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2002-09-11

Wow! It was busy that morning at my new job. Babies were crying, doctors were visiting, and we were trying to get the little ones ready to go home. Someone came in and said that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. "Oh brother," I thought. Some pilot of a small plane got confused or something. Too bad. I figured that the pilot had died, and I hope no one else was hurt too badly. Back to work! Then, I heard that ANOTHER plane had crashed into the other tower. Wait! Something horrible was going on. However, I still had work to do. Then there was more. Another plane had crashed into the Pentagon, and another had crashed in a field. And both towers of the World Trade Center had fallen.

I snuck looks at the televisions in the patients' rooms and just kept going. Everyone was shocked. It didn't hit me until I got home that night and spent time with my family. I was afraid that this was the start of World War III, and I couldn't imagine how the friends and families of all the victims were coping.......God bless America, and God bless everyone.