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#1342 | Wednesday, May 29th, 2002
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I was sitting in a diner with seven other new freshmen from my school. It was our "Welcome Week," when we were all asigned a senior to (though they didn't actually say this) humiliate us. They dressed us up in stupid outfits and made us hold embarassing signs. So anyway, there I was sitting in this dingy old diner dressed as a clown when I heard the news. At first I thought that all the teasing my senior had done to my hair had affected my hearing. I didn't quite understand. One senior was talking with her mother on her cell phone about it. We were quiet listening to the bits and pieces of what she said. Of course, at this time the facts weren't at all straight-- "There are planes dropping bombs... There's a fire in the white house... Something's up at the Pentagon... The Twin Towers have collapsed!!!!" Instinctively, I said a prayer. I don't know what I was imagining was going on in the outside world, but I just knew things would never be the same. And that's where I was- in an old diner dressed as a clown from the 80's, sitting next to seven other (already terrified about the first days of school) freshmen. As long as I live, I will never forget it... I don't think anyone will...
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Juliette | 15 | California
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#1343 | Wednesday, May 29th, 2002
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I was awoken just after the first plane hit the first tower, by my phone ringing, I picked it up and my fiance was telling me to turn on the tv, I could hear his mom in the background screaming that we were at war or something bad was happening.
I turned on the Tv and every channel had all these horrific pictures of a plane hitting this tower. I was so out of it that I told my boyfriend that it must be another country. He assured me that it wasn't. Then I remember hearing the news person saying that a bomb exploded in the Pentagon, we learned a few minutes later that it was the other plane.
I remember my brother calling and telling me he was safe (he lives in Connecticut, but goes to New york often.)
I watched everything unfold, from right after the first tower being hit. I was in shock, I pretty much lived in front of the Tv for the first three days after it happend. I finally saw an interview with the wifes that had husbands on the plane and that was the first time I cried. (even after I saw people jumping out of the WTC because of the fire it never dawned on me that it was real. I just couldn't believe it.)
My father works in the Federal building in San Francisco and he told me that everyone got to go home but him and a couple of his men because they had to stay and secure the building. This freaked me out because I figured that these jerks were surely targeting San Francisco as well.
My dad also had to go the to San Francisco airport and watch for suspicious activity.
Everyday I stop and reflect on Sept.11th. I will never forget what happend, and I will make sure to tell my children so that they know. It's important that these people are remembered. I didn't lose anyone in any of the terrorist attacks, but I still feel a sense of great loss I can't begin to imagine how those that lost loved ones feel. But they are in my heart and on my mind always.
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Amanda | 22 | California
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#1344 | Thursday, May 30th, 2002
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For that day of nine eleven I woke up pretty early for no actual reason. So I decided "what the hey" so ijust started to wath the news and there isaw a building that was burning and also many news about a terrorist attack which i remember for that whole day. At first I didn't know much about what realy happened so i just got ready for school an later found that this a a very big things about the World Trade Center was hit a no longer there in New York. Te pentagon was also another very big thing because it was a very big part in our military. Days went by and mny fashions had flags on them and also shirts like I love New York had been on a rise for sales. I really think that the people that died did no have to but because of these people that are terrorist will have to pay for what they have done when they killed many innocent lives.
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Jerry | 16 | Hawaii
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#1345 | Thursday, May 30th, 2002
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It was early afternoon when I was in our London office as usual when a group of poeple went rushing to the TV center. What they told us seemed incredible. "A plane crashed in the WTC at NY." After some time another crash closly followed by a third in the Pentagon. I was devastated. What the TV screen was showing appeared to be something from a Sci Fi movie but it was real this time.
It also happened to be my fianse's birthday. She was in India and I was thinking of calling her. But after these attacks making a international phone call seemed to be impossible. There she was waiting every moment for my call. Her friends, relatives, parents, collegues everybody had wished her but the call she was waiting for never came. She was thinking that I had forgotten her birthday and she cried bitterly at night after she lost hope of receiving my call. It was only after two days that I was able to call her and her and explain that may be because of the 9/11 attacks all international calls were probably blocked.
Now whenever somebody mentions 9/11 to me I remember the bitter fact that it all happened on her birthday.
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Rohit | 29 | India
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#1346 | Thursday, May 30th, 2002
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I remember exactly where I was. I was stuck in traffic trying to get onto campus at the University of Maryland. I was waiting for the light onto campus to turn green when I heard a local morning show newsman break into the DJs’ schtick to announce that a plane had just struck the World Trade Center. They were wondering what happened. Speculation that this was just an accident went on for minutes....then the second plane struck. I got onto campus and ran to the journalism building, where a crowd of my peers were standing and watching. I watched with them for the next couple of hours as the plane hit the pentagon and as both towers fell. I remember going to one of the phones nearby and waking up my friend who had yet to hear. I asked, “You know the world trade center?” He said, “Yeah.” I said, “Well they aren’t there anymore.” It was a terrible day...God bless all who were lost. God bless us all.
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Gerald | 22 | Maryland
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