story707.xml
Title
story707.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-06-04
911DA Story: Story
Jason Buffington
Attack on America
On September 11, 2001, I was at Barker Central School. A school in a little town near Lake Ontario, way out in the "sticks." The plane collision happened during second period while I was in gym. I first heard about the crashes during 3rd period art. The television was turned on and it showed a building blazing with smoke. As we all watched, another explosion happened in the building next to it. At the time I didn't know that a plane had hit it, I didn't know a plane hit the other one either. Eventually as we watched, both of the buildings crumbled to the ground. At the sight of 110 stories of rubble, it shocks everybody to know that Thousands of people died. More than 3,000 people died during all this. The planes that hit the World Trade Centers were hijacked by terrorists and flown into the buildings. One other plane has also flown into the Pentagon. And another had crashed near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After I got home that day my parents hadn't really heard of the crashes. They knew that planes had hit the World Trade Towers but nothing else. I filled them in about the whole deal and they continued to watch the news. We continued to keep up with the information that was being posted on the news for about a week. One week later there are a lot of families and friends still in shock of what happened. Since then the United States has improved the airport security and general awareness of suspected terrorists. The United States still receives threats in our country towards other terrorist actions to this day. We are now at war with terrorism and still sending troops over to the Middle East, Afghanistan, and wherever terrorism still exists. We will continue to be at war with terrorism until it exists no more. Ten months later the United States have not shown their pride and nationalism in our country, the nationalism has slowed to where hardly anybody cares.
Attack on America
On September 11, 2001, I was at Barker Central School. A school in a little town near Lake Ontario, way out in the "sticks." The plane collision happened during second period while I was in gym. I first heard about the crashes during 3rd period art. The television was turned on and it showed a building blazing with smoke. As we all watched, another explosion happened in the building next to it. At the time I didn't know that a plane had hit it, I didn't know a plane hit the other one either. Eventually as we watched, both of the buildings crumbled to the ground. At the sight of 110 stories of rubble, it shocks everybody to know that Thousands of people died. More than 3,000 people died during all this. The planes that hit the World Trade Centers were hijacked by terrorists and flown into the buildings. One other plane has also flown into the Pentagon. And another had crashed near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After I got home that day my parents hadn't really heard of the crashes. They knew that planes had hit the World Trade Towers but nothing else. I filled them in about the whole deal and they continued to watch the news. We continued to keep up with the information that was being posted on the news for about a week. One week later there are a lot of families and friends still in shock of what happened. Since then the United States has improved the airport security and general awareness of suspected terrorists. The United States still receives threats in our country towards other terrorist actions to this day. We are now at war with terrorism and still sending troops over to the Middle East, Afghanistan, and wherever terrorism still exists. We will continue to be at war with terrorism until it exists no more. Ten months later the United States have not shown their pride and nationalism in our country, the nationalism has slowed to where hardly anybody cares.
Collection
Citation
“story707.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 4, 2026, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/7413.