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2002-09-11

My wife and I were in Missouri in a hotel and had just returned to our room from having breakfast and the first plane had hit the World Trade Center, while sitting there amazed at what was happening we see the second plane hit and then knew it was not an accident. We were shocked, we just looked at each and said that we had just been there less than two weeks before this, we were right there at the World Trade Center. I had to leave for a business appointment and when I returned we had to start our drive home, there was not much traffic on our 6 hour drive home. It all seemed so strange and like it was a movie and wasn't really happening. We never thought that something like this could happen in our country.

Our hearts and our prayers go out to everyone that lost a loved one in this horrible tragedy.