It's been 10 years since 9/11 yet I can still vividly remember so much of that day. I had been home to Rigby visiting for the weekend and was headed back to Idaho State University for a Tuesday morning class when I heard about it on the radio. I remember thinking, "No way, this can't be happening, this is America!" I called Cody (we weren't married at the time, or even engaged yet for that matter) and told him he should turn on his TV and he just said 'I'm already watching" and then we just sat in silence for a minute listening to what we were both hearing on the radio and TV.
I went to my first class (Zoology taught by a blonde Tarzan look-a-like professor) and we didn't even have a lecture. We were all talking about what was going on and then he released us early.
After class I went to the SUB (student union building) and the area around the big screen TV was packed. All the chairs were taken and even standing room was hard to come by. So many people didn't even go to the rest of their classes, we were all glued to the news.
For days and weeks after that I remember the extensive coverage, the horrific pictures and the heroic stories that were told. America really came together as a nation during that time.
It's crazy how in a tragedy like that you can remember so many details from so long ago and I sometimes can't remember what I went downstairs for.
I also remember when I heard that Princess Diana died, but not nearly as well. I was at Broulim's in Rigby renting a video with my friend Carl, but that's about it.
What do you remember from 9/11? Just curious
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I never used to turn on the TV in the mornings, but that day for some reason I did. We sat down and watched it. I called in to work, we kept the kids home from school, after a while I went to to work, but Tom stayed home with the kids. It was surreal.
Ever since that day I've turned the news on everyday while getting ready for work.
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