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2002-09-12

I remember it well...I was preparing to go to my daughter and sons' school to be the substitute teacher for the Music department. I was in the bathroom and I had our local channel 10 on with the Today show. All of a sudden they were saying that a plane had hit the World Trade Center building. It said something to the fact of a small plane hitting the building, so I remember thinking that that was terrible for those that were in those offices and the person who had flown the [small] plane. I then turned off the T.V. and proceeded to get into my van to drive to work. Only to my amazement, on the way to work it came on the radio that it was a jet that had hit the World Trade Center, and I just gasped, realizing it was a lot worse than what I had thought previously at home.
As I got to the school and through the morning, they had televisions going showing the building and then showing the other tower being hit by the other jet.
I was six months pregnant at the time and I just kept feeling the sense of knumbness...what was happening to our nation and I was going to be bringing new life into it...
When I got to the school, I was aware that the lady I was subbing for was in Washington D.C. with her husband and I, along with other teachers, was VERY concerned about her well being. We didn't know where she was staying or how she was doing. Later that day, we got word that she was staying not far from the Pentagon, and I would be subbing a little longer than intended because no flights out of Washington D.C. were going out or coming in for an undetermined time.
I remember the swelling of tears building up every time I would watch the television - hearing that it was considered a terrorist act, and then hearing at another break time of the plane crashing in Pennyslvania. I just continued to wander...what is my future baby in for, along with my other two children already in school. It was sooo sad!!!
Tonight, September 11, 2002 - one year later, I hear on my television the song "Prayer" by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli and how I have sung that song before and how I love that song. They are using it for a commemorative commercial for the remembrance of September 11th victims, and it reminds me why I love the song so much...it has such a wonderful meaning!
I will NEVER forget how I felt and how it has changed our nation, and me.