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2002-09-12

My husband and I work nights, so we hadn't been to bed long when my mom called. She told me I needed to turn on the tv that we were being bombed. I hung up and told my husband what she said. I turned on the tv and I was shocked at what I was seeing. I could not believe what was happening. I just kept thinking who could be so hateful to do this to innocent, unsuspecting people. Why were they doing this? I didn't know these kind of people existed.

Over the past months since then I can hear a low flying plane and I'll watch and wonder what it may be doing. I would have never given one of those planes a second thought befor 9/11/01.

Today, I watched, as I did one year ago, those horrible events over again. The only difference today was that I didn't feel shocked as I had before. I felt pain and grief for my country and the people I share it with. I ask God to forgive me, but I feel hate for those responsible. I didn't know what hate really felt like before. I wish I didn't now. I can only hope that someday that this hatred will go away.