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2002-09-11

My name is Mary Ellen Casey. I was born in 1953 and live in Bristol, Conn. After the death of John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam war that there would be some kind of Peace in the world. I guess that was a wrong assuption. I was not ready for what happed last September 11th. I had been laid off from a small company here at home last July 2001. I was on my way to St. Joseph Rectory for daily mass not realizing what was about to happen. I had the car radio tuned to a college campus station and as always change it after to a National Public radio station. I did so after mass was over and i was on my way home. I thought I had heard the annoucer say somthing about a plane hitting one of the Trade Towers. When I got home my mother had the t.v. on and it was true. We both sat there watching the events unfolding before our eyes. My mother made the remark that "this could not happened again." She lived through both WW 1 and 2 and the Vietnam war. All I hope and pray that this does not erupt into another "Vietnam" war.