9/11 Stories
Abby Salomon: I checked my voice mail another 10 times
Adalet Budak: now they are only a heap of stone and steel
Allen: I thought of Woody Allen movies, I thought of people falling 110 stories
Allison James: I am filled with shock, amazement and panic
Amanda Highfield: before my eyes, the antenna tilted and fell into the smoke
Anand J. Modi: there were about a dozen people milling around the lobby
Andrea D. Ploscowe: the employees, fire fighters, police officers, and EMS workers—who must have perished in what we just saw
Andre Thibault: I am 65 and it is the worst thing as I ever saw in my life
Anon: my first reaction was to pray for the people in the buildings
Anon 1: I just remember leaning against the wall crying a lot
Anon 2: I’m crying as I write this
Anon 3: we watched in shock and horror from my 10th story window as a huge dust and smoke
Anon 4: we were coughing, choking, gasping, spitting, and sneezing
Anon 5: I’m kinda looking forward to having armed personnel on every flight
Anon 6: I was having nightmares, even in my dream it was a dream
Anon 7: I looked out my entrance doors and saw the hallway filling quickly with what seemed like white smoke
Anon 8: we gathered in the cafeteria and watched more people jumping and the buildings being engulfed in flames
Anon 9: I went through the crowds of mourners at Union Square Park
Anon 10: doctors and nurses were showing up out of nowhere
Anon 11: the city’s medical examiners office, spoke about the dead bodies (or their parts) identified
Anon 12: I was speaking to one of my buddies in NYC
Anon 13: as the bodies continued to fall from tower one
Anon 14: a yellow garment, like a sundress made of gauze, wrapping a torso
Anon 15: one of the monolithic structures decomposes before our eyes
Anon 16: I don’t think my mind is quite able to grasp what I have seen over the past fourteen hours
Anon 17: I remember seeing a huge black spot on one of the World Trade Centers
Anon 18: I must stay calm in front of her
Anon 19: it looked like it was in slow motion
Anon 20: you can see them jumping
Anon 21: I saw the entire thing happen
Anon 22: the whole top of the building was on fire
Anon 23: I saw a burning tower and just right behind a plane coming
Anon 24: I was totally shocked
Anthony P Azar: how many casualties
Ashley: I couldn't believe that this had happened
Baha Yilmaz: imkanlarim müsait olsa bende aranizda olurdum ama kolay degil
Barbara Joan Grubman: about 50 others stood, watching the second tower burn
Belinda Chinea: I didn't know what had occurred
Bill Holmes: who will take care of their children
Blanca I. Rosado: they announced that a second plane hit
Charles Waters: tens of thousands of people were walking across the bridge
Chris McCabe: all I could do was stare in stunned disbelief and horror
Christina Torres: a ball of fire shot up
Colby Buzzel: it sounded like another bomb
Corey Fortuna: the first tower was burning
Craig: I grabbed my messenger bag and ran down the stairs
Daniel Yucht: the 2nd tower collapsed right in front of my eyes
Dany Boivin: I feel like somebody try to kill my family
David: my eyes and my arms and hair were coated gray
David Breitkopf: all hell broke loose
David Hathaway: every second might be our last
Deanna deCampos: the air began to have an acrid burning smell
Debra S. Clark: turn on the TV and call me
Denise Motta: I heard a horrified voice scream PEOPLE ARE JUMPING
DK Holland: shrines to our lost citizens
Dorothy Thompson: my heart aches for every one who lost someone in this terrible tragedy
Douglas: missing posters with pictures of people that have loved ones
Duane D. Brodnick: all I see is one Twin standing and smoke and dust
E: the streets were empty
Eddy Otero: it looked like it was going to fall on us
Ernest Hilbert: the first screams he heard were on his phone
Estaban: hepimizi maddi vede manevi yonden yipratti
Francine Dagenais: god bless america
Frank & Shelly Rubino: your twin towers in New York have been destroyed by terrorists
G. Ramos: I couldn’t reach anyone through the telephone or my computer
Gary Welz: two inch diameter drops of blood spattered the roof and the deck furniture
Gerald J. Ferguson: if it falls towards me, there is no where to run
Helene: je suis touchée par ce que j’ai vu à la télévision
Hernan: the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are billowing fiercely with smoke
Huy Trankiem: that was a bad day for the world
Ileana Negron: we could read the print on the bottom of the plane
James Capelonga: the single two worst hours of my life
