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2005-07-07

I HAd just returned back to my dorm room after taking a math test and was very tired. My friend called and told me to turn on the tv because the world was coming to an end. I told her..."Stop playing! Girl I am tired and I need to go back to sleep". She told me to turn on the tv because NY (our home) was in serious trouble. I turned on the tv and to my horror. I saw the first tower in smoke with a huge hole. At that time no one knew what really happened until the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower and still at that time, I had no clue as to what was going on. All I can remember is that the next thing I knew, the screen was completely bogged with smoke. I told my friend "There better be a building there" and when the smoke cleared we both screamed and so did every other girl on my floor. Just watching that and listening to the reporters of the morning show cry as they told what was going was the worst thing I have ever heard on television!! I hung up and ran as quickly as possible to my friends' room and watched 2nd tower fall and we cried and cried. I feared for my mother and sisters who all work in Manhattan. My sisters didn't go to work that day because one was sick and the others son was sick. My mother, however, did go to work and she made it out of Manhattan safely and sound. My father at the time was NYPD and after getting phone calls all day from my boyfriend and friends asking me if I had heard from him, I was prepared to receive the worst news possible because I could not get through to him since he was actually out there helping but in the end, he was safe as well.
A friend of mine at school wasn't as lucky as I was to hear about my father....Her father, a NYC Firefighter, never made it out of the building alive. It was the worst day of all for Americans and it was a day that will always haunt our memories!!

RIP to those heroes and those who lost their lives to that infamous day of infamy!! ONE!!!