story5645.xml
Title
story5645.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
I am a 19 year old student. When the first plane struck, I was in my car driving to the school library. I was listening to a local DJ by the name of Bubba the Love sponge. He had a TV in the studio as he broadcast and he was in the middle of a sentence when he and his co-workers started gasping and saying "Oh my god, I can't believe it". He then announced that an airplane had been crashed into one of the world trade towers. Before the second plane had crashed, Bubba had tracked down the telephone number to the world trade center and called to tell them a "little bit of smoke is coming out of your roof top". Almost immediatly after he said that, the second plane hit.
It didn't seem real to me and I thought it was a joke. When I arrived at the library, I went on the internet and tried to find out if CNN or Fox had posted anything. Someone ran into the room and yelled "The pentagon has been hit by a bomb". A TV was carried up the stairs and we watched the news as the trajedy carried on.
When I left the library, some of the classes were being let out and I remember hearing the shock and disbelief in the voices around me. One girl claimed that she heard that the perpetuators were going to hit somewhere in America every seven minutes until America had been destroyed... But America is much more than a country and can never be truly wiped out.
I have read several websites claiming that September 11th was "not that big of a deal". To me, it was a big deal. It was the first attack on american soil. We lost more than 3,000 of our friends, coworkers and members of our family. Firemen and Policemen willingly gave their lives in order to ensure that just one more person was able to get out alive.
My favorite saying post-9/11 was the coca-cola billboard that said "We live as many. We stand as one". America united on that day. We didn't care about race, religion, or petty things. We only cared that we were American and we were proud of it. We gave our money. We gave our time. We gave our prayers and we shed our tears.
God Bless America.
It didn't seem real to me and I thought it was a joke. When I arrived at the library, I went on the internet and tried to find out if CNN or Fox had posted anything. Someone ran into the room and yelled "The pentagon has been hit by a bomb". A TV was carried up the stairs and we watched the news as the trajedy carried on.
When I left the library, some of the classes were being let out and I remember hearing the shock and disbelief in the voices around me. One girl claimed that she heard that the perpetuators were going to hit somewhere in America every seven minutes until America had been destroyed... But America is much more than a country and can never be truly wiped out.
I have read several websites claiming that September 11th was "not that big of a deal". To me, it was a big deal. It was the first attack on american soil. We lost more than 3,000 of our friends, coworkers and members of our family. Firemen and Policemen willingly gave their lives in order to ensure that just one more person was able to get out alive.
My favorite saying post-9/11 was the coca-cola billboard that said "We live as many. We stand as one". America united on that day. We didn't care about race, religion, or petty things. We only cared that we were American and we were proud of it. We gave our money. We gave our time. We gave our prayers and we shed our tears.
God Bless America.
Collection
Citation
“story5645.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 20, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/10736.