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
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Jenny My personal disaster warning - Grass Valley, California W, Feb 25, 04
I am 23 years old now, but was 21 at the time. I was currently working at a Blockbuster video store, and had the day off. I had been up on drugs, (methhanphetamines, and marijuana) for several nights allready, and was growing increasingly tired. I was listening to music in a travel trailer on my parents property with several friends, and suddenly the phone rang. It was my friend, and neighbor calling to inform me that my abusive ex had been released from jail. Minutes later the towers came crashing down. My 3 year old son asked me, mommy, what is that, and I explained, "bad men sweetheart" Later that year, I got back together with that guy released that day from jail, and we had a baby together, a daughter born on September 11th, the following year, 2002. Mia Adara is her name. CPS took custody of her, and my son Skyler in April 2003, and in July my ex, my daughters father beat me so badly he caused my brainn to bleed, and broke my leg with a baseball bat.

W, Feb 25, 04

Jack Jack - USA T, Feb 24, 04
I was watching tv. Luckily my friend called and told me to switch on the tv set. I didn't at first but did so to find it was true. The planes flying in were so shocking that I turned off my tv and woke my roommates up. I called my family to check everyone was alright. Luckily I lived in Queens so I was safe and sound from traveling back from rector street(wall street).
I thought that the loss of human life would make people appreacite and value it more. Sadly all I saw was more destruction by self love hypocrisy. Bombing innocent people, killing mothers and children in afghanistan then in Iran. It occured to me that the world trade towers isnt really a big deal because we support terroist countries like israel, kill innocent people in the name of "justice", cause children to suffer from lack of medication due to bans imposed on anti us countries. I think we paid a really small price for raping the world. All in all we got off cheap. Thank goodness

T, Feb 24, 04

Ernest A sad day to remenber - Bronx, New York M, Feb 16, 04
For me that day was very sad and frantic to remenber. I was just getting from work, at work at nigths, then i was watching the news in the morning suddently they announce that a plane just hit one of the towers. I was watching channel 7, then they show the other plane hit the other tower. I could not believe that something like that ever happen here in New York. Suddenly i saw the towers come down i live next to the water, and i can see the thick smoke 0402241703-13

M, Feb 16, 04

Filesha i was at school - New Bedford, Mass Sa, Feb 14, 04
i was at school when this happened. my principal came on and had said what happened. i was devestated for the fact is my friend was on flight 11. i didnt know what to do. all i could do is cry. i didnt go to school for days. i was in the 7th grade. he had said for everyone to keep calm that its going to be....but everything wasnt. now that im in highschool we have had 3 bomb threats to our school. i am scared for the simple fact is that i dont know what it going to happen. i mean my best friend is dead.

Thank you for reading mu story on where i was when the terrorist attack had happened...

filesha

Sa, Feb 14, 04

Ray Always Remembered - New York, USA M, Feb 9, 04
On 9/11/01, my wife Florence and I were attending 9:00am Mass with another couple, Don and Marion, to honor this birthday of their long deceased son. We had also lost a son a number of years before and having these losses in common we often attended mass in their honor and memory.
Just before the Mass started, almost exactly 8:46am, Marion took my wife’s hand in hers and said, “isn’t it nice we can now smile when we talk about our sons”. Little did we know at that very moment…my wife and I were about to lose our other son, Brian, Captain of Rescue 4, FDNY, in the collapse of Tower 2 of the World Trade Center. All that was ever found was his helmet and a tiny piece of bone.
The loss of one son was hard enough….two sons, two ‘great’ sons…is a whole lot harder. It’s just not supposed to be this way. We pray for all the soles murdered on that day….’especially’ for all the loved ones left behind.

