World Trade Center Memorial Site
History is not just about dates and facts, it is about real people and how they act and react.
Ask your parents about 9/11/01, and what they remember about that date. If they are ok with you doing so, please share below in the comments. OR you may direct us to your blog.
I was pulling out of my neighborhood when I turned on NPR and heard that The World Trade Center had "apparently" been hit by a plane. It didn't seem real, but I knew I had to call my mother, who was quite ill, to break the news to her. It would NOT have been good for her to first hear it on the news. I then went to my job - Room14 @ Manchester. Everyone was in a daze, but we did our best to make school seem as normal as ever; we chose not to spend the whole day fixated on what had happened.
The President spoke to the nation the night of 9/11.
We don't have any Family or Friends there but we have talked about it last year and is VERY sad. I am glad that it is now over but I agree with what Abby B. said in class that the Freedom tower is a BIG target because the name states FREEDOM and that is not good in an enimies eyes.
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ReplyDeleteMe and my mom talked about it. She was on bedrest with me because she was pregnant during 9/11. Her cousin, Moe, called her early in the morning and told her that we were being attacked. My mom turned on the t.v. and only watched the news about 9/11 for about a couple of weeks.
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ReplyDeleteMy parents were in the car hearing about it on the radio, and my mom was pregnant with me. She said she thought, "What kind of world am I bringing this baby into?" It was a very sad event.
ReplyDeleteMy mom was sad because she was in Canada. She felt guilty because she was not there to help even though she couldn't have. She was also expecting me at the time. But she was sad because she was going to bring me up in a world of evil and and uncertain.
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My parents were just around their apartment and then they were told to turn on their t.v. then they saw it. It is such a devastating event
ReplyDeleteThough none of my family was hurt during this event is crushes me to hear about it. My mom said she was at home and my grandparents called her and told her we were under attack and to turn on the news. she stated that she saw the second plane crash. She said it was horrifying to watch.
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This is such a bad act to commit... I wish some one could have stopped it
DeleteI'm glad that the terrorists were brought to justice, but so many lives of innocent people were damaged and ended.
ReplyDeleteNo one in my family was there, so no one died. But it's such a horrible event in US history and it sickens me to think about it.
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ReplyDeleteMy mom said that my dad was picking her up for work, and they heard that the first tower was hit by a plane. At that time no one knew if it was an accident or not. Then the second plane hit, and they knew it was a terrorist attack. They worked at Children's and she said they all stopped what they were doing, and watched the towers fall.
ReplyDeleteMy dad was supposed to be there that day in a meeting but he missed the flight do to traffic. Later that day he saw the news and was grateful he didn't get on that plane and sad because of the tragedy that happened.
ReplyDeleteI talked to my dad and he visited the 9/11 site in march, 2002. He was walking around and mas horrified by the freshness of the scene. All the broken concrete was clogging the gutters, but no one had touched it scince the attack. The cathedral across the street had the members make t-shirts, posters, and bouquets of flowers as a memorial for 9/11 and layed all the stuff on the fence outside the cathedral.
ReplyDeleteMy dad was driving to work one day, and he was listening to the news and heard that one of the twin towers was hit by a plane, so he thought it was an accident. He called my mom at home and told her to turn on the TV, and that there were reports of a private plane flying into one of the twin towers. When he got to work, the news was on and it said that the other twin tower had been flown into. My mom watched the second tower go down on TV.
A while after 9/11, my brother graduated from boot camp and joined the marines. He now lives in New York.
my mom was on her way to get her car fixed at the mechanic when she turned on the radio when it happened when she got there she and all the workers were watching what had happened later on that day my mom slipped and fell in the shower and her back got scratched up her head was cracked and she spent the rest of the day at the hospital watching it while my grandma was at work when it happened then she heard how my mom slipped my grandma took her to the hospital during this time my mom was only 18 years old thats my mom/grandmas story of 9/11
ReplyDeleteMy dad was about to leave the house for a photo assignment and he turned on the TV. My dad (having lived through the civil war in Lebanon) had already seen a lot of carnage. But, he was still very frustrated and upset.
ReplyDeleteMy mom turned on the TV and saw what was happening, and she was very upset. After she got to work, she started getting emails from her friends all over the world. To this day, she still has a file of emails that she recieved expressing how it was not just an attack on the USA, but on all of humanity.