story2395.xml
Title
story2395.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
A Day We Will Never Forget
September 11 2001 was a day that no one will soon forget, as its one year anniversary draws nearer the horrific memories of that tragic day are drugged from the back of every ones minds. I?m getting ahead of myself. I should start at the beginning. As pain full as these memories are they should never be forgotten, as history tends to repeat itself.
It started off as a day like any other. People allover the U.S. got up, got dressed and went to work or school. I was among those people. School started of the same as any other day, but by what I'm almost positive was second period it was changed that?s when heard the news of what had happened. She had told me with a blank look, "A plane had hit the word trade center buildings. I don?t remember much else about that conversation except that the fact hadn?t sunk in and I had convinced my self that it must have been a small privet plane that had gotten through off corse and left it as nothing more then that. There was a sort of tension around school roomers that a jet liner had hit the building and that it was an act of terrorism but never for a second did I believe that any of this might be true. It wasn?t until fifth period that I found out the truth. The TV kept replaying the footage of the 1st plane hit, it had been a jetliner, and then another one had hit. Then I began to see people jump from hundreds of feet in the air I was astonished at the sight, how horrible it must have been that people thought the only rational thing to do was to jump to there deaths. When the building fell so did the hopes and dreams of a nation.
The aftermath was both good and bad. The country united in the tragedy. People gave thanks to the fact that there were a few survivors, but mean while thousands among thousands of life?s were lost and changed. Flags started appearing on every house and even on cars. There was millions of dollars was donated to the families of the victims and to the victims themselves.
I was fortunet that I did not directly no any of the victims, but I did no people who did. People who will never be able to visit a grave and no that the body of there loved one was there. Thousands of people will never in there life have closure. A very close friend of mine when out and joined the army after the fact, and I have never seen him since. I no that if September 11th would have been a day like any other he would still be here.
So you can see that September 11th had sum sort of effect on all of us even we don?t know it, because someone we knows life was changed. I hope that we will never forget what happened because I never want anyone to have to suffer as thousands have. So I tell you remember we owe it to the victims, ourselves, and the future generations to make sure that in this instance history doest repeat itself.
September 11 2001 was a day that no one will soon forget, as its one year anniversary draws nearer the horrific memories of that tragic day are drugged from the back of every ones minds. I?m getting ahead of myself. I should start at the beginning. As pain full as these memories are they should never be forgotten, as history tends to repeat itself.
It started off as a day like any other. People allover the U.S. got up, got dressed and went to work or school. I was among those people. School started of the same as any other day, but by what I'm almost positive was second period it was changed that?s when heard the news of what had happened. She had told me with a blank look, "A plane had hit the word trade center buildings. I don?t remember much else about that conversation except that the fact hadn?t sunk in and I had convinced my self that it must have been a small privet plane that had gotten through off corse and left it as nothing more then that. There was a sort of tension around school roomers that a jet liner had hit the building and that it was an act of terrorism but never for a second did I believe that any of this might be true. It wasn?t until fifth period that I found out the truth. The TV kept replaying the footage of the 1st plane hit, it had been a jetliner, and then another one had hit. Then I began to see people jump from hundreds of feet in the air I was astonished at the sight, how horrible it must have been that people thought the only rational thing to do was to jump to there deaths. When the building fell so did the hopes and dreams of a nation.
The aftermath was both good and bad. The country united in the tragedy. People gave thanks to the fact that there were a few survivors, but mean while thousands among thousands of life?s were lost and changed. Flags started appearing on every house and even on cars. There was millions of dollars was donated to the families of the victims and to the victims themselves.
I was fortunet that I did not directly no any of the victims, but I did no people who did. People who will never be able to visit a grave and no that the body of there loved one was there. Thousands of people will never in there life have closure. A very close friend of mine when out and joined the army after the fact, and I have never seen him since. I no that if September 11th would have been a day like any other he would still be here.
So you can see that September 11th had sum sort of effect on all of us even we don?t know it, because someone we knows life was changed. I hope that we will never forget what happened because I never want anyone to have to suffer as thousands have. So I tell you remember we owe it to the victims, ourselves, and the future generations to make sure that in this instance history doest repeat itself.
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“story2395.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 2, 2026, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/14700.