It was a perfect day. The sun was like always, shining bright. No dark clouds to mar the beauty of the sky. But life is a surprise. You never know what to expect from it.
One second I stood there; looking at my watch and counting the time if I could slip to the burger joint and pick a quick meal or I had to rush inside the interiors of world trade centre and start with another long day at office… And in that nano split second;
THE CHOICE WAS MADE
If someone asked me right then, what happened, I would not have been able to say. It’s like a flash. You blink your eyes and open it and wham. Nothing remains the same. The earth might not have shifted on the axis, but for too many people, the world turned upside down and it will never straighten again.
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I do not really have a clue of what actually happened. It was like life was rushing in slow motion and in some rapidly quick shots together. Nothing was making any sense at all. It just didn’t.
A plane can’t crash a building. It is just NOT possible; I slapped myself hard. Harder.
“Wake up dammit. Wake up. No one dreams such horrid nightmare. Wake the sh*t up NOW”
I might have mumbled those words out loud. As I told, I don’t really recall any of the events of 9/11. They both happened and didn’t. I was standing, alive, watching, and witnessing and may be dreaming. Oh I swear, I prayed a million times and then some more.
“May this be a dream? This has to be a dream. No plane crashes right in the middle of a city. Such insane illogical stuff happen only in dreams”
That was when I was thoroughly convinced, I am dreaming and I can’t tell you if I had ever been “more” happier before. I laughed the loudest I could. It wasn’t the laugh of a lunatic mind you. It was the true happy laugh which you laugh when you feel like you’ve won the biggest gift you’ve forever desired. Because I finally realized I am
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The nurse told me, I suffered major head injuries. Something to do with shock. Big medical words. I don’t know. I cannot recall… The only thing I could recall was my wife. And the dream which by now I had no clue what it was. My head was roaring… I couldn’t separate reality and dream.
What part did I dream and what was reality?? Where was Ashiya when I wanted her the most? Why am I here? What is the confusion? Why can’t I recall things with clarity? I called on Allah; I wanted some clearance of mind. Was I dreaming?
I called the nurse, but she had to rush. There were too many patients. Too many wounds. Too much blood. Was the plane dream true? NOOOOOOOOOO, I screamed and the nurse came running. I don’t recall what happened after that.
Except I woke up in a cell.
Nope, not the fancy cell… 4 by 4 room with almost no space to breathe and an angry, tired, scary, tall, hurt, police officer staring me in my eyes…
“Mr. Abdul, what role you played in 9/11. We need names”
I could barely understand. “Where’s Ashiya”, I asked.
You were reported celebrating the event and calling it a dream
“Where is Ashiya?” I
Two airplanes crashed into the two twin towers in New York City, one slammed into the west side of the Pentagon military headquarters, and the last one crashed into a rural field in Pennsylvania. It was believed that the fourth plane’s intended target was the White House or the Capitol. At 8:45 a.m. the first plane hit the North Tower, instantly killing hundreds and trapping hundreds and trapping hundreds on higher floors. At 9:03 a.m. a second plane struck the South Tower. Minutes later, the buildings collapsed, one after another, leaving heat and debris to billow throughout the city. The temperature could be felt miles away and the suffocating debris was impossible to withstand. People were covered from head to toe with ashes and dying from its effects to the body. It was our darkest hour and we could only turn towards each other for a helping hand and shoulder to cry on. The steady, serene debris continued to fall and darkness filled the sky. Time seemed to slow down, and we felt hopeless, for there was nothing we could do to bring back the thousands of lives taken
At 8:46 am that morning I felt a sharp pain in my side. It was then that I realized that an airplane had hit me in the side. Parts of me were falling apart and I did not know what to do. As I stood there in despair and not knowing what to do I just looked out and saw many things happen at once. People were scramming to get out and to find safety from this disaster and me. The police and firemen arrived and tried to help the people. Minutes later at 9:03 am my brother who still stood tall and strong was also hit by an airplane. I couldn’t bear to look at him and the pain that he was going through. Though I was in
I thought to myself, I just was a little girl who loved having her freedom. When I realized that I was in a hospital bed, I began to cry my happiness went away. I started giving up on myself because I knew that I was heartbroken that could not enjoy my life anymore. I just wanted to feel the fresh air, eat my favorite food, which is plantains and fish, and listen to the bird sing instead of staying in a bed all day. When I touched my face, I felt the heat. The only thing I can taste in my mouth the hot flames. I went back to see the doctor and I found out that I had damaged scalp on my head and that I had to cut my
Although, according to my recollections, much of that morning seems to be more precisely recorded and recalled than other events I have experienced, further indications are that this may not be so, for “research shows that… supposed flashbulb memories are not necessarily any more accurate than other memories” (ScienCentral, 2007, para. 6). To easily illustrate these findings, minor details, which were a part of my memory during or shortly after the attacks, have since been forgotten. Examples of such information are: names of rescuers and firemen mentioned during broadcasts, flight numbers of the planes used in the tragedy, and the identities of the passengers aboard each plane.
