Several days after September 11th 2001 Kim Kouski found herself in a Walgreens when Sarspangled Baner began to play. The woman behind the counter began to tear up. “I looked in her eyes, and we just cried.” Kouski said. Kouski was on her way to work, which at the time was in St. Louis, Missouri, when she heard that plane had crashed into the world trade center. “I thought it was some drunk guy in a little prop plane.” She said. It wasn’t till she was nearly to work when she heard about the second plane. “I knew everything had changed.” She said.
The day was filled with pandemonium and chaos. “My boss wouldn’t us leave. People were crying. All the radios and TV’s were on.” Kouski said. “It just wouldn’t stop.”
At one point a warning came over the radio warning people that gas would jump to 5 dollars a gallon. About double what was normal for the time. Kouski, like many others, headed to the nearest gas station. “The line was so long I thought I would run out of gas before I got to the pump.” She said.
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“It was a three hour waite to give blood.” Kouski said. She was eventually turned away. “They had more than they could handle.”
“It was almost as if we [the nation] grew up.” Kouski said. When she was in her teens she would go to the airport with friends, as a way to pass the time. “We would walk right up to the
If there is one day I dread most upon its arrival, it would be 9/11. Sure there was an immense amount of strength as a nation represented, following the terrorists attacks, but it also brought a great amount of grief and sorrow. I remember watching videos of innocent people jumping from windows in the twin towers hoping to escape the terror. These people believed there was no one to help and no one to help them. They lost hope. In “Remembering a Hero, 15 Years After 9/11” written by Peggy Noonan, published in The Wall Street Journal on September 11th 2016, Alison Crowther—Welles Crowther’s mom—recalls the courageous actions to save the lives of others, made by her son on this horrific day. Noonan utilizes pathos, ethos, asyndeton, and
As I followed the other firefighters, captain said, "No Kennedy, you have to stay here." At first, I was enraged at him for saying that to me, but if he didn't make me stay, I would've died that day. All 87 of the NYFD firefighters went inside that building, and never came out. Who would be so cruel to do this, I thought. Suddenly, the news reporters stated, "4 planes have been hijacked by Arabs, and they have been planning to crash them into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and The White House.
Michael Wright was in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 at 8:48 in the morning. He is an account executive. Wright was a thirty-year-old man who witnessed the crash at the tower. It was Tuesday morning when Wright and his coworkers felt an “earthquake” when they were inside the men’s room. He then opened the door and was surprised by the fire gushing into the building. From there he tried to evacuate and get to a safe place if possible. Wright’s information was reported in Esquire News “My Escape From the 81st Floor of the World Trade Center”. The following is a narrative of what Wright ‘s day on September 11, 2001 could have been. He was in a good mood when this tragic event happened.
On the morning of September 11, 2001 millions of people were in shock the moment they received news that the World Trade Center was hit. The images from this horrific day flooded the media’s television screens and newspaper articles. Perhaps the most gruesome images shown were those of people jumping out of the building as they were collapsing. Tom Junod, a writer for the Esquire magazine, illustrates his perspective of this shocking incident through pictures, media coverage, and depicting people’s reactions in his article The Falling Man. Tom Junod’s article should be read by anyone who believes they have felt all there is to feel from the 9/11 attack. He will prove otherwise that there is indeed still much emotion to
On September 11, 2001, the day of the towers fell, Lawrence Wright was an active journalist for the New Yorker. That afternoon he sent a simple request to his boss: "Put me to work." From his home in Austin, Lawrence Wright began interviewing a survivor in Queens, New York. He conducted the interviews long-distance, and put together an account based on the experience of this survivor. From there, Wright stumbled on the story of John O'Neill, the former FBI agent who became chief of security for the World Trade Center. The accounts of O’Neill’s
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At the scene of the bombing, “A local hospital administrator explained modestly, ‘With the enormous outpouring of medical volunteers we received, it would have been nearly impossible not to have done a great job’” (Ray 2). After the terrorist attack of the twin towers, it was the survivors of the Oklahoma City Bombing who gave the 9/11 victims the most effective support. Janet Walker made the statement, “We’re the only ones who can truly say, ‘I know how you feel’ (Tanner 1). Kathleen Treanor, a woman who lost her daughter and both of her in-laws, said “It’s an immediate connection” (Tanner 1).
