story568.xml
Title
story568.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-05-09
911DA Story: Story
September 11
It was the morning of September 11, 2001 a beginning of a new normal day in Gasport. I did my regular routine. Took a shower, dressed, eaten and went to school. It was just a regular day for me nothing unusual. Right? I just came into my second class when it happened. The weird thing was we were just talking about this kind of traities in are Global Studies Class. My teacher Mrs. Capan received a phone call right in the middle of the lecture. Her face was grave and with a worried look, right then and there I knew something was wrong. She hung up the phone and raced to the television and turned it on CNN. And replied that something bad has happened. At first I just saw one of the planes not knowing that this was reality. I didn't know what was going on I just though it was a stunt act or something. I think everyone was thinking the same thing. Almost like slow motion another plane came and exploded into the other twin tower. The only thing I was thinking was it was a repeat of the first plane. But it was not so. I couldn't believe this could happen. Two planes crash into the twin towers. How, Why? Couldn't the people in the planes see the towers? And turn away from them? Then the bell rang and we had to go to be next class. Luckily I had art next and we watched some more. When I walking through the halls it was starting to seep into me now. I realized that people were dieing. People were jumping out of very high building, to get out of the burning building. But knew they were going to die anyway.
It made me sick thinking about it. How could a person do this? Then the whole class thought of something. The next place the terrorist could attack is Niagara Falls. We live only an hour or less away and we have a nuclear power plant also very close. So we just sat there waiting to get blown up or something. I really never thought of dieing or anything it was just scary. I don't know I guess I was thinking about my family at that point. But it is a vague memory now. Then I was thinking did I know anyone who was in the two towers. Luckily I didn't, but some weren't so lucky. Even though there were no deaths in my family, I felt like something was taken always from me. Like I really lost a member of a friend of the family. Just when I was thinking of this breaking news went on again the pentagon was hit too in Washington and another airplane was coming. One of my family members was lucky though he just left the building when the plane hit it. I couldn't believe it. How could people's conscious let them kill so many people. It makes me sick, angry and sad at the very same time. NEW YORK!!! MY HOME!!! Be the one place were terrorist decide to attack. Since September 11, I opened my eyes and so many people around me. I never realized the conflicts of people today. How people that are not in America are still fighting for there rights that we all ready have. Some are being bombed every day, but still holding hope. This year I learned religion but?sometimes I don't under stand. Religion. ?Or believes allow you to kill innocent people that are millions of miles away from you and half don't know why you take away there dads, moms, children, brothers or sisters and many others that were so close to. Some people who were killed didn't know how to do their ABC's. Or, there were parents who had young ones at home that they will never see again. This I don't under stand.
People are starting to be American again. I think. People have started to put flags up for the people who have died during this tragedy but do they know what it means, to be American. Like we have to say every day before classes.
The Pledge to the Flag
I pledge Allegiance
To the Flag of the
United States of America
And to the republic
For which it stands,
One Nation Under God,
Indivisible, with Liberty
And Justice for all.
When kids say this, do they know what this means? Heck no! They just think it's a boring pledge they have to make. And I know I was one of them, but now there is a meaning for the pledge for me now and many other people in my school and many other schools.
I remember my mom crying while watching the news because a fire fighter died. And the families were morning over his death and hoping to find his body. I never knew my mom could cry so much. There was another a person who was just working that day and saw the plane coming and called her husband and left a message on the answer
machine that she loved him. That really got me. I use to take every thing for grant. My family my friends everything. I never thought that something could be taken away from you. When you here plane now you think. "Are they terrorist? Or are they just a regular plane?" There is much paranoia lately, but what can you do.
More security? They think they boosted security people still pass through. Then there is even a more problem that just came up after the terrorist attack. RACISM!!!!! All I hope is that the people who read my opinion and my story that they think about on what I said. Even though some people chose to kill themselves to kill
other people, I don't believe in hating people who look like them or are maybe are relatives of them. Terrorist are people and they have family or people around them that don't believe in killing. So why hurt people who don't believe in killing. And that September 11 is remembered to all people even though there is great pain,
but is also a new beginning.
