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story5993.xml

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2002-09-12

Like all mornings on this day, I usually turn on the T.V. and watch the morning news, but even before I could turn on the T.V. I poured myself a cup of coffee. I thought to myself, 'What a beautiful day.' As I took a sip of my coffee I opened the front door of my house and looked out. The sun was shining bright, birds were singing and I could hear the voices of children in the distance while they hurried to catch the school bus; yeah, it was a beautiful day. Suddenly I thought, 'I wonder what's on the morning news?' I turned the T.V. on and to my horror something was not right? All I saw and heard were T.V. anchors trying to compose themselves, their voices cracking while they spoke, and in the back drop a large black plume of smoke, rising w/anger, sounds of sirens wailing all throughout the city. An image of an air plane exploding into the World Trade Center. They kept playing this horrific scene over and over again? Suddenly, the sweet sounds of singing birds, the laughter of children, gone, and dead silence fell apon me. I stood up from my couch, and with not one word being said my eyes immediately filled with tears of disbelief and grief. I knew that mine and the people of this great nation's world would never never be the same again. My heart never ached so much for an entire day...**eye welling up**
A song by the country singer Toby Keith blows me away every time I hear it, "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue!" Hear this song and you'll know what I mean....My GOD Bless this awsome country of mine!