Instructions:
1. Watch video as a class.
2.Answer the following questions.
3. After your group has answered the questions and are waiting for the next activity read through some of the following first hand accounts, or click one of the links to read other first hand accounts.
4. Watch final video.
Answer these questions in your table groups:
What emotions did you hear or sense when you were watching the videos?
Do you think that the 9/11 attacks changed the U.S.A. and the world? If you think so, how and do you think it was a major change?
Do you think there are any positive stories that can be found in the events of 9/11, or is it all bad?
Some of you weren't even born yet when these events happened. How do you think the 9/11 attacks affect you?
First Hand Accounts
106TH FLOOR
Garth Feeney , victim
Data Synapse
Portraits of Grief: An Engineer's Shortcut
Garth Feeney was a vice president with Data Synapse. He was attending a business conference at Windows on the World on the 106th floor of the north tower when the plane hit. About five minutes after the crash, he called his mother, Judy Feeney, in Florida. This is her account:
I had just turned on "Good Morning America." They had something on about the plane and I had just mentioned it to my husband when the phone rang and it was my son. I simply said something like, ``Hi. What's new?'' He said, ``Mom, I'm not calling to chat. I'm in the World Trade Center and it's been hit by a plane.'' I said, ``Please tell me you are below it.'' He said, ``No, I'm above it. I'm on the top floor. There are 70 of us in one room. They have closed the doors and they are trying to keep the smoke out.''
Interview by Kevin Flynn
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106TH FLOOR
Christopher Hanley , victim
Radianz
Portraits of Grief: He Liked What He Saw
Mr. Hanley was attending the Risk Waters Group conference in the Windows on the World catering space on the 106th floor.
He called 911 after the first plane hit, at 8:57, and reported smoke on the 106th floor. He also reported that "People cannot get down," according to the police dispatcher's notes of the conversation.
Mr. Hanley's father, Joseph Hanley, said that Christopher also called his girlfriend, Tracy, about 9 a.m. She told Joseph Hanley that Christopher had said to her, ``I'm OK. I'm on the 106th floor. It's filled with smoke and we can hardly breathe.'' Christopher also said something about not being able to use the stairs.
Interview by Kevin Flynn
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106TH FLOOR
Peter Alderman , victim
Bloomberg LP
Portraits of Grief: They'll Always Have France
Mr. Alderman, a salesman for Bloomberg LP, was on the 106th floor of the north tower attending a conference at Windows on the World. His picture and that of a colleague, William Kelly, were taken at the conference that morning and the photographer left with the film just a short while before the plane struck. Mr. Alderman sent e-mails to his office and his sister after the first plane struck, copies of which were provided by his mother, Liz Alderman. Type-setting of e-mail below is faithful to the way it appeared on the originals.
At 9:05 a friend of Mr. Alderman's at Bloomberg sent out an e-mail to him, saying, "Pete, if you get this please let me know that you'rre okay."
At 9:07, Mr. Alderman responded, "THERE IS A lot of SMOKE"
"Are they telling you what to do?" his friend wrote back at 9:15.
"No," Mr. Alderman responded, "its a mess"
Then the friend asked, "Are you still in the building"
To which Mr. Alderman replied, "Yes can't move."
At 9:22 Mr. Alderman responded to a message of concern from one of his supervisors, Kevin Foley, who asked, "peter are you okay" Mr. Alderman responded, "The room is getting very smokey."
Mr. Foley then asked "Are you getting any instructions"
Mr. Alderman wrote back, "No we are stuck in an office with a lot of smoke everyone is worried *nd the smoke is filling up the room."
He sent the above message, his last, at 9:25 a.m.
Simultaneously he was talking on line with his sister.
Jane Alderman.
He told her at 9:07, "I'm SCARED THERE IS A lot OF SMOKE"
She e-mailed him several more times, ending with this question, "can you get out of there?"
Mr. Alderman replied at 9:16 a.m. "No we are stuck"
A personal account of being in the building when it happened and getting out afterwards.