For the kids in here, you have to realize this was before smart phones. No kid even had a cell phone, they were only good for making calls and way to expensive. We had a computer lab, but no one got their news on the internet. If anything even the major news outlets wouldn't write a story until the next day, and there would be no video online. Online video, when it was posted was the quality some of the worst gifs that exist today.

I was in my first period gym class. Someone who went to the bathroom came in and started asking if we knew what was going on. We asked what they were talking about and got some vague explanation that was a jumbled mess of rumors including bombings, planes attacking etc. As the day progressed I heard that a lot of teachers were allowing the kids to just watch the news in class, unfortunately I did not have a single cool teacher. As the day went on I got news trickled in from other kids who had been able to watch the news. But it was always second hand and everyone's version was different than the last persons. People really do watch the exact same event and see it completely differently.

I wasn't able to actually get any news on it until I got home. All I knew was that it was coordinated by someone and the US would be bombing the absolute shit out of someone soon. I wasn't really worried about a draft or anything like that. It seemed like such an over reaction to think that we would be needing a draft to deal with anyone. US military dominance back them was far more than it is today, especially over counties like China and Russia. It seemed absurd that anyone would have the audacity to attack the US. I did think there was some risk of the US going to war, but even Desert Storm had zero real impact on my life, so that was what going to war meant to me. Nothing more that a story on the news.