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2005-04-14

I cant believe i can recall this horrific tradgedy almost 4 years on but thi is what i remember and how i am now.

I had just got to my brothewrs house 4 miles away for a cup of tea and a chat when his phone called, it was our mum, she urged us to put on the televivion on bbc1. we did this and i remember as we did it was the time that the 2nd plane hit WTC1. We both sat there staring in a transe at the television. Then panic set in , i remembered someone i work with telling me that his sister worked in WTC1, there was nothing i could do as i didnt have his number to ring him on the phone. I decided that i would head home as (and this sounds silly) it was the usa that the attack had happened , it may be a coordinated attack on all western countries. So i set off home .

(the sister of my friend was ok )

Thats all i recall from that day but this is the problem now...

I still get extremely upset over any mention of 911 and it has affected my abbility to sleep properly ever since. I hope some day that i can get over what happened , but at the moment the images have stayed with me.