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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1613262" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>Another youngster here.</p><p></p><p>I was standing in the hall outside my 8th grade history teachers class, who was an old friend of my dad, when the first plane hit. Someone had informed him about the first plane hitting the north tower, but at the time nobody new what was happening. Class was just about to start and we all went in and turned on the TV, just in time to see the second plane hit the south tower. It was very surreal. The rest of the day we spent glued to the TV. In said history teacher's class, that's all we did for weeks after the attack; we watched the news and talked. He was not going to teach history when a historical event was happening live.</p><p></p><p>I remember the gas stations that afternoon in suburban Tulsa having lines and people waiting roughly an hour to get gas. You'd see people pulling up with the back seats and the trunks of their car full of newly purchased plastic gas cans. I remember the reaction of the public, in Oklahoma, all those miles away, being the scariest part to me. That's still the only part of a terrorist attack that scares me. My sister was in Missouri planning to drive back to Tulsa and the situation was the same there. They could not access a gas station to get gas due to the crowds of panicked people; had they been any lower on fuel they'd have been stuck.</p><p></p><p>I walked into the local gas station and the Tulsa World had printed an emergency edition "AMERICA UNDER ATTACK" paper. I bought about 10 of them and still have a few today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1613262, member: 4319"] Another youngster here. I was standing in the hall outside my 8th grade history teachers class, who was an old friend of my dad, when the first plane hit. Someone had informed him about the first plane hitting the north tower, but at the time nobody new what was happening. Class was just about to start and we all went in and turned on the TV, just in time to see the second plane hit the south tower. It was very surreal. The rest of the day we spent glued to the TV. In said history teacher's class, that's all we did for weeks after the attack; we watched the news and talked. He was not going to teach history when a historical event was happening live. I remember the gas stations that afternoon in suburban Tulsa having lines and people waiting roughly an hour to get gas. You'd see people pulling up with the back seats and the trunks of their car full of newly purchased plastic gas cans. I remember the reaction of the public, in Oklahoma, all those miles away, being the scariest part to me. That's still the only part of a terrorist attack that scares me. My sister was in Missouri planning to drive back to Tulsa and the situation was the same there. They could not access a gas station to get gas due to the crowds of panicked people; had they been any lower on fuel they'd have been stuck. I walked into the local gas station and the Tulsa World had printed an emergency edition "AMERICA UNDER ATTACK" paper. I bought about 10 of them and still have a few today. [/QUOTE]
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