I was getting ready for work and school when I saw that a plane had the one of the WTC. I thought, as most everyone else did at the time, that it was a small plane and was a horrible accident. I was driving to work when I heard that another plane had hit the second...[more]

My name is Katharina and I'm a fiveteen years old girl from Germany. I've never been in the Usa yet, but it has been my dream since I'm ten years old. On 911, I was 12 years old and at first I didn't get to know about what had happened, because I was at school. It was...[more]

I teach high school government and sociology. I'm from Monmouth County, NJ but I now live and teach in Georgia. On Sept. 11, 2001, our second period class had just begun. Another teacher called me out and told me that a plane had just flown into the WTC. I thought...[more]

Got to work around 8:15 am, put some coffee up and then toasted an English muffin.

Back at my desk (We were on the 19th floor of 55 Broad Street, the back of our office had a great view of the towers from about a block away) at about 8:36 I heard what sounded like...[more]

The morning of September 11th, I was sleeping in my living room of my apartment. My phone rang and it was my mom. She said "Rachel, turn on your tv, we are being attacked!" I was half asleep and told my mom " My door is locked no one is in my house!" Thinking she was...[more]

I was at work when the first plane struck. Work for me is Fort Drum, 10th Mountain Division Dining Facility. I saw what happened on CNN, and told my co-workers we had just been attacked by terrorrists. I was dismissed. It was at that point that the second plane was...[more]