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2002-08-19

i heard my mother screaming in the other room she was on the phone with a friend and when i heard hear scream i jumped up and said "mama what has happened" and she said they had 4 hijacked planes or they were missing i cant remember how she put it still waking up i turned and looked at the television and was just like OH MY GOD i cant belive what i am seeing i watched the tower fall right before my eyes
i called my grandfather jim hardin in gastonia N.C.and he told me the U.S. was under attack that day around 1:30 we went over to my sisters school and tried to pick her up and thier was a Sheriffs deputy that told us to leave immediately and to get off the school grounds so we left and went to the dollar store and we walked in and these two ladies were sitting there in tears just sobbing i was in so much shock i did not know what to think it was almost like i felt numb all over i couldnt belive this had happened my father was a pastor in Asheville at Crossroads Assembly of God and he opened the church that night for prayer and we had about 300 people that showed up and we all sat their and prayed and just cried thier were grown men in the service that were crying and i remember we came home that night and I laid in my bed and just thanked God that my life had been spared that day -sincerly Matthew Brown
Asheville N.C.