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2002-09-11

If the terrible events of September 11, 2001 had never happened, I would still never forget where I was or what I was doing on this day. My family was saying our last good bye to our Grandmother, Carlotta J. Rossi. This was the day she was burried. She was a wonderful person who loved her whole family. Services where at 8AM, and we left for the cemetary at around 9AM. My brother, Uncle Bob, Cousins Kim & Robbie, and Neice Dawn Marshall and myself, Quinn Rossi, were in the limo. We did not have a radio on in the car, so we were completely unaware of what terrible events were taking place. When the grave site services where over, my cousin Kim told me that a jet had flown into the twin towers. Consumed by the day itself, those words did not prepare me for the images I would later see over and over on the TV. It was a very painful and emotional day. I was also pregnant and all I could think of was what kind of world would my child be born into, if she was born at all. Then it hit me how many people, innocent people, where lost, and how many families suffered from these losses. I still can't express what my heart feels. God bless us all, and I hope God stops these terrorists who don't value human life.