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2002-09-11

MY HUSBAND AND I WERE SITTING IN OUR LIVING ROOM WATCHING THE TODAY SHOW, WHEN THEY BROKE IN AND TOLD US THAT A PLANE HAD HIT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, I THINK THE SHOCK OF IT WAS SO UNREALISTIC THAT NOONE HAD PANICKED (THE TV PEOPLE THAT IS AND MY HUSBAND AND I, AND BACK IN MY MIND I WAS LIKE, IT'S OK, MAYBE NOONE IS IN THE BUILDING, I WAS JUST THINKING THESE CRAZY THOUGHTS OF HOPE BUT ALL OF A SUDDEN I COULDNT BELIEVE WHAT I WAS SEEING, ANOTHE PLANE CRASHING IN FRONT OF OUR EYES INTO THE OTHER TOWER, I HAD THIS TERRIBLE SHIVER OF REALITY THAT SOMETHING REALLY TERRIBLE WAS HAPPENING AND IT BEGAN TO SINK IN, WE WERE DEVASTATED THAT THIS EVENT THAT WAS UNFOLDING WAS INFACT VERY REAL AND IT IS JUST SOMETHING THAT WAS BEYOND ANY COMPREHENSION OF THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY WE LIVE IN. AS WE WERE WATCHING I HAD THIS AWFUL LUMP IN MY THROAT TRYING TO HOLD BACK THE TEARS FROM THE REALITY THAT THERE MAY BE MANY PEOPLE THAT JUST GOT KILLED, MY GOD TO THIS DAY THERE ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE TRULY ON HOW WE FEEL FOR THE PEOPLE THAT DIED AND THEIR FAMILIES, WE ARE DEVASTATED AS IF THEY WERE AND WISH WE COULD TAKE AWAY THEIR PAIN. I CAN ONLY LEARN FROM THIS TRAGEDY THAT NO MATTER HOW BAD WE THINK OUR SITUATIONS ARE THAT THEY ARE TRULY PETTY BECAUSE WE CAN MAKE THINGS BETTER WITH FAITH AND HOPE AND PERSEVERENCE, THESE PEOPLE CANT, ONLY TIME CAN HEAL THEIR PAIN AND SOME MAY NEVER HEAL FROM THAT AWFUL AWFUL DAY. THANK YOU FOR HEARING ME, PAMELA PARKS