"I may not have been in those towers, or on those planes. I don't even know one single soul that lost their life. But I will #NeverForget!" -twimom101
It was early in the morning and I was getting ready to go school. I was a junior in high school.
I had just gotten into the shower and had the radio on as I did every morning listening to the only radio station that played rock; 98.3. Creep by Radiohead happened to playing that morning and I was happily singing along. Being that it was one of my favorite songs, I was a little annoyed when all of the sudden the radio host guy interrupts the song to relay an important message. He says that a plane has crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers in New York. He seems in utter disbelief that he is actually making this claim; I myself don’t believe him and think he is truly mistaken. There’s no way in hell that happened. How the hell did a plane hit a building???
I figured since it was a radio station that was streaming from across the border in Mexico, perhaps they had misunderstood whatever they thought they heard happened... if they weren‘t making it all up that is. I continue with my business and get out of the shower a few minutes later. I need to find out if the radio guy is right so, I head over to the t.v. in the living room to check the news.
I stood their in completely disbelief with my jaw literally hanging open. Every news channel was replaying the clip of the second airplane hitting the South tower. It was so freaken horrible! I didn’t know anyone who lived in New York or anyone in the buildings, but regardless tears were just streaming down my face.
My mom had heard that I was watching the t.v. and came to see what was going on since I never watched t.v. while getting ready for school. As we stood there watching the live footage of the two burning buildings, I don’t think either of us understood exactly what was going on.
When I got to school, I had History as my first period class. Needless to say, as I walked into class everyone who was already in there was glued to the t.v.
You’d see groups of students talking about what was going on, you’d see the horror on the teacher’s faces and you’d see other students slightly crying. This is how it was the entire day… This, along with the footage that kept replaying that day, is now burned into my memory forever. This is how I remember this day and I'll never forget.
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Never forget the innocent lives that were lost years ago or the ones lost trying to bring justice to them.
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What were you doing when you heard the horrible news?
1 comment:
I remember this quite vividly too. I had a zero period which started at 7:30am so our teacher was watching the news when I got there. I just sat down & started watching the replayed clips of the plane hitting the North tower. Nobody said anything, we were all in shock.
She turned off the tv to teach class but she was pretty much the only one who did b/c everyone else just kept buzzing about the towers. When she was done teaching, she turned the tv back on & that's when we were able to see the 2nd plane hit the South tower.
Even though I wasn't there, I felt for all the people who were & their families when this happened. I can't even begin to imagine the panic, terror, disbelief, sadness, & despair they all felt. Even more not knowing whether a loved was dead or alive & waiting for hrs./days/months for a body or the remains to help with the grieving/closure process.
I'm sure everyone that was old enough to know what was happening will forever remember 9/1l/01...no doubt about that!
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