story20467.xml
Title
story20467.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2006-09-11
911DA Story: Story
Five years...
It looks to me like yesterday... i was in my job (i'm a policeman)in a supermarket, 12h50 more or less, when a friend told to me to go to the bar and watch the tv, because an airplane crashed in the WTC. When i arrive and look to the tv, i see the second plane crash in the second tower, and i asked to my friend: "ey that was a second plane?". And so it was, after that we realize the dimension of the tragedy. We look like zombies, with the eyes sticked in the screen. When the towers crumbled down, i was almoust in shock. About 15h00 i finished my duty and went home. In that day i cried at home, for the men and women who died in that day, and few times in my live i cried.
I still wonder: if i was one of that person in the higher levels, i jumpped off the building or not.
The world changed and so have i.
It looks to me like yesterday... i was in my job (i'm a policeman)in a supermarket, 12h50 more or less, when a friend told to me to go to the bar and watch the tv, because an airplane crashed in the WTC. When i arrive and look to the tv, i see the second plane crash in the second tower, and i asked to my friend: "ey that was a second plane?". And so it was, after that we realize the dimension of the tragedy. We look like zombies, with the eyes sticked in the screen. When the towers crumbled down, i was almoust in shock. About 15h00 i finished my duty and went home. In that day i cried at home, for the men and women who died in that day, and few times in my live i cried.
I still wonder: if i was one of that person in the higher levels, i jumpped off the building or not.
The world changed and so have i.
Collection
Citation
“story20467.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 23, 2025, https://www.911digitalarchive.org/items/show/7473.