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2002-09-11

On September 11, 2001, I was 7 months pregnant and not feeling so well when I woke up @ 6:30 that morning, so I stayed home from work. By 8:00 I was sitting on my bed with the Today show on and thinking that for a September day it certainly was a beautiful day. I remember immediately following 8:46 when the first plane crashed into the tower, Matt Lauer and Katie Couric, reported that a plane crashed into the World Trade center. My first thoughts were ?Wow what a horrible accident? and never thinking that what we were seeing was a terrorist attack. At this point I could not pull myself away from the TV and at 9:03 I saw the most horrific sight I thought imaginable. It was then I started to realize that what was happening was not just an accident. As my husband and I sat and watched and cried and pleaded for safety and strength for those poor innocent people on each plane, in the Pentagon, the Towers, the FDNY, PDNY and everyone else I felt ill thinking I was bringing an innocent child into this world. It was no ill feeling I had ever experienced before.
By noon that day, with the sun still shining outside, I remember thinking again what a beautiful day, however, in that same thought I thought this day is not a day where the sun should be shining so beautiful. This was not a beautiful day.
The best I could do to try and survive my own suffocation that day was to let my husband, family and friends know how much I love them and that is what I did.
September 11, 2001 has taught me to appreciate in a way I never new how.