I know this is a little late, but better late that never right? I'm a big dork about hearing people's 9/11 stories, I can't get enough, so here it mine:
I have just started college, I was sitting in my english and speech block, I took the two classes back to back with the same professor and students, it was nice. Anyway, we had just finished the english half and were taking a short break before speech class started. I remember on of the girls that tended to be a drama queen started freaking out saying her mom just called her and said an airplane had just crashed into the world trade center. I wasn't really sure what to believe, I just remember thinking she was a flake and it had to be a mistake...
After speech class was over I rushed to the Baptist Student Union to see if I could find anything out. As soon as I walked in my heart sank because the t.v. was in the main room on and people were sitting on the couch watching... this never happened. The BSU was for personal interaction, not to sit and watch t.v. so I knew something bad had happened. I walked behind the couch and started watching too. I remember going numb, slowly dropping my backpack to the floor not wanting to take my eyes off the t.v. for a second. And just watched... my mind was blank...I didn't know what to think or do!? I don't know how long I stood there? I was awhile, maybe an hour...just watching the news. After watching the loop twice through, I had had enough. It was sinking in this was horrible and really happening. I decided to go home. I don't remember if I had any other classes that day or not? I probably did, but at that point they weren't important. As I pulled in my drive way my cell rang, it was my boss telling me I didn't have to come into work that night because the mall was closing. That really freaked me out, I still wasn't sure what was going on, or how this all affected me.
I got out of my car and saw my neighbor working in her yard so I went to talk to her. She had watched the news too and decided it was too much so she came out to work in her yard. We talked briefly about what a horrible thing it was and I went into my house. Really I couldn't wait to turn my t.v. on hoping maybe it was some cruel joke and it would be over. But it wasn't, there it was the same footage over and over again, this time bigger on my t.v. that the tiny t.v. at the BSU. I remember sitting on the ottoman to be closer to the t.v. just watching. Eyes wide, body numb, not knowing what to think or do... here I was fresh out of high school in the "real" world and something terrible like this happens.
I don't remember how soon after I saw my boy friend at the time, but I remember him totally freaking out and talking crazy about packing a bag and running away... There was no way I was going to do that? I had just started college, I wasn't going anywhere!? We spent a lot of time visiting his parents all of the sudden too... One day we were at their house and his four year old son was with us. We were watching new coverage and they showed a traffic light that was leaning over and dust was all around it. He pointed to the screen and said "daddy a traffic light!" I almost cried, at his innocence, I wanted mine back, he had no idea what horrible things had just happened. I was just barely an "adult", just 18, my brain was not read to process such evil, and I'm not sure it is even now, 10 years later...
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