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2003-02-27

I will never forget that dreadful day. I am a teaching assistant in kindergarten at Locust Grove Elementary in Locust Grove, Georgia. Someone came into my room and quietly told me that an airplane had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. I left the room immediately and called my daughter in law and she confirmed the horrible truth. I noticed some teachers gathering in the library engrossed in the television and joined them. I was horrified! This could not be happening to the country that we Americans love so very much. The principal came around to all the rooms and ask us not to turn on the television....and told us that we could view the news in the library. I could not wait until I got home that afternoon. I stayed up late that night and found trouble leaving the room in fear that I would miss something on television. I did not want to go to school that morning because I knew that we would not be allowed to watch the television. I caught myself going to the library, which was the only place we were allowed to watch the television, quite often. I can only imagine how the people of New York must have felt...being there. My prayers are still with them. I think of that dreadful day that chaned our lives every day.

Yes, my life has changed very much so. I have always been proud to be an American but that next day I bought a flag and put it on my car and I also have a bumper sticker. My son, Jason, daughter in law, Adrianne and my two year old grandson, Dalton and I visited New York shortly after the September 11 tragedy and went to Ground Zero. We must have cried for what seemed like hours. I could not believe what we saw. The pictures on the television were horrible but viewing the scene was unreal. Yes, my life has changed and all for the better due to this terrible crime against the United States of America. I am even more proud to be living in this wonderful county.

I want everyone to remember the people whose lives were lost on that day. I want everyone to remember that we are a strong nation and we will forever be the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA......the land of the free and the home of the BRAVE.

I have an American flag and bumper sticker on my car. It has been on their since September 12.....and it will be on their until it falls off or it is replaced with a new one and at that time I will keep the old one in a safe place for my grandson to keep. Have my feeling for the American flag changed as a result of September 11? Yes, now I am even more proud to be an American and the American flag is even more beautiful today than it was September 11.