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2002-09-13

I had come home from a morning lecture, I couldn't sleep the
night before and then the door bursted open. My roommate stood in the doorway, walking ever so slow as if he were shot or something bothered me. He nudged me and replied with
words, "A jet liner has crashed in the World Trade Center." At first I thought he was joking, but Dave doesn't show his serious side with passion. The television was turned on and replied, "Nice movie." Then I noticed the initals, CNN LIVE,
I was shocked. After Dave used the telephone to call his mother, I responded by calling my father. My parents recently got a divorce, and with gut I called him. For now thirty three years he has worked for Ford Motor Company, I always argued with him, to some issues I still do today, but
we have one of the best relastionships what a son and father
should be, be there for each other. He got in at five in the
morning after working long hours into the afternoon shift, I
woke him up. He had no television to look at the events I saw, except to note that I was serious. I couldn't urge myself to go to my lab, I felt like my whole world was downfalling around me. I stared at the television and went to work on my computer to find more information. I wasn't sure how I was going to remember this day of pain and loss. I simply look around for an answer from anyone. Then as MSU annouced to the students that anyone that needed help talking or anything that there would be a meeting near the Rock. The Rock is the familiar meeting place on campus where
people, groups, clubs, frats, and sororities go to paint it different colors, but this time it was an American Flag. On
Shaw and Farmlane near the bridge and Student Union more students arrived to talk, cry on shoulders, or just to listen to fellow students. I urged myself to go to mass, I ran into a fellow high school friend Joel and we talked and I was with my roommate Dave and his friend Nikki. We talked and then the chimes of the Beaumont Tower playing Amazing Grace brought a chill and tear to my eye. After the mass I roamed back to my little corner of the universe, more terrorized by something more trastic then I ever seen in my life on my soil. I was more like shellshock, not really telling people of what I felt, but telling others that we are going to be alright. As this year has passed since the event, I have done real good to begin a new step in life, but with all honest and God willingness, I miss and will never forget all of them that died. I take this quote from Robert Redfords acclaimed movie, A River Runs Through It, "You can still love them, you can love with complete understanding." Simple enough, I will never forget you from this day on as I live my life.