9/11, September 11 2001, Anonymous

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Who: Anonymous
What: 9/11 Attacks
When: September 11, 2001
Where: Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest, Romania

I came here as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1998. My mother and I had a silly fight in July, 2001, and she stopped speaking to me... one Tuesday in September I gathered my courage and called home, around 4:15 p.m. Romania time. My father said, "Are you calling because of what's happened?"

"No, I'm calling to talk to Mom. Why, what happened?"

"Planes just hit the Twin Towers. We're under attack."

This seemed so unreal that I said "Oh" and asked to talk to Mom (who refused to take the phone, btw). After that I went downstairs to a neighbor's who had a TV, and it was only then that I realized how serious things were.

I wear a memorial bracelet with the names of two Romanians who died on 9-11, Alexandru Stan and his wife Corina. They won the visa lottery, emigrated to the States, and got jobs at the WTC.

Co-opted from Wikipedia's 9/11 Personal Experiences