September 11 Digital Archive Stories
This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the experiences of thousands of individuals. The immense collection of stories (as of writing there are over 12,500 entries) were submitted directly to the September 11 Digital Archive by users of the site. The recollections cover a variety of topics too great to assess, and present an excellent resource for future cultural studies of the reaction to the September 11 attacks.
I couldn't wait to get home to my family, of course. I have family members who were at the Pentagon and near the World Trade Center that day, and I was thankful to learn that they were unharmed. I a...
Read more...my story starts on web page at http://www.saintsandheroes.com/Susiescorner/ thats just the begining.since that time we have open it to the public and it free every one is here untied we stand and so t...
Read more...Each year in September Pope AFB and Ft. Bragg sponsor a military retirees golf tournament. In 2002 my wife, Deloris and I, were playing in the tournament. Just shortly before noon the foursome I was...
Read more...I was sitting in my home office working,I turned on the the today show and they had stated a plane had crashed into one of the towers, such disbelive onsuch a clear and sunny day and then with disbeli...
Read more...I woke up that morning and turned on the TV and i saw something that didnt make sense, a plane had hit the first tower of the world trade center. I stood there and i watched when the other plane hit t...
Read more...i was at home listening to the radio getting ready for work, when it was interrupted with the news flash.. the first thing i thought of - was my 23 year old cousin, Matthew Carmen Sellitto who worked...
Read more...I am an air traffic controller for the FAA. Have been for almost 24 years. I was working New York (JFK) inbound flights that day. The New York Air Traffic Control Center had just shut me off - they we...
Read more...My Story I woke-up that morning as usual, but I was very excited, because I was twelve that day. My birthday, September 11th. I went to school, where my friends...
Read more...It was 4:00am New Mexico time. I was in Eldorado,NM. I was unloading at my last stop. I was pulling out a pallet that was around 9 feet tall. As I was pulling it very slowly toward me it got highsided...
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