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2002-12-17

I will never forget that date.... SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. It's as fresh and clear in my mind as if it had happened yesterday. I can recall that I had just returned home from dropping my 13 year old off at school and I sat on my bed with a cup of coffee to continue to watch the morning news on Fox as I did on a routinely basis during the weekdays. The news reporters were discussing the fact that a plane had just crashed into the Trade Center. I was sitting there listening and thinking to myself about how could this happen and that the airlines are getting just too scary for me to take a flight anywhere again. My initial thoughts were that it was some sort of mechanical failure. As I contiued to watch I noticed a second plane near the trade center. At first I thought it was a news reporter plane covering the crash sight, then all of a sudden that plane too crashed into the trade center. I gasped "Oh My God! What is going on? That was no accident." My response almost matched the response of the reporter on the t.v. It was so devistating to sit there and watch this happen.The next thing I knew I was sitting there sobbing, feeling pain for lives that were just lost. At that instant I think I was glued to the t.v. for what seemed to be six hours. Flicking from station to station trying to get as much information as I could that would somehow explain this horrible set of events. As the day went on my family and I seemed to be in shock and total dismay. At the same time it cause us to be that much more grateful for our lives and families and it also caused us to realize not to take anything or anyone for granted. We sat as a family together and just held eachother in silence. It is so unimaginable that something like this could happen in the united stated. "This type of thing just don't happen here". So we thought. To this day I can only imagine what the families of those stolen lives must be going through.I can only pray that God sooth their aching hearts. If there was anything possitive that resulted from this whole ordeal was that the people of the united states were truely united at that time. It didn't matter what color, race, age, religion you were I belive that mostly everyone became a little closer to their fellow american. This was a devistating wake-up call to america and how vulnerable we all are. Also a test of our unity as a whole. After all we are the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.