story716.xml
Title
story716.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-06-05
911DA Story: Story
I woke up. It felt like a normal day. I was sleepy and very hungry. I
went to school on the bus with my friends and my backpack. My first period class was Spanish and I didn't hear anything about the attack, probably because nothing had happened yet. I went to my second period class and still nothing. When I got to my third period class, the classroom was dark with the television on. The class was Global Studies; the teacher being Mrs. Capen. I walked into the room and I saw the really big news on the television. At first I thought it was just a rerun of the bomb that was in the Twin Towers in 1993 because I saw the gaping hole in the side of one of the towers. When I saw the other plane hit I got really scared because I thought, "what if one of my family members was in one of the towers?" After this my class and I heard that a large airplane also had struck the Pentagon. All that period we watched the devastating disaster. My class and I watched the first tower collapse which made everyone fell very sad inside. When that class was over I knew that was going to be a class to remember.
I went to Earth Science next. It was exactly like my Global Studies class. My teacher Mr. Goldpenny said, " The school never said that we had to teach our classes." So all during that period we watched CNN. My friend and I usually talk constantly during Earth Science lab but this was the first time that we had never talked during this class because it was so important to our lives that we paid attention to this historical event.
I watched CNN every period that day, even during my lunch period! I went home and my mother ran up to me and hugged me because she was so happy that we weren't involved in the "Attack on America". I flopped on the couch because I was so tired and I was hoping that there was something on television to watch, like a good movie, but every fifteen out of twenty channels where talking about the attack, or playing the collapse of the second tower.
The same day that this all happened another plane went down in Somerset, Pennsylvania. The passengers of the plane fought the terrorists and the plane crashed in some field in Pennsylvania. About three days afterwards, people were telling me that the plane in Somerset, Pennsylvania was supposed to be going to Somerset, New York (where Barker is located). The terrorists were aiming for Somerset because there is a major power plant called AES. AES generates power for some of Manhattan. This was only a rumor.
After the devastating disaster everyone, including me, were very sad and had high hopes for some payback on Osama bin Laden. Now this tragedy has influenced people to give blood and give money to the Red Cross to help the injured.
went to school on the bus with my friends and my backpack. My first period class was Spanish and I didn't hear anything about the attack, probably because nothing had happened yet. I went to my second period class and still nothing. When I got to my third period class, the classroom was dark with the television on. The class was Global Studies; the teacher being Mrs. Capen. I walked into the room and I saw the really big news on the television. At first I thought it was just a rerun of the bomb that was in the Twin Towers in 1993 because I saw the gaping hole in the side of one of the towers. When I saw the other plane hit I got really scared because I thought, "what if one of my family members was in one of the towers?" After this my class and I heard that a large airplane also had struck the Pentagon. All that period we watched the devastating disaster. My class and I watched the first tower collapse which made everyone fell very sad inside. When that class was over I knew that was going to be a class to remember.
I went to Earth Science next. It was exactly like my Global Studies class. My teacher Mr. Goldpenny said, " The school never said that we had to teach our classes." So all during that period we watched CNN. My friend and I usually talk constantly during Earth Science lab but this was the first time that we had never talked during this class because it was so important to our lives that we paid attention to this historical event.
I watched CNN every period that day, even during my lunch period! I went home and my mother ran up to me and hugged me because she was so happy that we weren't involved in the "Attack on America". I flopped on the couch because I was so tired and I was hoping that there was something on television to watch, like a good movie, but every fifteen out of twenty channels where talking about the attack, or playing the collapse of the second tower.
The same day that this all happened another plane went down in Somerset, Pennsylvania. The passengers of the plane fought the terrorists and the plane crashed in some field in Pennsylvania. About three days afterwards, people were telling me that the plane in Somerset, Pennsylvania was supposed to be going to Somerset, New York (where Barker is located). The terrorists were aiming for Somerset because there is a major power plant called AES. AES generates power for some of Manhattan. This was only a rumor.
After the devastating disaster everyone, including me, were very sad and had high hopes for some payback on Osama bin Laden. Now this tragedy has influenced people to give blood and give money to the Red Cross to help the injured.
Collection
Citation
“story716.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 10, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/12809.