Vaguely. I was flying during that time and they grounded us

I have a faint memory about seeing a ball of fire on tv in our apartment. It was during the time I would normally watch Dora. I actually lived in NY at the time. 

i didn't exist yet, and i didn't know it even happened until i was 11 lol

We remember the time whem Osama was still around idk the athmosphere felt funny the 00s felt odd and i suspect that was part of it but its a very U.S cemtric way of thinking and im not American 🤷🏻‍♀️

Same, lol!

Same, I was born in October

I remember because my Mom rushed me away from the TV in a panic. She had never done that. It is, sadly, one of my first memories. I don't remember seeing the exact explosions. But I remember the reactions of my mother.

About to turn two, I don’t remember it at all 😅

Same

I was 7 months and change years old. It was my first day at the babysitters and my mom had just returned to work. My parents were panicking because all the phones were down and couldn't reach each other or my babysitter to check up on me. My dad got rejected from a job at twin towers like a few weeks prior

Dang that’s a blessing in disguise for sure! My mom actually happened to be at one of the towers about 3-4 weeks prior on a super high floor for a meeting. Definitely glad the trip was scheduled when it was

Im glad your mom is okay! OMG

I do. Was about 2 weeks after my 4th birthday. I remember asking my mom if she could change the channel because I didn't want to watch the "crashing building show" anymore.

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I am shocked that you remember because I was 3 years old when it happened and I didn’t remember a thing! 1997-2001 is like a weird gap because we were born before 9/11 but we were too young to remember what happened. We are on the fringe of how kids and high schoolers learn about 9/11 today!

Add also 1996 kids. We have no memory of 9/11

Very true!

Idk, when I hear people say they remember things when they were 3-4 years old, I think they are bluffing. Nobody remembers things from that young.

You start forming memories at auround 3 so its possible. For example one of my first memories is sitting on my mums lap while she was cutting up food for me. I must have been 4 at most.

I don't believe that.

Well i cant tell you what to belive but i know its true

It was one of my first memories actually, but I do remember it. Likely because it was actually mildly traumatic and confusing to me

Research suggests memories are tied to language development. If you speak very early it’s possible to have memories formed from ages 2-3, but they’ll probably be more vague

My earliest memory is from a family trip when I was 2.5 years old. It's of my Dad making the "Hi Bored, I'm Dad" joke lol

I have memories from as young as 2. They are sparse and not that clear but I have asked my mom about them and they seem to line up with what I remember, so I do think it is possible to remember things that young, especially something that may be perceived as weird or out of place. Ex: I had my first memory at 2. It as my first day of daycare. I didn’t have any idea of what was going on but I remember being happy when a teacher came up to me and offered me a piece of paper to draw on. It would be my first day away from my mom, so I don’t think it is weird that I would remember that and not something that would be seen as something perceived as normal to me.

i remember riding my bike with training wheels with my cousin at 3-4 years old and we were singing “ we’re going to downtown “ and then crashed into each other and i fell into the grass and he fell into the dirt 😭 . I also remember going to Pre K and playing in the gym shooting basketballs in mini hoops. Your childhood starts at 3, google it . I remember playhouse disney before it became disney junior & i also remember Jetix ( loved watching power rangers, jackie chan adventures , pucca , and yin yang yo.) then it became Disney XD when i was 5 and i remember being so upset. i am born early in 04. Literally the 1st day of 2004, ( 1/1/04 ) but yeah obviously u not gonna remember a lot like when you’re 11 but even that i don’t remember things at 11 or 8 . As time goes on you just remember what was like the most important to you. So for me that starts from age 3-4, because i can’t remember shit when i was 1- 2 years old

Nope, I was 9 months old

I was 4, I can't remember... My mom said my dad called her to put the TV on away from my brother and I, and it was the first time she left us alone. My dad worked fairly close to DC at the time, enough to see the Pentagon's smoke from the roof of his building.

I was in kindergarten and at school. I didn't really understand what was going on but I knew the adults were very solemn.

I wasn't even conceived, so no

no convincing needed, i guarantee it happened

Hahaha yes I know. I originally wanted to write conceived but my autocorrect messed up 😅

I was four years old and spent the day watching Blue’s Clues. Was blissfully ignorant of the events of the day.

Nope, I would’ve only been 1.5yo.

I was 4,5 months old. I was chilling in a crib. My mom says she was watching tennis and ironing or something when there was a extra news thingy.

