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2002-09-15

I had gotten to work at 8 that morning and just after feeding the children breakfast news began to come in about the first plane hitting the towers...We were all shocked that that could have happened and then we heard about the second one...we knew then we were being attacked,,,soon the Pentagon was hit and we didnt know how many other planes were still unaccounted for...The post went on alert, parents began to pick up their children and we began to hear stories of family members that were on the planes...It was hard to believe that as far as we were from NYC that there were people close to us on the planes...Fear was settling over all of us...not knowing what was going to happen next,, fearing for our own kids that were in local schools. The whole day was just surreal,,,going through the motions just to get through the day....I spent most of the night online or watching the news...Seeing the pictures of the planes hitting the towers and the collapse just made brought me to tears....all of the innocent men, women and children lost on that day and for what....The insane ideas of one man pushed into the minds of others to do his evil deeds for him...The attacks hurt us bad but that day brought us together like we havent been in so long...Our people didnt die in vain...Good will prevail over evil and in the end God will have the last word...God bless the USA.