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2002-09-11

I HAD STAYED HOME FROM WORK WITH A HEADACHE AND ABOUT SEVEN FORTH FIVE OR SO ONE OF THE GIRLS FROM WORK CALLED AND SAID TURN ON YUR TV. I DID AND AT FIRST I THOUGHT THERE HAD BEEN AN ACCIDENT AND IT WAS AWFUL. BUT AS I LISTENED TO THE PERSON ON THE TV I REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND THEN FROM NOWHERE CAME THE SECOND PLANE AND I WATCHED AS IT HIT THE SECOND BUILDING AND I JUST FELL TO MY KNEES AND ASK GOD TO PLEASE HELP THOSE PEOPLE. IT LOOKED LIKE DEBRIS WAS FALLING AND THEN I REALIZED IT WAS PEOPLE JUMPING OR FALLING. I WAS NUMB AND DAZED FOR A LONG TIME. THE ANNOUNCER WAS TALKING ABOUT WHRE THE PLANES WERE FROM AND IT HIT ME THAT MY DAUGHTER IN LAW HAD TOLD ME MY SON WAS FLYING FROM ATLANTA TO NEW YORK AND THEN TO CALIFORNIA. I COULD HARDLY BRING MYSSELF TO PICK UP THE PHONE. I WAS TRYING TO CALL HER BUT THE BUILDING SHE WORKS IN WAS BEING EVACUATED. SHE WORKS ACROSS FROM THE FEDERAL BUILDING IN ATLANTA. SHE FINALLY CALLED ME BUT SHE COULD NOT GET ANY INFORMATION FROM ANYBODY ABOUT WHERE RHETTS PLANE WAS. I CANNOT REMEMBER FOR HOW LONG WE TRIED TO FIND HIM BUT FINALLY ONE OF THE GIRLS I WORKED WITH CALLED AND SAID HE WAS TRYING TO CALL TO TELL ME HIS PLANE WAS DIVERTED TO TEXAS AND HE WAS OK BUT MY PHONE WAS BUSY. THANK YOU JESUS. THERE IS NO WAY I CAN DESCRIBE THE PAIN AND GRIEF I FEEL. THE INSECURITY I FEEL NOW. BUT I AM GRATEFUL. MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE ONES THAT WERE NOT AS LUCKY AS ME.
TODAY IS SEPTEMBER 11, 2002. MY SON JUST CALLED AND SAID HE IS GETTING ON DELTA FLIGHT 850 FOR ATLANTA. I PRAY I WILL BE ABLE TO PRAY FOR THE NEXT FOUR HOURS THAT GOD WILL BE GOOD TO ME AGAIN.
I CAN ONLY SAY AS ONE THAT HAS A VOICE THAT I STAND BEHIND OUR PRESIDENT ALL THE WAY. I ASK GOD TO PUT HIS HEDGE OF PROTECTION AROUND HIM EVERY DAY. TO GIVE HIM KNOWLEDGE AND TO ANSWER HIS PRAYERS AND TO GUIDE HIM IN A WAY THAT GOD WOULD HAVE HIM TO GO. I THINK OUR PRESIDENT LISTENS TO GOD AND SEEKS THAT SMALL VOICE THE HOLY SPORIT GIVES HIM. WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE SUCH A MAN IN THE WHITE HOSE AT THIS TIME. IN ALL MY YEARS I HAVE NEVER REALLY BEEN SO MUCH INTERESTED AS NOW. 9-11-2001 CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER. I APPRECIATE THE RESPONSIBILITY I HAVE AS A MOTHER AND A CHILD OF GOD. I APPRECIATE MY RESPONSIBILITY TO LIFT MY PRESIDENT UP TO GOD. AND I LEARNED THE MEANING OF LEARNING NOT TO HATE A PERSON. BUT I WILL SAY I HAVE ASK GOD TO PUNISH BEN LADEN TO THE FULLEST OF EXTENT OF HIS PUNISHMENT FOR WHAT HE DID TO OUR COUNTRY.
NEXT MONTH MY YOUNGEST OF FIVE BOYS WILL GO INTO THE AIRFORCE AND I PRAY GOD TO PROTECT HIM. GOD BLESS AMERICA AND WE WILL PREVAIL