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#1136 | Saturday, March 30th, 2002
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Of course, like everyone else, the morning of September 11, 2001 was completely normal. I got up and dragged myself to school. While I sat in my first period english class, I wrote a letter to my friend, including the date and time that I wrote it, as I often do.
I wrote that letter at the exact same time that the first plane hit the WTC. I never sent it.
At that point, I still didn't know that anything was wrong. I went to my second period Acting class. When the towers collapsed, I was performing a skit, "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" for a class of first graders.
Acting class got out and we went to lunch. I went through the line, got my food, and sat down at my lunch table. In a few minutes, my other friends had joined me. I noticed that my friend Rob had a radio that he was holding to his ear. We asked him why he had a radio.
"Man...the World Trade Center is gone, man...it's gone."
We didn't believe him. We literally laughed at him. The WTC couldn't be gone. It was impossible. But Rob kept listening to his little radio, and we started to wonder if he was telling the truth.
I searched out another friend, Bethany. When I found her, she was searching for a television. I helped her look, but we never found one.
After lunch, I went to Broadcasting class. I walked in the room to find the television on, showing the footage of the towers collapsing. My teacher didn't say a word. We just sat for an hour and a half and watched the news. The same thing happened in my last class of the day, AP Biology.
When school let out, I ran to my car. I wanted to go home, I wanted to call my mom and just hear her voice. On the drive home, there was nothing on the radio but news. It was an absolutely gorgeous day...it only added to the sense of surrealism. How could it be so gorgeous and beautiful when something so terrible had happened?
The rest of the night my family crowded around the television. I went to bed knowing that the world around us had changed. I went to bed grieved that so many were dead...that so many loved ones were gone. I went to bed grateful that everyone I cared about was fine.
For the first time in my life, I was simply grateful to be alive.
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Dana | 17 | Virginia
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#1137 | Sunday, March 31st, 2002
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i was at school just about to leave my 1st period class
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Tom | 13 | Virginia
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#1138 | Sunday, March 31st, 2002
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It was an election day in my town & I was working as a Poll Judge. We 5 Poll Judges first heard the news by word of mouth in fragments from voters. We were away from the media all day until the Polls closed. By night time, we had an idea what to expect but the video reruns were shocking just the same. Our son who lived & worked in NYC at the time, phoned home that morning & miraculously connected to let us know he had seen both towers fall but he was OK. Cee Kay
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Cee | 54 | Montana
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#1139 | Sunday, March 31st, 2002
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i was late for work that morning. on the cab ride in, i was mostly asleep. the radio was on, and they were talking about an explosion in new york. i really wasn't paying attention.
when i got upstairs, i quickly rushed over to our office coordinator's desk and started to apologize for being late. she just looked at me blankly and said "have you heard? do you know what's going on?"
when i said no, she told me.
when the tears started falling down my face 10 seconds later, she told me i need to be strong for my team. i was about to walk to my desk in front of my entire staff, and she didn't think it was appropriate for them to see me crying.
i cried anyways.
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devon | 22 | Canada
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#1140 | Monday, April 1st, 2002
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I was at work rebuilding a house that had a water damage. I was standing at the top of the stairs sorting out the pieces of baseboard so I could reinstall them, when the homeowner screamed from the living room. I stood in front of her t.v. with her in awe I could not believe it. I am a Firefighter,in the National Guard, so it hit me in two ways my fellow firefighters and,what would come next. It still bothers me to know that my brothers in the fire service were in there, but not as much as knowing the reason they were there. noone should have to go through that. They didn't deserve that fate. It could not be the fate god had planed. UBL played god that day. He will be reminded that he is not god.
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Rodney | 33 | Montana
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