story763.xml
Title
story763.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-06-08
911DA Story: Story
It was September 11, 2001 and it was just like any other day. I woke up at 6:00 a.m. just like i do every morning, got ready for school, went downstairs and ate breakfest with my dad. I then went outside to wait for the bus. I got to school, did my daily routine of first going to my locker and talking with friends. Then my friends Jill, Bre, and Kristen walked me to my Spanish Class, just like we do every morning. I sat through my boring Spanish class, and then went off to seccond period Global where we were learning about the Taliban.
We were having a normal class discussion when one of the other teachers came running over to our classroom and told our teacher Mrs. Capen to turn on the television our classroom. So we turned it on to CNN and saw the seccond plane crash right into the twin towers, and what i still cannot belive, is that we saw it live! Our whole class just seemed to sit there in silence with a look of disbelief on their faces. This must be a joke we thought, there's no way this could be happening. But it wasn't a joke. We sat there and watched CNN for the rest of the class, in total silence. No one made andy stupid comments, or continued a conversation with a friend, like we usually would. America had been attacked, somthing like this hasn't happend since Pearl Harbor. After the bell rang telling us class was over, we all slowly got out of our seats and kept our eye on the television as we were walking out. As we all walked out of our classrooms that day, everyone was feeling different about what happened. Some people were full of anger at not only what had happened, but who had done it to us. Many people felt that the blame should be on all Afgans, and showed a great deal of anger toward them. Others were just sad, and most of us were both angery and sad that anyone would ever do this to the United States. We continued to watch the news for updates that whole day, in every class. And when we saw our friends in the hallway we didn't talk about what we were going to do that weekend or the latest gossip, we talked about what had just happened, and how we were going to deal with it. No one wanted to be in school when this happened; they just wanted to go home to their families where they flet safe. I remember the night of September 11, my friend Jill called me. We must have talked on the phone for at least an hour just about September 11, how it effected us, and how scared we both were. This was such a hard time for everyone, we all needed someone to talk to. Everyone started acting nicer to one another you could be at the mall and someone would do somthing as simple asjust hold the door open for you. Everyone was showing signs of unity. I know that September 11 will be a day remembered in history forver, and maybe people will not always be as kind to others, but our country will always have a special bond, that can never be broken, not by anyone!
We were having a normal class discussion when one of the other teachers came running over to our classroom and told our teacher Mrs. Capen to turn on the television our classroom. So we turned it on to CNN and saw the seccond plane crash right into the twin towers, and what i still cannot belive, is that we saw it live! Our whole class just seemed to sit there in silence with a look of disbelief on their faces. This must be a joke we thought, there's no way this could be happening. But it wasn't a joke. We sat there and watched CNN for the rest of the class, in total silence. No one made andy stupid comments, or continued a conversation with a friend, like we usually would. America had been attacked, somthing like this hasn't happend since Pearl Harbor. After the bell rang telling us class was over, we all slowly got out of our seats and kept our eye on the television as we were walking out. As we all walked out of our classrooms that day, everyone was feeling different about what happened. Some people were full of anger at not only what had happened, but who had done it to us. Many people felt that the blame should be on all Afgans, and showed a great deal of anger toward them. Others were just sad, and most of us were both angery and sad that anyone would ever do this to the United States. We continued to watch the news for updates that whole day, in every class. And when we saw our friends in the hallway we didn't talk about what we were going to do that weekend or the latest gossip, we talked about what had just happened, and how we were going to deal with it. No one wanted to be in school when this happened; they just wanted to go home to their families where they flet safe. I remember the night of September 11, my friend Jill called me. We must have talked on the phone for at least an hour just about September 11, how it effected us, and how scared we both were. This was such a hard time for everyone, we all needed someone to talk to. Everyone started acting nicer to one another you could be at the mall and someone would do somthing as simple asjust hold the door open for you. Everyone was showing signs of unity. I know that September 11 will be a day remembered in history forver, and maybe people will not always be as kind to others, but our country will always have a special bond, that can never be broken, not by anyone!
Collection
Citation
“story763.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 30, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/12630.