Regular
work morning, just like any other workday, but this day was a frightful,
unforgotten, and horrid moment. I had to hold my head high and make my way
through the pain of seeing mostly everyone that brightened my day dead. It was a cloudy day for nature and family's
throughout the United States.
As
I sat there in the north World trade center at about 8:50 I saw a big sheet of
metal flying 4 floors above mine. I didn’t know what to believe or think. All the sudden vibrates from the top floors
all the way down to the very bottom. Everyone watches the glass from the
windows fall shattering to the ground. As soon as I realized that a plane had
hit us, everyone was already panicking by the sirens on the streets and the big
puffs of smoke forming from the planes jets.
Going
down the tight crowded stairs we were stressed by a firefighters voice, "RUN, RUN HURRY UP OTHERWISE WE WILL ALL
BE DEAD"! Most of us adults were acting like little children pushing and
shoving to get out of the building as soon as possible. As I was about halfway
down from my floor, I look up and see big sheets of concrete, metal, and glass
falling towards all of us. Screaming, shouting, and howls as the top floors
were falling on top of us piling us in-between, underneath, on top of, and
inside of the building.
Soon I realized that I was on the sidewalk
right outside the North world trade center, I saw an opening of light as I
crawled my way out I saw smoke, dead bodies, ambulances, and cop cars. The most frightening thing I saw was my boss
that I connected with so much laying right by me smashed between two slates of
concrete, dead.
By
the time I realized what was going on it was about 10:30. where was the south
tower? I wondered. I looked around but
the dust is so powerful I couldn’t open my eyes. As soon as I could slightly open my eyes, my
left eye refused to open. All the sudden
I was lifted on to a stretcher and traveled by 4 men quickly to a ambulance.
I
can't remember much from the ambulance ride, but I remember seeing white lights
out of my right eye. As soon as I woke
up in the hospital the nurses told me what happened if I already hadn't known
since I experienced it. As soon as the doctor came in telling me what
conditions I had, he announced that I was permanently blind out of my left
eye. I was shocked, but grateful that I
survived the attacks of 9/11 2001.
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