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2002-04-15

I saw about this site on channel 5 news and knew it was something that I had to look into. My name is Rise' G and I am from NJ but now live in the city. On Sept 10 I was visiting my mother in NJ and it begun to rain, so I decided to spend the night with her instead of dealing with the rain. While sitting talking to my mother the rain stopped and her words, words that I will forever teasure was for me to go home that night. I had made my mine up to come on 9-11 in the morning because I had to work. After watching the towers come down I realize that I would have been coming through the WTC when the first plane hit. Since then I have rode the R train under the WTC and a great sadness come over me. I get sad each and everytime I think about not only because all of the lives that were lost but how my much I would miss my family and how my death would have not only killed my mother who is 83 but my children. My youngest son is in California in college and I tear up everytime I think about the destruction my death would have cause him. I am so sorry for all the deaths that came out of 9-11 and so thankful to my mother for sending me home.