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Was in school that day teaching kids some math around 10 am or so when a fellow teacher banged on my door telling me something about planes and the WTC tower and nothing left. Got a call from the school main office to come down. Our county communication center was on the phone stating that they wanted all fire stations in the county manned as "We are at war". (I am EMS captain.) Scared the crap out of me. Left for the station. Ran an EMS call for bee stings. While at the hospital, I found a TV and saw what had happened. COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES!! COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED HERE!! Fear set in. Our Junior class trip to NYC was about 4 weeks away. We visit the WTC. I thought "If this happened later, we could have been there."
Have visited the WTC memorial, FDNY Engine 46 and Ladder 27 - they lost several in the collapse. Been to see the memorial at Shanksville, PA - Extremely moving. Hope to get to the Pentagon some day.
Those images will forever be burned in my mind.
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