story20609.xml
Title
story20609.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2006-09-11
911DA Story: Story
On that date, I left for work, shutting off the TV at exactly 8:40 AM on the morning of 09/11/2001.
On my way to the subway station, living in the Jackson-Heights area of Queens, I was thinking how beautiful the weather was, the sky had a wonderful shade of blue, and one could feel that the temperature would climb rather high!
I walked to the subway station and at Queensborough Plazza I transferred to the N train for Manhattan, walking down some stairs from the upper platform. Uusally I look out the window, that day I did not, Have I looked, I would have seen the first tower on fire already! But I did not!
The N train came fairly soon, I found a seat, and for a reason, unknown to us at the time, the train just did not close the doors and was held at the station. And we waited, and waited, no announcements were made at first, after 25 minutes we were told something about police activity? Nothing unusual in NYC. The N train finally moved, direction Lextington Ave.
My regular station being 49th Street, as I came out, a second annoucement is finally made, telling all of us that service, both ways, was supended! And my first tought was, boy, are you lucky! You won't be late for work as you took this train on time! Once in the street, I heard many sirens, thinking that something must have been happening, somewhere! I had in fact taken the last train to Manhattan!
Anyway,I leaned about the first and second plane hitting the WTC, in the elevators! The rest is history!
After 5 years, the tragedy is very much alive in my mind, for some reason more strongly this year! It has affected many people, changed many lives, including my own.
Every time I see these horrible images, I realize that all is still fresh in my mind, the pain I felt and still feel for all the people who lost their life, for all the families who lost their child, father, mother, etc. I have also heard something very recently which baffled me, apparently some believe that the poor people who jumped off the towers were lacking courage? That some families even felt that they had to be rehabilitated? Let ne tell you that I admire ALL of them for the choice that they've made, as this was a VERY courageous choice and act! They chose their way of dying, either burn or suffocate for lack of oxygen, or have God take them in his arms the minute they plunged into the air and until they reached the ground! May these souls rest in peace.
I wish that we had been shown more of these images, that I believe were forbidden after the second day, perhaps all of us could have had a better chance to experience fully the impact on us all, inside, to seize better and to face the horror and truth in the face, and perhaps even get better faster!
To me the most important is to remember and never forget about all these lives, all the people who directly or indirectly, lost everything! Including the elderlies, the sick people who died from the aftermath of the tragedy, as I have seen many dying afterwards. Most of them seem to have been forgotten too, and yet their death was a direct effect from 09/11.
I am still angry, but do not feel hatred for anyone, only pain! May God bless us all!
On my way to the subway station, living in the Jackson-Heights area of Queens, I was thinking how beautiful the weather was, the sky had a wonderful shade of blue, and one could feel that the temperature would climb rather high!
I walked to the subway station and at Queensborough Plazza I transferred to the N train for Manhattan, walking down some stairs from the upper platform. Uusally I look out the window, that day I did not, Have I looked, I would have seen the first tower on fire already! But I did not!
The N train came fairly soon, I found a seat, and for a reason, unknown to us at the time, the train just did not close the doors and was held at the station. And we waited, and waited, no announcements were made at first, after 25 minutes we were told something about police activity? Nothing unusual in NYC. The N train finally moved, direction Lextington Ave.
My regular station being 49th Street, as I came out, a second annoucement is finally made, telling all of us that service, both ways, was supended! And my first tought was, boy, are you lucky! You won't be late for work as you took this train on time! Once in the street, I heard many sirens, thinking that something must have been happening, somewhere! I had in fact taken the last train to Manhattan!
Anyway,I leaned about the first and second plane hitting the WTC, in the elevators! The rest is history!
After 5 years, the tragedy is very much alive in my mind, for some reason more strongly this year! It has affected many people, changed many lives, including my own.
Every time I see these horrible images, I realize that all is still fresh in my mind, the pain I felt and still feel for all the people who lost their life, for all the families who lost their child, father, mother, etc. I have also heard something very recently which baffled me, apparently some believe that the poor people who jumped off the towers were lacking courage? That some families even felt that they had to be rehabilitated? Let ne tell you that I admire ALL of them for the choice that they've made, as this was a VERY courageous choice and act! They chose their way of dying, either burn or suffocate for lack of oxygen, or have God take them in his arms the minute they plunged into the air and until they reached the ground! May these souls rest in peace.
I wish that we had been shown more of these images, that I believe were forbidden after the second day, perhaps all of us could have had a better chance to experience fully the impact on us all, inside, to seize better and to face the horror and truth in the face, and perhaps even get better faster!
To me the most important is to remember and never forget about all these lives, all the people who directly or indirectly, lost everything! Including the elderlies, the sick people who died from the aftermath of the tragedy, as I have seen many dying afterwards. Most of them seem to have been forgotten too, and yet their death was a direct effect from 09/11.
I am still angry, but do not feel hatred for anyone, only pain! May God bless us all!
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“story20609.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 23, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/11686.