story2170.xml
Title
story2170.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
As the first real attack on the US occured since the War of 1812, I was sleeping since it was 5:46 am Pacific time. As usual when I woke I ignored the TV and Radio and proceeded to go on-line to read the news but for some reason I could not get onto the news sites on the net at 7:30 am pacific/ 10:30am eastern, so I read email and such, took a shower, dressed, and started driving to work. I neded to get gas and when I pulled into the station at about 8:30 pacific/ 11:30 eastern, all the cars radios were not playing music but were instead all playing news which totally struck me as odd. I asked the guy next to me in an old beat-up pickup "is anything going on?" "Hell", he stated, the World Trade Center was hit by jetliners and so was the Pentagon and other airliners are heading off their flight paths."
In shock, after filling my tank I dirverted my normal pth to work and went down the street to my best friends shop. Watched TV there and the TV only showed a huge cloud of smoke over NYC because both towers were down. After a half hour, I shot back to my home, called into work stating I would be late, and turned on the TV and the Internet. My new neighbor was totally upset having just moved to the LA area from NYC 3 months earlier. Went to work listening to newsradio and becomming more and more freaked. Working in the advertising dept for a newspaper, I knew I had to be there to accept ad execute the massive changes in advertising from my clients.
My best friend's cousin Worked in the WTC, the tower that fell later in the afternoon. It took her over 24 hours to reach home in NJ and everyone thought she was dead. I had met her once.
My concern about NYC was that a domono effect would cause buildings to topple and topple. The Pentagon was a disaster. The fact that the 4th airliner turned over the Cleveland area (my hometown) gave me the creeps.
As I learned about the organization that did this, the more I saw the links politically with the German Nazi Party of the 1930's. I guess the thing that bothers me is that so much of the world, seeing it live on TV, hearing Bin Laden pople admit they did it, still think the Jews did it or the US government did it. That is more frightening to me then the event... it is litrally arguing that the daylit sky is Red. Masive majorities of Muslins around the world think jews did it or the US even after hearing Bin Laden and his people admit it. Amazing that people think they are civilized. I think most if not all of the civilized Muslims have moved to the West already and the worst of them have taken advantage of this to infiltrate the West and worse will happen. I also believe Iraq has a major hand in this because after the event suddenly Saddam talks in religious terms and Sadam is the type that would be behind something like this but he would supply bin laden and his followers with special radio channels and equipment to do it so it could not be tracked.
In shock, after filling my tank I dirverted my normal pth to work and went down the street to my best friends shop. Watched TV there and the TV only showed a huge cloud of smoke over NYC because both towers were down. After a half hour, I shot back to my home, called into work stating I would be late, and turned on the TV and the Internet. My new neighbor was totally upset having just moved to the LA area from NYC 3 months earlier. Went to work listening to newsradio and becomming more and more freaked. Working in the advertising dept for a newspaper, I knew I had to be there to accept ad execute the massive changes in advertising from my clients.
My best friend's cousin Worked in the WTC, the tower that fell later in the afternoon. It took her over 24 hours to reach home in NJ and everyone thought she was dead. I had met her once.
My concern about NYC was that a domono effect would cause buildings to topple and topple. The Pentagon was a disaster. The fact that the 4th airliner turned over the Cleveland area (my hometown) gave me the creeps.
As I learned about the organization that did this, the more I saw the links politically with the German Nazi Party of the 1930's. I guess the thing that bothers me is that so much of the world, seeing it live on TV, hearing Bin Laden pople admit they did it, still think the Jews did it or the US government did it. That is more frightening to me then the event... it is litrally arguing that the daylit sky is Red. Masive majorities of Muslins around the world think jews did it or the US even after hearing Bin Laden and his people admit it. Amazing that people think they are civilized. I think most if not all of the civilized Muslims have moved to the West already and the worst of them have taken advantage of this to infiltrate the West and worse will happen. I also believe Iraq has a major hand in this because after the event suddenly Saddam talks in religious terms and Sadam is the type that would be behind something like this but he would supply bin laden and his followers with special radio channels and equipment to do it so it could not be tracked.
Collection
Citation
“story2170.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 23, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/17580.