tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post115797974362363863..comments2024-01-28T03:35:51.182-05:00Comments on Reassigned Time: 9/11/01 - Hearing the NewsDr. Crazyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-1158037684652845702006-09-12T01:08:00.000-04:002006-09-12T01:08:00.000-04:00I think yours was actually a very common reaction,...I think yours was actually a very common reaction, and not one to be embarrassed about. I called my parents around 10 or 10.30 a.m. Eastern (they're on the west coast, so they'd only just gotten up), semi-hysterical, to tell them what had happened. By then the news had come about the Pentagon, as well, and I told them this, even saying, "it's not an accident; they say it's a terrorist attack."<BR/><BR/>But even so, my parents told me that they still didn't think much of it--they turned on the television when I told them to, but they were busy getting ready for work and it wasn't until an hour or two later that they fully realized what had happened.<BR/><BR/>Frankly, I think that I would have had the same reaction, had I not lived in New York and once worked 2 blocks from the Trade Center. It was that sense of local interest, rather than some apprehension of the national or international significance of the event, that grabbed me when I first heard the radio reports.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-1158018084222642452006-09-11T19:41:00.000-04:002006-09-11T19:41:00.000-04:00But what you just posted (and what helenesch said ...But what you just posted (and what helenesch said in reply too) is historically very important -- on 9/11/01, at 9:00 AM EST, none of us could conceive of anything being that bad, that threatening, that scary. A few people dying was about as far as we could take it, and, yeah, that wasn't anything to stop class for.<BR/><BR/>Whatever it's ethical content (selfishness? apathy? overwhelming grad school anxiety?) it was also about a certain historical moment.Sara Maurerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08845123853289750819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-1157992059567084302006-09-11T12:27:00.000-04:002006-09-11T12:27:00.000-04:00I had a somewhat similar experience (though wasn't...I had a somewhat similar experience (though wasn't teaching and eventually did turn the news on). My mom called from her car to tell me about how a plane hit the WTC. I assumed she was overreacting and that it wasn't such a big deal. But out of curiousity I did turn the radio on... I also then drove into my dept., where I had a meeting scheduled. As it turns out, I'm very glad I didn't stay home, as that would have felt terribly isolating at such a scary time.heleneschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00379096203492608139noreply@blogger.com