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2002-09-11

I was in the car with my oldest daughter, coming back from a doctor's appointment when we heard the report on the radio, first thinking it was just a bad radio joke, when we heard them announce the second tower had been struck. We both started crying, my daughters had just visited the World Trade Center in July, so when the Towers fell my oldest daughter was beside herself, I didn't quite know what to do or say, we then started going through her pictures and souveniers and came across ornaments they had purchased at the gift shop at the World Trade Center, one ornament had the Towers, empire state building a taxi cab and to our shock an airplane dangling next to the towers. It was a day none of us will ever forget, and as I sit here at work typing the date over and over, I am chilled every time I think about the pain of the families of those lost on that horrible day. I pray that some day they will find peace and closure. God Bless America.

Sincerely,

Dawn, Joe, Lauren, Alexandra and Nicholas Gummel