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2002-09-12

When the first plane hit the north tower my husband was just leaving for work I looked at the clock at exactly 8:45 am and I told him your express bus for manhattan is leaving at 8:50 hurry and go catch it. If my husband would have waited fiveminutes he would have gotten the phone call from his mother saying " a plane just hit the world trade center". I was leaving the house to drop my son off at my mother's so I could go downtown to 1 Centre st to go and order antoher copy of our marriage certificate which I could not find it at home. My original plan was to go with my than 5 month old son. But, my mother told me bring over here to my house and you go on your own. I probably would have just getting off the train if i would have left much earlier. My mother-in-law was leaving the message on te answering machine when I was about to leave. When she said those words "one of the towes has been hit by a plane".
I answered my phone and said" hello, hello" that is when i looked out my window and saw one of the building with smoke. I live on the 23rd floor in coop-city in the bronx and my view is the new york city sky line. the towers stood proud and tall and we would always see the beauty of these towers. I immediately thought of my husband being on that bus not knowing what is going on. I called my brother who my husband workedwith and told him" when kevin comes
in tell him one of the towers was hit by a plane." My brothe thought I was joking I told him I was serious. He as I did thought a helicopter, are a private small plane hit the building, definitly not a boeing 747. I contiued to call my mother and told her to watch the news, then I said I will see you in little while, not
taking the situation not so serious. When i finally called my mother-in-law back we both watching from our homes she also lives in coop city. We looked at the television and sawthe second explosion. But, I never noticed in the view in with the camera's view imaged it was a second plane. I left and heard people on the bus saying it was a terroist attack. The pentagon was hit, I thought people where making up stories. Until I got to my mother's and she said to me that one of the tower's collapsed. I was horrified. I called my brother to see if my husband arrived he said he called and is heading back home. He saw the whole thing from the highwaym people on his bus had walkman's and give a account of what was happening to his. My brother was rushing out with his finace who was with him to go back to the bronx as soon as possible. He was in shock when he heard one tower came down. As my motherand I was attending to my son I turned as soon as the second tower came down. my heart fell to te ground I yelling out oh my god my mother looked at the television and we both got shiversup our backs. we thought the world was ending. In five minutes at being in my mothers I learned terrorist hijacked the planes, it was a boeing 747, one building just collaped, the pentagon was hit, and more planes have been hijacked. That was the one the most scarest days life. All I wanted is for my family to be safe. I stayed with y mother and father, my husband was with his mother, and my brother and fiance had to walk home. I pray for the families of the lost in this very important day in our american history. 'The day the world changed'.