On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists turned four planes into lethal weapons, causing the death of nearly three thousand people, the majority civilians, in the United States. The author of the article, a journalist from the World section of the newspaper O Globo, was in the newsroom when she learned of the attacks. A colleague called her telling her to turn on the television, warning that it was very serious.
The journalist had arrived at the World desk only a month earlier, accepting the invitation from then editor Claudia Sarmento to switch from culture to international coverage. From that moment on, she practically lived inside the newsroom, in a work marathon that lasted hours, days, weeks, and months.
The period was so intense that the journalist lost about four kilos in a short time. The workload and continuous coverage of the events made her barely remember spending time with her daughters, who were 12 and 10 years old at the time.
The author describes the day as one that definitively transformed the world as we knew it, and also acknowledges that this experience radically changed her own life, being a period so memorable that she confesses not clearly remembering many details.
