September 11, 2001-BJay

My interview is about September 11, 2001. Each of my interviews focus on the personal experience of the people I chose to interview. I interviewed these three awesome people: Holly Smith: Born in Syracuse, NY. Magan Do: Born in Washington D.C. and David Bold: Born in Washington State.

Holly Smith: Born in Syracuse, NY. She moved to New York City to start college, just one week before the September 11 attack. She went to Pace University which strangely enough is only four blocks away from the World Trade Center.
On the morning of the attack Holly was in her Latin class which started at 7 in the morning. She felt the rumble of her school shaking even though it was four blocks away, but no one paid attention to it because they didn’t know what was going on. When the second plane crash Holly was getting her breakfast and the whole cafeteria was shaking for about 30secs. Holly still didn’t know what was going on so she took her food and went upstairs to her dorm where her roommate was watching the news and was the world trade center collapsing. Holly thought it was strange so she looked out her dorm window and saw the world trade center in complete destruction and then looked back at the T.V. to make sure it was reality.
As Holly wonder what was happening she got a call from her mom asking if she was okay. Her respond was that she was okay while she witnessed countless people jumping out of the World Trade Center because they were stuck on the top floors. When the first Tower fell to the ground the school alarm rang telling everyone to evacuate downstairs. The elevators were cut off so Holly had to walk down seventeen stairs to get to the gymnasium. Holly was so scared because all the buildings in New York were very tall which could cause building to fall on each other which will eventually fall on her school causing her to die. It reminded her of the game call dominos where every blocks starts to fall on each other.
After hours of staying inside Pace University Holly left and went outside with her friends where she saw people covered in blood and dust walking around all confuse because the police kept on directing them to go random direction, even the police were confuse too because they didn’t know which part of the city was safe to evacuate the residents . Holly then left the University that same day with a small bag that had her clothes in it and went back to Syracuse, NY where she stayed with her mom.


Magan Do: Born in Washington D.C. She went to Dunbar High School in Washington D.C.
On the morning of the attack Magan was already in school. The people around her school already knew anout the World Trade Center attack but they never expected the Pentagon to be attacked since it was right outside of Washington D.C. When Dunbar High School heard of the plane crash in the pentagon all the students were order to stay in the school and hide underneath the table but like an earthquake procedure. Magan feeling so scared ran out of the school and went home. As she was running home she saw people wandering in the street in different directions. When she got home her parents were stilled at work so she went in her room and hid under her bed and started crying because she thought the United States was under attack.
Her Parents left work early and came home and saw Magan hiding under her bed. Her father took and her mom and went to their room where he turn on the T.V. and started to watch the news. Every store had close and subways too were closing making it hard for people who didn’t own cars to get home to their love ones.
Her family was so scared that they didn’t go to work for a whole week and Magan didn’t go to school for a whole month fearing that the terrorist could attack anytime. After three months Magan went back to school.


David Bold: Born in Washington State. Lived in New York City
On September 11, 2001 David was driving too work when he heard on the radio the terrible catastrophe that occurred to the twin down. He was shocked and surprised. He thought that there had to be a mistake, while diving to work he realizes that the roads were blocked off. He was confused and scared at the same time. David didn't know what to do so he just went home and watched the news. As he was watching the news he was terrified and anger by the disrespect that al-Qaeda presented. He didn't know what to do so all he did was just watch in horror.
David being the man that he was went outside to his neighborhood and told everybody of the catastrophe. He tried to go down to the world trade center to help the firefighters save lives. He wasn't allowed to do so because the firefighters were worried for his well being and the well being of all the new Yorkers.
All David could do was watch in horror, but praying to god for all the victims in the attack. David was overall shocked by the whole thing, but several weeks he recovered from all this and tried his best to go on with his normal life. David is a proud America and he fully supported anything that would make the people who commuted the crime come to justice.
He thinks that the crime was the most stupid thing he has ever heard, or seen in his life. David said "If he could, he would have stopped the whole thing by bombing where al-Qaeda was located." David lost his best friend and was completed distraught.