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#1312 | Friday, May 24th, 2002
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I was working on that tuesday. I am manager of a Pizza Hut in Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the north of England.
I first heard the tragedy when my younger brother sent me a text message on my mobile phone. It read "Bruv, they've attacked America. The world trade center & pentagon have been destroyed!find a tv now!"
My initial thought was that some rougue arab nation had planted a bomb or something like that. This was an hour before my shift finished. At 5pm UK time, I hopped on my bike and peddled home as fast as my legs would go. When I got in I straight away turned on Sky News with the intention to put the kettle on for a cup of tea. I finally made that cup of tea about 8 hours later. I have never watched television for that long but I could not turn off. My housemate (who also worked with me) finished his shift at 9pm. He got home about 20 mins later & like me was in total shock.
I have been to the United States 9 times in the last decade. It is the only country I could ever imagine living in, other than my own. I know I could never feel the pain that the people of America felt, it still made me cry like never before.
We will never forget
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Stuart | 21 | United Kingdom
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#1313 | Friday, May 24th, 2002
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I had just worked a ten hour shift and had gotten off work at 7:00am. I had just gotten back from the store, and was watching tv, before I went to bed. I just happened to see a building burning, and thought to myself, "Is that happening now". So I stayed on the channel. The news anchors were telling us that a plane had hit one of the WTC towers, and it was not confirmed if the plane was off course, or what had happened, about then a plane hit the second tower, the news anchors were all silent, and then one of them said, "was that footage of the plane hitting the first tower". They were so confused, and all I could think was "oh my god, this is being done deliberately". The news anchors were all just silent and shocked, just like me. I called my mom, and told her, and a couple of friends. Then when the first tower collapsed, I just sit on my couch and cried. I will never forget that day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gina | 31 | United States
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#1314 | Saturday, May 25th, 2002
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I'm so upset about what is going in the world right now. I really wish that this would just be over!
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Gabriella | 14 | Arizona
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#1315 | Saturday, May 25th, 2002
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I was watching Rugrats, on commercial. I went in the bedroom and my grandmother had the TV on MSNBC. I saw the WTC smoking. Then the 2nd plane hit.
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Anthony | 22 | United States
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#1316 | Saturday, May 25th, 2002
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I was in a training class in Birmingham, AL for a new job. There were 15 of us in that class. We broke for morning break when one of my training mates received an e-mail from a friend of his about the attack. We all started calling people we knew and asking what they'd heard, since we didn't have a radio or TV at the time. We were all dumbfounded....shocked. Then, about 20mins later we got access to a TV and that's when I saw the footage. It was worse than anything I had imagined! I saw people jumping out of these enormous buildings, because they were burning, and then, the first tower collapsed. I just started crying. I couldn't believe any human being could be so heartless and cruel!!! How could anyone hate a nation so bad that they would want to destroy thousands of innocent people for no reason!
My heart goes out to those involved in the disaster, the victims, and the families & friends of the victims.
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Jill | 24 | Alabama
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