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2002-09-11

for me tues sept 11 started out normally enough. i had just got out of bed and had to go to morehead state university and then on to work later on. i flipped on the tv, thinking that i would change the channel to vh1 classic. it was just dumb luck i left it on bbc america the night before. at first i thought it was an accident. my first thought was "our world trade center?" later, at school, i found everyone at the university center clustered around several tv sets brought in for the purpose. my guts were in knots as i heard the details. i could not get the thought of the children who were on that flight. later i found out that just after i left the university center, someone left a suspicious box on the second floor, causing an evacuation and general panic. as i stopped at the post office on the way to work, i got reminded that we have a refinery in ashland and that there was a depot of nerve gas just down the road from morehead. later at, work i quietly made out my will, because i was not going to miss school because.
that night at work was the quietest night i had ever seen since coming to work here. when i came home, i saw the arabs celebrating the murder of our people, and that all but turned me against islam, a feeling that persists to this day. if it is such a religion of peace, they sure have a funny idea of peace.
this has created pride and anger. pride in my country, anger at the squirrly people who try to indoctronate that we were asking for it. this has the same logic as blaming a rape victim because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

rebecca estep