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2002-09-11

I was doing my normal morning routine in the warehouse when I went into the office to get more orders at about 8:50am. When I walked in something didn't seem right. some of The women had there hands to there mouths and they were standing by a radio. One woman asked me if I heard what happen. I said no. She said a plane just hit the Twin Towers. At that point I thought it was just an accident and I grabbed my orders and went back out into the warehouse. I turned on my radio and I was going through my orders and then they said another plane had just hit the other tower. I stopt everything I was doing as they said we were being attacked. The first thing that came to my mind was my wife Barbara, was she safe, was my house next, was my kids schools going to be next. I called home from my cell phone and it was just dead air, I couldn't get through, I called and called. I didn't now at the time that all the cell phones around here went dead. Do I leave work now and go home or just keep on trying, I tried again and the phone rang. I'm saying to myself please pick up. My wife answered, hello. I said, are you allright! She said, yeah, why? I said were being attacked. She said, what? I said were being attacked, they rammed two planes into the Twin Towers. I said turn on the TV. She said O my god. so we were talking for awile and then the news said they just hit the Pentagon. Tears filled my eyes, I was scared, yet happy I was talking to my wife. little did I know, others weren't so lucky.