story855.xml
Title
story855.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-07-04
911DA Story: Story
I was in Adelaide - South Australia.
I went to bed 10pm turned on the late news and it started to filter through that a plane had hit the WTC. I thought it was a small plane by the long TV shots of the towers.
As I work for a radio station in Australia. I stayed up all night and watched the story unfold. I raced to work early as I knew this was the biggest thing that had ever happened in news. I knew we had to get this right. Then as the day unfoled I went from total horror and disbelief with some of the things I saw and heard from NYC. Buy the end of the day I stopped to try and take it all in - but was horrified as to how sanitised I had become to all the images and voices from NYC. I decided to take a step back and realise that I like most people was in shock.
I have relatives in Philly and learned one was in NYC. Then the panic and terror hit me at home in Australia. I knew what some Aust, US and others were feeling when they couldn't contact family in the US especially in NY. My heart goes out to all the people that lost familes in both the towers, the Pentagon and the planes that were used.
No one deserves to have this happen to them. The whole world felt the effects of that dreadful day.
I went to bed 10pm turned on the late news and it started to filter through that a plane had hit the WTC. I thought it was a small plane by the long TV shots of the towers.
As I work for a radio station in Australia. I stayed up all night and watched the story unfold. I raced to work early as I knew this was the biggest thing that had ever happened in news. I knew we had to get this right. Then as the day unfoled I went from total horror and disbelief with some of the things I saw and heard from NYC. Buy the end of the day I stopped to try and take it all in - but was horrified as to how sanitised I had become to all the images and voices from NYC. I decided to take a step back and realise that I like most people was in shock.
I have relatives in Philly and learned one was in NYC. Then the panic and terror hit me at home in Australia. I knew what some Aust, US and others were feeling when they couldn't contact family in the US especially in NY. My heart goes out to all the people that lost familes in both the towers, the Pentagon and the planes that were used.
No one deserves to have this happen to them. The whole world felt the effects of that dreadful day.
Collection
Citation
“story855.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 15, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/5178.