story6367.xml
Title
story6367.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-12
911DA Story: Story
I was in my french class when i first heard about it. A boy in my class had told us at the being of the hour that planes crashed into the World Trade Centers. We all laughed at him because he was known for making trouble.
I then went to math and my teacher brought us down to someone's elses class. I then saw alot of people sitting there watching TV. I looked at the TV to see what was going on and i saw the first towers burning. I watched stunned for a little while and then the second plane came. I sat there wondering what is this, did it happen years ago. I then saw it was dated September 11, 2001 and I knew it didn't happen years ago. I then thought it's a movie but so life like. I sat there and my best friend turned around and saw, she was scared, I looked around and saw people praying and then I knew it was real.
I sat there crying in front of my classmates and some of them comforted me asking if there was some of family in there and I don't know! My grandma was catching a flight from Virgina to Louisiana and i was scared she might be on one of the planes. I later found out she wasn't!
We then heard of the Pentatgon. We were all scared.
It brought us back to the towers and thats when we firts saw people jumping. They closed up on one person and my friend sitting next started screaming. She said it looked like her mom. Her mom worked int he towers at one of the very top floors. My friend later called her dad and he told her that her mother had died. Her mother had been one of the jumpers but we didn't know for sure if it was the person we saw.
In the rest of classes we watched the TV and for the rest of the weeks we donated money, stories, and pray to the people that lost loved ones or that were still working to get the people out. We did patrotic things for the rest of the year.
Almost a year later of I realized he gave us freewill but that asnwer wasn't enough for me so I kept thinking. I then thougth God might have not thoguth of this happening but it did and we showed him that we have love, forgiveness, pity, and enough to sacrafice our lives and others things. I also realized without suffering there can't be compasion, without love there can't be sacrafice and forgiveness, and without tragedy ther can't be unity!
I then went to math and my teacher brought us down to someone's elses class. I then saw alot of people sitting there watching TV. I looked at the TV to see what was going on and i saw the first towers burning. I watched stunned for a little while and then the second plane came. I sat there wondering what is this, did it happen years ago. I then saw it was dated September 11, 2001 and I knew it didn't happen years ago. I then thought it's a movie but so life like. I sat there and my best friend turned around and saw, she was scared, I looked around and saw people praying and then I knew it was real.
I sat there crying in front of my classmates and some of them comforted me asking if there was some of family in there and I don't know! My grandma was catching a flight from Virgina to Louisiana and i was scared she might be on one of the planes. I later found out she wasn't!
We then heard of the Pentatgon. We were all scared.
It brought us back to the towers and thats when we firts saw people jumping. They closed up on one person and my friend sitting next started screaming. She said it looked like her mom. Her mom worked int he towers at one of the very top floors. My friend later called her dad and he told her that her mother had died. Her mother had been one of the jumpers but we didn't know for sure if it was the person we saw.
In the rest of classes we watched the TV and for the rest of the weeks we donated money, stories, and pray to the people that lost loved ones or that were still working to get the people out. We did patrotic things for the rest of the year.
Almost a year later of I realized he gave us freewill but that asnwer wasn't enough for me so I kept thinking. I then thougth God might have not thoguth of this happening but it did and we showed him that we have love, forgiveness, pity, and enough to sacrafice our lives and others things. I also realized without suffering there can't be compasion, without love there can't be sacrafice and forgiveness, and without tragedy ther can't be unity!
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“story6367.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 15, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/14577.