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              <text>I was at work, and i was heading to the break room, when i ran into a friend, and asked him if we were working on saturday, he said, you better go watch the television, the first plane already hit and could not believe what i was watching, i thought a small plane hit the towers, when out of no place came this huge plane going very fast, and hit the other tower, i stood up and said OH MY GOD, other people in the break room was just looking at the tv, i thought to myself that this is it, the end of the world, i konw its sound silly to think that but thats what i felt, i had tears in my eyes and just sat there, then the towers fell and i cried.. what a shame i thought, all those people, i will never forget, and neither should no one else for all time, till time stops..</text>
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              <text>Life Back to Normal ? Back to my New Normalcy 

Tonight I took a walk downtown, not downtown USA but in a foreign country, that?s where my aviation job takes me, looking for some normalcy in my life.

For you see a little more then a week ago I was in my firehouse watching the TV when the second plane hit the WTC#2 tower, and then as the reports broke in as the Pentagon was struck. I Listen as people on TV yelling call 911, I was their 911 and then I walked amongst the devastation that was brought to my home land, I walked amongst the damaged caused to the Pentagon as a fire fighter, not as a hero but as a fire fighter, Searching the halls not for rescue but recovery. I remember when I arrived there looking at the devastation, at that moment I was no longer a spectator. As I walked the hallways my mind was thinking just another fire, just another fire, and then I saw the wreckage of the plane. My two worlds, my two loves had collided, literally, Aviation and fire fighting.

I watched the next day as the TV reports of an amateur video after the WTC collapsed, with hundreds of PASS alarms going off - the sounds of chirping doves, and remember someone on the TV asking what is that noise? I knew exactly what it was, hundreds of Brother and Sister Fire Fighters, DOWN, there Personal Alert devices activated by their lack of movement. This thought will never leave my mind, it felt like the old Show where you watched the dirty hands hitting a chisel with the heavy hammer leaving the marks of that day, month and year into stone forever- the image and sound was burnt deep inside my mind.

I watched the faces of those around me as I walked in my foreign town, some smiling, some with blank stares; I watched as a young girl and her friends argue in a language I couldn?t understand. For most of these people, life is normal once again. They where not affected by what I had seen.

I walked in to a restaurant and took off my jacket, the jacket bares the name of the airline I work for, and underneath was I wore a fire fighter T-shirt proud at what I do. As I sat and tried to work my way threw the menu, none of it in English, when someone taps me on the shoulder and asked where I am from? I said America with a proud voice, and where you there? They asked, my voice now shaken, yes I was I replied, and how do you feel now? Was the next round of questioning, Wow I thought that?s a question, I have been asking myself for a week now, and getting little sleep because of it, how do I feel? 

How do I feel? Its hard to explain to someone who wasn?t there, but it?s a question I have been asked a lot, and I thank those that cared enough to ask and apologies for not answering. To be brought up in a family who has a long history in the military I was mad, wanting revenge now, swift and hard, and as a fire fighter I didn?t want to see anyone harmed because that meant I would be called to duty again, and as a human I wanted my life too be normal again, I wanted it all to be a dream a very bad dream.

I realized a tear had formed in the corner of my eye, wet and cold, something I have not had since I was five, because big boys don?t cry, I quickly sucked it up and answered the question. I feel like and American Fire Fighter, who?s might loose his job in aviation, and wants military revenge for those brothers and sisters who gave their life trying to save a soul. And I want my life back to Normal; I got up and went to my apartment and cried life a baby in search for his lost mother.

When I was through crying I sat down and typed this: I realized to each person, no matter what the race, creed, religion, sex, sexual preference, or education level, each person has there own feelings, there own threshold of pain and anger, there own beliefs and opinions and has a god given right to express them as they see fit, and there is no better place to express all of those but back home in the USA. 

I am not a very religious person, born into the catholic faith, I don?t practice, as I should, my mother and sister often remind me of that. But my faith and life have come together for me, and it took a tragedy to do it, sad I know.

God bless my brother and sisters fire fighters who gave there souls trying to save a friend and a neighbor, God bless those who have lost there jobs because of this act of terrorism, god bless those that lost the innocent life, God bless those in the military who stand on the wall and protect me night after night. God Bless my Children and God bless America. 

