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nmah4167.xml

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2002-09-11

I live in Trenton, NJ. That day started off like any other day a race to get my children off to school and to arrive on time at work. Which is accomplishment all by itself. I arrived at work at 8:45. Not knowing anything had happened. My class arrived and about 9:40 be started our circle time. We had just finished the pledge and my cell phone rang, it was my husband. He told me that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I couldn't believe it and I started to cry, thinking of all of the people there. My class ask why I was crying and I told them. Then my Director stepped into my room and said, that another plane had crashed into the second tower. I was shocked and scared. Then I heard about the third plane crashing into the Pentagon. All I could think is that the world is coming to an end, all I wanted was to be with my family. I couldn't just leave work, but all I wanted were my children. I remember begging my director to let me leave to go get my children, that I would come right back. I couldn't. I remember calling my children's school's, my mother and my husband. I took my class outside and remember thinking that maybe this isn't the best thing to do, especically after I heard that there were five planes unaccountable for. Then I heard about a plane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field. I remember looking up and I was so afraid. I took my class in and tried to make it as normal as possible. Parents were coming and taking their children home. We ate lunch and by that time most of my class left. I was told I could leave. I left and went to get my kids. My youngest didn't know why I was picking her up so early. I explained that some very bad people were doing terrible things to America and that I wanted to be home with her and her sisters. With those words I started to cry.

I think everyone's life has changed. How could it not be. I try not to take anything for granted, because in a moment everything can change.

That it was one of the worst days ever, but with it came a nation that became united.

Yes, I have had an American flag flying ever since Spet. 11. Yes, my feeling about the Flag and America has changed because of September 11th. I am even more prouder to be America