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2002-09-13

I remember my Mother calling my house and waking my husband. She told him that an airplane hit one of the WTC towers. We both went back to sleep thinking it was a small passenger plane. When I woke up, I went downstairs. My husband should have left for work at that time but he was sitting in front of the television and watching the news. I asked him what was going on. He told me what had happened. My husband said, "I was told not to go to work for security reasons and the city I grew up in has been attacked". We live in Arizona but my husband was born and grew up in Queens, New York. I can't say the name of the company he worked for at that time, here in Arizona, due to privacy and security. The thing I remember the most was watching television and seeing the people jumping and falling from the burning buildings of the WTC Towers. Then I remember watching the people on the street who saw the people falling from the buildings, and watching the mortified looks on their faces. My husband and his mother both worked in the WTC buildings when they lived in New York. The absolute worst part of it was getting the call from my husband's sister, telling us that someone my husband knew was in one of the towers when it collapsed. He was a police officer and was in one of the WTC Towers when it collapsed. He did not survive. I remember being glued to the television for about 3 months after the attacks and then I had to stop watching for awhile. I went to work on the day of the attacks and it was so strange not hearing planes fly over the place where I worked. It was scary because it was so quiet. I didn't really get any work done that day. It seemed the whole world was sitting in front of the television that day no matter where they were. I have heard that anyone who was killed in the attacks on 9/11/01 have their cause of death filled in as homicide on their death certificate. We need to remember that ALL of these people were murdered. I watched the attacks on television last night (9-11-02). I sobbed all over again and the pain has not lessened at all. God Bless America and all the families that were left behind.