story5658.xml
Title
story5658.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
On the morning of 9-11, my husband, Cornell Roberts, and I were
scheduled for a 10:00 a.m. business meeting at the World
Trade Center. We had planned to travel from Virginia to New
York CITY on the previous afternoon and had scheduled to stay
in a NYC hotel. Since neither of us had ever visted inside
the WTC, we made plans to enjoy a light breakfast on the
top floor of the WTC at about 8:30 a.m. We told no one of
of our plans- not family nor friends. ( not an usual thing
for us, as we often traveled without telling anyone)
THE ONLY REASON WE ARE HERE TODAY IS DUE TO A TWIST OF FATE!
I became violently ill due to something I ate on Monday morning,
so we canceled our plans for September 11th. Had we carried out
our plans we surely would have been killed. I shutter to think
about how our family and friends would have anguished over our
being missing and the not knowing where we could possibly be.
(Cornell says he thinks he casually mentioned to a friend some
weeks earlier that we had planned to visit NYC but wasn't sure.)
We will never again, make travel plans without letting someone
know of our whereabouts.
We are grateful to God almighty, that we are here to tell our story
but, first and foremost, to express our deepest sympathies to all
those families touched by the tragedy. September 11th has profoundly
touched anyone around the globe with a heart and a sense of humanity.
In the end there is only LOVE. Perhaps someday humankind will learn
and apply the proper balance of LOVE, PEACE, POWER and JUSTICE. May
they triumph over hate, discord, dominence and injustice.
scheduled for a 10:00 a.m. business meeting at the World
Trade Center. We had planned to travel from Virginia to New
York CITY on the previous afternoon and had scheduled to stay
in a NYC hotel. Since neither of us had ever visted inside
the WTC, we made plans to enjoy a light breakfast on the
top floor of the WTC at about 8:30 a.m. We told no one of
of our plans- not family nor friends. ( not an usual thing
for us, as we often traveled without telling anyone)
THE ONLY REASON WE ARE HERE TODAY IS DUE TO A TWIST OF FATE!
I became violently ill due to something I ate on Monday morning,
so we canceled our plans for September 11th. Had we carried out
our plans we surely would have been killed. I shutter to think
about how our family and friends would have anguished over our
being missing and the not knowing where we could possibly be.
(Cornell says he thinks he casually mentioned to a friend some
weeks earlier that we had planned to visit NYC but wasn't sure.)
We will never again, make travel plans without letting someone
know of our whereabouts.
We are grateful to God almighty, that we are here to tell our story
but, first and foremost, to express our deepest sympathies to all
those families touched by the tragedy. September 11th has profoundly
touched anyone around the globe with a heart and a sense of humanity.
In the end there is only LOVE. Perhaps someday humankind will learn
and apply the proper balance of LOVE, PEACE, POWER and JUSTICE. May
they triumph over hate, discord, dominence and injustice.
Collection
Citation
“story5658.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 27, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/13348.