Title: A DAY HE'D SOONER FORGET
Source: The Columbus Dispatch
Source: FEATURES - ACCENT & ARTS; PEOPLE IN THE NEWS; Pg. 02E
Author: Robert Shapter
Date: September 11, 2002
Topic: Article/Interview
Aaron Carter is making a concert swing through Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York this week, on a tour schedule pretty much the same as he had last year at this time. "I witnessed it. The plane flew over my head. I saw it fly into the World Trade Center," said the 14-year-old pop-music prince, who was in a limousine the morning of Sept. 11 heading to Newark International Airport, where one of the hijacked planes took off. His parents were leaving on a flight ahead of his. The limo had engine trouble, and the driver had pulled over on the New Jersey Turnpike. As Carter saw the conflagration in the distance, he feared it was his parents' plane. "It was so terrifying. I'm trying to call them, and the phone's shut off. There's no clue what's going on," he said. "We sat in the limo and watched the buildings collapse." About an hour and a half later, he finally learned his mother and father were OK. Since then, Carter has made a point of not letting post-9/11 fears inhibit him, including taking part in the "A Capitol Fourth" Independence Day show in Washington. "Yeah, I was a little nervous. Knowing that this could possibly be one of the biggest terrorist targets in the world? It couldn't not frighten me," he said. A day he'd sooner see
