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#1267 | Saturday, May 11th, 2002
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The events of September 11th have affected me on so many levels that I cannot fully explain how I feel. I live in Washington DC, I go to school next to a Naval Base and Hospital, I live a half an hour from Dulles Airport. To know that this happened in my backyard scares more than anything in the world. I was in school when it was announced that the WTC had been hit by an airplane and I didn't understand the magnitude of those buildings and the damage it would do. I assumed someone in air traffic control had made a horrible mistake. When I heard that the Pentagon had been hit, I was slapped in the face by the realization that this was an attack. For me, this was not an attack on my country; this was an attack on my friends and family, my friends' fathers and mothers. This was not some ideological betrayal, this was my home and my life. Not knowing what was going on was probably the worst part. My school was closed and I remember trying to get in touch with my parents and not getting anyone. All of the cell phone circuits were busy and no one knew where their family was. I had a friend whose mother was in the White House that day and was just told to run. I have friends who lost loved ones. I lost friends as well. The image of the Pentagon in flames will never leave my consciousness and I can still see very clearly the second plane crashing into the WTC. I do not live a single day without thinking about what happened and about how I will never be the same person. I do not know if I will ever go for too long without waking up crying. I will never forget what I saw and can only hope that one day I can block from my consciousness the pictures burned into my memory for a week, a day, an hour even. My entire generation has been robbed of an innocence that I will do everything in my power to protect for my children. God Bless.
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Sam | 17 | District of Columbia
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#1268 | Saturday, May 11th, 2002
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september 11 i was in school the day it happened. and i was frightned i had lost people i know in the world trade center. amd my father happen to be in the city but he turned around right when it happened so he is ok. but my family that was hurt didnot sevive they died. i am so upste and i have tried to move on but it's hard and i think that moving on and trying to start a new life it sucks. i cannot evey day i think about what happens i have gone to church every night and lit candles and pryed for a long time. i have watched it fall over and over again on tv i am not happy with everything happening to our world. i have called all my family members the day it happened and i was so upset when the first plane hit and so on. i am not happy at all. remember all thr cops fire fighters and other people who had hepled during this time. i am here to support everyone in our world. i was in the city towards december or some where near that time. so i know what the feeling was when i saw it just standing there. the fear i had how scared and if this was to happen again after they put it in.
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irene | 15 | New York
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#1269 | Monday, May 13th, 2002
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It was such a tragic event in the United States when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked by terrorist. I was in tonga when this happened. I woke up that morning and my father was sitting in the living room watching television. From where I was standing it seemed to me that he was watching a action movie. But then I realized that they kept on replaying the same part over and over again. I asked him What happen? He was stunned. He was surprised somebody would dare do this to the U.S.. Because America is such a powerful country. I am so sorry but I cant go on its too unforgettable.
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Luke | 17 | Hawaii
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#1270 | Monday, May 13th, 2002
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My husband, Vivek and I were in Moscow on 11th September, 2001. We were staying with a friend and had gone to pick him up from his office. He came out, a shocked expression on his face and handed out a printout of an internet news download. It showed a sketch of the World Trade Centre, with an aereoplane lodged into it!! At first it sounded too ridiculous to be true. But as we read on, we were absolutely shell shocked....
Our thoughts went out to all those thousands of people trapped inside the buildings. We rushed home to catch the latest news on television. The next few days were a nightmare as more and more news of the terrible tragedy came in...
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Aparna | 30 | India
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#1271 | Monday, May 13th, 2002
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9/11/2001--That morning I was taking breakfast in the kitchen at home, in Chile (South America). I was watching a TV show and it was interrupted to inform that a "small plane had crashed one of the twin towers of the WTC". While the man in the news was talking and they aired the first images of the "accident" I started thinking: "this is wrong, how can a plane to be allowed to fly around so many tall buildings... this is not an accident". Suddenly the other plane appeared and I saw it impacting the second tower... LIVE!.
This is probably one of the most shoking experiences in my life. You are not prepared to see something so horrible out of the blue, while your are taking breakfast, and happening just in the other side of the world. I was speachless and crying silently. I had to run some errands and while I was in that I heard about the Petagon attack. When I went back home I learned that the towers had fell down... I couldn't believe it. Even now, after going to NYC and being in Ground Zero, it's hard to think that it really happened.
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Andrea | 25 | Chile
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