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2002-09-11

I was at work entering my normal paperwork on the computer. All of sudden I had heard someone yell to me, "hey Debi, an airplane just hit one of the towers". Well I thought she was just kidding and I said yeah right...anyway, a few moments later she had heard on her radio that another plane had hit the second tower. Everyone was going out on the internet and checking all of this out. It was horrible. It was the worst day ever.. I have always wanted to go to New York and take my kids to see the World Trade Center--but now I will not beable to do that because of one human(if you want to call him that) person who planned the whole thing. It saddens me to know that there are such cruel and evil people in this world. Why this happened-we will probably never know but what's worse is all the innocent people that were killed or hurt in this tragedy. Needless to say the company that I was working for at the time did have an employee who had a family member that was working at the World Trade Center and he was one of the people that was killed. The company closed the office and told everyone to go home and be with their families. For days that is all we saw on the television is the footage of this horrible tragedy..It's one I don't think anyone will ever beable to forget--at least I know I won't. It's been a year now and it's a pretty gloomy day here. Not too much happening and kinda sad. My heart goes out to all those families who were victims of this terrible occurrence. We need to always remember that life is too short and always make sure you kiss and hug your children, spouse every day when you leave because you never know what the day will bring. God Bless all the families and God Bless America.