story2706.xml
Title
story2706.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
On september 11th, 2001 when the planes were going into the building I was at school. In my first hour I heard some stuff about it but I didn't think anything of it I thought they were talking about some movie. When I went to my second hour that's when it hit me thats when I was realized what really happened. Because my foods/nutrition teaher had the news on and when I walked into the room I just started to watch it. I Couldn't belive that, that would happin. I didn't think that it was true in till the live footage popped up on the screen.
I was able to see the second plane crash into the trading center then when I saw that I was shocked. Then it was only 20 min or so later when you could actually see the building start to calaps all that debris every were. I thought that the camera man was going to get hit with parts of the building flying everywere he was so close to it trying to get good footage for us. And they did i was so dazed into the tv when the camra man slipped over somthing i thought i was acturlly there.But my class had ended so I had to go.
When I got home I wached more of it. Living in las-vegas was really hard at this time I lived with my sister and her husben. In las-vegas that's all the work we have up there is cunstrution working and casino working at the strip. This was not a good time for vacation people to go on vacation but thats were people in vegas get all their money . Alot of people were getting laid off all my friends parents were getting laid off things were very poor for a while my sisters husben got laid off his work but we were very lucky he was able to get a job the very next day. When I walked to school I was able to see the strip the thought always passed my mind that they were going to take out the new york new york on the strip. I have never saw the lights off on the strip untill this happin the was the first time ever that the lights were turned off.
I was able to see the second plane crash into the trading center then when I saw that I was shocked. Then it was only 20 min or so later when you could actually see the building start to calaps all that debris every were. I thought that the camera man was going to get hit with parts of the building flying everywere he was so close to it trying to get good footage for us. And they did i was so dazed into the tv when the camra man slipped over somthing i thought i was acturlly there.But my class had ended so I had to go.
When I got home I wached more of it. Living in las-vegas was really hard at this time I lived with my sister and her husben. In las-vegas that's all the work we have up there is cunstrution working and casino working at the strip. This was not a good time for vacation people to go on vacation but thats were people in vegas get all their money . Alot of people were getting laid off all my friends parents were getting laid off things were very poor for a while my sisters husben got laid off his work but we were very lucky he was able to get a job the very next day. When I walked to school I was able to see the strip the thought always passed my mind that they were going to take out the new york new york on the strip. I have never saw the lights off on the strip untill this happin the was the first time ever that the lights were turned off.
Collection
Citation
“story2706.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 17, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/4560.