9/11 as my mom was living a block away from the pentagon. All the phone lines were down and I couldn't get a hold of her for days, I was still in Colorado going to middle school. How I ironic though, almost 9 years later I find myself live in Pentagon City. Must have drawn me to it. Oh and The Columbine Shootings could also have shaped my life, as I also went to a school near it and we were on lock down. They had us under lock down like someone wanted to shot us 5th graders, but it did wake me up to violence at a young age. Whats sort of traumatizing is that I remember watching all of this on the news, they basically sat us all down and let us watch all of these events happen. I don't think when Pearl harbor was attacked, they showed kids in the classroom what was going on.
But I remember watching the Twin Towers falling and people being blasted out of the buildings from the pressure as they fell. I remember that student from Columbine, jumping out of that window trying to get away from the shooting and nearly killing himself doing it. Those are somethings I'll probably associate with shaping my world.