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2002-09-11

I will never forget where I was on the morning of the attack on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and, the plane crash in Pennsylvania. I was in a grocery store in Canton, Ohio getting some food items to take to my best friend, because her father had passed away. While I was standing at the counter waiting to be waited on, I heard the clerks talking to someone on the phone, and, I heard one of them say "another plane had crashed"! At that time, I really didn't quite realize just what they were talking about, but, I knew something of that nature would be on the news, and, I would hear about it when I got home, and, turned on my T.V. I decided to get my food items, and, go ahead over to my friend's home, and, find out if she had heard anything about the planes that had crashed. As soon as I arrived at my friend's home, she told me that two jets had crashed into the World Trade Center, because she had been watching it on the news on T.V. As I watched the T.V., I could not believe the terrible thing I was seeing. The first thought that entered my mind was, "this can't be real, this just can't be happening"! I thought, "what about all the people in those buildings"!!! I started to cry in disbelief. Then, as I watched even more of the T.V. coverage, I realized, that not only had the World Trade Center been hit, but, the Pentagon, and, a plane went down in Pennsylvania. My first thought was, who could do such an awful thing to another human being. Who could do such a horrible thing to my country. As long as I live, I will never forget where I was, and, what I was doing on September 11, 2001, This is the day the United States of America, was shaken to it's core, a day that I, as a citizen of this great nation, will never forget! Long live the United States! GOD BLESS AMERICA, my home sweet home!!!