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2002-09-11

early in the morning we received a phone call from my mother n law ,in a frantic voice we were told to turn on our tv.she says "were being attacked"! she has a way of blowing things out of wack so we assumed it wasn't that big a deal. little did we know!!!!! she persisted on me & my husband turning on the tv. we did. unfortunately our cable was out that morning. my husband john then got dressed & went looking for a tv while i rigged up our tv with tin foil to try to catch a local station.john found a furniture store along side the road , as he walked in he saw a group of people huddled around a big screen tv with the look of shock on their face , as he stood there the people in the store as well as john saw the second plane fly into the tower. i meanwhile got a reception of a local station & watched in horror. this especially hit home to our family because my husband is in the army . for a minute you felt as though it was armaggedon ! my husband raced home to make necessary phone calls to his unit, all of which were preparing for war. the local station was not that clear so he rushed to a clear tv with my brother. being in a rapid deployment unit it was necessary to see what was going on however he wanted to be with his family. i managed to get the tv clear enough to watch what was going on, so we watched together on the phone in amazement. then we heard the news about the pentagon. being a military family we have friends that were there, at this point the whole spectrum of emotions were running thier course. later that morning we watched as the first tower came falling down. we could only sit and imagine what the people in the area of the towers were going through, hoping that when the end came for the firefighters , police officers, port authority, & ems workers, not to mention the thousands of civilians , it came quick & painless. not fully over the the first tower falling we were then hit with the sight of the second tower falling onto itself. the emotions that took over our bodies was one of anger, sadness,& grief . my husband & brother sat in amazement as they heard of the flight 93 going down in penn. john was then told to check in to the nearest military installation & prepare for the worst. they then came home & john & i talked about the possibilty of him going to war. we both knew it was a very good chance. this time unlike all the other times he had left we were okay with this, because the country needed him to secure mine & our sons freedom. we then decided to make something that will always keep september 11 fresh in our minds , we made a mural of newspaper clippings and all of the major magazines & headlines. that mural is on display at our sons 3rd grade class for this week in remembrance of 9/11 it is our small way of paying tribute to all those who risked & lost thier life that day. its funny because people have offered rather large amounts of money for it , but we just assume sell everything we own before getting rid of that. its priceless, this will be as pearl harbour was to our grandparents, our day of infamy. we have shared the mural with our children and have explained to them what happened on that day and have told them that the mural we have made will always remind them that on sept 11 2001 the U.S.A. was forever changed& that hereos are real. in closing the welch family would like to say GOD BLESS ALL OF THOSE WHO LOST THIER LIFE & THOSE WHO LOST LOVED ONES.