Where Were You During the World Trade Center Attack? Tell us your story!

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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sara

i was at my baby siters - Northfield/Ohio S, Mar 23, 03
I was in forth grade. At school and the principal said on the anoncments something bad has happen to the world trade centers. but everyone its ok now just keep calm. It's ok just keep going throught the day. At that time I never new what the world trade centers were. A few hours later I road the bus to my baby siters. I got off the bus went up my baby sitter's drive way into the house and she was crying. we asked what happen sh said millions of people died because these idots crashed into the world trade centers. they high jacked planes and flew them into the world trade centers. I dont no why I just could not cry. On september 11th 2002 we watched a movie in school on the world trade centers then I cried.

thanks for reading my story,
sara

S, Mar 23, 03

Josh Steinman

MY STORY ABOUT THE ATTACK - Randolph /U.S. T, Mar 18, 03
When I heard about the attack I was unhappy.The hole world was unhappy.

T, Mar 18, 03

Sergio

Leaving - Huntington Beach, CA Sa, Mar 15, 03
9/11 was to be the day I left California and started basic training in Lackland AFB, TX. I was driving to March ARB to out-process from that base. Normally I dont believe in signs and auras, but that morning was the strangest sunrise I had ever seen. Basically not a cloud in the sky, but the sun stayed a dark red color instead of being its blinding self. When I walked into the military personnel building, they locked the door behind me, turned up the radio, and I heard what I thought was a bad take on War Of The Worlds. A loud, hard to understand, frantic reporter with people screaming in the background. I kept asking "Is this for real?" until one of the female sergeants in the room started crying and someone told me one of the World Trade Center buildings had collapsed from an attack. There was also talk of of the Pentagon and Congress being attacked. Just then, like a movie, I heard the F-16s on base all take off. I managed to leave the base before they went to FPCON delta (full lock down). The entire way home, I listened to the radio in shock. I didn't leave for basic training for another week, but it had an entirely new meaning to me.

Sa, Mar 15, 03

Tom

when the world stood still. - Minnesota, USA. Th, Mar 13, 03
Well I was working at a television station when the buildings were hit. When the first plane hit I said to myself "this must have been a mistake" however I along with everyone else found out it wasn't. The first thing I did was to call my family and see if they had heard about the buildings and they did. I didn't know how to feel I was angry but at whom. I saw the people jumping from the 105th floor and I can't say I blame them burning to death is a fate no one should know or choose to face. After I didn't know what to think or do. I didn't cry I was in to much sorrow I just tried to make sense of it all. However soon after I sat down I began to cry. I cried for all the people that died,all the children without parents,and all the parents without children. I heard stories about wives and husbands that died boyfriends and girlfriends and I can't even imagine what thier loved ones were feeling but if any of them are reading this my heart goes out to all of you left behind. As for the people that did the evil act I hope thier souls never rest and they have to tell every person they killed why they commited such a horrible act. My anger for the cowards has no end and never will,but I hold no anger for all mussulums just the ones that commited the crime. I am a student and know many mussulums that are just hard working americans and felt just as bad that day. The name calling and everthing else is not fair I am not going to be angry at fellow americans that would be follish. Instead let's stand by eachother and remember united we stand divided we fall. As for the war with Iraq I am against it but I am all for our brave men and woman over seas. Let's remember to support our troops but not the war. New violence does not heal the wounds of the past,Just time and peace will do that. God bless all americans and may the world know true peace.

Th, Mar 13, 03

shannon

my feelings on 9-11 - Ruther glen, Va W, Mar 12, 03
On 9-11 when the planes hit the world trade centers i was at caroline middle school. I was ging to my 2nd pd class when i seen someone crying in the hallway i stopped to ask what happened and they told me about the tragedy. I could not believe it, I really did not know much about the towers but it was really sad to hear about all the people that were in it and died. My best friends grandma worked in the pentagon but thank god thatday she took off of work i feel so bad for all the people who went into the towers and the pentagon thinking there day was going to be just fine and they could not wait to get home to their families. I came home early from school that day cause i could not take the pain and watching everyone in school cry like they were i really qish this never happened but i guess it is true you cant change the past. But i really hope nothing like this happens again i think it would kill everyone in there hearts not just themself who did die. so thanks for reading my feelings and i hope you email me back so bye bye.

