story9228.xml
Title
story9228.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2003-04-26
911DA Story: Story
It was early morning on September 11, 2001 I was in my first period class at Tuskawilla Middle School we turned the tv on to see the morning announcements and all of a sudden we saw on CNN that one of the World Trade Center towers had been hit by an airplane and that it was not confirmed what type of plane hit or what actually happened.
The bell ring for the next period and I was in American History we told our teacher what happened and he was struck with awe he didnt know what to do or say. Then we turned the tv on and saw that another plane had struck the other tower. My classmates and I all knew that this was no accident and that someone deliberately flew those planes into those towers. All of us were freaked out and then the power went out in our school, then we were all totally scared. We didnt know what to expect we thought that there was going to be an attack on our school everyone was scared for their lives.
Soon after that we learned that the Pentagon was hit which was another shock. Our American History teacher said that his sister was somewhere in Washington, D.C. and so he was very worried. After that class my step dad came and picked me up so I didnt have to be at school any longer, we then watched tv all day and got updated information on fox news. It was so odd watching all this I thought that it was all just a dream and it wasnt real. That I was maybe just dreaming this all up and I should wake up sometime sooner or later. It was something that was so odd and strange that I had a feeling of that everything around was an illusion.
From then on I've been very cautious on what I see and do. I havent been on an airplane since September 11th. I dont have a fear of flying or anything. But I know if someone hijacked a plane that I was on I would go after that hijacker with everything I have. As I see it you got nothing to lose in a hijacked plane. Your going to die either way, so why not die being a hero than rather die being a coward. This is my point of view and I'm sure many people would agree with it. Victims and families of the victims of September 11th have not left my thoughts since that day, I have deep sympathy for them and for the people of each country that those terrorists harbour in, because we all know that President Bush will see that they are not living while he is in office. Long live American Freedom!
The bell ring for the next period and I was in American History we told our teacher what happened and he was struck with awe he didnt know what to do or say. Then we turned the tv on and saw that another plane had struck the other tower. My classmates and I all knew that this was no accident and that someone deliberately flew those planes into those towers. All of us were freaked out and then the power went out in our school, then we were all totally scared. We didnt know what to expect we thought that there was going to be an attack on our school everyone was scared for their lives.
Soon after that we learned that the Pentagon was hit which was another shock. Our American History teacher said that his sister was somewhere in Washington, D.C. and so he was very worried. After that class my step dad came and picked me up so I didnt have to be at school any longer, we then watched tv all day and got updated information on fox news. It was so odd watching all this I thought that it was all just a dream and it wasnt real. That I was maybe just dreaming this all up and I should wake up sometime sooner or later. It was something that was so odd and strange that I had a feeling of that everything around was an illusion.
From then on I've been very cautious on what I see and do. I havent been on an airplane since September 11th. I dont have a fear of flying or anything. But I know if someone hijacked a plane that I was on I would go after that hijacker with everything I have. As I see it you got nothing to lose in a hijacked plane. Your going to die either way, so why not die being a hero than rather die being a coward. This is my point of view and I'm sure many people would agree with it. Victims and families of the victims of September 11th have not left my thoughts since that day, I have deep sympathy for them and for the people of each country that those terrorists harbour in, because we all know that President Bush will see that they are not living while he is in office. Long live American Freedom!
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“story9228.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 1, 2026, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/7991.