story7410.xml
Title
story7410.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-14
911DA Story: Story
I remember EVERYTHING about that entire day, down to the clothes I was wearing . I was sitting at home that morning, watching the news when they had a "special report" about a plane "accidentally" crashing into the World Trade Center. About 2-3 minutes later another plane crashed into WTC 2. I remember just screaming so loud that I woke my fiance up. He was pretty upset. I was crying and trying to tell him what I just saw on the t.v. I don't think he was awake enough to realize what I just said.
I had to go to work that day, in downtown Chicago, just 2 blocks away from the Sears Tower. I remember calling my co-worker, telling her about what just happened, and being on the train, when most people starting screaming that "ANOTHER PLANE JUST HIT THE PENTAGON!!!!" Even on the train people were crying and screaming. I remember just thinking to myself "what am I doing????" YOu see, I was 6 1/2 months pregnant at the time. When I got off the train, I immediately went to a store to buy a radio that I could play at work. When I arrived at work, my co-working was trying to understand what I had told her when I called. I turned on the radio I just purchased and a little later found out that WTC 2 had crumbled to the ground. Just then, a customer came into the store I worked at, and acted totally oblivious to the morning's events. I started yelling at him."How can you be shopping at a time like this??? Do you not know what's going on??? Do you realize that we are being attacked??" He left. My regional manager called and gave the orders to close the store and " Get the Hell" out of the downtown area.
I arrived home a short time later only to be bombarded with images of people falling to their death and the towers to come crashing down. Then I heard fighter jets flying overhead. I just remember thinking to myself that if I wasn't so far along in my pregnancy, I would have an abortion. I didn't want to bring a life into this crazy world. I didn't think we would be around for much longer.
I was glued to that T.V. for the next few days, until my fiance said that was enough, I shouldn't be watching this in my pregnant state.
I did have my child, a healthy boy, but he will never be able to live in the world that I lived in as a child. And I worry about what the future will hold for all of us as a nation. I wonder if he will ever be able to grow up. I wonder what questions he will ask me about that day and what I will tell him.
I had to go to work that day, in downtown Chicago, just 2 blocks away from the Sears Tower. I remember calling my co-worker, telling her about what just happened, and being on the train, when most people starting screaming that "ANOTHER PLANE JUST HIT THE PENTAGON!!!!" Even on the train people were crying and screaming. I remember just thinking to myself "what am I doing????" YOu see, I was 6 1/2 months pregnant at the time. When I got off the train, I immediately went to a store to buy a radio that I could play at work. When I arrived at work, my co-working was trying to understand what I had told her when I called. I turned on the radio I just purchased and a little later found out that WTC 2 had crumbled to the ground. Just then, a customer came into the store I worked at, and acted totally oblivious to the morning's events. I started yelling at him."How can you be shopping at a time like this??? Do you not know what's going on??? Do you realize that we are being attacked??" He left. My regional manager called and gave the orders to close the store and " Get the Hell" out of the downtown area.
I arrived home a short time later only to be bombarded with images of people falling to their death and the towers to come crashing down. Then I heard fighter jets flying overhead. I just remember thinking to myself that if I wasn't so far along in my pregnancy, I would have an abortion. I didn't want to bring a life into this crazy world. I didn't think we would be around for much longer.
I was glued to that T.V. for the next few days, until my fiance said that was enough, I shouldn't be watching this in my pregnant state.
I did have my child, a healthy boy, but he will never be able to live in the world that I lived in as a child. And I worry about what the future will hold for all of us as a nation. I wonder if he will ever be able to grow up. I wonder what questions he will ask me about that day and what I will tell him.
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Citation
“story7410.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 23, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/6159.