James Kirkland: we heard a loud explosion
James P. Lamb: I cried that day
Jeannie Giordano: pieces of office paper floated down from the sky
Jeff: such evil, such cunning evil
Jeff Stimpson: they ain’t there no more
Jersey Girl: we were evacuated
Jo Winter: your nightmare was our nightmare
John Friedman: it sounded like a military jet at an air show
Josephine Chinea: they showed smoke coming from the first building on the tv screen
Joshua Burnett: people were running
Joslyn Kaye: there was gray smoke billowing out
Judy: forever seared into my memory
Julie: there has been an explosion at the World Trade Center
Justin Guavin: what would happen if they fell
Justine Marino: it was quite surreal
K. Pfeiffer: a bomb had been set
Karen Moncur: we watched in horror as the towers collapsed in on themselves
Katherine Hawkins: dizzy view down to the street
Kathryn Nocerino: tears running down their faces
Keith McCormack: I envisioned it toppling over sideways
Keith Miller: strangers were hugging each other
Kelvin Huang: there are thousands people in the WTC
Kevin Hannan: I called loved ones to tell them I was OK
Lara Lasner-Frater: I turned to see the Tower fall
Larry Benfield: a group of 5 total strangers decided to band together
Lawrence Reif: I was sickened by the sight of a gaping space in the skyline
Lee: I thought we were at war
Lin Min, Zhu: I prayed for him
Lisa Hamm-Greenawalt: I still can’t sleep at night
Lori Clinton: I was hysterical
Lou Kunkin: our oxygen would have been exhausted
Manuela Ribeiro: I was appalled and tears started running down my face
Maria: I will always remember that day
Mark Michaels: I was covered in inches of soot
Martin Connors: the department was put on high alert
Matthew Bates: it is hard to be away during these trying times
Matthew Gray: like two cigarettes, lit in the wrong place
Matthew Zachary: a piece of me was yanked from my living soul
Mauricio Londono: I began to walk toward a light
Melissa Warren: I felt, and heard, the BOOM
Michael J. Wald: I looked up to see an enormous fire
Michelle: it seemed like a very horrible nightmare
Mihael Puscaciu: God bless America
Mr. M: the most bizarre experience of my life
Nancy Rapchak: I spotted an injured cop
Neal Coxworth: the building swallowed the jet whole
Nikki: collapsed while a news reporter was talking
Nydia: I felt a desperate sadness for my beautiful city
Paolina Weber: one by one, filling out missing person reports
Patricia Morrison: we saw debris falling, but it was actually people
Patrick: I had been at work for fifteen minutes when the first plane hit
Peggy: the street is filled with shoes
Phyllis Motta: I just spoke to my son and he was on the roof of tower two
Rebecca: I thought of the people trying to get out
Richard S. Cisak: there was no way in hell I was going to stay in Manhattan
RLMF: I saw the second plane
RM: forever be etched in my mind
Rob McGuire: many people were trapped inside
Rob West: I was at ground zero
Robert Dirk Stanley: I’m going down there, they’re going to need help
Robert J. Dorn: the Pentagon had been bombed
Robin Sentell: I could see debris flying all over the place
R.S. Lee: NY is being amputated by the feet
Sabrina Ambrose: I heard fleeting conversations about airplanes
Sandra Lang: I had just arrived at my office on Broadway and 42 street when my phone rang
Sarah: people were jumping from the top of the towers
Selge: wish with all my heart this tragedy was only a bad dream
Sevil: please don’t worry
Sheen W. Martin: my wife was physically sick
Shelley: the police were asking me for id
Stéphanie Deraîche: a song was interrupted by the announcement
Stephen O. Noble: office papers and chunks of wallboard everywhere
Steve Featherstone: we all were physically fine
Susan Shapiro: had taken his girlfriend to the top of the WTC
Tahir Turgut: deep sorrow for Twin Towers and the people who died
Toby Leah Bochan: I saw a giant ball of orange flame
Todd Calvert: I heard screams and shouting
Todd Shea: absolutely the worst day of my existence
Tracy E. Hopkins: I had a direct view of the devastation that had taken place while I was traveling underground
T.W. Kriner: tiny flakes of ash began to settle upon us
Twinkle: she was shouting at me
Vail Stewart Rumley: I watched, frozen
W. Thompson: there were wild reports of another plane somewhere above us
Waldron Faulkner: it must be a suicide pilot
William Gibson: people running and smoke coming out
Wynette: tears ran down my face
Yvette Thompson: I heard a crash, the ceiling came down, and fire consumed parts of the office and the entire hallway