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2003-09-28

That morning was like all others, I had an appointment with my therapist at 8am. When we finished we were coming out of her office when the person at the front desk said that someone had bombed the pentagon, we were astonished. So after a few minutes my cell phone rang and it was my husband asking if I had heard what happened and if I was alright. We hung up and I called my Mom and spoke with her, she was terrified. My Mom's siter flies for American and that is her usual route from Dulles Airport, we were all very scared of what was going on. I went ahead and went home and stayed infront of the television for hours trying to consume everything that was going on. We were in shock, I had to leave to get new tags for my car so we taped the news while we were gone. The car tag place was silent no one was talking, the lady that helped me asked me what was going on and I explained to the best of my knowledge. I went back home and watched the news which we did for about 8 months after. We found out about a week later that my Aunt was ok. She was off that day and lost alot of friends on those 2 American Flights, she was in total trauma state and wouldn't talk with anyone. Me and my husband are both in the Air Force and we both are ready to go fight this war on terror for our country and fellow americans. We will never forget Sept 11, 2001. We hope that no one else does either.