story1855.xml
Title
story1855.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-07
911DA Story: Story
I am only a school student, and I don't know if that matters or not. All I know is that 9/11 has changed my outlook on the world. Before I begin, I want to give my deepest sympathy to those who were lost that day and their families. I also want to thank the heroes, and that could be anyone.
I was in school when my computer teacher walked by my classroom and told my reading teacher that the World Trade Center had been bombed. At that point I had no idea what tthe WTC was, but in no time I would find out. All through the day we watched the news. The problems just seemed to get bigger. And when you sit in a classroom and know you can't do anything to help, it sends a terrible feeling through me. Our school had special councelors come in and talk to students who needed it. Thats how it was all week, but everything went back to normal the next.
Then we went to NYC to see a Broadway play. While there I got to see the WTC memorial site. I was so nervous every single time i heard a plane, and I was so scared something would happen, but I returned home safely but very saddened by the memorials.
Now approaching the 1 year anniversary, my school is having a red, white and blue day, and we are having a tree planting ceremony. This year we were suppost to go to the WTC as a feild trip, but that is obviously impossible. We will still go, but just as tourists.
To end this all I have to say is that this attack will live forever in history, just as Pearl Harbor did. I will always remember the day I felt like the world was ending, and when I got to see all those "missing" posters at the WTC site along with the blown out subway. It will live forever inside me. It should live inside everyone forever.
I was in school when my computer teacher walked by my classroom and told my reading teacher that the World Trade Center had been bombed. At that point I had no idea what tthe WTC was, but in no time I would find out. All through the day we watched the news. The problems just seemed to get bigger. And when you sit in a classroom and know you can't do anything to help, it sends a terrible feeling through me. Our school had special councelors come in and talk to students who needed it. Thats how it was all week, but everything went back to normal the next.
Then we went to NYC to see a Broadway play. While there I got to see the WTC memorial site. I was so nervous every single time i heard a plane, and I was so scared something would happen, but I returned home safely but very saddened by the memorials.
Now approaching the 1 year anniversary, my school is having a red, white and blue day, and we are having a tree planting ceremony. This year we were suppost to go to the WTC as a feild trip, but that is obviously impossible. We will still go, but just as tourists.
To end this all I have to say is that this attack will live forever in history, just as Pearl Harbor did. I will always remember the day I felt like the world was ending, and when I got to see all those "missing" posters at the WTC site along with the blown out subway. It will live forever inside me. It should live inside everyone forever.
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Citation
“story1855.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 13, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/12010.