Tuesday 9/11/01
Dear Diary,
I wanted to have even just a brief entry from today, because today a horrable attack took place against America. Four US planes were hijacked & crashed, 2 into the Trade Towers in NYC, one into the Pentagon, & the other one crashed in an area in Western PA. The 3 horrable attacks on our buildings, all happened w/i an hour- it was so horrific. @ first every1 thought there was just some kind of fire or explosion in the tower, & @ about 5 min. to 9 they had Diane Sawyer & Charie Gibson interrupt the commercials on ABC w/ live video of the tower. It had 2 huge holes in it & was on top, a ball of fire. As they were discussing what might have caused it, they mentioned how there were a couple ppl who claimed that there was a plane that crashed into it. So some speculation was that there was the accident w/ a plane & then they were discussing it being some explosion in the building. They had some guy that heard the noise of whatever it was, and he was talking, & they were showing
a picture of live video of the top 1/2 of the building, most of which was on fire... and a couple of x a helicopter would fly by... Then Daniel & I saw the plane come in, really low & really big, And in the second we had to think, we thought it was some kind of rescue plane... & the next thing we know, it flys RIGHT INTO the other twin tower, & the thing explodes! Diane, Charlie, & the other guy started saying how "that was anothe plane... it flew right into the tower!" And they didn't know what to do, they were mostly just like "Oh my God! Oh my God!" again and again... none of us could believe what we had just seen. Then word came that the Pentagon had also been struck by an airplane! Then they were showing live video of the Twin Towers when the one collapsed... it just crumbled down right there... clouds of dust & debree billowed across & spread down the city... smoke filled the air. Then, later, the 2nd one did the same. They just collapsed... w/ hundreds, even thousands of ppl trapped -->
inside, including firemen & policemen. All airways were closed... every plane was to land... our national borders along w/ Mexico's and Canada's were closed. NYC looked like some bombing from the middle East- ppl ran, screaming, everywhere, dirt filled the air, piles of rumble lay all over. Then we found out that @least the 2 planes, (one from one of the towers, the other, from the Pentagon) had been identified as commercial jets w/ 92 on the one plane and on the other. We are confident there are no survivors. They estimate there might be up to tens of thousands of ppl killed. It's the worse tragedy since Pearl Harbor- ppl are already saying "war". War! I just can't believe this is happening. And they showed a clip of Palistinians in Jerusalem shouting & parading in the streets, so happy that America had been hurt. How can ppl hate that much? And @ least a dozen ppl jumped from the top floors of * buildings because they would otherwise burn to death... at one point a man & woman jumped holding hands, all the way to their deaths. Bodies and parts of -->
*the Trade (b4 they collapsed)
bodies were & are everywhere, even some on the roofs of other buildings. We don't know quite yet who did this... possibly a terrorist group, but quite possibly another government,... but they have an idea and a ton of clues yet & not yet discovered and/or looking in2. There's such a huge chance of war when we find them... I can't believe this is happening to my country... who could do this to us? Who could be this evil & hateful? To think, even now, of the boddies laying in the debre... The thousands of families torn apart... How awful this is!
God, help America!
-Emily
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