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2002-09-12

I heard a radio report that stated that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center, but really didn't take it seriously at first as the local radio stations seem to love to make fun of the "Yankees" down here in Texas. I'm originally from Camden, New Jersey, and take alot of flack for my 'accent'. Upon going into the doctor's office, however, I looked at the TV on the wall and was shocked and stunned to see the second plane as it hit! It seemed totally unreal, like someone was playing a VERY BAD JOKE on the viewers, sort of like when Orson Welles broadcast WAR OF THE WORLDS on radio so long ago, and caused such a panic. But, as the reality of what was happening started to sink in -- I think I went into total shock -- I had friends from my High School who had gone to work on the WTC when it was being built, and also knew that some of them had taken jobs there with major corporations after it was completed. As soon as I returned home I immediately called my Mother to find out where my sister, and step-brothers and step-sisters were at, and if any of them had been there when the attacks happened. She comforted me regarding most of them but wouldn't talk about my friends from high school later when the lists of the dead were disclosed in the local paper. I still wonder WHY did such a terrible thing happen to so many totally innocent people, it will never make sense to me. I try to go on with life, but sometimes its harder now, knowing that even people I didn't know personally have suffered, both the ones killed and the families that they left behind. I moved to OKC right after the bombing attack on the Murrah Building there and didn't understand WHY would anyone do that against innocent people, most of my neighbors in northwest OKC had lost a loved one or friend. The attacks of 11 Sept. 2001 just brought back those same feelings, anger, fear, dissapointment that mankind cannot find better ways to sort out their differences than killing innocents.