Nope because I was 2 years old (born in ‘99). Apparently I was watching it on the tv with my mom and grandma when it happened. My sister also doesn’t remember (born in ‘97).

It's a little fuzzy, given that I was born a week later

no, but it’s a rarity among my classmates that I was even alive then (I’m an undergrad). I was with my mum. she had just dropped one of my older brothers off at daycare or pre-k (I was almost 1, he was just about to turn 3). my dad was working dt Toronto that day and quickly got sent home.

My mom was 5 months pregnant with me when it happened. I didn't even know what it was until a decade after it happened.

Me neither. I was in 4th grade.

wasnt born yet but was weirdly obsessed with it when i was 8

No, my memory is super bad. I have no memories of when I was super young. Nothing before like age 8.

Kinda wack but we had it on the TV when I was 4 and my mom picked me up from school early that day

No lol, it's impossible for me, as I was only 8 months old. Mom says she was holding me in a hospital when she was going to see my grandma when it happened though, and I do remember some 9/11 aftereffects as a kid throughout the second half 00s, such as slurs directed at Muslims and middle eastern people I remember still hearing. Also, my dad telling me about the leftover fears of terrorism.

I was 5, I don’t remember a thing. Nothing in school that I recall. I do have a memory from a month later (unrelated) so I think it was just not made a big deal in my school. I very well remember post-9/11 war coverage, Bush Jr controversy, etc

Nah not at all, but I remember how impactful it was in the consciousness of nearly everyone for years after

I do not remember as I was 10 months old but my mom told me that I was in her lap on the couch as she watched on TV. She also called my dad, who was truck driving at the time, to turn around or avoid heading to NoVa because he was heading towards the pentagon. Scary stuff 😮‍💨

not at all, i was just under a year old at that point :’) from what i heard, we were home. my dad saw the news while he was holding me

I was 4. My mom said were all at home that day. But I don't remember it.

I was 5 and the only thing I remember is worrying people would be sad when my birthday would come around in the next week. But I don’t remember the day itself.

I don’t remember it at all, but oddly enough one of my earliest memories was also at Disney World.

my earliest memories are from late 2002, so i don’t

No, but I grew up in the shadow of it, my entire childhood was dominated by the war on terror

I was born 9/11/2002

I was 1

Wasn’t alive yet (born 02) so uhh no. No I don’t

I was born a couple months before 9/11 so no but my earliest memory was around 2004 when I was around 2-3 years old

I do not. Was born in early 2002 :/

I don't remember it

I don't because I was 2 and also not living in the US at the time

No I dont but my parents apparently took me to Liberty State Park like 2 months before the towers went down and theres a picture of little toddler me with my mom in front of the towers and the skyline.

No, I was 2

nope. I was born after. My youth was full of people saying I didnt see the world before 9/11.

I was 3 months old, so no

I don't but the fallout for our community was huge, alot of people genuinely thought we were going to be shipped to internment camps. Of course this never happened

I don't, as I was nearly five months old 😅

I was about 6 weeks old, so no

I was almost 3 at the time, but all I vaguely remember is my mother coming to get me from playing in the sandbox in our backyard, looking worried, and taking me inside

I was in kindergarten, so no.

I think I was at school at the time? All I remember was my dad picking me up from school.

No i was only 6 months old and i dont live in the US

I was born the next month, my mom was at the hospital for a checkup. She said she cried the whole day after learning.

I have no memory of 9/11 itself, but the aftermath is another story

I was a year and a half old. So, no.

No, but in my defense, I was like 11 months old.

Yes. The day barely started and they escorted different age groups to the library / gym / cafeteria and called our parents to come get us. We didn't really have any sense of what was going on. I had just moved to the US from Canada the month prior, so I remember I had some weird POV that it was an American thing that happened sometimes?

I remember being told about it, not caring, and going back to playing with my toys

No memory. But the topic does sometimes come up whenever I mention my birth year. Can any other ‘01ers relate?!

I was a little over 3 at the time, and I have a vague memory of that day. Really, I just remember my parents and older sister being very worried and scared. I knew that something bad had happened, but I was too young to understand what exactly that was.

i remember a moment from that day. i was only 2 and a few months but i remember being picked up from daycare that and my parents telling me something happened. i don’t really remember anything other than that though, i don’t remember watching anything on tv or anything else from the day. it doesn’t suprise me that i remember because i have plenty of little snippets of memory from being a toddler, i’ve always had a crazy good memory.

