story5990.xml
Title
story5990.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-12
911DA Story: Story
It was a morning like all mornings, I was in the office about 7:30 a.m. September 11th, and as the morning went on, we started receiving phone calls saying " did you hear about the planes that flew into the Trade Centers. My answer to that was "ya right" nothing like that happend. The person on the other line said pull out the television and watch the news, the happy morning went from smiles and good morning to "what the hell is happening".
The office is full of tears and people saying how could this have happend. The office was in an uproar, I could not stop crying and asking if it was just a movie that the news was playing. My friend said call everyone in your family to see if you have everyone, before I could pick up the phone, friends of the family who happen to be on there way home stopped by to see if I was ok because they new that I have family in New York.
My mother called me to tell me that everyone in New York was ok and that my Uncle Chuck was going to have to go away with the Military for a while, it was hard for me because I did not want him to go. He is very close to me and I had a bad experience the first time he had to go and that was durig the fighting over in the Pursion Gulf. Even though The United States lost a lot of inocent people, there are a lot of people I know who never went to church, never cried about anything, or showed real emotion, doing so right now.
Its a shame that it had to take something like this to make America realize that as one we can take care of eachother and love one another. It should have been this way all along. My last few lines, as an American I will still love and respect my fellow neighbors and I will still fly in our beautiful skies, and I have become more kind and loving since this has happend.
The children still do not understand the whole thing, but I let my daughters know that it is still safe and ok for them to go to school and play outside because we live in America and we will try to not have this happen to us ever again.
The office is full of tears and people saying how could this have happend. The office was in an uproar, I could not stop crying and asking if it was just a movie that the news was playing. My friend said call everyone in your family to see if you have everyone, before I could pick up the phone, friends of the family who happen to be on there way home stopped by to see if I was ok because they new that I have family in New York.
My mother called me to tell me that everyone in New York was ok and that my Uncle Chuck was going to have to go away with the Military for a while, it was hard for me because I did not want him to go. He is very close to me and I had a bad experience the first time he had to go and that was durig the fighting over in the Pursion Gulf. Even though The United States lost a lot of inocent people, there are a lot of people I know who never went to church, never cried about anything, or showed real emotion, doing so right now.
Its a shame that it had to take something like this to make America realize that as one we can take care of eachother and love one another. It should have been this way all along. My last few lines, as an American I will still love and respect my fellow neighbors and I will still fly in our beautiful skies, and I have become more kind and loving since this has happend.
The children still do not understand the whole thing, but I let my daughters know that it is still safe and ok for them to go to school and play outside because we live in America and we will try to not have this happen to us ever again.
Collection
Citation
“story5990.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 20, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/6629.