story8879.xml

story8879.xml

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2002-12-23

I was coming out of a store on Church St., and my cell phone rang, I answered my phone and i was talking to my grandmother. All of a sudden I heard this very loud crash. I thought that it was a car accident. But somebody told me to look up and thats when I saw the first building up in smoke. I just stood there in shock as the building continued to burn. Then a few moments later, I was still looking up when the second plane hit the other building. Thats when all the cell phones went out and i became disconnected from talking to my grandmother. I started when the second building collapsed because all the smoke and debris filled the streets of downtown manhattan. I remember running acroos the Brooklyn Bridge for safety