The World Trade Center Attack
September 11, 2001


Where Were You When You Found Out?
How did you find out?
How has this affected your life? What has changed?

Everyone is saying we will remember the day of the World Trade Center attack
for the rest of our lives, like we remembered the Kennedy assassination.
Record your experiences here of that day - 9-11 - and what has changed since !


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Corky Goldsmith I Couldn't Believe It! - Glendale, AZ S, Sep 8, 02
I will never never forget that morning... I live in Glendale, AZ and when I had awaken, the tv was on since I fell asleep the night before watching a movie or a talk show - I don;t remember which but it doesn't matter... I looked at it and saw one WTC building on fire and it looked like a scifi movie or something at first... I looked and looked.. trying to figure out what was going on.. Suddenly, the newscaster came on and started showing us scenes then.. all of a sudden, there was this second plane that came out of nowhere and just plowed into the second tower.. I was horrified and stunned to say the least.. At first, I was in denial. thinking it was some stupid movie but then realized it was reality...

I could not move but stared.. Then the Pentagon was hit followed by the crash in PA.. I became very scared, frightened, to say the least... What was going on here?... We were being attacked by some insane people... Then the news flashed over to the President's safety and whereabouts... I was experiencing real anxiety, fear, confused etc etc... I then calmed down a bit and stayed tuned to the tv for a very long time...

Ever since that awful day, not a single day goes by without my feelings of anger, fear, anxiety, ups and downs, expressing outrage to the terrorists especially UBL and the Taliban... I am a Christian but there is no where in my heart for forgiveness to these cowards... We did not go over there and slammed four planes into Afghanistan but they did to us... Even to this day, I swore that I would not let them dictate or control my life... I have to move on but it is not easy... I want so very much to fly again as a traveler but am hestiate... I will get over this fear but as long as I am alive, my heart, love, admiration etc goes out to us all especially for the victims and their families... I cried several times when learning more and more of the tragedies...

In closing, we are in a terrible time but it can be a strengthening time so long as we have faith in our God, whomever you call Him.. I trust him completely to deal with those cowards and I would love to have a front row seat to see them being judged... My heart, prayers, love all go out to all good people of this nation and other countries as well...

S, Sep 8, 02

Gabe usual school until... - Garland Tx Sa, Sep 7, 02
I was at school like every other usual day The attacks happened like at 8 somthing so i was in 3 period. Then all the sudden in 5th period everybody found out about the attacks. A guy told me a plane hit the wtc. At first i didn't really know what thwe wtc was but i knew what the twin towers were its just i didnt know they were the wtc. I was like ok what ever. Then on Parents kept coming up to the school picking up their kids through out the whole day. I remember we had a football game and everybody was pissed off because it was cancelled cause we didnt realize how serious the attacks were. Then i got home. I called my mom to tell her i was home then she told me not to turn on the news cause it was to horriable to watch. Then my dad got home and he instantly turned on the tv. I sat there and watched the news anyways. The news kept replaying the crashes on every single channel . As soon as i saw the crashes i felt horriable like i wanted to vomit. I felt like crap cause i knew that more then enough people perished in the rubble and debre. Through the night i watched the news untilatleast 12 at night. I coudnt got to sleep.As i look at the day i feel like should go out to Afgan and give Bin Laden a taste of what he put us through.

Sa, Sep 7, 02

tiffany In school - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/Elgin ,Illinois Sa, Sep 7, 02
I was in School and my Best Friend michael feliciano ran in and was like was ya'll wacthing the news and I said no what happened he said the twin towers in Nwe york a plane ran in to them and so my teacher Ms.burke turned the t.v. on and we all wacthed in horror. I was scared and
mad so that it it God Bless all the people who died 9/11 and God bless Osama Bin Laden because you are a sick man and need america's blessing cuz you will go down

Sa, Sep 7, 02

CrazyBaby School - Stamford Sa, Sep 7, 02
I was at school. When I came home from school, my big sister was watching tthe news.When I went to watch, I saw the Twin Towers covered in smoke. I got so scared.I prayed for those people that died.I also have a friend. She said that her father died in the World Trade Center.I felt so bad her.But I will always remember what happend on that day.

