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story5133.xml

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2002-09-11

I was walking the building and a teacher asked me to come over and look at the TV. I saw the plane and you could hear the excitement, the concern and the anguish of despair in the voices of the news media people. I was amazed, scared, frightened and in awe that something so terrible coud happen. it makes you wonder how and why anyone could be that angry with the United States to such a high uncontolable level that they would intentionally kill thousands of people and also kill themselves.

Later that evening I learned that my friend who worked at the Pentagon never came home. Her two children watched the news, continued to call her office and immediately called the minister of our church. They watched the news, prayed and hoped that their mother was not harmed in anyway, and would come home that evening. She did not and it was later confirmed that she had died in the explosion.

What an ordeal for those persons to go through who lost loved ones. I wanted it all to be a bad dream that I would wake up from. However it was true. But even in the midst of anger, the lack of understanding, the multiple questions that ran through my mind, I always remember that "There is a God" and that "God is good all the thime, and all the time God is Good!