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2002-09-11

We were sitting watching the news on TV and I first thought it was a clip of a movie coming on. I couldn't believe my eyes and ears what was happening in front of me. I was horrified to think that terrorism has come to the United States. My husband was a POW in VietNam 1970-1971 and we both felt violated, to think that terrible people could take the lives of innocent people, whether the ones in the World Trade Center, the firefighters, police officers, or anyone that was there for lifesaving, it is a terrible thing to happen to "our American Families". The plane that crashed at Shanksville, Pa., went over the Westmoreland County Airport in Latrobe, Pa. Our daughter, Charlene Nicely works in the Blue Angels Restaurant. She told me, that evening when I called her, the plane flew over the airport and it was like something was wrong. I thank God for the people who tried to keep the hijackers from trying to crash the plane into the airport. My daughter was very scared of what had happened that day. They are my heros that day for saving our daughters' life and all the people who work there, the airport and Latrobe, Pa. and the surrounding communities. Sincerely, Karen McClarren