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2004-09-14

During the morning of 9/11 my husband and I were sleeping in our bedroom in our apartment.----The telephone rang at about 6:30 a.m. and it was my mother saying to turn on the television right away. The remote was by my side and I turned on the television to see the first hit WTC in smoke. Then Tom Brokaw anounced there were other plans missing out of radar and I saw the next building hit. This was horrifying. The whole thing was horrifying.----------I have been to the Towers very often in my life and worked on Wall Street and know the area very well.(I grew up on Long Island)------------------Looking at the updates on the local news everyone in Northern California where my husband and I were living was to "shelter in place"----------a brother of my high school freind, Lenore Bonomo, was a Fireman did not make it out alive.-----------I knew of some people in the Financial Industry who also "passed on".-----------------------A church was on the corner of the block we lresided on at the time and everyone "poured" in to the church including me. Services were given every morning and every evening.-----------9/11 was the saddest day----------One plane after another all over the place.--------My husbands friend from work is in the reserves and was called in to scuba dive in the San francisco harbor to look for suspicous activity.--------------The Golden Gate Bridge was closed immediately on "that" day.---------------------------------------God Bless America!--We Will Always Remember