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2003-02-24

I went to bed on 9-10 thinking how cool it would be if my sister in law were to go into labour and have my niece. My brother's birthday is 9-11 and she and I share the same birthday and I thought it be cool if it happened. My great aunt came upstairs to wake me up on 9-11 and I was like awesome my niece was born, but instead I heard that the Pentagon and World Trade Center were bombed. I thought no big deal some damage and people are hurt. Then about 45 minutes later she came up and said to get out of bed that 3 planes had crashed. That made me run downstairs and she had heard from my mom saying that she was stranded in Colorado and that her and my dad were driving back. My mom was suppose to fly into Washington DC that day. I waited for her to call back because she was calling to see where my uncle was, who had worked in the Pentagon and still works with the US Army. She called and said my uncle was fine and he was on his way home from DC. (later on I would find out that 3 of his co-workers were killed when they were attending a meeting at the Pentagon and he also knew a general killed) I talked to my mom and was glued to the TV. I watched in horror as the 2nd plane hit in replays and the towers collapsing. You can only watch so much of it and we went out to dinner that night and got away from the TV. I am so grateful that no one I knew was affected by this, but you hear the stories of those who were less fortunate and you wonder how they spent their last moments. 9/11 to me will always be my brother's birthday, no matter what will happen in the years to come. He celebrated his 26th birthday on the 1 year aniversary and has a beautiful 17 month child who came just 18 days later. I have many things to be thankful for and God bless my family that day and many others.

God Bless America!
~Cortney