September 11 Digital Archive Stories

I woke up on September 11, 2001 to find my 3 year old son glued to the t.v. in his room. He'd fallen asleep watching a movie the night before and so the t.v. was on channel 3 when he woke. He had spent all morning watching airplanes fly into…

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was sitting in my history class and we were watching the news and they had a news warning and they said that the 1st of the twin towers had been ran into by a plane. We were all shocked at what we saw on the…

I was sitting in my family room with my three children, ages 4, 1 and 4 months. First I thought it was an accident, but when I saw Tower two hit I knew that it was not. I began to cry and my oldest son asked me why I was crying and why did this…

I had arrived back in Newark Airport from vacation at 5 pm on Monday September 10th. Little did I know how lucky I was not to have delayed my return by one day.

I was driving down to the Camden area to do some fieldwork for my company and was on…

September 11th was a rough day for me. The only thing that I thought about was why would someone want to do that and what did we do to deserve it. I sat with my friends in my child care class in amasment. Really I think we just want to go home to our…

9/11/02: While enjoying a peaceful rest, i was interrupted by a phone call from my brother who was in school in Boston. He spoke with an almost calm tone, however, one of complete shock and revealed to me something that i wouldn't have ever dreamed…

On September 11,2001, I was at work, doing my regular job duties. A guy I work with , his wife call an said a large airplane had just flown into one of the trade towers.
A few minutes later she called back an said another plane had just hit the…

I had just woke up because the TV was pretty loud. I walked into the living room and my grandma watching the twin towers with one up In smoke. I remember asking her what had happened because I didnt know that much about the twin towers. I didnt know…

I was no where near any of the terror on September 11th 2001. I was in my living room in rural Minnesota. I have never really been out of Minnesota. My story is about how something I never saw or touched, touched me so much. I sit now and watch…

When I first heard about the Twin Towers I was only seven years old and I really didn't understand what happened,but now that I am older I feel really bad for the people who's family members was involved in this trajic accident because some people…

It was about 9:30-10 am when we first heard anything. I was 14 years old, and i was in the 8th grade. I was in Art class when our principle came on the loud speaker and announced that the world trade center buildings had collapsed and the cause was…

I am in the Air Force. I was at work in the hospital on Sheppard AFB, TX. September 11, 2001. We have a T.V. in the dining hall where I worked, and we always keep it on CNN. We couldn't believe what was happening when someone first yelled that a…

On the morning of September 11th I rose early so that I could perform my civic duty of voting in the mayoral primary before heading down to my office in Tribeca. It was, as everyone in New York on that day has since testified, a perfect fall day and…

all of the inspectors had been greeting the public that day,
making sure they were helped to cast their votes..when a few of us heard ..well it sounded like a car crash, but from a distance!..we didnt pay too much mind to it at first.
a man with a…

"Total Recall"By Daniel Bivona Ladder 84
I wrote this letter for the following reasons: In honor of victims and country, for the healing of myself and others, and for giving recognition to the unrecognized.

"Total Recall" was a term that I have…

As a school teacher I was in class with 9th graders teaching government.I had just put an original paper from the bombing of Pearl Harbor away when I received a text message on my phone from CNN. It read a plane has flown into a building in New York.…

September 11, 2001. It seems so long ago. On the morning of September 11, I woke up, just like every other morning. I got dressed and prepared for school. At the time, I was a senior in high school, but I was also in a work study program with the…

I went to Jazzercise like I did every Tuesday. We were exercising and talking about our weekend and the kids back at school. Then the news hit. People just started coming in from the street to tell us what was happening. One girl stayed on the phone…

September 11, 2001 began like any other day for me...I dressed and drove to Belleview High School, where I was working as a secretary in the Media Center.

At the time the first plane crashed into the tower of the World Trade Center, I was in…

I was working with my dad as a heavy machine operator on his road construction crew that fall. The morning of Sept 11th started out like any other day. We were paving a bridge in Gackle North Dakota, out in the middle of no where. I was lying in a…