September 11 Digital Archive Stories

My story has previously been told, but looking back five years later it still leaves an eerie feeling in the pit of my stomach.
It sickens me thinking about the horror the victims, their familes, citizens of this country and those abroad went through…

To my unborn children,

I wish there was something I could say that would make it easier. Something that would make it easier for you to understand why we as humans do the things we do to one another. Believe it or not, your father was once young and…

I was just getting from school when my cousin, from Bremen Germany, called and told me that a plane hit the towers. I couldn't believe, I said stupid joke and hung up. I turned on the TV and on every Channel you could see these horobile pictures. I…

September 11 was a horrible day. My life was changed a lot, because you think to yourself, ?Are you really safe where you are if you are in danger? All these things come to mind after the planes crashed into the world trade centers, the pentagon, and…

It is a morning that will be etched in my memory for as long as I live. I had just taken my daughter to school and did not have the radio on as I usually do. When I walked in the door, my boyfriend, who was supposed to go into the city that morning…

I was in Nicaragua on an LDS mission, and I can remember that I was getting ready to go home to the USA in about a month and a half. I was getting very excited to go home to Utah. I could also remember that I had stayed awake the majority of the…

SEPTEMBER 11-2001



When I frist heard the news of what had hapened, it was my frist time going back to the Middle School. I was meeting my teacher. When I got to my science class, my hostory teacher ran into the room and told us that two…

We were on vacation in Ireland. We were in a pub eating lunch and they had CNN on the TV. As we waited for our food, we say the amatur footage of the first plane hit the first tower. We were shocked and at first thought it was a small aircraft,…

I remember that day like the back of my hand. I remember getting ready in the morning to go to school, admiring the new outfit I just got and then I headed out the door. I went to the bus stop and me and my friend Stephanie were chatting the whole…

We live about two and a half hours from Kansas City. Independence is a suburb of Kansas City. My daughter was to fly back to her home in Virginia that morning. She was putting things in her rental car and turned the ignition key on and heard that…

I was at an interview, when someone said a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. We all stood ther and watched as the 2nd plane hit the other Tower, the the Pentagon, we all watched in a solw motion when this was going on, needless to say,…

I woke up like it was just a normal day. But that is far from the truth. It was second period on September 11th and a plane just hit the first World Trade Building and a second plane hit the other tower and I was not aware of what had happened at…

It was my birthday and my daughters first day of preschool. I had just dropped her off and then went to my grandmothers house. As soon as I entered the house she told me to come see the tv. She was watching the Today show and they were showing…

well i woke up on the 11th at 8:00 because i had to take my newborn to his appt. I turned on channel 20 to watch the gospel show and was listening laying down and was shock to hear them say that a plane crashed into the 1st tower the first reaction i…

We heard this guy at work telling people that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Most of us said "Yeah, right", because this person was always saying outrageous things. But then a supervisor said the same thing, and we managed to get a radio…

I work for the federal government in a small, rural Appalachian town. We had no TV at work. My husband was at home and when the first plane hit, he called to tell me what he had seen on TV. I assumed this was a plane that had somehow gone astray.…

I am very sad for what happened to the familys and all of us on Sept. 11 . I love my country and we will keep even stronger now ,you can bend us but you can't break us.My heart hurt for all we lost and all the great hero's on that day that put…

I live in Garland, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, TX. I was about 4 blocks from my sons school, as I was driving him there. I was listening to the morning news and talk shows that I would normally listen to. They interrupted the show to report that "a…

I am a teacher for the Ft. Smith school district. I taught fourth grade last year. On the morning of Sept. 11th, the other fourth grade teacher ran into my room. Her sister had called and said a plane had hit the world trade center. We were…

Stephen Stodolka 9/11/02

5/28/02 S.S



September 11, 2001


The date was September 11, 2001 and it was my first year of high school. I attend Barker Central High School, which is located in a…