story10461.xml
Title
story10461.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2004-03-02
911DA Story: Story
My name is Mark, I where i was working in a gas station over here in the UK in a small town called New Marske. The actions of that fateful day in september will stay with me for as long as I have a breath in my body and this is my story of how the day unfolded.
I woke up at 7:30 GMT and went to work at the gas station and up until around 2pm the day was going pretty well, I was listening to the radio at work listening to really nothing in particular, then out of no-where a news flash came over about a plane hitting a building in New York and that there would be reports coming in later so at first I can honestly say that I didn't pay a lot of attention to it at first. Then after about 10 minutes there was another report about another plane, so virtually instantly I turned on the TV I had with me and put it on BBC1 where they had just put up the newsflash graphic, and they started showing some of the footage from the American TV stations I think it was CNN of a reporter doing a broadcast about the first impact, then all of a sudden in the right hand corner of the screen you saw the plane going flying into the second tower.
Straight away I ran over and told my boss and other employees there to turn on there TV sets in there building, then we all stood around and virtually the gas station and garage shut down for the day as we watched the news and events of the day unfold, other things like President Bush reading stories to a group of children and someone on his staff coming over and telling him in his ear what had happened, then the events unfolding in Washington and those brave passengers who did what they could and sacrificed there lives so others may live.
I woke up at 7:30 GMT and went to work at the gas station and up until around 2pm the day was going pretty well, I was listening to the radio at work listening to really nothing in particular, then out of no-where a news flash came over about a plane hitting a building in New York and that there would be reports coming in later so at first I can honestly say that I didn't pay a lot of attention to it at first. Then after about 10 minutes there was another report about another plane, so virtually instantly I turned on the TV I had with me and put it on BBC1 where they had just put up the newsflash graphic, and they started showing some of the footage from the American TV stations I think it was CNN of a reporter doing a broadcast about the first impact, then all of a sudden in the right hand corner of the screen you saw the plane going flying into the second tower.
Straight away I ran over and told my boss and other employees there to turn on there TV sets in there building, then we all stood around and virtually the gas station and garage shut down for the day as we watched the news and events of the day unfold, other things like President Bush reading stories to a group of children and someone on his staff coming over and telling him in his ear what had happened, then the events unfolding in Washington and those brave passengers who did what they could and sacrificed there lives so others may live.
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Citation
“story10461.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 9, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/6667.