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I was watching Good Morning America as my aunt was getting ready for work and they came back from a commercial break saying a plane had crashed into WTC. I really didn't think much of it because of the attack there a few years back. I decide to go into the bathroom to get ready and my cousin screams "another plane has just hit" I play it off thinking she's watching a replay of the first plane. When I come out Diane Sawyer, trying to keep her composure is saying how another plane has hit. They then show a building burning with an American flag perched on top and I thought it was another building in New York. It was a few minutes later I found out it was the Pentagon. My mom is in hysterics trying to tell mewhat happened. She knew I was scheduled to take a group of seniors to the Mayor's annual picnic. Local news came through saying two planes were missing. One crashed outside PA but local news said it was heading here to Chicago. I really got scared then because both of my aunts work in close proximity to Sears tower. Cell phones were a joke because it took forever to get through. That picnic was one of the most somber events I had been to. Staff tried their best to perk things up, but when something of that magnitude happens, there's no help. As I headed home from work, I have a great view of the Chicago skyline andcouldn't imagine a time without seeing the Sears Tower. I always took it for granted, but now I treasure it.
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