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story6926.xml

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2002-09-12

Hello My name is ERIC. I was driving to work that morning and listening to the radio when I had heard a second plane had just hit the other tower. I was just seconds away from a view on the Nortern State parkway where the Ny skyline is visable if you are traveling west just before the LIE exit. I could not see the towers just smoke and reaized this was no small plane, The towers were burning and people were dieing and I was watching even at this big distance.As i drove to my work destination I was very concerned not Knowing what this was all about. Once arriving at my business and seeing the TV I was just stunned .When the first tower started to go down My first thought was for all the helpless firemen that stood at the buildings bottom to help I knew they would die.ive been to the top and Ive stood before them great buildings. I stood before them and thought im in danger if this ever started to come down,I would not be able to run that fast the buildings were huge. God bless them brave men to try and help that day they were only thinking of others and a way to help! God bless them they are what I would hope our God would see in all of us. Eric Sappelsa