I hate to say when this happened i was only 11, and it was live on t.v. I just watched it and thought it was a new movie they were releasing... Now adays I look back on it and think how ignorant I was. A very sad day, and may I quote

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives: yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked...
I know the dates wrong but it still has the same meaning with 9/11/01