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.
That day started out like any other day. I barely got to school on time and was already about to fall asleep halfway through my first class when another student came in. Nobody paid much attention whe...
Read more...I was at working at a speech and hearing center in Columbus, OH listening to the local NPR station when I heard a report that a plane had crashed into the first tower. I immediately thought it was a s...
Read more...\nMy strongest memory of the day was at the DOubletree Hotel Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia--just feet from the Pentagon. The burning smell coming through the building's ventilation system was u...
Read more...My mother woke me with a phone call: "Something is wrong in New York. A plane..."\nWhen the tower collapsed, it didn't register right away what had really happened. The sky there... It took several...
Read more...I was coming back from a walk through the Capitol grounds. I had my headphones on and I heard that the Pentagon had been hit. I told myself "that's not what I just heard." I kept walking and I saw peo...
Read more...On September 11,2001 I was in my dorm room at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Mi. I woke up to the man on the radio saying there has been a terrible plane crash. That a plane has crashed...
Read more...It was a day like any day I got up and turned on the news all i saw was the burning tower i continued to watch it while eating and listned to it on the radiao and when i got to school all the tv's...
Read more...I was at work as head cook in an elementary school kitchen, and one of the women came in for the 9:15 shift and told us that she might be confused, but she thought she heard that an airplane flew into...
Read more...hello my name is william i just happend to wakep up just as usual started to open up where i work when my boss actualy my land loard sid come here look at this it took us a while but i couldnt figure...
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