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story20612.xml

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2006-09-11

I was at work, just going into a meeting. We were about to begin our meeting and someone came running into the conference room and told us to turn on the TV - that there was something happening in New York. We stopped the meeting and turned on the TV. We couldn't believe what we were seeing. When the first plane hit, we thought, surely this is just a horrible plane crash. Then we watched the second plane fly into the second tower. About the same time, we saw a trailer across the bottom of the screen saying that a plane had just flown into the Pentagon. We stood in horror at what we were seeing, absolutely glued to the TV. When the towers fell, everyone in the room started to cry, both men and women. When it was reported that it was a terrorist attack, I just remember standing there thinking that this couldn't be happening in this country - that things like this just don't happen in the United States. My life has changed forever because of it.