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25 May 2006 @ 10:51 pm
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Batwoman
11 September 2001 @ 08:20 pm
I still can't believe what happened......  
My alarm is set for 8 AM CST and it's on radio only. I was woken up to the following news update by Bary Keefe on the Mix.

"this is unbelievable, I was going to update you on the breaking news, when another plane just crashed into the WTC." *side note, that's not an exact quote*

Needless to say that woke me up and had me in shock all day. I laid in bed for the next hour (just about) listening to Eric, Kathy, Bary, and the rest of the morning crew describing what they saw on MSNBC and the other tv stations they were watching. I decided to get out of bed sometime before 9 and turned the volume up on my alarm clock so that I could hear it in the other room. I turned on the tv to see what all this looked like....

I must have watched 6 different stations during the next 10 minutes. I put it on CNN to see them showing what that second crash looked like. The djs described it by saying it looked like something out of a movie. They weren't kidding, it did. They then went to DC to show what the Pentagon looked like and the corespondent there was describing what happened there when he was cut off by the guy in NY. When they cut back to the feed from NY, the first tower was nothing more than a large ball of smoke. It just collapsed...

I sat there staring, numb, hoping they'd actually show it collapse. They didn't. So I decided to go back to my room and get ready for work. I stood there in my room.... listening.... waiting to hear more.....then it happened.... The second tower collapsed. I could feel the blood drain from my face. I got my self dressed and listened as long as I could. The last things I heard before walking out the door were "this is an act of war, and Pearl Harbor".

Even in my state of numb shock, I thought of those before they even said anything. For the next 30 minutes, I was cut off from the radio and phone and I drove to work. I got to work and asked my boss if they heard what happened, they did. In fact they were listening to the radio. The owner came up front and I was telling them what I saw and heard. More what I saw. something happened between the time I left the house and the time I got to work... A plane crashed in PA. There were reports that it was shot down....

For the next 8 hours I was in a state of numb shock. Doing my best to work and not just sit there in disbelief. Over the course of the day, listening to talk radio, I heard all the reports of what's been going on, who's claiming responsibility, etc...

I heard 2 sickening things... First partying going on in the streets of Palestine. Then Iraq playing a "patriotic" song that went something like, "down with the Americans".

Let me say this, My family is from the middle east. I'm a first born American, Christian and proud to be an American. For safety reasons, both mine and my family's, I wont say specifically which nationality I am, but I will add that I have Russian blood in me too. If I had to choose a country, I would choose America in a heart beat. No thinking there. This country is my home. I considerer myself an American before any ethnicity. English is my first language. So for something like to happen, I say get the sicko and drag him back here by his tongue and put him on trial and let him pay for what he's done.
 
 
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