September 11 Digital Archive Stories

I was at my desk from 8:15. At 8:45 I heard a banging and explosive sound like large containers falling. I receiveds many calls for our security. Some one from the office notifiesd that a plane went into world trade center. I looked out window…

Students in my debate class at Comstock HS on the east side of Kalamazoo, Michigan, were studying and discussing that year's national topic, weapons of mass destruction. Suddenly word spread like wildfire that there had been a terrorist attack in…

Andrew Alt Per. 5
5/23/02…

My husband and I had been seperated for almost two years. I returned from my job a little before 9:00 am and had no knowledge of what was happening. Then the phone rang, it was my ex-husband. SCREAMING! "Go get the baby from school right now", he…

I had just gotten out of bed for my 9:45 class at Penn State, setting my alarm at 8:45. I was in the bathroom putting in my contact lenses and started hearing voiced. I'd apparently only hit the Snooze button and not turned off the alarm. I heard the…

Esbamos tomando el desayuno mi esposa y yo, escuchando el radio del noticiero a nivel nacionl de "Imagen Informativa" que conduce atinadamente esl Sr. Pedro Ferriz de Con. recuerdo que uno de sus primeros comentarios fue "parece se estrello una…

My husband and I were home on the morning of Sept.11,2001. I was trying to get our newborn son ready for his first doctor's visit. You see, our first child, Peter James was
born the morning of Sept.6, 2001 and we had only come home two days…

The morning of September 11, 2001 was like every other morning. I pulled into parking space number 132 at my high school and walked up the hill to my first period class. I went to my locker, chose the correct book and then went into american…

On September 11, 2001, I was teaching K5 at a Christian school in Florida. Another teacher came over to my classroom to tell me that the World Trade Center had been hit by a plane--I really thought nothing of it... just that a tragic accident had…

This is a poem I wrote about September 11th & Ground Zero. It is entitled "The World." Please read!!

THE WORLD
I am the world,
my burial ground is known as Ground Zero.
I watch as they piece me back together,
hands helping hands.

I am the world,
I…

As the whole world changed on that doomed-filled day, September 11th marked a day where many lives were dramatically changed. That Tuesday hit close to home, in fact it directly impacted our family, friends, and community. Our lives will never be…

Despair fills the air in a silent sky
Life has been taken, innocence has died
Together we share in grieving our pain
The atrocities of men so clearly insane

Searching for answers we hold the key
Finding the strength to set us free
Time to recoup and…

I had just arrived to start my work out when the woman who lives next door came in to tell us that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center. I was surprised because I had worked at the World Trade Center on the 106th floor and couldn't…

September 11, 2001
On the day of September 11, 2001, I was in my second period class when my Global Studies teacher came in and you could just tell something was wrong by her facial expressions and the look in her eyes. Normally she has a big…

I was in a computer business called SpectraSystems (which has since gone out of business). One of the computer technicians was assisting me with getting my web site published so I could add information to it. My site is called…

I woke up one morning and I went out into the lounge to have breakfast before I had my usual shower. I looked at my parents faces an their mouths were wide open and I asked them what the matter was, they pointed to the TV and on the screen was the…

I had just come out of my Word Processing class at Central Kentucky Technical College when a girl had said that a plane had crashed into a building. Upon further conversation and television viewing, my thoughts of "oh it is just a pilot that can't…

I was celebrating my daughter 5th birthday. We had the T.V. on but we turn down the sound. Gabrielle was opening her presents when we watched in horror when the fired was at the first tower. At first i thought it was a movie. Bit when i saw the…

I can't really remember much of that day. I was a sixth grader at Orange Hunt Elementary school. I remember we were in the middle of class, school had just started, and our principal came rushing in. They set up a T.V. in the main room and put all of…

I was in the doctors office when the first plane hit the twin towers.The entire doctors office stopped working as we all gathered around the tv in awe as we watched the next few moments unfold.
During the entire time the doctor would see a patient…