M, Feb 9, 04

NADINE K WHY - MILTON KEYNES ENGLAND Th, Jan 29, 04
AS THERE IS A TIME GAP BETWEEN ENGLAND AND USA I HAD JUST GOT HOME FROM SCHOOL IT WAS THE STRAT OF MY FINAL YEAR.... AS I PUT THE KEY IN MY FRONT DOOR MY BROTHER WAS THERE HE LOOKED UPSET... NEW YORK HAS BEEN BOMDED HE SHOUTED AT ME... I RAN UP THE STAIRS HOPING IT WAS ONE OF HIS SICK JOKES... I WALKED IN TO THE SITTING ROOM TO SEE MY PARENTS ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS WATCHING NEWS 24 ON TELLY... THATS WHEN THEY SHOWED A REPLAY ON TELLY I FELT SICK THEN A FEW MINUTES LATER THE TOWERS FELL TO THE GROUND BELOW AS DID MY TEARS.... THOSE POOR PEOPLE.... THE NEXT FEW DAYS EVERYONE AT SCHOOL JOINED THE SPEACIAL PRAYER SERVICE AND ASKED THE LORD TO WATCH OVER AMERICA AND HER PEOPLE... GOD BLESS AMERICA.... XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

Th, Jan 29, 04

Shelly At a school FCCLA trip - Okemah, USA F, Jan 23, 04
I was only 15 years old and my teacher and some fellow students were at a park training for some FCCLA leadership stuff and I remember we turned on the radio and every station was saying World Trade Center planes crashed south and north tower.
We were scared and we all gathered in a circle and prayed for the things that were going on. I myself didn't know what to think I didn't know if it was the end of the world or if there was going to be a world war 3. It was a little after 9am when we heard the radio's and I will never forget that even though I am in Oklahoma were in 1995 we had a bombing killing many that this was even bigger than this. I had friends on the bus crying saying that there parents or grandparents worked there. I wish I was 18 now because I would fight for our country I would steak every place out until we found ever al-Queda groupist and punish them severely...

F, Jan 23, 04

kacey i was at school when it happened - muskegon michigan Th, Jan 15, 04
i was headed to my third hour when my teacher stopped me in the hallway and told me that the world trade centers were hit. so we turned on the television adn watched in horror as the world trade centers were falling. then all of a sudden i was called down to the office and my mom was there she had come to pick me up and take me home and i left to go home. my whole family was at home with their families and loved one's

Th, Jan 15, 04

Tom School in canada - Canada/Mississauaga(Toronto) Th, Jan 8, 04
I live in Canada and as most of you may now it is not down below but we are your neighbours to the TOP ;). I just wish to say it from the Canadians point of view, I do feel very sorry for all the people that died on september 11th. I was in school at the time of the attack I came into class late as usual and everyone was watching tv, so i decided to walk by and see what was happeneing and then i saw the unthinkable a plane crashing into the first world trade centre. The first time I saw that i thought it was just a media joke. The whole entire day we walked around school and talked about it. Saying what we have heard and other points of views. But what you guys felt in the United States We felt as well. sorry i didn;t run spell check - i'm in a hurry.

Th, Jan 8, 04

NotAnyLonger Don't be foolish - New York City/U.S.A. F, Dec 26, 03
First of all I feel total sympathy for the ones who lost someone that horrible day. I pray for you and your sweethearts!
But I also want the ones hating the whole Islamic world since that day to open their eyes.
I agree it was terrorism,for sure,but it came from within.At first I didn't want to believe it either but there's just to much evidence. Please weak up America and don't let this murderer called president take away our civil rights.Or didn't you notice the laws passed just a month after 9/11? Everyone suspected to be a terrorist can be detained without any decision of the court (definition of terrorist according to that law: everyone who doesn't agree with the government's policy...). So I hope you'll see what they trying to take us:our freedom of speech. If you don't agree to what bush says you can get arrested (not depending on if you are a US citizen or not!)without any chance to be listen in front of the court,this is like 1933 in germany! Sorry,a bad comparison but it's true! They try to enslave us,just like they try with the rest of the world... 9/11 was engineerd by our government as tough as it may sound. Plans for a war against Afghanistan or Iraq were already available when bush was elected. They wanted that conflict cause the taliban didn't agree to sign a contract giving us the power over a 2billion$ pipeline. The negotiations failed in august 2001... what a coincidence,only one month later the unbeliavable happend... They just needed a reason and that's why they missused all of our patriotism with this horrorful act,just to enlarge our already mighty power! But for whate price? The jewish mainstream media doesn't revaeal this at all and why should they? They just profit of it (trouble about Isreal etc.).
But I as an (still...) independent and free citizien beg you for opening your eyes and especially your mind and don't take everything so willingly. They don't give a anything about us,they actually just care about their benefit! And if we don't try to change anything it will end up badly...

