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2002-09-09

It was one warm September morning when I awakened to the somewhat frightened voice of CBS's Dan Rather. He was telling me that a huge passenger airplane had collided into one of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. At first I thought I had heared wrong, since I was still half asleep. Then I sat down on the soft bed in my mother's bedroom and listened. I had heard correctly. Mr. Rather repeated over and over again what had occurred,I suddenly felt a feeling of fright as the comfy mattress began to feel like a hard rock similar to those of the Sierra Madre.
"A terrorist act?" I thought, "Can't be, not in the U.S." I turned once again towards the TV and spotted a shadowy figure approaching the other WTC tower."O Dios!(Oh God!)" I remember saying, as the figure smashed into the other twin tower. The screen showed a ball of fire and then quickly returned to Dan Rather. Still in shock, Mr. Rather further informed us that these were, without a doubt, horrific acts of terrorism being carried out against the United States. "Oh man" I once again thought, before hearing about another jumbo jet that had just crashed into the Pentagon, the FBI headquarters. I sat still, not being able to move, and watched as the screen shifted once again to the World Trade Center. There they where, two towers, one American symbol, fighting to stay up. But then the unthinkable happened, the first tower collapsed, then the second. A permanent image tatooed in my mind for life.