story9811.xml
Title
story9811.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2003-09-11
911DA Story: Story
I was filling in a form for acceptance of my welfare payemnts commitments and reading the latest news on Teletext when a report flashed up in yellow on the page I was reading "Plane crashes into World Trade Centre. More soon".
I had to admit that I didn't know what the World Trade Centre was until six minutes later when every terresital channel dropped their schedules and joined their own 24 hour rolling news network. I saw the second impact, the reports from the Pentagon, both collapses and President Bush's live statment all in a state of absolute unbelievabiltiy at what had happened. In fact it was until the end of that week that what had happened finally sunk in.
I had to admit that I didn't know what the World Trade Centre was until six minutes later when every terresital channel dropped their schedules and joined their own 24 hour rolling news network. I saw the second impact, the reports from the Pentagon, both collapses and President Bush's live statment all in a state of absolute unbelievabiltiy at what had happened. In fact it was until the end of that week that what had happened finally sunk in.
Collection
Citation
“story9811.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 12, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/8630.