September 19th, 2001 the twin towers underwent an attack by two hijacked planes. Many lives were lost not only in the collapse of the towers, but also the crash itself including the life of Sara Low, age 28. That day she was an attendant on one of the planes. Her wings, which she wore to represent her training as a flight attendant would come to mean much more than just her qualifications. They would come to portray something much more. They would come to represent how America always bounces back from tragedy and how we will never forgot those who were lost.
My research is about a woman who doubted herself that she could run for some form of government. But she does get over that and got the courage to run for city council. After I have research on the rights of protesters, to support the first source.
Kimi Diane Oliveira, formerly known as Kimi Diane Nakawatase, is currently 74 years old and was born on September 10, 1941, 3 months before the attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7th. Kimi was born to a Japanese family with two older sisters. Together they lived in Stockton, California while her parents lived unassuming lives. Life was simple, but everyone felt content. Once Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and subsequently America declared war on Japan, all Japanese descendents were called and sent to assembly centers around California. Kimi was only 3 months old at this time, but later on in life she would hear stories and read books about the Japanese’s time in the internment camps.
Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001 was a day that no one will forget. I decided to write it out what happened to my family that very day in my mom’s perspective to make it easier to understand. My mom was in Pleasant Hill, CA and decided to skip that day of work because my older sister was sick. Madeleine, my eldest sister, was two at the time. Early in the morning a family friend of ours, Janet, called my mom asking if she saw what was happening. Janet said,” Jeanne the twin towers are on the ground, turn on the news!” My mom was so tired from staying up all night because of Madeleine that when she heard what happened she didn’t belive it. She quickly turned on the news and it replayed the airplanes hiting the twin towers and falling.
As blood trickled down the flight attendant’s neck, the screams of passengers echoed while hoping and praying that it was not their time to perish. A dark-skinned man headed towards the front of the plane, claiming the pilot as his next victim. As this occurred within the four other planes, hostages aboard knew they were living the last few moments of their life. Each tear and scream would ultimately be their last-their last breath taken as the plane crashed into a building of peace, dying with the thought of “I should have said goodbye,” as their lives were taken away in seconds by strangers. Thousands of innocent lives were lost, as well as the hearts of millions of others worldwide who felt the repercussion and heartbreak of these terrorist attacks. The Tuesday morning of September 11, 2001, swept worldwide panic and sorrow, naming itself the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil to date. Nineteen terrorists, four planes, and millions of hearts broken later, the world was now split into the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of 9/11, impacting our environment tremendously both physically and psychologically.
Herschel Schmoeckel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky is the cynical, burnt out, addiction-riddled smoking clown host of Bart and Lisa's favorite TV show, The Krusty the Clown Show.
Kim Zolciak is famous from her time on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, but now she has her own show Don't Be Tardy. Kim has made her children famous as well from the reality show. Now Wet Paint is sharing that Kim has hopes that her daughter Brielle Biermann will get a career in television, which is what she really wants to do. Brielle is used to having the camera around, so this switch shouldn't be hard for her.
It is a true story, ma'am. I went from being a health-nut to suffering major-multiple-strokes in Emory Hospital back-to-back, while preparing for Thanksgiving holiday. The Office of Students with Disabilities - West Campus have my medical records. The doctors used to the “miracle-baby.” I was the Emory Hospital / Emory Stroke-Rehab for months and the Emory Hospital lawyers secured my Social Security Disability benefits. In his neurology residency, the renowned Dr. Doug Schottenstein cared to me. That was more than ten years, now his offices are in New York and Miami. He was the person that introduced me to Crocs; he wore them and I do too.