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                <text>This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. </text>
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        <description>Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story:</description>
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            <text>         I awoke about 9:20am on that unknowingly, and what would prove to be one of America's darkest, and most tragic mornings ever, September 11, 2001.  I went into the den and turned on the tv.  I became occupied and interested in the special news reports that were running on every major network.  The reports were describing an unkown disaster, which had inflicted damage to one of N.Y's trade towers.  It was stated that a massive fire had engulfed one of the towers, at that particular time, details of what initiated this fire was claimed to be "sketchy" at best.  
         I had lost every perspective of time, as I watched on tv, the infamous events unfolded.  I watched in unbelievable horror, as the continuing, and live coverage, captured the footage of an airliner-jet flying, and crashing into the other tower.  I knew, at that very moment, America was under attack.  Why, and who was responsible, was certainly, warranted questions.  But in my mind, the questions would become burried by the powerful, and inhuman images of the great evilness, that took assault on the towers of The World Trade Center.  I imediately thought about the great loss of life.  Our freedom, and most importantly, the innocent victims, would be the sacrifice of such an enormous act of cowardness.
        As I watched Citizens, Rescue, Fire, and Police personel scramble to the tragic site, I became aware of the overwhelming senses of agony, outrage, and despair that coursed through each and every individual.  My thoughts, more and more, reflected on the innocent victims, the feeling of commonly, and being a fellow American, was more certain than ever before.  I too, felt the bearings of being a victim.  Uncontrolable, I began to grieve and weep, my heart sank in great sorrow.
        Obviously, the families, friends, and all loved ones directly affected by the terror, would for always, have to endure all hardships of loss, on a much grander scale.  America, I and my children's children will always respect in remembrance, September 11, 2001, and it's Heroes.  May it's Liberty, our Freedom as a people, and the power to bring those responsible to Justice, never be tested again, in such a barbaric magnitude.  
        As a nation, America will never be the same.  We truely would, and will become "United", for as the name sake applies, and our Fore Fathers intended; with unsurpassed pride: The United States of America.
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