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2003-09-11

9/11, 2001, I remember it as if it were yesterday. I ha taken my wife to a doctor in Oneonta early that morning and as we were leaving the office the news came over the TV in the waiting room that a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers. I got the rest of the news over the car radio on the hour plus ride home that day. When I heard my wife say, ?Oh my God the one of the Towers fell down?, my reply was, ?No, that can?t be, listen, you must have heard it wrong.? Then with out a TV in front of me I listened and pictured in my mind as they described the death and destruction as the second tower went down. And I can still feel that queasiness that I had in the pit of stomach when I heard that a plane had crashed into the Pentagon and another into a field in Pennsylvania.
Now 2 years from that day we go about our daily routines, but that feeling in the pit of our stomachs still surfaces from time to time when we all wonder what?s next? So, say a prayer and put a light in the widow for those who died that day and for those giving their lives at this moment trying to stop that next thing from becoming reality. Tell your family, friends and neighbors that you love them. Then, go on with your life, don?t dwell upon the past, but never, ever forget that 9/11, 2001.