STUDENTS AT PS 31, BROOKLYN/Experiences of 9.11.01
ALEXANDRA KAWCZUK, 5TH GRADE
I feel very sad. I also feel like a part of me
left. I feel I will never be the same. When I
think about what happened and I look out the window,
I feel empty, just like the hole where they once
stood touching the sky.
EMILY HANCZYK, 5th GRADE
I am tired, scared, and sad. All of these emotions
come from my heart. Those are my feelings. It
comes from deep inside of me. Such strong feelings.
About a month ago the word in Manhattan was "run."
That is what most city workers did. And that is
what I did from my feelings, just run from my
feelings. My body felt weird, everything went
blank. I am feeling this way because such innocent
people died just by going to work. If many didn't
go many would not have died.
JAN STEPINSKI, 5TH GRADE
While the World Trade Center was being attacked
I was watching it from my classroom window. It
was scary. I had a lump in my throat and my knees
were hurting. After the second plane hit my teacher
told us to sit and have a moment of silence. It
was very sad. I felt like crying because of the
numbers of lives that were lost. I also saw that
some of my friends were crying.
RAY SINGH, 6th GRADE
My memory of horror was found under my brain,
it was hiding and I don't know why. It was an
old burnt chest with black interior
but nothing inside, yet it was so heavy. There
was a rope behind the chest, I kicked the chest
and held on the rope, the horrific object flew
out of my brain, and fell through like gelatin
and the large box was like a rock; it
fell through my heart, bringing me with it. I
was thrown in a light that blinded me, and I sat
there with my eyes closed waiting to awaken from
this nightmare.
The box was too strong to be burned by the acid
in my throat.
