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 Always say I Love You.....
Posted by: Melissa from Alexandria, VA
Friday September 28, 2001 @ 07:56 PDT

september 11, 2001 will always be burned into my mind....where i was....what i was doing.....what i planned on doing for that day before the terror struck.
i did not have to be to work till 1pm so i was sleeping in. at 9:27am my phone rang and i let my answering machine get it since i do screen my phone calls. it was my mom. she was calling to let me know what was going on and told me to turn on the news. i never picked up the phone. she told me that the world trade centers were flown into by terrorists...i still didn't pick up the phone. then she hung up. i turned the t.v. on about 9:45 and turned it right to the news. i could not believe what i was seeing! it seemed so unreal! i walked out to the living room to watch it on a bigger t.v. and all of a sudden the next thing i hear is that the pentagon has been hit. well this worried me...i flew to my phone and dialed *69. now...my mom works in maryland (301)area code...well the number that popped up on *69 was a 202 area code! now she does go down to the pentagon alot. it was like my whole world collapsed around me...i sank to the floor and watched in horror as the pentagon burned, wondering if my mom was there. i never picked up the phone to say "hi!" or "i love you mom"....my sister called and asked where mom was. i had no answers for her. i called her work and nobody could tell me where she was...all they knew was she was at a seminar downtown. i sat there in horror as i watched the 2 trade centers collapsing. there was nothing i could do...i was crying, helpless, and confused. i tried to be strong for my younger sister....but it was no use...we didn't know where mom was. i couldn't watch what was happening on t.v. anymore...it just wasn't real...i kept trying to tell myself that. i sat on the porch for 2 hours....waiting. it was about 1:00 before my mom pulled up....i have never run so fast or hugged my mom so hard.
so now i say "i love you mom" every night and every morning...i always took for granted that nothing bad would ever happen. not anymore. so always say "i love you" to all your loved ones.
all of my prayers are for the families and victims of the attacks. i was lucky....my mom came home....someone elses mom didn't. my heart goes out to all those kids.
we will fight back and we will win.
god bless america.
~*~melissa~*~