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2002-09-11

I finished this at 2:33 a.m. on September 11th. 2002, and crying most of the way through it. It was almost as living it over again...
THE DAY THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
It started as a normal day as most my days have been.
Waking up, the bathroom run, the time was seven-ten.
Picked up my remote and slowly did the channel walk,
Stoping at the Morning Show, watching Brynt talk.
Why I didn't watch the show as usually I do,
I guess I wanted just to go to something that was new.
As I was changing channels,the ringing of the phone,
It was my daughter calling, a day when she was home.
"What do you think?" she asked of me, "That this could really be?"
I had no idea what she meant, so she explained to me.
"Turn the channel and you'll see the crashing of a plane,
Into the Trade Center Building, now everythings aflame."
I quickly turned to NBC and watched the awful site,
The look on all their faces. was shock. It was a fright!
As they were asking how this accident could be,
What all America wittnessed next, I hardly could believe.
I saw it come, and turn, and hit. "A second plane!" I cried.
To my daughter on the phone, "All those people died!"
This was no accident that we saw. The world was catching on.
This was done with cruel intent. All those people gone!
It was as if time had stopped, and stayed in place a while.
People running everywhere, smoke covering a mile.
Feelings are an awful thing when they get out of hand,
And when they come all at once, they're hard to understand.
I was so scared, I was so sad, surprised and sick and grived.
Who would do this awful thing, and who would be so mean?
And then it hit me as I watched the day that changed the world, I wanted family close to me to watch as time unfurled.
All my life, I've never thought that I would have to say,
I fear the one that can come and take my nice safe world away.
I remember them going through my mind, my family one by one.
I prayed for angels to guard them, I felt I had to run!
No longer could I sit alone and watch this dreadful site,
As I drove to my daughters, I was looking toward the sky.
The rest of the day was kind of a blur, we watched as the world truned around.
Another plane hits the Pentagon, and one crashes into the ground. Firemen working, trying to save lives,
people running in four different ways,
Then we all stopped breathing as we watched it go down,
When the first building fell, we were dazed.
It didn't take long for the second one, to follow the first and we knew,
Our lives would never be the same again, my fear for my safe world grew.
What do you do when your life is changed, you look around and find,
That you're not alone, we are all the same, Where is that Peace of Mind?
Evil people will come, we found that out,and they will have their way, But I'll tell them right now, they've made a mistake, cuz they've messed with the USA!
United we stand, and we stand hand in hand,
All because of that day...we're stronger now and we'll never give up, until the guilty have paid.
Yes, that day changed the world, the whole world round,
The day the world turned grey, It brought us close,
enlarged our love, and taught some people to pray.