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2002-09-12

My Sept. 11 morning started out just like any other weekday for me-after getting out of bed, showering, and dressing for work I turned on the Today show to watch while I ate my breakfast. They were showing the one tower on fire and saying that a plane had crashed into it. I thought "Wow, that looks pretty bad". Then while I was watching, I saw the OTHER plane go into the OTHER tower and the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I said to myself "That didn't look like an accident, what the H--- is going on?!?". And then Jim Micklachefski(?)from the Pentagon said it sounded like an explosion from where HE was. I got real shaky and thought "Oh my God, WHAT is happening?!?" I felt real sick to my stomach and kind of panicky. My husband was out of town on a business trip (he hadn't flown there, thank God) and I wished he were back home with me. That evening we heard there might be a gasoline shortage in our city so I took both our vehicles one at a time to the nearest gas station to wait in line like everyone else to fill up. I was glued to the TV pretty much for that day and the rest of the week praying they would figure out WHO was responsible for that act of terrorism and hoping they would find survivors.