W, Mar 12, 03

SORRY - washington C.H. T, Mar 11, 03
MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO THOSE WHO LOST LOVED ONE IN THE ATTACKS

T, Mar 11, 03

tina

mom - rawlins wy S, Mar 9, 03
I was giving birth and found out while i was in labor after 29 hours. My lovely Dakota Blue! The tragedy was hard to beleive at such a happy time. Love Tina

S, Mar 9, 03

Alana Hughes

The day people mourned - Detroit W, Mar 5, 03
Well I was at school and I was in math class and I was in the 5th grade and I went to Barton Elemetary and my teacher Mrs. Spires and she asked did we know any body in New York and I told her I did one of the aids came in the room and said that they bombed New York and I thought my uncle leaves in New York and I got really worried then I thought about every body else. And he was one of the people helping saving people so he called and told us that he was ok.
And I was just upset.
And my prayers go out to the people who lost their lives.

W, Mar 5, 03

Jage

Where I was - Ft. Kipp Montana W, Mar 5, 03
I was gettin ready for school when I turned on the TV and saw one of the WTCS already had been hit. When I went to school the second had been hit to but we were watchin at school. When the seconed collapsed I saw some people falling out of the building, and you know what I never thought I'd see the day it rained people. HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!

W, Mar 5, 03

John Mannion

Sad Day In 2001 - Gainesville Fl United States T, Mar 4, 03
I was getting off my morning shift as a crossing guard in Summit N.J where I used to live. The transit bus driver told me a plane had crashed into the Noth tower at the WTC. When I got in the house I had to do a double take as this was when the second plane hit tower 2. At the school I was working for To fathers were killed at the trade center. I hope Bin Laden suffers for what he did and I bet he had something to do with the first bombing in 1993 at the WTC.

T, Mar 4, 03

nathan

Where i was on september 11 - carrollton Ga F, Feb 28, 03
I was in P.E. and my teacher said, "Class, The World Trade Center's were attacked by terroist's" Everyone went in shock. He tirned on the TV and there was a news reporter saying there was an attack on the world trade centers. When i was watching, The 1st tower already fell down. There were people runing and screaming. It was a terrible day. But, at the same time it was a good day, because America was more United.

F, Feb 28, 03

A break through in my life! - Wyoming W, Feb 26, 03
It was my first year out of highschool. I hadn't gone to college, and my life was falling apart. I was horribly addicted to crank. I had gone to a friends house that morning to do my ritual of smoking a lot of dope to wake me up. While preparing the drugs, I turned the television on to watch my talk shows. All of the sudden I was witnessing the most horrifying thing. The first tower was collapsing and the second tower followed shortly after. I sat stunned, and realized how important life was. I went back to my house and stared at the television and cried all day. I made a promise to myself to live life to the fullest and have since quit doing drugs, and now work for my local police department as well as the county sheriffs office.

W, Feb 26, 03

Jen

Down Under - Australia M, Feb 24, 03
I was working the 12 hour night shift (7-7) as a 'foaling' person in Scone - NSW - Australia. It was a very cold night and I went into the office to get my gloves and scarf before I drove the quadrunner up to the back paddocks to check the mares in foal. I always have the radio on for company, and as I picked up my gloves and put them on, I heard the Aussie radio announcer say something about a terrorist attack in America. I stopped and listened to the rest of the report, just as the report came through of the second plane hitting the tower. I was in shock. It was about 11.30pm and I new my family were all asleep so I couldn't ring home, and I so badly needed to talk to someone. I lasted until about 2am before I rang my husband and I just said "put the tv on". He said, 'what channel', I said, 'any channel'. I waited in silence for about 2 minutes whilst my husband took in what was happening, I had to go and deliver a foal as I saw a mare's waters break, but I made my husband promise to stay on the line...I was just scared. I delivered the foal, a colt I nicknamed 'Yankee', and cleaned up and went to speak to my husband, but really not expecting him to still be there after 40 minutes...but he was. After some reassuring words we said goodnight. I delivered 2 more foals in the early hours of that morning, and as I watched the sun come up I got very teary and wondered how many more sunrises I would get to see and would this be the last.

Jen

M, Feb 24, 03

Gym - Canal Winchester, OH S, Feb 23, 03
When I heard about the World Trade Center attacks, I was just coming out of the Gym room and I was waiting to be dismissed from my classroom. I'll never forget it, because one of the teachers (we have two) said that a plane had crashed into the world trade center. No one really thought any thing about it. I didn't even know what the World Trade Center was, but there were a few oh-nos and what happened out of the fifty students there. We spent all the class periods until lunch watching the same thing on CNN News. That was like the big topic for the next week. (**Surprise) There were a lot of people making fun of it, and doing well, stuff that I thought was inapropriate, (of course they were seventh grade boys, what did you expect. Anyway, when I got home, we didn't like tallk about it, we just watched the T.V. the rest of the night. The same thing over and over. Columbis was the same way. I wasn't at school though, I was swimming at a hotel in Columbis where, my aunt and Uncle had pool passes.

