Library of Congress Stories

A collection of, as of this writing, more than 200 user-submitted stories gathered by the Library of Congress in conjunction with the September 11 Digital Archive.

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I was at work in London, sitting at my desk overlooking the Eurostar tracks at Waterloo station. I was an expat from DC and had been in London for about a year and a half at that point.\nMy strongest...

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On September 11, 2001 I was in my math class, third period I believe, with Mr. Mueller. We were sitting in our seats in class about to check our homework, talking and gossiping with one another until...

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On September 11, 2001, I was at the technical college where I was earning an associates degree in marketing. It was morning and I was walking through the halls on the bottom floor. It was a crisp...

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I was working for NC Division of Emergency Management in Raleigh, NC. I was at my desk, but did not have my radio on. I happened to check my e-mail on a Web-based e-mail site, and a friend had sent...

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I was in the Main Office at Nanuet Senior High School. A secretary received a telephone call informing her that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I turned to another teacher and tolde her that I...

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Dozing on and off as I traveled to New York via the Boonton train line, I awakened to a buzz of voices around me. Looking out the window, I could see flames at the top of the World Trade Center Tower...

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I was teaching Technology at St. Elizabeth School in Washington Heights, West 187th Street. Our first concern was the safety of our children and we decided at first not to inform the children so as no...

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On September 11th, 2001, I was an U.S. Air Force master sergeant stationed at Kadena Air Base, on the Pacific island of Okinawa. My normal duty was to fly as an engineer on the RC-135, an Air Force su...

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At the time I was lving about 40 miles NW of Los Angeles. I was in graduate school in Malibu and had gotten up early to finish a biographical sscetch of Gandhi. It was around half after 6 in the mor...

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