9/11 STORIES COMPILATION
Possible Cover Picture? By Robert Abel, MA
1) Ashleen O Gaea, Tucson
I was just waking up when the phone rang.
A friend’s daughter was breathless on the other end
of the line.
Her parents had left for work moments earlier, and she...
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9/11 STORIES COMPILATION
Possible Cover Picture? By Robert Abel, MA
1) Ashleen O Gaea, Tucson
I was just waking up when the phone rang.
A friend’s daughter was breathless on the other end
of the line.
Her parents had left for work moments earlier, and she was almost out of the door for
the school bus.
“Turn on your TV!”
“What channel?” I asked.
“It doesn’t matter,” she told me, and she was right.
My husband and I stood transfixed before the television screen.
It took some time to wrap our
heads around the idea that this wasn’t a disaster movie but the real thing.
It took longer still to
grasp the magnitude of the event.
While the surreal images of the planes impacting and the towers’ collapse are my foremost visual
memories of 9/11, for me the first heartbreak of the event was that it was a child, just 12 years
old, who broke the news to me.
In the heroism the events of 9/11 inspired – including the determination of many to resist the
urge to hate – there was some mitigation o
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