F, Dec 26, 03

Caroline LIVE - Columbia,MO. U.S.A M, Dec 15, 03
It was one of those terriable Tuesdays, one of those days that seem to drag on and on. Well, I woke up and went downstairs and started the usual routine, nothing special right, wrong. This day I seemed to get ready a little faster than usual days. So I went down to the basement and watched cartoons with my brother John. Suddenly my mom scearmed from us to come upstairs. when john and I walked into her room we stopped dead in our tracks in what stood right before us. One of the trade towers was hit by a plane. At that very moment I got a breath taking thought in my mind we had just been there in July of 2001. Maybe just maybe we could have been there at that time. john and I went downstairs to watch on the big screen and just a couple seconds after we switched on the right channel the reporter started screamed as if he was going to cry. Sure enoughed the second plane was coming around the 2nd building. Then it hit. I felt my face get warm and tears follow into my eyes. John and I turned to each other in sorrow and most of all disbeleif. When I turned around again to face the T.V. something caught my eye. In get bold letters LIVE. As soon as we could speak we ran got in the car on our way to school we began to talk about what we had just witnessed. No one new about it when I got to school. Now I really did not like my 5th grade teacher when I was 5th grade but that day I was glad. she had cable in her room so off and on we got to watch what was currently happening. Soon enough they past around a letter to teachers saying not to talk about it. But she did anyway and I was proud of her. That afternoon I came home and my sister her friend and neighbor Marly and my mom were glued to the T.v screen. Also that afternoon I pulled up a chair and sat in front of the mirror and acted as though I was on T.V being interviewed by someone like tom brokha, I think this helped just to get all my anger out. Later that night my dad came in and talked to me about it and that is why i am proud he is my dad.
Today I have meet other people that have lived more dromatic days of their life but my story is my story of the day we will never forget. In a matter of fact I have a friend who's dad went to New york in the Task Force. Sometimes the only way i can make myself feel better wher I look back on 9/11 is knowing how much we stood together after 9/11 in someway it didn't seem to last long. Anyway America is Beatiful and may god bless her forever. One thing that I will remember forever is looking upon the letters that spelled LIVE.God Bless everyone who was extremly touched by 9/11 and those who were lost. Now all I have to say is God Bless America my home sweet home.

M, Dec 15, 03

wanna go home stuck in new jersey - queens S, Nov 9, 03
i lived in nyc but was at work in new jersey when the terrorism started on the morning of 9/11/01....after hearing of the pentagon, then the first tower being hit, i thought it was the beginning of the first world war....i grabbed my things and ran out with a few garbled words to my boss...we were all scared....i wanted to hurry home to queens before the traffic...when i got to the george washington bridge, they had already closed it...i was frantic....stuck here...and i wanted so desperately wanted to get my kids from school (where they had a crystal clear view of the wtc burning from the classroom window) and get home where we would either be safe, or die together (a grim thought i know, but i suddenly became the ultimate pessimist) i had no choice but to turn around and headed towards my sisters house in clifton, nj....while on route 3, i saw the smoke across the river atop the towers...suddenly, traffic stopped, men, women, children, stepped out of their cars to watch the collapse of the tower from across the river..which at the moment seemed about an arms length away...i fell to my knees in disbelief and tears....we are all going to be killed and i am all alone...i couldn't get my husband on the phone...i couldn't get my mother on the phone...no one....this was it....i dragged myself behind the wheel of my car and continued to my sisters house...when i arrived, we went to pick up her 3 girls at school, stopping again to look across the river in disbelief...we got back to her house, but i was jumping out of my skin dying to get home, so i hugged and kissed them and got back on the road...finally, i reached my husband on the phone and he told me how i could drive upstate and take some other route home...i had no idea how to go but followed his directions, my 35 minute commute turned into a 7 hour ordeal in which i wet my pants refusing to stop my car for even a single minute....it appeared everyone had the same idea and were trying to get back into the city this way...i was in tears for 7 hours...bzillions of thoughts raced through my mind about what kind of terror was still to come...i was shaking almost so much that i could not drive....i ran out of tissues in about an hour and resorted to my sons jacket which had now become my security blanket and may be the closest i'd get to my children ever again...i could go on forever about the hours that followed in the car, etc., but the bottom line is that i was reunited with my family, and we have never been the same, kids should never have to see or feel terror, the world is no longer fit for children and the end is closer than we think if it has come to this

