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2002-09-11

Hi, my name is Spencer Cueni and I am a student at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX. At the time of the attacks I was beiginning my junior year in college. It was a regular Tuesday I got up at 7:30 to get ready for my classes. At about 8 I sat down in the living room to watch Good Morning America as I do everyday. I will never forget what I saw. All I could see was smoke and at the bottom of teh screen it said New York City. I immediately called my dad to see what was going on and he told me that a plane had hit the World Trade Center and they thought itwas an accident. As I was talking to my dad we were waching the same channel and I saw what I though was a replay of the plane hitting and I said "Oh My God Daddy, they are showing the reply." My father gasped and told me that wasn't a replay which I quickly understood because everyone on TV was screaming that another plane had hit. I had to get off teh phone and go to class and it still felt like something out of a movie until I got to class. When I walked in my professor had the TV on and I saw that the firts tower had collapsed, the I saw what I thought was metal falling from the builings until I realize that it was people jumping from the burning building. I began to weep with everyone else in class. I cannot believe this happened in our country where I have always felt safe. Now everytime I get on a plane I hold my breath and my chest hurts until I get off. I will never forget that day, I carry it and the images with me everyday and I doubt there will ever come a day in my life where I don't think about it and all of the innocent lives that were lost. I continue to pray for the families of the victims and for our country.