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Where Was I When the Towers Fell?

by Chaon

Copyright© 2021 by Chaon

True Story: A short little text of my memory of September 11, 2001 after the 20th anniversary of that horrible event.

Tags: True Story   Tear Jerker   Violence  

I wasn’t doing anything important or world shattering when the towers fell. I was just sitting in a chair, playing a game and listening with half an ear to the TV late night news to beat off boredom. Just another night in my unit by myself.

Then the news flashed a breaking news banner and a news reporter came on and their face was strange. They were shocked and scared and behind it all was a faint hint of horror.

This was very strange because I had never seen a news reporter showing a face like that even when a terrorist had blown a plane full of people out of the sky or some other disaster had happened when a lot of people had died or been injured.

Then an image that will always be burnt into my memory was displayed in the background. A shot of two very tall skyscrapers in a city but one of them was burning. Oh hell. A fire started and we are going to see a real life Towering Inferno like the movie from the 1970’s.

But no, they were talking about a plane and an explosion and that the plane flew into the tower. That couldn’t be true. Accidents like that don’t happen.

Then the view changed and they showed a second plane flying into the second tower and exploding into a fire ball. Debris was scattered everywhere. I was shocked that a second plane had hit the tower right next to the first tower. I was starting to feel ill that this was no accident.

My game was nothing at the moment and I was locked on the TV. People were speculating on who had done this or why. All we knew is hundreds of people were dead in the planes and an unknown number of people in the towers. People were saying that the tower could have up to 30,000 people in them that day. The sheer horror of possibly having 30,000 people killed was starting to set in and then it happened.

 
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