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2002-11-22

On the morning of September 11, i had just gotten home from working a long night shift, and i had brought home doughnuts for breakfast. As i walked in the door, i noticed that my dad was in the kitchen watching the today show with Matt Lauer and Katie Couric. All i could see on the program was the large black clouds of smoke pouring out of the World Trade Center in New York.I thought how awful the sight was and wondered what was the cause. Soon after i had thought about the causes, the reports came in that apparently a plane had crashed into the tower. I knew that this was a terrible plane accident not unlike the past previous plane accidents, only this time a plane had crashed into a building instead of the ground or the ocean. I sat down to eat my breakfast of the doughnuts that i had brought home, and later about twenty minutes later footages of a second plane crashing into the other tower of the World Trade Center came into view. I knew immediately that this was no accident and that we were under attack. I continued to listen to the television reports about the FBI investigating hijackings of planes before the crashes, and knew that it was completely related. I went into the living room and told my dad about the rumors of hijackings taking place on the planes that crashed into the towers, and he nodded his head yes. He had been on the computer, possibly reading related news about the attacks. By then he had gone to bed and i had done the same, with the news on my television while i slept. When i had woken up later in the afternoon, the news coverage was on every channel i could think of, and the depression i was going through was increasing. They continually showed replays of both of the towers collapsing to the ground and i couldnt believe my eyes and what had transpired while i was asleep. Dan Rather on CBS was the anchorman that i had frequently kept up to date with during the afternoon. This was the most depressing day of my life, and the days that had followed had been very hard and sad. I didnt know what this would mean for this country, but that we and the world was going to change forever. We were at war, and the president had said that it would be a long war against whatever enemy had done this to us, even though all the sources had matched Osama Bin Laden to the attacks. I also remember never being so angry before in my entire life, and that i would have killed to have Bin Laden's head put on a stake. It was the closest i had ever come to joining the military. That night i remember all the gas stations in the city being jam packed with customers loading up on gas, because they had said the attacks on the World Trade Center would possibly raise the prices of gas considerably. Days later i remember collecting all the material on 9/11 i possibly could in remembrance of the terrible day. I hope decades from now if i have children, that i can remember where i was on that horrible day, and tell my kids what happened on that day. It was truly the day the whole world cried.