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2002-09-11

I was doing temp work at the local city and Tuesday, September 11 was to be my last day. We usually kept the TVs in the waiting areas on the weather channel; however, once we found out what was going on we immediately changed to a major network. I remember how shocked everyone was. One of the gentlemen in the office had two sons that were in the service. He kept his head down on his desk most of the day - I think out of fear that his sons would be sent somewhere where their lives would be in harms way. I remember walking out to my car to get something and breaking out into tears over the shock of everything that was happening. I also remember that as soon as the first building fell, that the major ordered the American Flag that flew over City Hall to be be lowered to half mast. The next thing I remember was waking up on the morning of September 12 hoping that it was all a bad dream - unfortunately, it wasn't. I feel bound to the people that surrounded me on September 11, 2001 - I will always remember every single one of them because we shared something that affected each one of us individually and our country as a whole.