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2002-08-31

I was home in the morning after sending 3 of my 5 children to school. It was a little after 9:00am and I changed the channel on my kitchen TV from sesame street to channel 7 to see Regis and Kathie Lee. I saw live coverage of tower 1 full of smoke and the commentator saying it was hit by a plane. My husband was home as he didn't leave for work yet and he was yelling Oh my God thats a no fly zone. My mom was also with us in the kitchen. My two little children were in the living room watching cartoons. We continued to watch the TV and all of a sudden we saw Tower 2 get hit. Right then and there we knew it was some kind of attack. I started to cry and couldn't stop watching what was going on. Later on we heard that the Pentagon was hit and a few moments later I heard a fighter jet fly over my house. I immediately called the middle school and high school in my town and went to pick up my children and a few friends and took them to my house. It was a day I will remember for the rest of my life as one of the most frightening moments of all time.