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                <text>"September 11: Bearing Witness to History" Stories Submitted Online</text>
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                <text>Visitors to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's, "Bearing Witness to History" online exhibition submitted these reflections beginning in 2002.</text>
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        <description>How did you witness history on September 11th? Share your experience.</description>
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            <text>I just got back from morning Track practice, turned on he television to see how the weather was going to be for the day and on every station was the first tower with smoke coming out of it.  As I watched, I saw the second plane crash into the next tower.  I watched the whole thing on tv, watched everything as it happened, the second crash, the towers fall, everything.</text>
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            <text>I don't take anything for granted anymore and I'm more cautious of what's going on and who is around me.</text>
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            <text>All the victims, their families, and how all New Yorkers came together as a whole.</text>
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            <text>Yes, I had an American Flag, or a pictre of an American flag on my car, in my room, and hanging out my window.  My feelings haven't canged, they grew stronger.</text>
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