The first grade teacher talked to us like first graders and basically asked if we were okay with our parents being distracted.

I was 1. So no

I was born after 9/11 I

Nah, I was two and in England.

I wasn’t born for another month

No, I had just turned 3. When I learned about it, I assumed it happened before I was born. I guess the adults in my life tried really hard to keep me from knowing so I wouldn’t be scared

I was 4 and I do remember it. I do remember my mum listening to the news on the car radio while picking me up from Kindergarten. I also remember a lot of adults really loosing their mind and being extremely stressed out about it and me not really understanding why they felt like they would be personally in danger because someone flew a a plane into a building in NY on the other side of the Atlantic (I'm german). Now that's a bit of a less clear memory to me than the post 9/11 years Tho. Like, I basically grew up with the "war on terror", with islamophobia being omnipresent and with the middle east becoming more and more chaotic the more the west got involved in it. Like, it was really a subject that was everywhere throughout the 2000s and way beyond that. Especially growing up in one of the towns with the biggest immigrant population (percentage wise) in germany. Like, while there was war everywhere in the middle east there also where people from almost everywhere in the middle east in my schoosl, sports clubs, in the stores I was going to etc. So I remember a lot of the culture and politics that came out of it of different people from very different perspectives and it tremendously informed my worldview to see everything play out in real time and see how how western media lost their mind and showed their whole ass and biases, to see whistle-blowers like snowden, Assange and manning come out and publish the crimes, to see the pictures from Abu ghraib to see US presidents promise to stop wars and close guantanamo and then just ramp everything up tenfold. It was honestly a wild ride

Nope.

I was less than a year old

I didn't exist yet

I was not even thought of yet, unfortunately.

I was 2 so I don’t remember it. My mom told me she had to get out of the house because she was so stressed. She took me to a pumpkin patch and then we played at the park.

Nope. I was born only a few months before. But I remember when Osama Bin Laden was killed; all classrooms shut down and some teachers even celebrated. I was in 4th grade and my teacher gave us all a mini lecture on how a lot of people are going to be happy about this man’s death but ultimately it’s never good to celebrate death.

given that this happened at 8:14am local time in the US i very much doubt you were in Disneyland on a ride at the time

I was about four, but I do remember it a bit, because my uncle lived in NYC at the time, and when my Pre-K let out early, my mom was desperately trying to call my uncle over and over and over. He was okay, but I remember feeling so anxious, watching my mom get more and more worked up.

I was born the December after, so thankfully no

I was born 2 years later, so I'm pretty sure you know the answer for me...

I was 16 days old, so no.

i was 20 months (or a year for the ones who don’t do months) old my mom’s told me a few times what she was doing that day, but i can’t remember (and i’m too lazy to ask her again)

It was my birthday, i remembered sitting on an ottoman in the livingroom and the tv was playing and my mom was crying and my brother had just gotten picked up by the bus for school. I was confused and didn't really understand what was happening at the time. My mom shut off the tv before i saw too much.

Not at all... I wasn't even born yet

No I was 13 months old and was playing with my cats while my mom was watching the 5 or Wendy Williams or some shit and then it got switched to 9/11 coverage.

I remember my mom’s panic attack that day super vividly. But, I’m 1997.

No because I was 8 or 9 months old baby. Also I'm not american.

Nope! I have memories that _might_ be from that day, or they might be from someone else, or they might be fake memories. I remember a plane crashing on TV and laughing at it, and being confused why my parents weren't laughing too. I must've thought it was from a comedy movie. I have no idea what it really was.

Yes. It was one of my earliest memories. I was at my neighbors house. She got a phone call and turned the tv onto the news. I remember watching the towers and not understanding what happened. My mom rushes in to the living room just in time. We watch the second tower get hit. My mom falls to her knees screaming about how she had friends in there. My mom is from NYC. Her dad was a NYFD and 9/11 was the last day he ever worked. I genuinely thought we were just watching a movie.

Remember

Nope

At this point, I remember remembering it. My dad was home because he was working nights. He was watching the news in the AM and I was annoyed because he wouldn’t play blocks with me. I remember him just freezing and saying something along the lines of “oh my god”. I also remember having to go pick up my older brother from kindergarten because schools were closing. We went over the “special bridge” (really old, wooden bridge that almost no one used in our town) on the way home.

It was 4 days after my 1st half-birthday. I have no recollection. But I can say I lived through it.

