The World Trade Cen­ter as it used to be.

I think in the past few years, most Amer­i­cans have for­got­ten what hap­pened to this Coun­try and our Coun­try­men on Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001.  I — for one — have not.  I never will.  I’ll never for­get the feel­ing of being told, “A plane just flew into the World Trade Cen­ter!”  At first, I thought they were telling a bad joke…Then I real­ized they were seri­ous.  I imme­di­ately thought, as prob­a­bly most Amer­i­cans did, that it was just an acci­dent.  But when some­one in our office yelled, “Another plane just flew into the Trade Cen­ter!”  I — prob­a­bly like you did — real­ized it was a hor­ri­ble attack on our country.

I tried my best to work, to get my mind off of what happened…You see, I had just started in June at the com­pany I was work­ing for.  I wanted to show every­one that I was a hard worker, that I could do my job with­out being dis­tracted by idle con­ver­sa­tion.  But when some­one told me they had the TV in an adja­cent office on, I ran to it.  I had to see for my own eyes what was happening.

Big mis­take.  About 15 of us stood in that office and watched both of the Twin Tow­ers fall.  It was hor­rific.  I was think­ing, “This is just a bad, bad movie…It’s not real.  It can’t be real…”  But it was…way too real.

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