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2002-09-11

My name is Bruce W.Cobb. I am a Texan with South Carolina

roots;but today, I am just an American. Early that morning,

I was preparing to go to court for a client. I watched the

News and the Today show as I usually do every day in the

morning. One of the Twin Towers in NYC had caught fire and

was engulfed in smoke. All of a sudden like a flash before

my eyes, a figure moving swiftly which looked like a jet

airliner went into the other Twin Tower. Both Towers were

soon covered in smoke. People in the streets below acted

with both dismay and panic.In a few minutes right before

my unbelieving eyes, both Towers crumbled to the ground in

a plume of dust and smoke.Later, other news accounts came in

telling of the other hijackings and what happened at the

Pentagon. We were under attack. Later on that day, My wife

and I put up our American flag at full mast in defiance of

the terorists, sending them message: Come and take it if you

dare! That's all I remember.