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I was getting ready for my 2nd day of work as a high school teacher that day, when I turned on my cell phone and listened to a message from my mom. She said that a plane flew into the WTC. I was a little shocked and told the husband (then BF) to turn on the TV that a plane flew into the WTC. We saw the 2nd one hit. Both of us just stood in the middle of the room, not knowing what to think because not a month earlier he had been working on the 60-something-th floor for Morgan Stanley. Seeing the footage of the towers collapse made me sob as I had been there several times. Two of his co-workers were there doing their training. One of the guys potato-sacked a woman who froze in the stair well and carried her down 30 flights of stairs. They made it out, and rented a car to drive back to CA. They only stopped for gas and took turns driving.
How has it changed me? I realized that this country can be attacked, which wasn't something I really had ever thought about before. To me that is the moment my generation will always remember - Where were you when you found out kind of thing. I think we were one of the few generations who didn't have one of those until 9/11. My mom's generation had Kennedy's assassination, the moon landing etc...as well as others, but this just blew me away. I actually have pictures of the skyline in July of '01 from the Statue of Liberty. So sad.
A lot of my family in NY's friends lost members that day.
Never forget.
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