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2004-05-08

On september 11 2001 i was driving through houston texas on my way to galveston to pick up my then 10 year old daughter. I heard something on the radio about what was going on in new york and turned it off because i honestly thought it was someones idea of a really bad joke to be saying something like that. When we arrived at my daughters school in galveston the first thing that the teachers asked was about the traffic in houston. i thought it was kinda odd but then they explained that what i heard was not only not a bad joke but in fact it was true. they had warned the people of houston that they could be next. and everyone was literally running for their lives. i was in shock. i couldnt believe that something like that had happened here. on our way back home to Kansas we drove through oklahoma city and thought that it was appropriate to stop at the memorial their and pray for alll the lives lost then and on september 11. it was the single most profoundly moving moment of my entire life.