story6696.xml
Title
story6696.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-12
911DA Story: Story
I remember I had just gotten out of the shower at my house.
My Mother yelled in at me and told me that my boyfriend was on the phone. I answered the phone and he asked me if I was watching the TV. I said no, and he said, "turn it on, your never going to believe this". I turned on the tv only to see both the WTC buildings on fire. I asked him what happened and he was telling me bits and pieces and then I yelled for my Mother to come watch. We stood there in shock because of what we were seeing. I stayed on the phone with my boyfriend who lived about 20 miles away from me, thinking how much I wanted to be with him and everyone else I loved because of the horrible things that were happening. We were scared, we were confused, we didnt really know what was going to happen next. I was pregnant with my first child then, and all I can remember is fearing for the life of my unborn baby. Not only for that moment, that day, but for when she was born, for the rest of her life. I was traumatized, and frightened. We watched all morning, and then heard on the news there was another missing airplane, feared to be headed for Washington. At that time they didnt know where the plane was from or anything, so we were scared. We then heard it crashed in Shanksville, PA, not far from here. It really hit close to home then. I'm still standing in front of the Tv with my bath robe on, and on the phone with my boyfriend. For the most part we didnt talk to each other, we were silent and saying "Oh my God, oh my God, this is crazy". We then came to learn that the flight that came down in Shanksville traveled right over our town on its first path before it turned around. And for all we knew, there were more planes out there, more terrorists, more things to come for that day, that week, who knew. We were terrified, as was the rest of the world. Our world stood still as did the rest of America's.
The night before Sept 11, my boyfriend and I were laying on his porch swing in his front yard. His house was set in the country so it was peaceful and quiet. We were laying there looking up at the stars and all of the sudden we spotted 2 planes in the sky, they were heading towards each other. Not so much head on, but from the same direction, only we could see that it almost looked as though they were going to cross paths and hit each other. We watched and we
were breathless as we thought they were going to hit each other. They looked to be the same evelation in the sky and everything. As we watched the planes, they didnt hit. But our discussion afterwards was how scary and awful that would have been.
Then, the following day, September 11th, everything happened and we looked back on the night before and we were just like "Oh my God, how ironic". It was almost like we were meant to see that.
The skies over Pennsylvania were almost warning us of the horrible things to come. We were so creeped out by the whole situation, and still so scared.
The September 11th tragedy is in a way just like the assasination of JFK. Everyone who experienced it, and everyone who got the news about it that day will NEVER forget where they were when they heard the news, and what was going on in their lives at that time. It will live in our hearts forever as the day America's freedom was tested.
The day so many had to die because of one man's sick and twisted world. A man who is so JEALOUS and PITIFUL. The people responsible for that horrible day are merely jealous, pathetic losers who will never have what we have here in America. They will never experience the glory that is living here in the USA. So they have to challenge us. Take away something so beautiful like all those innocent peoples lives, just to make themselves feel better about their PITIFUL, meaningless lives over there.
Dont you just have so much hate for them?
Well, so do I. But mostly, I feel bad for them. Because they are who they are, so HORRIBLE, so PATHETIC in their sad little meaningless lives, and we are America, so wonderful. Home of the brave, Land of the Free. And no one will ever have what we have. And no one will ever take that away from us. God Speed America.
If we all stick together, we'll be alright, we'll accomplish anything.
My Mother yelled in at me and told me that my boyfriend was on the phone. I answered the phone and he asked me if I was watching the TV. I said no, and he said, "turn it on, your never going to believe this". I turned on the tv only to see both the WTC buildings on fire. I asked him what happened and he was telling me bits and pieces and then I yelled for my Mother to come watch. We stood there in shock because of what we were seeing. I stayed on the phone with my boyfriend who lived about 20 miles away from me, thinking how much I wanted to be with him and everyone else I loved because of the horrible things that were happening. We were scared, we were confused, we didnt really know what was going to happen next. I was pregnant with my first child then, and all I can remember is fearing for the life of my unborn baby. Not only for that moment, that day, but for when she was born, for the rest of her life. I was traumatized, and frightened. We watched all morning, and then heard on the news there was another missing airplane, feared to be headed for Washington. At that time they didnt know where the plane was from or anything, so we were scared. We then heard it crashed in Shanksville, PA, not far from here. It really hit close to home then. I'm still standing in front of the Tv with my bath robe on, and on the phone with my boyfriend. For the most part we didnt talk to each other, we were silent and saying "Oh my God, oh my God, this is crazy". We then came to learn that the flight that came down in Shanksville traveled right over our town on its first path before it turned around. And for all we knew, there were more planes out there, more terrorists, more things to come for that day, that week, who knew. We were terrified, as was the rest of the world. Our world stood still as did the rest of America's.
The night before Sept 11, my boyfriend and I were laying on his porch swing in his front yard. His house was set in the country so it was peaceful and quiet. We were laying there looking up at the stars and all of the sudden we spotted 2 planes in the sky, they were heading towards each other. Not so much head on, but from the same direction, only we could see that it almost looked as though they were going to cross paths and hit each other. We watched and we
were breathless as we thought they were going to hit each other. They looked to be the same evelation in the sky and everything. As we watched the planes, they didnt hit. But our discussion afterwards was how scary and awful that would have been.
Then, the following day, September 11th, everything happened and we looked back on the night before and we were just like "Oh my God, how ironic". It was almost like we were meant to see that.
The skies over Pennsylvania were almost warning us of the horrible things to come. We were so creeped out by the whole situation, and still so scared.
The September 11th tragedy is in a way just like the assasination of JFK. Everyone who experienced it, and everyone who got the news about it that day will NEVER forget where they were when they heard the news, and what was going on in their lives at that time. It will live in our hearts forever as the day America's freedom was tested.
The day so many had to die because of one man's sick and twisted world. A man who is so JEALOUS and PITIFUL. The people responsible for that horrible day are merely jealous, pathetic losers who will never have what we have here in America. They will never experience the glory that is living here in the USA. So they have to challenge us. Take away something so beautiful like all those innocent peoples lives, just to make themselves feel better about their PITIFUL, meaningless lives over there.
Dont you just have so much hate for them?
Well, so do I. But mostly, I feel bad for them. Because they are who they are, so HORRIBLE, so PATHETIC in their sad little meaningless lives, and we are America, so wonderful. Home of the brave, Land of the Free. And no one will ever have what we have. And no one will ever take that away from us. God Speed America.
If we all stick together, we'll be alright, we'll accomplish anything.
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“story6696.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 26, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/6423.