Eighteen Years Ago Today

There are eighteen year-olds today that have only heard about the events of 9/11.  Previously on this blog I have reported how I first heard of the events.  For those of you who aren't familiar with how things happened that day, there is an extensive on-line resource for you to see what WE saw that day.  It is worth a look.

https://archive.org/details/911
 

Archived Television Coverage of 9/11

Young adults who are just now graduating from High School across the United States were born around 2001. They probably never saw the TV coverage of the 9/11 attacks. They likely have seen retrospective news coverage … but not the raw coverage that older Americans have seen. I recently found a very interesting resource. “The 9/11 Television News Archive is a library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. A resource for scholars, journalists, and the public, it presents one week of news broadcasts for study, research and analysis.” I encourage everyone to peruse the coverage provided here.

September 11th

I remember very vividly what I was doing on September 11th, 2001. I was sitting at my desk in my office in Clinton Hall at Wichita State University. At the time, I was Associate Dean. A young man who worked in the Dean's Office, stuck his head into my office and said "Something has happened, a plane has crashed in New York and they are showing it on TV." I went to one of the large lecture halls close to my office. The class was sitting there in silence watching the television. There was an air of stunned disbelief. No one was really saying anything, just watching.

There are times in our lives that "stick" in our memory. I will always remember what I was doing when the planes flew into the World Trade Center.