mid sentence, presumably because his cameraman was gesturing wildly, and when he saw the fireball he simply said "Oh my god."
That was a surreal moment for me. My English teacher was crying the next day. My American History teacher told me that same day that whoever did this was going to get the crap bombed out of them. He was right.