story3341.xml
Title
story3341.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
The first thing I did that day was drop off my oldest daughter to her first day of Kindergarten. I kissed her good bye and told her that I loved her while choking back some tears because it was such a big day for her. I came home and was sitting on the sofa to fold some laundry and watch a little t.v.
When the channel had interrupted with the bulliten and the footage of the planes crashing into the WTC, I think that the first thing I remembered feel was a state of disbelief and total shock. I thought it was a bad dream. As the hour went on and they were showing people covered in ash running and screaming for their lives, I started to cry.
Then, the school called to inform me that I needed to pick up my daughter right away and that the governor had called a state of emergency. There were parents crying in the hallways of the school and the poor school kids didn't know whether to cry or scream. That day, I had found out that my uncle was supposed to be on that plane that crashed in Pitts. but he missed his flight !!
I think the hardest thing I had to do, was to try and answer my 5 year olds questions about what had happened and "Who were the bad men who did this." This tragedy has definately made a big impact in my family life. We never go anywhere without telling the ones we are leaving behind, that we love them. Tonight as a rememberance of the one year anniversary, my family and I plan to spend a quiet night at home sitting together as a family.
I would like to take this opportunity to say , I hope that God grants those who were lost, peace and to those of us who were left behind to pick up the pieces and move on, I wish that God grants you solice to your hearts and know that as long as you carry their memories in your heart, you are never alone !!
GOD BLESS AMERICA
The Russell Family
When the channel had interrupted with the bulliten and the footage of the planes crashing into the WTC, I think that the first thing I remembered feel was a state of disbelief and total shock. I thought it was a bad dream. As the hour went on and they were showing people covered in ash running and screaming for their lives, I started to cry.
Then, the school called to inform me that I needed to pick up my daughter right away and that the governor had called a state of emergency. There were parents crying in the hallways of the school and the poor school kids didn't know whether to cry or scream. That day, I had found out that my uncle was supposed to be on that plane that crashed in Pitts. but he missed his flight !!
I think the hardest thing I had to do, was to try and answer my 5 year olds questions about what had happened and "Who were the bad men who did this." This tragedy has definately made a big impact in my family life. We never go anywhere without telling the ones we are leaving behind, that we love them. Tonight as a rememberance of the one year anniversary, my family and I plan to spend a quiet night at home sitting together as a family.
I would like to take this opportunity to say , I hope that God grants those who were lost, peace and to those of us who were left behind to pick up the pieces and move on, I wish that God grants you solice to your hearts and know that as long as you carry their memories in your heart, you are never alone !!
GOD BLESS AMERICA
The Russell Family
Collection
Citation
“story3341.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 20, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/18277.