Sa, Sep 7, 02

espi In Class - SA, TX Sa, Sep 7, 02
I was at school in my spanish class when the class
was interupted by the administrators over the intercom. They released the devastating news of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. I was shocked, scared, and angry at the same time. I went directly home after school watched the news and called my parents at work to say that I loved them.

Sa, Sep 7, 02

Mike Up a tree... - West Lafayette, Indiana F, Sep 6, 02
I'm an arborist. I was 50 feet up and inside a beautiful oak tree that needed some lower limbs and deadwo0209071943-08

F, Sep 6, 02

Kevin Brothers - Massena, New York F, Sep 6, 02
I will always remember 9/11. I am a junior fire fighter with my home town fire dept. After the attacks on our nation, my fire dept. and the surrounding depts held a special ceremony in rememberence to the firefighters who lost their lives doing their duties. I will never forget the feeling of anger i had when i heard of the attacks and the question of "why"?

F, Sep 6, 02

Lisa A Moment of Shock - San Francisco Th, Sep 5, 02
I woke up at a quarter to 8am that morning and turned on the news like I usually do. But instead of the usual cheerful faces I found Frank Somerville, my favorite newscaster, on the verge of tears with an image of the WTC being hit by a plane. I fell back on the bed and slowly realized that something was very, very wrong. After a few minutes I found about the buildings collapsing and the Pentagon, and watched the horrifying video. They had not yet confirmed the 4th plane had crashed in Pennsylvania, and there was another plane unnaccounted for. I began to worry that they were on their way to San Francisco to cause more damage. i just didn't know what would happen next. I called my mom, and she begged me not to go to work. I then called my boss, who had also just woken up, and broke the news to her and told her I'd be in later. I spent the morning with my mom, watching the horrible video over and over again. I had to go to work in the afternoon. I was working as a photographer at Stanford Mall, and all the malls in the area shut down. But I had to stay longer than everyone else because we had an appointment we couldn't get a hold of, so I had to wait for her and shoot her picture. It was my friend's birthday on 9/11, and I am sorry to say that we spent the evening talking about the attacks, even while we were trying to sing "Happy Birthday" to her. But we have to get on with our lives, and we can't live in fear. This 9/11 I am going to celebrate, for the lives lost, the lives spared, for our country and how we have prevailed, and to make up Rose's birthday to her. Happy Birthday Rose! And America, carry on!

Th, Sep 5, 02

Thought it was just a movie - Th, Sep 5, 02
I was in shop class when I heard that the wtc were at ground zero and I rhought that it was only real in movies.

Th, Sep 5, 02

Trae In Tech Scool (Air Force) - Barksdale Air Force Base, LA T, Sep 3, 02
I was in tech school for the Air Force down at Keesler Air Force Base in Gulfport MS. Someone had come and told me that planes had crashed into the World Trade centers. I thought that they were joking with me. Then I went into the hallway where sailors, soldiers, marines, and airman alike were glued to the TV in disbelief. We went into Force Protection Delta that day and was on lockdown on the base for it seemed like the rest of the month. My heart goes out to every American missing a loved one due to events of that day. I frown upon the people who take this website jokingly. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

T, Sep 3, 02

Davida At Home - Brazoria County, Texas, USA M, Sep 2, 02
I was heading out late to work that day when my husband called me to turn on the t.v. to see a plane that hit the WTC. Just as I turned on, I witness the second plane hit the towers, and I remember just crying and in shock...."This isn't real," I kept saying, "This isn't real..." The rest of the day was a living nightmare.

Listening to reports of the burning and then the Pentagon being hit and Flight 93 grounding....I remember looking up into the sky and wondering if I was going to see the beginning of WWIII.

I couldn't work that day...I shouldn't have said forget it...and go home...But nothing felt safe that day....I prayed to God and thanked him for his son, Jesus Christ, because at that time and moment....I didn't know what to think or feel.

