story20658.xml
Title
story20658.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2006-09-11
911DA Story: Story
The night before I had been watching friends and remember at about 1130 Pacific time I was tired and needed to go to bed. The next morning I laid in bed and just didn't want to get up but I said I need to get up and from the night before I left the channel on that I was watching friends on which was KTLA out of L.A. Satellite tv you know. I remember putting on the TV and The World Trade Center was on fire.
I yelled an expletive that I won't use here but I remember calling a friend of mine in Boston and she was freaking out and she said it was highjacked airliners. I asked her who was her confirmation source as we both work in media and she gave me a good source, actually 2 of them. I remember she put me on hold and I woke up about 5 minutes after the second plane. So when WABC in New York replayed the video and I dropped the video and screamed.
She came back to me and getting a call out was so difficult. Were sorry all circuits are busy. That voice rings in my head to this day and when I hear it does bring me back to the morning. I call my Boss at the time and go are you watching this? He says what and I told him and he went into action as did I.
I got to work and like all Hell was breaking loose already and for me it was a horror and a day I never want to endure again. But I remember I got back home as I live across the street from work and now I know what they mean by home field advantage. I remember getting into the shower and Listening to Howard Stern to monitor New York as his local station picked up the live broadcast and I remember he was recapping and I am rushing and I am cut from shaving. I mean good cuts from not paying attention.
I get out and wanted to see how the internationl media was covering this so I put on the BBC and see the Pentagon was hit and thought we will die today as we are heading for nuclear war. I truly thought the worst and so I get dressed and ready and see FOX tv in L.A. was up becase Fox tv in NYC was down off the satellite.
6:59 AM PST/9:59 AM EST-It goes down the 2 World Trade if that is wrong I am greatly sorry. I remember I froze and suddenly it felt like when I was suicidal again. I heard nothing. I felt nothing. Like I remember then sun being out and I remember snapping out of it. I knew I had a job to do.
I get to work my boss all non essential staff out and we just kept going and going and going. Running back and forth and just seeing the horrific events of the day. Later that day 7 world trade goes down which by the way I am so glad is up. I think it speaks volumes to what we all can do.
7PM PST/10PM EST MY Boss orders me home as I just put in the longest 13 hours of what became a 72 hour marathon. I slept maybe 2 hours within those 3 days and that Thursday, wrestling on tv was my personal refuge.
That saturday I collapsed and just slept for the entire weekend. I was ordered to bed and my boss made sure I was well fed. I to this day never stopped caring and I have whats called survivors guilt and I also feel like a piece of me died that day as well but know as long as I am walking this planet, I will do whatever I can to preserve the memorey of all of those because your passing will not be in vein.
My love is with all of the 3000 plus victims and their families.
I yelled an expletive that I won't use here but I remember calling a friend of mine in Boston and she was freaking out and she said it was highjacked airliners. I asked her who was her confirmation source as we both work in media and she gave me a good source, actually 2 of them. I remember she put me on hold and I woke up about 5 minutes after the second plane. So when WABC in New York replayed the video and I dropped the video and screamed.
She came back to me and getting a call out was so difficult. Were sorry all circuits are busy. That voice rings in my head to this day and when I hear it does bring me back to the morning. I call my Boss at the time and go are you watching this? He says what and I told him and he went into action as did I.
I got to work and like all Hell was breaking loose already and for me it was a horror and a day I never want to endure again. But I remember I got back home as I live across the street from work and now I know what they mean by home field advantage. I remember getting into the shower and Listening to Howard Stern to monitor New York as his local station picked up the live broadcast and I remember he was recapping and I am rushing and I am cut from shaving. I mean good cuts from not paying attention.
I get out and wanted to see how the internationl media was covering this so I put on the BBC and see the Pentagon was hit and thought we will die today as we are heading for nuclear war. I truly thought the worst and so I get dressed and ready and see FOX tv in L.A. was up becase Fox tv in NYC was down off the satellite.
6:59 AM PST/9:59 AM EST-It goes down the 2 World Trade if that is wrong I am greatly sorry. I remember I froze and suddenly it felt like when I was suicidal again. I heard nothing. I felt nothing. Like I remember then sun being out and I remember snapping out of it. I knew I had a job to do.
I get to work my boss all non essential staff out and we just kept going and going and going. Running back and forth and just seeing the horrific events of the day. Later that day 7 world trade goes down which by the way I am so glad is up. I think it speaks volumes to what we all can do.
7PM PST/10PM EST MY Boss orders me home as I just put in the longest 13 hours of what became a 72 hour marathon. I slept maybe 2 hours within those 3 days and that Thursday, wrestling on tv was my personal refuge.
That saturday I collapsed and just slept for the entire weekend. I was ordered to bed and my boss made sure I was well fed. I to this day never stopped caring and I have whats called survivors guilt and I also feel like a piece of me died that day as well but know as long as I am walking this planet, I will do whatever I can to preserve the memorey of all of those because your passing will not be in vein.
My love is with all of the 3000 plus victims and their families.
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“story20658.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 7, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/19643.