story4786.xml
Title
story4786.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
I will never forget the day of the tragic attacks on our country on Sept. 11, 2001. It was a day after my son's 3rd birthday and we were outside cleaning up the yard from his party the day before.
I had a feeling something was wrong and I came in the house to see if anyone had called while I was outside and I seen that nobody called. I started to walk to the door to finish outside and I felt a sudden urge to watch T.V. Mind you I am not a television watcher and I am not aware of current events going on. But on that tragic day I turned to the CNN channel for some reason to only see that the 1st Trade Center Tower had been hit.
I stood in amazement as to what was going on in our nation. Then suddenly the 2nd tower was hit again, by a terrorist attack we were told.
I thought that the first one was an accident due to air traffic control and this was something simply accidental.
But as the nation was watching Im sure I wasnt the only one feeling like I needed to rush and grab my children from there schools, embrace them and let them know that I am here to keep them safe.
I immediately tried to phone my husband as I knew he was an Over The Road truck driver to tell him of the news. But for some reason he wasnt answering the phone. The scariest part for me was the thought of knowing he was in New York delivering a load.
I tried for hours to reach him, and of course he was using a Cellphone.
I contacted all of the family to warn them that he may of been involved in this one way or another.
I contacted our local wireless carrier in desperation on locating my husband. I finally reached him and let him know I was so worried, thinking I would have to raise our 5 children without him. I cried and he listened as I explained to him what had happened.
While all of this is going on on television he is reassuring me he is fine and that the company he was working for had relocated him to Georgia and that he was safe and away from harm.
I immediately called the schools where my children attend and told them I was coming to get them from school.
The night of this terrible attack we as a family prayed for those lost in those awful and horrific acts of terrorism, knowing there we many lives lost and many lives changed forever.
Nothing can ever take the feeling of loss away from those who had no direct effect in Sept. 11 loss of man, but we can always remember those innocent people who died for our country.
We have many heroes in our nation and the had thing to deal with as a nation is that we will all have to eventually go on and live our lives. As easy as it is to say it may be much harder for some to do. I was not in New York, Washington, or Pennsylvania on 9-11-01, but I feel as close to those people as I have never felt before.
Trust me when I say I greive for the familys who lost mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and friends and neighbors or our surrounding fire stations and police forces.
Our deepest sympathy goes to all of the familys, and I pray that God will give you some closier to this act of terrorism.
May God Bless all those effected by 9-11-01 and may Peace be with all of you reading this.
I had a feeling something was wrong and I came in the house to see if anyone had called while I was outside and I seen that nobody called. I started to walk to the door to finish outside and I felt a sudden urge to watch T.V. Mind you I am not a television watcher and I am not aware of current events going on. But on that tragic day I turned to the CNN channel for some reason to only see that the 1st Trade Center Tower had been hit.
I stood in amazement as to what was going on in our nation. Then suddenly the 2nd tower was hit again, by a terrorist attack we were told.
I thought that the first one was an accident due to air traffic control and this was something simply accidental.
But as the nation was watching Im sure I wasnt the only one feeling like I needed to rush and grab my children from there schools, embrace them and let them know that I am here to keep them safe.
I immediately tried to phone my husband as I knew he was an Over The Road truck driver to tell him of the news. But for some reason he wasnt answering the phone. The scariest part for me was the thought of knowing he was in New York delivering a load.
I tried for hours to reach him, and of course he was using a Cellphone.
I contacted all of the family to warn them that he may of been involved in this one way or another.
I contacted our local wireless carrier in desperation on locating my husband. I finally reached him and let him know I was so worried, thinking I would have to raise our 5 children without him. I cried and he listened as I explained to him what had happened.
While all of this is going on on television he is reassuring me he is fine and that the company he was working for had relocated him to Georgia and that he was safe and away from harm.
I immediately called the schools where my children attend and told them I was coming to get them from school.
The night of this terrible attack we as a family prayed for those lost in those awful and horrific acts of terrorism, knowing there we many lives lost and many lives changed forever.
Nothing can ever take the feeling of loss away from those who had no direct effect in Sept. 11 loss of man, but we can always remember those innocent people who died for our country.
We have many heroes in our nation and the had thing to deal with as a nation is that we will all have to eventually go on and live our lives. As easy as it is to say it may be much harder for some to do. I was not in New York, Washington, or Pennsylvania on 9-11-01, but I feel as close to those people as I have never felt before.
Trust me when I say I greive for the familys who lost mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and friends and neighbors or our surrounding fire stations and police forces.
Our deepest sympathy goes to all of the familys, and I pray that God will give you some closier to this act of terrorism.
May God Bless all those effected by 9-11-01 and may Peace be with all of you reading this.
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“story4786.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 15, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/10143.