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2002-09-11

On September 11, 2001, I was in my office. I just came back from my morning break when I found a message from my husband on my desk. Someone else had just told us a plane had crashed into the first World Trade Center tower. I called him I told him I had heard the news already. Then he told me a second plane had crashed into the other tower. He is an army augmentee at MacDill AFB, Central Command. His next news was that he had to report to duty at the base immediately and didn't know when he would be able to come home. We had been married only a short while and were expecting our first child together in three weeks.

This past year was stressfull. My husband was deployed a few times and often came home upset but couldn't discuss events. We had a beautiful baby boy on October 1, 2001. My husband was able to come home for four days when the baby was born. I cried alot of tears this past year because I missed my husband and wanted him home. But I do realize I am lucky and so is our son. My son's father is able to come home. My husband is also a police officer. My heart and my prayers go out to every one who lost a loved one that day. But special prayers go out to the mothers and babies born after September 11 that don't have a husband and father to come home.