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story20834.xml

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2006-09-12

I have tried to 'wrap my mind around' the event. I cannot seem to do so. I feel that it is an unfinished horror and we will never learn the story of every hero and heroine that died that day or even the story of those who lived. I read articles and books and listen to recorded messages of those who survived in an effort to understand what happened that day, and to try to come to grips in my mind with the horror. People left their houses and went to work on a sunny fall day and never returned. My brother-in-law's nephew and his cousin perished in the towers, it left a big hole in their family. Repeat that 100s of times, it's almost too much to bear. I think all those who gave their lives to save others should be made modern day saints. We need to learn the stories of their bravery, not just that they died. I am trying to comprehend it. It's all so very sad.