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2002-02-28

I was just finishing up a call when one of my clients came in and told me the first tower had been struck. I told him that that was a cruel joke and not something to joke about. He said he heard it on the radio so, I immediately started trying to find it on the Internet. I found washingtonpost.com was the only site I could get onto and as I entered the site they showed the second plane hit. I turned to my manager a told her I don't want to be here I need to get my sister from school. After the Pentagon was hit the company let us hed for home; there were still planes in flight. Halfway home we had to pass Dulles Airport and the fuel tanks on Route 28 and we hear that they haven't got all the planes down yet there is still one headed for DC. From Reston to Chantilly it normally takes 15 min to get home; however it took almost an hour to maneuver out of Reston. My cell phone had service but it was taking forever to get through to family members that were still trying to get home. Three days later I was going to a friends house to vent my feelings and to just get out of the house because we has two TV?s on two different channels non stop news and I couldn't take it anymore; I turned on my cell as I always do when I leave my house and there are messages waiting. I know that no one had called me for days so I checked the messages, since the phones were so screwy on Wednesday I was getting messages that family members were on their way home from work and they are worried