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Posted by: YVONNE from ANNAPOLIS Wednesday August 28, 2002 @ 02:50 PDT
like most people in my generation, i always thought the us was untouchable. i heard of things happening to our embassy's but never anything happening hear on our soil. on the morning of 9/11 i was at work. i, like my mother, work in washington, dc. i had gone upstairs to the mail room and one of the guys i work with was trying to get a big tv, we had for training of the shelf. i asked him what was going on. he had told me a plane hit the world trade center. i thought it was a small private plane, like a cessna or something, like what had hit the empire state building many years ago. because i wasn't told it was a commercial plane i thought nothing of it and went back to work. a little while later i had a meeting in another building at work, as i was walking down the hall i heard people gasp, i walked in to find them all huddled around a tv. i had walked in seconds after the second plane hit. i couldn't believe it. we where all talking amoungst ourselves that it had to be terrorism, it had to be on purpose. two planes? this was no accident. i went back down stairs to my desk, a little unerved but it was so far away, and we had work to do. then between my co-workers radio and my e-mail, we got the report about the pentagon and where getting so many false reports of other buildings that had been bombed. one report i heard was that the white house had been hit. my mother works just blocks from there. i immediatly called her. i spoke to her for a few minutes. she was telling me she could see the pentagon on fire from her window, then the phone went dead. i just broke down in tears. all the lines were tied up, you couldn't get through to anybody. about 5 minutes later, i finally got a call from her. she said they weren't sending people home early(she works for the federal government). i told her i didn't care, i was coming to get her right now. i quickly got in my vehicle trying to get to my mother as fast as i could. i had learned that the white house had not been hit, but there was a radio station that was reporting that a plane was circling the white house. and there had been at least 2 reports of buildings near my mothers that had been blown up. as i was driving i was yelling at people, crying, then i saw it too. it was the pentagon, i could see it burning. between that and the people wandering around the streets. there where people everywhere. it was so unreal, like something in the movies. i just really couldn't believe it was happening, and we where all so scared because we all thought something else was going to happen. i can't begin to explain how frightened i was. for my mother, my son, my family and for a friend of mine that works on wall street. ever since that day i have been fixated with 9/11. books,movies, etc. it has to do with 9/11, i have it or want it. i just never thought we could be at war on our own soil, no one can touch america, i thought. i was wrong about that, but i do know one thing. all they did was bring us closer, make us stronger, and that we needed. now we are definitly "united we stand".