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story6474.xml

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2002-09-12

I was visiting my husband Jeff. He travels alot for the union. He was working on a project for Intell @ this time. When the attacks started, I was sleeping... I had the T.V. on. I recall having this horrible dream of this plain hitting a building. I woke up scared to death!...Come to find that this was'nt a bad dream at all, the first tower had been hit! I was dumbfounded. I was wondering "How could that piolet have made such a mistake..." then the other tower was hit... I realized that THIS WAS NOT A MISTAKE!!! I started crying... I wanted Jeff here. I was so afraid! I kept watching, completely confused as to who did this & WHY did they do this!? Then the first building started to come down. I remember I started screaming @ the T.V. The other attacks came... Then the other building fell. I just can't put into words what I was feeling... I don' think there are words for the utter "horror & sadness" I was feeling.By this time I was pretty numb & completly histerical. My husband came back early. He told me that the project was "shut down" for the day. We spent most of the day glued to the T.V. After a couple of hours we went out for a bite to eat. There was a road block cutting off the street to our favorite Mexican joint... Jeff told me that the blockaid is because of security around the "S.W. region air traffic center". We just turned around & came in the other way. I will NEVER FORGET!!!!!!!!!!!