story583.xml
Title
story583.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-05-10
911DA Story: Story
World Trade Center Attack
September 11th 2001, a day that no American could ever forget. A day that felt as thou it was just yesterday. A day that would remain in the history books forever. Many lives were taken, and many hearts were broken.
I remember that day as though it was yesterday. It was early in the morning, I was cleaning temporary cement off a patients tooth and I was explaining how her permanent crown should feel. All of a sudden over the radio, Bill Bevens from the station light 98 reported a plane crash. It seems like nothing alarming at first but as his tone in voice altered it made me stop and think twice. I thought to myself why would a plane be flying that low in New York? How could that possibly be an accident? So I shared these comments with my patient and she confirmed that it was an accident and that it was a private plane. I remarked, are you sure, but hopefully, it was not a commercial plane. Then the music progressed as if nothing happened with the occasional interruptions of saying that there was a plane that crashed.
By this time I had dismissed my patient and upon my return to clean the room, I had notice that the hygienists had the television turned on channel 12. The horrific picture was unbelievable. They had New Yorkers pointing to the plane stuck in the World Trade Center and exclaiming their account to what may have happened. By this time our whole entire staff was in the break room trying to figure out what might have happen. As more news developed talks of terrorism were in the air. Then out of no where another plane came out of the blue and smashed in the side of the building intentionally. As I stood there I keep telling myself this has got to be a movie or someone?s sick joke of a movie. This can not be possibly happening. I mean not in this age in time, I mean we are America! We are superior to all other countries. Then at 9:40 a.m. the most unimaginable thing happened. The two twin towers collapsed. Not only did this create a gasp, but everyone in the room had tears in their eyes.
Immediately, I thought about my dad who lives in the nation?s capital and I darted to the phone. It was so frustrating to dial a number and get a busy signal? It seems like an eternity?. Waiting? waiting?. I could not even imagine the agony and pain friends and family felt waiting to hear if their love one still exists. It turned out that my dad was fine and thank God that he did not decide to take his students on a field trip to the pentagon.
A lot of people describe the tragedy of the World Trade Center similar to the feelings of when President Kennedy got assassinated. I now can relate to that incident, I never understood how, or what people meant in other countries by, ?living in fear.? I now felt that I was living in fear and that, ?they,? could attack from anywhere. Not only in the air, not only on land, but by chemical warfare. They could put things in our water; they could put things in our food, or even make us inhale things that were unsafe to humans. The question that still remains is why? And when will this end?
September 11th 2001, a day that no American could ever forget. A day that felt as thou it was just yesterday. A day that would remain in the history books forever. Many lives were taken, and many hearts were broken.
I remember that day as though it was yesterday. It was early in the morning, I was cleaning temporary cement off a patients tooth and I was explaining how her permanent crown should feel. All of a sudden over the radio, Bill Bevens from the station light 98 reported a plane crash. It seems like nothing alarming at first but as his tone in voice altered it made me stop and think twice. I thought to myself why would a plane be flying that low in New York? How could that possibly be an accident? So I shared these comments with my patient and she confirmed that it was an accident and that it was a private plane. I remarked, are you sure, but hopefully, it was not a commercial plane. Then the music progressed as if nothing happened with the occasional interruptions of saying that there was a plane that crashed.
By this time I had dismissed my patient and upon my return to clean the room, I had notice that the hygienists had the television turned on channel 12. The horrific picture was unbelievable. They had New Yorkers pointing to the plane stuck in the World Trade Center and exclaiming their account to what may have happened. By this time our whole entire staff was in the break room trying to figure out what might have happen. As more news developed talks of terrorism were in the air. Then out of no where another plane came out of the blue and smashed in the side of the building intentionally. As I stood there I keep telling myself this has got to be a movie or someone?s sick joke of a movie. This can not be possibly happening. I mean not in this age in time, I mean we are America! We are superior to all other countries. Then at 9:40 a.m. the most unimaginable thing happened. The two twin towers collapsed. Not only did this create a gasp, but everyone in the room had tears in their eyes.
Immediately, I thought about my dad who lives in the nation?s capital and I darted to the phone. It was so frustrating to dial a number and get a busy signal? It seems like an eternity?. Waiting? waiting?. I could not even imagine the agony and pain friends and family felt waiting to hear if their love one still exists. It turned out that my dad was fine and thank God that he did not decide to take his students on a field trip to the pentagon.
A lot of people describe the tragedy of the World Trade Center similar to the feelings of when President Kennedy got assassinated. I now can relate to that incident, I never understood how, or what people meant in other countries by, ?living in fear.? I now felt that I was living in fear and that, ?they,? could attack from anywhere. Not only in the air, not only on land, but by chemical warfare. They could put things in our water; they could put things in our food, or even make us inhale things that were unsafe to humans. The question that still remains is why? And when will this end?
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“story583.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 28, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/6065.