My world..the world we use to know was completely gone...My husband had nightmares weeks later that he was in the building himself and had jumped out adn was falling but the falling would never stopped and for myself...It was the fear of hearing airplanes...Would we be next??

I kept expecting to see Houston disappear in an attack too....It was months before I felt safe going to the city....and even know...I look up and think...Will it happen now....I'm better now...but since 9/11 my life has changed so much...It's changed for all of us and with a son on the way...he won't know the world like we use to.

M, Sep 2, 02

Emily school - Grand Rapids M, Sep 2, 02
I was in my english class. a boy came running in yelling:the world trade center has been attacked! then right after that, our principal came over the intercom and announced it. then we turned on the tv to the news channel. and sure enough, there were the aweful pics. after i heard the boy, i wasn't quite sure if it were true, but then after i saw the pics, i knew that it must be true. everyone in total chaos in downtown manhattan. it was terrifying to see. but since then i have come to appreciate my family and friends much more. because you never know, when they could be dead.

M, Sep 2, 02

Ruth A World's End - USA F, Aug 30, 02
My Mom died two years previous to 9-11. I had been struggling all that time to adjust to not having her. She was the only person with whom I could be me, I was never afraid that she might not like me, would want me to go away. On 9-11 what little progress I had made was destroyed along with the WTC, Pentagon and 3000 plus innocent lives. I reached for the phone to call my Mom. She died again on 9-11. Were I to write a about me now, it would begin She isn't pretty anymore, no longer young at heart. I cannot forget what those who were trapped between raging fire and 110 stories to death must have felt, nor the helicopter pilots who could do NOTHING, trapped themselves having to watch. And, every day I still reach for the phone to call my Mom.

F, Aug 30, 02

Philip No School Today - New York City M, Aug 26, 02
I am 16 and I attend a private school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. That day, and like many before it, since I had a study hall first period, which began at 8:40, I decided to sleep in. At our school, we were allowed to enter school late at 9:20 if we had study hall first period. But that day was different. I woke up to a telephone call from my father, a psychiatrist who works at the corner of Barclay and Greenwich. His small building was ordered to evacuate because 7 World Trade Center was directly across the street. When he called he was walking east on Fulton Street as he passed the WTC. So me being the idiot I am, I got on the 6 train at 77th street to Fulton Street where I met him. We ended up walking over to South Street where we would have a better view of what was going on. At that point, it was 9:40 and both towers had been hit. About 10 minutes later, we walked to the Holiday Inn at Wall Street & Pearl. As we were getting coffee inside, we saw on the television that the Pentagon had been hit by an airplane. The woman working there said that unconfirmed reports had also said that the Sears Tower in Chicago had also been hit, but no one could confirm. About 2 minutes to 10, we ran out into the street by a sound that I will never forget. It sounded like a thousand car accidents happening at once, it was horrible. My father and I stood shaking for a moment or so. By that time, we had walked up o Dey Street and we saw a wall of dust 8 or 10 stories high heading for us. We ended up going back inside Holiday Inn and not coming out until about 11:05, almost a half an hour after the second tower collapsed. I will never forget that day, and my father has relocated his office to Greenwich Village because a large portion of his building was damaged. But whenever I head down West Street or the West Side Highway, I always see the towers burning and I will never forget that.

M, Aug 26, 02

Stacey - M, Aug 26, 02
I was sitting there eating berfaest.It was the day after my dad oppen heart surgy. We were waiting the waiting
room. A man had a tv and we seen it we could belive what happened. My dad wasn't doing well he stayed in the
didn't get out untill the that next saturday. He is better. A least we don't have to trough that again. That was scarey!

