"September 11: Bearing Witness to History" Stories
A small collection of user-submitted stories gathered by the Smithsonian in conjunction with the September 11 Digital Archive.
I work out of my home office in Mississauga, Ontario Canada. I was on the phone on hold with a customer in New Jersey when I heard (on their radio)about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. I...
Read more...I was sitting in a class room on this day. I remember watching the stock market for one of our classes, when this came on the news and we all watched as people were being carried to ambulences, and...
Read more...I was sitting in my senior english class in high school when a teacher came into the classroom and told everyone that a plane crashed into the world trade center. We turned on CNN and sat the rest of...
Read more...I remember when and where I was exactly when I heard the news. It was a little bit after 9'o clock. Since I was only 14 I was in my high school geometry class. We started to do our indvidual work when...
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