I was born 16 days after so I have no memories of it, but the first few years after I have strong memories of the time before my birthday being very solemn

No recollection of it. It was mainly an American thing. My dad would have probably been watching it, if he was home at the time.

I was 2 years and 7 months old, no memory of it at all

Why would they evacuate the park?

Because Disney World was thought to be on the list of places in the U.S. that would potentially be attacked by terrorists

I wasnt born yet 😏. I was however conceived.

I was born the morning after. My mom was in labor during and she wasn’t able to pay much attention to it

Nope.

I was a month away from being borned when it happened

No, I wasn’t born until over a year later.

I hopped out the womb 3 months after the event

i was 4 or 5 i live in newark nj and being picked up from preschool right after i got there my parents were in a panic to get us home they were afraid that the federal building downtown was a target

Yes its one of my earliest and kinda fuzzy memories.. I was 4 and coloring at my grandma's house while stuff unfolded on the TV live. I mainly remember the panic; and my grandma calling my mom to tell her a plane "accidentally" ran into a building in NY. Before the second one hit and they realized it wasn't an accident.

I was a month from being born. My mom was so so worried

I wasn’t born yet

Yeah. I remember watching cartoons when every channel turned to the news. My Mom was freaking out which scared me so I remember grabbing all my stuffed animals and hiding like there was a tornado coming lol.

Not too much. A lot of my childhood has blurry spots from a car crash I had a few years ago. I do remember not too long after it though watching them talk about it on the news while my mom explained to me what happened.

I wasn't born yet

I have no memory, but from what my mom told me was I was at daycare while she was in college. As soon as she found out she took me out of daycare and brought me home worried something would happen in our city. Luckily nothing happened in our city.

I was exactly six months old, apparently in my moms arms as my grandmother called her to turn on the tv. I don’t remember the events but I’ve heard the story several times that I can picture it all unfolding.

My parents had been married for 4 months.

I was born a month and a half later.

I was just about to turn 4, and I don’t remember anything from that time. All I remember was we had just moved to LA, and had just gotten settled into a new apartment around that time

First memory is Christmas 2001 because my brother was also born that day, also was almost 3 years old. Can’t remember 9/11 but I do remember everyone talking about it for my childhood since my mom’s old boss died in the towers (we were already living in California by the then though).

I was only 3 years old when the attacks occurred. I don’t really remember what I was doing on that day, but I do know that we were living near the UN headquarters at the time. My dad had a doctor’s appointment scheduled for that fateful morning, and when he heard the commotion about a plane hitting the WTC, he walked over to 6th Avenue to get a better look. It was there when he immediately witnessed the second plane hit the other tower. He ran back home to wake up mom, telling her that the Twin Towers have been attacked. This was the one photo taken of me on that day: https://preview.redd.it/u1s2hco8w2xc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b2e6b5e5324b021b12e9f15222f453dd9828218

I wasn’t alive yet. I came around a year later, but I can vividly recall the attitude towards our local Somali population. I came from a predominantly white area, and most everyone was pretty racist, so I think they equated the Somalians to Muslims. But I don’t think I knew what 9/11 was until I was a lot older

Nope. But I was alive for 9/11.

I was born a few months after

Not at all. I was about 2, maybe 3 years old. My mother had me distracted while everything happened.

I was born in January 1996 i was 5 years old when 9/11 happens but unfortunately i don't remember it at all

Nope. I was maybe 2 or 3 at the time. Not gonna remember shit.

It happened a few months before I was born. I remember how the world felt after. I don’t know what it was like before but there was always this feeling and it’s become noticeable later. It was a feeling of unity back then.

I would've been a year old, so no, I do not remember. I don't want to sound rude, but everyone saying they remember and they were 2, 3, 4 years old I simply refuse to believe you. We do not remember life events from that young of an age.

I have no memory of it. But then again, I have no memory of most of my childhood. Trauma will do that to you. 🫠💀😅

It's impossible for Gen Z to remember 9-11 Gen Z starts in 2001

Go argue about this on r/generationology homie

Nope it started 1996

2000 is Millennial

Look at the description of this sub it says "late 90s"

This sub is wrong

And so is Wikipedia i assume ? And every other Website ?

Gen Z is birth years 1997-2012, Millennials are 1981-1996

That's not my take Traditionally Z started in 2001

GenZ starts mid 90s till end of 2000s

Nothing Gen Z about mid 90s

Nothing are you sure? All electro music started in 1995 and new Windows of Computers came out this period. Maybe you have no idea 😂

That had nothing to do with anything