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2003-01-10

It was a very typical day. I was getting ready for work when I recived a phone call from my Uncle. He asked if I knew what was going on and I said "no". He then told me to turn on the TV. At first I couldnt really make out what the burning objects were but as the shot panned out I could tell that they were in fact the "Twin Towers." I didnt know what to think at first I guess I was in shock. I quickly ran upstairs to tell my father what had happend. He was just as, if not more shocked than I was. I had about an hour before I had to be at work and for that whole hour I sat without blinking looking at the TV. Then when I thought that no worse could happen, one of the towers began to fall. I held my breath for what seamed forever as the tower fell to the ground. I turned and looked at my father who had began to cry, having lost his father exactly a year before the attacks and then having this happen must have been overwhelming. Then the second tower fell, at this point I didnt know what to think anymore, "are we going to war?" was the thought that came to mind first. Honestly at this point my emotions turned off and I just stared in shock, it wasnt untill a year later on Septemebr 11th 2002 that I began to look at memorial sites and a sudden rush came over me. The loss of life and all the innocent people who died so needlessly was what hit me first, but after that had passed I beagn to think to myself "I will never see them" I will never get to see the Twin Towers in person, only in books and on web sites will I ever again see those two shimmering towers that seamed to embody all that this nation stood and still stands for. So as I sit today looking at sites about the World Trade Center I decided to write my story, it may not touch any of you in any form or fashon but it is just my story. No personal loss of life, nothing that hits close to home for me personaly but just a story of a man who woke up one morning thinking everything was fine and then turning on the TV only to see history in the making. In the words of my father on that morning of September 11th 2001 "They have awoken a sleeping giant, nothing will ever be the same."