[Rio_Kohitsuji]

I had just hopped in the shower when I heard my father banging loudly on the door saying that New York had just been attacked. I just shrugged it of thinking, "Okay Daddio (who was in the Navy) you're over-reacting as -usual-.." But I finally got out, threw on my robe and walked in the living room to see the horrific pictures on t.v..it's like for once in my life I was truely scared. I quickly got dressed and quickly sped to school ( I had a 11:30 Psych class) just to find the lecture hall the class was to be held in filled with various teachers and students watching the news on the screen in the front of the class. I watched it for a while getting sicker and sicker and finally had to leave only to run into some friends who had just decided to join up that day. The rest of the day I floored it on every back road I could find just to come home and have a message from my exboyfriend (who had lived in Albany NY and now is stationed in Italy in the Navy) saying he was alright but he didn't know where he was going to be the next day.

I still dont' know how some people who lost their loved ones can handle all of it now. My grandfather, boyfriend (at the time) and my brother-in-law are firefighters and just thinking about losing them in something like that was heartbreaking. The familes are truely strong.