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story4303.xml

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2002-09-11

I have a daycare. So in the mornings its not the headline news thats on TV but "barney". My fiance called to tell me that he heard driving to working a plane crashed in the World trade center. I switched on the Tv briefly and they were just saying it was an accident. So I switched it back. I never knew at that time that the second tower had been hit. My neice called to tell me that a plane hit the Pentagon. My fiance works at the Pentagon! I was frantic. I tried his cell phone, called his office, called his sectrary and got no answer. I was sick. I turned on the TV and stayed glued to it for 9 hours until I heard from him. He was late leaving the house that morning. Thank god for the alarm not going off. He was a block from the Pentagon and later he told me he saw the plane as it went over. He heard the explosion. he said that sound would haunt him the rest of his life. He helped with the rescue and looked for survivors. I am proud of him,proud of our country and proud to be an American.