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2002-09-13

I can remember thinking what a beautiful, bright Sept. morning it was. I was tuned in to NBC-the Today show when suddenly on my screen appeared one of the Twin Towers with smoke and flames spewing from it..I thought I had hit a button on my remote that took me to a dreaded "action" movie. My rational was broken as the voice of Katie Couric announced a plane had hit Tower One..likening it to the small plane that had hit the Empire State Bldg. many yrs. before. I sat trying to absorb what was unfolding before my eyes..as News Copter 4 stayed fixed on this I could see a plane appear on the r side of the screen, watched it pass turn and as I screamed aloud for it to stop it penetrated Tower 2. I reached for my phone to call one of my son's and the line was dead.. cut off I felt this tremendous feeling of detachment and doom.. the horror that continued to unfold from that moment is impossible to explain..I was to learn a dear friend's husband Lt. Thomas O'Hagan, NYFD had perished as did a neighbor's son FF Michael Carroll.. To this date I cry, mourning the tremendous losses of 9-11-01.
I pray for all our Heroes, their Families..I thank all those who put their lives in jeopardy to save others, to the men & women who worked in Rescue, Recovery and Volunteers who did whatever they could I stand beside President George W. Bush.. May God Bless America Always