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2002-09-11

I remember it was a very calm morning and I sent my girls off to school, and went to work. I remember sitting at my desk and a coworker came running in to my office area and turned on the T.V. She had said a plane had just crashed into the twin tower, as a born NewYorker I stopped what I was doing and just watched in horror as the 2nd plane crashed into the 2nd tower, Ijust started to cry and said oh God what is happening. I have my family in NY and they work in lower manhattan, I tryed to call on my cell phone to see if all were safe but, could not get through I could not complete my days work along with my other co workers. One of my coworkers daughter worked in the worldtrade center, and she was trying to find out if she was in the bulding at the time of the horror. She later learned that her daughter was late getting to work ,and thank God for that cause it saved her from an untimely death, as for others they were not as fortuate to escape the horrfic disester that was to follow. I do thank God that I later found out my son experienced the terror in the streets but, God so good was able to get to safey. My thoughts will always be with all who have lost loved ones in this terrorist attack. I also want to give much thanks to our Emergency workers from our courageous firefighters, police officers, medical workers, and all the people who didn't even think of saving themselves but, saving those around them. God Bless Them All. I also moved back to NY since then. MY home is where the heart is and that is here in NY, with my family. Life is precious, and we as a nation will go on and be stronger and we will not fall. The End.