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story6362.xml

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2002-09-12

My friend called me from his work asking me to turn on CNN, he had just herd on the radio a reporter plane crashed into the World Trade Center. I turned to CNN and watched footage of a plane going head on into the tower, at this point the reporters only assumed this might have been an accident. Then the second plane hit. I't was hard to watch, I tried to explain to my friend the plane was not moving, it was crashing right into the building.The footage rolled over, and over, the same horrible sight. I was shocked and could not fathom what was soon to come. Reporters then started to guestion the possibility of a terriost attack. The horrifying guestion of what the country was watching, still not answered. Then, the Pentagon was attacked. I felt as if I was in a car accident and time was going slow. Reporters announced their was a plane in the air they could not account for. Our President was going to a secure secert location. I looked all around me. Pictures of my son and husband,the security of my home, the blue sky outside my window, the freedom I took for granted. WAR, my god, we are at WAR.