story1421.xml
Title
story1421.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-08-23
911DA Story: Story
You?re probably think now, that my story does not belong here, but maybe it will interest you, that there where people here in Switzerland, who could not believe what happened either.
My name is Franziska Glur and on September 11th, 2001 I was in my office of a Swiss Private-Bank dealing some funds, as I always do. It was already in the middle of the afternoon (time-difference), when a colleague of mine across the table said to all of us: there is a fire in the World Trade Centre. I was thinking by myself, please not again remembering the fire back in the early 1990?s. You have to know, that I?ve been to New York several times and have always visited the Twin Towers and taken lots of pictures.
Anyway, we turned the TV to CNN and could see that this fire seemed to be different to the last one. And just right then, we saw the explosion in the second building. ?Oh, my God? was all I could say and then in the most noisiest office in our building there was total silence! We could not believe what we had just witnessed!
Suddenly CNN came up with the news, that it was a plane that had hit the second building and they showed us the pictures over and over again. ?Is that World War 3 starting?? Questions like this where crossing my mind. Rumours where within minutes in the whole building and our office became a media room for everybody. Some of us in tears, others in shock, but most of all in disbelieve!
I called my sister, who was in Florida on vacation with my parents. It was hard to get her on the phone, ?cause the line was always busy. She could not believe it either and turned on the TV in her Hotel room. I told her, that I would call again later. I talked to her another four or five times that day.
And as the third plane hit the Pentagon, we all knew that this was very serious! Nobody was really working anymore, ?cause some of us had friends working in the World Trade Centre or knew brokers, which they spoke to almost everyday.
Then the towers collapsed! And again silence in our office. I guess we all fought back tears. We all thought, that at least ten thousand must have been killed!
On my way home that evening there was this unbelievable silence in the crowded train. Nobody really talked!
I myself spent the rest of the day in front of the TV and tried to understand what had happened on that September 11th, 2001.
It?s almost a year know! Life goes on, even though we thought it couldn?t. In just two weeks I will fly to New York, to attend one of the services on September 11th.
My name is Franziska Glur and on September 11th, 2001 I was in my office of a Swiss Private-Bank dealing some funds, as I always do. It was already in the middle of the afternoon (time-difference), when a colleague of mine across the table said to all of us: there is a fire in the World Trade Centre. I was thinking by myself, please not again remembering the fire back in the early 1990?s. You have to know, that I?ve been to New York several times and have always visited the Twin Towers and taken lots of pictures.
Anyway, we turned the TV to CNN and could see that this fire seemed to be different to the last one. And just right then, we saw the explosion in the second building. ?Oh, my God? was all I could say and then in the most noisiest office in our building there was total silence! We could not believe what we had just witnessed!
Suddenly CNN came up with the news, that it was a plane that had hit the second building and they showed us the pictures over and over again. ?Is that World War 3 starting?? Questions like this where crossing my mind. Rumours where within minutes in the whole building and our office became a media room for everybody. Some of us in tears, others in shock, but most of all in disbelieve!
I called my sister, who was in Florida on vacation with my parents. It was hard to get her on the phone, ?cause the line was always busy. She could not believe it either and turned on the TV in her Hotel room. I told her, that I would call again later. I talked to her another four or five times that day.
And as the third plane hit the Pentagon, we all knew that this was very serious! Nobody was really working anymore, ?cause some of us had friends working in the World Trade Centre or knew brokers, which they spoke to almost everyday.
Then the towers collapsed! And again silence in our office. I guess we all fought back tears. We all thought, that at least ten thousand must have been killed!
On my way home that evening there was this unbelievable silence in the crowded train. Nobody really talked!
I myself spent the rest of the day in front of the TV and tried to understand what had happened on that September 11th, 2001.
It?s almost a year know! Life goes on, even though we thought it couldn?t. In just two weeks I will fly to New York, to attend one of the services on September 11th.
Collection
Citation
“story1421.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 25, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/8173.