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2002-09-12

While helping a co-worker take daily blood pressures on our patients she recieved a phone call from her husband stating that a plane had hit a building in New York, "we were being bombed." My co-worker and I then made our way to the patients television room and asked to change the channel to the news ao that we could see what he was talking about. As we changed the channel one of our patients gasped and stated, "the empire state building, something hit the empire state building" and then we watched it fall. I was in shock as the two building collapsed right there on national television and there was nothing that I could do. I call my husband who at the time was still asleep at home and told him to get up and turn on the news, I wanted to know everything that I could and the faster I could get the information the better. The hospital stopped for a while as everyone stood and watched the reporting, and the day was in essence lost as were the lives of so many people.