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2002-11-10

I had just got everyone out the door for work and school then left to go work out. When I returned home I was picking up and did not have the tv on. My husband called me from his office and told me to turn on the tv. I like everyone else was in shock as I sit there wanting to help but I was totally useless. Words can not tell how I felt and as I watched in horror the first tower fall I fell back telling my husband to do something.I am not real sure what I thought he could do from Monroe, LA. The first thing I wanted to do was to go pick up my children from school, then my Mother called and we sat there and cried to each other on the phone, both of us wanting so badly to be together. I can not begin to understand what the families have gone through. The strength they have to have to pick up the pieces and go on. My thoughts and prayers are always with the families, our great country and President Bush.