My City September 2021

son and I then went to Target, where the cashier asked if I had heard the news. She said the World Trade Center was on fire and they thought a plane had hit it. We went to another store, where the clerk was watching the news. She told me it was believed to be a terrorist attack. By this time, reports from the Pentagon had come in; I was then wor ried and anxious to go get my daughter, thinking the USA was under attack. Christine Heron Senior Librarian Fenton Winegarden Library On September 11, 2001, I was in my 9th grade Spanish class when we found out a plane hit the North Tower. A news banner and video clip came across our school student news station called Channel One similar to a missing child alert. At the time no one knew it was a terrorist attack until the second tower was struck.Then, watching them both collapse, I remember being overwhelmed with feelings for all of those who perished and the individu als and families that were never able to see or speak with their loved ones again. Josh Gordon General Manager Todd Wenzel Buick GMC I just had my first baby and was in the kitchen washing her bottles as she slept. I had the “Today” show on. I remem ber the tone of the anchors

changing and started watching again. I saw the second plane hit the south tower; held her even tighter knowing her life was forever changed. Stacy Sawyer Director of Marketing Hamilton Community Health Network I was at work at Davison High School Channel 19, what is now DTV. We had just finished the morning annoucments news program when one of the computer tech workers asked if I had heard about the plane that hit the World Trade Center, and I told her “No, we just finished and I sent the kids to class.” She then turned the TV in the control room on to ABC12 and we saw the smoke coming from the North tower. At first we didn’t know that it was a commercial airliner that had hit, we both assumed it was a small plane in distress that happened to crash into the building. I typed a message on the school’s TVs and we went to the library and watched it unfold on their large screen with the other students who were watching. While we were watching the second plane hit the other tower. At that moment, I felt scared. I had class at

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