It was the morning of September 11, 2001 a beginning of a new normal day in Gasport. I did my regular routine. Took a shower, dressed, eaten and went to school. It was just a regular day for me nothing unusual. Right? I just came into my second class when it happened. The weird thing was we were just talking about this kind of traities in are Global Studies Class. My teacher Mrs. Capan received a phone call right in the middle of the lecture. Her face was grave and with a worried look, right then and there I knew something was wrong. She hung up the phone and raced to the television and turned it on CNN. And replied that something bad has happened. At first I just saw one of the planes not knowing that this was reality. I didn't know what was going on I just though it was a stunt act or something. I think everyone was thinking the same thing. Almost like slow motion another plane came and exploded into the other twin tower. The only thing I was thinking was it was a repeat of the first plane. But it was not so. I couldn't believe this could happen. Two planes crash into the twin towers. How, Why? Couldn't the people in the planes see the towers? And turn away from them? Then the bell rang and we had to go to be next class. Luckily I had art next and we watched some more. When I walking through the halls it was starting to seep into me now. I realized that people were dieing. People were jumping out of very high building, to get out of the burning building. But knew they were going to die anyway.
It made me sick thinking about it. How could a person do this? Then the whole class thought of something. The next place the terrorist could attack is Niagara Falls. We live only an hour or less away and we have a nuclear power plant also very close. So we just sat there waiting to get blown up or something. I really never thought of dieing or anything it was just scary. I don't know I guess I was thinking about my family at that point. But it is a vague memory now. Then I was thinking did I know anyone who was in the two towers. Luckily I didn't, but some weren't so lucky. Even though there were no deaths in my family, I felt like something was taken always from me. Like I really lost a member of a friend of the family. Just when I was thinking of this breaking news went on again the pentagon was hit too in Washington and another airplane was coming. One of my family members was lucky though he just left the building when the plane hit it. I couldn't believe it. How could people's conscious let them kill so many people. It makes me sick, angry and sad at the very same time. NEW YORK!!! MY HOME!!! Be the one place were terrorist decide to attack. Since September 11, I opened my eyes and so many people around me. I never realized the conflicts of people today. How people that are not in America are still fighting for there rights that we all ready have. Some are being bombed every day, but still holding hope. This year I learned religion but?sometimes I don't under stand. Religion. ?Or believes allow you to kill innocent people that are millions of miles away from you and half don't know why you take away there dads, moms, children, brothers or sisters and many others that were so close to. Some people who were killed didn't know how to do their ABC's. Or, there were parents who had young ones at home that they will never see again. This I don't under stand.
People are starting to be American again. I think. People have started to put flags up for the people who have died during this tragedy but do they know what it means, to be American. Like we have to say every day before classes.
The Pledge to the Flag
I pledge Allegiance
To the Flag of the
United States of America
And to the republic
For which it stands,
One Nation Under God,
Indivisible, with Liberty
And Justice for all.
When kids say this, do they know what this means? Heck no! They just think it's a boring pledge they have to make. And I know I was one of them, but now there is a meaning for the pledge for me now and many other people in my school and many other schools.
I remember my mom crying while watching the news because a fire fighter died. And the families were morning over his death and hoping to find his body. I never knew my mom could cry so much. There was another a person who was just working that day and saw the plane coming and called her husband and left a message on the answer
machine that she loved him. That really got me. I use to take every thing for grant. My family my friends everything. I never thought that something could be taken away from you. When you here plane now you think. "Are they terrorist? Or are they just a regular plane?" There is much paranoia lately, but what can you do.
More security? They think they boosted security people still pass through. Then there is even a more problem that just came up after the terrorist attack. RACISM!!!!! All I hope is that the people who read my opinion and my story that they think about on what I said. Even though some people chose to kill themselves to kill
other people, I don't believe in hating people who look like them or are maybe are relatives of them. Terrorist are people and they have family or people around them that don't believe in killing. So why hurt people who don't believe in killing. And that September 11 is remembered to all people even though there is great pain,
but is also a new beginning.
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