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2004-04-24

My fellow recruits and I were sitting in class at Schoolcraft Police Academy in Garden City Michigan. The person in charge of the academy walked in and said a plane hit a tower in N.Y. We went down to the lunch room and witnesses the second plane going into the other tower. An instructor looked at us and said "People, now the U.S.A. is at war". For lunch, some of the recruits went an extra run just to vent. We did not make it a full day of training and were sent home to be with our families. My family and I sat infront of the T.V. that night, not saying much, but just wondered, what was the total number of people who did die for no reason but that of terrorism. I now work as a police officer in Monroe County in Michigan, protecting lives and wish I could have done more on 9/11/2001. God bless fellow police officers, fire-fighters, those who lost their lives. May peace come to those who lost loved ones. God Bless the United States. Please remember we take riskes everyday, and sometimes lives are lost trying to do what we love.