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2002-06-27

I live in Scotlnad, and I had been working over the summer as a camp counsellor in up state New York. I had decided that I was going to travel for a while, so I went to Canda, and other places, and my last stop was NYC before I went home. I had planned on Tuesday morning to try and get tickets for the Rosie O Donnell show, but I had actually slept in and was too late. Anyway, I thought if this happened I would do the tourist thing and go to the WTC and the Empire State Building. I thought that I would walk, I knew it would be long, but I took in some sites and stopped for a coffee. By this time I was eventually nearing the WTC, and I could see smoke but not exactly were it was coming from. I thought nothing of it and carried on walking. About ten minutes later I realised the smoke was coming from the WTC, and I was looking at my map to see exactly were I was. There were a lot of people standing around watching, and all of a sudden I hesrd this huge rumble in the air and out of no where a plane smashed into the other building there was a huge fireball that went all the way up the building. There were a lot of people screaming, and some had a terrified look on thier face, I was one of them. I did not hang around for long as I thought that something else would happen, I thought straight away that it was no accident. All I could think about were my family back home watching this on the tv an wondering if I was there. I got back to the youth hostel I was staying in and phoned them straight away. I sat in my room contemplating what I had seen and thinking what if?
I sat in my room for a long time I eventually went downstairs and herd that the towers had collapsed, it was devestating. I heard some stories that day though, a couple who had just arrived were jet lagged and they got up and had already been up to the top of the WTC, which gave me the creeps.