story5747.xml
Title
story5747.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
I was at work going through my usual routine when Lauren, the mold repair man came to the production floor obviously in an alarmed state.
He always has a radio on in his backroom where he works and he said that he had just heard a report on the radio that an airliner has smashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center!
I immediately went outside to take a look outside because on my drive to work it appeared to be a beautiful day and still was with crystal clear blue skies.
Being a former holder of a private pilots license I was dumbfounded as to how such an "accident" could possibly happen with such perfect flying conditions.
Then I don't think it was even an hour later when he came running out again to say that a second plane had struck the other tower.Then it dawned on us all that these were no "accidents". We were being attacked!
Then the rest of the day just seem to take on a surreal quality as the reports kept coming in of the Pentagon being struck and of the White House and Capital Building being evacuated,an additional plane crashing in Pennslyvannia!
We were all numbed by shock and confused about what was happening and who it that was doing this to us.Then to me the most surreal and unbelieveable event was when it was reported that one of towers had collapsed which was shortly followed by the collapse of the second tower.
It was just simply inconcieveable to me that those two hugh majestic towers that I had seen many times, were simply no longer there.I just couldn't fathom that reality.
Then when I finally arrived home that afternoon there were all those unforgettable images of the billowing smoke. the ghostlike, dust encrusted people walking seemingly in a daze out from the city, the images of the second plane striking the tower playing over and over again until it was mindnumbing to point that I was in a daze as well.
Then I remember thinking that day of something I had often wondered about.You see I have always been somewhat of a World War 2 history buff and I had tried to imagine what my mother and father felt like when the news flash that Pearl Harbor had been attacked nand that their country was now suddenly at war. I had often tried to imagine what actually experiencing such a tragic, enormous historical, life changing event would be like. Now, regetably,I can finally say that I think I know how now
He always has a radio on in his backroom where he works and he said that he had just heard a report on the radio that an airliner has smashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center!
I immediately went outside to take a look outside because on my drive to work it appeared to be a beautiful day and still was with crystal clear blue skies.
Being a former holder of a private pilots license I was dumbfounded as to how such an "accident" could possibly happen with such perfect flying conditions.
Then I don't think it was even an hour later when he came running out again to say that a second plane had struck the other tower.Then it dawned on us all that these were no "accidents". We were being attacked!
Then the rest of the day just seem to take on a surreal quality as the reports kept coming in of the Pentagon being struck and of the White House and Capital Building being evacuated,an additional plane crashing in Pennslyvannia!
We were all numbed by shock and confused about what was happening and who it that was doing this to us.Then to me the most surreal and unbelieveable event was when it was reported that one of towers had collapsed which was shortly followed by the collapse of the second tower.
It was just simply inconcieveable to me that those two hugh majestic towers that I had seen many times, were simply no longer there.I just couldn't fathom that reality.
Then when I finally arrived home that afternoon there were all those unforgettable images of the billowing smoke. the ghostlike, dust encrusted people walking seemingly in a daze out from the city, the images of the second plane striking the tower playing over and over again until it was mindnumbing to point that I was in a daze as well.
Then I remember thinking that day of something I had often wondered about.You see I have always been somewhat of a World War 2 history buff and I had tried to imagine what my mother and father felt like when the news flash that Pearl Harbor had been attacked nand that their country was now suddenly at war. I had often tried to imagine what actually experiencing such a tragic, enormous historical, life changing event would be like. Now, regetably,I can finally say that I think I know how now
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“story5747.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 17, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/13454.