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Posted by: Jennifer from Kansas Monday August 11, 2003 @ 02:30 PDT
5 am 9-11-01 i woke up out of a sound sleep & was wide awake! i am not a morning person but i was up, i went to the kitchen toasted a bagel & poured a glass of juice. i went back to bed & clicked on abc news, thinking... aw i have 7 hrs until i had to be to work, ( i worked 2nd shift). at the time i lived in az. i am originally from the dc metro area. have many friends & family in the area still. i was just about back to sleep & i heard cnn cut into the local news. "a plane has hit the wtc" i thought man what a dummy could hit that huge building, then i thought oh my god those poor people to have to expierence a plan hitting the building they had to work in. then i thought maybe the weather in ny was bad... then as the news chopper got a different view i could see smoke, flames, debris falling, then i saw the 2nd plane hit. ...... that is when it hit home that some thing was wrong.... something was very wrong. it wasnt weather, it wasnt an intoxicated pilot, it was bad. i sat at the end of my bed & held onto my puppy, in tears. i dont know a single soul in nyc but i know they had to be in shock. the next thing i hear is a plane crashed in dc. i got online to email everyone i know in dc checked every news web site i could think of to see what was going on in dc. i couldnt reach anyone. i got an instant message from someone in the area who said dc was shutting down & he would call later. my dad who lives in va had just recently gotten a new job. in the pentagon.... i had no idea what he was doing, where he was at, & didnt have a phone number to reach him. it was in my desk drawer at work. at 630 am i called my office, i asked my boss to get my phone directory from my desk & give me my dads work number. i couldnt get through for several days. after what seemed like days but was only 2 hrs i decieded i couldnt watch tv anymore i went to work. once i got there i was approached by everyone, they all knew i was from dc & asked if my family was ok... i didnt know. i had several hours before i was to start work so i continued to try to reach the east coast, no luck, our office had tv everywhere everyone was watching the events, we saw the towers fall, we all prayed & some of us even cried. our ceo decided this was a day not only that nyc & dc would mourn but our company, he sent everyone home, company wide. driving home i pass sky harbor airport, not a plane in sight. it was scary, almost like you wanted to watch the sky to make sure nothing was coming at you. finaly i got an emailfrom my god father, he told me that my dad's position was changed & he wasnt stationed at the pentegon, he was fine but still couldnt get a call out. because of my dads job he couldnt email. several families from our church had not heard from loved ones that were at work in the pentegon. we were very lucky not to have lost anyone. other members of our church were not so lucky. a few that were stationed in the pentegon never came home from work that day. for days after this i was scared to walk my dog outside after dark. i looked over my shoulder everywhere i went. all i could think of is what will happen next in this world of ours? i have never owned a flag & couldnt hang one at the apt i lived at, so i had a screen saver that was an american flag in the shape of a heart. i cant imagine how anyone or group of people can think this gets them to heaven, cant imagine having this much hate to fly a plane into buildings & kill myself & innocent people. i feel so sorry for those who died because of this event, even more so for the children who lost parents, un born children who lost daddies, & those who couldnt say goodbye. i am now working on a scrapbook devoted just to this day in our history. i want my future family to know & to remember the terrible day of 91101 & to always honor the privliges & rights we have in this country.