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where i was on that day...
Posted by: Martha Cabrera from Bronx, NYC Saturday September 11, 2004 @ 09:30 PDT
i was home, i'd just gotten up cause i was getting a delivery of a wallunit we ordered from ikea.com. i was 8 1/2 months pregnant. the delivery guys brung our things up... one of the guys tell me i should call coned cause there is really a heavy smell of gas everywhere. i started to realize it. i got worried. i lived in sunset park brooklyn at the time. the wind was blowing the smoke of the wtc in that direction. i didn't know still. so i called the post office... our mail boxes had been broken and being election day i wanted to know if we were going to be able to pick up our mail there. in person. so i called and the guy tells me that the post office is closed??? i thought he was getting smart with me. i told him "excuse me?" he said look you should turn the tv on. prende la television, same thing in spanish. so i call 911 to report the gas smell. i get no answer. is busy. i really thought that was weird??? i know nyc if anything and 911 is never busy. i have the tv on. i am not really paying attention to it really, i see that like a war zone. i figured the f***in' arabs always fighting. thought it was in the middle east somewhere. didn't recognize what i was actually looking at was downtown manhattan. just across the river from me. when it hit me... my legs couldn't hold me. the rest is terrified, scared, tears nonestop tears, disbelief, so much pain, i forgot i was pregnant, confused, and just prayer, oh my god!!!!!!... i go back to that moment every day, every second of the day. i always pray for those who lost a dear person in their lives... i didn't know any-a-them but all were and always will be my new york brothers and sisters. forever!!! "i will never forget, or forgive, only god forgives and i am not god." love you always forever never forgetting you, martha cabrera abdullah, adam abdullah, abdullah, abdullah abdullah and cindi martha abdullah, mami, pedro (my dad), my sisters, nieces and nephews. all new yorkers that love you all and will never forget you ever!!!