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2002-11-25

I never really have known what to say or to write to anybody who was involved with the September tragedy. All I know is that I never thought that I would half to live through another day like The Oklahoma City Bombing. Even though I wasn't directly invovled in either it didn't make me immune to the feelings one feels when they see those images!! On the day of the 9/11 attack I was at home with my three small girls. The girls were watching cartoons and I was just cat-napping. The phone rang about 8:30am., it was my mother-in-law. She told me to change the channel to a regular station. I just sat there in shock, in horror and total disbelief in what I was seeing. I was watching Tower 1 on fire and listening to the news people talk about what was happening. My mind didn't have to much time to absorb the first of the destruction because I was a wittness to the 2nd plane flying into the 2nd tower. The first thing I did was go to the phone and call my husband and ask him if he knew about all of this. He was watchi! ng the t.v. at work along with all the people he works with and all the customers. It was just like everything else failed to exist and all that mattered was to see what was happening. Shock was alos his main rrreaction to the situation at hand. I watched the t.v. all that day never changing channels and rarely taking a my eyes off the screen only to tend to my children. Now that I look back at that day, my girls who usually demand all my attention and half to be watched pretty carefully never got into anything never were unruly that day. They just let me sit there , like they knew something important had happend and I needed the calm. It was one of the oddest days in my life. That night when my whole family was together we discussed some of what had happened. Even as an adult I couldn't explain to myself much less to my oldest daughter what had happened or why. As of this date I still watch all the news shows and try to keep up on all that has happened . One day I wil! l tell my children of this day and try to explain why! I just hope and pray everyday that I will never half to change the channel again to see mass destruction. I pray that everyone who lost loved ones will grow stronger by knowing that people like me who weren't directly involved still feel pain, not for lost ones, but for the pain that felt all around the world that day and all the days that followed.