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2002-09-26

My husband and I feel very fortunate. We were travelling back east. We left Washington DC about 2 days before September 11th. We were headed west through Pennsylvania. We almost spent the night of the 10th in Somerset, PA but my husband wanted to see how close to the Pennsylvania/Ohio border we could get. Because of that, we were about 35 miles away from the PA plane crash. Since we were still on western time, we slept in that morning and turned on the news just in time to see the second plane crasing into the WTC. We were watching it on CNN and they weren't covering things as they happened. We disn't know about the PA crash until we called home to tell everyone we were okay and they told us about it. We still can't believe how lucky we were. Our original itinerary had us in Washington DC on the 10th and 11th and our hotel was less than a mile from the Pentagon! We are so thankful that we changed our plans at the last minute. And by the time we left on Saturday, our flights were departing without any delays (probably the only time we have ever left on-time).