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2004-09-13

I came home 9/11/01 and I realized that my dad had been home from work. Shortly after we got off the bus and in our home my dad had told me that the Twin Towers in New York had been hit by terrorists and how it was all over the news. I ran crying into my room. Shortly after my mom got home I cried with her. Just seeing those images over and over was terrible. I hated watching them fall and seeing the people jump out of windows and people running away from the smoke. A year after 09/11/01 in 2002 my grandmother died on 9/11. It all started out when my dad was at work and he got a call. He went to see my uncle at his house. When he got there he knocked on the door and the door slowly opened. He hollered for my uncle but no one had come to the door. He went to my grandmothers house about 5 mintues from my uncles house. When he got there he saw my aunt's car there and my uncle's truck. When he went inside he saw my granmother sitting there dead and my aunt and uncle were crying. Soon after he started to cry. He and my mother had both taken off work a little after 12:00 noon. When my brother and I came home that night we had realized my mother and father had been home which isn't usual. We knew something had been wrong. When we got to my house we went in and saw my mom and dad crying their eyes out. When we asked them what was wrong they had said that Grammy had died. I ran crying to my room. My other Gram had made soup for us but of course no one was hungry for anything. That night we all cried ourselves to sleep. The next day we did not go to school. Soon after we had to go to her house and clean it out so that it could be sold to someone. The first time we went we cried alot. The next time we went we had discovered a note that she had wrote to us the day before she died, like she knew she was going to die. We cleaned out her house and my older brother bought it. He is married with one son. I can never walk in that house the same way since she died. We will always remember her. So if you had lost somebody not only when the Twin Towers fell but if they just died on 9/11 any year don't forget about them but remember them. Each year that she had died I remember her more and more. Her name was Pauline Hill. We love you Grammy Hill. We will always remember you.