story8046.xml
Title
story8046.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-21
911DA Story: Story
It was around three or four o'clock in the morning on September 11, 2001, when our phone rang. Our family friend, Robert, called us and said, "Hurry and turn on the TV." (He's in the military) My Mom sensed that something was wrong because it was very early in the morning. She ran to the TV and there it was. It was the site that changed the world. The first tower was burning! My family and I couldn't believe what we saw. We sat there and stared at the TV, then the second plane crashed into the other tower!
I listened to the radio to see if we still had school and surely we did. But security was tight. No one was let into school without their ID's. Everyone was talking about it and whenever we saw a plane pass by some stupid kids would say, "Watch out we're next." I still remember the moment of silence we had at school that year. The whole school gathered around the flag pole and bowed their heads for all the poor lives that were taken.
After school my family and I went to my uncles house because it was his birthday. He was very depressed because this act of terrorism had to happen on his special day. He said to us with humor, "My birthday is cursed."
The three Arab kids that went to my school were being teased and threatened by the other students. A group of students were saying that they were going to vandalize their dad's store.
During Halloween people were saying that they wanted to be Osama Bin Laden, but one of my teachers talked to the principal about it and it was forbidden.
I listened to the radio to see if we still had school and surely we did. But security was tight. No one was let into school without their ID's. Everyone was talking about it and whenever we saw a plane pass by some stupid kids would say, "Watch out we're next." I still remember the moment of silence we had at school that year. The whole school gathered around the flag pole and bowed their heads for all the poor lives that were taken.
After school my family and I went to my uncles house because it was his birthday. He was very depressed because this act of terrorism had to happen on his special day. He said to us with humor, "My birthday is cursed."
The three Arab kids that went to my school were being teased and threatened by the other students. A group of students were saying that they were going to vandalize their dad's store.
During Halloween people were saying that they wanted to be Osama Bin Laden, but one of my teachers talked to the principal about it and it was forbidden.
Collection
Citation
“story8046.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 20, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/14044.