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2002-09-11

I was gettting ready for work and had turned on my TV to watch GMA. I remember hearing something broadcasted about a fire at the World Trade Center in New York. I quickly stopped what I was doing and devoted my attention to the news on TV. I watched as the TV camera's showed the fire in one of the towers. They were still not sure what had happened. I immediatedly thought, Oh No, Bin Laden has done something. He had been in the news so much recently. Then much to my disbelief I saw the second plane enter the picture and fly into the 2nd tower. The feelings that I felt are undiscriblable. I guess if I had to come up with a word it would be anquish----for those in the towers, on the planes, their families and for all of us Americans. How dare anyone think that they could invade us like this and kill innocent people. I felt rage for some weeks after.

I work at a high school and not knowing what was going to happen next I left for work early to see that was going on there. When I arrived the school had the TV on in the office and staff were watching. Next thing we heard was that the Pentagon was hit. Then the news was saying that another plane had turned around from Cleveland and was headed, they thought, to Washington DC. I remember saying that wouldn't it be something if the passengers on that plane could overtake the hijackers. It wasn't long after I made this comment that we heard that the plane had crashed in rural Somerset PA and that apparently the passengers had given their lives to save hundreds of others--What Heroes!!!
It wasn't long then before the news began broadcasting from the NY and DC sights.

It made me PROUD of our country and citizens to hear of the sacrifice many many men and women had made to save others. We tried to keep a low key for the sake of the students, we didn't want to needlessly alarm them. The administration did call for a Lock-Down and placed police at the doors for extra precautions. We have numerous parents call in to tell their child that they were ok. Some came a took their child home. I felt very safe here, at the high school, and couldn't quite figure out why some people panicked. But I guess we all handled this tragic news in our own way.

It is now a year later and I still can't get the image of the Trade Center Towers falling. I just pray that God will, in his time, rid this world of these evil, power hungry people. Oh, if we could all just live in peace. I feel compassion for those in this world who know nothing but war, hunger, and death. This world is such a beautiful place and is meant ALL to live in peace. I pray that God will give our nation the wisdom to do the right things so that this will never happen again. God Bless America