story10534.xml
Title
story10534.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2004-04-12
911DA Story: Story
Fisrt off..I am a native of Trenton New Jersey.
I have been livning in Wisconsin since 2000.
I was at work on that morning building an addtion on a house when the owner came out and said in a paniced voice " We're under attack"...
I immediatly went in to watch what was happening...the first plane had just hit...I was in total disbelife of what I was seeing ...
Then as I was watching...the second plane smashed into the other tower....I got physaclly ill...
I had to leave right then and there to go and make a few phone calls to find out if my cousins were okay...they both live in New York...
as it turned out...my one cousin Eric happens to be a detective in Long Island and was there before the second plane hit....
THEN I found out that his brother was in the first tower that morning for work...
he had a meeting 6 blocks down from the 2 towers...
he was in the middle of the meeting when all hell broke loose...
had he waited another 20 minutes he would have been in the building when it was hit...
I thank god, as does he...the only thing that he lost was his miny van...buried tho with 27 of his co-workers...
I still don't understand why this happened ...I don't think any of us will...
but I do know this...we can NEVER...NEVER forget ...
I remember when I was a kid going up to visit them ...watching the towers rise up from the ground to their finally stage on the sky line...what a sight...
now they...and 3,000 of our friends...are gone...
leaves a BIG hole in ones life...
I guess the one thing that we have that makes this country so great..is each other...
Thank you for letting me share a little in-site from that day and what it did to me on a personal level...
take care and god bless...
Donald C. Rouze
Trenton , N.J.
I have been livning in Wisconsin since 2000.
I was at work on that morning building an addtion on a house when the owner came out and said in a paniced voice " We're under attack"...
I immediatly went in to watch what was happening...the first plane had just hit...I was in total disbelife of what I was seeing ...
Then as I was watching...the second plane smashed into the other tower....I got physaclly ill...
I had to leave right then and there to go and make a few phone calls to find out if my cousins were okay...they both live in New York...
as it turned out...my one cousin Eric happens to be a detective in Long Island and was there before the second plane hit....
THEN I found out that his brother was in the first tower that morning for work...
he had a meeting 6 blocks down from the 2 towers...
he was in the middle of the meeting when all hell broke loose...
had he waited another 20 minutes he would have been in the building when it was hit...
I thank god, as does he...the only thing that he lost was his miny van...buried tho with 27 of his co-workers...
I still don't understand why this happened ...I don't think any of us will...
but I do know this...we can NEVER...NEVER forget ...
I remember when I was a kid going up to visit them ...watching the towers rise up from the ground to their finally stage on the sky line...what a sight...
now they...and 3,000 of our friends...are gone...
leaves a BIG hole in ones life...
I guess the one thing that we have that makes this country so great..is each other...
Thank you for letting me share a little in-site from that day and what it did to me on a personal level...
take care and god bless...
Donald C. Rouze
Trenton , N.J.
Collection
Citation
“story10534.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 10, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/9401.