Personal Narrative Essay On 9/11 Attack

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Tyler Norris American Literature Mrs. Miller September 21, 2017 9/11’s Flag Raising Heroes I woke up that morning, and it was just a normal day, I showered, brushed my teeth, and got dressed. I ate breakfast, then went into work. I got news from the FBI that said that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. When I got to the station, myself and the others were talking about what could have happened, and we thought that it might have just been an accident. People who were still inside were told to evacuate the building as quickly as possible. Another plane crashed into the South Tower, and we make our way inside to get as many people out of the building as we could. We knew then that we were under attack. It was tough to truly understand …show more content…

My adrenaline has skyrocketed at this point, knowing that I could die at any minute. There was already units inside, while we were going in, and the Chiefs were trying to get everything under control, which could only be seen as impossible with what was going on. At some point, we were told to not worry about fighting the fires, and to just get as many people out of the building as possible. As we were going up into the building, each floor was more damaged and dangerous than the ones below us. Awful aviation smells, fires, and debris everywhere. Trying as hard as we could to get people outside, we felt something that kind of seemed like an earthquake and panic was never ending- What we felt was the South Tower collapsing. With no power, we only had our lights to guide people out of the building. We couldn’t find anybody else in the building, and we got back down as quickly as we could without getting hurt. Only minutes after we got out, the North Tower came down right behind us. At about 9:30 AM, another plane had crashed into the Pentagon, and everyone inside the White House was evacuated to safety, just in case a plane was to fly into it as

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