September 11 Digital Archive

story7143.xml

Title

story7143.xml

Source

born-digital

Media Type

story

Created by Author

yes

Described by Author

no

Date Entered

2002-09-13

911DA Story: Story

I think, not only american people where shocked on this day, by this terrible action in New York, Washingtion and Shanksville.
Also for me first it was a very normal day, on September, 11. 2001. In the morning I did my work at a policestation near by, at a policeman like every day in the last years. In the afternoon, I was sitting at meal in the kitchen, my son came in at 8.55 a.m.(New York time,14.55 MEZ) and said, that the radiospaeker says, that a plane crashed in a building in New York. I said, that is unbelievable, that could not be. However, ..., at once I watched TV. And I saw the desaster in New York and then, a few minutes later, the second plane came in ...! We were shocked, sitting at the TV and not able to speak... all the people, firemen, policemen and so on...
Next day, at policestation, nobody makes a joke or something like this, all men were calm and concentrated. Everybody knew what this desaster meaned, the world changed!
We are with you in this days...

Ansgar Berning, Nordhorn, Germany

Citation

“story7143.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 10, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/12408.