My head felt as if it was too explode, blood was dripping down from my forehead, and a throbbing pain was coming from my leg. At first I had no idea where I was or what was happening. In the distance I could hear a scream, although it was fading and my eyesight was blurry. I tried to stand up as I remember but I was not able too. I kept wondering to myself if this was a dream, but I felt pain. Terrible pain. How could I feel this much pain if it was a dream. Then all at once it came back to me. The memory, the fear, the frightfulness, the nervousness, and the sadness.
My body began to shake ,and my eyes began to wander. I had never been in a situation as intense and horrifying as that one. Little did I know my life would be changed forever.
"I watched in horror as the footage of the second plane hitting the south tower replayed in slow motion. The huge fireball and explosion of smoke were worse than I had imagined. The country would be shaken, and I needed to get on TV right away," he says.
At approximately 8:40, there was a sudden shake in the building. Nobody thought of it at first, but then the fire alarms went off. I was 5 floors below the accident the happened. I heard screams of terror and saw people running down the flights of stairs floor by floor, i stood there not knowing what was happening. Until i turned and saw the news, of a plane that hit the north twin tower floors 93-99, me being on the 88 floor didn't know what was really happening until
As I watch people screaming and crying for help, then comes another plane, then at that point I knew it was no mistake we were under attack.As I stand by running not to get hit by falling objects and as I watch people falling.I deceid to go In and help people survive. As I climb thousands of stairs with the firefighters we see people jumping down to their death from then on I knew New York would never be the same.
I was awakened by a big bump, like I had just landed from the sky, and wondering what just had happened. What really happened was I just landed from a plane. As soon as I had forgotten that I was on a plane. As soon as I woke up completely, my mom was shouting,
I dreamt of death. Violent images of maimed humans surfaced, their mouths gaping open, skin clammy with sweat and eyes staring up at nothing. The bony skulls of my family grinned at me through the blackness. I still remembered that dead blank look in my parents' eyes. The gurgle that they made as they collapsed in a heap on the floor. With a shudder, I dragged myself from going through the torture of relieving everything over
When she wakes she's shaking with that still dreaming feeling. The dream was real and beautiful and the waking world isn't.
“I think your problem would be better solved by the governor’s office. I’ll connect you to them now.” I said in the most pleasant voice I could muster at 8:45 on a Tuesday morning. I pressed a button, set the phone down and glanced out the window. I never get sick of the stunning view I get from high in the south tower in the World Trade Center. I caught sight of my calendar. The date read September 11, 2001.
the bottom was glass and I had a lovely aerial view of the world as I flew wherever I wanted. When it was time to land (my rocket was not equipped for landing), during the descent I would tell myself, "Time to wake up," and I'd wake myself up. Though sometimes I would get perilously close to the ground, I was never afraid of the inevitable crash because I knew I was dreaming and could wake myself up at any time. I had a lot of enjoyment from this dream for about six months.”
I jolted awake in fear. I had a dream. A weird dream. A vivid dream. It was full of people shouting and bright flashes of light. It was confusing yet clear, like some part of me understood it. I didn’t know it would be important then but now I know. How? Well, it happened like this…