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story5119.xml

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2002-09-11

I had just dropped off my twins for their 4th day of Kindergarden. My son was crying and very upset so I spent a
little more time with him at the school. I got into my car a little after 9 and turned on the radio. The disc jockeys from the local radio station were making a crack about how could a plane crash into the World Trade Center. I thought it was a joke. But the more I drove home his voice and the comments he was saying became more bizarre. He then said another plane had just crashed into the other tower and I thought what a jerk he was to be saying this....But he kept saying it over and over....I changed the station and all the other stations were broadcasting the same thing. I just sat there and could not move...after about 5 minutes I grabbed my 9 month old out of her car seat in the back and ran inside and turned on the TV...and watched and watched and watched. I could not believe it!!! Before I had my youngest child I was a videotape editor CNBC and NBC News. I had been exposed to a lot but this was unbelievable My husband who is a news cameraman was on his way to work on the George Washington Bridge when it happened. They closed the bridge immediatly after the first plane hit and he was stuck on the bridge. He spent over an hour helping the police redirect traffic off the bridge. He called from his cell phone to me and his family to tell them he was ok. If he had been in the city an hour earlier he would sure been there when they went down. He could not get into the city they were even dedying the press access to get into the city. So he came home and we just watched TV all day...Then the F15s kept flying over our house over and over again.....