S, Feb 23, 03

eric

something from the movies - australia F, Feb 21, 03
i had just woken up and had to go to school ... i sat down with my breaky and turned on the t.v to watch my 20 mins before school... i was horrified i seriously thought it was impossible the next 10 hrs i sat and watched the sceens play over and over again. TO TELL THE TRUTH I THINK AMERICA SHOULD BUILD THE TOWERS AGAIN..
muslims SHOULD ALL DIE THEY ARE DIRTY UGLY PEOPLE dont let them beet us

F, Feb 21, 03

Rory James

were i was when the towers went down - north dakota,usa,watford city F, Feb 14, 03
it was 8:00 and all i heard from my mom was o my god look at this so i ran to her room and on the news there was a plane in a building so was like werid so i got to school and every tv was on in every class so i watched for a while the i saw the first tower go down i was in so much schock the the second one went down the i got to my 4 period class and the teacher wouldn't let us watch it so the next class i had to ask people what had happened the towers had fallen and people had died i was so sad and still am cause im doing a report on it so i have to think back what had happened and all the pictures

F, Feb 14, 03

Nate

Married at the World Trade Center - Manhattan New York W, Feb 12, 03
Well I really don't have a story, But I was wondering how other copules feel that were married at the World Trade Center. I feel like a big part of my life is gone forever. I know it does not compare to all the lives lost. I just wanted to know how other couples delt with it.

W, Feb 12, 03

Chris

Just back from the states - Netherlands T, Feb 11, 03
I was asleep, jetlagged because i had just reurned from San Fransisco a few hours earlier. My brother woke me up and told me that a plane flew into the WTC. AT first i thought he meant something like a Cesna or another small plane. When i turned on the tv i only just saw the second plane hit. It all felt very surreal, almost movielike in it's appearance. It was akward even more because less than a year earlier i spent my holiday in New York and spent same time at the twin towers. Only if you've seen the height and size of these buildings can you really begin to imagine what it must have been like. I spent the rest of the day with my family in Holland and went to sleep upset and angry. First thing i did when i awoke was turn on the tv to see if it was not just a bad dream, unfortunatly it was not. I returned to NY this year with the same group of friends that had accompanied me to NY and SF earlier. It felt weird and i did not recognise any of the buildings that had surrounded the WTC.The site was crowded with tourists, vendors and religiuos fanatics. It looked clean and sterile, almost as if the workers had just begun building the foundations for a new construction.

T, Feb 11, 03

A Father/Psychologist

Bad Boys Who Never Grew Up - WHY they did it - Houston S, Feb 9, 03
I was sorting financial records getting ready for an office move when the phone rang and the caller said "Turn on the TV. Now!"

I couldn't understand why it was happening. But the explanation given to me by a 25-year-old Palestinian working in the U.S. was that terrorism is correct when you've gotten so frustrated you can't stand it any more. And Bin Laden's organization, he said, were just that frustrated.

In psychology there is a concept called emotional maturity. People become emotionally mature when they develop empathy, the ability to feel what others are feeling. This normally prevents them from being able at any time to knowingly hurt another human being. When impulse is still quite strong, the second criteria kicks in. The second criteria for emotional maturity is the ability to override emotions by using reason.

All of us, when we were young, wanted to hit people we were angry with. It felt good. It gave us a feeling of power. But when we had loving mature parents we were taught that it's not right to hit other people when you're angry. Only babies hit people when they're angry. Mature people, grown up people, people whose mothers had respect in the family, have been taught to use their intellect to solve problems.

Martin Luther King was an excellent example. One man, one emotionally mature man, used his intellect to convince the world that one kind of oppression was wrong. He was jailed and even from the jail he continued to write to persuade and educate the world about the wrongness of oppression in Letters from the Birmingham Jail.... "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people," he wrote, "but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Powerful stuff.

But Ossama Bin Laden is not an emotionally mature person. He's just an angry child who wants to hit people. Most of the world has grown up now. It's just this small group of bad little boys who are still immature, and more animal-like.

And that is the ONLY reason WHY it happened.

S, Feb 9, 03

Jimmyjo Bob

science class - TX, USA F, Feb 7, 03
I was in science class. I was doing my work for that class. I looked up from my list of homonyms to see the TV on. I saw the WTC all laid out over a few blocks. It was a smoking wreckage.

F, Feb 7, 03

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