S, Nov 9, 03

Amy Death Everywhere - Hamilton/USA W, Oct 15, 03
I will remember this day til I die. I was driving to work late that morning and it came on the radio. The first plane hit the one tower. They kept saying it looked like an accident. Ii didn't hit me until the second plane hit the other tower. Everyone at my work went staight into the lunch room and turned on the tv. We all were devistated. We were in shock. A coworker and I stayed in the lunch room all day. The few days following, we walked in and out of the lunch room all day, the tv was constantly on. It hit me so hard because I had just lost my little brother a few weeks earlier. I cried so much, I was wondering if I was ever going to run out of tears. There was so much death around, I just wanted to die. That day will for always be in my heart.
Sincerely,
Amy Wil

W, Oct 15, 03

Nick Stoos It changed my life forever - Coralville Iowa T, Oct 7, 03
I will never forget the day the world trade centers were attacked, i was in my first period Language arts class doing some work when a teacher comes into are room and tells us to turn on the t.v to see what had just happend, i sat there in horrar staring at the screen trying to figure out what happend and until the second plane hit i was amazed to what i just saw. The whole day at school we watched the tv and discused what had happend, all day chills went over my body just thinking of the second plane hitting the tower on live t.v. in my first period class. After school i still remember when my dad picked my up from school, i will never forget the look on his face as we listend to the radio the ride home. When we got home we watched t.v as president Bush was doing his job and getting to the bottom of this crim, i still remember going outside with my dad seeing no planes in the sky and Air Force One flying to offit Ariforce base. After that day it made my want to fight for this country so im going to inlist in the marines after high school and become a U.S Navy Seal. It still brings a tear to my eye and chills all over my body just thinking about all of the people that died and how it changed my life forever. I am deeply sorry for all of the people that lost loved ones in the Attack. The terrorits that did this and planed it will pay for what they have done.

T, Oct 7, 03

92A20 I thought my co-worker was BEE-ESSing me. - new york city T, Sep 30, 03
For me the day seemed like something from a bruce willis movie i had recently seen titled: armegeddon.There was a scene in the beginning of the film which showed the tops of the twin towers on fire from meteorites smashing into the two structures. Who ever thought , it would happen for real!
I was at work that day, and while i was busy performing my dutties, a co-worker told me that he had just heard that a plane had hit the north tower. I didn't believe him until i went up to the lobby and looked up and saw the building on fire.At that moment, i heard a giant explosion, more powerful then anything i witnessed during my 6 month tour in IRAQ. I finally ventured up to the roof of my building to get a better view of the doomed buildings.me and a group of co-workers stood by on the roof, as people were scrambling for dear life across the brooklyn bridge.Suddenly as i looked up,while commenting to a friend about carnage occuring below, The north tower collasped. I fell to the floor in shock. None of us was prepared for what we had all witnessed. It;s been 2 years since that day, and it still haunts me.I will never forget what i witnessed that day as long as i live, and i hope i never see anything like that happen again, unless it's happening in a movie...

T, Sep 30, 03

Kalli Seger it didnt hit me untill an hour or so later - Bradenton Florida T, Sep 23, 03
im 14 years old.when the plane hit i was walking into my first period class.my teacher announced that a plane hit the world trade center. i looked around and tears began falling.2 years later we are still holding strong. america cannot be defited. on september 11th 2003 (2 years after the attack) i made a poem expressing how i felt that day. it goes like this

calls from their loved ones from the tippee top. just before the tower droped. children screaming in fear,that their mommy's or daddy's wouldnt be hear. silence ran through the streets.all you could hear was america's heart beat. and this happend for no reason at all so why should america fall? debris raining down like hail america will prevail