M, Aug 26, 02

My Story - Courtice,On,Canada S, Aug 25, 02
I was in 2nd period Geography,I remember my pricipal come on and saying something about terriosts attack,personally i had no clue what the wtc was or the pentagon,i didn't understand,at lunch i remember walking outside and hearing stuff like they killed president bush,and blew up the white house,i thought it was true,and kind of got a lil scared,and then went to my tech class,where we just listened to the radio,so i got a pretty good idea of what had happened,but i still didn't have a clue,when i got home,i went into my moms room where the t.v was on cnn,my mouth dropped and i dropped my bag,i saw 2 planes going into the wtc,i didn't stop watching cnn...from the bottom of my heart,i hope all the people that are responsible for this burn in hell,and for all of those people who were in the wtc,pentagon,the planes and died,and the victims,i am so sorry..r.i.p

S, Aug 25, 02

love United we Stand - New Port Richey,USA Sa, Aug 24, 02
Hi,My name is Michael Kramer and I'm 12 years old.I was in school when I heard that a airplane had hit tower 2.I went to my others when the rest of the horror was still going on.Why would such these people hurt our freedom and our country.If I could go on tv and on stage I would say sorry to the victims and there their family's of what happened on 9/11 and Usama we are still standing proud for our country.Wait until we get you.

Sa, Aug 24, 02

- M, Aug 19, 02
I WAS IN MY CLASS AN I WAS PASSING OUT COOKIES IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY THEN MY TEACHER TRUND ON THE TV TO THE NEWS THATS HOW I FUND OUT ABOUT THAT DAY I HAD TO WAIT FOR 2 WEEKS TO HAVE MY BIRTHDAY I AM JUST AKID SO AHAVE NOTHING TO SAY BUT I AM SO VERY SAD AND I HOPE NOTHING LIKE THAT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN

M, Aug 19, 02

Teresa - Buffalo New York T, Aug 13, 02
I was at work when the first plane hit the trade towers. When I first heard the news I thought, "Oh, an airplane bumped into the towers." Then we started hearing that the towers were on fire. Those of us with radios at our desks began searching for news. We jumped on the internet to get more information. Then an email came to us telling us that we had 9 sales reps at the towers for a trade show and suddenely it hit home. Our telephones which usually ring constantly fell silent. We huddled around radios holding our breaths. No one spoke, the only sound was the sound of radios delivering the devistating news as we awaited new of the fate of our 9 coworkers. The towers colapsed and still we did not know if our people had gotten out. We waited and waited. Then two of them called in to say they were safe but didn't know where the others were. Several hours later three more called in and reported that they had gotten out alive. Only four people left that we hadn't heard from. Then three more called in. But the 9th person none of the others had seen or heard from and we feared the worst. Then they all called us together..all were safe and they had all found eachother and were back at their hotel room. It took several days before our people were able to get back to Buffalo. It took them 75 minutes to walk down to the ground floor. They told about how they had to walk on dead bodies and body parts to get out. They were only one block away when the towers fell. My life has changed a great deal since that terrible day. Things that seemed so very important before just weren't all that important any more. I learned to make the most of every day because none of us knows if there will be a tomorrow. I don't procrastinate any more.

T, Aug 13, 02

ben fathere Just A Student, Not Knowing What - tx - usa Th, Aug 8, 02
I am 13 years old and would like to share my story. I was at school like every other american teen. I had just finished my first period, which is spanish. I went to my homeroom, and the teacher supposedly was watching tv in the teacher's lounge and he saw the news. He told us what happened, but at that time, i didnt know what the world trade centers were, i live in texas, but the sound of his voice sounded very devestating. The school went on normally, while I argued with the teachers to turn on the tv. At lunch, i even went into the princebles office to argue with him to see if the school could see what was going on. He rejected, and i have never liked him since.

When I arrived at home i quickly turned on the T.V. to see that is was much worse than i thought. I will never forget that day. If i would have been old enough to sign up for the army that day, i would have, but i am only 13.

And when i saw video clips of people in the middle east and regions like that laughing and celebrating I wish they would all DIE, and BURN IN HELL!!! f*** THE MIDDLE EAST! AND f*** ALL THE OTHER NATIONS WHO HARBOR TERRORISM!!!!!!!!!

Th, Aug 8, 02




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