story3594.xml
Title
story3594.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
I remember it like it was yester day, I was in my first period class, working on the school?s laptops as a tech aid for our technology teacher when my teacher told me to come down the hall way with him and said that something had happened, we turned the corner and stared at the TV to see the horrifying videos of a plane crashing into one of the world trade centers.
As I saw the black smoke I became completely speechless, my focus ness was distracted as I heard a man?s voice asking how many lives were in danger, another replied that he had no idea. Then my teacher spoke out and startled me by saying ?hundreds.? The room grew very quiet once again, as the second plane crashed into the second world trade center. Someone murmured ?thousands? we all were frozen in shock, watching that fire and smoke rise into the clear blue sky.
Later during mast of my up coming classes we watched the news asking questions out loud only to be answered by silence. Closer to the end of the day I got a chance to call my mother, which set my mind at ease? a little, even though New York was hundreds of miles away I couldn?t help but think that my mother, father, sister and her husband could somehow get into an car wreck and get hurt or worst. But when I talked to her she told me that everyone was fine.
But what still plaques my mind today is that hundreds of kids came home to find that their moms or dads or both didn?t come home, and that some waited days to hear if their parents, friends or other family members were alive or not. But days after 9/11/01 I was watching TV when I heard that many shops and stores had run out of American flags and went I rode my bike up and down our street I saw that almost everyone had a flag or banner supporting America in it?s time of grief. And once again on the one year anniversary of September the 11th 2001 America has reunited and remembered what happened one year ago today.
Today is September the 11th 2002. My motto now is:? live each day like there will not be a tomorrow." Because who knows what will happen tomorrow.
As I saw the black smoke I became completely speechless, my focus ness was distracted as I heard a man?s voice asking how many lives were in danger, another replied that he had no idea. Then my teacher spoke out and startled me by saying ?hundreds.? The room grew very quiet once again, as the second plane crashed into the second world trade center. Someone murmured ?thousands? we all were frozen in shock, watching that fire and smoke rise into the clear blue sky.
Later during mast of my up coming classes we watched the news asking questions out loud only to be answered by silence. Closer to the end of the day I got a chance to call my mother, which set my mind at ease? a little, even though New York was hundreds of miles away I couldn?t help but think that my mother, father, sister and her husband could somehow get into an car wreck and get hurt or worst. But when I talked to her she told me that everyone was fine.
But what still plaques my mind today is that hundreds of kids came home to find that their moms or dads or both didn?t come home, and that some waited days to hear if their parents, friends or other family members were alive or not. But days after 9/11/01 I was watching TV when I heard that many shops and stores had run out of American flags and went I rode my bike up and down our street I saw that almost everyone had a flag or banner supporting America in it?s time of grief. And once again on the one year anniversary of September the 11th 2001 America has reunited and remembered what happened one year ago today.
Today is September the 11th 2002. My motto now is:? live each day like there will not be a tomorrow." Because who knows what will happen tomorrow.
Collection
Citation
“story3594.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 25, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/13976.