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story7348.xml

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2002-09-14

I was walking home from taking my 10 year old son to school,with my 2 year old in the stroller.As I was walking,I was looking up to the sky and saying to myself what a beautiful day.The sky was so blue, no clouds,and the sun was already warm on my face at eight a.m.When I arrived home, I had put on cartoons and made breakfast for my 2 year old.About 9:20 my husband called from work and asked if I had the television on.I told him that Ryan was watching his shows.He asked me to put on the news channel, that 2 planes had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York,and another into the Pentagon.I thought he was joking with me, that could not really happen.I changed the channel, and I was stunned, this was unreal. I thought someone was making a movie. I watched nothing else and was still in disbelief until I had arrived at my sons school to pick him up,and noticed the school flag was at half staff.Then I knew all that happened was real.I felt like crying, it was so sad.I could not understand how this could happen in this country,that was something you hear about someplace else.