User blog comment:Forestpaw13/September 11, 2001 - A Day of Terror and Heroism/@comment-1839575-20110917035908

I must have been... five, or something? I don't really remember. There wasn't a big deal about it among the younger kids in Australia - I guess parents knew and all but they didn't really tell us. I found out about it when I got put in an extended English class when I was about nine. The dude showed us a photo of all these staring people and told us to guess what they were looking at and write about it - then he showed us the towers falling down. I still didn't understand what a big deal it was though, I just thought it was some kind of accident which had happened a long time ago. Then I went home and asked my parents, and they told me people crashed planes into buildings. Scary stuff.

Did they do anything special for the anniversary in America? At my school they mentioned it in assembly, but that's all.