story11742.xml
Title
story11742.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2005-08-19
911DA Story: Story
My story isn't that important. I was at work at Shop Rite grocery store in Rio Grande, NJ. Usually they have piped in music over the intercom, but this was an early day for me to go to work and so we had a radio on in the back room where I worked. They had annouced around 9am that the World Trade Center had been hit by a plane. We then thought that is was just an accident,but then the other annoucement came over the radio that a second plane had hit the other tower, then I knew it was no accident. The store manager turned the radio on so that the whole store could hear what was happening. Then they announced that a plane had crashed into the Pentagon. One of my co-workers son worked at the Pentagon an asked to go home so she could check to see if he was ok. He was in the military and stationed at the Pentagon. Thank heavens he was not there that day and was ok. When I got off of work,which was early I went straight home and turned the tv on. I could not believe what I was seeing. I just stood there at the tv in disbelief. They showed it over and over again and I still could not believe what was going on. Then they showed the people falling from the windows and it was so hard to believe.It was like watching a disaster movie.
Then the towers fell and I could not believe it. I have never been to the World Trade Center so it was hard for me to imagine how tall they were. After it was all over and it was nothing but dust, like a bomb had hit.I just could not think that those poor people in those towers and the ones who where on the ground when they came down where crushed to nothing. Its still hard to imagine it.Last year I went to the area where the Towers where and you would never know they had been there. It was so sad to see it.Some of the buildings still had the windows out and the firestation near the Trade Center was closed.I thought of the people who lost their lives at the Pentagon and in Penna. I read the 911 Commission and it made me so angry when they talked about those terrorist.It was sad reading the exerts from the phone converstations the passengers had. I just could not fathom all the missing posters and pictures that where hanging there those weeks after the terrible tradegy and what the families were going through.
I was not there but my heart was and it still is.
Last year I went to NY to visit my mother in law and went to the site the WTC was and then I went out to Ellis Island.On our way back we stopped there in the little park near the ferry where they have the Sphere that was at the WTC,The round ball. Its a wonder that it survived though all that damage. This was also the day the ferry hit the dock,as we were in the park when all the police and ambulances was going there.My story is not that important,but it will be a day that none of us will ever forget.It will be a reminder that this awful terrorist attack can happen here in our country.I will always stay in my heart that I must depend my country in anyway I can to protect it from these terrorist who are cowards and who say they do this for God, but God will not reward them,they are murderers and they are the "INFIDELS", not us.All I can say is God Bless our country and God Bless those who did survive this terrible tragedy, and God Bless those who lost their lives and may God always keep his arms around them.
I had a classmate who died in the WTC and I know he is missed.
Then the towers fell and I could not believe it. I have never been to the World Trade Center so it was hard for me to imagine how tall they were. After it was all over and it was nothing but dust, like a bomb had hit.I just could not think that those poor people in those towers and the ones who where on the ground when they came down where crushed to nothing. Its still hard to imagine it.Last year I went to the area where the Towers where and you would never know they had been there. It was so sad to see it.Some of the buildings still had the windows out and the firestation near the Trade Center was closed.I thought of the people who lost their lives at the Pentagon and in Penna. I read the 911 Commission and it made me so angry when they talked about those terrorist.It was sad reading the exerts from the phone converstations the passengers had. I just could not fathom all the missing posters and pictures that where hanging there those weeks after the terrible tradegy and what the families were going through.
I was not there but my heart was and it still is.
Last year I went to NY to visit my mother in law and went to the site the WTC was and then I went out to Ellis Island.On our way back we stopped there in the little park near the ferry where they have the Sphere that was at the WTC,The round ball. Its a wonder that it survived though all that damage. This was also the day the ferry hit the dock,as we were in the park when all the police and ambulances was going there.My story is not that important,but it will be a day that none of us will ever forget.It will be a reminder that this awful terrorist attack can happen here in our country.I will always stay in my heart that I must depend my country in anyway I can to protect it from these terrorist who are cowards and who say they do this for God, but God will not reward them,they are murderers and they are the "INFIDELS", not us.All I can say is God Bless our country and God Bless those who did survive this terrible tragedy, and God Bless those who lost their lives and may God always keep his arms around them.
I had a classmate who died in the WTC and I know he is missed.
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Citation
“story11742.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 15, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/4638.