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[quote=Anonymous]My niece was born the last weekend in August. We were up in NYC Labor Day weekend to visit family to celebrate her birth and I'll never forget driving home along the Belt past those towers not realizing it would be the last time we'd ever see them.

I was working in an office building in Rockville that day. All I remember was the brilliant blue sky that morning. It was unlike any sky I'd ever seen before--never have I stopped to gaze up at a brilliant blue sky like I did that AM before walking into work.
  
I didn't watch any of the attacks unfold live on tv because we didn't have any tvs (believe it or not) in our immediate office to watch. My colleague came running into our office shouting a plane had hit the WTC and we all crowded around a radio and listened live to ABC news. I tried pulling up the Washington Post webpage and all it showed was this grainy photo of one tower w/smoke billowing out. the Internet was so primitive in those days. I'll never forget when Peter Jennings announced we lost the 2nd tower. It was inconceivable what that actually meant until we saw the footage later. We left work early and I came home to my apartment in Bethesda.  We were glued to the tv all night and pretty much the rest of that week. That night we heard the constant drone of military craft circling the area.

My boyfriend (now husband) and I drove out to the Pentagon a few days later to see it in person. I took photos on my digital camera but never got them printed and have since lost the camera. I just remember standing on the shoulder of the road staring at that gaping black hole. It was unreal.

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