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2002-09-13

I was in the back yard cleaning up while my kids were playing in their room. My mom had turned on the t.v. to see the weather report just before I had gone out and apparently she had changed the channel because the next thing I know she is crying "oh my god!". I did not know what was going on so I just poked my head in to see what had upset my mother and I found her crying while the news went on talking about the plane that had just crashed into Tower One. I could not believe what i was seeing. I mean I had never imagined someone would do that. But someone did and as I watched the second plane crashed into Tower Two. Then the news went to the Pentagon and reported that a plane had crashed into it also. That is when I figured that this was a terror attack. I mean no one would attack the Pentagon unless they were a terriost. I just sat down in disbelief while everything was unfolding on t.v. My children came into the room just as plane 93 crashed in Pennsylvania and they asked what was going on. I tried to explain it to them but I had to understand it myself first. And that was one thing I could not understand. Why would someone do this? Then the news went back to the towers and to all the people running away and trying to get there to save people in the towers. I started to cry as I saw people running away and when I saw those people jumping from so high up I thought I was going to die from the pain inside me. No one should have to die and they surely should not have to die that way. When the Towes collapsed all I could do was pray that everyone was o.k. even though I knew deep down that some of them would not be. All I could do was pray and I am not one to pray but I did that day and for days after that. I sat glued to the t.v. all day watching everything that was happening and I cried alot to. Especially when the priest got killed while doing last rites on a fallen firefighter. It broke my heart in so many ways to see all that destruction and murder and for what? Because of a psycho? I hope that he rots in the furtheist realm of hell for what he has done. I hate him and I wish I could watch him die like I am sure he watched our people die. I have thought of that day many times since it happened and my heart hurts for all the people who lost their lives that day and even though I did not know any of them I will always keep them close to my heart just as everyone should and I am sure they do. My children understand what happened now in some ways and they want to say that they are sorry it happened. I will end this by saying that I am happy with the way President Bush is handling things and I am proud of the military. Every time they take someone out I cheer them on and I understand that may be weird but I am an ARMY brat so I have a great deal of respect for the military but I also think they ALL deserve it. They picked the wrong country to mess with because they CANNOT AND WILL NOT BREAK US. And we will pound their little rag headed asses into the ground. I am proud to be an american and no matter what they will NEVER win.