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#1307 | Thursday, May 23rd, 2002
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On September 11, 2001 I was home in Waipahu,Hawaii sleeping when all of a sudden we heard the neighboors screaming like they were watching a good scary movie. When my mother went and asked them what happened they said the twin towers just had got bomed.My mother and I being that we are from New Jersey and know a lot of people that go to New York Every day we were afraid.So we called everyone we new my dad didn't answer, my sister nor my mother's friends.At this point we just sat and listened to every word and name the news said for the next day untill everyone returned our calls we were a little relived. But I wouldn't really call it releif because alot of our close freinds were missing people we didn't know them but it still hurt us to see this has happened to America. I thought it never would i just hope everyone finds peace and joy
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SabrinaKahokulani | 16 | Hawaii
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#1308 | Thursday, May 23rd, 2002
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I was on my way to school around 8:50 Central time. I turned on Man Cow in the morning and I just couldn't believe what he was saying. It was sureal. At first I thought that he was joking because I never thought that there was so much hatred in the world today. I couldn't believe that people we actually trying to hurt us in a way that was never suspected. When I got into class no one knew what was going on and so I told them and we had a moment of silence and a prayer and my teacher decided to let us leave. I just remember crying in my room with my roommates, it was unbelieveable. I never could have imagined. Right now thoughts still go through my head about that day and I wonder what would I do if one of my loved ones were lost, or why would you do such a thing, or when are we going to get justice? Things that probably go on through everyones minds, but I just wanted to say that I am very sorry and I also am very proud of everyone that had and still are helping out in any way you can. I am so proud and thankful to be an AMERICAN! God Bless and take care.
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Stacy | 19 | Wisconsin
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#1309 | Thursday, May 23rd, 2002
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After quite some time of jobhunting, I had finally signed a contract with a company in Paris, only a matter of days before the attack. I could not yet start working, since my boss was going to New York for some business-meetings.
On this particular day, I was browsing a supporter forum for devoted AIK fans (AIK is a soccer club from Stockholm, Sweden) when all of a sudden I came across a message like no other I'd seen before. It said something like "a missile has hit one of the WTC buildings - turn on CNN". So I did turn it on, and just moments after I saw the second plane hit.
In a blink of an eye, my whole world had gone from bright and shiny, to completely pointless. What was this? Why did it happen? How could it happen? After just staring at the horrid pictures for a few moments, I called my brother, girlfriend and parents. I couldn't believe this was happening and I was in a complete state of shock. I spent the next 24-48 hrs on the phone in front of the TV. I have never been so scared in my life and all I could think of was the fact that I was thousands of kilometers away from all of this, but there were millions of people right in the middle of it. I tried to imagine the panic, the horror and the grief that the people of N.Y, Washington and the rest of the U.S must have felt. I don't think my imagination is great enough to have even come close.
Nobody will ever forget this tragic day, and I hope that one day, we will also remember the day when the violence ended and the purportrators were brought to justice - will that ever happen?
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Jesper | 30 | France
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#1310 | Friday, May 24th, 2002
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I will never forget the day, as will millions of others. I remember it as if it were yesterday. I was in class and a secretary barged in to tell us the news. We had no idea of the impact of what we had just been told. We raced to a tv set down the hall. The pictures on it looked as though we were watching a movie. Not one sound could be heard, except for sobbing. For over an hour, no one spoke a word. The silence said all that could be said. And,although no one was speaking, I knew in my heart that we were all thinking and feeling the same thing. It was totally unbelievable. No words could ever describe the terror or heartbreak that I felt at that moment. And I will never ever be able to forget that feeling. NEVER.
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Jessica | 24 | Tennessee
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#1311 | Friday, May 24th, 2002
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We were all somewhere. For me, I was in a college history class in the middle of Missouri. My aunt was two blocks from the Trade Center on her day off from her job as a flight attendant on the same flight route, same airline as one of the planes. My friend was in Florida, attending the same flight school that some of the terrorists graduated from. Another friend was overseas serving the United States Air Force. And as I talked to each of them over the next few weeks, I realized that while our different geographic locations and proximities, it affected us all. Sure, we felt different emotions and in different degrees. We had different experiences in the attacks' aftermath. Yet, on that day, Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the entire nation was in unison. United we stand.
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Brandi | 19 | Missouri
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