story8672.xml
Title
story8672.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-11-24
911DA Story: Story
I arrived home at about 7:00am. Working nights was stressful and watching the news was my way of cooling down. Before trying to sleep I decided to get on the computer and surf the web.
One of my applications generated a link 'plane crashes into world trade center'.
I checked cnn.com and foxnews.com and found nothing.
So I decided to sit down in the living room and watch the news. Smoke was going into the air and the 2nd plance had not crashed yet.
Bodies fell from the wound in the building.
As the reporter reviewed known facts there was another explosion. The 2nd tower was struck.
The tv kept replaying the footage and slowly the news lady found out what happened.
My wife called. She is a middle school teacher.
I told her that no matter what happens I love her.
I watched all day.
My boss said to report to work as normal. There were armed guards in front of the national guard building on the way to work.
It was surprising that the roads were open. My hope was that someone would instruct me to go back home and stay off the streets.
In hindsight it was wrong of me to leave her alone on such a scary night.
No one called into the phone center except maybe one or two people.
My lesson from this experience is:
Never work a night shift job.
Never leave my wife alone at night.
Never work a weekend shift.
September 11, 2001 helps me to reconsider my priorities.
One of my applications generated a link 'plane crashes into world trade center'.
I checked cnn.com and foxnews.com and found nothing.
So I decided to sit down in the living room and watch the news. Smoke was going into the air and the 2nd plance had not crashed yet.
Bodies fell from the wound in the building.
As the reporter reviewed known facts there was another explosion. The 2nd tower was struck.
The tv kept replaying the footage and slowly the news lady found out what happened.
My wife called. She is a middle school teacher.
I told her that no matter what happens I love her.
I watched all day.
My boss said to report to work as normal. There were armed guards in front of the national guard building on the way to work.
It was surprising that the roads were open. My hope was that someone would instruct me to go back home and stay off the streets.
In hindsight it was wrong of me to leave her alone on such a scary night.
No one called into the phone center except maybe one or two people.
My lesson from this experience is:
Never work a night shift job.
Never leave my wife alone at night.
Never work a weekend shift.
September 11, 2001 helps me to reconsider my priorities.
Collection
Citation
“story8672.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 4, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/8848.