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2002-09-11

On Septeber 11, 2001, at 6:10 am, I was driving to the Bakery where I worked. All I could hear on the radio was that one of the towers in New York was hit by a plane. My mind went blank. I changed the station in my car to every one imaginable and they all said the same thing. So when I got to work, I ran inside and immeadiately called my boyfriend who was sleeping at home. Unfortunately, I broke the disturbing news to him. He turned on the television and told me what he saw. Then to make things worse, he saw the second plane hit the other tower, while I was on the phone with him. The first thing out of his mouth was "Oh S***. Honey, this was not an accident." I then asked what he meant and he then proceeded to tell me what happened. I could not beleive it. My fear of being on a plane has just now increased dramatically.

I opened the store as I usually would, but business was just not the same. I contacted the owners and they were extremely upset at it all. The store was to be shut down for the day so we could spend the day with our families. However, I think that the hardest part for the business owners was that they were of Middle Eastern decent and concerned for their lives. Especially after they heard who did it.

After we closed the store down that day, we went home to our families and were glued to the TV, watching the horrifying acts that were happening just on the other side of the U.S. You could almost feel the pain from New York just through watching the raw emotion coming from people who lost their loved ones. But those loved ones are angles watching over them now.

Doesn't it make you wonder what was going through the terrorists' minds during the time that they were taking thousands of lives? People don't care about human life anymore. Especially people who have committed hate crimes. They just asume that if you look a certain way or dress a certain way that you just have to be. Wake up people. If you don't know, don't assume. America is the land of the free. And that is the way it will always be. So American's need to get use to seeing people of different religions, races and creeds. Didn't we go through this in the 60's? Who cares what color your skin is? Or what religion you practice? People come here to be free of all criticism.

On a certain night when America was asked to stand on a corner with a candle to represent our huge candle light vigil for New York, everbody on my block did this. We actually had people stop and get out of their cars and join us. That is Unity and America needs to learn that.
We need to stand tall and proud of who we are and show the terrorists we are not afriad. They will never break the tie that bonds us American's together.

GOD BLESS THE USA!!