T, Sep 23, 03

Tara The security of home - Fort Lauderdale Florida T, Sep 23, 03
I was 19 at the time and at home sleeping. I awoke to the loud noise of the t.v. my mom had on. I sat up on the bed at nag her about it when I caught a glimce of what she was watching. I was speechless. I could not beleive what I was seeing. It didn't register for a few minutes what was happening. Then all at once it hit me with a burst of tears. Looking at that big hole in the WTC thinking of all of the people who had been in that spot and all of the people around it. Wondering what the must be thinking about. Then thinking about my aunt who lived near by and crying in fear. As I watched the towers crash to the ground one after another I thought how could this happen? How could we let this happen? We are such a great nation full of skill, wisdom, and technology- how could it be this easy to destroy ous buildings, lives, and security in a matter of minutes? I got word from a friend of my aunt's later that day and was releived to find out she was ok. She had been at work which was pretty far away from the WTC. I remember joking with my best friend before all of this saying that we had not been a part of anything maijor in history. How cool it would be to have been around when something that would later be studied in our classrooms happened. To be able to say "I remember when... ". Now I wish I hadn't. I still to this day remember that lengthy day in full color and always will unfortunately. The day my country lost it's feeling of security.

T, Sep 23, 03

Katie that day - NYC M, Sep 15, 03
I was at school it was like every other regular day and I just got out of third period and one of the teachers said "it's been hit the north tower has been hit." It was really odd cus I didn't know what she meant until we heard a loud BOOM and the tower collapsed and everyone ran to the library because that's the only spot that the window faces the towers. I remember a chilling thought coming over me, why is this happening is this a threat are we being attacked? then the second tower collapsed.
My brother had been in town that day because he was running business errands. He made it out and away from the towers about an hour before they got hit.

M, Sep 15, 03

Mack Big Scare - Aurora S, Sep 14, 03
I was in grade 9 english, sitting and listening to the teacher talk.
That morning, my mom was on her way to New York City on a plane for a business trip. I was unsure of her flight times, but i knew the approximate hour.
So im sitting there, and the school principal comes on the PA and annouces that the world trade centre in new york has been hit by two planes. Naturally im a little concerned, after all, it was two planes, and how many planes actually go to new york at once (i was thinking).

Moments later, i get a page from the office telling me to "come to the office immediately".
So im freaking out, expecting to find my dad and sister crying in the office, with someone standing telling me that my mom's plane was the one that went down. So im basically running to get there.

I arrive into the office to find my mom standing there alive and well. She couldn't get hold of us on the phone, so she came by.

Now, what happened, is she was sitting on the plane, ready to take off, and when the strike happened, moments before lift off (they were speeding up), the plane slowed down, and they evacuated.
2 weeks later, the RCMP arrived at my moms office, and interviewed her for a couple hours, which summed up to one important thing. Her plane was carrying hijackers as well. You all may have heard of this plane breifly on the news. They found box cutters in a trash disposal, and images. Andway, i thought she was gone, and then, 2 weeks later, we find out that she was just 2 minutes away from certain death.
Gives you something to think about.

S, Sep 14, 03

~Kerri~ life was never the same - Youngstown, Ohio Sa, Sep 13, 03
The day i will never forget.....well see i live in a small town in Ohio but was origanaly from New York my family is all from around there and my parents lived there all of there lives...so i had very differnt feeling about everybody who i was in my class that day... i was going into 3rd period my teacher had on the news and i was kinda like shocked i couldnt even believe it. The first thing i thought about was my dad. My dad worked in the world trade centers before we moved to ohio he had worked on the 85th floor. And people in my class were asking my why i was crying bc they didnt understand what was going on. Almost all of them had never been to New York before in there life and didnt even know where the twin towers were. One girl said "oh ya those are the things in Paris" i couldnt belive people didnt know the significance of this horrible day. so anyways i went into the office at my school and asked if i could call my mom to find out about all my family because i knew that my uncle worked across the street and my cousin worked in the building...also my other cousin was a fireman but the secretary said no so i wasnt able to call or find out anything until i got home that day. All day we sat there and watched it on tv but it didnt even cross some peoples minds. that made me mad. So when i got home i found out the my uncle who had worked on wall street since he was 18 years old made it out ok and was fine. Then i found out my cousin that worked in the building got out and was fine...so i was thinking wow this is great alot of people got out and then i found out that my cousin that was a firemen passed away he was found with 12 people around him it was just a very sad day for my family! god bless ameica!

Sa, Sep 13, 03




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