September 11 Digital Archive Stories

It was about 9:00 a.m., and I was in my second period english class just getting ready to switch periods, when our class had gotten interupted. I remember sittin there laughing and carrying on with my best friend, when my teacher came in with a blank…

I had just gotten my 3 kids off to school. I caught the
news as I was getting dressed; I watched in absolute
horror as the world that I thought I knew, ended. I
immediately called my husband and in one breath, we both
said "go get the kids". In…

on this day it started as a good day. a day that GOD made with a blue sky anda blessed day. i was driving alone and listing to the radio and then the news came on (and it wasn't time for it i thought) they said that the world trade center had been…

I have wanted to do this for awhile, but was unable to do it until now. Cmj was that weekend and that is what brought me to the city that particular day. I wanted to go early, I had some friends I hadn't seen in some time and I wanted to see a…

I was 11 years old, and in the 6th grade at West Springfield Elementary school. I was sitting in class when I swore I heard a very faint crashing noise. I had turned to ask if anybody had heard the boom, but nobody had. I knew that I had sensitive…

I heard about the tragedy at school in 3rd hour on televison. I felt very sad for the people that died in the towers. I was also shocked that someone could do something like that to our nation. But I felt that it brought us closer together…

I was in the car with my oldest daughter, coming back from a doctor's appointment when we heard the report on the radio, first thinking it was just a bad radio joke, when we heard them announce the second tower had been struck. We both started…

I live in Birmingham, AL, but was on a business trip on Sept. 10th in Western British Columbia, Canada. As our group prepared to begin a teambuilding exercise comprised of camping and kayaking in the open Pacific, a colleague called my hotel room,…

I was rushing to work that day. I had just dropped my 5 month old son off at daycare. Traffic was horrible and I had to be at a 8:00 am (CST) staff meeting. Our department was planning to have a brainstorming session to help us establish our 12…

On September 11, 2001 I received a phone call from my brother, which was unusual because he never calls me that early in the morning. I heard him screeming "Oh my God, the world is on fire" I couldnt understand him at first because I was still half…

That dreadful day started out as a day of joy. I, along with my husband and daughter Michaela, was on my way to the doctor. I was 6 months pregnant and this was the day I would find out the sex of the child and if she was healthy. We arrived and were…

My husband called me on his commute to work and told me what had happened. I went downstairs and turned on the TV and watched in disbelief what I was seeing. My first reaction was horror then anger. I spent the rest of the week in anger at what…

It was about 8:45 a.m. when someone came into the cafeteria and said a plane had crashed into the WTC. We all thought it must have been a small private plane. Then, we started to receive calls from friends and family that it was a large passenger…

My wife and I had been married a little over a year on that fateful day. I was running a bit behind schedule, drving down Dorchester Road to avoid traffic. Just as I arrived at Goodwin Elementry School the news came on the radio that a plane had…

The morning of September 11th, is one I'll never forget. It was the day I had lost someone that I truly loved.

I am a 14 teenager from Toronto. My mom works at a Royal Bank. That week, she was in New York in the World Trade Center for a meeting…

I will never forget that horrific day ever, i was at home resting after i got home from work. My wife called me from her job at MCV hospital and told me to turn on the tv and i thought i was in a dream or nightmare as i see it now. I swear i thought…

My mom was getting ready for work in our room, and her hairdrier usually wakes me up, but on that day she had the news on, and after the hairdrier went off, I had just come out of my state of unconciousness associated with sleep, and heard something…

I was at work listening to the radio when they made the announcement that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I ran to the television set to see exactly what had happened. I truly thought it was going to be a small plane who had an accident so…

My September 11, 2001 Story
Kirk Foster

On Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, I had to do another day of
my 2-week annual tour as an Air Force Reservist. So I left
our home in Springfield, Virginia, and made my way to the
Pentagon. From the…

I was in school, and because I am so patriotic i decided i was going to join the army reserve and go to college. Then i heard that the first WTC got hit by a plane. Just like everyone else i had no idea what to think. As the day went on and…