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2002-09-11

I remember that day very vividly. I didn't have to be at work that day til 10:00am, but since my husband had to be at work at 8:00 I woke up with him. We were watching Today on NBC, I remember hearing Katie Couric saying a plane or helicopter just crashed into one of the trade towers. Then a couple of minutes after that I watched as the second plane hit. That is when I and I am sure all of America knew this wasn't no accident, something serious was going on. My husband and I just sat there in disbelief. By this time my husband had to go to work, so I sat at home until I had to be at work and I watched everything that happend over those next few hours unfold. A part of me was scared, I was thinking where are they going to hit next? What else can they possibly do? The other part of me was very sad, for the innocent people who had lost their lives, in those horrific events. I left for work and listened on the radio to all the news reports going on. The area I was going to seemed like a ghost town. I got to the mall I was working at and there was a few customers there, but not very many. I remember walking down to the store, and seeing people of a certain ethnic group, and just being so angry at them, thinking how can people do this? I just walked in a complete daze, praying that everything would be okay. By the time I got to my store, my manager was talking to her boss, I wasn't there but 5 minutes, when we were told the mall was going to close early, this was at 10:15am. So I came back home, and watched more news, talked to family members, and just hoped that this was all a bad dream and that I would wake up soon, very soon. After the Murrah building was bombed here I went down to the sight, about one month after, it was such an emotional moment when I saw the ruins, I just bursted into tears, and as I write this I am crying.I could never imagine going down to ground zero and try to keep a dry face.I could not imagine what the people that died on this day one year ago was thinking when their planes were taken over, when they called there loved ones to tell them they loved them. I grieve for the families today, I could never imagine losing anyone in my family in such a horific event. I grieve for the families of the fire fighters and rescue units lost, the crews on those planes. God Bless America