My life will never be back to normal; but my new life has a fresh meaning. Life is short, don?t argue or fight over it, and its not worth killing someone over. Hold those people you love as often and as long as you can before you leave for work each day, and before you go to bed at night, Live each day to the fullest and you will have peace until life comes to its end.

Charles B. Loraine. Sr
Fire Fighter ? Aircraft Mechanic - Father and American
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My heart still swells with pride that I can call myself an American and that I live in a country whose citizens rather than being beaten down were strengthened by this tragedy and that so many ordinary citizens arose as heroes.

I have always loved my country but now I appreciate it so much more and realize our future is in every citizen's hands. We can all do out part by continuing to move on with our daily lives and keeping our resolve alive to continue appreciating the freedoms we have, appreciating the diversity of our citizens and keeping alive the vow to never be beaten down by cowardly acts of terrorism.

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  I had just bought a plane ticket on September 7th to fly to New Zealand in October. Now I was unsure if I was going to be able to go, or if I even wanted to go. Flying was the last thing I wanted to do then. I did not feel safe anymore. I felt very, very vulnerable that day. I also felt a terrible sense of loss--a loss for all those that perished, and the loss of my sense of security. But an amazing thing happened after September 11th.
  Virtually every house, business, and car I saw was flying the American flag. The people of this country banded together. I saw strength and solidarity, compassion and caring. I saw people give their time and their money freely. Donations poured in. Volunteers worked tirelessly. The vulnerability I had felt was being replaced by strength and pride.
  I did go on that trip to New Zealand. I did not feel afraid. I flew on United Airlines, and on one of my connecting flights home, the pilot spoke to us before we took off. He told us to greet the person on either side of us, to know who we were flying with. He asked us not to be passive fliers, but to pay attention to everything that was going on, and not be afraid to speak up if something did not seem right. He told us to band together as Americans, as neighbors, as friends. He said we would NOT allow anyone to take over OUR plane! The passengers all cheered and applauded. We greeted each other and shared names. We were not faceless people on a flight--we were friends. 
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    My faimly really has not been hurt in that way,like when we go on vaction far away we still take air plains . I have noticed that there are more flags on cars and in flower boxes ,flower gardens,some flags at half staf some flags are rising high some on big building's now there are more flags in the newspaper's ,more flages in all magazine and on the news .A lot of building's and school's have come out with programs about September 11th, the Worcester icecats hockey team came out with a new program. After September 11th a lot of sport teams had flags on there shirts.In the American Hockey Leage all the teams had a flag shirt that when the season ended the sold and the money whent to the Twin Towers foundation.


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Last year on September 11, 2001 I was in my classroom when I found out what happened. All of the students were talking about it to the teacher. Our teacher told us everything about what happened. I felt sorry for the people that were in the buildings. I remember seeing the replays over and over again on the news. It was devastating and really sad. It was even sad for the families of the people who died on that day.
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After witnessing the courage of all those people, and especially the unknown circumstances of what the heroes did on flight 93 - I decided my problems were nothing compared to what other people were going through.  I pulled myself together, got a wonderful job as an accountant for the Baltimore County school system, and I constantly remember the inspiration of the people of that day and of the weeks that followed.

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              <text>It was already late into the evening on September 11, and I
was trying, unsucessfully to get to sleep.  I have no idea
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I got up and turned on the television, on every channel I 
saw flames, smoke, and people screaming.  

I was physically about as far away from New York as you 
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Exactly one year has gone by since the tragedy in the states
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out to the victims and their families who lost so much in
the September 11 attacks.

I am a US citizen who was born in, and has lived in 
Australia for the majority of my life.  As I read the
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I live in one of the safest and luckiest countries in the
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Despite my love for Australia and its people, I
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miles away.  I want to join together with others and show
terrorists and those that spread such haterid and evil, that
we are stronger, that we will band together to give
strength and love to one another, despite the odds.

I just don't understand how people could cause so much 
suffering on purpose, and my only explination is that they
are jealous.  Jealous of the wonderful freedom and love 
that Americans possess, jealous of the way that they do pull
together in a crisis and gather strength from one another.
And jealous of their pride and patriotism.

