story3650.xml
Title
story3650.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
During the evening of September 14th, I sat down with my journal to write about September 11th:
Today is Friday. The worst thing in the history of United States, as I know it up to this moment, happened Tuesday morning. A terrorist attack took place a little after 9:00am. I was in school at the time. After the second period of the day, I ran into [my friend] Jason who said a teacher told everyone that a plane had crashed into the twin towers...I passed through the auditorium and the tv was on with coverage of the events. The other 2 targets were the whitehouse and pentagon...At lunchtime, a teacher let me call home to see if everything was ok. Other students were calling, too...The school was chaotic. No classes were proceeding and all the tv's were turned on. All the shows had stopped and every single channel was covering the events. Some of the teachers were crying. Everyone else was silent. When conversations started, the guys were talking about who did it, and the girls were talking about the people who were killed. Though it seems sexist, that was a definite division in within conversations. The tv's were still on. They kept showing the same scenes over and over again: the planes hitting and the buildings collapsing. There was a plane that crashed in a field in Pittsburg. It only took 4 planes from Boston that were hijacked by Afghanistans with box cutters. My mother picked me up after school and I had a dentist appointment and a senior picture appointment. Each waiting room had the tv on with the continuing coverage. After all had calmed down, the entire country seemed to pull together to help. It made me very proud to be a citizen of this country. I just hope it's just one day...and not the beginning of something worse.
Today is Friday. The worst thing in the history of United States, as I know it up to this moment, happened Tuesday morning. A terrorist attack took place a little after 9:00am. I was in school at the time. After the second period of the day, I ran into [my friend] Jason who said a teacher told everyone that a plane had crashed into the twin towers...I passed through the auditorium and the tv was on with coverage of the events. The other 2 targets were the whitehouse and pentagon...At lunchtime, a teacher let me call home to see if everything was ok. Other students were calling, too...The school was chaotic. No classes were proceeding and all the tv's were turned on. All the shows had stopped and every single channel was covering the events. Some of the teachers were crying. Everyone else was silent. When conversations started, the guys were talking about who did it, and the girls were talking about the people who were killed. Though it seems sexist, that was a definite division in within conversations. The tv's were still on. They kept showing the same scenes over and over again: the planes hitting and the buildings collapsing. There was a plane that crashed in a field in Pittsburg. It only took 4 planes from Boston that were hijacked by Afghanistans with box cutters. My mother picked me up after school and I had a dentist appointment and a senior picture appointment. Each waiting room had the tv on with the continuing coverage. After all had calmed down, the entire country seemed to pull together to help. It made me very proud to be a citizen of this country. I just hope it's just one day...and not the beginning of something worse.
Collection
Citation
“story3650.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 8, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/19331.