Sheer Horror

Story

I will never forget the site I saw as I stood here, in the middle of the street. Both buildings were on fire, with gaping holes in them, thick black smoke emerging. The view was dead-on and I stopped for a few moments, just in shock at what I was seeing. A colleague of mine grabbed me, and said, "I cannot believe what I am seeing!"--which was exactly what I had been thinking.

Then, something in me clicked in and I KNEW that I had to get out of that area. I saw students I knew who asked me how they were going to get home. I walked a group of them up to the Manhattan Bridge on Canal Street.

Personal Learning Maps - September 11, 2001

We're collecting personal stories about who we were with, what we were doing, and where we were on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

Create a path, tracing your memories from that day when in a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks 2,973 people were killed at the World Trade Center in New York City, at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and in field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.