"I was in Mrs. Fowler's third grade class and was singing happy birthday to my best friend Anne when I found out about the 9/11 attacks."

"I was in Mrs. Schnieder's third grade class. We were learning history at the time. My good friend Sam's dad was actually on one of the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers."

"I was in school in Russia when I learned about the 9/11"

"I was in third grade and was just getting to school for the day. It was on TV all day."

"I was in fourth grade. The teacher wouldn't tell us what happened."

"I was in sixth grade. We were jus about to start math class, and the teacher across the hall darted into our classroom and told us to turn to channel six, something big was happening! We turned on the TV just as the first tower was being hit. I looked aorund and no one really knew what was happening. We all thought it was a movie or something. Our teacher explained to us that it was real. They let us go home."

"I was working at Don Johnson Ford Motors at the time. I think I was changing a tire or oil or something when someone told me to stop and to come watch CNN. It was on the radio all the time after that."

"I was in fifth grade. We were in math class. The teacher stopped talking, turned the lights off, turned on the TV, and made us watch. She got upset when kids started talking and said we just didn't understand."

"I was in seventh grade and did not find out about it until we were on the bus on the way to my soccer game. Everyone on the bus kept saying the planes were going to dive-bomb us. On the way home, my dad asked me if I knew what happened that day and explained it to me."

"I was in Mrs. Schauls' sixth grade class and we didn't even find out until after lunc that day! We watched it on TV when we finally found out!"