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2002-09-11

Well I didn't have classes on tuesday, so I was sleeping in and I woke up for a little while to watch ER. I fell back asleep while watching it, and when I woke back up, I saw the second plane hit the tower, and I wondered what "movie" I was watching. THen I found out it wasn't a movie, and I just sat up in bed for the next 2 hours with my mouth hanging open. It was unreal! I then got a call from my mom. About 5 minutes after the second plane hit, my Grandmother who had cancer, passed away peacefully in her sleep. I was jealous of her for awhile, because she never knew of the horror, and I wish I never knew of it either. Yet the amount of pride I have now for my country is totally unbelievable. Proud to be an american has a whole new meaning now. Now, a year later, I have started clinicals for nursing school. We have to be trained for a terriost attack as well as a bioterism attack, which is really sad, that the world has come to this. But in another way I'm so glad to have my life and my family. When I babysat my neighbors two boys, I asked them what they wanted to be when they grew up. both of them answered a fireman so they could be brave like those who were in New York. God bless America, and let us thrive and continue to grow stronger each day.