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2002-09-12

September 11th, 2001 was a morning to remember. The day started with a clear,crisp smell to the air and a sky that was a perfect shade of blue. I can remember looking up into the cloudless blue and thinking, what a day to be alive.... It was between 10:30 and 11 am that I received a phone call from my daughter-in-law, Paulette. She was screaming, "We are under attack, the World Trade Center is falling and the Pentagon has been hit by hi-jacked planes."
I didn't believe her, that could never happen here, not in our country, not America. Then I turned on the tv, the towers were fallin. It was all true. All I could think of was that everyone had made it out in time, and then I saw the smoke and debree flying everywhere. I knew then that many people were dying.
Since that day our nation has changed, we are more united than ever before. My hopes and prayers are with all the young men and women who must now put their lives at risk to rid the world of people like Osama Bin Ladan and Suddam Hussan... Thank you for letting me share my story.