It is late and I am tired and know that I should go to bed since I have to work tomorrow and I have a very busy, stressful day ahead of me because of state testing, but I want to put down my feelings right now, when I am in the midst of them. I can remember where I was when I heard about the plane hitting the world trade center (as I am sure most people can). I was reading the newspaper on the computer, back in the corner of Scotty's room...then Sammy's room. My yahoo homepage had a picture of the trade center and the impact of the first plane. It was just after six in the morning and then the phone rang and Walt, who was at work, told me to turn on the tv and watch the news because a plane had just hit the world trade center. I told him that I was just reading about it on the internet. And then, as we were talking, another plane hit the other tower and it was then that we knew. .....this was not just a plane that had lost its way or was crashing involuntarily into the building. Our country was under attack, on our own soil. This was something that we really had never even worried that much about...nobody would dare to attack our country. We were too powerful, too strong. But it had happened and it was scary. We even watched it all day off and on at work in Bruce Crist's office at Wilcox because we were all stunned by it...almost with a sense of false security. Who would do this to America? And then Bin Laden came on and smugly took credit for it and spoke unceasingly of his hatred for the United States. For weeks he came on and almost taunted the United States with the strikes on the towers and the Pentagon. And the hunt was on. And it just kept going on and it would seem like we were close to catching him and then he would elude us again. It was frustrating that with all of our power and intelligence, we still could not catch this man. And we finally did it and as I sit here and watch the news, I am so happy and it is so great to watch people celebrating in the streets and chanting, "USA" over and over again. How grateful I am to the men and women who serve our country and especially to those who gave their lives in THIS cause. It may cause more attacks on our country as I am sure we have angered his people and other people who hate the United States, but for now, I would love to be with those other people in the streets and celebrate this victory for the United States. "USA...USA...USA."
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My story of where I was when it happened is so embarrassing that I don't even like to tell it. And where I was when he was pronounced dead is equally as dumb. We were in bed! We didn't even realize it until this morning when I read a text from Marissa saying he was dead. Sometimes we are really out of it but it was exciting to see everyone in Washington chanting USA. And I love that even though we don't get to see all the work put into it that this has been a greater priority than we see as the public. They heard he was there in August and have been working towards the attack for 8 months now? That is a lot of time and work put into that attack.
I remeber I heard it from Miss Maryanne at the bus line. I remeber watching it with mom when I woke up for school, but I also remember not understanding how crazy it was. I remember being in line with miss maryanne and Miles Grebb (blah) and they were talking about how scary it was. I also remember being really scared but knowing I was ok because I lived in Oroville and no one was going to even know where it was to attack it. But it was pretty awesome watching the video of all the people celebrating!
I also read it on my homepage online and then turned on the tv and then called my sister and told her to turn on the tv NOW. I worked that day and had the tv on at the client's house. In fact for days I don't even know if we ever turned the tv off! I was scared in a way that it happened to us. I was alone when I got the news about bin laden and I had to call my kids one by one. I was like...'doesn't ANYONE listen to the news?' I had the tv on when the special report came on announcing it. Very awesome. Thank you troops for making it happen. Thanks Becky for your post.
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