Personally, these are the reasons why I love Americans, and
why I am proud to say that I am a citizen of that country,
despite living here in Australia.

Again, my heart goes out to the people who have been hurt
by this tragedy, and the souls of those that were lost.
I am not a religious person, however I will pray for you
all, pray that there can be peace and calm in the hearts 
and minds of all world citizens and that one day we truly
will learn to live together in harmony and tolerance.

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A Nation of New Yorkers

On one corner of Church Street across from the pile the street sign dangled precariously, much like faith itself.  Daily tallies have graced the pages of the city?s newspapers, reminding us of the dead and the missing.  The number is too high for any of us to conceive.  All of us, directly affected or emotionally attached, have shed more than one tear for the lost, more than one tear for the found and more than one tear for the unknown that has become the future.

Within minutes after United Airlines Flight 175 struck the south tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, off-duty police officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians were making their way through a labyrinth of roadblocks and traffic congestion into Manhattan to help out in any way possible.  The attack of this second plane, preceded by the crash of American Airlines Flight 11 into the north tower, dismissed any doubt that a terrorist attack was underway in the greatest city in the world.  

A month since the attack, the city has become a different place than it was on September 10.  It is no longer as important, for a time, what Jennifer Lopez is wearing, what Susan Sarandon is saying or whom George Clooney is dating.  The heroes of Yankee and Shea Stadiums have taken a backseat to the heroes of police stations and firehouses, blue-collar workers who cut their own lawns and sit in traffic on the Long Island Expressway just like everyone else.  Mike Piazza, king of the Mets, now wears a crown not of gold but of blue cloth, embroidered with four bold letters: NYPD.  New York City police officers, long held at disregard by a small group of vocal citizens, have had to become accustomed to a grateful public that stops them on the street as many as ten times a tour not to complain about a problem in their daily life but to say ?Thank you.?

Even the hard-hearted among the ranks have been softened in spirit by the outpouring of support that the attacks have generated.  The nation itself has given their hearts and their souls to help in the relief efforts underway in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, where two other planes struck the morning of September 11.  Rescuers from distant cities have joined the effort to find life in the wreckage or to pass out food and water to ironworkers laboring beyond exhaustion to bring closure to a grieving family.

Memorial services have begun in New York and in counties that surround the city and into New Jersey and Connecticut for those who have come to grips with their losses.  The sight of a fire truck with the letters FDNY navigating the streets of Long Island would have seemed out of place three weeks ago.  Today, we simply bow our heads in prayer.  Many doorways, storefronts and car windows have been adorned with the beautiful rectangular constellation of the fifty stars and the 13 red and white strips that collectively make up the American flag.  The unity and support has undoubtedly helped many.

New York, a city more famous for fashion than compassion, has reinvented itself.  The heart on the New York City t-shirt that screams in bold letters I LOVE NEW YORK seems to have gotten bigger.  The t-shirt, long a tell-tale sign of a vacationer without fashion sense, has become a staple of city residents, commuters and visitors.  And why not?  Who among us in this nation today does not bear the right to say that they too, in some small way, are a New Yorker?
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              <text>Greetings from Canada! I feel like I'm kinda late in doing this but wanted everyone to know that this tragedy didn't just hit the U.S. it hit your neighbors as well. 
It was just a normal work day for me. I work at Walmart up here in Edmonton, Alberta. I first heard the news around 8:45 am when I went for my first break. Someone said that an airplane hit the World Trade Center and it sounded like an accident. But then the "story" went around that another airplane hit the World Trade Center again and this time there was talk of a terrorist attack. Alot of us gathered around Layaway desk to hear what was happening on the radio. We were all in shock to think that something like this could happen. I didn't hear much more then that until my friend went home for lunch and came back with the story that she saw on the news. Both towers were hit and collapsed, the pentagon was hit and another plane that was headed for the White House went down somewhere else in Pennsylvania. How could this be happening? Why would someone do this to our neighbors? 
I am the "leader" of our Charity Club in the store I work in. As soon as we heard what happened, we started a "charity box" for the victims of this terrible tragedy. We did raise alot of money due to the overwhelming response we got from our customers and associates. You are in our thoughts and in our hearts U.S.!! </text>
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