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2002-09-16

I just couldn't believe what I had heard. I was at work and my husband was at home that day. I called him and told him he had better turn the TV to a news station. I had heard that the World Trade Center had just had a plane flown into it. I prayed to God many times during the course of this disaster. When I got home and saw the news clip of the plane actually hitting the Tower, chills ran through me. I just couldn't believe anything like this could happen and the hate that one would hold in against us after I had heard why it was done. I told my husband that it was a wake up call from God. He is trying to warn us. God was there that day in many ways: too many people were late for work that day, too many empty plane seats, the people who canceled their flights on those planes, the ones who actually got out of the buildings before they fell, the plane that went down in Pennsylvania that was meant to hit another building and kill even more. Yes, God was there that day in keeping thousands of others from NOT being there. I cried in my heart for all those people that were the victims and for their families. I have been grateful for all the rescue workers and the dogs that were used to find those left in the rubble. I thanked God for all those and I have also praised God for all the people in the stories that I read that got to safety and I also prayed for the families of the ones who didn't. We are one nation in unity and it was shown to the world that in a disaster, we can still pull together. The terrorist who did this have failed in part; this tragedy pulled us together instead of tearing us apart. We are Americans and we stick together. We have been blessed by God to live in a country that is so bountiful and has the freedom and opportunities that we have. I hope God will have mercy on the ones who did this and I pray very hard that something like this could not possibly happen again. Thank you, God, for the lessons learned and the people you saved from this disaster and most especially for hearing all our prayers.