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Posted by: Shane Jensen - www.sjnetwork.com from Coram, New York (Long Island)
Tuesday September 25, 2001 @ 05:29

This is the saddest day I have ever witnessed. At about 8:45 this morning (Tuesday 9/11/2001) a twin engine jet plane crashed into the north twin tower of the World Trade Center near the top. At 9:03, around 15 minutes later, a second twin engine jet plane crashes into the second twin tower of the World Trade Center. Within the hour a plane crashes into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Then a plane crashes into the ground in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. About a half an hour after the plane crashes into the towers, the south tower (second tower hit) collapses in a smoldering smoky heap. About a half hour later the north tower (first tower hit) then collapses. All of these are clear acts of terrorism upon our country.

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I woke up this morning at 8:20 when my alarm woke me up for work, I proceeded to get myself ready and just before I was ready to leave the house at 8:55 (or a later) Mom calls me from her bedroom. She said a plane had hit the World Trade Center, I ran into my parent’s room where they had the TV on. I couldn’t believe it, but figured it was just some freak accident and pilot error and coincidently flew into the tower. While I was standing there watching all of this with my Dad, I then see the second plane hit the other tower. At first I thought it was a replay of the first hit, but then I realized it was the other tower while the other tower was already hit and smoking. I then quickly began to wonder if I actually saw that or not. Dad then says, "Another plane just hit the other tower!" While he was saying that I heard the news announcer say, "It appears that another plane just crashed into the other tower!" I then said rather loudly, "What the heck is going on!? Why is this happening, Dad?" Dad then says, "I don’t know!!" I couldn’t believe it, I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing. As soon as it sunk in that another plane had hit the other tower, I knew right then and there that his was no accident, this was planed and we are under attack. I felt real scared.

After another few minutes I just had to leave and get to work. I drove to work all stunned, went into the office and everyone there was glued to the TV. I just watched with the others. I felt like I wanted to cry, I felt angry, I felt depressed, I felt sick. I didn’t know what to think, I didn’t know what to do. After a few minutes I went to my workstation to look up the Internet, everything was slow and bogged down. None of the news sites would load up at all. While I was in there one of my co-workers, Peter, comes into the room and tells me one of the towers had collapsed. No way, I thought. I ran into the other room to watch the TV, they showed replays. While I was in enough sock with everything and the fact that one of our twin towers are gone, I see live on television the other tower collapse right there live on TV. I kept sighing loudly and saying “no! no! no!” All I could think about was the poor people still inside, I felt sick. I felt so bad for the people in the planes, I felt so bad for the people in the buildings, I felt so bad for the families of these people.

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After another hour of shock and still watching the live coverage we were told we had to either get to work or go home. We all stayed and got to work, it was so hard to keep my mind on work, all I could think about was this terrible tragedy and all the pain and suffering that was happening at the same time only fifty miles away from me.

Came home at normal time, 5:00 PM. Watched live coverage for the rest of the night, switching between many channels catching the different reports and camera angles of the disasters. At 7:20 I couldn’t take any more of watching it, I was just getting so depressed. I put on the radio to listen to Radio Delilah and see what kind of broadcast she is doing on this terrible day. After a few hours of music and websurfing the whole time for more news and info about this whole thing, I turned the TV back on to watch more coverage.

After midnight I got too tired and went to bed. I was so emotionally drained and I had a headache. I haven’t had a headache in a long time, this whole thing was starting to effect me physically as I was so filled with all of these emotions of sadness and anger.

I was very worried about two of my friends, Alex and Anthony who work in the city. Anthony works at Wall Street, that’s only three blocks away from the World Trade Center. Alex works in a building next to the Empire State Building. I was concerned that there was going to be a third plane and the Empire State Building was going to be a third target. While I was at work I called home and asked about Alex and Anthony, Dad said Anthony had called someone and said he was okay. I heard later tonight that Alex was still in Queens on his way home at 9:00 PM, all the trains are shut down and he can’t get right home. I’m glad to hear that they are okay.

My heart goes out to all of those families who lost loved ones, our national leaders involved in the investigation, the rescue workers, police, firefighters, and anyone else who is personally involved. These terrorists MUST be brought to justice, this is an act for war. This WILL NOT be taken lightly. I hope the main terrorists involved will pay for what they did organizing this.

May God be with everyone and please not let anything get any worse from this moment on.

~Shane
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