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2003-01-05

My mom was getting ready for work in our room, and her hairdrier usually wakes me up, but on that day she had the news on, and after the hairdrier went off, I had just come out of my state of unconciousness associated with sleep, and heard something about the WTC buildings. When I woke up I saw that the first building was burning, and they were reporting on the news that there was a fire, and they really didn't have a clue what was going on, and why the fire would be just in the center of the building and have taken up so many floors in the short time it took for them to dispatch their copters to that area. While my mom and I were sitting on her bed watching we saw the second plane coming and saw it hit the second building. Unfortunatly, I had class that morning, but my class didn't start until 10:25. In the car on the way to school, the towers were still standing, but I stayed in the car for a couple minutes after pulling into the parking lot at my college campus, and the second building hit, had just crumbled to the ground. I was sorry that I had not stayed home from school that morning. By the time everyone was in class and we were all talking about it, the second tower had collapsed. Hours after I got home, we were watching on the news, and I looked out the back door to my house, (we live on the water) and i motioned my family to come to the door, because I could see smoke. I live about 100 miles from NYC. And in just about 4 - 5 hours, we could see the smoke billowing from there. It was a scary site. As we watched the news over and over again of the crashes and the collapses, it was sickening, it felt like it wasn't real, and it was a movie on TNT or something where they repeat the things over and over again. So later on in the day (my second class had been cancelled) we went shopping.
But a couple of months later I would have this dream that my family and I were in the WTC. And it was on the verge of collapsing, and we just couldn't get out. Finally we did, and got safely away, but i remember in my dream hearing people say "don't look out the windows towards the crashing noises" they said it was people jumping. It was a nightmare and September 11th was a nightmarish day as well, that will live in the minds of thousands of people for most of the rest of their lives.