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2002-09-11

I was at home that day, and my daughter called from work to tell me to get the tv on that a plane had hit one of the world trade towers..MY husband was working right outside the kitchen door digging a hole to open a drain and i ran to tell him what had happened..I no more than got back to the living room when the 2nd plane hit..I again ran to my husband who immediately gave up his digging and came in to watch with me. He said as he came in, we are at war..My nephew had been sent to Sloan Kettering Hospital in Manhattan to put in a computer syste, and i called my sister to see if she had heard from him, and she hadnt and we waited for hours before he could get through to call home. He was stuck where he was working as the tunnels were closed and had to get a hotel room for 3 days before he could get out of there. He said the devastation was unreal, and he could not wait to get home and just hug everybody..We followed the next plane crashing just below us in Somerset County..we like everyone else were glued to the tv for weeks, and still to this day cannot believe we let it happen, that we didnt know anything about it..The strongest nation in the world...it is still 1 year later very hard to believe. We had plans to fly just one month after that, October ll, to Virginia Beach to be with my oldest daughter on her birthday, and we went..We also had tickets to fly to las Vegas one month after that November 11, and we flew..Life does go on, but you surely did not feel safe, and wondered if we would get there..Our security was shaken, and remains the same today. Judy Memo