story10981.xml
Title
story10981.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2004-09-12
911DA Story: Story
Who expected 9/11? It happened as a total surprise. When I arrived in my Eighth Grade drama class, I would never have guessed that there would be a terrorist attack.
However there I was sitting in disbelief with the rest of my drama class watching the news in shock. An announcement came on we moved to the next class. During my civics class we came in, some people were still shocked and watching the pictures on TV over and over again, and then there were some kids making flippant comments to cope with what they were seeing. Then Mrs. Gardella turned off the TV because she thought that it the news was repetitive since the reporters had no new information. She gave the class work to do, but no one cared about the busywork we were given, it was meaningless compared to the magnitude of the events that had occurred.
There were frantic people crying all over, worried about their parents in the Military. I had no reason to worry because although my father works for the government, he is not close to the Pentagon. Even if I was worried, the phones in the entire school had formed lines, and the cell phone lines were hopelessly jammed. Without calling my family I walked home and outside it was a sunny day despite the gloomy events. At home I was told that everyone in my family was fine. I joined my family in silent TV watching, waiting for any new information, which if broadcasted was seldom and hardly worth waiting for. I went to bed not fully sure of what had gone down. 9/11 affected the way everyone lived their lives, for the next months it was incorporated somehow into every conversation, no matter what it was about. It related to every aspect of our lives and will never be forgotten.
However there I was sitting in disbelief with the rest of my drama class watching the news in shock. An announcement came on we moved to the next class. During my civics class we came in, some people were still shocked and watching the pictures on TV over and over again, and then there were some kids making flippant comments to cope with what they were seeing. Then Mrs. Gardella turned off the TV because she thought that it the news was repetitive since the reporters had no new information. She gave the class work to do, but no one cared about the busywork we were given, it was meaningless compared to the magnitude of the events that had occurred.
There were frantic people crying all over, worried about their parents in the Military. I had no reason to worry because although my father works for the government, he is not close to the Pentagon. Even if I was worried, the phones in the entire school had formed lines, and the cell phone lines were hopelessly jammed. Without calling my family I walked home and outside it was a sunny day despite the gloomy events. At home I was told that everyone in my family was fine. I joined my family in silent TV watching, waiting for any new information, which if broadcasted was seldom and hardly worth waiting for. I went to bed not fully sure of what had gone down. 9/11 affected the way everyone lived their lives, for the next months it was incorporated somehow into every conversation, no matter what it was about. It related to every aspect of our lives and will never be forgotten.
Collection
Citation
“story10981.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 9, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/12391.