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2003-09-11

On September 11th, 2001 I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with our first son. It was my mom's 65th birthday. We were recieving a delivery of a wall unit from Ikea. One of the men bringing the wall unit upstairs to our apartment tells me, "ma'am you should call your local gas company cause there is a strong smell like gas". I told him I will do that. I called Kespan, but the lines were busy, that was strange. It was about the time when the second plane hit that I had to call the post office because the mailboxed of our apartment building had been all broken and I had to call daily around 10am to see if we had mail to go and pick it up in the post office. The guy that answered the post office tells me that the post office was closed. I thought he was being smart with me and I told him off. Then he tells me I should turn on the tv. I said, "what, excuse me?". As I held the phone I turn to the tv. I didn't make out the WTC building's just yet. It looked like a war zone, I figured in another country. I hung up the phone. It still didn't hit me for about 20 minutes of looking at this breaking news report. So I begin to change it to see what channels are covering this and not. As I was changing one of the channels caught my attention cause they said, "It appeared that a plain crashed into the North tower of the WTC". That got my attention. My husband works for Time Warner Cable down there. My heart stopped. At the time he didn't have a cell phone. I called his office in Queens NY. His supervisor told me not to worry that they called in all the Tech's. I began to cry. I knew something really bad was happening. I felt so much pain knowing that all my life I loved the WTC site cause it was so breathtaken. I always wanted to go to the 110th floor's observatory deck. I never did. I thought of all the people that were there early that faithful Election Day Tuesday morning September 11th, 2001. How many times did I pass you by and felt you were anoying cause they all walked so fast. And now all I can think is how I wish so bad that you were all still here to anoy me. I didn't know anyone that died there but they were all my brothers and sisters, by God. My neighbors, I dedicated a song to all those we lost on 9/11/2001; "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart", By The Bee Gees. It helps me with the healing process, which honestly will never end. My son is now almost 2 on October 5th, 2003 and we are expecting a baby girl now. Due around the beggining of October. I wanted to share my story with all, and if anyone does or doesn't know the song "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart", By the Bee Gees I recomend it and that everyone hears it again, thinking about what the sons-of-b's did to us all. Divlgirl71@earthlink.net.

God Bless & No we will NEVER forget,
Martha and Family.