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2003-02-15

On September 11, 2001 I was on the 88th floor of tower 2 getting ready to have a bagel with someother co-workers when we felt something hit. We we're sure what had happened. Only that the building shook, the lights went on and off. I said I think we've been hit not realizing that we had actually been hit by something. Then we heard like feet running around in the hall, we opened the door and there was other co-workers running saying we've been hit. We run back in and I said we have to get out of here. I run in and got my stuff. As I was getting my things my phone rang, but I just look at it and said to myself am not picking it up. So me and some of my co-workers started heading down the stairs. I got caught with the crowd so my friends and co-workers are behind me now. I keep stopping to see if they are coming, but I didn't know they had gotten on the elevator 10 flights after we started coming down. So I continue to go down, everyone seems OK people didn't seem scared, they just wanted to get out. The announcement comes on saying go back to your floors it's only Tower 1, at this point I guess everyone thought it was an accident. I thought tower 1 had gotten hit by a helicopter, well when the announcement came on some people started going back others said no way and I was one of those people. I just wanted to get out. It felt like forever. I remember looking at my watch just before we got hit. Tower 2 which was the tower I was in got hit. I thought that whatever hit tower 1 had exploded. It sounded almost like a domino affect. Like something breaking apart. I heard what sounded like horror screams coming from above me. I was so scared, I started thinking about this women that I met at my brother in-laws church. She was talking about how she had asked god to send her an angel to get her out of a situation where this man was follwing her and she prayed for god to send her an angel. Well, he did because just as she was getting closer to where she had parked her car the man was getting closer, but just then someone that lives near where she parks turn on the porch light and came out. He said Brenda are you OK and the guy ran off. Well I remember this and I started praying as I was coming down. I was asking god to please send me the same angel that you sent that women at the time I couldn't even remember her name just her testimony of how god sent her an angel. I remember feeling really hot and sweat running down my back. At this point everyone wanted out, but we had alot of clam people telling others not to panick just go down carefully. We finally reached the lobby, but couldn't get out the doors that lead to the court yard, because there was so much debris it look like a movie not real. There was lot of firemen, police and port workers helping and directing people out of the building. We had to go down to the concourse level to go out a different way. I remember getting out and looking up, but still not knowing what was happening. I was so confused and shock I guess you can call it. I was worried for my friends and co-workers and I also wanted to get to my family and let them know that I was OK. There was so many people, looking, video taping just trying to use their cell phones, pay phones nothing was working. I finally decided to find my way home. I asked a police officer which way to the Williamsburg bridge and he directed me. I started walking and finally found a working pay phone with no line of people waiting. I say this was god still with me or the angel he had sent me anyway. I finally got to speak to my husband and tell him I was OK, I guess he didn't believe it was me at first. He said he wanted to come and get me I told him just wait for me at the other side of the bridge they're not letting anyone come over this side. I told him again just be there when I get there. I started walking towards the bridge and just before I started climbing the stairs to get on the bridge I started asking god again to send me that same angel to help me walk over the bridge, because my legs were hurting me so much from walking down from the 88th floor and the walk from the W.T.C to the bridge. I took off my shoes I didn't feel a thing. My legs didn't even hurt anymore it was as if I had been lifted up and carried across the bridge. I felt like I was dodging people coming the opposite direction from me. I saw one of those little police mobiles and I hear the police officer saying no one is allowed to go over the bridge, because they're afraid they might try to bomb the bridge. I kept going like if he wasn't even there. So did many others, they couldn't stop the people everyone wanted to get out of the city. If you can believe some people had to go into the city. I guess to get to their loved ones. I finally get to the other side and my husband was there waiting for me, but then he tells me that my 20 yr. old daughter decide to go over the bridge and look for me. I just couldn't believe it. I said god I know you didn't get me this far to lose my daughter. Now my husband decides to go and get her. I just started crying god please get them back safely. As I was waited my cell phone rings I didn't even know it was working and it's my sister on the phone and she couldn't believe that it was me. She and my other sister started crying. She was calling to tell my husband that the tower 2 had come down. And as I was talking to my sister my husband and daughter are back. I just wanted to go home get my kids from school and go home. I didn't even know what had happened until I saw it on the news. I was a mess I could even sleep, I was to scared. The next day it rained, thunderstorm I thought we were being bombed. My husband tried to tell me that it was Ok I didn't believe him I had to look for myself so I opened the front door to look out and then turned on the T.V. I tried going back to work, but just couldn't do it. I had to get out of New York. I've since moved away to Ohio where I came to know god as my lord and savior. I just couldn't believe it how god had sent me an angel to get me out. I'm a born again christian and I love the lord with all my heart, because he loves us so much. He is my comforter and my healer. I will thank him every moment of my life for everything he has done and everything he is about to do for me and my family. Thank you Jesus, Thank you father god. In Jesus name. ( God doesn't promise a world free from danger, but he does promise his help whenever we face danger.)