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2002-09-11

On September 11, 2001 we received our normal Thursday shipment for the store. To all of us it was a normal day. When the doors opened for business at 10 we heard the first of something unusuall happening. News radio filled us in on what was happening. Many of us had friends or family stationed in the Pentagon and a couple had family working in the towers. Not many people came into the store that day. By 1230 the mall had closed and all of us made our ways home to watch and rewatch the towers come down again and again. Seeing the black hole on the hillside really drove home what had happened. The hillside in Shanksville is just over the hill from where I call home. To me it was so unreal to think that all of the people could possible be dead. No one could ever think let alone do something like this here in America. Days afterward I wondered if maybe the people who had lived through Pearl Harbor had felt the same disbelieve. I was proud of how America banded together. I am very proud of my hometown area for the comfort they provided for the relatives of the heros of flight 93.