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2002-08-20

On September 11th I was in my 2nd week of Basic Training. On this day it was our first road march and we marched about 7 or 8 miles. We came to the range witch we were going to; that day we were learning about being attacked and how to react to it. at about 11 a.m. is when we found out that someone had hit the world trade center in a plane and when we all had heard this no one believed it. We all thought it was a trick or a game because we had just been taught how to react to being attacked. So all day we went through the day not believing a word that our Drill Sageants were telling us. We got back to our barraks at right about dinner time and than our First Sargeat and Captian told us that both the World Trade center and the Pentagon had been hit by highjacked planes and that another plane had crashed in Pennsylvania. and after that I knew something was not right. they asked eveyone who had families that lived in New York City , Washington D.C or Pennsylvania to come with them into a room. Having a Brother who lived in New York City and who worked in the World Trade Center i reluctly went not knowing how severe the situation was. We got to watch a clip of what happened and they said they were sorry at that time 10 of us just broke down and started to cry at what we were seeing. They let us call our families I was not able to get a hold of brother I called home and got hold of my parents and talked to them and I had a million questions going through my head. and I was afraid for my life, I was afraid to go to war or the fact that my brother was killed by the actions of whoever did it at the time. I talked for a while about what was going on and the whole time I had no clue where my brother was and niether did my parents. I hung up the phone and I just let it go I was so mad I did not know what to do with all the anger that I had inside of me. So the day it happened all I saw was the New York City skyline with no World Trade Center Buildings. The two most remarkable symbols I have ever seen. I was thinking to myself how could this happen. But there is a part of me that to this day still cant believe it happened. all I saw was an empty skyling and a skyline that will be empty forever you can never bring back what happened on that day. I will forever remember the day September 11 2001 I was in Basic Training; I was serving my country. Even though the whole day I cant remember I will always remember the empty skyline I saw on T.V. For my Brother he has missed is train in the morning so he was late to work I got a hold of him 4 days later and if would have been there he would have been killed. I thank God to this day that he was not taken from us. To all the families out there who had family members in the towers I am sorry, and please remember that we can never loose hope and you will make it.