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this is not a post about death
Sep. 11th, 2011 09:53 pmThere is no death in this post. Today's not the day for that. ( some ghosts though )
Sep. 11th, 2011
Writer's Block: 9/11
Sep. 11th, 2011 10:13 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I've probably talked about this before, but I was in school. And we walked around all day not allowed to watch the news (some teachers ignored this, but most of mine wouldn't let us). My math teacher shut the tv and said "Math is more important" (he was a dick). My Spanish teacher shut the tv because one girl's father worked in New York, I think? I just remember a lot of whispering and rumors in the hallways, because no one had any truth. People were saying we were attacked by any number of different countries; people were saying places had been hit that weren't. The school told us all to go home immediately after the last bell. No after school clubs or teams or anything. Everybody go home. I don't know why- certainly a middle school in a Florida suburb isn't a terrorist target. Maybe they just wanted us to hurry up and go home and get the truth.
I've completely blocked out a lot of things after that. I've gotten so used to not looking at the pictures that it seems almost like it never happened. Almost. But I haven't forgotten.
I've probably talked about this before, but I was in school. And we walked around all day not allowed to watch the news (some teachers ignored this, but most of mine wouldn't let us). My math teacher shut the tv and said "Math is more important" (he was a dick). My Spanish teacher shut the tv because one girl's father worked in New York, I think? I just remember a lot of whispering and rumors in the hallways, because no one had any truth. People were saying we were attacked by any number of different countries; people were saying places had been hit that weren't. The school told us all to go home immediately after the last bell. No after school clubs or teams or anything. Everybody go home. I don't know why- certainly a middle school in a Florida suburb isn't a terrorist target. Maybe they just wanted us to hurry up and go home and get the truth.
I've completely blocked out a lot of things after that. I've gotten so used to not looking at the pictures that it seems almost like it never happened. Almost. But I haven't forgotten.