story8058.xml
Title
story8058.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-22
911DA Story: Story
Many thoughts and emmotions were let out that day. I remember sitting in class watching CNN and seeing the scene of the second plane crashing into the Second Tower of the World Trade Center. Everybody in class watched the T.V. with their mouth's wide open in terror. Some girls were frightened. Some of the Seniors were talking about enlisting when they graduated.
No work was done, and if there was work to be done, people refused to do it, because they were troubled by the thought of what was happening to our country.
I remember hearing people saying that they would like to kill the sick person that did it, and I remember my stomach twisting as people began jumping out of the windows.
Many nights after I had nightmares about being on board one of those planes, and I thought about what ran through the passengers' minds as their lives were about to be cut short. I imagined what it was like to be a fire fighter running up while everybody else was running down.
When I think of how scared I was on that day, and all of the nightmares that I had afterwards, I think of the nightmares of the office workers, the fire fighters, and police officers who were there that day. I think of the nightmares that the recovery workers must be going through now, and I think of what the fire fighters who returned to the job, after many of their brothers were lost, are going through.
When I think of these things I find it easy to say that all of us were effected equally as a nation on Tuesday September 11th, 2001.
No work was done, and if there was work to be done, people refused to do it, because they were troubled by the thought of what was happening to our country.
I remember hearing people saying that they would like to kill the sick person that did it, and I remember my stomach twisting as people began jumping out of the windows.
Many nights after I had nightmares about being on board one of those planes, and I thought about what ran through the passengers' minds as their lives were about to be cut short. I imagined what it was like to be a fire fighter running up while everybody else was running down.
When I think of how scared I was on that day, and all of the nightmares that I had afterwards, I think of the nightmares of the office workers, the fire fighters, and police officers who were there that day. I think of the nightmares that the recovery workers must be going through now, and I think of what the fire fighters who returned to the job, after many of their brothers were lost, are going through.
When I think of these things I find it easy to say that all of us were effected equally as a nation on Tuesday September 11th, 2001.
Collection
Citation
“story8058.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 10, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/4019.