9/11: Never Forget “I heard a woman’s bloodcurdling scream coming from the other side of the door.”
“The first woman who came through the door had half her arm hanging off as though someone had sliced through her skin with a machete. A man had huge pieces of glass embedded in his chest. The woman who was screaming had blood all over her face and was pitifully repeating that she couldn’t see.”
“One of the most haunting sights of The World Trade Center disaster was that of bodies hurtling through the air as the heat inside the tower became unbearable.”
These are all of the things that Janice, a 9/11 survivor, experienced on the day that would forever change the way we view America. Could you imagine going though the terror that Janice faced? Having to look up to see two towers, one of which has become your second home, one where you’ve worked in for more than a decade, …show more content…
I, of course, was very young. And I didn’t know much about...well, anything. When the teachers explained to me what happened, I didn’t think much about it. For one, they sugar-coated it, since we were so young. They obviously didn’t want to scar us for life. They left out all of the gory details. So after explaining it to us 3rd graders, I thought, “Oh, well...that’s sad.” My little naive mind couldn’t completely comprehend what had actually happened. All I knew was; the Twin Towers went down and everything was just depressing. Then four to five years later, here I am, writing an article about 9/11, on the verge of breaking down and crying. I now know all of the gory details. Completely explicit. I know how people were jumping out of buildings, trying to save their own lives. I know about Osama Bin Laden, and all the terror he had brought upon America. I know that he eventually went down. I know about the burning buildings, and the smoke, and the injuries, and the deaths that occurred that day. Everything is so much clearer
“The first woman who came through the door had half her arm hanging off as though someone had sliced through her skin with a machete. A man had huge pieces of glass embedded in his chest. The woman who was screaming had blood all over her face and was pitifully repeating that she couldn’t see.”
“One of the most haunting sights of The World Trade Center disaster was that of bodies hurtling through the air as the heat inside the tower became unbearable.”
These are all of the things that Janice, a 9/11 survivor, experienced on the day that would forever change the way we view America. Could you imagine going though the terror that Janice faced? Having to look up to see two towers, one of which has become your second home, one where you’ve worked in for more than a decade, …show more content…
I, of course, was very young. And I didn’t know much about...well, anything. When the teachers explained to me what happened, I didn’t think much about it. For one, they sugar-coated it, since we were so young. They obviously didn’t want to scar us for life. They left out all of the gory details. So after explaining it to us 3rd graders, I thought, “Oh, well...that’s sad.” My little naive mind couldn’t completely comprehend what had actually happened. All I knew was; the Twin Towers went down and everything was just depressing. Then four to five years later, here I am, writing an article about 9/11, on the verge of breaking down and crying. I now know all of the gory details. Completely explicit. I know how people were jumping out of buildings, trying to save their own lives. I know about Osama Bin Laden, and all the terror he had brought upon America. I know that he eventually went down. I know about the burning buildings, and the smoke, and the injuries, and the deaths that occurred that day. Everything is so much clearer